The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-03-10
BISHOP GREEN breaches
GREAT SERMON
Fills Pulpit at Methodist Church Sun
day-Takes His Text Front
Parable of Prodigal Son.

Bishop William Mercer Green of
the Episcopal Church delivered high
ly interesting sermon at the morning
service at the Methodist church in
Grenada Sunday. When the pastor
of the Methodist church, Rev. w. w.
Woodland, learned of the bishops APP
pOintment for Grenada, in view of the
fact that the Episcopal church is un-
dergOmg some repairs, he made 1t
known to the vestrymen of the
Episcopal church that he would be
glad to have the bishop use the
Methodist church. The invitation was
accepted, much to the qualification of
all who had the good fortune to hear
the bishop, who is quite popular in
Grenada. When he was here last he
preached on the public square at the
union services in which the pastors
of the town We're cooperating and
alternating in doing the preaching.
Bishop Green's text was taken from
Luke, XIV. -, "And the young man
said, Father give me the portion of
goods that falleth to me-" He stated
that the same selfish desires that
prompted that young man to ask for
his portion" was too largely ruling
the world today, which he stated was
in large way responsible for the
cOuntry's troubles at the present time.
Everybody seemed to be wanting his
or her portion" He stated that
when the prodigal was born into the
world he came as member of a
group or family and that there were
certain duties and social obligations
that could not justly be avoided. He
said he might get his portion" and
seek to drown the demands of his
family and his inteIrelations with
others by isolation or by having what
the world termed "a good time, but
every good time" meant settling
day and at bad time for its parti-
cipant.
The bishop said that it was notice
able today that too many men and
too many women, too, were bent on
following the bents of their individual
natures.
In the days past, the bishop said,
the man was regarded as the head of
the home, but ]. is not so today. Too
often, he said, does the wife insist on
her headship. He asked where would
the vessel 60 If all aboard were cap
t .ins; wiat KIND of fighting W ,uld an
army do where all were generals? He
said God made man the head of the
home, but now it is no uncommon
thing to hear it said that woman has
her sphere and that she has the same
right to work out her individual life,
to make her imprint upon the worlds
affairs, as man. The bishop said the
dethronement of the home, as be-
lieved by the fathers and mothers of
the present generation, was the result
of each asking for his portion" and
as a result the children grew up with
out the proper parental authority.
He said that when the father of the
present day demonstrated with his
daughter about certain social matters
that the daughter would fatty say to
her father that it was none of his |
business" and would tell him that if
he persisted in opposition the conse-
quences will be upon you" The moth !
ers, the bishop said, in working out
their careers" were necessarily abb
senting themselves too much from the
home, which still further lOOsened the
lines of parental authority.
The bishop stated that the same
sort Of misfit policy was directing the
school life of the land; that too much
was the education of America fash
ioned after what certain school celeb
rites had done in Italy or in some !
other European country, where con
dtions were entirely different from
in America. He pleaded
for every man and every woman to
profit by what befell the prodigal
youth in the centuries ago, lest their
own offspring share similar fate. !
He said that no man or woman could !
avoid the duties they owe to each 9TH /
er, to their homes, to their neighbors |
and their country Selfishness, which
was so strikingly showing itself in in
dividualism, must give way to service,
service in keeping with that practiced /:
and taught by the Savior Of man
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