Pocahontas star herald., 1925-01-15
Methodist Church Notes

+'NN' AHHl NNdN n lilt AulllN tINdlA
of Constitutional Prohibition in the
United States, and Uncle Sam starts
on his fifth year water-wagon journey,
happy prosperous and hopeful Each
month he earns seven billions, saves a
billion, pays premiums on billion
dollars worth of new insurance, gives
in charity $25,O0O00O at home and
S4,0O0,000 in philantlnopic gifts to
WET Europe, aud carries IN his pocket
book unbankcd over $l00,000,000.
Meanwhile three million dollars Of
rnbiic debts are paid each orking day.
Uncle Sans garage stores 1T.500,000
automobiles and trucks. scven-eights of
Il [ worlds total. He daily spends over
a million dollars on the movies, an
oIber million on tha radio, ulothcr mil
lion on outdoor sports. He has cut
| over half million from yearly ar
rests for drunkenness, re0unei his pen
ljtentiary population by 5000 i'm the last
year, closed the doors of many iails
once crowded, daCcclscI alcoholic in.
sanity by two-thirls. and lowered his
almshouse ratio from 81 per 100.00G
Ia II, the smalles: in our history. only
one drink cure survives for each ten
that prospered under license. DIR.
Clarence True Wilson, states that just
two years after prohibition went into
effect he visited Dwight, Illinois, the
home of the Kelley Cure Institute
Having never seen the institution he
planned to 90 out. He gor Off the car,
walked over to cab maa and asked
How far it was out TO the institution" !"
who answered "PARDNER YOU'RE
TOO LATE Upon further inquiry
he was informed that within two
months after prohibition went into eff
feet the institution closed for the lack
of patients and its various branch in
stitutes had been sold for colleges,
hospitals, normal schools and prohibit
ti0n had removed the need for msti-
utes to take care Of drunllaids t-nde
Sam, hy National Prohibition, has in
creased longevity three years per per-
son. He erected homes for 20j, 1893
families during the first six months of
the past year His Industrial acci-
dents are 25OO00 fewer pc; year than
when beer made men clumsy
Uncle Sam has lL3lG.7O1 telephones
Few Of his children are poor. He
saves S7lOO0OOO per year, once spent
to relieve drink caused poverty. In
stead Of beer he buys bonds until one
in five are security holders. Private
buyers alone hold over S4,O0O,OOO.O00
in foreign bonds, besides enormous is
sues Of domestic Industrial and public
securities.
over 25,000,000 Of his boys and girls
are in school Daily over 1900 new
members join his churches, which
spent S25O.0O0,0O0 i'm the past year for
new buildings. Uncle Sam is renewing
his pledge to the Eighteenth Amend
ment for 1925, and let us strive to love
God and our neighbor as ourselves,
pray that this may be the dryest year
in the history Of our nation. Let's
give thanks to God for what has come
to our nation and people through the
outlawry Of the alcoholic evil. There
are other heights to be reached.
Let's pause here and ask what great
force has thrown its life and money
into this religious and social move. Is
it not the church of the living God.
are they not the ones that are demand
ing the enforcement of our prohibition
laws in the interest of their less fortu-
nate brother? Now in the face Of
these quotations who can say that the
church is not vital in America? Make
some comparison with other nations
where the evangelical church Of God
is not active and see what the moral
physical and social conditions are as
compared with these in our own land,
and then | am sure you will be con-
WINGED that it pays to support the
church, and if this is true why not
give it your loyal support? Let's
make the church in our town and com
munity count for more. This cant be
done successfully without you, your
time and effort Come next Sunday.
The subject for next Sunday at II
O'Clock will be, 'David's Devotion To
the Church" You are cordially inyit-
ed to attend Sunday school and church
c. e. Gray, Pastor