South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-08-01


McCormicl herself viii be Jack of
Dreams.
Miss Mccormick whose home Is
In Gary. is "A graduate OF the Column
bia college of expression and has
spent three summers ia chautauqua
work
Beauchamp Pleases
Lou j. Beauchamp. the humorous
philosopher OF international fame
was greeted 10y "a capacity audience
at the formal opening OF tne Red
path chautauqua wednesday night
/ His audience alternately laughed and
wept with him the entire evening,
and at times did both.
The lecture proDer The sunny
Side of Life was preceded by
short but stirring war talk. Even
wal has its sunny side. according 10
I Mr. Beauchamp. Havin- lived
through three wars ne is able 30 at
I tain the soldiers viewpoint OF the
present situation. Your boys don't
want your sympathy" he SAID. they
want your love. and Your faith, and
yovr trust There lis not a boy over
+ there who prompted not 10y the
4 thiugs learned from books lr from
any outside influence. Would a7r
gladly give his life for the principles
/ DE is lighting for.
VIII Change the World
The world will be "a different
place 20 live i'm when this war is
! over" Mr. Beauchamp continued.
There will be three great changes
/ effected. I'm theology, in politics and
! i'm the kind of democracy i'm this
/ country of ours There viii be less
methodical Methodists. less persist
emit Presbyterians. and less bump
/ tious Baptists There viii no. be
such definite political parties and
we viii have a safer sarer and
/ wiser democracy The war Is go
ing to serve 20 draw us together and
sc viii learn 20 care for the other
/ fellow
Sympathy for Armenia.
Your hearts are in the trenches
tonight" he continued. "but mine is
not. My heart is in the little coyn-
try OF Armenia whose people have
/ Leeu wiped from the IA e of the
/ earth 10y the unspea kable turk. in
huenced by the imperial brute Of
/ Berlin" Mr.. Beauchamp cited i'm
stance after instance of the horrible
crimes perpetrated i'm that Christian
country which had called for.h no
protest from any church in the
world TO any government in the
world.
The lack of influence OF the
church ia world affairs Mr. Beau
champ attributed 10 two causes
the official board and the people in
the pew Go 10 church Sunday"
he said. III you have time and
count the men and the woman.
Statistics show that 81 per cent Of
worshippers are women Go down
town Monday morning and when YOU
meet your lawyer. Your banker,
your doctor. your editor ask him
why he wasn't az church Sunday.
He will tell YOU his minister has no
message fOr him. He doesn't want
TO hear of Jonah ana the whale, or
Daniel and the lion HE is inter
ested ia the boy who hnds his refuge
In q saloon. in the girl VINO must
sell her body and sou. because OF
her starvation wage lie I- inter-
ested I'm the big national questions
of the day.
Ministers Underpaid
How can YOU feed minister on
skim milk and expert him TO present
YOU with the cream of sermons. The
average ministers yearly salary Is
1900 less than a board appointed TO
investigate the high cost Of living
reported as the sum necessary 10
support decently a man and wife
and one child He can't come i'm
contact with the big things of the
day. he can't buy books. papers and
magazines without money 10 dc IL
with"
One of the startling facts brought
out by Mr. Beauchamp was that
America ranks highest among civil
lied countries I'M the number of
murders committed within it's bor-
ders "Not until the people of
America are made 10 feel that pun
.sLment viii surely follow crime VIII
that condition be remedied We put
the man i'm tail who stea ls "a ride ON
"a railroad train and call him q
hobo while the millionaire who
steals the entire road is allowed TO
go free and is called "a dnancier
Wife i'm Dayton Flood.
Mr Beauchamp concluded his .ec-
|tlre with most thrilling narration
of the experience OF his wife who
spent four days without food or
drink in the garnet OF her home jim
Hamilton, o.. during what is known
as the Dayton Hood But despite all
the awful things Mr. Beauchamp
tells in his lecture ne concludes with
the Statements that ne is the hap
piest man living FOR the woman
love" as he so reVereutly referred
+ 20 her several times. was spared 90
him
one could not sit through an eve
ming and hear him lecture and not
believe that he is the happiest man
uving. lie seems 20 practice what he
breaches he looks on The sunny side
OF life
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