The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-10-16
The Rev. Fl. 7. Sell In 1nspir-
ing Sermon Sunday Morn
ing Points Out the Pro-
gress Of the World.
RECALLS sHAMES or PAST
Minister Reminds KenOsha Congrega-
ton Crime once was Carried On and
Licensed Declares Present Holds
Hope For the Future.

Surely the world does move and it
moves forward, = declared the Rev. II.
T. Sell, pastor Of the Congregational
Church, in an inspiring sermon deliy-
cred at the Sunday morning service Of
that church. The sermon in very in
teresting way explained the conten-
tions Of the pessimist and the optimist
and proved from the facts of history
that the latter had much the better Of
the argument. He declared moreover
that in the light of the past there was
great hope for the future and that sure
~ the world would continue to move
onward and upward
The Rev. Mr. Sell gave very inter
esting review Of the tendencies in cities
and nations to show that the right had
triumphed and would continue to tri-
umph in the days to come. He deplored
some of the conditions which now exist
but pointed out that at the most they
could be but temporary. The sermon
went first to the great betterment Of
conditions in cities which has come in
the past century.
Recalls Tipping the Lion
Take the city of London, for ex-
ample, cited the Rev. Mr.. Sell At
the beginning Of the nineteenth century
it was a city of more than two million
inhabitants The streets were unpaved
and at night unlighted. There was lit
tie Or no attempt at policing them.
Bands of armed men roamed about
without the least attempt on the part
Of the authorities to check them. These
bands with their drunken members were
hunting parties for human victims. =
One Of their favorite amusements
was tipping the lion, in which the
victim had his nose squeezed fiat and
his eyes bored out. There were the
sweaters, who formed circle about
their prisoner and pricked him with
their swords until he fell exhausted to
the ground. There were the dancing
masters, so called from their thrusting
their swords into mans legs to make
him dance. Then there were the com
mon murderers.
In dealing with the situation in cities
less than a hundred years ago he re-
called the terrible labor conditions I'M
der which the working classes were
forced to make their living by the
sweat of their brows and recalled how
different affairs were now even though
they were not ideal.
Drinking ON the Decrease.
The progress made in the past cen
tury was also declared to have been
shown in the changed attitude towards
drinking and gambling. I" A hundred
years ago there were no temperance So
cieties, declared the Rev. Mr.. Sell.
man who questioned the drinking
customs would have been thought to
have gone out of his mind. Drunkenness
was regarded as a thing to be expect
cd, And as for gambling, why it was
SO common that it was licensed and
revenue derived from it. part, some
times large part of the revenues of
some nations We're derived from it.
Everyone gambled 1t is but COM
paratively few years since the draw
iugs Of the notorious louisiana Lot
terry created as much interest as a
worlds series Of baseball games create
at the present day. But now the glory
has departed from these things and
they stand under the condemnation of
new Christian public sentiment. ~
The minister decried the fact that still
gambling existed but pointed out that
from the program of the past a day
might soon dawn when it would be
relegated to the past entirely.
New Rules of Justice.
IN closing his address, the minister
recalled how the world has now q new
and real sense of justice. He recalled
how in the days past and not 50 many
years ago. women had been the prop
erty of their husbands and how less.
than century ago America had been
torn by the Civil War to end the great
sin AMI economic wrong Of slavery. He
showed how religion had taken great
Steps forward and had come to be al
most universally adopted with a broad
81 and wider vision than it has ever
had before.