THE ALLIANCE HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1922.
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At -future boxing matches, Young
Eilly Papke will miss one face that he
nee shook hands with.
TODAY'S BEST STORY.
She was from Boston, he from Ok
lahoma. "You have traveled a great
leal in the West, have you not, Miss
Bacon?"
"Oh yes, indeed in California and
Arizona and even in New Mexico."
"And did you ever 6ee the Cherokee
strip?"
There was a painful silence, but
finally she looked over her glasses at
him and said: "Sir, I deem your ques
tion exceedingly rude."
There are people who condemn sin
just to have an excuse to talk about
it.
our legaiTdepartment.
Dear Random Shootist: Me goil ac
cepted a karat and a half diamond ring
from me and gave me the go-by. She
siays it's all off. That doesn't fret me
much, but can I recover the diamond ?
Unfortunate Ambrose.
Friend Ambrose: Perhaps this will
help you decide on a course of action.
It's always been a question as to who
owns an engagement ring when the en
gagement is broken. The question
came up in a New York City court the
other day. The ring, worth $660, was
put in the judge's hands. "Do you
want this precious ring or thisprecious
girl ?" he asked of the man. "The girl,"
was the reply. "Will you have this man
or give up this ring?" the judge asked
the girl. "I'd like to think it over,"
was her non-committal reply. The
court gave her three months' time for
deciding, and meanwhile gave the ring
into the custody of the man's lawyer,
indicating its opinion that an engage
ment ring belongs to the suitor if he
is finally rejected. - s , -, .
OLDSTORY.
' (Scottsbluff Star-Herald.) .
There is a man in Scottsbluff who
is very much wrapped up in his busi
nes, so much so that he leaves home
early in the morning before the
youngsters are up and returns in the
evening after they are abed. But
the other night his wife was called
to sit up with a kinswoman who was
ill and it was up to the husband to
care for the youngsters. The wife
Arrived home in the morning and asked
ns to how he fared.
"Oh, I got along fairly well," he re
plied, "but that red headed girl of ours
I had to spank before I could make her
go to bed."
"Why that wasn't our girl," the
wife gasped. "She belongs to the
neighbor family across the street."
This is a companion yarn to the old
one about the railway brakeman who
worked nights and who didn't have
much time to get acquainted with his
family. One morning he got up on the
wrong side of the bed and his small
son annoyed him by screeching and
yowling out in the yard. He ordered
the boy to pipe down, but got no re
sults. And so, in the time hono
way, he "attended" to hisf offspring.
The latter, howling louder than evei
ra nto his mother. "Mamma," he
bawled, "that strange man who sleeps
here nights spanked me."
Brings back old times when we read
an editorial telling how much the
Harding administration ha3 accom
plished. Remember the billboard slogan:
"Let's Be Done With Wiggle and Wob
ble," so prevalent before the 1920 land
slide? Well, at Fremont they tell us
that one of those signs is still stand
ing. The bill poster forgot to cover it
up, and now they say it's needed more
than ever. - .
KEEP UP WITHYOUR SLANG.
Learn a new word a day, and be
able to understand the high school
kids. Noman or woman can converse
intelligently with a child these days
unless he knows the language.
Words for today:
GOON A person with a heavy
touch, as distinguished from a
JIGGER A person with a light
touch.
Freely translated, this means that a
jigger looks on life with a genial eye,
and goons take a more stolid and lit
eral view.
It was a treat dav last Sundnv in
the new church. All services were
largely attended. The Sunday school
numlered 2i)0, with many more prom
ising to attend. Plans arc being made
as rapidly as possible for a program
of activities that will practically take
all the time. Our trustees and official
members plan to have the social hall
of the church a place where all who
wish can find plenty of innocent help
ful amusement. It will be a center of
the best entertainment the community
affords, as well as plenty of fun, the
best of all, where religion is not left
out.
Services will be at the usual hours
next Sunday. The Sunday school
meeting at 10 o'clock, has been partly
reorganized. Dr. E. C. Drake has been
elected general superintendent, and
one more department has been organ
ized, the Elementary, including the
second, third and fourth grades of
children. Mrs. Nellie Wilson will be
superintendent of this department, and
it will have one of the large rooms in
the basement.
Epworth league will be held at 6:30.
Very soon some new features and ac
tivities will be added to the league.
We invite all young people who want a
good time and a chance to serve, to
become members.
The sermon topics will be as fol
lows: 11 o'clock, "Modern Infidelity;"
7:30 o'clock, "A Fearless Prophet."
M. C. SMITH, Pastor.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
A splendid prayer meeting was en
joyed last Wednesday, with Winifred
Tibbits as leader. She took for her
topic "The Reasonableness of Prayer."
The pastor is glad to announce that
he will preach at both services Sun
day. However, he will not baptise un
til the following week owing to the
fact that there are several who want
him to explain several questions as to
church, etc. . So we will wait and
baptise a larger number later.
We are beginning to prepare for our
Easter services. The pastor will preach
during "His Last Week," beginning
April 9, and we will study every even
ing the last week of our Lord's life.
These sermons will be evangelistic in
tone and we are expecting additions
to the church as the result.
We hear much praise of our orches
tra, this makes us feel proud of them,
and the choir also is making headway.
Subject for the men's Bible class is the
first in a series of studies in "The
Great Crisis of Christ's Life."
Sermon topics as follows: Morning,
"Growing Faith." Evening, "A Thrill
ing Example of Brotherhood."
Welcome to the friendly church with
the friendly grip.
B. J. MINORT, Pastor.
nrpears in her room at midnight a per
fect specimen, as thotijrh made to
onler for her pui-pose. Rut he's there
with intent to rob, which complicates
tnatters somewhat. The working out
of the plot from this point is interest
ing and full of suspense.
Sunday comes Charles Ray in "The
Old Swimmin' Hole." The press arent
chortles: She was fickle and faithless
to Ezra. She took his candy, his ap
ples, 'n' everything; V then she turned
him down! The Wampl Come laugh
and cry through six reels of youth in
James Whitcomb Riley's famous poem,
screened as he wrote itl
ministry. No doubt there are too
many puch misfits in the pulpit, but
not ns many as there wei-c. Hut if
we remain quiet under such a sugges
tion, we certainly cannot blame the
world for thinking we are cowards.
WhO ha.4 A hrttor fio-Jif fn n1l 4k.
.. ii ii ii my Hum i
to my people than I ? And from whom
inquiry a neiier rigni to expect the
truth than from the one they have
called to be pastor, and whose salary
they pay?
On Monday rearl White in "Know
Your Men" is the attraction. It is the
Ftory of a girls' awakening to the real
ities of life and its hardships just
when she was happiest. When the
blow falls it carries with it her father,
her fortune and even the man she
loves who turns out to be a cad. Her
subsequent life is an effort to make
up for the light moments she frit
tered away, but again, when she
has a chance to be happy with a hus
band who really loves her, she Is driv
en to misfortune and desperation.
THE PARSONS CORNER
By Rev. B. J. Minort, Pastor of
the First Baptist Church, Alliance
ARE PREACHERS COWARDS?
How two or more preachers could sit
still at the recent "welfare" meeting
held at the court house and say noth
ing when the president said that the
preachers should exchange pulpits and
speak on a certain subject, "because
preachers can tell other congregations
the truth much better than they can
tell their own congregation, because
they are not so afraid to say some
things to strangers as they are to their
own people," is beyond me.
It reveals the old conception of the
ministry that we too often find in fic
tion that the minister is a man who
is so soft that he dares not sit down,
who dares not Bay anything for fear
some godless member of his church will
open his, or more often, her, mouth.
This wishy-washy conception of the
ministry is the curse of the church to
day. -The man who is so good that
he dares not say anything; the man
who has a backbone made of a fiddle
string, and legs out of putty, that are
too often too soft to hold him up, there
fore he seldom wanders far from his
study-cot for fear some long tongued
woman who is everlastingly trying to
reform this or that will say, "Ooh."
Tonitrht Alliance movie natrons will
have a second and last opportunity to'
see Betty Compson in "The Little I
Minister. ' This film proved most pop
ular last night, and it is expected that
there will be enough readers of thisi
popular book by Sir James Barne to
fill the theater again this evening.
Saturday, in addition to the usual
four acts of vaudeville, Miss DuPont
in "Shattered Dreams" will be the
feature photoplay. It's a story of a
woman who loves her art a great deal
and men not so much until a man
came along who is bad enough and
hopeless enough to interest her. She
is a sculptress. Her art is her life.
But she wants to do a statue of an
Apache and for that she must have a
perfect type. And Apaches are rot
fond of appearing in daylight. They're
not simply bashful; they have a few
murders apiece to their credit and
can't afford daylight. Then an Apache
Exchange pulpits, so that the
preachers will "dare to tell the truth."
Shades of Wesley and Spurgeon.
What are we coming to? Exchange
pulpits because a preacher does not
dare to say anything to "his" congre
gation. Good Lord, what are we coming
to in this Western country? Is this
the conception that the people have of
us? Shall we remain silent and let
the world get such a flimsy idea of
what we are? Are we less men be
cause we are preachers?
Do our congregations expect us to
sugarcoat the truth, because we are
their pastor? Do these same congre
gations expect only an outsider to tell
the truth? Are we such miserable
cowards that we must hire another or
exchange with another occasionally in
order that people get a little truth?
Perhaps this "welfare" organization
will do some good yet if it doesn't do
anything else than point the world to
the fact that our pulpits are filled with
a lot of cowards. If such we are, the
world ought to know it, for it pays
our salaries.
Personally, I have nothing but con
tempt for such a conception of the
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Next Lord's day being "Neighbor's
Day" you are requested to come and
bring your neighbor to all the services.
There are many who do not attend
any church. Get the whole family to
attend. The sermons will be in keep
ing with the day. For the morning
subject the minister will answer the
question, "Who Is My Neighbor?" At
trie evening hour the subect will be,
'The Kingdom of Heaven." With this
subject we shall endeavor to find out
what our Lord meant by the use of
the term and its relationship to hu
manity. We have been hel ped so much
in our worship and praise by the Junior
Orchestra. They will continue to play
each Sunday. Mrs. Fosdick has from
twelve to fourteen pieces in this or
chestra. A large choir will sing at
both services. At the evening hour
special mutic by men's voices will be
rendered.
You will be benefited by attending
the Endeavor prayer meeting at 6:30
in the evening.
When you pre in need of worship
that thrills the soul remember the
hou.-e of God is open at all services,
open at all services.
Come to the church with a message
and a -welcome.
STEPHEN J. EPLER, Minister.
METHODIST CHURCH.
(Corner Seventh and Box Butte.)
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I have no objection to exchanging
pulpits for other reasons, but not for
the reason that I am afraid to tell my
people the truth. The members of the
Baptist church are told the truth, and
often it hurts them, but they love their
pastor for it. We have never had a
more loyal people, and I am sure they
would not think much of me if they
thought I invited another preacher to
my pulpit to tell them what I was
afraid to say.
Personally, if I thought they had
SUCh a flimsv concent Inn of th mnrnl
character of their pastor, there would
oe anouier preacner leaving town.
Such a coward is not fit for the minis
try, for the minister wrhethnp ha uristi.
es or not, is looked upon as a leader
ana an example ror the young life of
the community.
A preacher should be a perfect ex
ample of moral and physical sourage.
His people ought to demand this of
him. His education may not be per
fect and he ca nbe a good preacher;
his social standing may not be high,
neither was Christ's, but he still can
be a good preacher and pastor.- But
if he lacks physical and moral courage,
he is not fit for the pulpit.
The man who is afraid to tell the
unvarnished .truth to his people, yet
will go to another's congregation and
tell what he is afraid to tell his own,
in my way of looking at it, is a hypo
crite and nothing else. Yes, sister, I
will perhaps tell my people what you
want me to, if it is of sufficient im-
fortance, but for goodness" sake don't
nsult my people or their pastor by in
timating that another must do it be
cause he is afraid to. At our church
the truth is told twice a Sunday and
often during the week and instead of
the people getting mad, they love us
for it. They pay me a comfortable
salary to do that very thing. ' And,
God helping me,-it will be done. We
are neither afraid of devil or woman.
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