Norwich bulletin., 1922-01-11
CHAPLAIN KERNAHAN. SPEAKER !


A rather unusual noon meeting was
held under 7. N. c. A. auspices Tues
day at the Richmond Radiator Co. Alter
Secretary Hill announced that the as
ISOLATION would probably conduct a
weekly meeting at the plant for several
weeks to come, he introduced Chaplain
A Earl Kernahan, of Boston, who in
a very pleasing and interesting way. ad-
dressed the large number Of employees
for about thirty minutes. and all present
listened with intense interest to the
helpful message. Among other things
the speaker said:
Change is written in large letters
across the face of the universe. We find
it where we least expect to find IT. Even
matter which we expect to change only
through a process Of decay is IN state
OF change and motion. I am told by
scientists that if you take a bar OF steel
and bar of brass and leave them very
close together for a considerable length
| of time and then come and analyze
| them that you will find molecules of
steel in the brass and molecules Of the
brass in the steel We speal: Of the ever
! lasting mountains but they are being
constantly srnoothed upon top by the
play of tie elements and tunneled BIT
meath by the genius Of mans hand.
Change is everywhere.
Do we recall our childhood? The
common ways the schoo,house where
the whole world was at its widest; the
fish streams. the swimming hole. the
scramble UP the banks, the Gusty road
where with stone-bruised feet we linlped
and still were glad; the s3r!r- where
we loved to drink. and drink, and rink
and yet were never satisfied the. s7ank-
| irss where with our relatives RECALLED ut
with the remark that We never got one
too many; the dark and its fears, tbs
! Sunday. the Monday, the Saturday for
work and washing uo; the school da,s
| and the other days. the chores, the pail.
ing of the cows, the blowing and the
planting and the cultivatins of the corn
We stopped the blowing amid fields Il
! sac the sullen snlendor of d cloud burr
low like a great ship in confagration
f.! These stunidities ead hundrums wert
the hardy makers Of our souls. But the!
have all gone and changed amid tn
haze of the flying past
Theories are made unsafe because o
change. It is not safe to give an opium
Ion Of any scientific nature unless "
have read the morning rapers. When
was In college we had law which wa
certain depa rtrnent Of chemistry W
believed that law. was a changeless a
the laws of the Modes and Persians.
had not been away from college long
however. when was informed that tina
, law had been found to be false. Hence
forth all of our investigation in that de
, partment Of chemistry viii nave to b
based Upon another law.
Forms OF government are changins
There has been a constant change fror
the ratriarcha1 form of governner
down to the present republican form c
government-the best form of govern
ment that God ever smiled upon
! We change ourselves. I sometime
tell my wife If she will wait long enoug
: that will become COOL looking sh
: will have to wait long while. Gu
q homes change.
+ In the midst Of this change, trznsitio
and chaos the deepest instinct of the hi
. man soul is to reach uo and get hold
something that does not cl,arge-rreta,
ably a personality. There has been bl
( one system that ever presented such
: person. There has. been but one persc
= who has been able to say through Il
4 centuries that He is changeless. TIL.
system is Christianity and that persc
IS Jesus
: You are not bothered In dir
: Jesus changelessness but many Of yc
\ are bothered with a rather unfair att
4 tude toward Jesus Himself. You saw e.
plain TO me just who Jesus is and e
plain all of the religious mysteries ar
will accent Him. l say that this is a
unfortunate and unfair attitude u
swallow a hundred mysteries in natu
and do not argue about them at al FI1
t?ernlore, just because a thing is hard
define is no argument against It. Mar
Of the most indispensable things in n
Y world are the hardest to define. Def
g for me beauty. poetry the home or g
ius. Now because you cannot deA,
81 these things 90 you reject them y
& for a minute.
q : It is hard to define Jesus. Just
u Newton, Edison, Maroon and others a
q the incarnation Of so-called natural la7
q Jesus is the incarnation OF spiritual Law
q Jesus Is the Incarnation CO spiritual LAY
81 and the Son of God.
Jesus does not change IN HIS teac
ings. If you are able to fathom t
depths OF one Of HIS profound taac,,ir
4! you may rest assured that that teachir
q will remain the same. Every other s
"a Of instructions change. Because Of t
inconpleteness e everything all wor