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tb mit Me, * mL tp cms timr i 34> "og i WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1924 13 HEROISM GONE FROM RELIGION North Shore Pastor Sees Modern Religion Fight- ing a Losing Battle FEAR OUSTS COURAGE Kindergartners Told to Take Up Fight In an address to the students of the National Kindergarten and Ele- mentary college this week, Rev. James A. Richards of the Winnetka Congre- gational church brought home "most forcefully the fact that there is some- thing wrong with the religion of to- day--not in the religion itself, but in its human expression. "The religion that ought to supply the world with its joy and power is doing little more than fight a' losing rear-guard en- gagement," said Mr. Richards. No Shout of Battle In answer to the question "What is wrong with religion?" Mr. Rich- ards pointed out that it is largely a matter of loss of heroism. "The first Christian years are vibrant with the shout of battle," said he, "but since then Christianity has not been so much a thing of heroism as of fear. Its message has been ose of escape from ills present, rather than an at- tempt to destroy these ills. The pres- ent colorlessness of religious life is not due to the time in which we live. The difference lies in the fact that the early Christians were thorough about their religion. We are not. They were not afraid to face the facts, to live a self-directed life. We drift. We allow the pleasure of an extra half hour in bed, or to the temptation to tickle our palate with an unusually good dinner to chse us fom the field of Sunady obsevance. Silence is "Cowardice" Mr. Richards pointed out the fact that one of the greates powers in every religious movement has been religious conversation. Not the "I am better than thou" monologue, but simple, earnest conversation. "Eighty percent of the spiritual silence of our more cultured classes is sheer cow- ardice," said Dr. Richards. "It is only as true religious experiences are uni- versalized and carried through con- versation from one individual to an- othe that they will ever be carried into the larger group and built into the corporate life of the nation; the political and intelletcual life of the world." Must Regain Heroism "Many so-called Christians believe that life can be divided into compart- ments," said Mr. Richards. "They say that the ethics of Jesus are mag- nificent for the home and possibly for the school and the community, but they have nothing to do with politics or business or he clash of govern- ments that fill the world with war. He challenged the students to take out their ideals, brush off the dust or tarnish and set them up where they could see them, for the Chris- tian of today is called to a quest as heroic as that of the early Christians. He is called to fight against all the inertia, the partisanship, the greed and selfish sloth of things as they are, but the fight must begin with the individual. "There is something wrong with religion, and will be until we regain the lost heroism of Chris- tianity," he concluded. There is now one telephone for every seven people in the United States. Ten years ago there was one telephone for every 10 people; and in 1900 there was only one telephone BALANCE OF ROOM AND PICTURES IMPORTANT There must always be a proper and natural balance between the size of a room and the size of the picture that is to hang in it. This is so ob- vious a statement that it hardly seems necessary to make it. Still it is sur- prising the number of violations one sees of this simple rule of decorative art. Often people move from a large house into a small apartment and without giving the matter a second thought, upon the wall of the living room they hang the large, heavily- framed picture that formerly adorned the spacious wall of a wide, high- ceiled room. There it delighted the vision with a perfect blending of col- ors and subject, due to the atmos- pheric witchery of distance. In the ehh koh dohbhbddkb kbd dokbdd ag a ---- ~~fo) MEMORIES VEN when they have become dimmed, half forgotten, the impressions of childhood continue always to influence our lives. What then is more important than that we strive to create environment for our children that will cause _ theirmemories to be precious-- that will rightly affect their impressionable minds. Just now we are thinking partieu- larly of a stately hall clock. Above Al elie that enters iio buss fae , it e the dignity, a SD . of home. 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Hunter, Hostess Thanksgiving Dinner From 1:00 to 4:00, Price $2.00 Country Club Bouilon or Oyster Cocktail Celery, Olives, Salted Nuts Roast Turkey, Cranberry Sauce Mashed Potatoes or Candied Sweet Potatoes Corn Pudding Head Lettuce, Roquefort Cheese Dressing Coffee Glencoe, Illinois Plum Pudding Ice Cream, Fruit Cake Raisins small flt the perturbed members of the family are at a loss to know what is the matter with the picture. They think it has suddenly grown ugly or old-fashioned! The fact is that it an- neys them because its entity is crush- ed in that small space." As a decor- ation it is too heay and insistent--an unforgivable offense in the interest of good taste. The small or medium-sized room should be adorned with pictures of like proportion having frames that are not too heavy nor deep. Pictures should never be crowded on a wall. The size of a picture'in proper rela- tion to-the wall space that'it occupies usually is such that there is a com- fortable sense of roominess all around it. The Kenilworth Union church an- nounces a series of illustrated lectures by Dr. F. R. Moulton of the depart- ment of astronomy of the Univer- sity of Chicago. The general title of the lectures will be "Other Worlds than Ours." These lecture will be held in the Church Guild room on the following. Friday evenings at 8 o'clock: November 21, subject, "Our System of Worlds; Novémber 28, "The Starry Heavens;" December 5, "The Birth, Growth and Destruction of Worlds." Tickets for the course cam he secured at the door or by phoning Mrs. Farley, Kenilworth 1392. The number of telephone conversa- tions that take place annually in the United States averages over 174 for every man, woman and child in the country. 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