Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1923, Page 12

EXCERPTS FROM SERMONS IN CASPER CHURCHES PREACHED SUNDAY BY LOCAL PASTORS First Presbyterian REV. CHARLES A. WILSON called upon, the magnet draw steam drives, electricity produces its While we observe the Ch: as} marvels. Supply the conditiens and season with gladness and song, the|the effects are inevitable. So with waitings isles illustrate for us the| the gospels; inevitable results follow} remote peoples and lands of the] its true and faithful declaration in earth which have not received the| tho assurance of faith. beneficient reign of Christ. Isolated ATIONAL from the currents of Ch R fluence, and progressive REV. RT ALLINGHAM | ment, they wait the com For the first time in ten years er signs of returning sanity are faintly ne | igh 2 the hort 3 activ tends’ have had = # ° s temperature is re fn the history of Ct 1 years debauch natur the race. Thus C ( es {ts nerves. Some ber Ariana ares ave delirious spells and | BARNEY GOOGLE-~ ~ TRans CONTINENTAL RACE - Purse $100.000 NEW YORK 7% CALIFORNIA HORSES CEAvE LA JUNTA TODAY ~_ FOR ALBUQUERqUE = » Secures. 7% DATE. | ‘Spark OLUG” “GSARGER'S trcH 5 * SASSY Susie” “A HEEL, You LOVE Te Touch * ROUND House WUE ~ (au OTers DROPPED Our) we get our name coppe: s But thanks first known {sland to receive be to God things are convalescent. | gospel, and from it emar We speak of the “world” these evangclical influence. Patmos |days for modern ways and means ever associated with Sa: John {n| have tumbled us together. Our own exile whose suffering for the falth|dear United States by the provi- lig: tied . revelation. | dence of God somehow {s no longer batts: “the? edins of ywreck be-|the “Only Son,” “the Divinely lane Of eervice. Chosen.” A lot of new brothers and| recetving in early days the mis-| sisters have come in this new ar-| sionaries of ‘ in later years| rangement to share with him tte| become sources f which flow to ties of a common God and ns of the earth the erpriso. | alt the farthest re currents of Resent as he may, the only native is to learn to lve with Hawall 1 the islands of the South r Seas become the scenes of the ro-| War, the only gigantic plece of bar. mance of missions. These f | harism and paganism uncontrolied, aying the day of international It puts us to unselfish de: ‘ | peace and good will. story of contrast to St fascinating votion in rik Helena as a memorial to the inglor-| shame who claim allegiance to the| fous tern ridly ambition. nee of Peace. Jrand old Tagore, nave waited! | philo of In parodies us— er has writt e possibility of to have a pagan so call. 6 how the Christians je world in this genera ther This when the et there are unnumbered | Christian nations were at/ millions who never yet have heard | intelligently of Him who is the life,| | Let America’s greatest _itving and the way. We| preacher speak to day, Dr. Fosdick] tle Town o Night, while |of New York. Mind you he has ac-| Bethlehem, the archives of the worlds they know no adve portant news, he says, “Wel For what do th id that th ‘ar protects the! seven great human needs as fol'ow;| weak, does it, to date 10,000,000 needs in the realm health, of| known dead soldiers, 3,000,000 pre- wealth, knawledge, the harmonizing | sumed dead soldiers, 13,000,000 dead} of human rv rt, morals, and| civilians 20,000,000 wounded, 3,000,-| religion. They may be summed up| 000 prisoners, 9,000,000 war orphan: as hygienic, econom: intellectuas, | 5,000,000. war widows, 10,000,000 re-| religious eeds spect hetic, moral ar we consider these fu 3. No une of us because we can't an eye. omprehend in relation to nati unques-| it all. It is so hideous damnable. In| never was known than obtains now| reaches its fullest expression and tionably the gdvantage is with the] the name of high heaven if any one in that country. Let me call’ you| hate, selfishness, pride, personal|the bestowal of their benevolence Christian nations. Compare the high-| defends this as Christianity, what is back to the spirit of the early church | ambition and all the lesser currents|and charity but a, seasoning of ly favored nagions where Christian | hell like? on war. Those old warriors were not|of our being or lower faculties of influences have long prevailed, and] Speaking again Armistice Day to afraid, Hear Justin Martyr, “The|our souls for this happy season are|its standard and does greatly in- due consideratfon has been given to} the largest and most representative spirit of war and of Christ are ir- dent or suppr crease its efficacy. I have never proper methods of sanitation for the| audience in America, Dr. Fosdick/reconcilable.” Old ‘Tertullian, “A These days and nights are|known ‘more widespread nor better promotion of 18 alth, and hap-| said: “Are we still such kittens with soldier who becomes a Christian|frought with many a happy sur-|directed benevolence and piness, w the dark continent] unopened eyes that we will believe should leave the army at once.”| prise and not a few transitions in where millions long for healing, and|the diplomats when they try to Th whose only recourse is to witch doc-|baptise another war with moral tors, medicine men, smallpox gods, | aim Secret treaties ‘are had that stures hung by win: ¥ the evil spirits of and even rude p! dows to sca show these European gambling di-! wa: plomats at the very time that their tio’ disease Christianizing of the| armies were blowing one another to nations means hygienic, economlo,| pieces to end war, trading for mark- intellectual, moral, and religious im-] ets, oils, and colonics. Who are provement. India is one of the great-| these diplomats that they may gam- est mission fields today. Only a|ble with the lives of millions. Are small percent of the people can read| we dumb brutes that we have no be and write. it of m group of 6,000| right to protest. But let us look away from this| sordid picture. We have chosen as| our leader the Prince of Peace. He} was the ambassador of a loving,| ‘ kind, forgiving Father. Jesus own) It land and country was in the hands) it. children only two were literate. Such @ condition can not long continue when India is Christianized. How shall the waiting isles receive ‘His law? You seo about you as you ait in the audience the flags of forty nations. The star spangled banner, | of the enemy, the union jack, and the tri-color} defence,” mingle with the colors of nations | vi Christian and non-Christian. Many of the lutter constitute the great mission fields where the 1,650 mis sionaries of our church are bringing to expectant lands and waiting isles the message of the new-born Christ Ours is sometimes said to be a credal “Preparedness.” He ad-| ter ed love and goodwill. He told the! the other the hearts of millions today. But) chi where are Alexander, Napoleon, Bis-! in mark or Hindenbur, Ominous clouds persist in flitting! of across the European sky. War is church. We accept tatement | threatened every day, but Europe 1s whether given in criticism or com-|convalescing, England today humil- pliment. It has been now a|iated beyond words has practically | lu great historic church. No ch repudiated her degenerate and inef-! be a great church wit assu nt nobility and the govern of its message and its missio: krupt almost passes in believe urgent necessity to ds of the despised representatives ¢ of toil. Ramsey McDonald their leader stands before the world as the cleanest, most efficient, morally complete subject of that great king- dom. England will recover with this mora] statesmanship, Ramsey Mc- Donald says, “War is outlawed.’ Russia, maligned, led about, block- Proclaim lberty throughout all the land into all the inhabitants thereof. And we have no right to proclaim any sort of liberty except in the truth which makes men free. ‘The church with a superficial and sm that offers e of soundness AEAEZE of faith and © will play amin-| aded, warred against, is today mak- ¥ or part in the great forward move-|ing more progress than any nation ments of the coming years. Ours is|in Europe. True, the Czar's god ¢ ap faith. We believe in the] was burned in effigy, but to any possibility of a world redec 4] body who knows that was Ne that the gospel is the re secration. ‘Truthful obser . power. Gravitation works ‘ us that greater religious SA THE JO yY OF XMAS MVRNING IS NUT CUMPLETE WITHVUT 4 CUP PEER EEG GAS ROASTED BY, se! &GaLtacner CO- OnAnA, MLB second centur; The common ters of war know the psychology of the mass, they blow the bugle, beat the drum, beast is aw day ma; | shall swing open for such. Did he counsel “Self come down the chimney end my diplomats of his day there was no, boys it surely does positively slip in- He stands enshrined in| to the hearts of men and women and until there is such an over'apping unselfish merriment and such versal exchange af good wishes and happy recollections and worthy res- CREASES, Bo YoU THINK OF THIS FOR & YOUNG MAN WHO WAS GOING TO STAY AWAKE AND SEE SONTA CLAUS? ese statements were made in the| the currents of the lives of individ- uals ahd communities but never a greater surprise than was the sur- prise to the shepherds of old who were keeping watch by night over their flocks, when suddenly there was with them a heavenly host praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, Peace on earth and goctl will to men.’ “According to the thinking of many people we have been endur- ing an exceedingly dark night and far too many Christian people lke many of the Jews of olc have al- most forgotten that God has almost allowed their altar fires to die out but to the glory df God and the good of humanity there have been some shepherds who have been awake and keeping watch through the dark and cruel night of war and its aftermath and now again we are beginning to awaken to the sweet strains of the spirit’s song, ‘Peace On Earth, Good Will to Men.” “It is my pleasure to believe that the spirit of unselfish giving 1s more widespread and deep reated today than any time since the be- ginning of Christianity. I think peo- people are sick of T. Millions of people in every na- n long for peace. But the promo- statement upon receive.’ unfurl the flag and the ke. God grant that the me when that act shall a crime and the penetentiary door contribution every North Side Christian REV. CHARLES G. STOUT. “Santa Claus is more than a myth, is more than a man. It is a spir- If it does or does not mystically jously slip toys and sweets into stockings of good little girls and Idren and with a magic unknown other ways expand their souls interests and such a mingling of unt- tions that Joy_in all quarters ple are using more discretion too in| the jdyous task of serving in the juCgment with love does not ljower| who do not love us ana even those than that which {s apparent in our]as he gave for his sake we can for own beldved city of Casper. We are enjoying a growing appreciation of the meaning of Him with whom this spirit was borne and of his ringing this very ‘it Is more blessed to give than to To those who are in need of help there comes a blessing with to their and in response to every sympath etic heart throb and the touch of every friendly hand but all this joy of receiving in spite of all the joy it renders and a'l the comfort it pro- vides 1s accompanied by an under- tone of sadneas at the consciousness of that need although well and lov- ingly supplied. On the other hand those who provide the blessings out of their abundance or even out of their own love of service enjoy an exhilaraation of spirit and a glad ness of heart which knows no re me af us even now are unable to give as we would to those whom we love and those who love us. If in the realm of the physical and tangible we find ourselves so eitu- ated may we not at least give our selves in more loving devotion to You urtus tmp Come OUT OF THAT KITCHEN & OUT OF VYouR ; UTTLE BED FOR r AT THIS TIME \ OF NIGHT? that @ supreme court judge in New York resigned to manage a cam- paign for Reed for president were dismissed by Reed as insolence. name of Him who brought peace and good will and if there are those! who hate and persecute us can we not find a joy in linking ourselves so closely to him who gave Himself charity | for us that though we can not give! WHY NOT ALWAYS ? Christmas is easily the finest, most enjoyable day in the year because of the gifts and feasting, and because on Christmas the best and finest of human emotions and ethics come to the surface, give.” —— REED NOT CANDIDATE Charity, tolerance, genilality, brotherhood, kindness—these are so in evidence at Christmas that they seem to be in the very air we breathe. And the reason is that all these are Christian qualities, and that Christmas is the only day when these finer qualities are so gen- erally present that they are g natural part of daily life. thema KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 24.— Senator Jim Reed of Missouri, Js not running for anything. i The Missouri Democrat, back home for the holidays, denied to-/ night he was seeking the Demo- cratic presidential nomination. Reports appearing in a newspaper ee relief Humanity is struggling for @ goal unknown. We wonder if that goul is not the happy time when tho spirit of Christmas will, instead of being ‘confined to a day orsa sexson; spread out to include a’! days. of the year. x Home Folks May Xmas Bring to You So Much of All That Life Holds Dear CASPER PACKING COMPANY The Home of Natrona Brand Products a3 Christmas N olden days the carollers Came in a happy throng— _ A-gathering outside the door And joined in cheerful song. But times have changed—today This kind of greeting cannot be ‘And yet the same old greetings hold “Good Health,” “Prosperity.” We have done well; success is ours We've done the best we knew ‘And in the future better still With good-will friends like you, Campbell- Johnson HEAD TO FOOT CLOTHIER