Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-01

as his topic the Physical versus the Spiritual Wold. He said it is up to every man to And out for himself the spiritual or the physical powers rule the world. It is some thing that he must find out for him. self But no man had ever called upon God and found that there was no God
 A friend of mine said the other day If the Germans break through the allies line in France and win the war I believe I would lose my faith in God. I thought about this and de- cided that the Germans were not go- ing to break through and that if they did it would not alter my faith one bit Assyria was a great power. Alter she had conquered all the known world she could not hold it and she fell.s Alexander the Great was mil itary genius but he failed to con quor himself and when he died his mighty empire fell like a house or cards. Rome conquered much terri tory and1 out of her very conquests arose the influence which caused her fall. Napoleon was irresistible for a time then he like the others fell Spain at ,one time was mistress or the seas and master of Europe. She open ed LID great countries in the new world but she fell Every time nation has been selfish and greedy that na- ton has fallen and passed out or ex- istenee.
 There is the victory that spells de- feat such as the victories of Assyria Rome, France and Spain. There is al- so the defeat which means victory. When Assyria swooped down on Je- rusaler like a wolf on fold and car ried off tme chosen people she brought them face to face with their God who they had heretofore regarded as the state deity or the national God. Out of the defeat and exile of the Jews came the persona religion.
 Consider the Pilgrims. They want ed to go to Virginia but instead they landed in New England. In ekeing out their livelihood among the stern hills they had bred in them the sturdy characteristics of those hills and they gave to the nation the very moral fibre and backbone which it needed.
 Is it a world of spirit CT of flesh The resurrection of Jesus is a wit ness that the forces of life are spirit ual. From the time the first man though that the selling liquor was not right the saloon was doomed. One of the great English statesmen when de- feated in the house of commons said after his defeat, T appeal to Time. So it is with the spiritual men of the world. They are called fanatics and lunatics and while right is on the scaffold and wrong is entrroned it is that every scaffold that has brought about every good thing in the world
 During the evening nineteen per sons were baptised by the pastor.
 At Park Congregational Church. You will never make better world until you make better individuals said Rev. Samuel H. Howe, D. D., ir his Easter message to his congrega- ton at Park Congregational church on Sunday morning.
 The church decorations were very attractive. Suspended at the right O the pulpit was large American fias and at the left the service flag witt twenty five stars, representing thu | twenty-five members of the church who are serving Uncle Sam in the world fight for liberty. Both these flags are gifts of the mems club Beau | tiful flowers were banked about thu pulpit.
 At the offertory. Mrs. Story sang |; solo, I Know That My Redeemel Giveth, Handel. Rev. MT. Howe chest his text from St. John ii 11;25, and il his sermon said in part:
 The question If a man died, shal he live again." has been suggested as an appropriate subject for Easte study throughout the country today and it seems to be especially proper It is ! question in the midst of thi wonderful world tragedy that we fee like raising as we never have be fore So much of life seems to b going down in ruin, so many thing we have been living for.
 People have said, let the other worl alone-give yourself to the bettermen of the world you are living in-as l one world was sufficient for an i'm mortal soul. Luxuries are disappear ing; self indulgence is a crime. Tn mass of the things for which me have been living have been prove
 before their eyes to be unworthy of tn effort and endeavor which have bee
 put forth in their pursuit. You wi
 never make a better world until yo
 make better individuals. The i'm rortant question is that of immorts life. How much better is an athe list than the brutes which perish, tn |
 nothing else.
 We are going to live, or exist, for
 ever, but Ere we going to live in tn
 hereafter as we have lived in thi
 world? We had better die than q
 that. I think of that beautiful an
 them sung this morning, T know M
 Redeener Liveth." There was no i'm
 mortality worth while until Jesu
 came. France was in the grip of athe
 ism for a few months and she de
 luged her cities with the blood of he
 best men, What kind of a life ar
 you going to live? if you live onl
 what you see? And this doctrine
 immortality, it seems to- me dedeen Us from the littleness of life. We SC churches sometimes get in wrangle over little question. Wh
 don't they talk about big things? To ; can't put the fate of democracy
 the hands of atheists. If we don
 hurry up I am afraid there will some more Serbias Belgiums ar : path of this awful beast that } our hopes are anchored in God l can't touch us. The great questio 3 of facing God is our business. Trinity Methodist Episcopal churcE |, Large congregations were presel at both the morning and evening sci vices at Trinity Methodist Episcop f church. Special Easter programm :, had been arranged for both service : Beautiful floral decorations adornt : the pulpit. Immortality Rational S | Considered was the subject of the SC : mon delivered in the morning by Re