The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-22
WE MUST NOT FEAST WHILE
 OTHERS STARVE

A plea for unself1sh service without thought of reward and a declaration that America must not be content to sit at her own fireside feasting on her own resources while starvation stalk ed through China and Armenia were the dominant thoughts In the sermon of Bishop Luther E Wilson ct the First Methodist Episcopal church yesterday, Taking as his text the words 'We must work" he said: "A multitude are saying those words be- cause they feel themselves in the grip of the ancient curse that follow ed the first transgression, slaves of necessity daily scourged to their tasks" There were others, Bishop Wilson, said that, like Fritz Kreisler. the vfolin1st, who upon being asked what, would be necessary for one of musical talent to do in order to play as he did. replied: Practice ten hours for 30 years" Men like Kreis- Ter and our captains of industry, the preacher declared, are not conscious of a law outside themselves, there has been a tranSference of the com- pulsion to the spirit within the ambi- tion drives them to mastery. Con- tinuing, he said:
 Then there is the third great com- pulsion, not the compulslon of ne- cessity, nor for mastery, but the com- pulsion that comes not out of our own acquisitiveness but out of our desire for the welfare of others. That IS INe zone in which Christ moved wh' .e said: We must work That is the zone in which motherhood dwells utterly selftorgetful. It is un- der such constraints as would not come to the scholar and never could come to the slave. We must work was the word the Master brought.
 Ut must never be the task of America merely to sit at our own hreside feaSttnS on our own re- sources. It must never be the pro- blem merely of lifting my child above my neighbours child. It was a long way from the throno of God to Beth lehem'S manager Jesus said I must go.' It was a long way from the slumber of a little babe looking up into the blue of the mothers eye to the cross. Jesus said I must go'
 Ut is what He is saying to America today and all who know Him must recognize the fact that America in it's strength and greatness cannot stand aloof from the nations of the world There is no reason why we should not begin with the cultivation of our own manhood and womanhood and child hood, but our obligation does not end rhere."
 Bishop Wilson referred to the fam. inc sweeping China and the horrible conditions in Armenia and said tha, they constituted a challenge to the world and esp pecfally to America,
 In closing. Bishop Wilson referred feeiingly to the arnistice day incident of tho burial Of an unknown French soldier under the Arc de TrSonanh, and of an unknown British soldier il Westminster Abbey, %"rhose two h q roes were not namefess,'' the preache said, '.their loved ones Knew tn, names they bore as they went forth tt the sacrifice, but these two gave nor than their lives, they gave their yer names. and for them was 8 great re ward." Continuing, ne S2i6s sIt i not a question of monuments or rec ogpition for most of sas> Tho ranl and file wilt be unknown We ma not be placed beneath the Arc de Fri oEnphe. but no arch of triumph vii ever ee raised unless we of the ran and file give ourselves to the tasf dedlcating ourselves to the high sacPs " ficEal service of this hour. We mus work
 "t; ; Rev. Paul E. Edwards the pastol was much grsetifte6 at the response i the free-win offering to has plea for reduction of the EEfortgaSe on tn church,