The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-20
Dean Christian Preached Last Night to Members High School Gradu-
 ating Class.
TOUCHES ON THE WAR
Religion, He Says, Means the Highest Efficiency of Whole Man and
 Is Effective.

beautiful and most helpful service was held Sunday evening at Holy Trinity Cathedral, and Dean Christian preached a special sermon to the High School graduating class and their friends, with a congre- gation filling the church.
 The music was also inspiring. Be- sides the hymns to which the choir and class marched in, preced- ed by the cross and flag, the Offer tory anthem was especially enjoyed, The Dean referred to Red Cross Week. remarking that any institu- tion that was alive needed money; the Red Cros was very much alive; and the least we can do at home is give of our means while others give their lives.
 After reminding the congregation that the present generation of young , people will have to grapple with the tremendous problems of recon struction after the war, and that we should be deeply interested in them, the preacher declared that true education means the develop ment of the whole personality physical, intellectual, and spiritual that religion means the compile | tion of the whole man, that with l put reliRion one is maimed or but 1 two-thirds a man or woman; that | ral i,ria lifa thot if
 wants to be fully alive, he must be
 religious.
 Such closing service was prop er, for, while Church and State arc
 properly separate, yet the founder! | 0f our nation never intended tC
 ban religion; our government was | deliberately founded on Christian
 principles, the name of our Lort lsed in official documents; Congress
 once made appropriation for Bibles sent abroad; the Government rec | ognizes the function of the Church
 n this crisis, government by con sent of the governed began wher early Christians cut down the un
 imited power of the Empire by re
 using to worship the Emperor; the aarly Church established schools out
 )f which grew our public schools
 md from the monasteries came tho great universities.
 Christian Patriots.
 Washington declared: "To the | distinguished character of patriot
 should be our highest glory tC l ,dd the more distinguished charac 1 'er of Christian" Webster de
 dared that, if our liberties were il 1 Hanger, it was due to neglect o | religion; the remedy, return tC | it.
 Lord Roberts never missed family | prayer, and went to the Eucharis laily in London; General French 1 declared we must not only have | he guns and men, but nation or
 ts knees; General Haig, after z skirmish, chiefly regretted the loss If his Bible; General Pershing ap- )eals for more chaplains.
 Science and Religion heleTTlHS 10 tHe lued that Tt educated person is religious" or hat there is inconsistency between 'cience and religion, the speaker mentioned such great scientists as
 Farraday, Salisbury, Lyell, Kelvin, Romanes, Pasteur, who were Chris tians; Huxley said Christian mira cles were nothing compared to con- stant miracles in nature; Darwin never taught that man has ascended rom a monkey, and he and Fiske
 considered the process of evolution consistent with a personal Creator;
 every Sunday School child knows
 he "days" of Genesis are periods
 )f time.
 What Is It to Live?
 Spencer's definition of being alive is to be conscious of and responsive to ones environment. So, unless you are actively corresponding to your whole environment-see and
 lnseen, physical and spiritual-you
 ,re not alive. The gospel contem- plates an order or quality of life which is more than mere existence,