The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-11-06
PROPHETIC VOICE
IS ABSENT TODAY
The Rev. Sprague Says None
Lives Who Can Plumb
Future.
SALOON QUESTION ARISES
Voting at Polls to Determine
Those in the Ranks of
God.
SALOON QUESTION ARISES
By THE FTSITOR

Declaring it is conceded by every
great educator and every national
thinker that America today has no
prophetic voice in her midst and that
she has neither a great political
leader nor great preacher, the Rev.
Horace a. Sprague Of the Hall Place
Methodist Episcopal Church last night
urged all citizens when going TO the
polls tomorrow to vote for candidates
who ARE on the Lords side
He declared there are orators and
puIpiteers in plenty, but that 1T re
quires far more than oratory to make
a real prophet"
America has no man who. with the
future as a basis and the present as
his material. can dare construct any
thing like A readable story Of what
the future holds for us as a people
he said. Nor is there a. single voice
in our pulpits today which is telling in
4 simple, convincing manner the most
simple and yet most vital story ever
heard-the story Of Jesus and His
power to save.
Prophetic Voice Lacking
And lacking this prophetic voice
we have grown careless and thought
less and have turned to our own de-
vices. We have been strung up unto
an unusual pitch and under a severe
pressure by the events of recent years
and now We are demanding, as a pop
ulace. amusement, entertainment
something TO keep us from thinking
seriously and freely. We have allowed
this to enter into our politics and our
church and our social life.
We elect clownish buffOOns as nay
ors and laugh at gambling and horse
racing and then to show we are all
right, we accept a sop Of a municipal
playhouse and are expected to forget
all the rest. We have set up the golden
calf OF pleasure and content and in
difference to the deeper meanings OF
life and are spending most Of our time
dancing about the altar Of our idols.
The Rev. Sprague declared that as
we approach the polls. God asks very
pointedly of every true American.
Who IS on the Lords side? Who
among the candidates. and who
among the voters?'
These candidates. the Rev.
Sprague said, ARE asking us to i'm
pose upon them certain offices and
places of public trust and service and
they are manifesting a great and an
unselfsh desire TO serve US in many
and various ways. OF course the
matter Of salary enters in but this,
from the tenor of the campaign
speeches, Is a minor issue. However.
let US not forget that these can
truly serve US in but one way and
that through the institutions and &C
sording to the ideals OF our nation"
Saloon Problem Arises
Continuing he said. can any man
80 no openly advocates the return Of
The sac Of light wine and beer. wheu'
he knows that 9S per cent of all the
liquor sold in the saloon in former
years was such light wines and beer,
and knows also the effect which the
sale Of drink and its use had on the
American homes, be considered on the
Lords side?
Remember the broken homes, the
abused wives and children, the misery
and the neglect and the shame
brought upon this American institu-
ton and answer. is the man who
chooses the liquor traffic as his doc
trine or policy on the side of the
Lord?"
Rev. Sprague declared that the
leader has been provided in the
cleansing of politics and the estab-
Hshment Of justice-Jesus Of Naza-
reth.