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Friday, March 6, 1925. THE FRANKLIN PRESS Page Three Church and It's Troubles From the beginning of the ages various refroms, innovations and changes have been attempted or made in every religion practically every year. In ancient days the reformers were given short shifts, if they came in the way of the ruling powers, the kmgs and priests; in the early history of many European nations the re ionricis were boiled in oil or their convictions removed in some other gentle manner and even in American colonies for a long time religion was not a matter of conviction but was merely the ideas of the head men of ihc fiate. But despite persecution, or maybe because of at, certain, men lave, from time to time, given their ideas into circulation and lived lorn; euoigh to make radical changes in existing forms. Among the most im portant of these men, from a histori cal religious standpoint, may be men tioned Luther, Calvin, Hess and Wes ley. Generally when all attempt to ; to stop the reformers or their re forms had 'failed,, a compromise was attempted and the original or parent body modified its views. But such compromises were " often for political reasons and everybody con cerned had their fingers crossed It ' other words nobody gave up one iota of his beliefs and never intended to permit others to maintain contrary views. And so religion wars without end devastated the world and even in this day and age the fanatics of all races take their toll of life. Our country was founded upon the rock of religious toleration to all and in spite of various and spasmodic at tempts to introduce 'religion into politics, we have repulsed most at tempts upon this form of independ ence. Also the several churches have uncrossed their, fingers so often and honestly compaed principles, that the ordinary run of men now begin to see that. the hedges about the various churches have been built up by man and that the only different be tween the Gods of the Chinaman Hindu, and Turk and the Christian creed is a little higher hedge built up by man's intolerance and lack of understanding his fellow. But altho he general public now begin to see the Higher Ideas in all religion yet certain ones in all churches are still slow in seeing the advantage of Church union and real toleration of another man's ideas. Or if they do see the advantage, they do not grasp it and permit a golden opportunity to pass.' It is true that in nearly all ' parts of America a series of Union Meetings are 'held every year and from that we may hope tor tne oetier. For in union there is strength. 'And -now for a few suggestions of the power for real good that a church mav have in anv community. For a crisis has been reached the oeonle are not satisfied with condi 11U113 as nicy aic iiuvv unvn-u, true Sacred places will be the moun tains , forests and highways. And never can man erect as wonderful a Temple "as may be found by any that wish to use them, the great wayside of the world which are not inclosed by mansfeeble attempts at architec ture. So let us hope that the church door will be no longer closed making it impossible, as it is now, for a poor sick man to die upon the very steps without aid when a very little might help many such. Rather make is pos sible, to fill the House with happy children, strangers and older people throughout the week. It can be done so why not today. And for an examole .of what has been done in other places and which mav try to follow no matter how small our means or membership. The First Presbyterian Church at New Castle Pennsylvania, built a $300,000 brownstonc church some time ago and drew up in the plans and built into the basement a rest , room, open day and night, with a janitor always pres ent, where ALL strangers could come at' any time find cooking facilities, bath, toilet, some cooking supplies and a warm welcome. And no matter how tramplike the stranger lokcd he was welcome. Also notices were placed in the hotels, Post Offices and all prominent places advising every one to come and be sure of a welcome Such an action was very unusual in a wealthy congregation and should not be condemned. Other churches ha,ve in various locaties, adopted the same irloa Tn Atlanta Georgia, there is such a plan either under way or under advisement. And now in closing, have you ever seen a Church where the congregation were more interested in the building their individual plans or dresses than in tnp children and growing boysr Children require happiness, joys and play. As starved children will search the gutter for food so will the joy starved children seek the saloon or its equivolent unless we build up a constructive, helpful program for them within the home church. Even a church could have a Boy's Club in its midst and pay more attention to our own children and let the heathern alone for a while, if necessary Let us remember that we were red-blooded animals ourselves when we were young and so look at the ambition of he younger people in the reflected lipht of our own early days And cer tainly we air had r,ed blood at. one time in our life. X-Ray Sermons Lecturer Found 'Chautauqua Lecturer found: It ha vine come to our notice that some voting person or persons, k engaged in giv- '. . tt '"'"P vv":v" Ic-.i nnA fV.otn .tr an Sooev and other classes ol me otmim suiuui ..... ...v... . e Let's Boost the Sunday Schools. "Sow a thought and you reap an act, . Sow an act and you reap-a habit, Sow a habit and you reap a life,' Sow a life and you reap a destiny." . If we wish to lay the foundation upon which we, can build good busi ness, good government, ' and good social conditions, we must put noble thoughts into the chief place in the hearts of the children around us. We have no more right to allow the 'ris ing' generation to fill their minds with trash than we have to allow them to eat poison. . The Sunday school should be the chief means for leading the little one to form the leading, the little ones' to form the habit . of thinking , continually of worth while things. This being so the greatest work that any person can do is to car-ry on the work for which he is best fitted in the Sunday school nearest him. ' Who should go' to Sunday school? The answer is that parents should go and take their children with them. And when they 'are assembled at the church, they should do, something more than to listen at one of their number say a formal prayer and then plod in dead-headed way through the school should be a gathering of earn est men, women, and children, who should sincerely study with the defi nite purpose of learning about their Savior and the way of life. Lessons should Le made s vitally interest ing as possible, and there should not be either nonsense or an artificial solemnity that will freeze the life of the work. And when we have gone to Stvday school and made a proper study , of the lesson, still, we have done but part of our duty. We should be tremendously interested in getting others to attend. "Go out in the high ways and hedges an dcompel them to come." Who knows when some boy or ?,r may be saved from a life of failure and shame and made into a valuable ditizen just by bringing the influence of a good Sunday school in to the boy's or girl's life at sjme criti cal ntned? After the multitude hv; been fed, Christ commanded that the vprv fragments of food should be picked up and that nothing should be lost. Are there . not in your neigh borhood some fragments of human itysome persons whose souls have been crippled and warped by sin, whom you might lead' to attend church services? . Why not appoint a committee from each class in, your reform - is necessary even if the formers receive the usual old treatment DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS in "ROBIN HOOD" Eight Centiiries Brushed Aside by Camera Lens . it Robin Hood and his merry crew who took from the rich to aid the poor, 'his love for sweet. Maid Marian ; Sherwood Forest .. and Nottingham Town; Friar Tuck and Little John with their staffs and cudgels-1 all etched out of the dim past and made to live again! Towering battlements with turrets seeming to cut the sky; great castles of gaint kings, with their moats and drawbridges drawn across the span of 800 years and set before eyes of to-day! The great Fairbanks as bandit chief yet su preme in the role of romantic lover! This Great Picture will be shown The nights of March 16th, 17th and 18th at 7:30P.M. IDLE HOUR THEATRE Adimission: Adults, 50 cents Children 25 cents Our Country Still Best "Big Bill" Haywood would rather come to'America and face prison than to stay in the communistic Russia of his muddled dreams. Emma Gold man. Sick at heart nvpr thp failure of the soviet oligarchy to give or even dream a people's government, wants to come "home" to the land she said' she despised Theodore Pet rofif, a vulgar swindler caught in Wisconsin, pleads for life imprison ment in this country rather than de poration and freedom in Russia. Only the blind man will say that everything is "all right' in Our Coun try. There are many thing that need fixing; thing that need the gold en rule and the rule of common sense and the teaching of experience. But it is still the 'best country. It can be made still better when more real ize this in the same sense that any soverign realizes the responsibility for the charge committed to his care. More active participation in every public move, and intelligent vote in every primary a realization that every broken law is a personal assult on the national life would greatly improve social and political . condi tions in Our Country. Manufacturer. re- local High School, pertaining to the to the home of all who are staying Vime general subject of Forestry and sped- away from services and invite them fically taking up Fire Prevention and I In join you in Sunday school work ? MiSou's toleration what a bleswl Siipression, and fearing that evil Why not try to get every person ... ordlrowTitifa'bnsei To JnM resui, ..herefrom- , U and instant and complete investiga- a ionic depart me ti6n was mide by our Supervisor, with ( "shut in . Wh the result that the culprit was found wor become a real power for good the Christian people of the world must unite, if not in one vast union then at least in spirit and mutual help. Union Meetings, Union Spirit and United Churches with a tolerant re gard for the forms and fa.ds.of the faith of others will induce a Christ like spirit throughout the land. Real consideration for the Cods of the so called heathen, . who no doubt be- . lieves in another world only in an other way. and in different forms. Above all let us be Tolerant. Smiles for everybody, charity to all in our thoughts, friendship and good feeling toward-others and a practice mi Christianity as well as the reading of it, will help us to be tolerant of il Cx tUn fVin rnmmprrtiil Ulm'ia. ju wiiv.ii n.v v....... . traveler comes to town or the farmer Lov walks the streets they will not feel ihat our town is compose 1 of cold suspicious inhabitants. Qur police force is good and can da flU'tt of the Mierlock Holmes worK wnncu: assistance. So as some popu!ar auth or has it 'Smile, damn you, smile,' and you vvil feel better. Where are gone the good old churches socials, picnics and parties where everybody met, strangers were welcome and nobody was sad. .Go:ps fcoing, gone. The Lord did not in tend for 11s to be unhappy and K is not recessi-ry to commercialize su'-h affairs to make money for this ?.nd . tnat. .Is it because wf don't want to "become acquainted" would rather go' to the rrcvie or because we a,'.: o busy that we cannot stoo for a f , rPivites peaceful rcrer.tio.i. ihc picnic can bt made iatcfj ;t.iiir"crog!i ii'.id ve ?t convinced tlvit i: wi'l bi snappy we will corn-:. v;au e:uer.vn ments of this kind be made interest ing enough for the present genera tion? Will 'a Christian people say that it can't be done? "And wouldn't it be worth while? . It is reported that certain churches have opened their doors -throughout the week, to civic and community or ganizations. And in these cases, what are the places of God being used for? Not for so-called sacred purposes, certainly not. They are used for the instruction of children, education of' the people and training of the body that covers a possible Christian' sou!. Some Houses are being , used1 as a 'gathering place for . the poor, homfc les and hungry: And are not the above deeds that Christ would have done? Some may claim .that this is profan ing the House of God but Christ taught and labored more often on the highways and byways and so chose his audience whereever it could bp founds If ,.w consider the Temple of God to be the place where Hi Word js, or can be taught, then indeed the and sentenced to take the position of Lecturer Extraordinary of the Nan tahala Forest, to operate in the For ests thereof in North Carolina South Carolina, and Georgia. . The truth must out Thomas W. Alexander, Jr. Forester has been discovered. His first lecture was before the Science Class and he -was allotted the full period one hour. Later investi gations showed that he spent full time-and that he covered( only half of Fire Prevention. Being'"ambitious and more especially not wanting to lose the best part of his oration on the desert air, he asked for permission to speak before theBiology Class next day. So next day he would up and sidetrack Fire Prevention in favor of his favorites Fire Prevention and then tried to act surprised when the bell rang for 1011. It was while Alex was begging 'for the class in Basket ball in which he is a star, of the first magnitude, that the Supervisor found him out and compromised with the Student Body by allowing him to orate one hour a week before Stu dent Assembly. Nor is this all Even the churches haye been disrupted. The young people pleaded so earnestly for him prayer and collection, and he. talked so long and earnestly that they for that he was given-a place bcl ween got the, collection I don t know what would have happened to prayer it he had started first. It; is too early to know the full returns,; but we sus pect that Farmers Association and Park Commission have both asked for his services. If anyone wants to see Alexander now on real .business t is necessary to' push away an. ad miring circle of longwhiskercd gents and admiring children, tap him on the shoulder to stop his .train of thought for a moment and shout the password "Fire." and watch him then make a start for his trusty knapsack. n an aid to his admirers in tuning cut for those who are v not send flowers tx more valuable gifts from your Sunday school to sick persons in thei'; homes- and to those who arc in jails utir1 nnnrhnuses? 'Christ, would do such things and if you would be like . Him you must , do things different I fro mwhat are done by most people. , in" on these outbursts of wisdom the Supervisor-has ordered a lantern and and one thousands slides: It may be necessary lb erect a broadcasting station with call letters F I R El. Nov maybe yo uthink I am spoof ing you. Well you just wait until you see him on the Chautauqua plat form,, take it from me.B. B. B. Ser vice Mulletin U. S. Forest Service. Sleepiness Elusive. Sleepiness is such an elusive func tion that it visits-you in your evej ning chair, but flees as soon as bed time arrives. Learning More Words While some teachers seem to think that the present fad of cross word puzzles is not specially beneficial from the educational point of view, it would seem as if it should help many people to learn more words and enlarge their vocabulary. ' The complaint is often made that many people know so very few words Authorities on language reports that a great many of them know only a narrow range of .cydinary terms by which they make their daily wants known, and engage in conservation on a very ' simple basis. But when it comes to expressions conveying the finer shades of meaning, they are hopelessly lost. If such people set out to read come informative 'article, or the discussion of some-political subject, they are confronted by a Jarge unmber of words that are unfamiliar to them. They losc the thread of the argument, and arc likely to tutTi wack to some very simple article or story that shall be within, their reach. One would think cross-word puz zles might have some effect to wake these people up to the value of words and know the meaning of more of them, so that discussion of import ance sujects should not seem so for midable to them. Many complaints have been made because so many people are unable to spell correctly, so that they appear tornnrant and .uninformed. But in- .ability to understand the . meaning of, words is a still more serious taint. An intelligent person who is able to iifke an influential part in progressive movements, may be a poor speller. Meanwhile some good spellers have a narrow range of interests. The modern schools are doing much to increase the knowledge ptXwords, by their efforts to have their pupils form the habit of reading general lit erature, through which their familiar ity with words is increased. SAVE $10,00 TO $18 00 The International Tailoring- Company offers about 135 different swatches from which you can select 'a pattern for your tailored to measure suit of clothes at less than the suit will cost and EXTRA PANTS FREE. - , This is an opportunity to the nian who cares to. buy a good .suit and save money. -,'-. 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