Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-19

are stauncha supporters upon whom the 1 church may depend.
 And there are others whose connection has been shorter only because the fam ' fly life has been numbered in fewer i years. 4s--- fs-,-
 among the people of 1885. and their fam fly survived for, perhaps. four genera tons
 The name of .spaiding has long been
 known with us
 While scores of others. among them
 the Dillaoys, the Potters the Harris. |
 Cham7iir, the Groenes, Greenhaige.
 Ruby, with others worthy of our deep
 gratitude and keenest respect for the great performance of their duty, teach us tho way to great success and the kind of life that leaves it's mark, as long as
 there shall stand in this city. the visible evidence of their faith in the great Uni versais.
 It is interesting to note that the ave- rage pas.orete during the one hundred years is four years; while at .n.s began ninga enough money could be obtained but for a few months preaching at T time. the one -hundredth yea- ronnief
 out the end Of the pastorate Of MT. Cobb. after twenty consecutive years of service.
 From this I conclude that you have always been and still are a people whose idesire is. to. work in as full aecori and
 complete harmony as it is- possible for mortais so to do.
 ! This church has So conscien.iouS!y an1 devotedly followed the path t:at is great conceptions of God would lead it, that beginning with. the enniity and social os- tracisrn of every other of the churches of Christ 1t ends | IS hundredth year. in
 friendship with them. which while 1t may not be fully aScertained. finds some wis.,
 ibie indication. in the union Thanksgiving I service to be held on Thursday of next week. in which we are invited to partici. pate. | With charity for all; with malice to- ward none; and the great heart of the II Christ starding guard over the portal of our. dreams one hundred years hence. may as much be said of the character or
 onr stewardship. as we may say of the stewardship of cur fathers. and To. the Kingdom of God shall not seem so far
 away.
 | However. 1t Is not only the fact of our : fathers that we celebrate There Is the faith and the idealism which they per. petrated.
 1 Did you ever stop to think Of wha,
 the span of a hundred years means? 4 : single century? At least three genera. : tions. have come and are nearly gone ! while the boyhood and the girlhood Of the
 fourth is here.
 i People whom our fathers or our moth. , CTS remember. and perhaps even as clos, , friends. We never saw One generation
 coneth and another eoeth."
 g Many physical changes haze taker l place. The world has been largely unit . ed in this time. Europe is not so fai I from America as it used to be- San | Fra 0riSpo iG ,s h,,s r.- .a. ? frmo New York now. The farmer hal
 brought his farm many miles nearer tn, . city by the use of his automobile. We Q get the news of every . rt of the work s almost as soon as IL happens. a There seems to be great principle O
 the world which is slowly unfolding 1t . self to the minds of men. That is ths ; great principle of complete harmony c s the things which God has made. A unit, In other words. 4 complete concord fl
 nature is already realized by everyone This unity of the world as it has bee Q established by all the mechanical de - vices of which man is capable. seems | ! have united to great degree The mind ' of many men Of power and insight. s. . that in this realm O. mems thought ther s is likely to appear more or less complete ly this principle Of harmony and con
 cord.
 t Therefore, the last hundred years ha '- seen . great change in this. Men ar. II striving today to place the emphasis uf on those things that are going to <Jg a that We are common laborers in the v.ns | yard of the world. and working to n y same great end gathering in the hal Q vests instead of trying to place the en n phasis upon the fact, not that We are q st Jealous laborers but that We arc doin n the job in different ways
 le1 Wasn't that about what It all amount a ed to in those early days?
 :. The emphasis was laid upon doctrin ? And if you will stop 10 think Of if thi [. church has no doctrine There Is onl A one thing to which we hold doggedl = and inst is the fact Of salvation for t, ,e world. There is no dogma or doctrine le that
 $ But 1t was led doctrine in tho,
 days. This one thing you must belle, aS If you will be saved; was the usessae = ringing out from every pulpit, whil down there al the corner or Main an ,.f Cliff streets . were calmly assertir
 that you were soine to be saved anywa 7 That the love of God and the message E Christ would somehow find a way, thl ~ would work with the world. ch But 1t was difficult always to be cal, n, Many times you were called upon to d h. fend that faith in God by resort to d e. bate founded on the Scripture. -e Then it was that large numbers we
 called to every church, attracted som ae times by such debates. sometimes by he new theology.
 all But that day has gone by. The thi- L-- you were insisting on then Is rapid
 coming to pass and the gospel of Jam no finds new place in the world, and is nd saying too much for your effort in No nd wich to say that you have helped on ID an immeasurable degree, that denai 1- that men shall show their faith by th,
 works? That is the great thing that tir a1 has brought to pass. It is not alone | ne man who has faith vho shall be save as but the man who ~-ws his faith by ! ID works. That is .he d:ctum Of the reli