South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-02

T
zion OF our slum inhabitants and one
generation saved would mean a
great deal toward redemption OF
citys life Our gospel IS based on
preventive philanthropy. The church
comes TO serve and not TO be served.
The tragedy Of city life lies in the
fact that churches have left com
munities where they did not receive
support but the Department OF
Home Missions is engaged in over
coming these facts and giving them
to the church.
Roman Church Stands.
1T is in the inner city, or the
slums. where the foreign people go
first and in community groups, they
find their life. IL is where the weak
nearly all abide. II IS where pow
erty has its harshest imprint upon
the city and II is the part OF the city
where communicable diseases are
prevalent. It is this part OF the city,
10 our shame, nearly all the Pro-
testant churches have left. When I
went 10 St. Louis there were rractic-
ally eleven self-supporting Protest
ant churches in the parish where
our church is now located and with
in the past year seven Of the eleven
have left that part Of the city and
there are but three self supporting
Protestant churches left. The
churches moved out but the popula-
ton increases constantly. Poor peo-
pie move in while facilities that
make for better living are departing
There is one thing that must be said
at this time-the Roman church
does not move QUIT does not de-
sert its people.
The largest Trade school in St
Louis is two blocks from my church
and has the largest attendance Of
any grade school in the city. II Il
depended on the taxes Of the roor
people Of that school district they
would not be able TO pay the sal
aries OF the janitor and the teachers
butt was planted there by the
board OF education for the purpose
Of taking care Of the children ir-
respective OF whether their people
are able to support it,"
Hold Services.
Ordination services for three can
didates will be conducted Sunday
afternoon at 2:3O o'clock by Bishop
/ Mcdowell assisted by William +.
Mckenzie, w. F. Switzer, Demetrius
Tillotson and F. X. Dougherty. dis
trict superintendents Of the North
west Indiana conference. In con-
junction with the ordination serv-
ices a memorial Will be held and
special musical numbers will be
given.
Bishop Mcdowell Will deliver the
Sunday morning sermon at Grace
church at 1890 o'clock. Rev. F. X.
Dougherty will speak the invocation
and a special anthem will be sung
by the choir. At 7 o'clock Sunday
evening the Epworth league ami
versary will be held with represen-
tatives present from local and
Mishawaka leagues. Music for this
service will be offered by the choir
OF the First Methodist church un-
der the direction OF Prof. F. c. Haas
Bishop William Frazier Mcdowell
pastors conference Saturday morn
ing and told his auditors that grace
was like mamma, TO be stocked up
each morning to meet pastoral re-
quirements. He cautioned pastors
to guard against dropping their
views into the sub-conscious realm.
He said in part: There never was
a time when men coming into the
ministry were met with a problem
that was quite as difficult as at the
present time. There never was the
day in the life Of any man here
when il was as necessary and impor-
tant that we ministers or the Meth
odist Episcopal church, and all other
ministers, should with such clear
ness, with such sincerity, with such
truth make God almighty real and
attractive to the world.
Unless you are giving the people
some consciousness Of God in your
ministry you are but tinkling brass
A large amount of the present I'M
rest OF life is because so much Of
the preaching of the world. 50 much
Of the teaching of the world has
depths. More important TO the
world is the kind Of God you are go
ing TO present to the world.
"Oh. If 1 could be free from my
duties and be just allowed to go to
the colleges, TO the factories TO the
farms. TO the ends of the earth. to
tell the men and women and little
children. tell the people, oppressed
and broken and destroyed III life,
tell those that grope blindly. whose
faith is lame. and who do not walk
with firm but a feeble step-tell
the world that wants TO do big
things and does not quite know
how. that God showed himself in
Jesus Christ. That is the kind OF
God TO present TO men,
"Oh the women in the world to-
day who seem 10 have SO little re-
gard for womanhood-oh, the world
that has destroyed womanhood-
that is in the back wash Of the war.
that is IN the deadliest thing that
ever struck the planet"
Beauty of Homo.
1--WE have got to make woman see
into the beauty Of the home-but
say the Interpretation OF God to the
world at the present time is no
small job and If you have such a
thing as brains concealed about your
I person 30 Twill need them all now
There was never G time when II
was going 10 be as necessary and diff
ficult 10 preach the gospel as now.
Preaching the gospel involves an IN
derstanding OF the gospel itself Il
is the supreme achievement OF this
world. is the perfect understandings
and grasp of the gospel Of Jesus
Christ in its words"