The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-01-14
Florida Baptist Convention
Opened Annual Session
ID Tampa Last Night

we must not forget either to pray
for our great missionary leaders In
China, and Brazil and the Argentine,
and the others in the far corners of
the world.
We are no longer partisans we are
patriots, and Christians and philan.
thropists and 1t will be an abnormal
brother who would shout at the top
of his lungc for the liberty loan and
remain deaf to the request for money
to equip the army Of Christ. I want
you to be an enthusiastic for the king.
dom Of God as you are for the govern.
ment.
The success of the great drives for
money for the Red Cross end the lib
erty loan teach us to attemp great
things for the kingdom of God. I
want you to quit giving nickles and
dimes to the church when you ought
to give fifty dollars and hundred
dollars.
"The kingdom Of God is a great in
dustry and there is going to be a
great field to preach the gospel of
Christianity in France and Belgium
and in Russia.
Carey A. Hardee a Speaker
Mr.. Scofeld introduced Hon. Carey
A. Hardee Of Live Oak, who spoke as
follows:
Il came here tonight without hav.
ing prepared any address. While at
Tallahassee recently it was suggested
to me in what I thought a jocular
way, that I should speak at banquet
or the laymen here in Tampa, and |
supposed that I would be asked to
make a few remarks after having en-.
joyed the hospitality Of the brothers
and then with the smoke Of a good
cigar mingling with others, that II
should merely rise and say a few
words, but any way am glad to have
have the opportunity Of speaking in
this sacred edifice and will have to
depend on the inspiration Of the mo.
ment.
Il have listened with great deal
OF pleasure and profit to the address
of DR.. Henderson, and II I have to
speak, am glad that 1t is to be on
such subject as Stewardship, be-
cause almost anything that one could
say on that subject would be appro.
pirate.
Some years ago when customs and
people and ideals were good deal
different from what they are today. It
was teh custom Of the supreme court
OF the United Statesmen as a body.
but as individuals--to take mint
1uleps, and they had insisted the cus.
tom be a mint julep whenever Il /
rained.
"One day 1t was suggested by a
member of that body to Chief Justice
Marshall that they have a julep, but |
the day was fair and the sun shining. |
and after looking thoroughly at the
weather for time, Justice Marshall |
responded, Well, the supreme court
has Jurisdiction over large country
and expect that 1t would be safe to
conclude that somewhere within our
Jurisdiction 1t is raining so whatever
may say on the subject of steward.
ship hopo you will consider may be
germane In some respect.
Stewardship
There ire many definitions of
stewardship, but they all come back
to the central thought that It is the
Of some one else's prop.
erty or affairs, to whom you must at
some time render an accounting, and
the very though of stewardship car. |
ries with 1t the suggestion that we |
are not working for ourselves, but for |
someone else, and we must decide In |
logical sequence who that other is.
THE things We call our we do not
own absolutely; We only possess them
for the time being. The Creator of
the universe is the owner of the uni |
verse, because He created It.; so He
owns us, and owning us the layman |
must get II in his mind that He has |
the right to call on us, not only for |
what we have, but for our time as
well.
Il speak from the standpoint of the
layman, and that is a most serious
question, that of giving ones time. II
is easy to get layman to give his
money, but it is much harder to get
one to give his time, but the one who
will give his time is the more val.
liable man to the church. II our
premise is correct and God is our
owner, then we are stewards for Him
and to Him we are called for an ac.
counting. A man might rent a farm
from another and aYnnnt 10 nn., liz