The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-15
Rev. Earl Jewell, Episcopal
Rector Delivers Strong
Sermon Sunday
FINE MUSICAL PROGRAM
Auxiliary Hosts to w. r. c.,
d. A. r., Monday After
noOn-Dance at Night

cnQrcn SUNDAY morning when LIE
Legion, Auxiliary, w. R. c., G. A
R. and National Guard attended q
specially prepared service for the
occasion.
The church was filled to over.
flowing and many, who wished to
hear the message of Rev. Jewell
against the glorification of war
were turned away. His sermon has
brought forth favorable comment
in the city and was given to help
foster the idea of permanent peace,
The text was taken from Romans
12:1. "
The service was opened by the
vested choir with the professional
"The Son of God Goes Forth to
War" The remainder of the pro-
gram was as follows: - =.
Morning Prayer: Psalm 118, End
Lesson Romans IL. =. -,
Sermon Hymn: 1876. God Save
the State. e p.
Sermon. Tx. Romans 12:1.
Solo: The Trumpeter, Mr.. F..
Cooper.
Adjutant read Roster of the
Dead.
Silent Prayer.
Taps.
Commander give peoples to Gold
Star Mothers.
Offertory, Choir, 80 Happy
World"
Closing Prayers.
Recessional: No. SIC. i
The following are some excerpts
from Rev. JEWELS splendid ad-
dress:
'Paul, the Apostle, was visiting
in the city Of Cornith. Word
reached him that legalistic teach
ers had been in Rome and had been
using their best energies to con-
fuse the minds of the Christians of
that city and thus destroy the work
Paul had done there. Paul immed-
lately wrote to the Christians in
Rome that he would soon be with
them and that they should above
all things, remain true to the teach
! ings they had received concerning
Jesus Christ. He urges them to
be good soldiers of the Master. Re-
sist the onslaughts of the enemy,
not with physical force, but in spir-
it. And then he writes, Present
your bodies a living sacrifice. !"
Paul taught the doctrine of passive
resistance. He himself gave his
body to be tortured and destroyed,
just as the Master had done. And
so he taught his followers to be
willing to give their bodies up to
death if need be, in order to re-
main true to their faith in Christ.
Paul wrote not alone for the Ro-
man Christians, but he wrote for
Christians of all time.
"King Albert, of Belgium had
these words burnt deep into his
soul when Germany issued the ulti-
matum to Belgium that Belgium
grant the German army safe pas
sage through Belgium to France,
or fight. The world knows the
great reply of the Christian King,
eve of Belgium present our bod
les as a living sacrifice that the
world shall not be destroyed by
hate and greed and lust" And Bel
GUM fought. They warred not
for themselves, nor for their own
gain, for they need not have
fought, but they warred against the
invaders for the safety of the
world. The most pitiful and yet
most inspiring story of the world
war, as well as the most heroic
struggle of history is that of Bel
GUM. While Belgium was holding
up the German army, France and
England were mobilizing their
forces. King Albert and his peo-
pie saved the world. He sacrificed
his country's all for mankind, -
peace, a word meaning the welfare
of all humanity.
4This tenth anniversary of the
signing of the Armistice, we are
reminded again of the price OF
PEACE, and the sacrifice offered
on the altar of hate and greed.
Some of us this morning are the
loved ones of some boy or man who
presented his body as a living sac
rifice and now rests somewhere in
the bosom of the earth his body
I one time fought to make peaceful.
To the Gold Star mothers we who
are now left to carry on the work
they who died in war so generous
ly began, give our sense OF debt.
:. For it is to the mothers and wives
and sweethearts of soldiers that
the world today is as safe from
tyranny as it is. And we find
ourselves obligated to the memory
of the 100000 dead and 3d.
100000 manned for life, that we
receive the message Of Paul that
we present or bodies as living
sacrifice that the cause of Peace
shall find its full victory in us who
have been spared to Garry On"
= "Op this day we think not of
war but of peace. This is the only
day in-the year when most nations
celebrate together in common
war day and peace day. In France
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