New Britain herald., 1922-03-27
CLASS
 STARTS BIG DRIVE
For Community Corporations
 as Practical Religion

any of the eight organizations which belong to the United Continuity cor. poration. I'll know how much YOU believe in these things when J see your pledge cards.' said Rev. John L. Davis, at the session of the Every mans Bible class yesterday morning
 Faith Without Works Is Dead.
 Rev. MT. Davis took as his theme, the third of series of four subjects he has announced on applied religion
 He took his text from the second chapter of James, and stated that a person can have all kinds of faith in religion and belief in the doctrines of the church, but practical application of the faith is necessary to accom- plish anything.
 Belief and Conduct.
 Tt isn't so much what you be- lieve," he said, Its what you do. Before the Civil war the south be- lieved in slavery and the north didn't. That was because the south had slav- cry and the north did not. We used to talk about the way the people in the south treated the negroes before the war. Now we are treating them the same as they did. Our belief is changing our conduct.
 What you believe makes all the difference in the world. You say, I believe in the church, in the gospel in God the devil, hell, etc. What do you do that you wouldn't do if you didn't believe? What good does your religion do you when a com |munity drive comes along?
 Deserting Husbands
 Let men believe that their sins will find them out and they will be very careful about shining in the fu- ture." Here the minister told of three homes he knows about where the father has deserted the family and left the mother to make living for the children. Those homes were broken up," he said, "because the men thought they could get away with it. Their sins will haunt them to their dying day and will follow them be- yond the grave to face them before a just God, or l don't understand re- ligion."
 How many men here believe with James that mans works must show his belief in God. That faith with out works is dead? If you believe that stand up." Everyman in the class |stood up. "All right" concluded the minister then show your Christianity on your pledge cards.'
 Pledge cards for the United Com munity Corporation drive were dis tributed throughout the church. Many men filled them and turned them in, while others took their cards home for further consideration. How much | was subscribed is not known, but it is known that the first IS cards showed over s200.
 Bishop Anderson There.
 Bishop w. F. Anderson, of Cincin- nati delivered the opening prayer There were 710 men present, there being visitors from Boston, Havcrhill, Oxford and Aver, Massachusetts,; New Haven, Waterbury, Bridgeport, Hartford, Meriden, Plainville, Ken sington, Berlin and Bristol.
 Dr. Moss Speaks Also.
 Rev. pr. Arthur Moss, of New York, now connected with the board of for eign missions of the Methodist church and former chaplain of the British army in India, delivered 10 lecture before the sermon, and was invited by unanimous vote of the class, to return and deliver an address some Sunday morning.
 Dependent On Foreign Countries
 Rev. Dr. Moss talked on the theme of Americas need to play with the world" He intimated that this country cannot stand aloof from other He explained that we are ab- dependent upon the smaller and ignorant nations of the world for many products we are using every day.
 The Old And The New
 He told some remarkable instances in connection with the worlds pro- gress today. He was stationed during the war at point less than 40 miles from the forbidden land of Thibet. Walking through a Hindoo village one day he saw a man buried alive in the sand with only one hand and a tube for breathing, protruding above the ground. Farther on. he saw a man lying on a bed of spikes, farth- CT on he saw man suspended by the feet over a fire. These men were per forming the religious rites of their country and yet in plain view on the side of the hill was the latest radio telephone outfit in full operation.
 A friend of the speaker in company with another white man, was going down a Chinese river, when they were stopped by native near a small vil- lage, told that only a few people in that village had ever seen a white man and were invited to come and speak to them. The nearest white man lived 100 miles away and only a few of the men had ever seen him. The men went into the town, every family was routed out by the com mittee and all assembled in an empty warehouse to hear the white men and see what they looked like. Moss could not speak much Chinese but the other man gave them a short lecture from the Bible and then invited ques- tions from the audience.
 We expected" he said, 'to have them ask us why we wore different clothes than they did, why our faces were white and theirs yellow, what