Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-04-05
HARVEST FIELDS OF
HUMANITY, SUBJECT
AT PALISADE CHURCH

BY all odds the best sermon Rev. III.
=. GuhSe has so far preached in Pail
SADIE was delivered last Sunday morn
ing before congregation that must
have pleased his ideals of the forward
movement going on in the little local
church. He chose as subject THE
Harvest Fields of Humanity" a theme,
he said, he had thought out, but the
more he looked at it the more length
ened it became. 1t could fill years
talk on that subject alone. In Joel iii,
IA. he found these words: "Multitudes,
multitudes in the valley of decision, for
the day of Jehovah is near in the val
ley of decision
The sermon was not only well con
ceived, but strongly delivered, and
some of the passages We're more than
eloquent. He was full of feeling
throughout the effort, which consumed
IS minutes, and not a dull moment in
it. As one of the members said, THAT
sermon was worth going a thousand
miles to hear. l tell you it had the
right soul in it, and that young man
has fine future" Another lady said,
How can Palisade hope to hold man
like that?" And" said another. "if l
could hear a sermon like that every
Sunday l would never miss one
The meat of the sermon was il dis
sertation on the brotherhood of man
and the certain tendency Of humanity
to go that road Our world has be-
come a neighbOrhOOd, ne said, and our
relation is, of necessity must be, that
of relatives and friends You cannot
lead satisfactory life unless you help
your neighbOrS into like life. You
cannot make Palisade good town
without making Fort Lee good And
you cannot make Fort Lee better with
out helping Bergen county along with
you, and when Bergen is better the
state is making progress along the
right road. And when New Jersey is
helped when it is better state to live
in, the nation is improved And you
cannot make these United States a
prosperous and enlightened country
without benefting the whole world
We are brothers. Maybe we don't
want to be brothers, but nature does
not care what we fancy. We've got to
. be brothers whether we want to or not,
and if we refuse and build walls
around ourselves to keep the wretched
out along will come war and peStilence
or some other human leyeler and teach
us a lesson. We did not want to get
into the European war acknowledgements,
and we imagined we could keep out,
thanks to 5000 miles of water. But
the simple fact of brotherhood plunged
us into it, and we can never eXtricate
ourselves from European affairs They
need us over there, and we need to
iTeip and We sf7dff 70 ThE ffas1
limit of our resourceS-and it will be
the most joyous task America ever had
to help lift that part of the world out
of the slough of despond Justice,
truth and righteousness are going to
cover the whole earth, or they will not
cover any piece of it. And brother
hood is the transmitter. The minister
dwelt here on the relation of capital
and labor and said that the brother
hood of man was the delicate hair
spring in the organization. Both want
the same thing-success and satisfac-
ton. Both will get it. America is in
the valley of decision in this matter.
Splendidly have the sinews of war
made pragmatic test of the reality of
brotherhood
y Speaking Of the covenant of nations,
the speaker said no epoch was ever so
significant. Previous to these times
there were three great points of time
in which the energies of the human
race came to full flower. First was
the day of Pericles THE glory that
was Greece" In about century or SO
at this time all the marvellous develop
ment of Greek history and literature
occurred. Second was the day of Gaze
sar, 1.-The grandeur that was Rome,
when another century made Rome mis-
tress of the world. The third was the
Renaissance, not so long ago. Now
the greatest wave appears to be upon
us, and it will probably include the es-
Establishment of the federation of the
world. Speaking of the Red Cross, he
drew a great and glowing picture of
it's war activities, emphasizing the
wonderful good it has accomplished for
mankind in the war.