Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-07-29
At The PENNEY
PATRIOTIC RALLY
MEMORIAL CHURCH
H 0 n Grin g Men of
Church in War Serv-
ice Adamsky, Rus
sian Tenor, Sings
Rev. H. E. Dunnacl7
Gives Eloquent Ad-
dress

Most interesting and impressive
was the program carried out at tie
patriotic rally Sunday evening ar
, The Penney Memorial church. the
especial feature Of the occasion be
ing the rendition Of number e No-
sal solos nv Mr.. ScIgci Adamsk>, lie
famou" Russian operate tenor. Mr.
Adums!;N has q most pleasing voice,
soft and beautiful but also Big. end
II Was indeed a rare treat ;hal Was
! afforded Augusta people last eve
i mig tn listen to this young man IT.
| Patriotic and dramatic number.
There was a large congregation III
| he service. which closed the church
Tcat.
During the evenings service Mr..
Adamsky sang the following ee!cc-
! tons IT with All Your Heart" ,he
| principal tenor aria in the orator il
| "Elijah": tho Marselaise": tho
star Spangled Banner" ana THE
Lord Is My Light" (Alliston. Nj.
Adamskv gave his services without
compensation. Prot j, +. MacNich-
7 d played the Accomplishments ana
also presided at the organ
! Rev. Mr. Wood read the names e
| the 80 ycune men on the honor roll
| Of The church and when he read the
rama Of Corporal E.mmons A. B0yn-
| ton, who gave his life June l.. 1918,
| Rev Mr. Wood called upon the cor
| Eregation to rise while Commander
/ George +. GAY Of the G. A. r. in
! I'LL uniform, attached 10 The service
| lag gold star in perpetual remc,n
| brance Of that young man who gave
! lis life for the cause. And at the
! close Of this ceremony Mr.. Adamsiy
| sang tne solo. BLESSED are The
| Which are Prosecuted for Righteous
mesa Sake"
| The speaker at the service was Rev
II. f Dunnack. who gave q powerful
| address upon "Christianity and The
War He spoke as follows:
Christianity and the War
I There are those who today question
and doubt the worth and value of Chris
| tianity. he war with its attendant
4 horrors has led them to conclusions
! based on mistaken premises.
/ Christianity has never been so great
a success as now. Never before were
I there so many eager to lay down their
/ lives for their fellow men. There was
never time when Christianity had
greater power than It has now. Shaken
out of apathy and thrown back upon
/ things basic. men have been forced to
Erapple with the great issues of life
and death and destiny. From different
: points of view they have come to real
/ lie the fact that the life of man is
/ fundamentally spiritual, and that the
world has a spiritual end. The war
has brought new sense of the reality
of spiritual values. Names matter not
at all. 1t is the revealing Of God in
men that matters. Christ came not to
| destroy but to fulfill.
I This is a day Of judgment 1t is not
Christianity that has failed, but the
! creams of our materialistic clvilizatio1;
4 these are tested and found wanting.
/ What VIC have been largely living on in
Christendom for centuries IS q com
bination Of faith and orce. a worship
, OF God and manmon In individual
souls Christianity has nourlshed ana
borne fruit, but for the ills Of the worll
! Itself it is an almost untried catholicon.
( our civilization has ceased TO be Cod
conscious. We have been SO busy so
preoccupied with the external things Of
! life that we had forgotten what life
itself Is for and to what end IL Shall
be lived We had forgotten that the
material is only Of value as the instru-
ment OF the spiritual. When this truth
Is acknowledge men will see the face
Of God.
: Though the struggle Of law and equity
and freedom against anarchy and injus-
tee and slavery is age-iong, and thong,
tne former has seemingly been van
quished in many fight. presently dem-
ocracy will be triumphant building up