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Show 'Its Flag Girdles the Globe9 'A- ' - A - . -' V- ' r , V, ft v ; ' x 1 Q Underwood & Underwood. DR. S. PARKES CADMAN President Federal Council of Churches, whose Y. M. C. A. addresses on Sunday afternoons are heard by hundreds of thousands. T HB radio haa made millions mil-lions of us familiar with fr the great. Probably more e'SSM people know the voice of the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America, than that of any other great spiritual leader of the time. His Sunday afternoon addresses before the Bedford Branch y. M. C. A, Brooklyn, N. Y.( are, according accord-ing to an official of a national broadcasters organization, "the most popular radio feature In the country." It was to a vast unseen audience as well as to a packed auditorium that Dr. Cadman spoke on his return re-turn from his recent election as president of the largest church confederation. At the same time that the Federal Council of Churches had been meeting, the National Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States was in session. Dr. Cadman's address was based on the significance of these two great gatherings, of which he said: "It would be hard to find a more thoroughly equipped and effective body of delegated Americans. In both of theae notable groups some of the best qualities of onr American Ameri-can religious life could ie gauged. It produced them and they have reciprocated re-ciprocated .to Its clear' advantage. Nor do I exaggerate la paying that millions of Americans of every sort will be upraised and blessed by the outcome of the conventions to which I refer." In a remarkable tribute to the T. M. C. A. he said: "We are not to allow our sense of lasting obligation to this tremendous tre-mendous agency for brotherhood to be dulled by usage and familiarity. fa-miliarity. The home centers of the Y. M. C. A. are in nearly every town and city: Its circumference sweeps around Europe, Asia, Africa and the major Islands of the seas. "Its flag girdles the globe with a more spiritual meaning than that of any national ensign. It Is the flag of Christ, white with His purity puri-ty and red with His oblation. It tells mankind of the original Christianity Chris-tianity which came in Him, not to be ministered unto but to minister. ; "The multiplicity of its benefits has earned for it the support of the best citizens of all Christian lands. "Closely connected with It are several kindred organizations which, to a given extent, have been promoted by its successful example. exam-ple. "After 30 years of Intimate relations rela-tions with this honored association, associa-tion, which belongs, first, to our Lord, and then to all for whom He died, permit me to wish It God-speedl God-speedl and every possible attainment attain-ment in grace,, gifts and fruit," |
