Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-27
SUFFERING HAS GREAT MORAL USES, BISHOP
NICHOLSON Tells MONSTER CONGREGATION

troit bishop recalled sitting down in
the Detroit Athletic Club. one of the
city's most exclusive clubs, with 10
men, some of them rated as multi
millionaires, and good Christians,
too. Every one of them came out of
untoward surroundings. One mill
lionaire started work on $50 al
month; another So a week; another
% cents a day, pushing rags into
hopper in a paper mill.
The st. James church, which is
the church of many moneyed peo-
pie, has been in charge of three of
the leading bishops, has benefac-
| tions all over the world. But with
all it's wealth and piety, has never
given single man as candidate for
the ministry.
It is the toll. the struggle which
makes men worth while. The men
who count have their bread hewn
! from scanty soil. The greatest poem
of all, in the opinion of the speaker.
/, is Tennyson's In Memorium."
An endless series of holidays
would mean perdition. The South
Sea islanders are not to be envied.
They have not furnished a robust
race. 1t would have been their max
ing If they could live on rugged Cape
Cod or the cold coast of Labrador
/, 1t seems to be the survival of the
fittest. 1t should be a program in
which we are to make every man
able to be the fittest. Lowest ma
tions fall into a certain dull con-
tent. Those who are victims of di-
vine discomfort are progressive. Let
human life settle down into a sim
full slothfulness and 1t seems to
take on a dumbness, even to pain
and suffering.
The Instruments of torture, dis
played in the Tower of London, were
called TO mind by Bishop Nicholson.
He said he shuddered as he thought
of them and he could not see how
the people in those days could en-
dure their infections. Very large
per cent of the worlds unrest is d.
vine discomfort produced by the Cos
pei.
Think of T. NJ r., poison gas. Big
Berthas. airplanes. What would Ju-
Illus Caesar have done to London IL
he had had airplanes? You wouldn't
have been here today. God conceals
those forces and powers until He
gets men measureably able to ham
die them. The miracles of today are
more wonderful, in many ways. than
the miracles OF long ago. There are
49, Methodist hospitals and wonder
full operations are done. A mans
stomach, other organs may be taken
out and he is sent along. There will
be even more amazing miracles In
another generation. God conceals
lot until he gets folks he can trust.
Evangelism is the world basis.
But America must finish up the job
she has started on two things. There
Is the prohibition question. Shall a
few bootleggers, law breakers, say
that law, passed by SO per cent of
the people Of America shall not
stand? Another Is. the time must
come, when the vision of Isaiah shall
come true, when the swords shall be
turned into plow shares and the
spears into pruning hooks. War
must go. But it will never go unless
the Christian church will make 1t 60.
Bishop Nicholson stated he was not
Pacifist; he believed in what Paul
and Jesus did. II will do everything
in my power to see that the last
great World war Is the last one"
1.-THE whole world Is grooming in
travail and pain, waiting for the
manifestation of the sons Of God"
Even the cathedrals in the old world
are the mausoleums of the soldiers.
1--WE hold the key of the peace of the
world" Between Canada and the
United States is a 300-mile boundary
which has been without war, pro-
tected by a little piece Of paper for
over 100 years. Bishop Nicholson
declared that in his mind Monroe's
writing of the treaty between the
United States and Canada was more
service than the Monroe doctrine
That treaty, the original of which
was shown at a meeting. comment
Grating that event in Chicago. is
written on piece of paper not as
large as a sheet Of typewriting pa
per. 1t is written in long hand and
it contains the clause, that there
shall never be placed on the lakes
between more than three gun boats
at time. This treaty is founded on
the sermon on the Mount, on the
Golden Rule and 1t has stood down
through the years.
Conference Claimants Collection
The collection at the Sunday
morning service was divided and
half of it was for the Conference |
Claimants and the other half was for |
the invested funds of the Conference. |
Augusta District Superintendent d. J
Z, Holt explained that he wished to