The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-14
IMPORTANT ADDRESS
AT FIRST CHRISTIAN
Pastor Ross Speaks on Subject of
"What Is Christianity"

Yesterday morning at the First
Christian church the minister deliv-
cred carefully prepared address on
the subject, what Is Christianity?'
The text selected was the sentence
from the book of Jude, Keep your
selves in the love of God" Christian
ity, said the minister, is more than
form or cult, more than sentiment or
feeling. 1t is a wholesome, steadfas st
life. To keep oneself IN the love of
God, 1t is necessary to mediate on the
life Of Christ. to behold Him as He
went about doing good.
The whole duty of man is to love
God. and man fulflls that duty by
loving his fellow man.
Mr.. Hixon of Jacksonville spoke
very briefly at the morning service,
emphasizing the need of a tuberculosis
sanitarium for Escambia county. Mr..
Hixon was followed by Miss Margaret
Owsley, who spoke a few minutes on
the same theme. Miss Owsley ikened
tuberculosis, the great white plague,
to a giant octopus reaching out its
great tentacles for everything within
its grasp. 1t costs, at the very least
500 per month for a patient to stay
patient should stay two years if he
hopes to recover. Miss Owsley stated
that there are 100 persons afflicted
with tuberculosis in this community.
and that means that there are at least
200 other cases in the incipiency. If
only a small part of these cases go
to a sanitarium in a distant part of
the United States, q very slight men
al To-
money is thus taken out of the COM
munity, and from that viewpoint. alone
1t is wise to care for these people at
home. Yet that is only minor rea-
son compared to the great one of safe
guarding the public health.
At the evening service the pastor
delivered the finest address of the
present series of meetings to an audi
ence which taxed the capacity of the
house. The, theme of the address was,
The Voice Behind" and the text was
taken from Isaiah 1921.
The minister said the voice of ex-
perience" Ms the voice behind" for us
all. Such a voice is also a voice of
We realize that fact when
we recall that back of Islamism is
the great prophet of the
lSlamlc 1alth. the voice behind is also
the voice of wisdom. and this voice
also is the outgrowth of experience
The voice of wisdom becomes the basis
of our life.
The voice behind is also the voice of
culture, for culture is the derivative of
ages, a thing that ripens with passing
years.
All these voices must not, however
keen us from hearing the insistent
new voices all about US. There is the
new church." The new thought" the
new art" the new woman" all of
these must be considered.
AS a voice Of authority" the Camp
bells, century ago, called the church
back to Jerusalem" back TO the prac-
tees of the apostles. The great watch
word OF the church became: Where
The Book speaks. we speak; where
The Book Is silent, we are silent"
The years have brought wisdom to
the church. We have learned that
such disputed questions as the matter
of Instrumental music in church should
be settled on a basis of reason.
Culture, TOO. has come with the
years, and today the Christian church |
has some men of outstanding charac-
Ter in its membership. such as Peter