Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-19
FAST DAY COLLECTION HELPS NEAR EAST

1 ton proclamation and again the fet | tered Christ was victorious. Although 1 the cowardly bullet struck him low, slavery was abolished forever from our soil. In our day the cause of temperance | has met with a like vindication. It's 1 history has been a strange repetition of the ups and downs of the slavery i question. But at last freedom has
 dawned, and the finger of God has written the prohibition amendment in
 the constitution of the United States. That amendment with the Declaration ! of Independence and the emancipation
 proclamation forms the triune bull
 wark of our liberties. It marks an other victory for the once fettered Christ
 1 We need never to be ashamed to be
 in the minority, if that minority rep
 resents the principles for which Jesus
 was bound and for which he died. Evil l that is arrayed against "the Lord and
 his anointed" may bind our hands, but
 that very act will be the unbinding of
 spiritual life and light.
 ! At Park Church.
 l At Park Congregational church at II o'clock on Friday morning a spe- cial service was held with music and
 Scriptural reading appropriate to the solemn Day of Crucitixion. The Pro- cessional to Calvary (Stainer) was ist, previous to the service, and the
 Irregular choir, assisted by the clear, sweet voice of Mrs. James A. Bid well, sang for the anthem. Oh, Saviour of the World (Mathews). in the solo work of which Mrs. Arthur F. Story S charming soprano was heard to fine i advantage.
 Rev Dr. $. H. Howe. pastor of the church, after reading the story of the Cross, took his text from the Gospe of St. John, chapter F. verse 32: And I, if be lifted up from the earth, vii
 draw all men unto me. This he said
 sisnifying what death he should die
 To the Greeks who came up to the
 feast, and sought an interview witt
 Him, Jesus thus predicted His death ; the only man in history who came te earth for the purpose of dying. We have for many generations had i
 dinner into our ears that His lifting III on the cross was but one of the many } incidents which occurred during thi: :. solemn Passion Week. but Jesus knev } where to put the emphasis on the ac 5 itself, which was to draw all the world r unto Him. Though His path wa : blocked by a cross, it was only jus f such a sacrifice which could atone fo the NOElu SlllS.
 1 We cannot appropriate the futur, l after His fasion, or cast our own hor l oscopes; we are here to live, and ou g business is to put something Wortl l while into this world. Jesus does no : fit into our human categories, fo e though death is sometimes gIoriou
 when paid for a great worlds advan f tage, death was to Christ as a suprem : glory-a supreme drawing power-an t nothing else.
 F The war has given us a frank in d terception of death as a redeemin y power; the young men who fell i e France and on Flanders Field, breast : ing the great wave of despotism. hay
 died to shield us. Theirs was nc " merely the defending power Of a fe, < years-their sacrifice avails for tht s, untredden procession of generations t if come.
 d It is not strange that Jesus asks u e to remember His death, and nothin # else-others like Socrates and Lincol Q have died for their principles-but H if died for the salvation of the world. Tn .. mere romance of sacrifice does nc a draw the hearts of the world. but Hi # lays all hearts at His feet, all races an n ages.
 n Herein lies our hope; we have bee lS busy with reconstruction, commerci;
 lHleTeSlS, culture. science ana man 5 things, believing these would heal an
 help the world, but from all thes
 humanity broke away and plunged tf 'e universe into chaos. Everything ha $ been tried, except the Cross, and Whe 'L the vision of the Cross is seen on Il l. earth, all men will be drawn into un IT ty. When humanity. subdued an K penitent gazes on such a scene, thel y will arise a great peace, which, enc le ing the sins of the world, will bind 3 ,y races into unity, and universal ami Is shall at last be triumphant upon tn SC earth