Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-22
REV. e. H. sTRoUsE ADDRESSES
 GET-ToeETHER MEETING
Large Attendance Hears First Baptist Pastor Talk on The Modern Cru sAder,

The afternoon Get Together" at o.oO o'clock was a very profitable oc- easioh for all concerned. The enlisted men attended in good numbers, and every minute was enjoyed Swahn's orchestra opened the programme with several attractive selections: the pop ular songs were sung. tlfe men enter ing heartily into the singing; prayer was offered by Secretary Hill and a timely talk was given by Rev. George H. Strouse who had his audience with ] hlm from beginning to end. MT. Strouse said. among other things" In the few minutes I speak to you men, I want to give you a page of French history and then point out to you the analogy between this page in French history and this present thrill | ing hour in which you and 1 are per mitted to live.
 In the 10th century, the history of france merges into that of the cru sades when all Chrisendom began to l De aroused by the wild eloquence of Peter the Hermit. This mans soul was fired with a holy passion-the i land where Christ lived and toiled and | then offered up his life in the most l stupendous sacrifice the world had i ever seen, was being deseerated by the bloody Turk. Peter the Hermit, with burning eloquence, went up 1 and down the highways of France
 calling men to enlist in a holy war
 and make Palestine once more the 1 possession of the Christian church
 At last Jerusalem was reached, lovely
 even in her desolation. The knights springing. from their saddles wet the 1 turf with tears of mingled joy and sorrow. There was temporary success nj fl0o 1 1
 We know now the hour had not yet
 struck for the Holy Land to come in-
 to the possession of the Christian
 church. But we believe the dial or 1 the clock of Heaven indicates that the 1 hour is ripe for a great modern cru sade in which you men have enlisted and through which all of Europe is
 to be delivered from a militaristic au-
 tGcracy which has plunged all the
 world into an indescribable abyss o1 sorrow and woe. This crusade has : been launched to make the world free 1 You are the great standard bearers
 you have enlisted in the cause ot
 world freedom. You are in the game
 go at it; let it be your supreme ain
 to make good. Freedom can be wo1
 with no ordinary price
 1 Men, your mother is expecting great
 things of you; she expects you to be true, to be pure, and I hope you vii not disappoint her; think often of her
 and return to her in such a condition l that you can look her in the face an6 not be ashamed.
 Your country is expecting grea things of you; she expects of you al that mother expects and even more
 she expects you to be daring and cour ageous; to fight her battles whatever the cost in sacrifice; see to it that vol do not fail in defending to the limi Iyour glorious country.
 Your God expects great things O you, my brothers; he expects all tha
 even more: Jesus Christ, the grea
 e1nancipator. commands you to follow
 him, and though it cost you much t
 be true to him. it will pay you so t
 do. It takes much courage for a mal
 to say yes sometimes, and also to sa, no. but in the strength of Christ yol can say it. Washington followe Christ; Lincoln also followed him, am if you men are to be what you shoul
 be. you must follow him also.
 After the address the ladies of tn First Baptist church served to al without cost, a splendid lunch, whic
 the boys gave every evidence of en
 toying, the expressions from then were many and very complimentary. The Tuskegee colored singers prove
 a real attraction, and they were en cored again and again.
 } Next Sunday the ladies of tn l Greeneville Congregational churc will furnish the lunch