The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-04-03
INJURY DOES NOT
STIFLE The FIRE
The Rev. II. I. Sell, Support
ed BY Clutches, Flames
Eloquent in Denuncia-
ton of Bolshevism.
PASTOR IS DOUDLY GAME
Minister Shows Courage Both in Dis
guising His Own Suffering and in
Fearlessly Attacking the Greed
Of the Russ Reds.
PASTOR IS DOUBLY GAME

Frightfully wounded and borne on a
litter, Charles the Twelfth of Sweden
melted his men to unbelievable valor
against the Russian tyrant in the stir
ring battle Of Poltava; from wheeled
chair John G.. Calhoun made one of the
most eloquent addresses ever heard in
the Halls of Congress; the Rev. III. T.
Sell, pastor of the First Congregational
Church in Kenosha emulated both of
them on Sunday morning, when with
his limb and hip in a plaster cast and
his body supported by crutches to keep
him from falling in the pulpit, he
urged his parishioners to display both
courage and conviction in their fight
against a new Russian monster, Boil
shevism.
Still suffering intensely from an in
jury sustained in fall more than three
weeks ago the Kenosha pastor refused
to be longer absent from his pulpit and
gamely stood rather than sit as he
delivered powerful sermon in de-
nunciation of the Russian Reds and the
philosophy they represent.
The Rev. Mr.. Sell began his discourse
with dramatic description Of Christ IS
trial before PLATE. He explained how
the Roman governor, in the interests Of
justice and right, had sought to re-
lease the Nazarene and how the crowd
with the blind madness of mob iudge-
ment had clamored for Barrabas, the
libertine and robber. Then with rea-
soning at once accurate and eloquent
he showed how Christ today was repre-
sentative of law, order, justice, and
democracy, while Barrabas was typical
of the darker forces, sensualism, rob-
berry, murder, arson - Bolshevism.
"The modern world'', he declared
with infectious fervor, is now another
judgment hall in which humanity must
choose between Christianity and Boil
shevism, Christ or Barrabas. Now as
then the one stands for kindness, jus
tice; and altruism; the other for bru-
tally, anarchy, and barbarism. Chris
tianity means evolution, political, NOR
al, and spiritual; Bolshevism revolution
of the sort that drenched Ekaterinburg
with blood and filed the morgues Of
Lichtenberg with countless mutilated
corpses.
"Today as in that ancient time
he continued, "there are some - and I
hope it is not the majority - who are
impatient for the slaughter, who de-
sire the release Of Barrabas and the
forces that he typifed; there are others
equally determined that an innocent
humanity shall not be crucifed upon
the cross of Bolshevism'
In developing his theme DR.. Sell
was very careful to distinguish be-
tween Socialism and Bolshevism. The
former he contended sought only the re-
striction of capital and the confsca-
tion of unearned increment through
political and pacific methods whereas
the latter advocated the abolition of all
existing institutions, including. mar
riage and religion, through wild orgy
of violence and bloodshed already we'll
under way in Soviet Russia and Hun
gary. He held that Christianity offer
ing "resto for those "who were
weary and heavy laden and justice for
all mankind was the one antidote for
the poison Of revolution now running
its venemous course through countries
feverous with Bolshevism.
Although manifestly fatigued by suf-
fering and exertion the Rev. Mr.. Sell
finished his sermon with a powerful
peroration.
1--WE have reached another crisis,
he haid, Tin the world struggle be-
tween civilization and barbarism,
Christ and Barrabas. Thinking men
and women cannot, like PLATE, wash
their hands of the whole affair and
leave judgment to the proletariat. I'm
der such circumstances we are facing
another Calvary, another barbaric in
vasion, another Dark Age beside which
the horrors Of mediecalism viii pale
into flmy nothingness.
"A world must be saved, suffering
must be relieved, but not by anarchy
and blood-shed. Rather must thinking
men and women with a new devotion
to the principles of Christianity show
Calvaric courage and stem the rising
tide IF R01shnyism''