Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1920-01-31
LAYMEN SPEAKERS
DEAL WITH LOYALTY

ing in the Baptist church were three
inspiring messages from three lay
men. J A. Andrews and w. &. Eos
ter spOne to the subject: Loyalty to
Convictions" and Floyd EeIapp to the
subject, Jesus Shall Reign
Mr.. Andrews declared that "'rho
world today would be stil be groIing
in barbarism except for men who had
been loyal to convictions. Except for
David. DaniCi Jesus and Paul and the
later types, Jeiiersons and Washing
ton. Nathan Hale declared "rhc only
regret | have il that | have but one
life to give for my country
I'VE ahonld take "A stand and not be
the good fellow that plays both sides,
helping the church one day and the
devil on the next He quoted the
great sentiment in Isaiah, chapter
one. that says. Cease to do evil
Judge the orphan and plead for the
widow" From this Mr. Andrews
made plea for socialized Christian.
ity. He enumerated concrete instances
in our common life where the prinei-
pies of Christ must be applied. The
war is over but battle still goes on,
Dor. more than anything else wants
real democracy, to he treated. not as
chattes but as human beings. lie
spoke of Lloyd George coming IRON
the ranks to leadership in Britain and
said our country was democratic and
accepted the workingman as an equal
with every other man.
HE spoke OF the faulty land syS-
tenn that enables a man to sit com
fortably by an electric fan and clean
up SlJ 900 without lit OF his hand.
"The time is coming he said when
the land question will be treated in a
more Christian way. Our country is
more commercialized than Christian
lied"
Mr. Andrews thought it would be
more indicative OF democracy in our
schools if there was more uniformity
in dress. As it is, those able to dress
well set pace a poor family can not
keep up with The poorer dressed are
often snubbed and snobbery thrives
II ought not to be.
Floyd M. DeLapc
Floyd Delapp, the second speaker.
made deep impression on his hear,
ers. In clear manner and with well
chosen words he spoke.
History records the fail of many
nations and in these recent days We
have Witnessed the collapse Of en-
pires, and kings and princes have
been shorn of their power. We won
der ofttimes what some day will be-
come Of this fair country Of ours.
NO Il un
ted as result of faith and good
works, to gather around the throne Of
the new Jerusalem ard look upon the
face Of our Saviour and King
Discussing such topic as the reign
of Christ we naturally turn to Revela-
lions for text. In chapter II verse
we read, The kingdoms of this
world are become the Kingdoms OF
our Lord and OF his Christ; and lie
shall reign forever and over"
Christ is omnipotent, but on earth
instead of HIS reign is the reign Of
terror, In our own nation We are
astoundcd at times at the reign of
unrest aud lawlessness. We have the
reign of selfshness, lust, cXtraya-
gance. pleasure and sin, Two forces
q
reign of Christ on the earth and the
other the reign of sin. Strife between
the two is continually in force,
w. r. Foster,
W r. Foster in his usual lorcetuI
manner was the closing speaker. He
began by showing how the two disci.
pies of Christ. John and Peter, who
Witnessed so courageously before san.
hedrin after healing the lame man at
the gate of the temple gave all the
credit for their boldness to Christ the
crucified and risen Lord. These two
disciples at an earlier date, when
Jesus was arrested and led away, had
been guilty Of cowardice.
Il feel thankful said iMr. Foster
for the lesson here These men who
had fallen, when chance was offered
them to come back made good. In
the grip of the now power they be
came courageous and powerful wit
neSses.
I'VE too have convictions. one OF
them IL that the Caucasian race has
been the most progressive Of all the
races But it is not so far back, as
time is computed, that the white race
was not so far ahead OF the black or
yellow races What the white race
has the other races did not get, name
~. the Christian religion. If this ma
ton were truly, honorably and hon
estly Christian it could rule the whole
world and tIe whole world would he
glad to have it so because there
would not be rule on the principle OF
conquest or selfish power but on the
principle of magnificent Christian
leadership in the right direction.
Another conviction we have is
that woman has been raised far above
her former state through the Christ
ian religion. The treatment of women
is not perfect in this land but go into
any non-Christian land and see what
she amounts to. You will be cOnvinc-
ed that the Christian land has some
thing or other no other land has 1t is
the Christian religion.