Evening star., 1941-02-03
$500 at Mission Hear
Call for RevitaIized
Churchto Save World
More Effective Christianity
Is Held Only Answer
To Civilizations Ills

tinental Halls last night to hear two
of the foremost interpreters of the
Christian gospel launch the National
Christian Mission with an appeal
for a revitaliZed Christianity as the
only answer to the worlds Ills.
Hundreds of others had to be
turned away from the halls after
every available seat had been filled.
The overwhelming opening response
made the launching of this series of
revival meetings one, of the most
auspicious events in the religious life
of the city.
Sounding the keynote of this far
reaching Protestant movement, DR..
E. Stanley Jones, world-renowned
missionary-evangelist, and DR.. Paul
E. Scherer, pastor Of the Holy Trim
ity Lutheran Church of New York,
emphasized that Christianity today
holds the only answer to the needs
of q sick world.
They called on Christians to make
the church a more vital force to
combat the rise of totalitarianism
and prevent the collapse of civiliza-
ton.
Rockville and Fairfax Meetings.
simultaneously, in two nearby
communities, similar mass meetings
were held to launch concurrent pro-
grams of participation in the Ma
tional Christian Mission. DR.. Philip
Y. Lee of Shanghai, secretary of the
Chinese Christian Broadcasting As
sociation, addressed a gathering in
the Rockville MD High School and
Bishop Paul B. Kern Of Nashville,
Tenn, leader in the field of religious
education, spoke before mass
meeting in Central Methodist
Church, Fairfax, Va.
Taking as his topic as the King
dom of God Realism" DR.. Jones
said many people feel that the King
dom of God may work in some other
world, but not in this one,
ut is idealism that breaks its deli
cate wings on the hard facts of life"
he said, but Christ was not an
idealist. Rather, he was a stark
realist. Everything He taught was
operative within himself. Therefore
it was realism and not idealism."
Failed to Make New World.
After the World War, DR.. Jones
said, this country had all the strings
in its hands to make a new world,
but failed.
"If we hadn't failed-if we had
really loved our neighbor-we
wouldn't be back where we left of,
back in the vicious circle of hate
producing hate, and war-producing
war" he said.
The present war can be ended, he
said, by overcoming evil with good
and hate with love. This is the
answer, DR.. Jones said, but we're
not ready for it yet. We must SUI
fer awhile longer"
"a great surgeon once told me, I
have discovered the Kingdom OF
God in the end of my scalpel. 1t
is written in the tissues. the right
thing is always the healthy thing
We are now discovering that the
Kingdom of God is written not
merely in the pages of some book,
but In the constitution of our own
beings"
Dr.. Jones said surgeon once told
him that 90 per cent of his cases
should never have come to him "be-
cause they could have been stopped
along the way if the patient had
accepted the kind of faith he was
presenting.
Psychologists have discovered
these four great enemies of human
observation-disclosures, anxietles,
self-centeredness and sense OF
guilt, DR.. Jones said. Christianity
itself, is the opposite Of these things
good will, faith, other-centeredness
and freedom from guilt, he con-
tinued.
Change Direction of Lives.
To find the realism of the King
dom of God, DR.. Jones urged his
listeners to take these steps: Change
the direction of their lives, make re-
ligion a first-hand living relation
ship, cut out everything that Christ
would not approve, review all OF
their human relationships in a new
light, pray every morning and "prac-
tice the presence of God all day."
DR.. Jesse M. Bader, director OF
the mission, outlined the obJectlVes
of the movement. DR.. Raphael H
Miller, chairman of the Local Mis-
sion Committee. presided. An organ
recital by Thomas Moss, organist OF
Calvary Baptist Church, preceded
the mass meeting, and the combined
choirs of Calvary, Baptist, First
Baptist and New York Avenue
Presbyterian Churches sang Chris
tiansen's Beautiful Saviour.
DIR. Scherer Speaks.
The church lives on in a world
almost blacked-out morally and
Spiritually because Christ lives on,
and it remains the only force still
trying to bring about brotherhood,
DR.. Scherer declared in the mass
meeting at Continental Hall. His
address was on, THE Church of the
Living God"
There is no use, DR.. Scherer said,
talking about our way of life's being
protected by the British Navy and
air force when it is being under
mined at home, which is the only
place it can be preserved.
Without Christ and His church,
the minister pointed out, there is
no solution for the problems that
beset the human race, despite all
the achievements of science.
Science" he said" never has
given us any true motive for life"
While it wouldn't be hard, he
added, to make out case for the
total bankruptcy of the world we
know. the church still lives.
Church Called Vital Force.
The church is a vital force, he
emphasized, despite the people who
say they believe in it, but believe
only in themselves; despite persecu-
ton abroad and ridicule and indif-
ference at home.
THE church." he said, elves on
because Christ lives on-there is
no other reason"
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