Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-08
RALLY DAY CALL IN
 UNIvERsALIsT PASTORS CALL


 The rally day call is for us all Min isters and laymen-young and old-men and women, to do something for the or ganization to which we belong, said Rev. George H. Welch, in his rally day ser mon at the Universalist church, Church of the Good Shepherd, Sunday morning.
 It IS significant that Jesus comprehend ed the nature of His spiritual message to the world, said Rev. Mir Wech. after announcing his texts, John 14:12 Hld Matt. 4:9. He knew He was not hamp- cred by any restrictions of place or cir cumstances. To be sure He would work for a little while. He would gather only few about Him. The few short years of His life were not sufficient to produce any visible effect on the thousands of people for whom He labored
 The visions of the Apostles as given by Jesus has known nothing but triumphaI | march down through the ages. Our pur- pose this morning is to emphasize this | enlarged vision.
 | The ,Nristian church of the United States has failed to grasp completely the | opportunity that opened before it. A few | high minded men with sense of the ut | ter impotence of the church in the face of ] a great impending calamity. conceived the notion that Hi union there would be l strength. Therefore they came together | a couple of year ago to call upon the | churches 10 unite in programme that should be permanent programme. They formed the great Interchurch Movement. wonderfully conceived, promising and | hoping for blessings far outnumberins l any the church had ever dreamed. Put you know it failed. It failed of nearly everything except to take a careful sur vey of the religious world and great need, and to bring in millions of dollars. i The people of the church, themselves were not ready to acknowledge that there could be even a brotherhood in the churches, to say nothing of including those others who are not of the church.
 In other words the great basic fact of re- tigion, which Jesus held up as foremost
 Of His doctrines, the inherent goodness l and inhedent rights of all men, to be
 treated with on that basis was not re-
 cognized. and was denied by more people
 of the Christian church today than you
 would dare think. The great South an6
 the great West broke the backbone oi
 that movement, that promised more for
 the world than anything that Christian oeop'e have undertaken since the days ot the Apostles. It is absurd for the Chris tian people of America to even think that l the nations of the world can get together , and work together with a better under standing and less trouble, when these
 same churches will not do that The great trouble in the industrial world to day is that neither the employer nor tn, 'employe will recognize the rights of tn, 3 other side
 : With particular reference to Rall! t Day. Rev. Mir Welch said in closing: 2 The rally day call is for us all Min | fsters and laymen-young and o,d-me, T and women. to do something for the or
 iyanization. to which we belong. This i | mot a rally for general things. It is fo 0 particular object. It is for the Uni t Fersalist church. It is for the single pur q pose of banding together to place the em - phasis o1 those great and eternal, uni Q versal things that shall make us a great | CT force in our campaign to Christianiz
 the world.