New Britain herald., 1921-12-12
BISHOP SPEAKS
 ON WAR PROBLEM
Timely Sermon at Trinity
 Methodist Church

evening" Bishop Anderson of ohio gave an address which was timely and up-tO-date,
 Bishop Anderson is q man with a keen insight into the spirit Of the times, and has for personal friends such men as Lloyd George and Presi- dent Harding During the war he worked us q Y. M. C. A. man In the region near Alsace Lorraine and has travelled extensively throughout Europe. His address was alive with many incidents from overseas, and brings home to us new and clearer vision of the Divine Ideal of Human Brotherhood
 His text was taken from St. Mat thew's Gospel chapter 6, verse 10, Thy Kingdom Come" He used the following words of a recent author to make his text clear:
 Almighty God always leaves an unfinished task on the work bench of the world"
 "The unfinished task which is com mitted to us is a perfectly tremendous one. The world is left with thirteen millions of orphaned children, Think
 
 country with its twenty million chil- dren of school age, over half of them orphans.
 World War Debt.
 We are left with a World War debt of three hundred and fifty bil- lions of dollars while the total wealth of the United States is supposed to be only three hundred billions. The war debt is fifty billion more than the total wealth of our great country.
 "Ninety-three per cent of the fed eral taxes paid by the citizens of this country goes to pay the war bill.
 War is an unspeakable curse. Let us thank God that our honored pres ident has summoned representatives from abroad to rid the world of war and may God speed them in their great international task, and God speed the day when war shall be no more.
 I've have often heard it said that Christianity has been tried and found wanting. l think as honest men and women we shall have to admit that certain types of religion have been tried and found wanting, but no hon. est man can undertake to say that the Christianity of Jesus Christ has been found wanting.
 The best answer that l have found to this accusation is that Christianity has been found difficult but not tried. We need to really try Christianity.
 Tn other words, we have failed be- cause we have not actually realized the ideals of the Kingdom of God among men. The Kingdom of Heaven is the most practical thing outside the gates of Heaven in every moment of History.
 We have been hearing good deal in these modern times about the new day as tho it would come sort of nat urally as q result of the War.
 If I see alright in the life of the world today there is a sagging of moral standards everywhere. You cannot turn loose savagery without the whole life of mankind feeling the impact of that sort of thing.
 The Need of Today
 What we need today in this age, is to hold ourselves up to the perfect standards of life as they are set forth in the perfect life of a perfect man,-The Son of God.
 "The part of the unfinished task that is left for us is so to live that the very life and spirit Of the world will be changed in its thinking and Humanity will be regenerated.
 Jesus Christ is the greatest cos mopoitan of human history and no man can be a Christian man in the true sense of the word and be in any way mean or narrow.
 33 Years In Ministry
 Bishop Anderson has been a Methodist minister for 33 years, but speaking of his adventures overseas said that he caught a new vision of the practical and vital realization of the Kingdom of God, while going through dcvasted France. He had the honor on Decoration Day, in 1918, to go into AlsaCe Lorraine and made the first American declaration. While there, Bishop Anderson spoke to the American soldiers from a platform consisting of 155 loaded shells, and gave them a message to save civili- zation.
 , Bishop Anderson further said: "l , am tremendously anxious that our own great country will give itself to this world task, devote it's energy and strength to the completion Of the un- finished task that has been committed to us by the hand of Providence.
 "Oh, I rejoice beyond all words that our Country is swinging out into the leadership in the system of ma tions that is positively Christian. , "I believe that our President sees that the only statesmanship worth talking about in this day is the states manship of the Kingdom of God.
 When President Harding was asked privately what he hoped to ac- complish as a result of this council on the limatation of arms he replied I am not saying it publicly, but I be- lievc that we are going to outlaw war, hv the Grace of God" While Bishop Anderson was dining { with a number of prominent business s men, bankers. and fellow townsme1 a of the president, a banker spoke uI and told of his interview with tn, President in which Harding said S "rhe fundamental trouble is tha this people have gotten too far ava, from Almighty God and if I can b. one of the instruments to bring bacl | the people of the United States to , perfection of their relation to God,