Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-28
PERSONALS

PERSONALS
 again after having been confined to the house by rheumatism.
 Mrs. Francis Wood has returned to Rest cottage. Willimantic camp
 ground. after visiting friends in Nor- wich.
 Mrs. James B. Chapman of Norwich
 is spending the week at her cottage on l ground.
 Miss Madeline Kelley has returned to her home on Cliff street after spending her vacation with friends in Ashaway, R. I.
 Rosco Miner of Calexco. Cal. has been called home by the sudden ill., ness of his father. Amos P Miner. of North Stonington.
 Miss Anna Haskins has returned to her home in Waterbury, after a visit of two weeks with her cousin. Miss Nellie Gleason. of Central avenue l Miss MoIliN A. Beckley. of Aetna in surance office force. Hartford, is 1 spending two weeks vacation at the home of her parents. MT. and Mrs Thomas H. Beckley. of Lincoln ave- nue.
 Miss Mildred Lewis has returned to the home of her aunt, Mrs. Frank E. Henderson, of 240 West Main street after having spent two weeks at the cottage C1emary, Pleasure Beach. a guest of Mir. and Mrs. John B. Oat. MT. and Mrs. John F. Williamson of East Norwich. MT. and Mrs. John C. Fontain and daughter. Miss Gertrude F'ontaine and Miss Julia Malone. of Central avenue, left by automobile on Thursday, for a weeks tour through New York state.
 WEST SIDE PASTOR
 SPEAKS ON REALITIES
 A fine audience of men in uniform and several civilians spent a very pleasant hour and a half at the Y. M. c. A. '.get together Sunday after noon. After the music by the orches- tra and the singing. Rev. George H. Strouse delivered a very impressive address on the subject of Realities
 The men listened with unusual in terest and at the close of the address they heartily applauded the speaker. MT. Strouse said in part:
 Sir Henry Irving is reported to have said that the difference between a preacher and an actor is that an ac- tor takes a piece of fiction and makes it seem real while a preacher often takes a great reality and makes it seem like fiction.
 The very hay conceptions of God and Jesus and the Bible which are so characteristic of this age lead us to believe there is some truth in this
 
 scholarship has succeeded in camou- faging Gods word in such a. way that | many people are perfectly satisfied | with an attitude of running chances 1 in regard to the future world
 In view of all this I want to make | tremendously real to you the Man, Christ Jesus. You can't see Him and | I can't see Him but some of us have felt His power and we know He is the great dynamic undermining kings and lifting dynasties from their hinges. This power we can't see but 1 it is certainly real. For many cen turies the sources of the Nile were lost in mystery. Then came Stanley, i the explorer. who followed it from Delta up through Nubia and the Su- f dan, onward through deserts and ma larial swarnps and jungles. till after a journey of four thousand miles he i sources of that mighty river are known to the world
 Nearly two millenniums ago a mighty river bearing on it's bosom joy arfcs peace and life eternal began to 1oT through all the earth. The source of that mighty stream is Jesus.
 There are three things I want to say about this Christ. He is omnipo sea but on the sea. Sometime preachers have touched this truth and made it seem like fiction. I want to put the stamp of reality on it. One | lid so many wonders. a fierce storm was raging and Christ majestically fitted his hand and spoke the word and there was a calm sea. That is bower and it is just what I would ex- 1ect Him to do.
 And then Christ was daring. He ought to appeal to the young men of his age who have and who are dar- ng so much. But in all this daring Jesus has ever led the way. Timid md afraid were never on the lips of Jesus. He never retreated from the torn and hid away from the strife md tumult of battle. In Christ's bought to be forever planning for 'ne's safety is to be forever damned. Better to live dangerously in the heat if the battle than to exist ingloriously ecure. Again on this point scholars ouch Jesus and rob Him of his dar ng qualities and leave us only mad who was unable to con- ] roI himself. And so what is terribly 1 cal is palmed off as fiction lt And then this Man Christ is to be ome day. God has appointed Him 1 udge No use of camou1aging. he ( vill see you through and through. Is We'll. I want to see Him. There isn't ( ny terror in that thought for me. The i nan afraid of meeting Christ is the { nan who spurns him here and now. t The question now is: What will you i o with Jesus? Then the question will 2 e. what VIII ne QO WIIl 1iiS The ladies of Trinity Episcopal t hurch served lunch to all. and the f len were certainly grateful. Those in c harge of the lunch were Mrs. Walter t iIbert Mrs. M. C. Daniels, Mrs. Will ' am Fitch and Miss Helen Lewis. $ IRLs ENJOYED HIKE C
 AT THE DRAWBRlDGE t About twelve members of the Com lunity club enjoyed an outing and F ike at the Drawbridge on Sunday. The