The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-10-21
Wheeling Methodsts Help Wipe Out Deficit
In Centenary Fund At Meeting Here Friday
MORE THAN $4,000 PLEDGED BY
LOCAL CHURCH MEMBERS.
OVER 100 PRESENT.
ADDRESSES WERE DELIVERED BY
BISHOPS FRED n. FISHER ANU
FRANK J. MCCONNELL.
FORMER TELLS OF WORK IN PRO-
GRESS IN lNOlA-PRalSsS
GANDHl AND TAGORE.

More than $1,000 was pledged 70
meet the cit in the Centenary pro
gram OF the Methodist Episcopal
church at luncheon Of III" members
OF the official boards Of NAee!'hS
churches yesterday noon at the tio'e'
Mcclure.
This amount will BE- added to ~"
already large fund paid heretofore
More than 100 OF the official nehoeES
and their wives attended
Bishop Fred II. Fisher. o. -aiCu''a'
India. was the principal speaker a.
the luncheon. and h. TOOK as MS SUP
ject The Living Christ ii the Modern
World" Addresses wer" also gwen
bv Bishop Frank J. M"CHnneM' o.
Pi,tSburSH and Dr.. Appleton haS"'
secretary oc the Pittsburgh area.
Bishop Fishers Address.
Bishop Fisher in part sad.
The Icing chris; = ~ work II 'nS
world today He IS larger man o"' "'"
conventions O; him. Many tAe"''s'I>''
systems have compressed H'm mo ~
,hirty-,hyre years dUfi"e wA;Sa ne .''''
,,nnr cor.h This really makes OF him l
human CHRIST.
tbrouph childhood. y1uug manhood. ANA
nron the cross. VIE have caught 4
sI,ch. vision Of his resurrection. Thea
we have thought Of him rs sitting AZ
m, right hand OF God. We have tncn
Uorshtpped him tor TWO thousand years
as 4 Son Of God. SITTING - Gods rish'
hand IN heaven, hUt IN many Ways uNr'-
Jared 70 III. Problems and burdens or
rho peop,s OF the world. VIVA, IS No"
happening is that Jesus has become ;h'
recognized and universal! idea! o' man
kind He has been taken down rom
that niche in heaven and IS seen As i"H
persona! leader Of the social movements
Of the world.
,nst a Young socialist in Paris. His
,ves hlazel with the light Of S?Ir.tuA.
abandon and d:sctpirship lie eXco'i'
ated our churches. lie declared thAt
many Of our CathcdrIiS ought I" b
Torn down and the stones used - Or!l'
shelters for the poor. and theG ;ara'cs
me when 1 said that ne Church Va
the only answer TO the problems 81 the
preSen, day. By declaring that Jesus IS
the answer. not the Church As an organ
Ism. With eyes blazing, this youth
cried. The Christ l love IS Tar diviasr
than YOU know. He - II the very h@:ti
of this whole modern. social industrial!
uprising. and | am not sure bur that he
IS happier - lead US than II. IS 10 !e2d
YOU"
Gandhi Touched by Divine Spirit
From this point OF view. II IS the Nv
ing Christ who S;!rS UP great deaf OK
the uures, In the world today. The peo-
pie have caught the vision OF that CHRIST
who came 20 give liberty 10 the cap
tiyes. 10 give sight % the blind. and 70
heal the hrokcR-hcarted. When they get
tina, vision. they begin 20 rise up. ANY
economic or social system which STILES
this awakening - doomed. Tho vefv
forces ot life and growth Will destroy It,
Mr. Gandh; in India. about whom
many paragraphs have been written n
the papers y: the world. = an evidence
OF the activities -: this larger chris.
Mr. Gardh! has been touched by ,h.t
divine spirit. Na has Hc"v- been rap
,izeG. declares that n" never Will De.
has SET h.;uscl: IN opposition :" "ur o.
cidentat life and ambitions. but -"
carries ahou, with him q New TSs;I-
mcnt and regards Jesus as his highe ~
idea. II" has settled strikes by cai'ir :;
upon The people 70 EAST and hy himself
practic!rc fasting un;N 4 solution :Eta
been arrived AZ. II" has caught tnc
spiritual :nca2.a: ot the mode. Il indus
trial movement
NJ. Tagorc * another evidence. He