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Senator Norrii Does Not Agree with
Stand of the Navy League on
National Defense.
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United States Senator Norrls does
not agree with the Navy league on
matters relating to the national de
fense. He Is not for the building ot
a lot of battleships and cruisers Just
to see how powerful the nation can
make its naval fighting machine.
"We should be up-to-date In our
arm and navy, but 1 am opposed to
entering Into a competition with the
world to see which country can excel
at the game of preparedness," said
the senator.
favors government patronage of the
Christian Idea of Religion is the
Text of Sunday's Afternoon Sermon
V Rev. William A. Sunday preached yes
terday afternoon at the Tabernacle as
follows:
Subject: "Positive Against Negative He
ligion." I want to take two texts, one from the
Jllble and one from outside the Bible.
One is the expression of human desire,
the other 1 the snswer to that desire.
Gerald Stanley Lee in a recent article
oil adveitlslng goodness, said this: "I
viant to be good, but I don't want to go
tip in a mountain and do It, or sink off
I'.nd live all alone on an Island in the sea."
The other text I want to take is from
one of the Immortal prayers of the Blas
ter when He lifted his voice toward the
stars and said. "I pray not that thou
should'st take them out of the world, "bat
that thou should'st keep them from the
evlir John xvlMB.
There have been throughout all the
centuries two Ideas of goodness, the posi
tive and the negative The negative In
dex has been that In order to be good a
Js man must run away irom the world.
I J The positive Idea has been that In order
II to be not only good, but good for some
ay thing, a man must get into the world.
i l want to raise the question today as
1 want to strike the death blow at the
idee, that Ulng a Christian takes & man
out of the busy whirl of the world's life
and activity and makes him a spineless
and effeminate proposition.
I do not believe that a man has to run
away from the world In order to be re
ligious. I, too, have Jelt as you have,
with Alr."Ice, that I did not want to go
up Into a mountain or slink off all alone
nnd live on an Island in the sea In order
to be good, and I face the job of being a
Christian with joy, when I hear Jesus
saying: "I pray not that thou should st
take them out of tho world." for I know
that He expects a man to be good, not
alone behind stone walls of religious In
stitutions, but In the rough and tumble
of every-day life.
.. - No Need to Ran A war.
I want to write an indictment against
the idea of running away from the world
in order to be good. In this Indictment
there shall be four counts. Running away
from the world In order to be good makes
religion a matter of place and observe
ance. When a man locked himself In a
monastery la an effort to achieve, good
ness by that act he said It was easier to
be religious In a sheltered place' than out
in the hard-paved street. And that
religion ' consisted solely In certain ob
servance, such as proper, meditation and
Bible reading.
Just so there Is in America a type of
man who seems to think that his re
ligion Is summed up in the doing of &
tv lot of special things, such as attending
y hurch, singing psalms, saying prayers,
s i to" "nd wno eem" to think that re-
Jl ligon la confined to one day In the week
II and that the other six are the legitimate
field of the secular. Phillips Brooks had
at one time In his church such a man.
ills religion on Sunday was beyond criti
cism, but on every other day In the week
he did not allow his religion to Interfere
with any of his plans or places. And
every time Phillips Brooks approached
any man In that city on the subject of
religion this man was constantly brought
into the conversation. Phillips ' Brooks
was one of those men who believed that
if a preacher bad any criticism to make
on a man' conduct there -was just one
Place to make It, and that was squarely
Into the man's teeth.
8o Phillips Brooks said to the man:
livery time I approach any man in this
community on the matter of religion
your name In mentioned, and men say
that, while you seem to be loyal to your
religion On Sunday, on week days they
rind you a man of very low business
Ideals and tricky methods. Now,, why
thould you be a different man on Moti
day or Wednesday or Saturday than on
Sunday?" The man's answer is a signifi
cant thing, lie d.d not blush. He did
not summer, but said: 'Well, you can
not expect a man to be pious all the
time, can you? You cannot expect a
man to be attending vesper services all
me time, can you? You cannot expect
man to be reading his Blulo all the
time or praying all the time, can you? A
xaun nae to earn his bread."
Hellloa ip All Tbiaa.
Just as though earning one's bread
and being religious were utterly Inconsis
tent and incompatible. Just as though
i - ..-.--v. m attending
II church service, readlug Che Bible, sins-
W in psalms and praying. Just as though
il relision consisted In rinlnv m Ia
Hal things. As I have said so many times
before, religion does not consist In doing
a lot of special things, even though those
special things be good things; but r'm
lon consists in doing all things la a
special way.
Kellgion Is not a matter of time, place,
circumstances or observance, and. there
fore, an Idea of religion which either lit
erally or figuratively causes a man to
run away from the world In order to be
good la a false Idea of religion.
Running away from the world in or
der to be good makes religion sellish.
If a man runs away from the world
In order to be good, by his very act he
says that religion Is simply and inly a
private affair with, htm a enmcthlng
labeled for external use and home con
sumption only.
We have produced in America by that
idea a religious type of men whe ar re
ligious in the best sense of the r! In
their private lives, tout who in their lib-
resswnal. commercial, social sn I innus
.4 trial relations where other wo. lr acu
coocerned do not sneiu to think ?ht tlul,
reunion n-o necessarily enter. I., o'ner '
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or rtiTguin rtti Jr t',eo , . .
iive.ii wnose private met are
I. lot
ahote public lives irr veiy I
r, i
militia. He would have a "connecting
link" between the regular army and the
national guard and has voted for two
bills along this line.
To t'.acoaraav Mlltlla.
"T maintain that the national guard
should he encouraged by tho government.
Kor Instance, when the guard goes on
hike for drill practice, I believe compen
sation should be allowed. There should
be more incentive for the tuiltlng up of
the national imrrt," was a statement he
made In an Interview at the National
Farmers' convention hall.
The senator aays rural welfare should
be one of the problems of the nation.
"Where do we go for our aoldlera in time
of need? largely to the rural communi
ties. Where do we get our beat sol
diers? Not from the alums of the
cities." was another comment.
Senator Norrls was disinclined to dis
cus politics at this timi). He said he
was too busy with other matters to think
of politics. The state situation has not
shaped itself to an extent that would war
rant him giving a forecast.
The senator has been looking over the
Irrigation projects In the west end of the
state.
A "For Sale" ad will turn second-hand
furniture Into cash.
Instance: We have produced men who.
while they would not shoot a ninu with
a pistol, will sit In New Tork City or
Philadelphia and by a vote In the board
of directors' meeting set In motion forces
which ultimately may take a mail s life
out on the Pacific slope months after
ward. Men who would not pick the
pockets ot one man with the fingers of
their hand will, without hesitation, pick
the pockets of SD.OOO.VO people with the
fingers of their monopoly or- commer Isl
advantage. Men lu whose hands the
virtue of your wife or daughter would
be as safe as in' your own, but who will
very year drive hundreds of canes
of virtue over tho line Into vice l y
the pressure ot starvation wages which
they pay. ilen who will gladly rt'aw
their check for 10,X and give It to a
children's hospital and see nothing ridicu
lous In the fact that the 110,000 for the
children's hospital came out of jljonoo
made from a system of child labor which
crushes more children In one year ;ian
the hospital will heal In ten. In other
words, this Idea has produced a type of
man In America who seems to. be very
religious In his private life, but exactly
the opposite In his public life.
True to Marriage Vows.
By tlxls Idea of religion, we have pro
duced a type of man who will be true
in his wife and his marriage vows, but
will go out and graft in politics. We
have a type of man who will not sell
you poison while you are looking at him,
but will sell adulterated food that will
kill people 2.0O miles away. If religion
don't make you sell good goods. It Isn't
worth three whoops this side of hell. I
say, I don't give a snap of my fingers
for what a man's private life la If hu
publio life la rotten. I don't give a rap
how pious you look on Sunday If you
look like the, devil on Monday.
Somebody needs to say It so loudly
that It can be heard around the world
that Christianity Is a religion not only
for the private life of a man, but a re
ligion to be translated Into every nook
and corner of his Ufo, publio as well as
private, I haven't much respect for a
man's religion as It walks down the car
peted aisle of a cathedral if he fails to
make good the next morning' behind his
counter.
Running away from the world In or
der to be good makes morality negative.
The Idea In running away from the world
Is, of course, to get away from the bad
things and from temptations, and when
ever a man adopts that policy invariably
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Bornhauser Will Meet Public,
Beginning Saturday, and
Explain Tanlac.
Nothing In recent years In Omaha has
created quite as much comment of thd
kind as the announcement that Tanlac
the "Master Medicine," will be sold here.
Omaha la, indeed, fortunate to secure
an exclusive agency for Tanlac, km it
will be one of the first cities In Ne
braska to derive the benefits of the
premier preparation, although the med
icine has been previously sent to I4n
colu and oilier yoluLs in this state to
people who had heard of Its fawa lu
other states.
John A. Bornhauser, who came to Ne
braska to lersonally direct the intro
duction of Tanlac, will be located dally
at the Sherman ft McConnell Company'
store, Sixteenth and Dodge streets,
where he will meet the public and cour
teously explain the preparation.
Mr. ttornliauser spent some busy mo
ments yesterday afternoon and evening
at his hotel, where he met peop.e who
are familiar with the success the med
icine hks achieved in other section of
the country.
"Prominent residents of Omaha," .aid
Mr. Bornhauser, "requested us to give
the people of your elty and section the
saime advantages of our medicine that
we gave the people of other largj
American cities, where we have been for
many months assisting thousands in
those great centers to . regain their
health.
"We finally yielded to these solicita
tions aiiii while here will prove to evey
one how easy it Is to guard against tin
Inroads of ill health by safeguarding
your health as carefully as you do some
other features of your dally Nfe.
Catarrhal affections of the head,
nose, throst. stomach and kidneys fin
ally produce a stuffed up condition of
the vital organs, and nine times out of
ten this trouble Is responsible for most
of the ill health of we present-da?
Americans. Our faulty methods of liv
ing are back of it all. but It Is never
too late to correct our faults.
Tsnlar, the 'Master Medicine,' we,
are Introducing to combat this distress
ing and ssdly prevalent condition, we
believe. Is he tl.e heat rswnedy of t -.
kind on trie American market loiav
Tina fact has been proven in tile r e
lilies and w'll lie. onn,itlo al ,
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proven here. Tiimmandii
now te-niy .
rit of Tsnlsc sn I exiir -nn
j abiding fslt'i In lis lotrti u a nil , .. 1 1 .
j nre- st a lion." Ailvei lis. im-nf.
Ms whole life In spent In the attempt to
be not bad. Now, of course, there must
be a negative side to morality. A man
can never he the msn he ought to be
unless ho does not do certain things,
but. after all, thnt la only half of mor
ality. Religion of llan'ta.
You have s,en men whose whole re
ligion was Hummed up in a decalogue of
dont'a and whose whole effort seemed
to be to curb the lifo of the world.
Morality Is pontilve m well as nega
tive, and when a man has succeeded in
not doing tho bad things of life he has
won but the first half of the bsltle. To
that negative side he must add a great
positive side.
It is significant that Jesus said "Thou
Shalt" oftrner than he said "Thou shalt
noL" I think He did that bemuse He
knew thst tho beat way to avoid doing
bad things was to be everlastingly busy
doing good things. Kvery now and then
I hear somebody say. '1 tried to be good,
but I could not." 1 haven t much sym
pathy with thnt type, for I know that in
nine cases out ot ten the man hasn't tried !
to bo good at all. He simply tried not to!
be bad and trying to bo not bad Is about j
the tiioxt difficult and discouraging job
In the world. It is just like trying to be
not extravagant or not anything. It you
ever tried to be not extrsvagsnt, you
know how hard a thing It is.
Madlee Kconoiny,
I heard of a man the other day who
solved the problem of extravagance and
economy In the only sensible way. His
wife was overspending the family In
come; something had to bo done, lie
knew It would do no good to give her a
curtain lecture on economy. It would
simply bring on another one of those
domestic explosions whoso names are
legion. Instead of that he came into the
room with a smile and said, "I saw a
Baldwin grand piano in the store this
aftnrnoon which I think wo ought to
have. Bundle up the kids snd we'll go
down this evening and look it over." The
wife nearly fainted; she did not know
whether John wns sick or getting re
ligion, or what whs the matter with htm.
Hut she and the children went. The man
demonstrated the piano and John said,
"Send It up." They bought It, like many
of you buy things, on the Installment
plan. Vp to that time John had not
hinted economy, but Mary of her own
accord said, "John, If we ever pay for
fhls piano we will bavo to be a little
more economical In our spending." John
smiled and said, "All right." The wlfo
begsn to figure out this place and that
place where saving could be made, and
by the time the Baldwin grand was paid
for tho entire family had got the habit
of economy and did not break away from
it after the piano was paid for. You see,
he understood the negative is never tho
bout side on which to approach a prob
lem, and there Is a Baldwin grand prin
ciple In religion as there is in economics,
and the man who becomes wrapped up
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in the job of Ixing and doing big anil
positively good things need never worry
very much alout avoiding that bad things
thst will come as a by-product of his bat
tle for goodneoa.
Running ssy from the world In order
to be good Is not Christian. Of course, I
know that tho arilecttve 'Vhrlstlnn" Is
rather a tricky adjective to use before
the avetage American audience; theie are
so many notions and Ideas about Chris
tianity thnt you are never quite sure that
a crowd knows what you mesn when you
say t'rrlstlitn: but I assure you that is
Christian which is moat like Jesus, nnd
certainly if there ever was a person who
did not run away from the world In eider
to bo good It was Jesus. He mingled
frroly and frsnkly with the rough sn.l
tumble of overy-day life. He rubled el
bows with all sorts and conditions of men.
He did it so freely that religious high
brows of the dsy criticised him M-erelj;
they ended him a glutton, a wine btblvr
and a frieid of the publicans and sinners,
first I sed aa a Sneer.
Now we use the phrase "The friend of
lubl leans and Sinners" In our sermons
today as a high Compliment to Jesus,
and rightly so. But we ought to remem
ber that when those words were first
spoken they were intended ss a sneer
and a criticism against Jesus for rubbing
elbows with all sorts slid conditions of
men. And It Is a supremo compliment
to Jesus that He could teke this sneer
fmm the curling lips of scorn and trans
mute it Into tho greatest compliment
paid to any one.
There's the same old carping criticism
In Omaha today thnt Jesus had to con
tend with. Same old devils at work.
We consider them as compliments.
Jesus did run around with a very com
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mon sort, but when He left them they
were not quite so common as they were
before He met them, and that Is the
acid test of your religion, when you fol
low It directly Into the hesrt of the
world.
Your sole thought should not bo to
keep the man bv your side from drag
ging you to hell, but your sole thought
should be leading the man to heaven.
Certainly Jesus was not asi-etli'. Ills
goodness was not of the hothouse vailety,
It was a robust, red-blooded type that '
did not fear contact with the world.
Kor these four reasons I am convinced i
that to be a Christian does not demand ;
running awsy from the world In order '
to save one's self half so much as It does .
getting Into the world In order to save It. !
The sentence hss been rliiRlng down I
the centuries. "What shall It profit a
man If he gain the whole world and lose
his own soul." But when once a man's
soul hns heeit saved It la a good thing
for him to say, "What shall It profit a
man If ho save his own soul but the
whole world be lost?"
In the thinking of Jesus, religion wns
two things: First, sn anll-toxln render
ing a man Immune from the poisons
of sin.
Hecond, a powder blast behind the man.
sending him like a bullet Into the very
center of the world, there to act as
leaven on the lump, nnd as a witness to
the world of the Ixml Jesus llirlst.
(Copyright, William A. Sunday.)
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