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Show SOCIAL UNREST LAID ON HOI Tpkio Delegate Asserts Atmos phere of Family Is Going Down (Hi iii- issjodated Press) TdKI'i, Oct 16. Fallurs or home i life and not tiie failure of lh church was held to be respbnslbls for the social unri-yi. the in and crime and shams thai abounds on evsry hand," bj the Rsv W t: Blederwoif, n. d., I of ChlcaRo In an address hefoie the WUrld s Sunday School ConsrSBS here Ths spcaliT chargel that "2 pcr- ; t ent of the ministers of America do j not themselves maintain fumily wor- , hip in their own bonu s A wise teacher of ancient umes said Give me a single domestic gracfl and 1 will turn it into a hundred public virtues,'" declared Dr. Blederwoif Bleder-woif and I wonder If w(- were to I attempt to write the story of the deplorable de-plorable legacy to which we have ' fallen heir if It would not be to tell the history of fallen altars and desecrated dese-crated Bhrlnfa and to no little extent of an apostate clergy. A missionary who had been abs'-nt from America j for 2 5 years, said when he came back in a furlough 'When 1 s-nt away almost evers Christian home had its Camll) altar; now I find il is Ihe eX-ception eX-ception and not the rule.' ! Th- en us s for the decadence of ; family worship were set forth by the : up .i ker as follows . "i. The Quickening of a man's natural na-tural tendency to skepticism, so largely large-ly induced In this day ly subtle and sometimes open attach oil the fundamentals funda-mentals of his faith In press, in unl- I t'ersit) and (infrequently In pulpit. j The first point at which spiritual de-cay de-cay manifesta is Invariably In the nei?- Iscl of family worship, if Indeed it even so much as held a place In the life of the home. ' 2. The nervous, feverish rush of modern life as evidenced by the inordinate in-ordinate absorption in material Interests Inter-ests Modern life Is a dash through a crowd. A man hardly has time to stop and tie his shoe-string It Is a race to keep pace with steam and, electricity. 1 The disruption of the Camilj union ' The latter was caused, said Di Blederwoif, 'first, by the prevailing prevail-ing method of education r.hlch practl-cally practl-cally removes boys and girls from im- I mediate and continuous parental Influence In-fluence in spiritual things for a period peri-od running between the ages of seven land 21 and second, by the excessive I pursuit of pleasure. ' |