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GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 19, 1922 DYNAMITE FOR THE JAM! The , International Sunday. School Lesson , For November 26 Is "Jesus the Great Missionary" Luke 8 ' . . Br WILUAM T. BliUI. Lumbermen used dynamite to break up a despsrat Jam of Ion In the spring drive. Is not that figure appropriate tor the congestion of forcei and svents that today halts the smooth progress o( civilisation! Whichever way we look, things are "jammed." Whsre ie the power to break ope a wayt At once we remember the origin of that word "dynamite." It 1 Greek, and Ii the very word used by Jeeua In hie farewell promise to his friends, Te shall receive power," or "Dun 'amln." Christiana should he dyna mical 'What Is more. It was In con nection with the great missionary ommieelon that Jesus promised the gift of "power" or "dynamite" to hie disciples.. When this old world got Into a Jam In 1114 the. workmen to whom the task belonged, called statesmen, tried to pull It loose with document ary red tape: and later attempted te pry It apart with guns. In vain. Super-philosophy, or "Kultur" also fail ed. Treaties were driven as wedges between the most obstinate logs, but without effect. After the armistice, the eonference crowbar was attempt ed, but It also was futile. All the devices and Instruments known to man were tried, one after another, but today the entire structura of civilisation Is menaced by the flood whloh has been formed by the back ed-ap waters behind the Jam. Nothing is now left as a method of dellveranoe axeept dynamite, the "dunamln of the New Testament. If Christianity eSnnot break this peril ous Jam, there is no other rescue In sight. - That Is why It Is the most desperate present business of the Christian ohuroh to apply the "power" promised by Christ, to the .conditions of our time. - Valng the Amplifier. Frankly, the Christian ohuroh Is still slumbering, so far as actual participation In the world emergenoy Is considered. Most ministers and their members are not even aware of the traglo failure of Christianity at tne outbreak ol the war, daring the : war and sine. If the reader has any doubt about this, set htm attend any meeting of clergymen, or any general eeoleslastlcal assembly. He will And the discussion, conducted In the stereotyped bhraseoloar of hundred years ago, confined to mere matters of millinery and methods, the '.shop talk of complacent craftsmen who do not know that the world Is 1 : 1 r- t t use "Gets-It" 'housMds of people have only naeivss to Diame ror corn agony, . J-pelsen, etc . Trimming and "treatlne." cutting and paring merely aakee a bad matter, woree. Millions of others arc wiser. Ther know haw easily and eulckly -Oete-It" shrivels and Mela corns and calluses on In oae piece. Get your money baok If It raua. wear new snoes with com' fort. Oct a bottle today. B. 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Apply a llttls of this fragrant, antiseptic, healing cream In your nostrils. It penetrates through every air passage of ths head, soothes ths Inflamed or swollen mucous membrane and re lief comes Instantly, It's Just flno. Don t slay ntufted-up with a cold or nasty catarrh. - hd afire all . about them.. The nearest that most religious organisations came to sensing ths significance of the world 'war was to use It as an opportunity for gsttlng mors money out of a sensitised public No opsn-mtnded person can oon t.mnlet. the condition of crisis in the ..m naniaiiv with respect to r-hriatiinltvi sosslblc pert therein, without perceiving the humiliating faot that the church Is toaay oivioea . .nn.hhlinr. to ah unwonted de gree: and Instead of moving toward her task, Is taking refuge in ln .tit,., inn.ii.m and in' faction and In shibboleths. ' ' All ths while the call Is for ths uss of ah amplifier, such as was em- nlnved at the dedication or me ..in.naniiirki In Waahine-ton. whsrs- by a hundred thousand persons could hear as one man.. The church has ik. wrA. Hera, Is the power. In .hi ..., which shs Is ousto dlan there is life for the world. And rsH hn has out all things under His feet; has prepared the world; b the new marvels 01 science, 10 re ceive ths good news with celerity and certainty. a Mmm at teleBec leea It. In all the round of discouraging facts eoncernlnc Christianity's som nolence In the hour of destiny, none Is more alarming than tne eviuenc. that so many men are apparently thrniie-h with the - church. They neither attend her ssrvlces nor show any lntsrest In her programme. They have passed by her. The proof of hia u round In the empty pews ot most houses of .worship, and In the publlo prints and in ths casual iia nf thnua-htful eersons. . A recent masaiine, the Ootober r..i,,rv contained a depressing er tide by President O. 8tanley Hall, theoloa-lan and psychologist, upon "Ths Salvaging j, of Civilisation, wherein he points 'out the character l.tlna of nraaent conditions, as re vealed by current literature; and some possible remedies. With sad ness, he dismisses the church as In adequate. He seems to think that iivnlmlta. "nower." has gons from her. This is startllne. shocking, amaa Ing. Doubtless It Is all needed. Christianity may be vltallssd Into full and normal functioning by the shafts that ars being hurled her way. Am It Was. Ajk Is All of us have read, and t mysslf havs sssn, ths story of lives changed hv the sower of the Christian gospel. Nothing can separate mo from the oonvlotlon, born ot personal exper ience and observation, in our great American cities, and, in ths prlnolpal foreign mission fields ot the world, that ths one agency equal to making over eoclety as a "whole is the truth that I have ssen transform individual msn and women. As It was la the davs of Jssus, so it is in our own time, the a-ospsl Is dynamite, "power,' to break up the Jam of sin and let loose the beneficent currents of life This is as a-rsat a reality as any other attested 'fact of history. It supsrsedes hsredlty and environment and education. The gospel of Christ nosssssss power to make life new, It has had the Power tc blow up old civilisations and systems and methods of life., It has literally transformed the nature of entire ea tlons that have corns undsr Its au thoritr. From the over-elvlllsed Bo man to the uncivilised man of the iunarle. Christianity has mads new creatures, saints of God, walking In holiness and beneflcenoe. My friend Dan Crawford from "the center of tha center of Africa," writes me of tribes of savagss made Into Joy ful Christians, true to ths New Testament type. My awn memory recalls a long line of such in Japan, Keren, China, India, Turkey, Egypt and Syria. Ths gospel works when ever truly tried. A Klasaeea TOte atissntly a friend came to me in great concern over certain signs ot hetwodoz preaching. I could only affirm to him that "the truth does not deed to be defended, but only proclaimed." As we read of Jesus, In this lesson chapter, touring cities aad villages, "preaching and bring ing ths good tidings of the kingdom ot God," we perceive that likewise what ths truth needs today is sim ple proclamation. In the homeland. In our Christian pulpits, is ths halls ot state and In heathen lands, we have but te tell and retell the story that makes over Individual men and women, and transforms all their re lationships. There Is health and wholeness for civilisation in a gospel preached and applied. One wonld be less than fair to the application ot this missionary chapter to our times did ens not re eall that part ot the missionary work of Jesus was ths driving out of devils. Boms saccharins saints would draw a vsll ot charity over the act ot the Mastsr as he consigned the evil spirits to ths swlns, so that all this good pork went te waste In the waters of Galilee. Thsy shut thslr syes to His wielding the whip of cords to drivs out ths corrupters of the temple. His "woo unto you, ye hypoorltes" shocks their sense of re finement. They profess a faith that would hurt nobody's feelings. The most corrupt and corrupting political crooks will never receive anything but kind words from thess good and gsntle spirits; who politely allude to the devil only as "His Satanlo Majesty- ' uoh sweet and tolerant and splns lsss folk might be good oltlsens of hsaven; but thsy ars poor mission aries of ths righteous Christ on earth. When Jesus walks our world today It Is with words of lovs and sntloement for the weary and the penitent; and with biting, lashing words of scorn and condemnation for all who do disservice to mankind and dishonor to Qod, , iEVgJt SENTENCE SKRMOfcS Life is a progress snd not a station. Emerson. to The greatest ot. all faults Is os conscious of none. Carlyle. Let a man content ,W the uttermost for his life's set prise; The sin I imputs to sach frustrata ghost Is. the unlit lamp and the unglrt loin. Browning. Let a msn stand where he will, there is a chance to be and to do, ways without number of bearing the crosses of lovs and making Its sac rifices. Hamilton Mable. I was eyes to the blind, and feet' was I to the lame. Job :!. It matters not how deep Intrenched the wrong. How hard the battle goes, ths day how Innr- Feint not fight on! Tomorrow comes . ine song. ajauola D. Bsbcock. Do life's plain, common work as It romes. certain that dally bresd and dally duties are ths sweetest things' ol life. Stevenson, TVv Sjay A 'laT. J W t I I I I ' r I 1111 I 'V. sw- I f ft I 7. . 11 1 1 F JT A. . G if HT' g tor J. 1 aanKSfflvm mwm Just One Dollar Is All You'll Need Bear in mind that that is not a regular intUlbient house. It is buih up on an entirely new and mproved credit system. Only difference beween this and a cash store is that we allow you to dissolve your account by paying what you can spare each week or each pay day, while the cash store requires complete settlement in 30 days or the following month. IW r oWt mk paying a dollar or two do you? But it is not always convenient to settle the whole biU in in one payment, is it? 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