''I said, 0 that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away and be at rest. ·rhen would I ~tander far off and remain in the wilderness". Psalm 55:6-8

"ESCAP .I!: MECHANISMS"

There is the cry of a man who tempor­arily at least, is defeated. 'l~hings have been too much for him. He feels he must get out from under his intolerable burden. Life has tumbled in for him. Be feels he cannot resist as an eagle, therefore he will escape as a dove. Like Cowper he has a deep longing to.escape:

"0 for a lodge in sore vus t wilderness; Some boundless cont i guit y of shude; Vhere rumour of oppression and decei t

Might never reach me more".

A The Mood for Escape Ever feel like that? W Of course we know it

is a cry of futility. nnd Spurgeon speaks of this futile bleat: ".-..las poor soul, no such wings are t hine. ,.s yet t hou mus t t arry here and feel t he

t empes t . But be of good cheer; t hou shalt st re t ch t.."ly wings ere lon,g for bolder tlipht . Heaven shall rvceive t hee; t here t hy sorrows shall have a f inis of f elici t y among the b irds of pari:idise" . But thout:rh we know it to be a futile cry yet it is a very human, a ver natural cry.

l.l'or life is not easv - was never meant to be. ·ve get tired of the strup-gle and· of the monotony of routine. 'Ehe strUP:f"'le to Illb.ke ends meet. rhe livin or 'IM)rking with e uncongenial and unlovable people. Dishes to wash. Papers to correct. Imnatient patients to care for. Irascible customers to nlease. Until in desneration we crv "I could scream" - "0 that I had wings like~ dove .•• "

-2-1othing new about this mood. As old

as .human life. 'l'he mootl so well dramC::l.tised in story of ~lijah. He seemed a failure. Immediately after tremendous ordeal on Mt. Carme he fled into wi derness. .l:!'lunp him-self under juniper tree and snbbed heart out - "It is enouah; 0 Lord now take away my life, for lam not better than fathers".

Des ire for esca e comes f.rore sense of failure, frustration and imprisonment. -ot thinking of physical bolts and bars; but of those experiences in life that leave us with dashed ho es and unreal is ed dreams. Life is full of frustrC::l.ted, unhap y, imprisoned peo­ple who cry out with psalmist "0 that I had wt.ngs like a dove ••• " They go from day to day on broken wings.

Futile ~scape Mechanisms Look for moment · at some of methods e peo le attempt to

use in order to escape an intolerable situ­ation.

L~f~ Change the environment. Can have value of course. Still looking for the man who saw to it his preacher was allowed to leave town for a few days. A change of scenery; a trip out of town; a visit to Kaine or Care Cod ; an ocean voyage (if you have the money) can do wonders for the soul. But if your problem has to do with a sick mind, a bored personality or a burdened soul, then there is no escape that way. To pack a bag, turn the key in the door ·, get a new job, change the environment, is ·no guarantee of escape from your inner self where the trouble may

a be • .John Milton, "I ven t t oP ris and lo, W iil t on 'v'C::l.S t here".

1111vell let's go to the movies!" oain, there is no nermanent escane that way .. M. y be a temporary sense of re ief. The ticket may give you two hours of dreaming and for-

Our ra~idly increasing national inebri­ation seems to be nroved by the facts: According to figures released by U. c. Department of Cammer ce:

$ ?,000,000,000 s , ent for dlcoholic bev­er ges in 1944; an average of $54. for every man, womdil and child.

Conservative estimate of drinkers in t he nat ion is 40 , 000,000. This gives clll d.V­

erage spending of $1?5. per drinking person.

Liquor · nd brewing industry spent more e than $?5,000,000 on ~dvertising during the yettr. ~-l.lld whcit ddvertising!

Glumorization nrocess through medium of movies, radio, magazines, public press. Youth being conditioned to accept it as a normal and glamorous custom.

-3-getfulness in a plush chair and in a world of impossib e fantasy. But the dream fades and the play is over and the lights come on. Then back to the v.orld of hard reality we must return. Hut for a short time at least we have been able to forget the stern real­ities of life. But back to them we come.

Another person tries to escape and for pet his frustrations in alcohol. For a lit­tle vb. ile at least he fo r.p:ets the intolerab­le and rrakes a temoorary esca')Je through un­reality. Is it not true that a person who becomes a slave to alcohol is seeking some escape from a problem or situation. Psych­ological term is "compensation".

Temporarily a man escanes. Puts song on lips and jest on tongue. Troubles melt like mists before morning sun. Becomes ex­hilarated. The harsh and intolerable facts of reality are softened for a while; but, sooner or later, the facts have to be ft1 ced. Nilliam James speaks of dock laborer seek­ing escape from Hoboken - "Can't get dW<J..Y from Hoboken that way. He bas to return -c.~.nd \vhen he returns his ability to deal wit h rloboken is poorer than it ·Jas before".

And might I point out that a lot of people today are seeking this form of escape lie are be coming a na tton of inebriates. Lis­ten to some of the facts for a moment.

Then there are those who, finding all other escapes ineffective, take the most desperate exit there is - that of self-des­truction. Suffering from acute strain and frustration, and brooding over his problem, e he has come to the final dec is ion that his escape can only come through taking own life

No need to dwell unduly on this point. Except to say this; no ·permanent escape can come through that exit. A man will have to

face to problem of himself on the other side. That is the message of Sutton Vane ' s "Outward Bound". Several people on board a strange ship traveling from this world to the next. Tv.o of the a ssen &-ers are young man and young woman who had taken this way of esca e. But you remember they were not allowed to land - had to return to face the reality and duty they had sought to escape. As Sutton Vane suggests, there is no esca~e that way. ·

Religion and Escape The remedy for the soul that is sick is not in any kind of escape. 'l'he

cry of the psalmist for the wings of a dove was a futile cry. s ys one commentator; "It would have been better had he asked for the strength of an ox to bear his trials". It was just a case of wishful thinking. Psalm-

- ist realised the impossibility of his plea • .He knew that was not the way out. And in the last verse but one of the psalm he gives the answer to every ~erplexed soul - here it is; "Cds t t hy burden on t he Lord i.lild He shd.ll sus t ain thee'.

Not a case of escap ing. Rather ing put and facing the problem; and, in the power of God, seeing it through. Duke of Wellington is reputed to have said, "British soldiers are not braver than French soldiers - they are only braver five minutes longer". Whether that is true historically or not, it is the statement of the principle of victory - victory comes to those who can hold on.

In God is man's power t o last five min­A utes longer. Lis ten to testimony of the pro­W phet - cmd we have seen it in lives of peo­

ple we have known - "They t h t w i t upon God shall renew t heir st renpt h. They shull mount up wi t h vings as eaRles; shall run not be weary; shall walk and not f int ." As eagles, my friends, not doves!

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ORDER OF MORlHNG WORSHIP May 23 , 1943

10:30 A. M.

ORGAN PRELUDE "Woodland Idyl" Zeckiver CALL TO VVOR SHIP - By t he Minister :tm,m 21 "Come, let.us tune' our loftiest song" A PRAYER OF COlJFESSIOH (People seated and uniting)

Have merc:y upon us , 0 God , according to Thy lov.ing 'kindness; accor ding to the multitude of Ti1y tender mercies blot out our t ransgressions ; wash us thor­oughly from our iniquities and cloanse us from our sins. For we aclmovrledge our transgressions, and our sin is ever before us. Create within us clean hearts, 0 God , and renew a right spitit within us; through Jesus Christ , our Lord. Ar11en

A PRAYER FOR PARDON - By the Ministe r THE LORD'S PRhYER

* SOLO "The Lord's Prayer"

* P~SPONSIVE READING GLORIA Pb.TRI

21st Sunday - First Reading

THE APOSTLES• CREED

SECOND LESSON P4S TORAL PRAYER ::

Psalm 55 CHORb.L RESPONSE

Malotte

OFFERTORY "Serenade" Williams PP..ESENTi~TION OF OFFERING OFFERTORY iJfTHEM "Lord God, We Worship Thee"

Schnecker HYMN. 70 "The Lord 1 s my Shepherd, I •11 not we,nt"

:£-mfN 73 "Be still, my soul; the Lord is on thy side" BENEDICTION :: DOXOLOGY ORGAN POSTLUDE "Grand Chorus" Dubois ~ Interval for Ushering

.hltar Flowers to-day a r e the gift of the

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10:30 A. M. 11:00 A. M. 11:55 A. r,1.

7:30 P. M.

CALENDAR FOR TO-DAY

MORNING WORSHIP JUNIOR CHURCH CHURCH SCHOOL; classes for all ages. UNION SERVICE at the St. James Lutheran Church. Rev. Paul Hydon preaching.

THE FREMONT YOUTH FELLOWSHIP, Ruth Foster, president, will meet this evening at 6:00 o'clock. Leader will be Catherine Loucks; topic for discussion "Bringing Up Our Parents". Worship will be conducted under the leader­ship of Dick Hemenway and Evelyn Hallenbeck.

THROUGH THE WEEK AT FREMONT

MONDAY 4:00 P. M. 7:30 P. M. 8:00 P. M.

TUESDAY 7:30 P. :rt .

WEDNESDJS 2 : 30 P. M. 7:30 P. 1:. 8:30 P. M.

THURSDI .. Y 7:30 P. M.

' Girl Scouts. Boy Scouts. Board of Education Meeting.

Air Scouts.

Weekday School of Religion. Mid-week Service. Planning Conference for Child­ren's Day.

Senior Choir rehearsal.

We extend a gracious welcome this morning to the members of the Cayadutta Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star as they worship with us in this service.

The 1st Quarterly Conferences of the Methodist Churches in this vicinity, will be held at Fremont on Tuesday -June 8th. Supper will be served by the w.s.c.s.

Treasurers of the various organizations are requested to prepare their books for audit.

Class in Loving Memory of deceased members.

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Published by Rev. 0. R Miller, D.D., State Sup't., Christian Civic League of New York . Weekly: January to June; Monthly: July to December. 50c per year

VoL 37 312 Hamilton St reet, Albany, N. ¥.,March 22, 1946 No. 12

AN OPEN LEITER TO AMERICAN PROTESTANT MINISTERS Dear Brothers: Durham, North Carolina, February 12, 1946.

The first Convocation of the uke University Divinity School now in ses­sion here has an attendance of approximately one thousand ministers of the leading churches of this region. Methodists predominate. This occasion may well be reckoned the most significant gathering of American Protestants yet held in 1946.

Top-ra:nking speakers are included on the program; notably for the purposes of this letter, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, President Emeritus of Union Theologi­cal Seminary in New York City, former Moderator of the resbyterian Ghurch in the U. S. A Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, President of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and preeminently Mr. H enry R Luce, founder and editor of Time, Life and Fortune, a newly elected director of Union Theological eminary, who was introduced this morning with suitable eclat by the Honorable R Gregg Cherry1 the Governor of Nortb Carolina, "a prominent Methodi st layman."

This historic Convocation is being held in the uniquely beau t iful setting of Duke University centered about its majestic ChapeL The occasion is charac­terized by every grace of Southern hospitality and by efficien management for which everyone present is grateful to Dean Harvie Branscomb i'lnd his as oci­ates. I, and other members of the Convocation, on whose behalf I write and sign this letter, deeply appreciate the in~piring addresses given by distingni hed speakers and the glorious music by the hapel Choir.

N ece ·sity is laid upon us as Christian min­isters, however, to raise here a National issue far transcending Duke University-an issue which finds dramatic incidence upon this cam­pus upon this day. This is a public not a pri­vate issue-an issue not of our seeking or cre­ation. It is forced upon us by the inclusion in the program of Mr. Henry R Luce and in particular by the world-wide whiskey adver­tising carried in the publications of which Mr. Luce is Founder and Editor.

The issue is brought to focus by the ironic juxtaposition of that advertising along side the subject of Mr. Luce's address this morning "Ethical Issues Confronting America!" This address was delivered before a packed audito­rium and was in many ways a powerful and moving one. It may indeed indicate a new trend in the thinking of the Editor of Time, Life and Fortune. We hope so.

But the lucrative liquor advertisements of this week's issues of the magazines do not reveal as yet any changes in their business policies. Did Mr. Luce include this morning among the "Ethical Issues Confronting America" one slightest hint of the power of the highly organized hard liquor interests with which his magazines do a hard money business ? He did not. He doubtless had good and sufficient reasons.

Those who have watched Mr. Luce ever since the founding of Time in 1923 have seen the growth. under his skillful guidance of the g reatest magazine empire the world has ever known. Some have also been saddened to see the Luce Empire make terms with the Whis­key Empire as so many businesses, political leaders, political parties, government admin­istrations , and some churches have done. The whiskey pages in Life are generally r:ecog-

nized as the most skillfully alluring presenta­tions of hard liquor ever put on a print or color page.

How can Mr. Luce, speaking to ministers upon "Ethical Issues Confronting America," escape responsibility for the results of the world-wide whiskey sales campaign which those pages carry? Can Mr. Luce escape re­sponsibility for his share in luring young girls to take their first cocktails in swanky night­clubs or red-lit "taverns" which are in fact only sodden saloons?

The adroit incitements of these colorful pages do not miss their intended mark. Nor do boys and girls in our homes and schools, or young people in our colleges miss one flick of light or shadow of their ingeniously arted charm. How easy these pictures make it to believe that whiskey is the smart and "really quite necessary" accompaniment for a cheer­ful evening or a lovely family Christmas! Kindly look up the last Cliristmas number of Life!

Can these advertisements and those re­sponsible for them escape their share of re­sponsibility for the lowered American morale which Mr. Luce lamented in his address this morning? Can they be held guiltless before the increase of juvenile delinquency, crimes of violence, the spread of alcoholism, the moral confusions of America and those of much of the rest of the world? Four million copies or so can reach a long, long way around the globe.

The great task before America, Mr. Luce avers, is "to relate the Christian faith to morals." How Time, Life and Fortune could help to achieve that end if their business poli­cies were to be changed! V/e invite Mr. Luce, toward whom we have no unkindly sentiments as a person, to exercise his influence to that end. "It may be," as Mr. Luce suggested this morning, "that Protestantism is too compro­mised with modern civilization to save it." If so, we wonder how money-made moral com­promises can begin to be ended.

Will Mr. Luce end one of them by pouring the whiskey out of Time, Life and Fortune? Would Bishop Oxnam be willing by any chance to interpret on behalf of the Federal Council of Churches and American Protes­tantism in general his answer to the ethical issue which we have raised? Or isn't it an ethical issue at all- just business? May we ask you, Bishop, where Protestantism really stands, or doesn't it stand at all? Since when did we get this way and how?

This morning Mr. Luce asked that the churches in the name of God point the way out of the American dilemma, out of the world dilemma. He will doubtless welcome sugges­tions from ministers.

To this end we invite publication of this letter in either Time or Life or both, publica­tion in the North Carolina Christian Advocate and Ba!'tist Biblical Recorder. in the Virs;;-inia Methodist Advocate, in the National Chris­tian Advocate. in the Christian Century, and in any other paper, the editor of which feels this issue to be an ethical issue deserving pub­lic mention.

It might indeed be suggested that letters be sent in by ministers, fathers, mothers, and others to editors for publication, or to Mr. Henry R. Luce, direct to Time and Life Building, Rockefeller Center, New York 20, N. Y., to which address a copy of this letter is being mailed today.

(Signed) Richard Henry Edwards, Visit­ing Professor, Bennett College, Greensboro, N.C.

WARNING TO THE WEALTHY And To The Nation

In New York Supreme Court Justice Ber­nard L. Shientag has ruled that Mrs. Irene Van H eusen Bihn Fereira, wife of Cowboy Norman Fereira and heiress to the Van Heusen collar and Singer sewing machine fortunes, is "incompetent to manage her af­fairs in consequence of habitual drunkenness."

DRINK COSTS HIM A $30,000 JOB! Dale Harrison, a feature writer on the staff

of the Chicago Sun, tells the story of a tragedy which occurred during the recent Allied Na­tions aeronautical conference in Chicago, when a toastmaster arrived to preside over a certain banquet Only a few days before he had been elevated to a $30,000 position and a rosy career was ahead of him.. "He came to his task too heavily in his cups," according to Mr. Harrison, and embarrassed his associates with his bungling as a consequence of his in­toxication. The next day he was relieved of his post.-The Christian Advocate.

"III fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay."

WHAT ONE SOLDIER LEARNED "One thing I discovered during my fight­

ing days was that my non-smoking, non­drinking habits stood me in good stead. I dis­covered that when put to the test your sta­bility varied almost directly in relation to those two habits."-Quotation from a Sol­dier' s letter.

KANSAS GETS THE LAST LAUGH Kansas, a pioneering state in the cause of

prohibition, is made the butt of many jokes because of its dry attitude. It is no joke, how­ever, what Kansas has reaped as a result of its bone-dry law. In Kansas there ar<:: Fifty­four counties without any insane; fifty-four counties without any feeble-minded; ninety­six counties without any poorhouses; fifty­three counties without any persons in jail; fifty-six counties without any representatives in the state penitentiary.-The Christian Ob­server.

DRINK DESTROYS COLLEGE WORK Dr. George Cutten, while President of Col­

gate University, declared: "Everything I am trying to build up as an educationist, alcohol drinking tends to tear down. I try to develop young men mentally. Alcohol destroys men­tality, at first temporarily, and by continued and increased doses this deterioration becomes permanent. I try to build up young men mor­ally. Alcohol is a potent cause of crime and immorality. I try to establish young men's emotions. Alcohol unbalances the judgment and disorganizes the emotions."

·­... FREMONT STREET METHODIST CHURCH

Glo'7ers '7ille, New York Fred Clarke, Uinister

Marjorie J. Gensemer Minister of Music

Grace L. Gifford Church Secretary

Lewis Cunning , Sexton

ORGAN PRELUDE - 11 Grane , Ada c; io" Mendelssohn CHOP.AL INTROIT - "Cast Thy Burden Upon the Lord" ~ndel-

HY11N 66 - 11 The spa cious fir:rmment on hiGh 11

RESPONSALS: Minister: Create in me a clean heart, 0 God;

People : And r enew a ri c;ht spirit within me .

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Mi n ister: Restore unto me t he joy of Thy salvation; People : And uphold me with Thy fr ee spirit.

Minister: 0 Lord, open Thou my lips; People : And my mouth shall show forth Thy praise .

DOXO LO rrY - To be sung by all

* RESPONSIVE READIN G - 22nd Sunday - First Reading GLORIA PJ>.TRI APOSTLES ' CRF.F.D

. , * SCRIPTURE LES SON - Psa l m 55 :~J TI-':E~.l - 11 He , w·a tching Over Isra e l"

The Fremont Choir PASTORAL PR.hYER :: LORD'S PRJ-.YER

from "Elijah" Men­delssohn

ORGAN OFFERTORY - '"Andante Tra.nquillo" Mendelssohn PRESEN TATION OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS OFFErt.TORY SOLO • "It Is Enough" from "Elijah"Mende lssohn

Nor:rmn Pugh HYMN 180 - "Br eathe on me , Br ea th of God"

SERMON "ESCAPE l:!ECHANISMS"

HYMN 338 - "Jesus, Lover of my soul" r:SNEDICTION a nd CRORJ"L AMEN ORGJI.N POSTLUDE - "Allegro" Mende lssohn

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June 2, 1946 - CALEl!DAR FOR TODAY

10:30 Morning Horship a:::1d s ermon Church-time Nurser y f or small children

11:00 Primary and Junior Church.

11:55 Church School. CJ.e sse s for all age groups. An initation specially extended to young adults.

6:00 Youth Fe llowship. To<:J i ~·. , "'I·he Ri.ch Young Ruler". Young pe ople cordie. l l,v .~!wi t ed"

7:30 Union Evening Serv ::..c e a t the Kingsboro Presbyter­ian Church with the ~tev. A. P. ~.~anwe ll :;::>r eaching.

~ltar flowers a r e given in memory of Frank Gile s by his wife Mrs. Frank Gile s and daue;hter, Mrs. James Putman.

THROUGH THE WREK

MON. 7:00 Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts at church.

TUES. 3:30 Chape l and Crusader Choir rehearsal. ~ Fremont Choir rehearsal. 8:00 June ~oetinc; of t he W.S.C ,S •• All ladies Of"the church i nvited . Refr e shmentsl

WBD. 7: 45 Mi d -week Ser'7ic c . Everyone should attend. 3: 40 Carol Choir r ehea rsal.

THUHS. "7700 Turkey Dinner for Fremont's r e turned .ser• VTCemen. Re s ervations must be made by Tuesda~.

FRI. 3:30 Chape l Choir r ehea rsa l. ·

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COMWG EVEN TS

- Spring Conc ert by choirs and pu~ils of Miss Gensemer.

- First Qu~rterly Confer enc e for Methodist Church of this vic inity a t Johnstown. Those wishing to go must mn kc diP~cr r e servation.

- Children's Day. Baptism of Infants. - Baccalaureate Sunday with s ervic e in Fremont

Street Methodist Church.

2ifickness

SICKNESS is generally a most unwelcome guest. It entails

inconvenience, anxiety, expense, and often much suf­

fering. Nevertheless sickness, especially when serious,

may be a blessing in disguise. In an age of many distr:actions and much hurry, when

people are not given to serious reflection and meditation,

sickness may cause us to think earnestly of the more impor­

tant things of life. It may stir within us thoughts of death

and eternity. In our efforts to regain our health we may turn to God in

prayer. We think of our Savior as the great Healer. The

thought lingers, "How wonderful if He were here today."

We recall His promise to be with us always and His assur-

ance that ou~ prayers shall be heard. Ail this brings us face to face with the question whether

we who so often have forgotten Him may now expect Him to

be near and to apply ,His healing touch.

If we are honest and humble and willingly yield to the

impulse to think about the soul and its salvation, we shall

probably have to admit that we have not seriously sought to

"work out our own salvation with fear and trembling."

Such an hour may be decisive. He who then with all his

heart truly seeks the Lord shall surely find Him. From then

on sickness becomes a blessing. CJhe &Jreat Healer

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-..--•--••- •-·-•-•-•-••-•-••-••-H- 11-u-••- •-••-••-•-•-••-•-•--+ AT NIGHT inspires the birds to build their nests

G[HE DAY, with the work God gave and through the mystery of instinct me to do, is done and now the leads a ll living things along their way,

night has come, quiet and calm and is al so present in my life, calling me to beautiful from Him. As shadows be true, to be honest, to be steadfast gather around the earth I will trust and unafraid. My life is not is'?lated myself, body and spirit, into His lov- and alone-G'?d s P'?wer and w1sdom ing tender care and go to sleep. His fl}OVe throug~ 1t: I_ wdl therefore_ wa,l,k love is round about me and, as flood- bravely as H1 s chdd. He has sa1d, I tides from the ocean fill each nook will never leave thee nor forsake and cranny of the bay, so power and thee," and "As thy ,day is e~en so love and peace from God can fill my sh~ll ~hy strength be, and I wdl trust life to overflowing as I rest quietly in H1;, word.

1 Him. These are the great words in Dwell deep, my soul , dwell_ deep. the spirit of which I am going to live: I am no! my body.' my. body_ IS only bravely, quietly, calmly, patiently, the ph_YsJca! house 1n wh1c~ I live. !~e lovingly, trustfully . Amen. esse~bal thmg about me 1s my spirit-

IN THE MORNING ual i1fe. So lo~g as I am hones~ and . . true and trust 1n God, my soul IS be-

:A11 thJs day I_ am g_omg to be a yond the reach of all adversity. No chdd of God. His love IS round ab?ut physical illness or financial trouble can me. Undernea~h are the everlasting touch the essential and eternal "me." arms. I am go1ng to be honest and Because 1 am God's child J can meet true in all events of life and I believe all that comes in the day's work that to those who love God all things b 1 d 1 "M l"f · h'd work together for good. I am going ~athveCyha_nt _serGened~; " I YHI. e liS I' I

. . w1 r1s m o . n 1m 1ve to me above all_wo~ry, fretbng, fear and move and have my being." and hatred, and i1ve man atmosphere 1 ·11th ' k !'ttl f If of spiritual serenity. My life is not 'bl WI d m f~s- 1 e 0 ~ydse as pos-

t f th l.f f G d d h s1 e to ay, 1xmg my mm upon my apar rom e 1 e o o an t at k f · d h 1 h J

h. h · d. · 'th · wor , my nen s, t ose can e p, w 1c 1s Jvme w1 1n me can never d G d 1 ·11 h ff · t f ·1 b d f t d B h' d II th t an o . WI t row o va1n regre s a1 nor e e ea e . e 1n a a d f f 1 f ·

G d ' 1 . . an ears or my persona uture 1n comes o s ove and w1sdom wdl be t · t G d th'l th' h present to strengthen and sustain. rydmgth.0 sderve I 0 wort 1 Y k. 1s ofur

an IS ay. am no wor 1ng or IN DAYLIGHT HOURS men or money but for God , who is the

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THE CHRIST [From Hofmann's Original Painting ]

"If My people , who are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My fa ce, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins, and will heal their land." -2 Chronicles 7:13.

FREMONT STREET METHODIST CHURCH I 0:30 Morning Worship -:- II :55 Church School

FRED CLARKE, Minister

We welcome you to our services and count it o privilege to share with you the riches of God's Holy Word.

ORDER OF MORIHNG WORSHIP May 23, 1943

10:30 A. M.

ORGAN PRELUDE "Woodland Idyl" Zeckiver CALL TO VfORSHIP - By the Minister Im,m 21 "Come, let us tune ' our loftiest song" A PRJYER OF conFESSION (People seated and uniting)

Have mercY. upon us, 0 God, according to Thy loving 'kindness; according to the multitude of Thy tender mercies blot out our transgressions; wash us thor­oughly from our iniquities and cleanse us from our sins. For we acb1owl edge our transgressions, and our sin is ever before us. Create within us clean hearts, 0 God, and renew a right spirit within us; through Jesus Christ , our Lord. Amen

A PRAYER FOR PARDON - By the Minister THE LORD'S PRhYER

* SOLO "The Lord's Prayer"

* P£SPONSIVE READING 21st Sunday - First Reading GLORIA Pb.TRI THE APOSTLES• CREED

SECOND LESSON Psalm 55 P.;.STORA.L PlliWER : : CHORE .. L RESPONSE

OFFERTORY "Serenade" PP..ESENT.ATION OF OFFERllJG

?Y1alotte

Wi lliams

OFFERTORY JJqTHEM "Lord God, We Worship Thee 11

Schnecker HY!'IIN. 70 "The Lord's my Shepherd, I•ll not wa,nt"

SERMON "ESCAPE"

HYMN 73 "Be still, my soul; the Lord is on thy side" BENEDICTION :: DOXOLOGY ORGAN POSTLUDE "Grand Chorus'' Dubois * Interval for Usherin~

10:30 A. M. 11:00 A. M. 11:55 A. M.

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CALENDAR FOR TO-DAY

MORNING WORSHIP JUNIOR CHURCH CHURCH SCHOOL; classes for all ages. UNION SERVICE at the St. James Lutheran Church. Rev. Paul Hydon preaching.

THE FREMONT YOUTH FELLOW'SHIP, Ruth Foster, president, will meet this evening at 6:00 o'clock . Leader will be Catherine Loucks; topic for discussion "Bringing Up Our Parents". Worship will be conducted under the leader­ship of Dick Hemenway and Evelyn Hallenbeck.

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDJ...Y

THURSDJ..Y

THROUGH THE WEEK AT FREMONT

4:00P.M. ' Girl Scouts. 7:30 P. M. Boy Scouts. 8:00 P. M. Board of Education Meeting.

7:30 P. M. Air Scouts.

2:30P.M. 7:30 P. 11.: . 8:30 P . M.

Weekday School of Religion. Mid -week Service. Planning Conference for Child­ren's Day.

7:30 P. M. Senior Choir rehearsal.

We extend a gracious welcome this morning to the members of the Cayadutta Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star as they worship with us in this service.

The lst Quarterly Conferences of the Methodist Churches in this vicinity, will be held at Fremont on Tuesday -June 8th. Supper will be served by the w.s.c.s.

Treasurers of the various organizations are r equested to prepare their bboks for audit.

Alta r Flowers to-day are the gift of the C.S.S. Class in Loving Memory of deceased members.

New ork Sta e Official. Organ of the

Anti-Saloon League of New York

ssue An Advocate of

Christian Patriotism

WALLACE H. MARSH, Editor 44 Howard Street, Albany, N. Y.

Volume XXXVII NOVEMBER, 1945 Number 3

Alcohol a11d the Adolescent Why do people drink? Why do they begin~ Usnally hecanse of social

invit8iion or pl'essnrc. Young people ch·ink because tller see their elders

drinking-; they come to think of it as a sign of manliness. o£ being ''grown

Ul)," a "man of the worJd." They see intoxicated men, occasionally, '\\C'a;ving

from one side of the street to the other or lying in a drunken stupor, and

they do not want eYer to be like that. But they also know highl~- respected

men-perhaps a father-who "drink like f!·eutlemen." TLey are certain they

can do the same. The clrnnks, they reason, arc weaklings who don't ]mow

bow to "handle liquor." 'l'hey will never allow themselves to be so elassified.

They do not reflect that probably the unfortunate victim once reasoned this

way himself. If tl1ese youths could use their imaginations retroRpectively they

might visualize these wrecks of humanity, forty or fifty years ago, ~s beautiful

babies with undreamed o.f potentialities. 'l'hey were not born drunkards­

society made them such by its lack of understanding, and neglect.

So a friend at a party or in a car offers the ~"outh a drink; of course, belieYing as he does, he takes it. He wonlcl be Ashamed not to clo so. Soon

he ·is drinking frequently and before long feels that he should buy bis own

drinks and treat others. Yet anyone who persuades another to drink is unwittingly mis-treating him.

'rite only safe and sane course for young people is to len.Ye bel'r, wine and ,,-hisky strict])- alone. 'l'he person who does that wilJ retain his self­

respl!•:t Hnc1 tlle ref'pcd of his fellows. He will miss nothing o£ val1te. Drinkers

arc 11<•t man]~· becanse they drink; in fact, excessive drinking ancl compulsive

drinking 1:re sig·ns of cmotiona l immaturity. It is best to grow up emotionally,

as well as physically, before even considering the taking of a first drink.-" John L. C. Goffin, M.D. "Alcohol and the Adolescent" in Health Education

Journal, Los Angeles City Schools, Los Angeles, Calif.

No Child Is Safe in any home whose social life is built around a liquor bottle. -Christian Advocate, 8/2/45.

Self Evident Truths: "Every drunkard was once a moderate drinker." "The one sure way to provide that one will never be a drunkard is never to drink." "The alcohol habit is worse than cancer or tu­berculosis." "Catholics sometimes through drink impose upon themselves a much greater handicap than prejudice ever placed upon them." "All drinking coop­erates with the liquor traffic in spreading temptation before those who will abuse drink." "Even quite moderate drinking noticeably increases profanity, blasphemy, obscenity."-Catholic Abstinence Society.

"The Lowest Trick in Beer Propaganda" is exposed by "Spotlight". It is "Cedric Adams' Sandwich Book for All Nations", dedicated to the Campfire Girls of Amer­ica. An attempt was made to get local Campfire Girls to sell the book. Sample copies contained no evidence that the brewers were interested in its sale. Those who bought the book were surprised and enraged to find at the bottom of every page, except the title page, the slogan "Serve Beer as a Beverage." Says Spot­light: "The beer propagandists have scraped the bottom of their bag of dirty schemes to popularize their product. To presume to use such a fine organization as the Campfire Girls to carry their prop­aganda into hundreds of homes is the lowest stunt they've tried yet. And they haven't heard the last of the matter yet." -American Issue.

Our Nation Spends twelve times as much for drink as for religion.-Religious Digest.

Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians have been enjoyed by millions of people in the music world for many years and now they will be enjoyed even more. It has been revealed that Mr. Lombardo and his entire band took a voluntary pledge of total abstinence the first time they went on the air; and, quoting the exact words of Mr. Lombardo: "We did not qualify this at all. We did not say we would not drink until such a time or w1til after the show. We just made it a practice, each and all of us, that we would not drink at any time or under any condition. We stuck to that one and here we are."-To-Morrow.

Paulist Fathers Stand for Total Ab­stinence: Boston, Mass. A new Catholic parish in Back Bay has been staffed by Paulist Fathers, whose work is personal perfection and zeal for souls outside the Catholic church. They also stand for the promotion of temperance and for total abstinence. Paulist Fathers will be given posts as spiritual directors in all 20 New­man Clubs for college students in Greater Boston as soon as the terms of present spiritual directors expire.

"01:, o", tc.11 The- 1'r.·,:ci1L'r'_., l'c~·u l:('r~-if it 1r.·fll llt'Cil M ltridgc clu!J 1n.~'tl 11.11'.: {ol,•hl gi,IB~s mu! a cQCkt.-til .shu

Juvenile Intoxication: Sir; I am enough to have been a teacher under old Brooks License Law (Pennsylvat also under the Prohibition Law, and yo enough to teach under repeal. The law wGs far better than the present set but Prohibition far surpassed either.

Never under Prohibition did I se child of school age show signs of ha' been drinking. Today to see them in icated is yery common. Elizabeth Radel, Waverly, N. Y.-Christian AdVO( 7jl6j45.

Hundreds of Stmlcnts have told me they are unable to resist the social ); sure of their group. Unforttmately, individual who finds it hard to be in minority, to resist the pressure of larger group, is often the one least to resist the tendency to become alcot It is the exciting, stimulating, pleasm surroundings of college drinking, when it is done in moderation, that m it a pru·ticularly dangerous influenc later life when individuals tmconscit tTY to recapture the thrills and excite· of their youthful pleasures and recal romantic atmosphere of the fraterni1 sorority.-Dr. George T. Harding, Pr sor of Clinical Psychiatry, Ohio University.

Seven Billion for Liquor-Half B for Church. Contributions by membE nineteen leading denominations in averaged, per capita, $16.75. The capita expenditure for liquor in the U States in 1944 was $54.00-approxirr $7,000,000,000 for liquor and only 695,471 for the Church.

han Any Medal! "Though it ts so short and hard, we know ·ight." This is the epitaph of

J ones, who died fighting in tes. It is contained in a Jetter tis buddies to Thomas' mother.

A Hero To Be Proud Of: Washington, .June 12 (AP) "As a man who has been exposed to both dangers, Field Marshall Sir Bemard L. Montgomery now realizes that Nazi Field Marshall Ervine Rommel's artillery was nothing compa1·ec1 to the social demands imposed by the Russians. The teetotaling hero o£ El Alamein has been under a barrage of 'bottoms up' re­quests since hostilities ended. Yesterday, when he received the Soviet's Order of Victory, Montgomery had to call on Gen­eral Eisenhower to save him. Marshall Gregory K. Zhukov and other Russians surrounded 'Monty' with glasses, insisting they be drained to the final drop. Dis­mayed, 'Monty' grinned sheepishly and looked hastily around. 'Ike, get me oLtt of this' he called. Eisenhower's grin was never broader. He shouldered his way to Montgomery's side. He explained to Zhukov's interp1·eter. Monty sighed with relief as the Russians indicated they un­derstood."-Washington Post, 6jl2j45.

tt, it is as eloquent a tribute paid by a friend to a fallen

c. Thomas Jones, although he tgressional Medal, is one of heroes of World War II. He ;tanding Christian life in the scenity, vulgarity, profanity, and spiritual illiteracy. He i advocated total abstinence >f officially encouraged clrink­nkenness. And his buddies Jugh his life was short and •w he lived it right."

111 any medal or words of is that magnificent tribute

m American boy.-National i.

:an Soldiers Were Killetl by I poisoning in bootleg liquor d Germany frorn February :h, 1045," as reported by the ~eon's office recently. Troops to be careful o£ their li(juor ber of deaths in that period, said, was higher than deaths cable diseases fo. all Amer-1 the continent.

;s that makes it necessary to care for its wreckage at : has no right. to complain ndertakes the right to con­!rance Ad,·ocate.

e G I's Side during post-you did in battle, Major

nk, of the Chief Chaplain's ~ton, D. C., told the Synod ~rian Church in session at "I know that there will be wral unrest in this period, J nothing about it by ser-must go out to these men burdens with them. You

isolating yourself in your the door is open to them. t by shaking their hands them on the street. You

sponsible for their morals. )Ut to meet them."

"The Sta.rs and Stripes in an editorial some ti!lle ago said that liquor was a con­tributing factor in 75r:;, of all Court Mar­tials. A regular army colonel who had been sitting on Court Marti:-~ls for years when asked "In what percentage of the cases he had tried, has liquor entered into the cases'?" He replied, "Chaplain. in 99 and 44jl00 per cent of the cases it has b·cn a most important factor." High ranking otficers <1lmost all agree that if the liquor Droblem could be solved most of our other iJroblcms would take cure of themseh·es. Johan Mulder, Chaplain (abroad three years) The Church Herald, 7/6/45.

General Marshall, in his report to the American people, said that the year France fell we spent five and a half billion dollars on tobacco and alcoholic products-"about three times the sum we devoted to our precarious national sectu·ity, even in the most critical hour of world history."

"We Must Not Forg·et that our business is dependent on the su.ff1:ance of the public. I have said this so many times that you may be tired of hearing it. We are not in a position like the shoe business, the clothing business, the flour business. They cannot be voted out of business, but we can be voted out ·of business! We have been in the past, and we can be in the future. What happened in 1919 can hap­pen again and will happen unless the brewing business is constantly on guard!" -Herbert J . Cha1·les, president of the United State Brewers Association-Brew­ers Digest, February, 1944.

"Had no Voice Been Raised against in­justice, ignorance and lust,

Is Over : But . .. There ~r war to win-the fight ~e business. "It is at the crime, poverty, seductions, lied to all that is evil and he high aims of civiliza­:u-d A. Kelly, formerly of Jiliversity. The inquisition still wo1Lld serve the law

And guillotines decide ouT least disputes."

BOOZE PROPAGANDA ON RADIO NETWORKS

The Columbia Broadcasting System sold beer and wine advertisers $2,047,000.00 worth of radio time in 1944. The Mutual Broadcasting System sold them $509,090.00 worth of network time and The Blue Net­work sold them $223,0G8.00 \'lorth of net­work time. Throughout the nation, reg­ional networks and individual stations sold them several millions of dollars worth of radio time for local programs. At choice evening hours every night the nation is blanketed by beer and wine ballyhoo, urg­ing the American public to buy, serve and drink various brands of alcoholic beYer ages.

Sale of beer and wine illegal in vast areas that are blanketed by booze broad­casts: The sale of wine is illegai in every foot of the states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi. Its sale is illegal in 162 r. nti r .:? cn1.1ntiP.s in Tcx 8.~ ns ·~v0.ll ~ ~ n1any additional precincts in other counties and in 86 of the 95 counties of Tennessee. Its sale is illegal in 82 counties in Georgia, 50 counties in Alabama, 19 counties in Minne­sota. 18 counties in Arkansas, 16 counties in North Carolina. 16 counties in Louisiana, 16 counties in Florida. 950 towns, town­ships and precincts in . Illinois, 510 towns and townships in Pennsylvania, 450 towns and townships in Ohio, 350 townships in Wisconsin, 311 towns in Maine, 121 towns in Vermont, 101 in New Hampshire, 65 towns in Massachusetts and in 88 of the 120 counties of Kentucky.

There is no local option on beer in Kan sas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Car­olina and Florida. In Mississippi 50 of the 82 counties prohibit the sale of beer. Otherwise the picture is the same with reference to beer that it is with reference to the sale of wine. Into these counties, townships. towns and political precincts the beer and wine advertisers pour a comtant deluge of booze drinking pl·op­aganda night after night. But the net­works and stations that carry these broad­casts in such open defiant Yiolation of the ':':ill of the people fls expressed by their \'Ole at the polls (until a recent order of the Federal Communications Commission) refused to let the dry side of the drink question be told over these same facilities.

"THE HUMAN RACE HAS CLIMBED ON PROTEST."

NEW YORK STATE ISSUE

Published in May.Juno. Seotember·October. No­~·tr:lbcr, J~nuary, .FeLruary and March by the Anti· S.loou League of Kew i ork, 44 Howard Street. Alban), N. Y. Ent~ • od as second-<:bss matter. Au~rust 29. 1941, at tile I:' . U. at Albany. N. Y .• nru!er the Act o! Congress of Mat·ch 3, 1879. Subscription SO' per year. ~otice tu Postmaster~­All form notices for chanJ.(es of address or discon­tinuance and all undelivtrable l)ap~rs (pertaining to the New York State lanuo) ohould be addre .. od to the Edi'tor, 44 Howaroi St .• Albany, N. Y.

DRINKING The nation's drinking habits are re­

flected to some extent in the fiction which gets into the magazines. lVIost any normal reader is somewhat shocked at times at the constant and free use of alcoholic beverages in the stories of American life, among people who are pictured as other­wise highly moral and noble.

To the teetotaler or near teetotaler the taking of a drink is one thing but the constant now of drink among men and women supposed to be representative of the best in American life is a puzzle. He wonders how they do it.

Either we are becoming a nat ion of highly refined sots or the authors are slightly o:IT key. Here in the country there is much liquor and many people go for it in one way or another but we do not ldd ourselves about it, it seems to us, quite as much as the city people described in 1h~se ln:lg(!zine storie~ ~1'?c:·n1 io.

When you give the baby a shot of Scotch for breakfast. empty a bottle or two wilh a friend and your wife does the same every night here in the country we'd say they were toss pots but the writers of these magazine stories picture them as nice people in nice homes in nice communities who are earning terrific sal­aries and are so noble in their love aiTairs that the nobility fairly sticks out of their ears.

Somebody it seems to us is a liar. Steady drinking on a heavy scale can't be done in even a good family without producing sots.

We once saw a man who had inherited a lot of money in a Surrogate's court and his nose didn't look any better to us than that of the btm1s in tbe city jail around the corne1·.-Monticello Watchman, 9j 28j45.

Sugar and Coca Cola: The Coca Cola Company has released to the War Food Administration 50.000 tons of sugar which it had stored in Puerto Rico and 100,000 tons in Peru. · The sugar had been accum­ulated for post war use. But you don't hear of the liquor industry releasing any­thing that it has to make liquor from that the public might be able to use.-Cbristian Civic League Record, Waterville, lVIaine.

"Corkscrews Have Sunk 1\'Iore People than cork jackets hm·e ever saved."-·Sir Thomas Lipton.

Rev. Fred. Clarke l0-5th Ave., Gloven:;ville. N. Y.