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BROOKLYN EAGLE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1944 Sermons Dr. Williams Stresses Thirst for Righteousness Thirsting after righteousness and I Is an Inexhaustible fountain which thirsting after liquor were com- will replenish every goblet and re- pared last night by the Rev. Dr. fill every longing heart. Mark Wayne Williams of the I Where Indeed may righteousness Greene Avenue Baptist Church, in be found? What system of eco- a sermon at the Bushwlck Avenue nomics guarantee Justice to even' Methodist Church, where he was a man? What philosophy discloses guest preacher.

infallible tolerance and equity of i. I I 1 Holds Realism Earns Religion Control Mind by Faith, Says Father Belford Woe to Man or Nation That Sets Heart On Pleasures, Boro Priest Declares Obedience is the core of religion, Monsignor John L. Bel-J assured his parishioners in a sermon yesterday at the C. Church of the Nativity. Monsignor Belford said, in part: Jurisprudence invariably discerns the true from the false and the right from the wrong? Thirst for Righteousness Shall I fill my cup from the old town pump at the old town hall? Shall I drink from the fountains of scholastic learning or the aqueducts of general culture? Shall nourish my soul on the dreams o.

is Utopias or the promises of Pharaseeism of religious cults? And surely today, with an the hole in which to hide, or a last 1 vear's birds' nest in which to rest her wing. Can we slake our thirst; ior rignteousness in me quiet Blessed are they that thirst for they shall be filled. Every day I pass taverns thronged with souls with parched gullets. My radio is constantly inviting me to drink somebody's beer or wine. Many of my acquaintances assiduously frequent cocktail parties, and entertain themselves with nights of liquid carousal.

slaked by si we should potations. drink the more vie want to drink. Spiritual Natures Coarsened The appetite grows rjy wnat it feeds on. And the more we drink. alas, the more besotted become our senses and the less efficient our nerves.

Men who should know- much better, educated men, professional men, cultured men, allow the cravings of these fleshly lusts to destroy the balance and perfection of their brains, to coarsen their spiritual natures and to fray out the texture of their characters. But blessed are they that thirst after righteousness. Their cup shall be running over In a day when righteousness seems very scarce, so tnat there can hardly be a sip apiece as we go around, my cup runneth over. Somewhere in the core of this universe there 600 Pray for Pope In Special Riles Stressing the love and loyalty of waters 01 our inwara meauation. AstOflO.

or In some coral island of enchant- ing peace? Alas, the Japanese have gobbled all the loveliness of plUtians Vet Killed the South Sea Islands and right- Off Cape Gloucester eousness has nowhere to rest her a veteran of the Aleutians. Leon-Pinions, ard Charles Kaufman, seaman, 1st In such a time, and amid similar class, of 40 Tapscott was killed trials, David of the thirsty heart in action off Cape Gloucester, New bent on eating, drinking and dancing? They destroyed themselves with their excesses. We are in the same path. That path leads to destruction. History is an open book.

The nations have written it. It tells us: BEWARE! What has happened to us will surefly befall you. Out of the ruins of Egypt. Babylon. Athens and Rome stalk the ghosts of grandeur, pride and pleasure.

They are the fruits of disobedience of the refusal to control and use the wonderful gifts which our God has lavished on us. They tell us that sin Is folly; sin is death. You may have years of pleasure and power, but the day will come when, like the stars, you shall fall; like grass, you shall wither. The only thing that lasts la the Lord and His Holy Will. Obey and you, too.

shall live. Defy Him and you shall perish. "Thy will be done" is the law of God. We say not "Thy" but "my." In that lies waste, failure and death. Read and hear what are advertised and portrayed food, clothes, plays, pictures, comforts, luxuries.

On these, our hearts are set. Yet, Christ tells us: "Be not solicitous (i.e. do not set your heart on) about what you shall eat or what you shall wear. After these things, the heathens seek." If we make the law of our life not "THY will but MINE be done." in effect, we say: "We will not have this Man to reign over us." WELDING SCHOOL TRAINEES At the welding school run oy U. S.

Steel's Federal Shipyard at Kearny, N. Thomas Cully of 294 Dumont Ave. and Clarence Pinder of 46 Halsey left to right, pick up their helmets and other equipment from Frank Barr of Jersey City, instructor. Students learn as much as possible about shipbuilding in their first 30 days at the yard and become graduate welders in the first week. IONT- eiman I nresirient of Israel, which will hold its 32d it UM 'vlarcn i-u or tne nurei waiOOrt Jan.

18, the Navv Denart- announced today. Kaufman 19 and had served 13 months in the His I prowes medals a P. S. Betore entering tne servi he was employed at the Brookl; Navy Yard. His brother-in-la I Goodwin Salkoff, entered the na iBEFRIGERATORi rnvmri atnviL Wri'ffen Guarantee )f 1 GfNERAl MOTORS I All MAKES SERVICE CHARGE I GlWre 5-7800 JAmaica 6-2358 Ml WE ALSO BUY REFRIGERATORS High Place in News "Religion in the News' was the subject of the Rev.

Karl M. Chworowsky sermon, yesterday, at the Platbush Unitarian Church. Mr. Chworowsky said, in part: Religion is very much in the news today; in fact, it may be said that religion never has been quite so much "news" as it is today. When we remember to what extent re ligious news forms the regular content of radio broadcast and press reports, we must grant that religious activity has today assumed the distinction of a "major interest," both in radio and in news Today, religion cannot, be Ignored because it refuses to be ignored; nor will it be satisfied with a minor role in popular attention.

Tire voices of churchmen and religious leaders today command large audiences among radio-listeners, and religious news fills the columns of not only church journals but also the secular press. In other words, religion is being rec ognized today for the tremendou: or disputed. One of the "religion in the hopeful signs of the unmistakable tendency towards realism apparent in religious thought and action of today. Yes, there is still much preoccupation with creed and dogma, still too much illusion regarding "Second Comings" and "pie in the sky by-and-i-'y," but by-and-large a healthy reaction toward practical things and a wholesome realization regarding the things of immediate import tnat. must be undertaken have gripped an ever-widening circle of church folk.

The prophetic voice is growing louder and more insistent in both pulpit and pew; ministers and laity are demanding that religion be ex-expressed in terms of real life, and the increasing number of plans for the postwar world and the growing number of those occupied with the details of a just peace and a better world go to prove that religion is today becoming for millions of the faith not simply a pretty formula for an indeterminate future, not simply a handy insurance policy, but above all things a better way of living here and now, a mode for improving human societv. for avoiding those horrors and tragedies that have brought such infinite misery upon mankind. Never before has the Church shown such earnestness and devotion in seeking what may be just ana rignteouf (. so eager to- study and plan for better day and to sacrifice and suffer for a nobler form of social living sought the Lord. "As the panteth after the waterbrooks I panteth my soul after thee, God 1 And in Hies desert he fourrd an oasis, amid the aridities of per- secution he found a spring, out i ot deprivation and loneliness and i loss he discovered the secret of a full and overflowing life.

His cup ran over. foreign missions committee of the Long Island Conference, director of the Brooklyn Lutheran Inner Mission Society, a member of the radio educational commission of the Brooklyn Federation of Churches and a member of the newly forced Protestant Council of New York. More than 100 alumni of the door classes of the Brooklyn Bo- tame Gardeas attended at the gardens. Rutherford Piatt, naturalist gave an illustrated lec ture on "Living Jewelry of the Winter Countryside." Dr. Arthur H.

Graves, curator of public con- of religion? If there is, how it appear? Religion is not a a rite or a philosophy. It is i life. The signs of life are action, movement, prod act ion. Does re- neet? Does it influence them try to live, speak and act as Ihey inow their Creator planned and seld of thought and action. They demand belief in a personal God, owe their existence His will the rule of life and conduct.

It pre scribes and forbids. For every law-there must be a sanction. It would be idle to command or prohibit if there were not a penalty for disobedience. Obedience is the one duty which no creature may shirk. The star that falls has left its path.

It blazes as it falls and, in its scattered grains of dust, warns us 'of the penalty we may have to pay if we stray or abuse our lives. Yet, Isaiah warns us: "We all, like sheep, have gone astray each one in his own way." The angels fell. Through pride, they refused to serve their Maker. In an instant, they lost the place which they were made to occupy in the love of God, and the peace that love creates. Man came into a world made for him by One who makes no mistakes.

God did not need man. His goodness impelled Him to produce an Intelligent and free being who could appreciate ana en.io and the and goodness He could and would But man. Like igels, At the Lord de- original justice I created, and of i he only used hi there wa no such thing as toil. pain, illness, death: no such thing as wratn or war 01 ji n. i and produce.

He sent him to use his talents and gifts to beautify th world to make men hairav and thus florifv the Creator of all. Are we doing this? Are our hearts set on ease, comfort and pleasure; are we. like the pagans. Value of Community Spirit Learned Anew in War, Is View neighborhood Pope, the Rev. Vincent Mele con-IIUO Stage Reunion rsernthrSflA' B' Garden, needed today more than before because of the conditions by hich he is surrounded.

Father Vincent delivered the sermon at a Holy Hour for the personal safetv of the Pope, conducted by the English branch of the Third Order of St. Francis in Our Lady of Peace Church, 522 Carroll St. At the meeting, attended by about the Litany ot tne baints The present us a new conception oi tne value oi co-operation, the Rev. Fred Robert Tiffany declared in a sermon at the Richmond Hill Baptist Church. Mr.

Tiffany said, in part: These are the days in which we are rediscovering the meaning of the word community. In order meet the needs of present emergency we have all learned anew the value of doing things together. And there has lustuiaoie priue within us all in feeling that our Jaffray Peterson Guest Preacher At John Street freedom are all wrong. We abuse w.n. com- t.

certain pleasures are good and useful. But that sets his heart on We control our furnaces, our machines, our cattle, our fields. Why not control our minds with faith and our hearts with charity? War Stamp Concert Mischa Mischakoff, violinist, wa; guest artjst another of the Brook- vn Museum series yesterday. Mr. Mischakoff.

who is concertmaster of the NBC Svrr.i'ii"!i- panied by Artur Balsaam at the piano. He played selections from Schubert, Bach, Mendelssohn and Kleisli 'Rev. Alphonse and two i DDAUA k. ft BtteLErH a uk An am 7 FULTON ST. at HOYT Farewell Given Lfi "quota" in some current drive.

And thus the local unit becomes agam a very necessary and important part of the total effort. In like manner we are rediscover-within these lin ger 'civic centers as the Church. We are learning what the early disciples knew that a church is not a building nor a temple nor a cathedral. But the Church is a corporate body of religious folk who have been drawn together by r.rr nt There is a danger arLsing in this new-found consciousness of community. That danger is found in the fact that the churches are not often the center and meeting Hence the new spirit may lack the steadying and unifying influence of the House of the Lord.

People may come through this period of tension and strain without giuuna ol common community in- lack the steadying6 fluence of the House of the Lord. ttBm" andnffymgn-j POStOf LedvinQ IMMg i'- mm ToBeChapla.n MMOT 2 jam ay reieraon, uwiie. iaj remembering hearty voice of The Rev. Paul R. Hoover, soon to 9 fltf T.

tor of the Bond Street Community the Church s.umu -Come, let us go begin training at the Chaplains I jgfca. 1 1 mfrkwi 7L Church, was guest preacher ye, tor- "to House of the Lord for this Nava, Tralnlng at William i 1 YA'Ws remembering the hearty voice of the Church saying. Come, let us go to the House of the Lord for this Labor School Meets Church. ahead that the Church is becoming Va. was given a farewell reception HjHL I 1 Cl I In K.

of C. Clubhouse Mr. Peterson In 'part! aware of her great challenge in this yesterday In the Lutheran Churrh VJ AJ-Ldt 1 jHE' i The Rev. Joseph Oberle direc'or 11 is surely fitting ot this time sad hour wherever men are suf- of the Reformation. 105 Barbey St.

V. TI aMF 1 of the s. Forum that we meet together for the high fering. representatives of the Mr. Hoover, pastor of the church sT wrf I Dtffc A TP and Labor School of Our Ladv of purpose of dedicating and re- Church are by their sides to share since November, 1935, will be com- k-T 1 I i II I mh WW Perpetual Help R.

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IW I Ave. and St conducted classes and our service to be a reasonable mc to a world. Wc are fol- Naval Reserve on completion ol his jlt 111 'in the Philip Sheridan Council holy and living sacrifice unto the lowing the Christ whocame. "Not to training course. I K.

of C. clubhouse yesterday. Lord our God. We need the be ministered unto but to minister Mr. Hoover has served as a U.

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representatives of the Church are by their sides that sufftrine. We are ing to a stricken world. We lowing the Chi 1st who. be ministered unto but to minister and to give His life for others.".