The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-10-25
BIG CROWD AT LOCAL THEATRE
HEARS SSERMON-LECTURE GIVEN
WITH LEAGUE NATIONS SUBJECT

complishment and Operation wa'
the subject of the sermon lecture
delivered last night at the Sngs
theatre by Rev. Wendell F, Foster
pastor of the Presbyterian church.
The auditorium OF tho theatre
was filled comfortably, the crowd
being much larger than on the pre-
ceding Sunday night when the first
of the series Of lectures was de,
liverd 1t was announced this morning
ing that all the services Of the Pres
byterian church, including the Sun
day school will be held in the Sugg
theatre from now until the new
church is erected
! The speaker said in part
THE security of mankind is de.
pendent upon universal democracy.
Democracy is the christian valuation
of human personality. AS the mis-
sion OF the Hebrew race of yester-
day was to safeguard the foregleams
of democracy, so today, the duty of
the American people is to KEEP bright
the afterglow and throw it around
the glow to be.
"Nor has this been by the design
ing of human will but Is a plan OF
Divine Wisdom. Biblical and secular
accounts Of the directing forces
which produced America is sufficient
evidence of this truth to the UNI
biased. Acts sixteenth chapter and
seventh verse. Paul would have gone
into Abisinia and the east but the
Spirit OF God forbade and he turned
his steps to the west. AS he crossed
the threshold Of Europe, Rome was
conquering the Isles of Great Brit
ain and bringing under their control
the forefathers Of our great Anglo.
Saxon race This is the highway
upon which rode the Christian Faith
with its democratic ideals to the
heart of our forslres.
when Europe had commenced
cristalizing democratic ideals under
the influence of the christian faith
the, Mahammed powers arose upon
The plains Of Armenia. They marched
westward upon world conquest,
swept the northern coast OF Africa.
crossed into what is now Spain,
climbed over the Pyrinees mountains
onto the plains of France conquer
ing and subjugating all in their path /
to the Mohamned faith, which is,
the power Of the world in the name
of Mohammed" In 1893 Charles Mar
tel with band of men whose hearts |
were beating to the music of demo
cracy and the Christian Faith met
the Mohammed forces in a seven
days battle Martel and his men won
the battle of Tours, hurled the Turks |
back. and sent them homeward to |
their Heather Temples and Altar
fires, thus saving democracy to the
world.
NOW Phillip, the Second OF Spain, |
partly from ambition but mostly for |
revenge and to blot out the liberal |
spirit of Christianity from Europe
like the deframed Kaiser, secretly |
trained an army and built what was
supposed to be an invinclbe Armada |
When this flet of one-hundred and |
thirty-four ships was ready to sail |
the Admiral a man upon whom sue.
cess depended suddenly died. Com
mand passed to next in authority |
and he died. Finally when they did |
sail they were under an incompetent |
Admiral. England with twenty four |
ships made ready to defend their |
home and faith. The very elements |
became enangered at the presence of |
such fleet in the British Channel |
and the winds blew and demobilized |
this fleet. and once more the Chris |
tian Faith and her democracy is
saved to the world
The great clock of time, now,
peals forth the midnight hour, an old |
day has ended, new begun. The |
curtains of God roll back and Ameri-
ca, the home of the U. S. A. appears
to view, a haven TO a prosecuted !
faith, hope for suffering demo
cracy. Where will God get his peo-
pie for this new land? stretch forth !
my hand. My little finger I place
over the Pyriness mountains and
gather from their vastness the AL
bigensees. My ring finger, | place
over the Alps and gather from their
beauty the Waldensees. My middle /
place over the Ural mountains.
reaching into the picturesque city OF
Geneva, the home of Calvin and his
spirit l gather ith the rest My in
dex finger l stretch to the MoraYian