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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 6. 1923. Good Vacation Sermons by Drs. Winans, Macfadyen, West, McKeehan Christ the Fountain of Life by The Rev.

William S. If mans 4A What Europe Expects From America and Why The Death of Moses by 0 The Rev. Dr. E. P.

West Rational and Irrational Strife by The Rev. Hobart D. McKeehan, B.D., S.T.M. by The Rev. Dr.

Dagald Macfaiyen, M.A. scholars and singers, pathfinders and spiritual apprehension. But the spiritual faculties ara dulled by alu that man cannot percelvsj God. Hence his utter Indifference to spiritual things. "The natural man dls-cerneth not the things of the spirit." Therefore, God can only be known to man by revelation.

II. God the Only Fountain of Life. We have God revealed, then, as the "Fountain," the Origin, the Author of spiritual as well as physical life. And He Is the only fountain of life. True, there are other religions in the world beside that unfolded to us through Revelation.

But should we trace them to their or ew chief executive to kill the old one. Greece: Great traditions, fine impulses, great promises, meagre performances; unable to trust any one, least of all themselves; a reed that will break the hand of any one who leans on It. Poland: Vigorous, highly temperamental, artistic, apt to be quarrelsome because it has been three times divided among its enemies In- one century. Just as ham and eggs "belong together so do the Poles and trouble. Denmark: Home of agricultural co-operation; afraid to do much lest she should lose her Independence.

Finland: A people miraculously liberated from thraldom three million free men hating Russia like the devil; possibly with a chip on its shoulders. Switzerland: As always a democracy of hotelkeepers, content to remain the playground of Europe. Latvia, Eslhonla, Lithuania: Small, primitive republics, desiring to be on tho and yet remains fully Justifiable. Our international, economic and political life has been controlled by the spirit of Caesar rather than by the spirit of Christ. And on every hand the friends of the Carpenter of Nazareth aro beiypning to arise and to shout in tones of thunder: "Ye shall not henceforth crucify mankind upon a cross of gold, neither shall you build your colossal fortunes upon the sweat and blood of unpaid labor!" But, however sublime that cry Is, however Christ-like the motive which gives it utterance, it still Is not enough.

Tht young students I have been meet-Ing seem acutely Interested in immortality. And I am able to appreciate their anxious Interest. Men who really think are coming to see that, however good this world can be made. It will not be good enough! For even though, the Kingdom of Heaven should descend upon earth, man carries within himself certain aspirations which Insiut that his conscious enjoyment of that Kingdom shall not be limited within the narrow confines of mortal existence. And this, after all, Is the ultimata purpose of the perpetual conflict which we bellevo Is rational.

Would there, indeed, bo any value in the long and painful struggle if, at thn last, the soul is to suffer annihilation? Would there be any real happiness- extract from a sermou on "Rational and Irrational Strife," by the Rev. Hobart D. McKeehan, delivered at Oxford Univer sity, which elicited much comment In England, Is herewith given to the readers of The Eagle. The preacher, who Is pastor of St. Paul's Church, Dallastown, is well known In Brooklyn and has previously contributed to sermon pages.

Dr. McKeehan said: Perpetual war, the struggle be tween body and soul, hand and brain, is truly the underlying theme of human history. But there exists a radical difference between what 1 have defined as rational and Irrational strife. The strife between tho hand and the brain, between the eater and the thinker, Is rational. To the Christian thinker it is desirable, it is inevitable, desirable and explicable.

The entire cosmic evolution running through aeons, ages and eras, quite as well as through individual and social experience, was purposed, we believe, to lead up tj and through this struggle between the soul and the body. And It is In this warfare that the victory or defeat of civilization will be decided. For tho saint and scholar the struggle Is painful and at times disheartening. Ever since the rise of me-chanical art and science, roughly speaking, during the last 300 years, the hand of man has apparently been in the ascendency over the brain of man, while the soul has had to struggle unto death simply to keep even with the body. Idealism has ofttimes been orphaned while materialism became the source of human ambitions.

And today the unspeakable conditions of many countries, the dizzy feeling of many peoples and the unreasoned courses being taken by a great portion of civilized races constitute an example of the hand getting the better of the brain and of the eater triumphing over the thinker. Fortunately, however, for our. hope and inspiration ancestral voices whisper from the yesteryears and tell us of times when the soul did all but conquer the body. This was true, I believe. In the Age Pericles, at the birth of Christianity, during the.

Renaissance and, to a certain extent, In Elizabethan England, Irrational Strife Today. Today, however, we are mostly accustomed to irrational warfare, personified in military conflicts. Such warfare, I need not argue, cannot lie Justified either by a pagan or a Chris tian etnic. There are, of course, panegyrists of war who Insist that "without a periodical bleeding a race decays' and loses its manhood." Nevertheless, history is directly opposed to this shameless assertion and confutes it at every point. For what I have called rational warfare can be Justified by Its aims and end: whereas military warfare sounds the death knell in advance of every holy ideal and end toward which man's higher nature has been agelessly striving.

Military warfare wastes a nation's wealth, lmprlsons-its sympathies, shatters its happiness, outrages its religion, destroys the flower of its manhood, leaves tho physically and mentally defective to breed the next generation and condemns it to be governed by the good pleasure of ruthless adventurers, who, to enhance their own vested Interests, even at th own o. I. I ins war useii. Historical Seqncls of War. Internecine war exterminated the Greek and Italian aristocracies and thereby set back by many centuries the intellectual development of the race.

One of the unhappy results of this fact has been well noted by Mr. Sautayana when he says: "Instead of being descended from heroes, modern nations are. descended from slaves, and it is not their bodies only that show it." Verily if war is "the mother of courage" and I mean by war any kind of military conquest then it must follow that debauchery and vice are the parents of love! Indeed, your own beloved Viscount Bryce placed a library of wisdom in one sentence when he said: "If we do not destroy war, war win uescroy us. And what nations, mav I ask. are to accomplish the task of neaee if not the nations of the English luiigue tngianej ajia America Be fore us lies the golden opportunity, we can destroy war if we will.

In tranition, in literature, in religion and In blood the most elemental and decisive factors in human life ana nistory in these, I say, England and America are one. I am not, nowever, pronouncing any eulogy upon America. I fully appreciate the criticism which my urunani inena, yrox. Gilbert Mur ray, offered yesterday as we walked the terraces together. He said that America is too gladly admit that, in relation to the League of Nations, of which Professor Murray Is the British president, his criticism is perhaps true and jusi.

ievertneless as an Ambassa dor of good-will from the great Re public of the West, I ask you to remember two facts: First, that it is difficult for America to understand Europe desire for a League of Na tions. And it will remain difficult so long as European nations continue to beg food and clothing with one hand while at the same time they continue to carry the unsheathed sword of war In the other! Moreover, I want to affirm In behalf of my native land that the course America has taken tn the past has not always been a selfish one. When the Ideals and Institutions which Britishers so dearly love were being threatened, Amorlca proved herself to be your friend, the friend of your friends, and the enemy of your enemies! I said a moment ago that the struggle between body and soul Is desirable. It is desirable simply because it may be toward ethical ends. It can be made to be come tho purveyor of civilizing Influences hy causing the ideal of the struggle to be excellence rnther than power.

Its needed strength must be acquired not through the destruction of the lives of tho weak, but through the bearing of the burdens of the weak. A number of eminent Englishmen have written a volume entitled ''The Coming Renais sance." I am impressed with th-j optimism and Joyous expectancy they seem to entertain. And yet, upon closing the book, I am Inclined to feel that they have not fully considered the fact thai prog. ress Is thn child of pain and that nations like Individuals save their lives only when they are once willing to loso them. Trend of Religious Thought.

I am not contending, however. that It Is desirable for the mind of man to gain Its victory In this war fare hy crushing the body, am simply nppeullng for the eater In man to bo kept In abeyance hy the thinker In man. I am pleading that the soul must be kept In ascendancy over the body. And this anticipates what I am coming to feel will be the center of religious Interests In the next generation. In our dny Ih religious Interest has heen centered upon the life that now Is.

The crv has been for a more Christian social order. And this demand has been 11 the Baptist Temple, 1 Brooklyn, the Rev. Dr. E. P.

West, a noted Southern preacher, pastor of the Baptist Temple, Houston, occupied the pulpit yesterday. He preached In the morning on "The Death of Moses." The text was from Deuteronomy "So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, according tc the word of the Lord." Dr. West said: Moses stands pre-eminent in a solitary and uncontested greatness. Viewed from whatever angle, he looms upon the horizon of history as a mighty man. Moses as a legislator gave the world its highest code of laws; as a soldier he shlnea with a military brilliance brlghtei than Cyrus, Xerxes, Hannibal, Alexander or Caesar; as a scholar and seer he takes first rank in all ages; as a poet he lives amid the undlmmtng beauty of his undying poems and psalms; as a humanitarian he stands beside the world's greatest philan thropists; as a Prophet of God his message still burns with revolutionary fire, proclaiming the everlast Ingness of the law and kingdom of Uod as applicable to the 20(h century as to ancient Israel; as a statesman and natlon-bulldcr he.

leads the world. Moses came to the rescue of his people at a time when Israel had been so long subjugated and enslaved that the very sentiment of nationality had gone down and the hope of deliverance had died. Un aided by any powerful personage. mocked by the very race for whom he tolled, Moses succeeded In the most tremendous and hopeless task ever attempted by man. He fanned the dying embers until the fire of national hope was rekindled, col lectea the scattered units of a crushed people Into an Invincible confederacy, achieved their liberty, shaped a mob into an army, an army into a nation, imbued them with spirit, vision, glorious Ideals, and lastly built them up into a nation so powerful and peculiar that 4,000 years pass away, with all their tn.

finite vicissitudes, and, behold, the Jew is still what Moses made him In all history there Is no record so wonderful as this, and among the sons of men there has not been one greater than Moses. Death and Burial of Moses. Our text Invites a glimpse of tho death and burial 'of Moses on Ne bo's lonely height. It was fitting that such a life should end as It end on the heights with God! The simplicity of the description of the death of Moses Is only equaled by tne sublimity of the conception. This death casts a soft light upon God's providence, dispensatlonal truth, and the solemn questions of the soul, in whose rays wo may walK with calmness and confidence.

"Moses died." "Wherefore, as by one man, sin entered Into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men." To human wisdom, these are cruol words, and there is inconsistency in tho death of the great and good. Our rebellious nttltude toward death is a relic of paganism. Death comes In obedience to the will of God. The heavy hand of the grim reaper is no respecter of persons. The hoast of heraldry, the pomp of power.

All that life, all that bi-nuty e'er gave, Await alike tho Inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead hut to the grave. "Moses died according to the word of the Lord." This sublime fact obliterates the gloomy doctrine of fatalism. The omniscient Creator of the universe is the Loving Father and the divine arbiter of the eternal destinies of His children. Man was not created godlike and then net adrift on the sea of life, to be tossed by the waves of chance, driven by the wild winds of fatalism, and finally wrecked on the bleak shores of everlasting night. Unbelief snys "Death rohs us," "Death Is the king of terrors." "Death ends all," while the triumphant faith of the Christian shouts "To die is gain," "Oh! death, where Is thy sting? Oh! grave, where is thy victory?" Thou wilt not leave us In the Thou madcat man, he knows not why, He thinks ho was not made tn die.

And Thou has made lilm, Thou art Just. Moses died amid his unfinished work and unrealized ideals. The deliverance of Israel was consummated under another leader. Only with his eye did Moses behold the land of Canaan, the promised land of his nearest dreams, upon whoso rich end friendly shores he was never to make a track. It seems the cruel mockery of fate.

What brought about this bitter disappointment? Hack at Kadrah, God commanded Moses to speak to the rock, that water might come for'h. But the strain of Israel's Impatience was so severe upon their great leader that he rashly smites the rock with his staff as If man could help or hasten the promises of God! It was but one act, but. It blighted the flower of a noble life, and shut off the one soul whose unfaltering faith had sustained the responsibilities of the lixodus with unflinching fortitude, from the reward that seemed so nearly within Its grasp. As di-d Moses, so die we all! When Perfection Comes. These aspiring souls of ours will never come to perfection of hope, tranquil bliss and complete satisfac tion wnue we tabernacle in the flesh.

What a commentary upon the in sufficiency of time is the unfinished work man leaves In his pathway! And what an argument for tho end lees life beyond! For the Infinite time to he! It Is Just because, doen down in their hearts, men have been sure of this "Infinite time" that they have addressed themselves to tasks which they knew they could never in their enrthly life accomplish, and nave set ideals before themselves to which they knew they could not at tain within the limits of their mortal years. That Is the great truth Browning teaches In his "Grammar ian's Funeral." There he depicts a scnoiar. eieaej rrom the wain down. tolling at an Infinite task with the fine leisure that comes from know Ing he has all eternity to work in; cithers mistrust and say Rut tlma escapes I.lvo now or never! He said. What's time? Leave Now for doss and apes, Man hns forever.

Moses died hut his works live sifter him. There Is no such thing ss annihilation. The waves of Infiu ence set going by human life sweep on ni II they wash the uttermost -hores of eternity. The most solemn fact of life Is Its deathless Infiu ence. The scientists tell of stars.

dead ages ago. whose light Mill streams upon this plant. Life and 'ovc are i.nmortnl. Mom-s Stills Lives. Is Moses dead? He speaks with trumpet voice around the world 'odny; his law In rtlll the essence and Insplrr-tlon of all law; his ethics tire unsurpnssed save only hy the Sermon nn the Mount: his name I nnnnymous of all the heroic virtues tnnt make life generally worth llv Inc.

Service nnd sacrifice ler others Mary with her nla hsAter box and Dnrena with he needle still fill th world with frag ranca. Th poets tad patriots. EE ilT the union services of the Tompkins Avenue and Central Congregational Churches, held tn Central Church yesterday morning, the preacher was the Rev. William S. Winans.

assistant to the Hev. Dr. 6. Parkes Cadman. Mr.

Winans, us a prelude to his sermon, paid this tribute to the dead President: Stunned by the sudden passage of our '-beloved President, Warren Gamaliel Harding, the people of this great nation are called upon today to say in the midst of their tears: "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken. away, blessed be the name of the Lord." A. man In a lofty place is al-waysthe gift of God, and certainly such was Warren Gamaliel Harding, the- 29th President of these United States. He brought to the great office to which his follow citizens exalted him all those qualities of gen tleness and goodness which had ever characterized him. Without pretense or show he walked humhly with God.

and he was not. for God took him. A devout Christian, he proved hlmstlf sincere and true In very experience of life. He. so held to "standards of Justice and right amoug hlu fellows in business and in political life that he won their respect, confidence and love, even though they were his opponents.

He embodied Integrity in every action. He was Intensely an Amencan pa. trlot yet with vision and purpose broad enough to lend a friendly hand to a distressed world, and urge and plan for the day of the reign of justice and law in the establishment of peace throughout the earth. He was a man whose courtly r.d gentlemanly manners, whose distinguished and dignified appearance deeply impressed those who heard his public utterances and those who met him in social life. Yet, withal.

was a man among men a man of the soil. He loved the activities and associations of vigorous, outdoor life, and In them endeared hlm-solMo all his comrades. He was a man's man. Hi's entire career 13 another proof that in America today any poor hoy. even the poorest, who, by dint of persevering toil, unfaltering pur-rose, noble ambition and Christian integrity, devotes himself to a lofty ideal, may rise to a position where he will command the respect and confidence of all who know him.

and; mayhap, to responsible position and honor In the State or nation. li another example, which might be'1 raultipl'ed by a million, of an ordinarily endowed American citizen who, thrust out Into a position of vast-t responsibility, takes on the proportions of greatness as he skillfully' meets the exigencies and dls-cln- g- the duties of high office. Thank God for such Americans, ton of the common soil. 'nd- while we mourn the loss of beloved brother and whom we can but regard as 8 martyr of duty, we offer thanks-riving to Go-1 that He has raised Jo take the1 fallen leader's r-lace P'-o: her President of stalwart of unflinching rour a -is. cf sterling integrity and patriotic devotion.

When Lincoln fell, rutVJd standing at Wall and Broad snld "God reigns, and the Government at Washington still 8'airdfl." Half-mast th (lass throughout tha land. O'er city, plain nnd mountain had; In snmhre Brief the millions itmd-, "ur kingly President Is de-adl He -Imbed from poverty to fama, 3-- manly deeds, by honest toil! At no'v revere his name. Artl hush apace their mad turmoil. A --a-e'man. t'hrtailan.

brother, friend his of every birth: a rove to make all efforts tend 1o bring th day of Peace on earth. T) all the problems of his time joy was whole life to live; at mnnhood'a useful prime, i'tpi1 flt or.ee to work andnlve." Vf irtifd are the statesman's plans But In our snef we know G'i 's C'overnment forever stands, T-ougli Preside met may ome and go. -Mr. Winans' sermon subject was, "Christ the Fountain of Life." Th ::1 were from Psalms, "V'tfh thee is the fountain of life;" er Jelin. "I am the life." Ho tnVlf- problen of the "Origin of Lite" has staggered thoughtful and investigating minds In all the ages.

Whr'nce came we? has been their repeated cry; and with earnest they have endeavored to find some folution of the problem, some anA to the question, some penetration Into the enigmatical darkness rurrounrllng the beginnings of life. From earliest times, when men first begryj. their investigations, to the prisvtt day, there has been a clearly recognized gradation of structural' life from the lowest to the. highest forms ascent from microscopic forms through all the grades and varieties of form up to the most complicated, from the cell-. life of protoplasm lo man, the verv apex and crown cf creation.

Building upon this evidence of gradation In phsirul structure science has prstuhMed the theory of the evolution, usually called "The Darwinian Theory of Evolution." Just at this juncture this theory is receiving large consideration at the hands of some of our State legislatures, where theological statesmanshln Is at premium, us well as in some wordy conventions and on some windy platforms. Scientific men have muds repeater) at'empts to prov that life came. Into the world by spontaneous gen (ration, l'nder the most careful and painstaking circumstances, with every possible or conceivable inter, ferlng eiiuse rclcntlflcally eliminated nnd under the most fnvor.ihle and complete preparations that man could make, these experiments have heen conducted. And the verdict rendered by science, after these sue eessfnlly completed experiments have heen made, is: To produce life. life must precf de.

That is, lire car. not originate Its- 'f In matter, tn other word, the origin of life In th world Is from out.dde the world. Oricln of l.lfo, God. The origin of life In the world God, But man, lis the very rrowi of life In the world, Is more than material phvslcul entity; he is a spiritual he Int. and spirit life lr than natural or material lire If material physical life demand God is lis orlrtin.

how much mor and greater the demand for God as th Author or uai lire? Vet here we lire hrought face to fr.ee with th fact of man felt and acknowledged ronsi iousness of splr t'ial dat In the fact of human sin Whence, then, can come splruna HfeMn this cord tlon of death? fan the-elejd rn'se th" dead? "Who can bring clean thln-r out of an ur riojtm "Cii-i th- Kthloplan chang Vls-fklll. or the ltopnrd his Con life ever com-' from death? Nfty, the power to Impart splr life must come from outdid the spl'ltuiillv di n-l It enn come onljl from ti-vi. But God not evident to the sensen He Is hidden from marl, f.ml mun be found out through I AS so prophets of the yesteryear have all entered Into rest, but their works live after them in an immortality that forever lends dignity and charm to life and I close by reminding you that, though he did not finish his work on earth nor realize all his dreams, Moses died triumphantly. From the height of Pisgah he surveyed the landscape and swept through the gates of the heavenly Canaan Into he land of unending day. The Christian's crowning day Is the day of his departure from earth.

So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there In the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And he buried him there in a valley in tne land of Moab, over against Beth-jeor; but no man knoweth of his sepulcher unto this daj. In that deep grave without a nam, Whence his uncofllned clay Shall break again most wondrous thought, Before the Judgment day, And stand with glory wrapped around On the hlUa ha never trod, And speak of the strife that won our life With the lncarusta Son of Ood. Ol' lonely tomb In Moan's land, dark Bethpeor's hill, E-'peak to these curious -hearts of ours, And teach them to still, Ond hath His mysteries of graces Ways that we cannot He hides them deep Ilka the secret sleep Of Him He loved so well." FOREIGN METHODIST CAINS Results In the foreign field after three years of Centenary expansion of the Methodist Episcopal Church for which $100,000,000 was pledged by the membership for a five-year period beginning in' If 19, have been tabulated by the Board of Foreign Missions of the denomination and Just received at Methodist headquarters In Chicago. Figures covering the increase In all branches of the church's work were Issued by the Committee on Conservation and Advance, which li Intrusted with the collection of the funds subscribed.

Dr. R. J. Wade, formerly area secretary of the Chicago Area, is secretary of the committee. An increase of 80,619 new members, is reported, 87.405 new Sunday School pupils, new students in Methodist schools of all grades, 6,476 native-workers' added to the missionary staff, 640 new missionaries engaged In the three hi.anr.hat rtt mlialnn alimQ.

t0nal and medical; 612 buildings erected or properties purchased for churches and schools, 621 new mis sionary homes and parsonages, 36 buildings or properties acquired for medical work, 1,313 new Sunday Schools an Increase of (1,870,901 In the annual giving. of native Christians for self-support is reported and an increase of $9,869, 699 in the estimated value of all mission property abroad, total of which is now 124.840.072. These figures do not Include those of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society, which Is operated as a separate organization within the denomlna- Ion and specializes on the needs of women on the foreign CHURCH BUILDING ACTIVITY At the time of the meeting: of the National Council of Congregational Churches In Springfield, Oct, 16 to 23, Dr. James Robert Smith, secretary of the Congregational Church Building Society, will report the most prosperous two years in Its history. This society is.

in fact, doing th work' of a great construction company, for In every week in the year it helps build two churches and in every ten days of the year It helps complete a parsonage. The society reports receipts of $1,220,000. This money has been used in com pleting 30o buildings for religious purposes, located in villages, towns and cities In all parts of the coun try. The Church Building Society has expressed the fellowship of the churches to many new Americans who have come from other lands to make their homes In this country. Six hundred and eight Congrega tional churches worship in other tongues than English 20 different languages.

The present generation Is too unfamiliar with English to use It in a church service and for the present the worship must be In Finnish, German, Spanish or other languages. The society is helping build churches for Mexican, Finnish, Gorman, Slovak and Italian congre gations. A Great Methodist Church The 69th session of the Rock River Conference of the Methodist Enlsco- pal Church will be the first official meeting to be held in the auditor ium of -the First M. E. Church, or Chicago Temple, on Oct.

3. This was definitely decided at a recent meeting of the Board of Blahoos. Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Chi cago will preside. The election of ministerial and lay delegates to the General Conference, which meets at Springfield, May 1. 1924.

will make the first official meetings In the Chicago Temple auditorium of special interest to Chicago and Till nois Methodists In particular, and to Motnoaisis tnroughout the States In general. The cost of the complete building nnd church furnishings repre-sents an expenditure of more than 3.1 "0,000. The cost of purchasing tne aojoining property, the original site of the church, which was needed lo give an adequate ground floor auditorium, amounts to 1750,000. The value of the original site was (2. bud, ono.

a total value In the build Ing of 16.469.000. From the Cen-tcnary funds $100,000 have been an plied to the purchase of the 60 feet additional ground that wrfa neces sary, adjoining tho original church sue. Moody Institute Graduates. The Moody Blhlo Institute of Chi cago will graduate the first class In Its recently added pastor's course on Frldny, Aug. 3.

Hundreds of stu-dents have gone out from the lnstl-tute (0 be ordained as ministers and sslonarlea. but this will he thn first class to receive the equivalent of a theological seminary training. The baccalaureate sermon was preached yesterday by the dean of the Insti tute, the nev. Dr. James M.

Gray. Virgil K. Snulhb and Harold Lund- qulst will be the speakers at the class exercises to be held on Aug. 8. Mr.

Snulhb Is a gradunte of the pracllcni Business onege of Cambridge, Ohio, while Mr. Lundqulsl received thn de. pre of bachelor of laws from the University of Minnesota, prior to a year worn in in Princeton Theo logical Somlnaxy. HE Rev. Dugald Macfad-yen, M.A., Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Oxford, London and Letchworth, England, preached in the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church on the subject, "What Europe Expects from America and Why," taking as his text Luke xii 48 "To whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required." Dr.

Macfadyen snld: The germ parables in this chapter are a series of snapshots. at disciple-ship, meant to bring out the disciple's attitude to life and his way of living. The first is a picture of human life governed by a dominant motive. Servants are waiting for their lord, who may be at the marriage feast for one or two of three they never know which moment will be the crucial one when he will come. They must be always ready, loins girt and lamps burning.

I have seen this mental attitude when a whole army was waiting for the zero hour, the moment when they were to go over the top. I have seen it when troops were on the march or in billets, on the alert for the order to go forward which might come at any moment of the dav 0-nlght. They wanted no superfluous baggage, on ono occasion leaving with me several cases of whisky. They learned to subordinate all personal considerations to the dominant motive, one thousht only, duty first. The next picture Is of a householder, probably an old man who has In the house valuable goods.

There have been burglars about and he is there to watch. He listens for every sound; all his faculties are awake; he dares not sleep. He also Is a watchman on ri-ity. The motto of the third picture It: Kipling's title, "Lest we forget." Peter cannot believe that thesa warnings are needed by a man like himself. The Master replies that regeneration is no guarantee agalnsi degeneration.

The danger increase with the dignity and responsibility of the trust. "Think of vourself," He savs. "as a steward set over a household; he has no news of his lord and begins to think he Is never coming to ask an account of his stewardship: the monotony of diligence begins to pall. Then degeneration sets in, egotism asserts Itself, brutality follows. He arts as If no one could call him to account.

Ill treats his fellow servants; and then the steward's lord returns. The penalty is proportioned to the trus. The steward is handled ns he has handled others. He pays the penal ty of degeneration." Regeneration and Degeneration. tton and degenera tion are facts of hunvm life, for life-is always a stewardship and stewardship Is never a possession a1'0 Is a girt, oniy po -ured.

Wealth is power, Juit pewer is only an ability to do some work, and is good or bad according to the work it does. Ruskln has descrlhed the embalmed body of S. Carlo Hor-ronigo, which has lain for 300 years in Milan Cathedral, -rowned with a golden crown ana noining a. emeralds. Does he possess them? Would you be willlnc to possess .1,0 those terms? For of wha.

use are the symbols of power unless in hands of those wno can ut- The Christian doctrine 01 wealth is that the steward does not own his wealth, he owes 11. 11 he responsibility tor wmcn m- inu- give full, exact, ann complete ai- e- ttct count. siewnruBiniJ na according to tne law inai the chara-ter of the s'ewardship the greater the danger of degeneration, the greater the trust the most exact intlnir. The noblest spirits the regenerate have most to fear from degeneration, no ture: your nnesi roses ui hegonlaa degenerate than cabbages and onions: fine silver tarnishes more quickly than Iron: a razor blade blunts faster than a steel saw; love and hate are warders each of the other's borders. Sweet things If not kept sweet are apt to turn sour.

The greatest nations the tforld has known have become Its corrupters when they have censed to he its benefactors. With this preiace ici -minds working on the vresrnt con- dltlon of the huropean u. a series of snapshots or We must begin by painting a corroding fear and hate rrance. Rather dllapleiaiea; out dustrious peasantry 'cononm bankrupt; clever: clear V-mir-s. shmp tongues; lucid, often poisoned pens; democracy -witnoui rowi.

rialistlc; embittered: that for years sne wan mixm-an Europe in culture ami nd that twice in im- living men lier tairesi have been trampled Into mud the heels of German soldiery. Germany: Industrious, scientific hut not politically competent; disillusioned as to things held sacreri lor genenmi-is, Intelligence, and discipline without ni ithrtv conscience, or common sense: with memories of Jena when France overran Prussia and Sednn when Prussia nunumut-u h.p richei.t provinces hoirsrnred hv muddled finance; tend- Ing to break up under nttnln; nursing the passion for getting even with her enemies by force or fraud. Two ancient and inveternte rivals a first-class hatred watching one another like two tigers ready to spring, ti.w- Rhn has found her Cromwell In Mussolini, a great nan (it is too earlv to know whether he is a very great man). A distinguished Itnllan nniitii-len has thus desc.rlpeti (as. elsmo: "Fasrismo Is a development Tint aCC'-nting demOC racy ns a dogma, a developmi-nt of liberalism not subjecting the state in cnnitnllsm.

a development or so cialism not sufimlttlng thn whole nation tn the disastrous experiment r.f nxlallam Si flCVC OtllTieilt Ol ionallsm conceiving tnts ns me flame nnd nasslnn that, togetnei with tradition, religion, and family may push and drive the nation for- uarrf nn IV.A WV Of WOTK nnl rill- llzatlon." Spain: Rather better e.ff than formerly, still priest-ridden thn court tlx most 1 innuenc- itnH now Ith commercial ambit loni Austria: Broken, ellsinemncreei, Hill cultured, amiable, artistic, an 1 with the of the League or linns, setting Its face toward reron strnrtlon. Relglum: Geographically und economically closely tied up with Frnnoe; rrcoiistrnetefi more quickly than any nation after the war. owing portly 10 its KinK. 1 veritable standnrd-henrer: deiml nated hv fear nnd hate of Germany. Czerhn-Slovnkln: A brave, honest little demnrrnrv.

with lis fnee to th light, determined to pay Hit debt and take Its place ns a modern na tlon; with a background of In the Protestant M-nso. Jugo Slnvla; Primitive, kind of Nebrnskn; wonting only to (Ml the sol', produce fond and in' i-nod markets: worthy but not ver significant. Rumnnla: Aspiring be the France of Europe with nn Anierlr-in country club In nuehiiretf, bnulevnrds. It ll'onioblles, cafes Innumerable; but rather su perllclal In Its civilisation. i'III thinking It necessary when It war.U a igins we shall find that, while their authors were men of intensely re- Lltglous and devout natures, their main object was to teach their followers and the men of their times to recognize and avoid the gross wickedness everywhere manifest among them, and to dwell upon higher themes and follow purer and better practices.

Few of them pre tended to speak by Dlvlno authority. Most of them humbly acknowledged the darkness of their owl, heart, and sought to escape from the stream of spiritual death which surged about them. These great teachers endeavored to elevate the religious life of their peoples: the Buddha in India, Confucius in China, Zoroaster in Persia. All honor to these noble souls who sought to elevate the thought of their times. But in each instance, while men have, grown more re ligious, that Is more superstitious they have grown less and less like God.

Paul found It so even In Athens, the seat of the highest cul ture of the ancient world, when he saw an altar dedicated to "An Unknown God." We need but to look to the. age-old conditions obtaining in the lands where these religions have most and longest flourished to see, in spite of the cults that would exalt them today, the depths of the tides of spiritual death which have engulfed the people. Vastly different has been the history of the people who have re ceived the revealed Gospel of the Son of God, and lived according to its teachings. Among them a track of light has belted the globe. Sorm.

times It has been obscured and flickered very low, almost to extinction but never quite dimmed to night. But in its worst days and greatest darkness It has been infinitely superior to the night of superstition and spiritual death which has hung over ether nations that knew not God. Where it has been let to shine it has blazed forth In light, liberty and life. Thus, historically, all true spiritual life has come from God through Jesus Christ. am tne Life." Again, God in Christ is the fountain of life as set over against reason.

It will not do for men to exalt reason that thereby they may find an excuse for sin. There is, ao we know, not a little pretended reverence for reason, especially when It has been used in the attempt to explain away stern spiritual facts and teachings. The fact is that the Revelation of God in Christ transcends Reason. Where does reason drive man by Its unvarying laws of logic, but te destruction? Reason can furnish no remedy for the soul's sickness. Reason can find no light to penetrate the darkness of the soul's night.

Reason can grasp no life to check the tides of spiritual death which engulf the soul. Reason can discover no escape from spiritual destruction. Its dictum Is: "The soul that sinneth, it shell die." Its spiritual researches end In death. There-fore, when God appears as the "fountain of life," He transcends reason. Again, God In Christ Is the foun tain of life as against morality.

Merely to follow the moralities of life as designated by society isHo: necessarily to he either religious or spiritual. It may be merely con- entionaltty. The soul Is diseased: no morality can heal It need) the Physician. Tou may arrav a eper in kinglv robes, but he is 0 ener still. If Christ heal not thy sin-sick soul, spiritual death Is sure.

III. Mnt Abide In Jesus Christ. The maintenance of spiritual ll'e depends upon contact with the source of life. Animal life propagates Itself. Not so spiritual life.

Natural law does not obtain here. The spiritual law is: "Abide in M. If a man ahide not in Me he is cast forth as a branch and Is withered. Apart from Me ye can do nothing." For the maintenance or spiritual me we must, therefore, abide in Jesi'S Christ, who is the life. We must seek contact with the fountain.

It. has been given us in the Book of Life whose words are for the healing of the nations. It Is found In the prlvl legs and worshln of the House of God. It is conveved to the heart through the presence and persuasive teaching of the Holy Spirit. It is thus only that souls who have drunk of the water of life find It springing up within them unto everlasting life.

Such life, swayed hv the Spirit of God. Is of necessity vigorous and healthy, nnlv souls of such life approximate God. IV. The Fountain Is Inexhaustible, This "fountain of life" Is Inex haustible. Successive a-res of men have tarried by its life-giving I stream, and.

relnvlgorated by It, have gone forth to bear Its healing waters to thirsty and dvlng sou's. Thus the knowledge of it has heen mrrled Bround the globe; nnl among nil nations and races of men It has heen fe to the dying, light to the blind, and salvation to the lost Pome de Leon sought along the Atlantic roasts end In the evergladi-3 of Florida for the fountain of youth, hut he sought In vnln. Here Is that fountain of life In Jesus Christ, wlil-h gives eternal youth to the soul. Coming down from God, as mntcrinl life came Into the world by Him. It brings spiritual life te souls dead In trespasses and sins the thrill of spiritual existence unknown tn any who have never experienced It.

When we consider, even with our feeble and meager conception, what the relations are of Time to F.ternlty, how necessary nppeers that spiritual M'e which Christ only ran Impart! The ror'tdornt'ons also rnl-e the nuestlon whether It Is tint folly to fsnut eternal lire without the he. a-lnnlngs spiritual Hf" here, t.et U-' not en the nf God While the "fount'in nf life" is open nnd fre t.i nil. th" offer of i( en. nenrs to extend only throur-h the unrertnln yeni-s of time which Rlss! mav he stiort! Te hearers of the Word, have you been to "Th Fountain of side of the angels; in the League of Nations. Norway and Sweden: Liberated from their great dread, the fear of Russia; Important in dustrially but in world affairs "moving about In worlds not realized." Holland: Rich, solid, slow, half Calvinistlc, half socialistic; Rotterdam a German port; the only European people who made money with both hands through tho war.

The Dutchman's heart Is nearer his purse pocket than his breast pocket. Turkey: Now rejoicing on its recovered hold on Europe; in thj midst of a nationalist revival; opposed to Western civilization; driving out Im partially from Constantinople for clgners, capital and alcohol; Mohammedanism still a real power with the Turk and through him re viving. Russia: The biggest prob lem of all; drenched In blood, intoxicated with its new-found freedom, drunk with Ideas; a nation in the throes of being born, but it is loo soon yet to say what is being born, a new hope or an old mon strosity. Duty of Western Cltillzatloii. Such is the picture not very promising outlook for peace and harmony In the European family The task of keeping variety of temperaments In harmony Is never easy, but somehow it has to be done.

There lo no shirking this task if are to live together and not exterminate one another. What, then, is the duty of this great powerful western civilization'." Tho United States may say, "Am 1 my brother's keeper?" She may shrug her shoulders and pass by on the other side, That is one way of dealing with life's opportunities. She may say, "My lord delayeth his coming and I can do as I like with my own." No ono can come and prescribe duties for other people, but In this matter whrt people say is not tne ultimate factor. A great stewardship means a great responsibility. What is certain Is that for her and worth in men, omen ana materials, the United Slat-: will be held responsible before the bar of Him who called vou tu be stewards of these great privileges.

No one In this matter pro nounces judgment but your own con- lence. lour own Ideals and as. pirations aro the only standard. If America is content to pass by on the other side, no Europeon can prevent it. But will America be oppy so to treat her opportunity? It is a matter between herself and Kim with whom wo have to do.

"Our ivillzation cennot survive materl- lly unless it bo redeemed ypirltu-lly." Politicians point to the At- ntic as a barrier, but they are the only class in this country who do d. Every ono else regards it as nn highway. Untied States Will Do Right Thing. I have often had to defend and xplaln American points of view In public and private in England and mve always taken the line that the United Utates means to do the right ih.ng. if it is made clear to the people of America what Is wrong.

nev will do their best to put it right. One matter in particular has etiuired much explanation the fro qu-nt changes In America's line of action. This hes reduced friends of le United States abroad to com plete puzzlement. In Britain we have found It necessary to establish he rule that there must be contln. uity In foreign policy: each new gov c-nment is by custom expected to take over the foreign policy of Its predecessor and carry It to some logical conclusion.

There Is no other way of making a foreign nation anderstand what you mean. It Is case of the Gospel precept, "Let our yea he yea and your nay nay." With the best purposes in the world, America is liable to be misunderstood unless a clear and Intelligible line Is taken nnd the country stands bv Its own official representatives. This may seem a s'mple thing to ask for nut it is fundamental. Without flattery or fear, It seems to me that you have one supreme qualification for sitting down at the fmily council table and helping In the task of brlnglne order' out of ehaos. Europe has heen dependent for centuries on authority resting on nn autocratic bisla.

It sllll moves with the fetters of the Holy Roman Empire clanking behind It. Ku-rjpe's real need Is to set up a svs. lem of order and authority resting en lil'tlee and reaso-i, while there is time. In that particular you have unique experience. If you would lend ns your experience vou would eive great ft.

We want not vours hut vou. Statesmen h.i Imnute rnse motives reve- their nn. There Mia wnl move Slates In than In th" united Slates, not greater of teiuneranient and I'l- terest. Pv enmniilsloti of reograr-h" nprf history vou have had to drnl t-ith ye-i- prnblen; In lerrn hnmin w. We went to thet secret nnd thnt exnet-lence.

Christian ethics the root of newer America 1 ir-rrest p-olrstnnl c1vlMrtt In th nrM. Vnnwg Hi ChHstlnn stnn. et-irds of thinking; nctlnr: It hns the roM lele-els T'h'eh snetetv re ntt'--s tedv for tnnrl ethics ert-t nuMI" dutv. Notlln Is erneeted nhleh Is not In the ptiture o' Am" tea wilh hp Pt'e-'lnr snt TnUnn an. eeslrv.

Ver ChrMlm Idenllrm and hr pprclntlon of hman chs ti-ter. Pe lue tn four hst aVe. votte nnhleM lilstrv Remeph'-r hpf we the mlAst of tone '-nn-nn e-'Oll'tlen, fn whteh Is to insVe vee- ni-n ner'ee I A't fh-s e-i hretpren hm etnlni on lev In remm. cn Cn'r VeHtno-ft lt 1'lsrrlAm f-' n--t. IS n-a eem tw rvi.ae- i) hA llr-h llr- rtei-n-it shill pt ttnether mi's nnih.

Hint shineth more and more happiness which comes only from growth, knowledge and love If this brief span of life be all that Is and Is to be? Verily the divinity which is within us that perilous dignity which makes us men answers "No!" For to assert that immortality is not true is to assert that the universe itself is a frustrated undertaking. And such an assertion demands more faith on the part of the fatalist than does the doctrine of personal Immortality on tty part of the Christian. PASTOR INSTALLED IN QUEENS CHURCH The Rev. Walter Degenhardt was Installed at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon as pastor of the recently organized Grace Lutheran Church of Astoria. The installation took place at the Trinity Lutheran Church, Jamaica and 8th Astoria, anl was conducted by the Rev.

ft. H. Burgdorf of Trinity Church, Brooklyn, assisted by the pastors of several of the Lutheran churches In Queens. The Grace Lutheran Church is the outgrowth of a mission chapel established by the Rev. Fred H.

Lind3-mann, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church of Astoria, last February, nt 834 2d Astoria. The mission chapel's attendance grew so rapidly that it has now been organized as a regular church. Grace Church Is the ReV. Mr. De-genhardt's first assignment.

He was born in South Brooklyn, studied at the Theological Preparatory School at Bronxvllle and graduated from the Concordia Seminary In St. Louis. Re-cently he returned from Germany where he studied church history and architecture after his graduation from Concordi-o. On July 23 last he was married to Miss Lconore Hall of St. Louis.

The Rev. and Mrs. are II1UV11 III UID licm lU- lure. JEWS DEDICATE NEW SYNAGOGUE About 1,200 people participated In the dedication ceremonies yester day afternoon, when the congrega tion Beth Jacov Z'vy Slchron Joseph moved into its new synagogue on Union ave, and Scholes st The synagogue, which was formerly the Petri German Evangelical Reformed Church, will be renovated at an ex penditure of $8,000. Ceremonies started in the afternoon, when the congregation assembled In front of the old synagogue at 60 Moore st.

and, led by a band of music, marched over to the new building. In deference to the memory of the late President Harding the flaps and banners carried In the parade were topped by block crepe. There was music by the choir, led by the cantor, Alexander Wleiniin. and many visiting rabbis a jd resscil th3 new congregation, congratu'at-iiu- them ajid wlrhlng them luck and prospe-ity in their new place of worship. Among the speakers was ltabbi I.I.

Rislkoff. Rabbi .1. Es-kolsky of Manhattan, Dr. Su Buch-ier. Rabbi Leon I.

Rislkoff, Rabin J. Bolgenas and Harry Lehrer, pres. id -nt of the congregation. The installation of the holy scrolls completed the afternoon's ceremonies. In the evening refreshments were served, end there was il.inclng and music for the younger members of the congregation.

The arrangements committee consisted of J. Raphael, H. Rlchter, Harry Lehrer and Moe Platowsky. The synagogue is one of the finest ir the Eastern District. It has a seating capacity of several hundred and will be much in demand during the approaching Jewish holidays In peptemher and (October.

The Sabbath school room In the base- ment also has a large seating capacity, which will be utilized for re ligious services during the coming holidays. After selling the church nronertv for $10,000. the members of St. Pe- tfl Church, of which the Rei' George 0 Wacker is the pastor. took of their branch house of worship In Menehnn In the Bushwlck section of tho bor ough.

BENEFIT SHOW FOR CHURCH Baldwin. L. Aug. -IS Everything Is ready for the curtain to riso on what Is dcclnred Is the biggest vaudeville show this village ever witnessed when on Thurstlay evening, Aug. 9, a benefit performance will he given for All- Saints Episcopal Church.

Such stage celebrities ns Victor Moore, Arthur Deagon, baritone of the Little Nelly company; Pisanonnd Bingham, the Leyton Brothers and others havj volunteered to appear. Dancing will follow, the music for which will be ftirnlnhed by Johnny Germeroth's celebrated Jazz orchestra. Brooklyn Daily Eagle SUBWAY GUIDE Showing all stations in Greater New York, together with a map of the subway system. FREE FREE Copiet of this handy pocket guide free il The Earje Information Bureau. By mail jutt if-nd itamped, self-addreiied envelope wilh request, udto the perfect dly..