Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-24
PROVIDENCE PASTOR SPEAKS
 AT WASHINGTON SUPPER

supper Tor 150 was served Monday night at 6:3o at the Central Baptist
 church by the Benevolent Union in
 their annual Washingtons birthday
 supper. <ne attractive menu in
 cIuded grape frNt, hot roast beef
 with gravy, mas.led potatoes, mashed
 turnips, plckled beets, pickles. rofts,
 coffee ice cream and cake. The com
 mittce in charge was Mrs. Henrietta
 Tefft Mrs. Willis Hill, Mrs. John Hill,
 Mrs. c. G. Anrbler, Miss Maria
 Bt4ggs, Mrs. Floyd May, Mrs James
 Parker and Mrs. Robinson with Mrs.
 John E. Hawkins in charge of the tickets and the members of the I 1oung
 Mems class serving as walters
 After the supper, Rev. Dr. Clarence
 M. Gallup of the Central Baptist
 caurch, Providence, was introduced by
 Rev. A. r. Purkiss as the speaker Of
 the evening.
 Dr. Gallup a former resident of this city and a nlefttber of the Central church, acknowledged the invigora ting effect upon body and soul that he felt in coming into the familiar home sur roundings and went on to speak of the urgency of our times, the like of which George Washington had never
 known. Germany is paying the fid- dler, he said, Russia is overtaken by | tangled in the imagination of the poet Of Fiume, England is facing nation al bankruptcy. France is bled white of her man-power, Mexico is a puppy barking at the heels of Uncle Sam but not daring to bite and Japan, 1 cynical and Janus faced, is on the fence, ready to flop which ever way the world goes.
 Our country is not immune from
 the dangers which are inevitable aft CT war times. The high cost of living race riots, arterio sclerosis of our rail-
 roads are in our experiences and bol shevisn is merely the proletariat get ting bumptious as it comes into the majority.
 We long for 8 man for the times, but have not found him yet. But in every
 great emergency God has always raised up man for the times Today l we cannot find any man of the right size to deal with the world as it is. l There has been an eclipse for our 1 leader because his great ideas have
 been very badly managed and we do 1 not yet see the man big enough for l tine times.
 1 Now the. Christian church has the 1 opportunity of it's history, but it must | retrieve itself for having failed in the i past in intoxicating Christian morality. It will not retrieve itself by a reitera 1 tion of hoary doctrines. The world wants an example of these doctrines 1 and it is the opportunity of the i church to make good along lines 1 where the world is showing weakness. i The two great enemies of the Chris | tian church are Mohammedanism and l oolshevism, the one a religion and the | other a social program, but both won derfully alike. Mohammedanism is i planning the conquest of Africa, India, i China and Japan, and would then con- l trol more than half the human race. 1 The danger from the bolshevist is not | in his economic doctrine but on two 1 other thinss-his belief that a man 1 should do just as he pleases all the 1 time and his laziness, for the bolshe- 1 vist is the laziest man on earth. In | laziress and licentiousness the Mo | hammedan and the bokshevist 1 show their likeness. It is the 1 opportunity of the church to dem- onstrate the gospel of work to the | world. The bolshevist doctrine Of
 working as little as possible and get l ting as much as possible is opposed to
 common sense.
 l The Bible and the Christian religion 1 are propaganda of work, but the | church has loafed on it's job. The first l thing the church should do is to learn
 the work of stewardship, stewardship | of money, of life and it should know what is going on in the world and the world problems. Lastly, said Dr. Gal lup, the finer kind of cooperation will produce the finer, work and we must take every means to convince, convict and compel these enemies of the church that they must give up,