Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-21
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|SNEVER SUDDEN
Last Stage Of Long Period OF
Decline, Says Or.
Mccartney
LENT SPEAKER At KEITH's

"Therc are men and women In Phila.
delphia today whose hearts are liks
rotten tree" said the Rev. DR.. Clarence
Edward Mccartney in Lenten address
at noon today, at Keith's Theatre, on
"Our Unknown Selves and How Men
Fall."
He was telling how men and women
sometimes commit sins which they be-
heve hold no temptation to them.
"Men fall within, before their own
eyes, long before they fall in the sight
Of the world" said DR.. Mccartney. On
an autumn day, trampins through the
woods, you have set your foot on the
trunk ola fallen tree. The moment
your weight came upon. the bark 1t gave
way and your foot crashed through the
rotten heart of the thing. The collapse
was sudden, but the rottins OF the tree
was not sudden. It was the work OF
months and years"
He said that the men and women who
are like the rotten tree ARE simply
waiting for the heel OF temptation 70
come down upon them betore tney give
""a'Their friends" he said, will weep
bitter tears and say: How sudden.
Who would have thought it? But II
was not sudden. It was but the last
inevitable stage Of q long process OF
moral decline and deterioration
Then he said that the best possible
defense against temptation 10 to have
Christ within the heart.
"Temptation," he said, finds the
Christ. filled heart as the spark fnds the
Ice or the stone or the water when u
falls. But the careless, world -hlled,
pleasure loving heart is like a powder
magazine when the spark touches II.
The importance of realizing individ-
ual responsibility for the actions OF the
rroup was emphasized by the Rev.
Remsen Is. Ogilby, Lcnten preacher to.
day at Old Christ Church. Second street
above Market.
"John Sargeant. in his painting OF
The Crucifxion' in the Boston Public
Library" he said. pictures Christ
nailed to the cross, with symbolic hsures
Of Adam and Eve lashed to him. That
expresses the idea that the Savior OF
the world carried on his shoulders the
sins Of the human race.
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that individual members Of any group
must feel responsibility for incorporate
things Of the group. 49,,
"Under autocratic government, indi-
yiduals can rightly complain bitterly
against the wrongs of their government.
But under n democratic form OF gov.
ernment, NIL individuals can do is to
confess and ask pardon for what is,
in theory, his own fault.
1.-THE recent extension Of suffrage to
the other half Of the population intensi.
fed this situation. in that it makes our
Government just that much more demo-
cratic. ~
do we'll to read. comments on the loss Of
ideal leadership in what is the most
progressive democracy in the world.
New Zealand. He shows the peril of
the situation where the functions of the
State have been widely extended. but
where individuals do not feel any read
mess to assume the burdens that mem.
bers Of q democracy must carry.
Here in this historic building one
of the first shrines Of our national life,
in the city that saw the birth of our
united country, we do we'll to fall on
our knees and ask God to forgive the
sins of the American people,
That numerous excavation expedi-
tions to Asia Minor during the last
thirty years have thrown great amount
of light on the Book of Revelations and
that more definite information about
life in Heaven will be cleaned in the
comparatively nenr future was declared
by DIR. James Empringham, Of Yonk.
ers, speaking in st. Stephens Episcopal
Church, Tenth street above Chestnut.
"This book has actually been the puz.
zle of the Scriptures" he said, "but
these expeditions mean the drawing
aside Of the curtain" Before now
people have never understood the book
due to the fact that it was written in
ancient picture language"
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