Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-28

up at the great figure of Nelson in
 marbles surely if everybody forgets
 the voice of the country and forgets
 the love of duty that voice will speak with its message of duty and heroisrfl
 There is true sense in which Nelson
 stands above the yellow fogs of Lon
 don and it's toiling millions and is still speaking. and there is an infinitely, truer sense in which Jesus Christ stands in the very central roar of our
 great cities. No dead effigy, nor fig ure of stone, but a living Christ to re- buke and upiift us.
 Possibly you went home from the service the other evening and the next morning when you got down to the of | flee you shut the door and said, Now, l have got away from that preacher and if I want to do wrong and put through a rotten deal it is nohody's business but my own. You closed the | door and thought that you were alone, but you had no sooner thought of do- | ig wrong than the very atmosphere of the room was changed with the spirit of JeSus Christ. You may avoid 1 the church and you may avoid the preacher and you may avoid the com pany of Christians, but you cannot
 ovoid Jesus Christ. He will meet you
 where you least think of Him. He will meet you on the race course. on the l football field. in the office or in the room. He will look at you with sad eyes in the house of shameful pleas
 ilre. He will pass you on the street | in the garb of a begger and eutcast.
 He will sit beside you in the solitary room where you nurse your sin for
 rage against yourself and your faults You may shut the door, but He is still l there. Christ is with you the mo- lnent you begin to think about your
 conduct. You may go into your office
 and say that can do as I like now
 with my own. If like to cheat thai is my affair. If like to be unjust and grind the faces of the poor and snatch at every mean advantage. who is tf kEow9 Even as you speak the air 1T the office quivers and vihrates witt
 the presence of Christ, He makes yot think of a very different standard oi conduct which He Himself practices and He makes you think of another and better sort of life.
 II l sometimes imagine could heal Him preach outside the temple in Je.
 rusa.em and I have imagined wo-
 man listening and she asks who ii preaching. And they tell her and sh, says " hy He is an imposter who VI ltetNF tiSAlo ahVAb HI OdA NAitA9c fAliN suddenly the preacher says. Come
 unto me all ye that are heavily lader land I will give thee rest" And the
 woman says ''Rest ? Why that is wha II want, I have been seeking for i |, but I have never known rest ant peace since father and mother died And sne waits until after the benedic'
 ton, convinced that He is no impos
 ter and then she wonders if she car invite Him to her home. She Is lit tie afraid of her brother and sister
 but eventually the best that is within her gets the right of way and she in . vites Him and He accepts, for He ha' [ never turned down single invitation
 yet, and so they leave the temple ant
 go out by the eastern gate and eros mane, climbing Mt. Olivet and thel . go over beyond Bethphege and dowl ti Its eastern sloe to the little town o Bethany. Then she takes Him into tn house and introduees Him to her sis , ter Mary and her brother Lazarus, fo it is Martha who takes Him home. l can imagine that>I can see them seat F ed at the table and after the grace i
 isn't long before the Master works Hi way into the hearts of the whole fam l fly. I can see hanging over that ta
 ble a great, big, dark cloud. He know 5 that in few days the hearts of thos | two sisters will be sorrowed becaus 2 they will be carrying their brother | his grave and He knows that He ] the only One that can bring ther t comfort and cheer and so He come e to you this Thanksgiving time. Whs s are you going to do with Him?
 t The announcements for the evenin
 ;po1,,dad uofire of fbe Wornen's neigh r borhood prayer meeting this (Friday : morning, the regular evangelist |? meetings Friday and Saturday even t ings, a supper for 200 men at e:s q Saturday evening at which Mr. Smit s will speak, and q Sunday afternoo
 meeting at 3:30 for Sunday scho, a l nlIt,ils of the city