Evening star., 1941-02-07

chairman of seminars for the
man "comes to himself" involves
the totality of experience.
Failing in love-" he told the
young people, will affect it quite
as much as what one learns in the
classroom, but the deepest mean
ing of the process is religious"
There is an urge within us, he
declared, toward "wholeness," but
we cannot reach it until we know
the meaning of God in human ex-
perience He warned that every
one must make decisions, that those
who drift invariably drift down.
stream.
"If decisions are delayed or
evaded," he declared, there will
come periods in later life when we
know we are incomplete, not adjust
ed, unhappy" The only complete
harmony. he asserted. is through
obedience to ones destiny, which is
the will of God.
Talks at Noon Meeting.
DR.. Kinsolving also addressed the
noon-day meeting at Epiphany Epis-
copal Church. declaring that the
essential mission of the church is to
win and hold us to a perpetual dis
cipline in which we shall receive
and receive again Gods forgiveness.
Religion. he said, is not the pre-
sumption that We are better than
others but a confession that in our
own struggle we are Inadequate
why were the saints saints?" he
asked. Not because they were more
fortunately endowed with strong
characters than others, but because
they knew their need and by re-
ceiving charitableness from their
Lord again and again, they became
charitable" Religion, he asserted.
cannot be thought of realistically
except in terms of penitence.
Others who addressed mission
meetings during the day were DR..
George D. Heaton. pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Lynchburg,
Va, who spoke at Central High
School; DR.. Philip Y. Lee, Chinese
leader, who talked at Cardoza High
School, , and DR., Adolf Keller of
Geneva, Switzerland, and Bishop
Paul B. Kern of Nashville, Tenn.
who led the final ministers meeting.
World of Own Making.
In an address last night at mass
meeting in the Metropolitan Presby-
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I'VE have all helped to bring about
the present world situation"
I'VE allies kept up the blockade
Of Germany for months after the
armistice was signed in 1918. Chill
dren died like flies in Europe. A
steel ring was placed around Ger
many. the Allied blockade, to keep
out relief.
That was long ago you say. but
for the last four years. We have been
doing the same thing in the Orient.
Chinese brothers and sisters have
been forced to eat the bark of the
trees, and both they and the jap
anese know what we try to forget
that the japanese could not have
done this evil to them if Britain and
America had not sold her the scrap
iron she clamored for"
All young people, Miss Lester de-
clared. know that our hands are
reeking with Chinese blood. No
wonder a good many of them do
not take our Christianity very seri-
ously."
Some may regret the fact that |
young people seem to 60 in so much
now for beauty worship.
They spend literally several hours
a week in contemplation of their
own faces" she said, then added:
But that may be better than to be
helping to murder, as we have been |
doing"
Fellowship Duty Seen.
DR.. Rogert T. Nooe, pastor OF the |
Vine Street Christian Church, Nash |
vile, Tenn, speaking at a mass
meeting at Chevy Chase Presby-
terian Church, declared Christian
people have a tremendous response
bility today ito keep the fellowship |
with all Christians throughout the
world despite barriers of race and
nation"
"Out of these centers, once this
world catastrophe passes, will come
the hope of building world OF
brotherhood, creating with God a
new order in which freedom to
worship Him shall be everywhere
and freedom to grow will be the
priceless heritage of all peoples"
DR.. Nooe said.
In his talk last night before a
mass meeting at Vermont Avenue
Baptist Church, DR.. Jones charged
that the world let hate and revenge
creep into the Versailles treaty
"and that hate and that revenge
messed up the relationship between
Germany and the Allies"
Many of us are afraid that the
same thing will happen now" he
said. 1.-The world is going through |
an astonishing amount of pain.
Will it be wasted in futile hatreds
or will it be taken hold Of and
turned into a new just world?"
Death or Birth Pains.
The pain of this hour, he added. |
"can be death pains or birth pains.
1t is for us to decide which it |
shall be-"
Miss Anna v. Rice, former gen.
eral secretary of the International
Y. w. c. A., speaking at a dinner
last night at the Y. w. c. A., Seven
teenth and K streets, described the
organization as one of the best "to
hold different racial and national
groups together at time when
they tend to break apart"
Every association should strive