New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1930, Page 13

) I EW BRITAIN HERALD [~ * Irreligion. World’s Supreme Peril,* - ' Pastor Says In Sermon Answering _ ' Query: ‘Why Christian Education!’ Rev. Wiliam H. Barsch Ex- plains Views On Need of Week - Day Church Schools—Quotes Leaders On Necessity of Spiritual Guidance. Quoting woMld known authorities In the business world to substantiate his arguments,. Rev. Willam H. + Barsch, pastor of the Memorial Bap- tist church yesterday gave his an- swer to the question “Why Christian Education” in- an address on the @ Weekday religious schools which open in this city this week. The minister pointed out two facts, the impossibility of the state giving religious education, and the universal feeling among men of prominence that some raligious training is essential to a successful tife. His sermon was as follows: “This week the doors of our churches will be opened to all the children who care to attend religious instruction. There are any number of parents who raise the question: ‘Why Christian education?” Does not the state educate our children? Let us frankly | inquire about the schools under distinctively Christian auspices. “Let us face the question with an open and fair mind. Among the many answers we have the an- swer of Dr. George' W. Truet ‘Christian education is the only com- plete education. Man is a tripartite being, possessed of a body, mind and soul.’ “It is apparent that education by the state cannot be complete educa- tion. By the very genius of our gov- ernment, the state cannot teach re- ,ligion. What religion' would the " state teach? hat would it say about the person and gospel of Christ? What would the state say about the church, the Bible, and ® Church history? To ask these ques- tions we see immediately that the state has no reugious functions at all. “Through the longwcenturies the Protestant people have been the con- sistent and historic advocates of ab- - solute liberty of cBnscience in the realm of religion and of its inevitable corollary, mamely, the separation of church and state. Our Baptist fore- fathers in Hollandgthus stated the principle in 1611: “The n\agistrate is not to meddle with religion or mat- ters of conscience, nor compel men to this or that form of religion, be- cause Christ is king and lawgiver of the conscience.’ The state has ap- n 4 ‘s ] 3 preciated this attitude and upon that | view it has opened its doors permit- ting the children to attend Chrisian instruction in the churches of the 8 various cities. “I certainly would hastgnsto show my unreserved sympathy and cooper- ation in this matter. We dre the unfaltering friends of state educa- tion, from its primary grades in the little: red schoolhouse to its senior classes in the highly developed state u ‘versity. We respect the agencles of state education “But when all isfsaid and done, we must, in all conscience as Chris- tians build and maintain schools that o shall be fundamentally and aggres- sively Christian. The supremely es- sential element of human life is the spiritual element. All the mechani- cal knowledge .of the Egyptians could not save their civilization. All the culture of Greece couldn’t save its civilization. Roman statesman- ship.. philgsophy and mighty armies ® carried its civilization to the grave In the face of collapsing civilization is there any other door of hope to the American people? To answer ) this question let us listen to the con- victions of world leaders. . “The late Henry Watterson said: *“The paramount question underlying democracy is the ® Christ. Eliminate Christ and Yeave the world to eternal war." Haig said: ‘The church of Christ is the world's only social Rope and the % #ole promise of world peace.’ Lloyd George says: ‘Now it is either Christ or chaos; either the Kingdom of God or world revolusion.’ Listen to these challenging words from George Bernard Shaw: ‘Why not give Christianity a trial?’ A noted leader among the labpring people says: ‘This world must come back is. to Christ, the greatest revolutionary that history has known, a revolu- tionary who carries out the revolu- tion not by strikés, mobs, and law- @ less slaughter, but by dying himselt upon a ¢réss.” The far-famed statis- tician, Roger Babson says: ‘The need 6f the hour is not more fac- you tories or materials, not more rail- | roads or steamships, not more armies or navies, rathér more edu- cation based on the plain teaching Of Jesus., These men seek to put a e soul under the ribs of American civilization and they realize it can- not be done without the spiritual element of Christian religion. “Inj'the face of such testimonies, one ctin readily understand why the leaders of great _institutions of learning would approve and urge the maintenance of Christian educa- ® tiop. Mark these wise words from President_ Thompson, of the State University ot ®hio: ‘I am in no way untrue to state institutions when I say that in our day a boy might be- come a bachelor or master in almost. any one of the best of them and be as ignorant of the Bible, the morai and spiritual truths which it repre- sents, and the fundamental princi- ples of religion, their nature and value to society, as if he had been , educated in a non-Christian cguntry i, Who is to supply this lack if it is not the Christian church.’ Think of these -telling words.- of Presi- dent James, of the WUniversity of e Illinois: ‘Education without religion s unnatural, abnormal and danger- religion of Jesus | Earl | l Hits at Irreligion REV. WILLIAM H. BARSCH ous. Our people ought to take this | matter of Christian education to heart and support it with a liberal | generosity as we have never known it before. | | “Let us earnestly note also these | discriminatng words from Dr. J. | | 3. Tigert, the highly honored United States commissioner of education. ‘We have got to do something to de velop character in our educational |system. We have wisely separated | the function of church and state, but | in avoiding the Scylla of political in- |terference with religion we have dteeréd upon a Charybdis of state education without religién. It -is doubtful 1f we can introduce re- | liglous instruction in the public school without interfering with re- ligious freedom, but we must find | a way to produce chgracter effect- | ively.’ “Let the contention be made for | Christian education that such edu- cation is grounded in Christ's au- thority and teaching. In the method of Jesus, preaching and teaching went hand in hand. He was more | frequently called ‘teacher’ than any- thing else. The absolute necessity for Christian education in carrying out | Christ's great commission is over- whelmngly attested by our entire denominational history. Christianity | has been the mother of all modern education. Well did President, Wil- son say: ‘Scholarship has never, so far as I can recall, been associated with any religion, except the religion of Jesus Christ.” “The chief work of Carey in India was that of Bible translation. Jud- son became a Baptist by reading the Greek New Testament. Luther Rice gave his mighty strength to the establishment of Columbia Univer- sity for the special training of work- ers for the worldwide mission work. Practically every one of our denom- national schools has come in re- sponse to the poignant need for bet- ter trained preachers and Christian workers. “Of the first 119 colleges built in America east of the Mississippi fiver, 104 were built for religious needs. Take Harvard'university. Its very name commemorates the life and sacrificial labors of a preachey, John Harvard. He lived but a little | whilé in America, but he gave his| |library and half his estate to the| | founding of the institution that | | bears his honored name. Over the | gateway of thi¥ world—famed in- | | stitution of learning you still read these words: ‘That a learned minis- try may not perish from the earth’. “The heroic service of men twho came . from. Christian schools has reach a worldwide fame. The xecord of leadership furnished by schools is to' the last degree revela- tory and challenging. ®ight of our| country's chief justices were col- |lege graduates, seven of these were | from Christian schools. Eighteen of | our nations' presidents are college | sraduates, 16 of these were from | Christian colleges. Eighteen of the 25 masters of American letters were | college men, while 17 of the 18 were from Christian colleges. Of the members of our national con- gress, whose efforts or prominence have secured them a place in Who's Who, two-thirds of them were graduates of Christian colleges. Keep on looking into this deeply significant matter and you will find that numbers of small Christian colleges in our country have fur- nished many times the number of leaders furnished by state and pri- | vately controlled institutions. This stands out as one of the most re- vealing and challénging facts in the world of Christian education. “We are called upon to put a soul into this year's religious train- ning. This cannot . be done Yithout cooperation from parent, teacher, and child. Daniel Webster spoke faithfully when he said: ‘To pre- | serve the government, we must pre- serve morals. Morality rests on re- ligion. If we destroy the foundation, | the superstructure must fall” We | | destroy the foundation by _being | | negligent and indifferent whether |our youth of this season attends | religious instruction. | “Carlyle spoke correctly when he | declared that religion is the deter- | mining factor of any country's civil- ization, Africa made more progress in a dozen years under the Chris- tian leadership of Livingstone than it had made in a thowsand vears before. Surely, all discerning minds must now discern that irreligion is the world's supreme peril, that dis- obedience to God is he way of de- feat, decay, and death. It is not surprising therefore that \McCauley wrote: ‘Whoever does anything to deprecate Christianity is/ guilty of high treason against thecivilization | that | Wonrley, these » 13 to 20 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1930. of mankind.’ All history confirms the truth that .thelast line of de- fense for a people is not material but spiritual. We must remember the vast majority of leaders come from Christian schools. doors of our churches are open to the youth of this city for another yeag of Christian education. The United Week Day Church schools which again furnish trans- portation for pupils attending re- ligious instruction classes from dis- tant public schools announce the following chaperons as escorts for {the children this year. Benjamin Franklin school, Leon Dickinson. Lincoln school, Mrs. Elsa Had- dock, Mrs. Vinning Sharpe. ‘Washington, Bartlett and Israel Dutnan schools, Mrs. L. J. Wohrley. . Vance school, Mrs. George Hoga- Mrs. | boom, Mrs. Helen Upson. Camp school, Mrs. Sheffield Clark. Elihu Burritt, Mrs. Frank Chase. Stanley school, Mrs. Edward Hol- stein. Smalley school, Mrs. Earl Cooley. Roosevelt school, Mrs. Charles Sharpe. Northend school, Mrs. Freeman | Theiss. Nathan Hale, Mrs. William Zeig- i ler. Mrs. Ernest Hoyle, Mrs. L. J. Mrs. James Henderson, and Mrs. George Denney are serv- | ing as registrars for the schools. CITY STILL DEFERS WILLOW ST. INQUIRY { Committee Awaits Letter From Merian on Mortgage Tangle When a letter'is received from City Engineer P. A. Merian explain- ing the part played by the depart- ment of public works in the crea- tion of an extension of Willow street over mortgaged property, Alderman David L. Nair wil lcall a meeting of the common council’s committee ap- pointed to make inquiry. Letters explanatory of the case have been received from Clerk A. W. Bacop of the board of compensation and assessment and from Corpora- tion Counsel John H. Kirkham. QThe extension was worked $hree years ago over property standing in the name of Fred Bendza. ‘The own- er of record was given damages |amounting to $2,800 with the under- standing that he would move house off the sidewalk line. When he failed to do so, the case was reopened with the discovery that mortgages held by the Savings Bank of New Britain, | Samuel Waskowitz and Moset Stein had not been considered in making [the award and the mortgagees an- | nounced that they would look to the cit for compensation. This assertion resulted in common council action. SOUTHINGTON DEMOCRATS * NOMINATE CAMP AGAIN Republicans in Quandary For First Selectmanship Candidate As Curtis Refuses to Run (Special to the Herald) Southington, $ept. 25.—First Se- lectman Charles W. Camp, who for the past two years has successfully defeated the republican candidates at the polls”in town elections, was renominated for the office at the caucus of the democratic party in the Town hall Saturday night. He has been the standard bearer of the Jdemocratic party in the past and his nomination was received with ac- claim at the caucus attended by about 300 woters. Who will be his opponent from the republican ranks, remains an unscttled question because C. Fay- ette Curtis who was nominated de- spite a letter from him stating that lie would not stand for the nomina- tion, has reiterated his refusal to be a candidate. Frark J. Hurley, nom- |inated for the office of second se- |lectman, has declined the nomina- tion. These two defections leave the republicans without candidates for either, of the two places on the board of selcctmen, The remainder of the democratic slate named at the caucus, is as follows: Second selectman, Russell F. Ellis; assessor for three years, Walter J. Begley: board of relief, three years, Jacob Knapp; tax col- lector, Thomas E. Egan, Jr.; audi- tor, James Powers: registrar of vot- ers, Willlam J. Hurley; school com- mittee, Machaeél Borek and Percival Welch; library diréctors, Rev. George G. Hackman, Miss Marie Ensle and Michael Flynn; cénsta- bles, Thomas J. Murphy, Edmund J. Foley, Walter Hushak and Lewis Bowers, angs water commissioner, | Ldwin S. Todd. Mr. Todd, a repub- can, was endorsed. ‘William J. Hurley acted as chair- man of the ‘meeting with John J. Moran as clerk. A HEAVY BILL Little Rock, Ark.—W..T. Scott, of Texarkana, bought a radio set here for $118. The dealer had the set packed for shipment - to Scott's home and set along a bill. Scott came into the store one day, ap- [parently with a limp. The store- keeper, thinking that Scott had come to pay his bill, got out a pen to receipt it. To his surprise, Scott dumped 11,800 pennies | on the counter—3$118 worth. They weighed 54 pounds. { e e GNLAWFUL PRAYER Leipsig — The German supreme court here has ruled that certain prayers drawn up for use in public schools by Dr. Frick, fascist min- ister of education for Thuringia, are unconstitutional. A part of the prayer reads: “I believe that thou wilt punish the betrayal & Ger- many and bless the actions of those “who seek to free the fatherland.” The | | l | | | | | | except AUDITION CONTEST | LIST GROWS T0 17 Vocalists to Be Heard in Southi Church This Evening | | | The public audition in the form of | a free public concert at the large | chapel of the South Congregational | church at 8:15 tonight has attracted | the interest of approximately 17| contestants, Walter L. Magnuson, | general chaigman, announced today. s The vocalists will sing as many numbers as the judges believe advi: able to keep the audition within a reasonable time limit. only, and 4hose with amateur status | between the ages of 18 and 25 will | be accommodated without the pay- | ment of a fee or any other chargs. It is a general free for all, with| simple rules, and eferybody is happy the judges, who anticipate TNk { CO LOR quite an evening. Mrs. Ruth Schade Smedley, chair- | man of the survey committee, mean- | ifig the committee having the enroll- ment of contestants in charge, spent a busy day at home Sunday. All she did all day was to answer the tele- phone as interested vocalists called up for detailed information. The South Congregational chapel has been secured by the New Britain Musical club as its contribution to a free public concert for the populace. | President Herbert Woods and the executive board decided that a pub- lic event could be presented to much better advantage than a private au- dition, and proceeded accordingly A little confusion existed regard- ing the extent of the local district. It was stated to inquirers that the district inclues all of Hartford county, including Bristol and Hart- | |ford, and that there are no hard ani | to have returned to her. The audition will be for vocalists |fast rules in the Atwater-Kent pre-|were notified and the detective bu- | liminary auditions regarding’ the districts anyway. The main idea @ for amateur vocalists to get a hear- ing and be judged for their qualifica- tions to participate in the later state audition and the final national audi- tion The fact that hitherto unknown | singers have won the $25,000 In prizes and valuable scholarships has | spurred a vast interest among ama- | teur vocaligts to participate iu the | |auditions. There being no competi- | tion by professioial singers, the vo- | calists of amateur status have been | much stimulated to try their luck. | A large crowd is anticipated at the | public audition tonight. PURSE STOLEN IN STORE Mrs. Victor Morell of 648 Main |street, a clerk in a store at 655 Main street, placed her pocketbook containing $9 in bills and 30 cents in change, on a counter in the store Saturday evening, and when she looked for it a few moments later. |could not find it. The purse also | contained a yellow gold weddinz | ring, which Mrs. Morell would like The police |reau began to work shortly after- ward. NO MARS CANALS Paris — Dr. E. M. Antoniadi, of |the Maudon Observatory, near here, has astounded scientific (‘lr(;lf:s b; of Fine Arts for the best pgem in the land of between two and three hundred verses, hasn’t been won for three years. Possibly the condition that all poetry presented for con- sideration must be “honest and de- cent,” has something to do with it. Three Children Dead From Unripe Fruit Diet Los Angeles, Sept. 15 UP— Three children are dead and a fourth is seriously ill from what physicians described as leuco- maine poisoning, a result of eat- ing unripe fruit. They are the chfidren of Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Lowe, both of whom have been unemployed for several months. Investigators said the family had been near starvation. The dead were Betty, 5, Vir- ginia, 3, and John, 18 months. WELL BABY CONFERENCES The schedule for the well baby | conferences conducted by the Visit- |ing Nurse association for the week, | will be as follows: Tuesday, Northend school, Ellis | street, volunteer assistant, Mrs. Wil- |liam Kaplan, nurses in attendance, Miss Mabel Gates, Mrs. Hattie Reck- | nagel Wednesday, Elihu Burritt school, volumteer assistant, Mrs. Harrison cenald on Mars and there is no pos. | Bristol, Miss Florence Bently, sibility of there being life on the |DUTses in attendance, Miss Mabel plaret, - He believes that the [Gates, Miss Mary Foley. anals” are cdused by illusions of | Thursday, ~ Washington school, Vision perhaps based on a few |volunteer assistants, Mrs. Harr: cracks, | rifts or other line-like |Hine, Mrs. Harry Protass, nurses it aritian |attendance, Miss Mabel Gates, Mrs | Eva Backiel. 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