SELF-SACRIFICE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 51, 29 August 1922, Page 4

SELF-SACRIFICE

ADDRESS BY REV. FEILDEN \ \ TAYLOR,

The great sin of life, said tho Ror. T.. Feilden Taylor, in the course of an eloquent addrees at tho King's Theatre on Sunday, is to fail to bear fruit. Human beings were meant to bear fruit—^for tho welfare o£ others, not for themselves. A tree in an orchard did not bear fruit for itself but for humanity. He believed that the great question at the Day of Judgment would be: "What did you bear?" He gave a definition of Christianity: Christianity -was meant to be a big tree with thousands and thousands of branches »!1 bearing fruit of Christ for the profit of nation*. We found life to the extent to which our lives were liv«d in and for others.

During the wax the nation expected men to follow that doctrine out. "1 don't believe," the. speaker declared, "that m»ny people have realised what the price of the late war was to many men. The Master appeals to. people to do no bigger things than wo ©xpeoted our own soldiers to do. You expected ffie man to give up everything—to go' away from thoir homes perhaps never to see those home* ■gam—to risk sight, miad, life,'physique, and prospects for an abstract thing—for it was an abstract thing—love of country. The men did it,' *nd the Master would have, us see that we do exactly the same thing for humanity. There' is no reason why we as citizens should not do as much for humanity as tho soldier for King and country. Thb war is passing into oblivion. Its sacrifices will bo forr gotten in the mi»t of y*ars. But don't forget what you expected the men to do, and which they did and paid the pric* of their lives, or sight, or health and progpects, for over on earth. And that is the call of tho Master; to put humanity before our«ely«. If is the sacrifice of what pooplo_ call private prospects and private ambitions-and aims. There was a young man engaged, and he went to the war; ho never married. There was a young man the only support of his widowed mother; ho nevor returned, and tho mother is dead of grief. : Men gave up the moat treasured things of life for country, and we all approved it; and we oan do likewise in these times. Life is worth living it we find that someone i» benehting through us. It is Very.difficult Yet there is no more reason' for complete self-sacrifice in war than in peace. If we could got the same self-sacrifice in peace as we had in the war there would be no more war."