The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-14
THREE HUNDRED BROUGHT BACK
INTO FOLD AT CASINO Meeting
breaches Inspiring Sermon Which Compes Many
to Sep Aside From Path Of Error-TWo Church Gather
ings Tonight

To another large audience at the
Casino last evening Rev. DR.. Milton ;.
Rees preached an inspiring sermon.
At the conclusion of his sermon many
converts gathered about the evangel-
ist imbued with the desire OF lead
ing Christian lives in the future. More
than 800 persons who have been lax
in their church duties promised to be
more attentive in the future.
Owing to fact that the Casino was
rented. for today when contract was
made for it's use for the meetings OF
West Side churches. the meetings OF
the West Side campaign will he held
in churches. This afternoon the
meeting will be held in the First
Baptist church, West and Washington
avenues, at 8 o'clock. Tonight two
meetings will be addressed by DR..
Rees. The first will be held at the
West End Congregational church in
Colorado avenue, beginning at .7:3o-
The second will be in the First METH
odist church. beginning. at. 7:45.. DE-
Rees will speak tonight on 1.-The iBg-
gest Thing in the World" The chorus
will be divided between the two meet:
ings. Tomorrow the meetings Will go
back to the Casino where they Will
continue for nearly three; weeks, al
ternoon and night. Tomorrow 'after-
noon at the Casino mass meeting
for women only will be addressed al
8 O'Clock by DR.. Rees, who Will SPEAK
on Personal Responsibility Houns
women are especially invited. AT
7:45 tomorrow night Dr. Rees WIZ
Toe TY-oC o..
edy Of the Ages"
His text was taken from the story
of Christ feeding the five thousand,
John 6: LA. He said in part:
after these things What things?
The raising of Jairus' daughter. The
beheading of John The Baptist. An
other attempt to preach the gospel IN
Nazareth, and being expelled. He
comes back to Capernaum for rest
for himself and His disciples. But he
fs not safe here, being in Herod's do
rninion. who fearing that he Is the
Baptist risen from the dead, may seek
to take His life and lives of His fol-
lowers Hence he goes over the cor
ner of the lake to a quiet place where
later in the day he spreads his table
for the hungry multitude. There. Is
q dignity, beauty and significance in
the movements Of Jesus, and we will
be helped if we walk by His side
little tonight observing how He pro-
ceeded.
ssHe went UP into the mountain"
Another writer adds apart to pray
This He very often did. Reaching a
. town, unlike the modern traveller who
|, would seek the best hotel or the finest
scenery, He would inquire the nearest
", nhc1 i
lies are that He was entertained in
homes so poor that there was little
opportunity for solitude. Hence it is
written of Him: "a great while be-
fore day he rose and went out into, a
solitary place and there prayed. He
spent the whole night in prayer be-
fore formally choosing His disciples
and breathing out the beatitudes
among the mountain lilies. What the
mountains and the wi1dernesses are
to towns and to cities, the night time
and early morning are to the day time
and early evening. He cultivated both
the solitude of time and space, was
pre-eminently a man Of prayer. He
proceeded, carried forward His foot
steps. or in this rapid age If we have
not somewhat forgotten the secret
place and overlooked the source of
our greatest victory.
when Jesus then lifted up His
eyes and saw a great company come
unto Him. Surveying the feld,-"Say
not We there are four months and then
cometh harvest? I say unto you lift
up your eyes and look on, the fields
for they are already to harvest" Not
the passing glance from the car win
dow or from the automobile but the
u%a Hxv
outlines of the picture. Look with
me a few moments upon the field il
which we are now laboring, the large
number of children in the formative
period But you may ask at VIVA
age young life begins to blossom fol
the King. Plato said: 1.-THE most i'm
portant part OF education is the RICH
training In the nursery" and Ruslxi1
said: when do you suppose the edu
cation Of q child. begins At 81,
months old it answers smile will
smile, and impotence with impa
thence. Perhaps we have to begin
the wooing even in the speeches
years. DR.. Jowett OF New York says
I'm the life Of the spirit I believe il
early wooings, because I believe il
early weddings. The wooing and tn
wedding become increasingly Difficult
when we pass the age Of 12." An
then the young Of high school age an
others just out of school begin to rea
lie the significance of life, and tn
fathers and the mothers without Go
and without hope in the city, indeed
the fields are white and ready 70
harvest, and if we could rise up t
the grandeur Of a prophetic vision W
would see what Joel saw, multitude
in the valley of decision" Surely OF
portunity is written everywhere an
may we not disappoint Him who ha
permitted US to be in the kingdor
at a time like this
Two hundred pennyworth Of brea
is not sufficient There is a lad her
which hath five barley loaves an
Two fishes, but what are they anon
SO many?" The insufficiency of Of,
resources. You remember the immu
table saying of the Master: "Withor
me We can do nothing" With all W
can furnish, we can come to neare
satisfying the hungry multitude tina
the boys lunch, and 200 pennywort
/of bread would have satisfied the <
200 hungry men besides the wome
and the children. Alongside Of th
wish to place another lesson. whic
Is sufficient to bring us to our fee
end to join enthusiastically in sins
ing, "All Hail the Power of .Jes1
Name" 1t is written: "For He hin
self knew what he world do - TN,