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‘“THE WORLD’S APPROACH TO GOD”’. 
Rev. L. H. Ruge of the Congregational Church used the above as his 
theme last Sunday evening in the opening union meeting of 
the Baptist and Congregational Churches, Manchester. 
Mr. Ruge began his sermon by us- 
ing the memorable words in the 
Lord’s Prayer, ‘‘Thy Kingdom 
Come’’. The following is but a 
brief abstract of the sermon. 
_ “Thy Kingdom Come’’. The words 
fell as a prayer from the lips of Je- 
sus. The glory of the Kingdom of 
David and Solomon was gone. The 
prayer had no reference to that. It 
soared beyond the flashing pinacles 
of the temple at Jerusalem, beyond 
the conquoring city of Romulus, far 
beyond—‘‘Thy Kingdom Come’’. 
The trembling lips of a suffering 
humanity repeats in in all ages— 
“Thy Kingdom Come’’. Forever 
this aspiration leaps the boundaries 
of civilization, learning, art, science, 
power—‘Thy Kingdom Come’’. The 
ambitions of statesmen, the dreams 
of poets, the visions of phophets and 
reformers forever, O Lord, fall short 
—‘Thy Kingdom Come’’. 
The preacher defined the Kingdom 
of God in the words of Paul as 
‘righteousness and peace and joy in 
the Holy Spirit’’. He continued: 
““The kingdom of God is founded 
upon upright dealings, honesty in 
business, justice in government. It 
means ro tariff walls for America 
as well as no stonewalls for China. 
When the Kingdom of God comes 
the walls come down. It means no 
revenue retaliations among nations. 
It means the American latchstring 
out for every down-trodden soul 
from no matter where. Human poli- 
cies may differ, but that is the policy 
of brotherhood and humanity or the 
Kingdom of God. 
The agitation that is becoming 
world-wide along the line of right- 
eousness is the simple coming of the 
Kingdom of God. The unwritten 
edict has gone forth from the 
world’s master, Jesus Christ, that 
righteousness shall be exalted among 
the nation. 
And the movement for righteous- 
ness goes hand in hand with the 
peace movement, a most significant 
sign of the coming of the Kingdom. 
Every peace society in the world is 
active and flourishing and millions 
are rolling in to establish peace. God 
has hitched commerce and prosperi- 
ty, jealous of their world prestige, 
to his conquoring church. 
Who are the builders of this King- 
dom? Every upright man and wo- 
man seeking conscientiously to do 
the will of God. Every teacher in- 
stilling the principles of manhood 
and womanhood. 
Josiah Strong goes so far as to 
say that ‘“‘the looms of industry are 
weaving for it, the mills are grind- 
ing for it, the selfish corporations 
are made to pay tribute to it, the 
narrow schemes of government are 
made to conform to it.’’ 
In a word all the myriad powers 
of the earth are working to build the 
Kingdom of God. Millions not em- 
braced in the formal roster of the 
church are building this Kingdom. 
The Kingdom and the Church are 
not co-equal and co-extensive, one 
and the same thing. It is the teach- 
ing of bigotry to say God works on- 
ly through the church. History 
shows that the church may be flour- 
ishing and the kingdom at the same 
time may be lanquishing. I believe 
there is more Kingdom of God in the 
world today than when the church 
ruled the world. But the church is 
the best medium of furthering the 
Kingdom. She is the one great ex- 
ponent of the Kingdom. 
In a day the cry for righteousness 
rings through the world. Like a 
flash of full-orbed sunlight the Otto- 
man empire bursts through its long 
darkness. A king dethroned, an au- 
tocrat overthrown causes no com- 
ment today because the world has ar- 
rived at its historic period where it 
demands and expects the Kingdom 
of God that Jesus Christ inaugurat- 
ed. 
In a little South Sea isle they have 
engraved upon a missionary’s tomb- 
stone: ‘When he came in 1848 there 
was not a Christian here, when he 
left in 1872 there was not a heath- 
en’’, And as the Kingdom was su- 
preme in that South Sea isle so shall 
it be supreme o’er all the earth. 
Against the protest that the pro- 
gram and purpose of Christianity is 
impossible omniscience plans and 
omnipotence empowers. Utopia be- 
comes rational and the dream becom- 
es real. 
The Kingdom of God is the— 
‘‘One divine event 
Toward which the whole crea- 
ation moves’’, 
of which the ages have dreamed, of 
which Horace sang, but which Christ, 
as the world spirit and power, makes 
real, 
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Orthodox Cong’] Church. 
Rev. L. Il. Ruge, Pastor. 
Sunday morning worship at 10.45. 
Sunday school, 12 m. Evening wor- 
ship, 7.00. Prayer meeting. Tues- 
day, 7.30 p. m. 
Baptist Church. 
Rey. Theodore L. Frost, Minister. 
Sunday morning worship at 1045. 
Bible: sehuol, 120m. By YY. P...U., 
6.00, in the vestry. Iivening wor- 
ship, 7.00. Prayer meetings Tues- 
day and Friday evenings, 7.30. 
Sacred Heart Church. 
Rev. Mark J. Sullivan, Pastor. 
Sunday Masses: 8.30 and 10.30 a. 
m. Rosary and Benediction at 3.30 
p- m. Week-day Mass at the 
church at 7.30 a. m. 
Rey. L. H. Ruge will preach at 
the Congregational church Sunday 
morning on ‘‘The Wrestlers’’, and in 
the evening the last of the week of 
prayer union services will be held 
in the Congregational church with 
sermon by Rev. Mr. Frost. 
Rev. T. L. Frost will preach the 
first of a series of three sermons of 
especial interest to laboring men at 
the Baptist chureh Sunday morning. 
His first theme will be ‘‘The Christ- 
ian and Employee’’. The subject. of 
the evening union service at the Con- 
gregational church by Mr. Frost will 
be *‘The Old Corn of the Land’’. 
The Chureh Aid Society of the 
Baptist church will hold a ‘‘C’’ so- 
cial Wednesday~ eevning in the ves- 
try. A silver offering at the door. 
The Ladies Social Cirele will meet 
with Mrs. Alice Wheaton on Wed- 
nesday evening Jan. 11th. 
Harmony Guild elected officers 
Monday evening as follows: Miss A. 
L. Lane, pres.; Mrs. F. G. Cheever, 
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Mrs. W. W. Joseph, treas. 
The Ministering Cirele of King’s 
Daughters met Monday evening 
with Mrs. Mary M. Lane, School 
street. The topie discussed was 
‘*Years’’. 
Beverly Farms 
Beverly Farms Baptist Church, 
Rev. Clarence Strong Pond, Minis- 
ter. 10.45 a. m., Morning Worship 
and Sermon; Bible school at 12 m.; 
Class for Men, led hy. James B. Dow; 
6.15 p. m., Y. PP) S..CB.; 7 p. m., 
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