The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-05-16
SPIRITUAL BLUES UNNECES-
SARY, is LUTHERAN'S VIEW
Looking at the Cheerful Side of
Things Is Easy, Declares the
Rev. DR.. Paul E. Scherer
News and Courier, 1st.

of New York. Their estimated men,
bership is more than 100000.
What message are these churches
Bringing to the people each week?
To answer this question The World
will send a reporter to some church
each Sunday morning and will print
on Monday a report of the sermon.
Churches of all denominations, of all
sizes and in all parts of the city will
be visited.
Yesterday the reporter attended
Holy Trinity Lutheran church, 65th
street and Central Park west.
Spiritual blues" the essential
difference between an optinist and
a pessimist and possibility of learn
ing to see the cheerful side of things
were the topics of the Rev. Dr.. Paul
E. scherer at Holy Trinity Lutheran
church yesterday morning,
It is as simple as crossing from the
shady to the sunny side of street,
DIR. Scherer told his congregation
One cause of pessimism just now, ne
added, is that people keep their noses
too close to 1922 and fail to remem-
Der right has triumphed il the past
over wrongs as firmly intrenched as
those of the present.
Spiritual Blues
Nothing in human experience
said he, "tends to give a downward
slant to every thought ike repeated
private failure to clinch the mastery
of the best in ourselves over the
worst. All OF US have some notion OF
what we ought to be and most OF us
are at swords points with what we
are. We have lost so long we are by
no means as confident as we used to
be of what we can be. 'The meas
ure of the stature of the fulness OF
Christ" seems impossible. Give US
goal we can reach!' we cry. And
there you have the beginning OF
chronic case of spiritual blues:
.sWe like to read of the life OF
Christ in Palestine, but at the idea OF
making any remote approach to it
here in New York we smile and
shake our. heads.
Imagine thinking of others more
than of ourselves in the rush hours on
the subway! Things that seem not
unnatural when we read of their hap
pening in Judsa hundreds OF years
ago seem utterly foolish when we
think Of their happening on Broad
way today. Actually we have come
to take many of Christ's commands
with a grain of salt. We think they
are beautiful but not workable. Even
His great promises seem hardly pos
sible. Whatsoever We ask IN My
name, that Twill do Is there any
BODY here who really, believes that?
The theory we accept but the prac-
tice we deny.
''I think it is really all because this
private warfare Of ours has gone so
poorly with US. When man IS bat
en- back day by day, he begins to lose
faith in the ideals that beekon him.
''That is just the point where Christ
comes in. He tells US with perfect
assurance we can win. If you have
to fight, my friend, at least step over
where the Master is, and fight in the
sunshine.
Evil on Every Hand
ESThe conference at Washington is
followed by war in China. The con-
ference in Genoa almost goes on the
rocks. We read of crime waves and
the loosening of morals and preach
ers wao babble reasonable nonsense
about the uselessness and immoral
ity of creeds. 1t IS pretty hard to
keep our good cheer IN the face of
all that.
"When Christ was driven out Of
Judea to die He said: BE of good
cheer, have overcome the world
''Pau1 just escaped death at Da-
mascus, and his road after that lay
through suspicion, persecution and
death.
when we count up victories the
unanimous vote goes 70 Jesus and
Paul. 1 have never yet saaa & ballot
for Plate or Caesar"
The Rev. Paul E. Scherer, pastor
of Holy Trinity Lutheran church, was
born in 1892 and was graduated from
the College of Charleston in 1911. He
completed his theological course at
Mount Airy III 1917 and began his