New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1929, Page 4

oW Al»ilill’;'\lf\_‘wI).\.ll.‘( HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1929, STIRRING ADDRESSES MADE AT CONGREGATIONAL CONFERENCE jUnemploy;:cfll M;m A-Past 2 Finding“ ~ Door of Hope Shut Against Him, Prof. Ward Says At Conference Union Theological Seminary Leader Hits at Failure to Carry Out Recommendations of Harding Commis- + sion—Speaks of Threatening Bread Lines and Soup Kitche IR, BRA]]F[]R]] USES ?Congregatienalié&s : Giver Mdre TEXT T0 PILGRIMS Per Capita to Church Than Any gt i Other Branch of Protestantism from Keilah but we are prone to r peat the words of David's m Behold, we be afraid here in J how much more then if we come fo The text chosen by the Rev. John Keilah against the armic Robinson for his sermon to the Pil- | Philistines?? grims in Leyden, Holland, 16 n| “With the decision was still hanging in the | e balance as to ther or they would venture overseas to America, |t hotl way taken again Sunday morning {by Rev. Dr. Arthur H. Bradford i i who preached at the First church in Lastly connection with 1 New reat England regional meeting of the [they had of Congregational churches. or Comfort and Security Souzht “We may wonder indeed the Rev. Dr. Bradford said John Robinson, Elder Brewster, Willlam Bradford and Miles Standish would | consider us, after careful scrutiny, to be giving in our own tim outstanding expression of the | which impelled the ‘beloved adven- | turers’ on the Mayflower to risk everything in an effort to plant their idea in the virgin soil of this con tinent. The fact is that many of u are too much con ned with our own comfort and security.” The it de- whites basis, 1 creating its war-time army Less Drinking In College Today i that megroee and ould be drafted on the Than In Pre-Prohibition Period, o' Dr. High Informs Young People same treatment, and virtually told ‘You are ne by your country, and we along without you. This | effect the d ap- of the as a group were accorded equal can't get | 1 3 G lhad a t d cher,"” and point- » the insinuations, 1endous on Negro youth, a self-respect [Says People Are Concerned With Comfort and Security *“To Foster or Patronize minds of the ' But Contributions Have Not Kept Step With Gain * Wealth, Says. pea to the Negro people Changes The of thoey in the Business ; i o history dah the Liquor 50 years Attitude of Whites the of crea war also changed hite ople vere 1 they Must Be Regarded as So- Jand '_ on and oy ” Membe cial Sin,” put the ditor Says. their colored lahorers, cause Plyn mo Disc r “Christianity 1oy at the of the of M0 nd In- ! this Saturday | no All-New | re dra; nigration to th 188in st | dustrial 1 situation for over a generation But not a single one of those | ommendations has yet been car- ence 1grega- | ricd out, nor has anything been done Prof. Harry I%. | to start carrying them out, nor will occasion to criticize the | it be done untll presently the un- single recommenda- avoidable period of depression will the commission on employ- | come upon us and we shall again ment appointed by President Hard- | have our bread lines and our soup ing in 1921 has been carried out. | kitchens, Not has anything been done to | Deadline For Workers : of colored t start carrying them out, nor will it| “Slowly, but surely, what is called have been be done until presently the unavoid- deadline drops in certain indus- thi y able period of depression will come In the metal works, the age sent at us and shall again 50, then a few years after that itutior ad d our . and now 40. After a man past i ) has lost his job, the door of hope t against him in many lines. “In Detroit right now you will find that gradually. in all the plants, from Ford t{o Packard, they are weeding out the men who are no longer able to keep up with the speed of the belt. These men have done this work for 20 or 25 years They no longer can move quite quick cnough to satisfy the stand- ards of competition, efficiency pro- tions™ eeting They that f the | in they m reasons which borer bet 1ed him won hy Congre- and other n s great onal wealth, Miss, at the New o] lgrims to make 11 tional churches, Ward took fact that of nee tha Mississippi T R 1 inward ood four B ; 1 far ‘oston (and more provision has cd of in schools supported in cducational | Negro children ) the annu hope 200 L ) . ol s as well as those pro-|tion z an- Lr iy e But has no normal s Handicaps nd the hard dvancing of Christ ye world; ye owr toda 5 “if pic hich estabi- n TS ¢ L worl GODLESS ScHORLS - SEEN ASMENACE ™ Lead Protest have ar AT soup erica spi any which 10 over- ts have Ward with climination Prof. conce spoke acerbity from in n of im : ng the Vellore, | by Mrs. Jumes W. Bixler, of at Hart- | N H. chairman minary spoke on |committee of 1 Christian Ideals and World Friend- | gional committce, which discu and he pointed out in con- | various phases of women's missi N i ne manner that without world [ary work. The other confere was | Prof. Ward said, “You have seen room of | friendship, the very heart is gone [led by Rev. Wynn C. Fairfield, re- | the worst side of the south reported Christianity. He spoke with | cently returned from North China!in the papers, but not the best 1 ppreciation the league of | where he served for 19 years as a | 100k to see an industrial develop- | duction, so out they go, until the euger longing with | missionary of the American board, | Mment in the south that will be more { number of them who are out vouth of India look to the jand now acting secretary in the for- | rapid than it has been in any other | reaches to the thousands. them in (sl stiugela, 6l deparitiant ot thalUoard. 10 |partyor fine wonld.: Who are going to take the subjection to | U'nfinished Furrow in the Far East” Prof. Ward's address follows: them? was the tubject of the cor paicie WL B e “What doth it profit a nation if ~they had a solleinne We of must change our | Christianity makes personality | it doth gain & whole world In the [and a day of humil on Stock, secretary of the | Way of thinking—we must not think | chief value in human affairs. We | jjcrease of mechanical conveniences | ye Lord for his direction; ucation society, | ©f China and Japan as ‘Far East,' | ©uUSht to say that the chief em-| nq jn the doing of it lose its own | pastor tooke this teste, 1 poke at the evening session on the | DUt 28 our neighbors just ucross the Phasis of the Christian religion is|goy), {he development of its people. | & 4. ‘And David's men subject: “Dare We Be Christians?” ific in the ‘Near West." Speaking | Upon the development of persons, T religion is going to do its duty | him, sec, we he afraid here ““\We need! to! take care," the speaker | the standpoint numbers | that therein is found the meaning |t jas to he able to analyze the facts |how much more if we coms JEATaM et that v ilan e e . our task i of life. Therein is also found the |, ng challenge the conscience of the | Keilah against ye host of the Pl be freedom does not turn out to he | CT4SINg year by year, for the popu- |Meaning of God. Therefore, what | pagjgn, [tines? Then David co 1d | the greatest moral bondage, tion is increasing rapidly. The | the Christian churches have been | wy oy il find this to be absolute- |of ye Lord againc, &c. From which | bring us into worse slavery than the POPulation of China has doubled jn | 10ing in the indvstrial conflict has |y jngjsputable, that income above |texte he taught many things Je mis. |conventions and traditlonal restric- | ! 100 years, and Japan's set to that standard of per-|\pat s necessary for the rcasonable [aptly, and befitting their pre I ienad s knhion have hroken |Population is increasing at the sonality, the value of the human | qoveiopment of life is bad. Bad for |casion and condition, strengthenir |away. Tt takes courage to be true |Of 700,000 net per year. OQur ‘West. | "¢ings over against the actual prac- | o negple who get it. Bad for the | them against their fears and perlexi- to we know is right, and to ©N’ civilization is not our chief con- | tices of the industrial world. Also.| .omniynity in which it is spent. And | ties, and incouraging them in the % bear the stigma. ‘rcformer’ which is | tribution to China,—vital Christian |the churches on the positive side |t g5.6n' matter even though that | resolutions.” i e hurled by agencies that are op- |HVINg as an example is our chief | N@Ve uphold the ldeal of the con-|y,.ome he spent for purposes which Pllgrims Like David's Men posed to change. Just now it jsn't | contribution. Christianity is just as | {nued expansion and enlargement of | ;o pighly beneficial for the com-| “So far as I know,” the Rev, Mr very hard to approve what President | Necessary for Japan and China as jt | Personality and e pointed out to |\ i’ for in the last analysis it |Bradford continued, “the scrmon Hoover snd Premier MacDonald arc |19 for us in®America today,—no |h¢ industrial world what had to be f ., 45 more harm than good. which John Robinson preached doing for world peace, but in a few | MOre and no iess, done, in order that its ways and | " e oy are going to carry Chris- | that occasion 15 not in existenc months when the forces of hate and | “Japanese leaders realize that the :\o";:‘; ',“‘;ff},'(.,"‘;,,'\“‘f}i'x;m",f’,fl"g}"‘],:,, fjtignity to theicnafin the Meldhckiinghean aslly tms it snoweyer iihat prejudice get their insidious propa- | trend there, as here, Is toward @ yoan tige dustrial relationships, you will have |painted ~a vivid word picture ganda organized, it will be hard to | secularizing of education. Thev say | spna A to judge the prince of this world, | David and his men pather tand fo rnational good will There was a comr a the desire to make wild, rocky place in the 'hil n i Judea. It seems that ther ‘_‘miy-l 3'?\1.1'}\ is becoming eaucated in{ 1ovment appointed : 2 ) head, but not in That 18, | prosident Harding. Th e War Outworn Institution ndred of them jcouth, rudely ar B S guisentine thtion SN oTE o \vn‘l and formal education | presudent of the United of a year of travel and study |is not enough,—there be the|at the hes of that commigsior i S =HE R Wt the hea at co - Detrolt deadline as about 40 laws. David had told t nations around the world, |something in the n 55 2 Detrolt deadline as about | had told t completed during this present year, | e living which nd it 1 b “M]r. zon 111‘;“; »;‘““l. ik :‘T"i ‘m(, village muck fiss Ruth I Seabury, educational life meaning, and will pblely; ;H,‘ AT d\,vn'nnfi But | tine of the American Board, | worth while to struggle against t bbbl ik e s TR fascinating interest on |odds of lfe’ e e el it out e deadline e I | is not 40. The point is this g People Around the World.” A group Ge n students, after k discussion of the terrible aft. | As long as Mr, Ford was in a good rmath of the World war, and the eiEtinn Am,r“<-nmwmm- condition with the old | tter in its train, said the speakor | model he was able to indulge in Pell the American are hypocriteal here in | the policy of high wage. Now, with willing to go'the it nd missionarics | the new ear, he is up against the lo away with unle also make Amer- | Keenest kind of competition with ution called war.' {oh Siore Chivistian {General Motors. The new car is G ne P A A young people of Must Make Ameriea More Christian 51111 1osing moncy (‘“ Y "‘ e carricd the “Do We Believe in a Christ-like Cut down t \l nn.x\(l)” production a GrandhiSEHaye ‘orld.” was the subject of a stirring potdible points e MO Bwia lcan fai ayerpeiGliuch G st SRR e e yout this whole matter, any- ng p Purkey?” To which = you school. “God probabl AsLe grography from i % T speaker lines and petty divisions don't cxist for Him—Hc tha world as a whele. Tt is| utterly preposterous to dream about The closing address of the region- a Christ-like world believe ting was given by Mafias in a Christ-like God in Christ too ra, the son of a Mohammedan |, a real of God's chieftanof the s Philippines. | thought for mankind intellect- costume of i of t 15 to nee people, which he said has age a Chris the symbol of piracy and ou iwry among the people of that part of the world, where th Moros ntil the occupation of ippines by the United States, giona Tor dustry o ers who have passed the age of 40 “After a man past 40 has lost the door of hope is in many lines,” he cor wor | sachi- conferenc John Peter South India, ar heological § Chinniah, of student Ixeter, nal his job, far him of the exe New England utive s Per Capita in actual Dean Weigle Sees Danger in ' i e Absence of Religion r allow against asserted. In a discussion his pi Rev. Dr. Bradford said used Robinson’s text with the cst hope and prayer that it help us to carry the sy ! Pilgrim’s into the life and work of our New England churches.” The story of Robinson's was quoted from ten in a diary by a Leyden et A Ne which followed 1cing tin ar as I ed to th in the purchis- W.C A Population of tin of 1 Surprised At Non-Yale G sermon tion of The 1 an account \writ- ools is o ; TeRot me congregation: ernoon to Dr Aoz s itive his theme, “Today's Youth morrow’s World." Sec ; iving ac g erence meeting 1 1 Dare We Be Christians Harry America o secke their larg er |Congregational F ing pita the lay ompared with a speak 1l Protestant the Yale High young ms to be clo in Judah, to wer many peo o of these lands is in- Connecticut the World wi given a of the in the terrible mess which of their had the dirty | but that vorld would co the o : countries we ken By nsell to the an world s it was o - ¢ last been oot o zovernment clders we rate bro not be business of wuse they liked G to coll hospitals and other killing other youth because they honestly believed out v ul hom on W he of Forcign Missions Suceessful intment the i that s, nd friend heart.’ money. Discussion States was| o wyoy werc speaking of the must ture of public 1 iven motive for will the He had esked their safe camp among risk all in an attempt to succor this village. The proposal met scant favor from Lis men who ‘We be afraid here in Juda much more than if we « Keilah against the armies of Philistines? Finally, howevor response to what they believed to be a clear call from the God wh professed to love and serve they de cided to make the ventur their backs on the security of their mountain stronghold they marched to Keilah, where, against great odds, - 0 Fo they won a d victory, y pressing on, step by step, they at LoSiied last gained a kingdom, and (heir | V5100 for our leader took his place on the t sigcand of Israel er Pilgrims Cast Out Fear “What perfect material this story gave the Pilgrim pastor message to the Dilg Leyden: They, too, we litile. company of outlaws, poorly equipped with the hem to leay th that have been duly approved by those th competent knowledge who with have been stud and working on ary recommendatio with % n in r height Iield Smaller “Kingdom Southwest Bullding Border" the of on address by Rev. R. R. Shoe- maker, superintendent of the gregational Education socicty's in the southwestern part of country. Rev. Mr. Shoemaker of the ne of the Along subject O Home s Miss S 1 mn of case with was i gres be = n Price of a ( 2 2 = Con- wrongs “In onv said, America oversens, worl | tol lin ! to Tt thw else | forcign-born. those of Spanis in the southwest —needs for education i clementary of living balanced diet, personal hygiene, as well as in all the things that go to fine livihg, ss than onc the speaker said, of the ity cases among these peopl medic At ¢ Turkey Miss S a spiritual partieularly descent who t state ng even e Calls Sitnation Dan; on ove ways a dar do ous to i A. “That depends upon the par- ticular situation in your town. If you get an occasion of Jispute in the town, it is up to you to attempt to formulate judgment and get the community to do it. Usually it is too late. In the meantime, it is the | responsibility of the churches to| carry forward, with the other Chris- tian associations, a campaign of cducation in the community. The|world's goods. Tt in only agency in the town that can|Holland. No wonder some of them to represent the commen in- | hesitated to exchar th 1rity is the religious organizations. | ond comfort for what they belicved There should be stimulating com- | to be ‘the many inconceivable munity discussion concerning indus- | and dangers’ of a sca voyug: trial standards. life in an unknown land. "The Q. “You spoke about the prob- | position, we are told, raised lem unemployment, ‘What can | variable opinions amongst done about it? caused many fears and A. I pointed out that the chief amongst themselves. todey is not the introduc- | their love of the new machinery, but the in-|it, and their love of the God whom new methods to save | they trusted, that for the sake of production cost, in order to pay the truth 1 their God they chos dividends on these increasingly | to make the venture higher capitalizaticns for these mer- | themselves with the gers. In the first place, there should | all great and honc be provision to assess the cost upon |accompanied with Marion J “The Plans of Advance” of the «yeicty as a whole, which gets the land must be bott reele Congregational ehurches, adopted bY | jenefits as a whole. It means a sys- | overcome with answ Lucius . ' the National Council of COngrega-|tom of insurance that will assess it| “These two ticnal churches in Detroii last Junt, [jn part upon the industry and infour text, that Holland , ¥ide for presented by Dr. Charles C./part upon the consuming public, | three hundred vears ago, the other “3cept . Merrill, and Dr. William Ifeard clos- ' through the state. The thing we from stine three thousand years «d the afternoon session with an ad- ure trying to do now is to work up | ago, both illustrated the truth so dress on Men Who Never o, campaign for old-age compensa- | finely phrased by Bayard Taylor, Mrs. R. B, imons, Chico- Died Reference was mede to the tion law in the state. | “The loving are the daring’ When Mass Rev. Earl Nuuss, large demand which is coming from “As to the rcsponsibility of the men love a great cause they hecome N. F the churches for the “Guest Book” consumer. Only some of us are em- | reckiess of their own safety If entative th 28 of the 2.300 workers in | ployers or managers or investors, ' they love the truth they know that work of (‘ongrega- | hut we arc all of us consumers. The | “This man's perdition to he safe dom, and T hel introduced to the (hristian church is not doing what| When for the truth he ought to freedom I believe i the churches. Al-1it can in educating the consumers' | die.’ f chur professor m ion 1 make a Divinity Lt i, didn't ever study Rand-MceNally map said, “and boundary in ¢ mal DPor o6 mes the “Bay to America for mater people have 1 attention this #8 an indication of the medical care Son of Mohammedan Speaks citing said, great lack of o Decplat of view be too s thirk th old t might I his right; they knows mor: m, ‘Doh't be akes mless we re that yo s in ) t you in outhern guided democracy, A b t he bes said t 1] He It's a you are a that «11 |1 orld thinks brown spread terror ling it 3 Bl o A i adventure whether we can bel in like Giod. The Gos £00d news, not good advice of the werld doesn't want ice,—it wants the good which is the Gospel. 1f the not good for everybody, it good for 1 anybody. A Gospel which will not fon at| . ve every man, will not save any | The | jian. We are under the delusion | 03 here in America we have some- o | {hing like a Christ-like world,—it 18 far from it. We live right amid so many evils and unchristian practices and customs that we do not see how out of accord they are with real spirit of Jesus Christ.” said the s 1ker for bhest assume tere | ir sec on ing Withdra wrongf child Itut a child starvation a s race The our a rest most. the rils and 0- flerce i The i B it olonit news Gospel i mi ina has no de and er of thi with conveys a ristian committee, u the many men and doubts But such was truth as they saw ind pa- e is not LI PR TR i S ces of which the regional meet- ing was held, met in final s the Burritt Hotel at 1 o'cloc nominating committee, consistir Mrs J. W Jixler chairman Exeter, N, H.. I . H. Page, of Boston, and Miss Florence R. Ken- of Providence, R. I, reported as ele for two reg Professor Bangor the dan “I feel that s fraught pro is our name problem tion of troduction of ! actually pov tive suggestion 1o o v that religion that I think that da than courages, | PUbli sted by | ever be T i comforfing thought able ons difficultics, enterprised ble wer : utterly the R thing yon to office years a arc Chairman evir aw of Mo schools are ore. O halrnian AT scenes chairman, Mr ot one from every o Newton, Mass o o1 o \veh itive commitioe was religi W. T azier Purlington, Vt John W. Little, Pawtucket, R Rev. James F. English, Putnam veys negat one conc dray to our ive sn i Iy greater Some receive from Regional Banquet onn TRehey ; can be ob- i e thi drifted into "his present country LALRIELTE A lembers we that heeause we believed reli Kn {8ont committes by which lissionary educ Rev, M. | the 1d Plumb, Providence tion ious world-widr fre lism will embership of tior religion be wration of i ROH MEFTINGS {0UGHT T0 CLOSE Cross, oston Surch Statlstics Al was held 1l church dshaw and gave meeting r Marion J. I Mafne, presided background of 1l fron ( e reh support % of the church property he Congrega gland Congr his country this New F New Englanl sccond edition of this guest and indica- scon be e ready a book has been orders tions are that it will sted Commissioned as Misslonaries The Sunday evening session of the mecting was held in First consiste of the com- missioning service for Mr. and Mrs. Alford Carleton, who appointed o life-service under American Board of Con IForeign Missions in Mission. This was a all the Congi New Dritain and vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Carleton both n serviee under short-term ap- the Near East, and which began during service as teachers in mission schools at Aleppo, regional church, and ar the nissioners for ar Fast of of union gational churches service have pointment in the their the romance time of conscienc Q. “Are there any bright spots in | south the there are. There are some in a little village where there, | ing gaily to their doom when which has ad- | | home has been a very intelligent welfare policy and program, vanced and educated those mill peo- ple. Now of course we face the proposition that the welfare program always faces, when you have got to in on or_ stop. You nd try lo give those share in situation, or try to them subordinate posi- The other bright spot is th a large proportion of people of the vounger set totally and the a certain point people, you go cither go on people an increasing control of the Kkeep in a tion have a attitude toward new spirit sit- uation educating your | the | ind they are not at all in a | There are many ways in whie perfect love casteth our foar. Love for a leader, though he he out- law like the David or Itobin Hood, start men nax the young like will leader bids them march land will 'send the flower of a natien’s young manhood to give ‘their merry youth away for coun try and for God.! Love of and one's fellowmen will turn a man from a carecr of sccurity and suceess to a missionary adventure, full of peril and the failure. The loving are always the ring; and it is by the daring of those who greatly love that righte- ousness is brought to troubled world and_the kingdomn of Christ comes on carth. How Is Tt Today Love of Chris this chance of | must stop to talke cc 1t the cot. 10 ca d stat state is a sepuration cougi g it does not preclude action. coop: from e wer Ha New v Hartford nd New Britain, Miss Zucker, who received auti ifts, will bride of & lish Nove in a right in the gious freedom to be ¢ children to the state without its heir them pa or said to them in so many words, the of fath s account I don't I th “1 have name of re- able fo send the many b ul schools o of New suggested to York on mber 10, that 1 thing of group that with faith their FOUND DiAD (P)—Mr. who were NEWELYWEDS Brattleboro, Vi.. Oct and M Harold A. Shea rried October 12, in Fitchburs, found dead ia from earhon no and 10w 2 1zht to face s situation more con- th, the sational sroup of which we are “Th ed today wi part the world their monoxide growing n of bl mood to allow the early chapters in| “How is it with our churches to- | foday i throug histo dey? Your church and mine; all v real Christian education 3 i cvangelism Level tarviers oni 2 ; Pro Hartford prom- Syria, and developed through the ling three ye until their | industrial y In Great Britain marriage on Februgry 1, 19 fter and the United States to be re-|the churches invited to this All-New their return to this country, entered | peated in the south. You have seen | England meeting in this old mect- | stage at the significant’ serv- | the worst side of the south reporied | ing house of the Pilgrim faith? Are vhen they were granted the the papers, but not the best. I|we so planning our work and so ymission of the American rd to see an industrial develop- | carrying it forward that one watch- ning ‘s life appointees. The | ment in the south that will be |ing us closcly would be led to much more rapid than it has been | ‘Behold! The loving arc the daring!’ (Continued on Page Iive.) in some other parts of the world.” | I wonder, The call comes clearly | | | from a ga | DEAD 28 (P)—Word the death in of William A played team Bones, YALE PLAY Haven, Oct come of Washington Yale '$0, who Walter Camp's football bLelonged to Skull and ELIGIBLE Oc FOR OFFICE 28 (®—The civil today l‘lqj’{l."fl" Ralph T. Rowe cligible for 15 postmaster at Lew- New has Washington erviee commission Joscph Otto ind co 100k Fisher last 15 cry on rnest L. Small and promet ssion or i wppointment missions e Me. T