Milford chronicle., 1921-11-25
PREACHER ADVISES
MOTION PICTURES
TO FILL CHURCHES-REV. F. BURGETTE
SHORT DECLARES MODERN METH
DDS ARE NECESSARY.
SAYS use THE PRESS, TOO
The REV. SHORT, Who IS A NATIVE OF
GEORGETOWN, ASSERTS SERVICE
MUST BE CARRIED TO PEOPLE.

Advocating the use of the motion
picture, the billboard and the press as
means of getting the gospel of Jesus
Christ to the people, DR.. F. Burgett
Short, of New York, last Sunday
preached the sermon at Epworth
Methodist Episcopal Church, Will
mingtOn.
DR.. Short, who is a former pastor
of that church, decried the empty
balconies of the church, and declar-
ed that the church has got to do more
than merely drift about on passive
waters. The church must carry the
service to the people, he asserted.
eff good preaching would have
saved this town." he said, lit would
have been saved long ago, before any
one in the congregation or myself,
had been born. Some men have been
preached to till their hides are as
thick as that of pOrpOise."
DR.. Short based his sermon on the
text: "And Abraham went forth not
knowing whittier" A modern business
man, he said, would call Abram a
Ounce, saying no one should go out
into life without some purpose or some
aim. But, he added, ever since the
time of Abram until the present time,
in every department of mankind's ac-
tivities, the people who have achieved
glory and success have been those
who went forward fearlessly, without
shaking in fear of an unsuccessful
end.
Lack of Progress Criticized
He criticized the lack of progress
being made by the church, and de-
clared that the only moving some peo-
pie did was to get up when tn prea7
cher announced that "Wc vii now
stand and sing number one-ffty-
eight" The speaker said that If he
were still pastor of the church here
he would equip the place with mo-
ton picture machine, and every Fri
day night he would offer a selected
program of the very best films he
could obtain, charging two or three
cents admission to cover expenses,
and then, on Sunday nights, would
show a picture of the right kind for
church use. The duty of the church,
he said, is to do a daring thing, and
said that at one time people looked
with horror upon having an organ
in church. He told of the success of
having motion pictures in his church
at Spokane, and said that the "stuff
that got the people years ago will not
get them today"
He urged that the gospel of Jesus
Christ be preached from the pulpit,
from the organ, from the choir, from
the press, from the bill board and
from the motion picture, so that the
people will learn what temptations
the devil is throwing in front of them
to ruin them.
If you will just get people talking
about thing - particularly the wo-
men-he said, that thing will be ban
ished. He referred particularly to sla-
very, which was ended by the Civil
War, and to the liquor trade. God is
working His plan among the political
powers of the world, he said, calling
attention to the disarmament confer
ence in Washington. He said that Will
liam Jennings Bryan worked hardest,
and with the least glory, for peace,
and termed him one of the great pio-
neers.
He closed his sermon with plea
that the people get out and do some
task. If they would get started, and
know they were starting right, he
said, Jesus Christ would lead them in
their efforts,