The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-14
UNITED CHURCH TAXES S153,65O
 LIBERTY BONDS Dr. Days Sermon on "The Good Fight" " Gets Good Returns.
WAR TAKES EVERY
 MAN OF HUMAN RAGE
Don't Throw Up Your Hands and Say 'Kamerad'
 to the Devil" /"

Liberty Sunday became Liberty Bond Sunday yesterday at the United church. The entire first part of the servise was an appeal to the patriot ism cad then to the pocketbooks of the congregation, with the result that | Fourth Liberty Loan bonds to the amount of $51, $50 were subscribed for and $102,300 reported as already subscribed, making a total of $153, $50. MT. George Sherwood, chair man, MT. H. W. Hincks, treasures" and Mg, W. E. Seeley compose the Unitest Church Fourth Liberty Loan committee. It is expected that the amount announced yesterday is only the beginning of what the final United church total will be when reported next t@' hday morning.
 MT. ltobert Speer, of Hincks Bros & Co.,, gave a ten-minute address, and after singing the favorite song of the boys at the front, "The Long, Long Trail" the congregation stood and | repeated the Pledge of the Church, | putting ourselves and our resources at the command of the government until the victory shall be won," re- mainiGg standing through the Ma | tional Anthem. The fiIled-out appli- cations for bonds were taken with the contribution and the committee re- | tired, bringing in the total to $45, 900 new subscriptions and $102,300 re- ported as already subscribed, at tho | end of the sermon.
 After the figures were announced, 1 the p i people were starting to leae the church, Dr. Day called them all to at tention again, saying that someone had just subscribed $500 on the amount needed to raise the new sub- scription to $5O,OOO. This met with such a response that $5, 45O addition al was raised, making a final total Of new subscriptions $51,350.
 "The Good Fight" was the subject of Dr. William Horace Days sermon.
 ''The nations are at war;" he said. 'The vastness of these four year2 of struggle stagger our imagination to- day. All but a dozen governments are in this fight, are engaged in the line. We have called it the World War and it is; it is the greatest war in history. But tremendous as this war is, it is not universal. There is a greater. Twelve nations are nomi- nally neutral. There is a war that is so great that it takes every member of the human race. There are no eX- emptions. There is no armistice. There can never be any peace. It is the war that is going on iu your soul. It is your fight against temptation. It was of this greater war that the veteran soldier of Tarsus wrote, I have fought the good fight; I have finished the course; I have kept the faith I speak on this greater war on this Liberty Day because the struggle to be free, to battle down the tempta- tion that defiles our own life is in dissolubly tied up with the struggle of world freedom. You can never make your full contribution to world liber- ation until you have first made the conquest of your own soul.
 No man can fight the good fight and finish the course who does not eX- ert his will. A mans personality is just as big as his capacity to will and no bigger. Gods armor will protect a man but the man has got to put it on. God never promised to put his
 
 mask will protect a man from a gas attack but he has got to put the mask on. The finest inventive skill that may be employed down here in New Jersey will be in vain unless the sol dier wears his mask at the alert and puts it on instantly. He is allowed just six seconds to get it out of his bag arg onto his face. That is the way 1. toldier preserves his life, and that if he way that you and I have got tS learn to keep our own souls safe it lhe battle of temptation.
 The Jill cannot win unless trained. Is ye' will weak today? Exercise will ike it strong tomorrow. We must 1Eo control our minds and di- rect tHf,n to the great loyalty. The other 9AY chaplain was at the front and fsSy had been shot all to pieces and hiG voice was feeble so the chap lain st1xtched himself out at full length beside him. The boy asked him to open his knapsack, and he pulled gut the picture of the boys mother and with it was his sweet heart, sEd the boy said, Tell them ] fought the good fight finished the course; have kept the faith" That boy haa been wise enough to appeal to the great loyalty, his loyalty to the mother who bore him, his loyalty to the girl who was to have been his wife, ant: his loyalty to God who had given hfia all. We have got to fix ou1 minds Of. the great loyalty and again and aga!n fix them there, and with that reIuforcement of our motive there is no one who can fail to have victory.
 Fight.
 M When eempted-ight! Don't throw