The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-09-21


2. Now you are going to pay back
this love by honoring your parents,
serving your country, and working
foi church and Sunday school all your
lives.
3. Your chief business now is to
giow-grow in body and in mind.
You cannot earn as much as a man,
but you can learn more and faster
than a man. DO you measure how
tall you are? Do you measure how
smart you are? Can you count a
hundred? Can you dress a chicken
Can you keep promise? Can you
tend garden? Can you keep on
working when you are tired? Can
you be honest when you have a
chance to cheat? Are you growing
~ power to do fine things?
4. Don't be in hurry to quit
school, and leave home, and get mar
ried. Be in a hurry to get ready for
these things. 1t is an awful thing
to be 81 years old and only have the
mind and education of a child Of 10.
Get ready to be grown up, and be-
fore you know it, you will be.
5. How old should one be to be-
come Christian? Old enough to
love and help your mother. The
very small child only loves his
mother as he loves his milk-bottlc.
But when he can understand his
mother little, and help her, then he
is old enough to love and serve God.
A young Christian is not like and old
Christian any more than lamb is
like sheep. You do not have to be
old to be real Christian.
Now let me speak to the older PEG.
pie.
l. Our children are our teachers.
Many a man who would not sign the
temperance pledge of himself will
sign it for the sake of his children.
And from our feeling toward our
children we learn Gods feeling to-
ward us.
2. You can do more for your chill
dren than any school can do. You
can show them what to love and
what to desire and what to hate.
The schools seldom do much except
fer the children that have been start
ca right by their parents.
3. You owe something to all chill
dren. If there is sorry family
near you, don't try to shut them out,
but befriend them and bring them in.
God cares as much for the child of
horse-thief as for the child of a
Preacher.
4. Learn afresh today what this
Union Church stands for. If you do
not all belong to the Union Church,
nevertheless the Union Church be-
longs to you. We shall have enter
tainments here for your young pee
rle, and hospitality for neighbors
when they come to town. We can
be of help to all the people for miles
around. That is what these spacious
community rooms are for-they are
not for us but for you.
Pease understand us. All who are
so led we are glad to welcome into
our membership; but we do not aim
to steal sheep from other folds. We
hope to benefit those who are men,
bers of other churches, and of no
church. Whoever you are, this
Union Church house is here for your
use-it belongs to you.
And please understand the Union
platform. The churches of the New
Testament were all Union Churches.
Paul explains in Rom. XIV that diff
ferences of opinion should not divide
the followers of Christ. In almost
exactly his words this church says,
Eve receive all followers of Christ
and work with all who work with
Him." Denominationalism came in
later. I'VE heard dear and eloquent
brother say there were 200 different
denominations in the world and only
one of them could be right. How can
he prove that? They may all be
wrong. Better than that, they may
all be right! Whenever a company
OF Christians in one place unite to
serve Him, and are visited by His
spirit, that company, no matter how
many faults and fads they may have,
is a true church.
The Union Church takes in all that
is best in every denomination. We
are Methodists-we mention John
Wesley as often as any Methodist
church. We are all Presbyterians--
we keep tab on their work and send
money to their missions every year.