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Show oo PERIL W HOPE In au address on "The Peril and Hope of Our Age,' at the First Methodist Meth-odist church Sunday Rev. F. V. Fisher stated that, In his belief, the country haB never been In such a condition con-dition of social, religious and industrial indus-trial unrest as it la at the present time He bclioves, however, that the country is In tho birth throes of a new era, "The marked thing about our day in America is the rapid drift from old customs and traditions and the fact we are tired ot mere conventionalities. convention-alities. ' said Rev. Fisher. "Old party ties, old notions, mere traditions and ritualisms of the church have lost all their spell over men. Parties or churches must ghc a reason for existence ex-istence or go out of the business. They must show, their actual value to the age In which we now live or the thinking think-ing men of the world are through with them Emphasis on trivial things must give place lo emphasis on the big things of life Of course, this unsettling un-settling of old conditions leaves thousands thou-sands at seu In Ideals and belief;, ctlon on one side, mediaeval appeals to the ritual are being made with fresh vigor, and all over the Paclf'o coast Buddhism is seeking a foothold anO advertising its services and establishing es-tablishing its institutional churches and duping people into believing a faith whose chief teaching is the crushing out of life of every nobla aspiration, and whose heaven is eternal eter-nal obliteration. On the other hand, tho 1 W. W. on tho crowded city streets is preaching bald atheism as it has not been preached since the days of Tom Paine. "Yet all this does not mean that men are through with rollglon; .It fact, never were they more thoughtful, thought-ful, and never were the real teachings of Christ more powerful and felt than now." |