Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-06-08
law allow me to do this?" raise once
more the standard: "Is it right to
do this?''

90 tn1S
GLIMPSE VIII
On Monday evening, Miss Margaret
Slattery of Boston made a powerful
plea for worldwide peace and better
world conditions: That nation which
successfully makes things and then
| neglects to make men equal to the
management of those things, is doomed
to die With this startling sentence.
Miss Slattery introduced herself to the
large audience at the Imperial theatre
She called attention to the life of the
children of to-day, and the conditions
under which their elders force them to
exist Miss Slattery has Travelled
through the European battlefields and
studied childhood conditions there;
she has visited Armenia and seen the
horrible conditions under which chill
dren live there. Her story lost none of
its reality, neither did it lose any of
its awfulness, in the vivid description
given us that evening.
All the horrors the speaker had wit
messed. she credited to this caye-man
world we are now living in. 1T be-
gam she said when men went out
with their sharp edged weapons
to take by force something another
man had and they wanted it, 1t is
time she continued, that we find
another world. This new world should
be founded on the brotherhood of man
and the friendship of nations. 1t
should be founded on the real gospel
of Christ, which is old, it is true, but
which has never yet been tried"
DR.. w. w. Chalmers of Lansdowne.
Pa. was the other speaker of the eve
ming. His subject was: THE Sunday
School Program for Religious Educa-
ton" DR.. Chalmers reminded US that
there is time in every life when it
must know God or go down in dark
ness. He called attention to the fact
that this time usually comes when a
great loss or great suffering shows
man his mortality or his sim He
claimed that youth is Gods time for
religious training to begin, because life
begins in state of dependence on
parents and caretakers. Soon sense
of dependence is confused by a spirit
of independence. Every one can re-
member the struggle between the two.
1t is at this period that a morally dan
gerous time begins The temptation
comes to be a law unto ones self; and,
righteousness. The Sunday school
teacher must give the pupils the truth
of the grace of God. 1t is always diff
ficult to teach those who think they
know. But the greatest teaching
power is life itself; the influence of ex-
ample. Christian men and women,
who live out the grace of God, are
mighty inevitable teachers
the executive committee said that
hereafter the international headquar-
ters for all the Worlds Sunday School
association work would be in New
York. Heretofore it had been divided
between the New York Office and the
London office. Great Britain had been
responsible for all of Europe. Aus
tralia, South Africa and India, while
the United States had had supervision
of the Sunday school work in the rest
of the world. The British section of
the worlds committee to Tokyo re-
quested the American committee to I'M
dertake the Sunday school administra-
ton of the entire world, because of
their own limited resources and
Americas leadership record during the
last four years in the fields she ad-
miniStered.
DIR. Brown, the general secretary of
the association, appealed for financial
help for the 400,000,000 children of the
world. suffer them to come unto
Me-" he said. THAT command is the
keynote of this convention as embodied
in the figure of Christ and the children
at the entrance of the late convention
hall. Are you willing to suffer in your
giving that the children of Europe and
South America, of Africa and the
Moslem lands, of Australia and Asia
might find in Christ their Saviour and
Friend. their inspiration to live and
their comfort in death? You cannot
go in person, but your money can so
and that is your brains and life turned
into gold-and you will be in this way
the Sunday school missionaries of the
new day"