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Show fiimi. Finn : li RESULT OF FH Subject of Eloquent Sermon by Rew Elmer i. Goshen to Large Gathering. "Fear is to the Intellect what a grain of sand is to the delicate mechanism of a watch. Fear is as' unwholesome to the mind as Indigestible food Is to the stomach. stom-ach. Fear is the lash that is wielded by the Ignorant to preserve Ignorance. The thing is not half so bad as the fear of It. So long as fear possesses nrn. just so long will it assert itseir in his instltu-. instltu-. lions." Those and many oth'ir pithy apothegms were driven forcibly home by Rev. Elmer 1. Goshen to a congregation, mostlv men. that packed both wings of the First Congregational church on Sunday Sun-day morning. He attributes the present financial stringency to the fear of the few rascally speculators who were conducting their business along surreptitious and nefarious lines; that tliev reached a point In their rascalltv that frightened them, with tho result that Ihey have been relegated from the high positions once occupied, to a' lower strata where thoy belong. "How can there bo any such thin; as a real financial stringency?" said he. "Is It not a fact that the crops have been bountiful? Whore is the money that has been In circulation? It surely cannot have taken flight from this fair land." Rev. Mr. Goshen said that lliese periods of financial stress are precipitated by unscrupulous un-scrupulous financiers who 'are finally exposed ex-posed bv siome one who Is filled with fear, and that thousands of people Im-'mcdiately Im-'mcdiately feor that their money Is unsafe un-safe where deposited, hence the run on banks. He insists that the present flurry is- purelv the result of fear, not fact. The minister took the text, of his sermon ser-mon from Matthew xxv . 25. "1 was afraid": and from Mark vl.. 50. "Be not afraid." He said: --"' "There Is nothing that has ever had such a hideous effect upon the progress of the human race as this black monster mon-ster Fear, h has. from the time that the light of day first shone on this mundane mun-dane sphere, corroded I he mind of man; lie has warped his soul and crushed his spirit. Young men. let me urgo you to make no room In the furniture of your brains for this despot. Shun him in all things. It Is the demon Fear that has terrorized the nursery with phantoms ar' ghosts. It Is Fear that causes some people peo-ple to run from shndowE. It Is Fear that leaves an indelible sear on (he features of so many mortnls who have fallen victims to its ravages." Rev. Mr. Goshen spoke of how the earlv astronomers were retarded through nothing other than fear: of how navigators naviga-tors were consumed with It. "It Is Fear that causes the farmer to worry about crops that turn out to be good," he said, "and It Is Fear that causes one merchant to worry about the success of the oth-ir one." |
