Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 68, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1924 — Page 8

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VALUE OF HAVING A SAVING FAITH TOLD IN SERMON Rev, Fackler Preaches on. ‘Worthless Christianity./ "A saving faith is living, active,” the Rev. L. C. E. Fackler said Sunday at St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church while speaking on "Worthless Christianity.” "A living faith exerts itself to show forth • deeds that are pleasing unto God and it reveals a worth while-Christianity,” the Rev. Fackler said. “Every real object,” he said, “has its imitation, likewise Christianity. Imitation Christianity may be called pretentious Christianity or hypocrisy, pretending to be what one is not. Such a Christianity is good-for-nothing Christianity, or a worthless Christianity. It' is against this that the Apostle James warns. "Those who want to boast of their Christianity generally point first of all to their works, which in themselves are worthless. “Those whd rely on their works for salvation are deceived by a false perfection. We are not justified by the deed of the law. There is not one that can work his way into Heaven by means of his works. “There are some works that appear good to the eyes of man; even a heathen may perform a noble act, but it is not sin atoning. How can a clean thing come out of an unclean thing? We are not saved by works lest any man should boast. James says if a man should keep the tjhole law and yet offend in one point he is guilty of all. So closely are the laws related to one another.

Offending the Law “The transgression of one commandment may not be as great as the trangression of another, but in either case the same lawgiver has been offended —that is sin. You cannot divide God, neither can you separate His law. “Those who think that they can be saved on the strength of the works which they think are good are laboring under a deception. Paul says dead works brings no justification, no man is justified by the works of the law. Those works performed with the view of getting credit In heaven are worthless. That Christianity that encourages such work3 is a worthless Christinaity. “There is also a worthless love practiced so openly today. Such a love has no mercy, no charity. James asks, if a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of failv food, and one of you say unto them, ‘Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body, whft does it profit’? Do you understand what you read? , “This apostle looks deep into human nature and sinful disposition, and brings to light that which many do not like to. face. Many people will look at the distressed and speak so tenderly and kindly in the most sanctimonious tone! Oh, you are certaintiy in great need, and I know the Lord will care for you. He has given some people suffioient that they can care for you. You will find someone to administer unto you.’ Then they will dismiss them ■with, ‘Go in peaca’; I hope that you will be fed and sheltered; and givefthem nothing. Has such an one the understanding of these words inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these, my brthren, ye have done it unto me?

Asking'a Question “What kind of a Christianity is that does not move a heart to care for the distressed? Is that one a Christian who is not moved to show forth love for the afflicted? “Worthless Christianity is branded with a worthless faith. What does it profit brethren though a man say he has faith aijid has not works can faith sa e him'? # If a man says he has faith and does not prove it his faith is dead. The proof of our faith is in the confession we make of the revealed truth and the life which corresponds to such a scriptural teaching. Christianity is not only something of the head but also of the hand. “Works without faith is not saving; loving words without action is hypocrisity, and a saying that we believe without evidencing the truth in the actions is a deception. “If we have a true living faith we will produce the fruits of faith which are good works. True works and true love are established on a living faith an living faith will not remain Idle. By grace ye are saved through faith,” Rev. Fackler said. DAILY RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Churches Should Develop© WeekDay Programs. In his sermon Sunday on “The Most Significant Aspect Today of the Christian Movement of Religious RHEUMATISM GREATLY HELPED Helen Harvey, Indianapolis. Ind., Amazed at Benefit Received From Todd’s Tonic, Which Has the Strength-Building Qualities of Rare Old Wine. “I suffered from rheumatism of the muscles so badly that I was in a weakened condition and needed a good tonic. A friend of mine induced me to buy a bottle .of Todd's Tonic tfud I certainly was amazed at the results I obtained. 1 I haTe taken five bottles In all and have gained twelve pounds in weight. I am certainly well pleased with the results that Todd's Tonic gave me and I cannot recommend it too highly.” HELEN HARVEY 2934 Northwest™ Ave.. Indianapolis, Ind. Todd's Tonic, with its wine-like flavor, is most pleasant to take. See Mr Glubok and he will courteously explain the merits of this wonderful tonic to you at Haag’s Cut Price Drugs. 114 N. Pean. St.. 65 Virginia Ave., £o2 Mass. Ave., 816 S Alabama St.. 53 S. Illinois St.. 27 S. Illinois St., 103 W. Wash. St., 156 N. Illinois St. TODDS ONIC LAXATIVE TABLETS—"A Dose at Night—Makes Everything ilight."—Advertiaenaeai.

Education,” the Rev. Charles VL Reed, pastor of the Woodside Methodist Episcopal Church, advocated a more fully developed weekday education in Protestant churches. “There is no problem dnd no task so Important in the church today as religious education,” the pastor said. FAREWELL SERMON The Rev. W. O. Trueblood to Leave the First Friends Church. The Rev. Willard O. Trueblood, preached his final sermon Sunday before retirement as pastor of the First Friends Church where he has for more than twelve years. the Hands of Jesus” was the subject of his sermon. RAPS PETTY QUARRELS Pastor Says Church Cannot Fkirfction When Wrangling. Church quarrels and petty disputes as to creeds were rapped by the Rev. Edwin Dunlavy of Roberts Park Methodist Church Sunday in his morning sermon. The Rev. Mr. Dunlpvy declared' the modern church cannot convince people of the Christian life and passionate soul of the life of Jesus by fundamentalist-modernist disputes. WEAK ANKLES “Too Many Men and Women Are Sideliners,” Says Rev. Andrews. The Indianapolis Gospel Chorus heard the Rev. D. Lee Andrews, of Lawrence, of the Ft. Harrison M. E. Church, fa a sermon Sunday at Tomlinson Hall on “Weak Artkles.” "Too many men and women are sideliners who themselves can not star in playing the game of life aright,” he declared. A CHRISTIAN’S DUTY He Should Remember to Vote on Election Day, Says Pastor. The true Christian seeks to uphold the principles of Christ, tries to make society better by practicing the gospel of love and does his duty on election day, as well as serves lus church, asserted the Rev. F. W. Backemeyer in a sermon Sunday at the First Presbyterian Church, Sixteenth and Delaware Sts. CHRIST’S MIRACLES The Rev. B. L. Allen Explains the Marvelous Acts of Jesus. “Miracles” was the subject of Rev. B. L. Alien’s sermon at Brightwood Church of Christ Sunday. When Jesus turned water into wine, it was not fermented wine, the Rev. Mr. Allen declared. ‘He was too yure to perform such an act,” Allen said.

Hoosier Briefs * y j HEX you have eleven kids \Y along and you have to ■ tote them on your back, you’re handicapped in a race. That’s what a mother possum found when she met Otto Strohm, r.ear Bluffton, in a field. Strohm exhibited the possum at Bluffton, along with her offspring, and , then took her back to the woods and freed her. It's going to be hard to break jail at Clinton. John Fitzgibbons of Muncie, has been given a contract to put in new bars. L T S AXGSTADT of Tipton says July is a Jonah month for him. Reached down to pet a dog and was severely bitten. Twelve years ago this July he was gored by an angry bull. Allan Mills, Civil War veteran at Lebanon, received a broken hip when he was struck by a bicycle ridden by, Everett Miller, 12. \ Dog days are tough at Gary. Police have ordered all dogs muzzled during hot weather. K r ~~~ ERX AKERS, An jail at Peru on a bigamy charge, has been l. . ■ ' given the freedom of the corridors. Reason—the jail has no other inmates. Patrolmen -A'ibert Nichols and John Deer of Lafayette, report a band of gypsies they ordered out of town, were traveling in four Packard automobiles. Twenty-seven, they said, rode in one. AD NEWS. Watermelon crop in north central InL ~- diana will be the smallest in a decade, according to growers at Milfose. John Leonard, farmer near Franklin, has seen his bubble of wealth go "poof.” He found oil In his temato patch and the whole county buzzed. Investigation showed a neighbor youth had drained his automobile and thrown the oil* in the patch. When James Moore and James Malone, colored, tried to sell a brakeman at Lebanon his own pair of shoes, they landed in Jail. Sheriff Cain is holding the men on a charge of robbing a caboose. S. L. Van Petten, Elwood, reports a record Ten years ago he conducted a dry goods store at Anderson. Recently he received a letter containing $2. The writer said that years ago she took two yards of cloth worth 50 cents. The $1.50 extra, she said', was for interest. / IRON MINES TO OPEN Investigations Disclose Extensive Deposit of Metal in Ontario. Bv Times Special SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario, July 28.—1 t is understood that active development work is about to continue on the Iron claims in the Ml?hipicoten on a large scale. Two thousand feet of trenching and a number of shallow pits have disclosed an expensive deposit of hematite iron ore similar in quality to that of the old Helen mine that was operated for many years by the Algoma Steel Corporation.

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She had been crying. Asa matter she was weeping now. Bravely she was endeavoring to hide her emotion. Indeed, emotion is not the word, for that word connotes a certain agitation that was lacking in her manner. Sheer hopelessness was .-wfitten upon her sac despair of youth so infinitely more tragic than the despair of age< And she was pathetically young. In years, perhaps, she had reached maturity, but hers was the ;type of face, that mirrors the innocence of childhood. Neither time nor experience can ever age such folk. But even these can suffer. Perhaps, indeed, they suffer more than the calloused of soul. I, a cynical violator of the laws of man, wanted to go over and p*at her hand, and wipe away her tears. I smiled as I pictured myself doing this. Her young escort would doubtless resent such an action, for I have not reached the age when I may venture -such benevolence. I am young—not as young as the youth who accompanied her, but still of an age when women sometimes glance my way. Partly, too, my smile was sardonic. I was not the person to offer chivalrous' sympathy to weeping maidens, with or without escort. At this very moment the police of New York were searching for me. As I have recounted in a previous chapter, one Swede Thomassen, a brutal murderer, had been killed in my apartment by the White Eagle, that great Frenchman whom I would rank as the foremost criminal genius of his time, did not Truth compel me to admit that I have defeated him on numerous occasions. The newspapers were filled with accounts of the finding of Thflmasseifcs body, and with tales of the extraordinary efforts police were making to find Robert Stickney, the tenant of the apartment. Indeed,' the newspapers did not condemn Stickney. They said* that he had rendered a service to society in rid-

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ding it of Thomassen. Nevertheless the police mutually desired to interview Mr. Stickney. And if Mr. Stickney were captured by the police, it would transpire, possibly, that he was a gentleman of fortune, who had become a professional despoiler of the too numerous profiteers which the war had created. Now I, John Ainsley, had no wish to disclose my identity, my meAns of livelihood. In fact, that means of livelihood, I hoped, had been abandoned. I had made my stake. I intended to sail for Australia. In a couple of years I would return. I would go to that native town of mine where >the Ainsleys were known and respected, and would take again the life that I had led 'before the war and the crash of my fortunes. Fiye days had elapsed since the discovery body. And during those five days I had secluded myself in the rooms which I bad tak&n in a modest hotel. But I was always a restless person. Tomorrow, at five in the rooming, the Celeste sailed from her dock for Sydney. My baggage was already in my stateroom. It would have been a simple matter for me, having paid my hotel bill, to step into a taxi, drive downtown and across Brooklyn Bridge to the steamer. *But I would not see New York again for at least two years. It would take me that long so to establish myself in Australia that if, in the years to come, some should ask if John Ainsley really had made a fortune In the islancf continent, it would be possible to point to a background of trading or speculation. I felt homesickness before I had left my country’s soil. I wanted to drink in, for the last time, the vital air. of Manhattan, to see the hurrying people. And so, despite the fact that policemen were armed with a description of Robert Stickney, John Ainsley dined at the Trevcr. It was a time when I should have taken no bisks whatsoever. And cer-

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talnly it would be madness of me to add to the ritk already run by intruding upon the young couple who sat at a table in the alcove diagonally across the Trevor dining-room. Who was I, bearing my burdens, to think that I could lift the weight froth, another's shoulder? And yet she looked like a girl whom I had jjnown .a dozen years ago, a girl with whom I bad gone to school. Sho was a pretty girl. Her hair vas golden, her complexion pink and white, her mouth sweet and gentle, and her nose w;as straight and small enough to add a touch of roguishness to her countenance —although, indeed, her present moo’d held no gayety

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“DO YOU SUPPOSE I CAN ACCEPT SUCH A GIFT?” Her companion was-about twentyfour. He was good-looking, and on en occasion when he was less har cssed than now, his face would have seemed ingenuous. This was no lovers’ quarrel; this was no grief of the ordinary sort which they were sharing. Only some desperate turn in th© tide of their affairs qould reduce these naturally buoyant young people to their present condition of despair. Well, under all .the circumstances, it was no business of mine. I paid my check and started from the room. It was necessary for me to pass their table. And I heard the girl say: ' “Frank, you won’t kill yourself?” , ,/Now, nine hundred and ninetynine times out of a thousand, the person to whom such a question is addressed has not the slightest Intention toward self-destruction. But

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there is always the thousandth case. This boy had pride; it was legible in his lips, in the gleam in his eyes, the thin line of his nose. Such a person might readily be proudly unable to see any way cut of a difficulty but the doorway to death. And so, acting as always in my life, upon impulse, I dropped into the seat beside him. These alcoves in the Trevor were furnished with broad benches whose cushions would accommodate two persons on each side of the table. The girl and the man sat, as though for the extreme privacy that the recess afforded, against the wall, opposite each other. There was plenty of room for me beside the youth, but not much welcome. I raised a hand to stop his angry expostulation. “I want to talk to you,” I said curtly. * The anger died out of his face, to he replaced by a grimness hardly credible in one so young. “If you try to arrest me here. I'll kill you first,” he said quietly. I smiled at him. “Do I look like a detective?” I asked. “If you’re not, why do you Intrude upon us?" he demanded. “I’m a friend,” I told him. “I never saw you before In my life,” he asserted. The girl’s face lost the expression of horror that the youth’s words had brought to it. She reached pcross th£ table and touched his hand. “Let him explain, Frank,” she pleaded. “It can do no harm.” I bowed to her. I turned to the boy. “She's worth dying for,” I told him. “Equally, worth for.” “Your opinions are undesired and impertinent,” he said. “But my Intentions are of the kir.dlfest,” I retorted. “Young man, don't be a fool. Men In fear of arrest, and threatening suicide, are silly to think of conventions. Look at me. Do I seem the sort to do an unconventional thing without a reason?" “Let me hear your reason,’’ he replied. “I have been watching you two people,“ I said. “Passing by your table I heal'd you,”—and I looked at the girl,—"ask him not to kill himself. Here Is danger. Am I such a coward that I must refuse to obey the ordinary dictates of humanity and save a life?” The young man sneered. "Strangers give their lives for strangers, but not their money.” “How much?” I asked. “Ten thousand dollars.” he replied.

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“I suppose you have that much iiF your pocket?” “I have,” I told him calmly. As a matterVf fact, I had at least three times that amount in cash upon my person. Also, I had, in letters of credit and in securities that would be as readily negotiable in Australia as they were in New York, something like three hundred thousand dollars more. “And I suppose that inasmuch as you would risk your life to save a drowning man, you will gladly hand me over the ten thousand dollars,” His lack of belief was understandable. "Wait a bit,” I suggested. "Before I leap into the river to save drowning man, I assure myself that he is really in danger, not merely hysterical from fright.” The bby's eyes were contemptuous, hut the girl anticipated his refusal. “Explain to him, Frank,” she pleaded! “It can do no harm. He is not a detective.” I bowed to her. ‘Thank you,” I said. “I’m a thief,” he said harshly, facing me squarely. I nodded. “And discovery—” “Is certain by tomorrow morning,*’ he declared.

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I glanced around the restaurant. The hour was late. Most of the patrons had left. I produced a pocketbook. From it I withdrew twenty. SSOO bills. His eyes widened; a whistle of amazement came through his clenched teeth. “Do you suppose I can accept such a gift?” he whispered, as though the sight of the money had hurt his vocal cords. “Is death easier?” I inquired. “You’re about 25,” I guessed. “Let us assume that I did not always have a pocketbook filled with money. Let us suppose that if a stranger had been my friend, had done for me what I am offering you, that—weij, there might have been a girl, as there is a girl with you.” I heard my voice grow gruff harsh. “Take it and live, or refuse and die. Do I have to beg you to accept what I do not need?” (Continued in Our Next Issue) Belts Favored There is a steady upward climb on the part of the fashionable belts and there are those authorities who say that it will have reached normalcy by winter.