The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-11-12
HOLD MEMORIAL
TO SOLDIER DEAD
Continued from page one)

in the armor of warfare which
ST. Paul prescribes. men who are
readv TO take the sword to which
Jesus made reference and cleaVe
asunder those bonds of incompe-
tencv which have ever subdued
man and hindered him from be-
! ing his best. :.
"Another need of the hour is
idealism. 1t = a fact that greed
generates ruin, and it seems to
me that within the past decade
MANY of our finest arts have
been caught within the pathway
If greed, and idealism is one of
them. In times Of darkness and
confusion the supreme need is
iinht Who will deny that the
light of great ideals has been the
saving force through all the CEN
tnries, richer in vitality than any
race more abiding than empires,
more enduring than monuments
of stone?
'Iike the beacons that guide
men through the sea and air they
are most needed in times OF
storm and difficulty. Some 1900
years ago Jesus Christ gave to
man the greatest body Of ideal
ism the world has ever known.
He lived in an age crushed with
ignorance, superstitution. brutal
ity and corruption, and by the
mere force Of living and teaching
Christ started new era. an era
so significant that the calendar
dates from His birth, so power
full that it changed the whole
course of events, so beneficent
that untold millions Of men have
been lifted higher in the scale of
life.
as it not plain to you and to
me that what the world needs
Just now is new devotion to
great ideals? In politics, in bust
ness. in industry, in law, in the
church, in science, or in teaching
can anything be more intensely
fruitful and practical than re-
newed faith in the finer things
of life?
at takes a little common sense
and a will to choose the higher
path, to change the whole course
of a life, a school, a nation, or an
age. A little more faith. a little
more idealism and the confusion
of today may give way to the
fairest dawn the world has ever
seen. To bring about this condi-
ton men are needed, men who
are willing to be strong, men who
are willing to understand and to
make practical the great utter
ance of Jesus Christ: Think not
that | came to bring peace. Q1
came not to bring peace, but
sword To the end that men of
that type exist war must be de-
clared. The weapons for such
warfare are already supplied.
There is truth, there is the
breastplate of righteousness, there
is the shield of faith. there is the
sword of the spirit, there is the
weapon of prayer. Man securely
encased in this armor can be VIC
torious in any conflict.
Escape if you can, and you
can thro' IN Christ, the malarious
damps of the lowlands. Make an
upward path for your feet. Let
your soul life be upward, upward
in Jesus Christ"
The service was opened with a
professional of ex-service men
and was in charge of DR.. l.. T.
Wilds, pastor of the First Pres
byterian church. The convocation
was by the Rev. James P. Burke,
pastor of st. James Episcopal
church, and the congregation
Joined in the singing of Gamer
ica."
A special musical selection,
Soldiers Farewell" was rendered
by the Baptist quartet, composed
of A. F. Barber, R. c. Bennett,
E. T. Brown and Jno. T. wilkins.
The Scripture from Ephesians
clio, was read by the Rev. Fa-
Their Bouchey Of the Immaculate
Conception church.
A chorus of women, composed
of Misses Jane Truck, Margie Nc
Carson, Kate Dotson, Tommie
Shepherd and Katherine Shep-
herd, Mrs. Thomas Smyth, Mrs.
Mortimer Dantzler and Mrs. Gus
Station sang "Going Home"
Following the sermon the con-
gregation sang Onward Chris
tan Soldiers" and the benedic-
tion was by the Rev. A. w. Lip
pard, pastor of Grace Lutheran
church.