. History of the Presbyterian Churches of Path Valley : addresses delivered at the sesquicentennial of the upper and lower Path Valley churches and a history of these churches, October 18-20, 1916. m atgreater length to-day. Let me only ask if we are true to theteaching of the precious past? Do we make sacrifices asgladly as our parents did for the education of our children?Do we mark well the difference between manual and mentaltraining, the living of a life and the earning of a living?Do we realize that our girls have as good a right to knowthe things that make life rich and fruitful as thei
. History of the Presbyterian Churches of Path Valley : addresses delivered at the sesquicentennial of the upper and lower Path Valley churches and a history of these churches, October 18-20, 1916. m atgreater length to-day. Let me only ask if we are true to theteaching of the precious past? Do we make sacrifices asgladly as our parents did for the education of our children?Do we mark well the difference between manual and mentaltraining, the living of a life and the earning of a living?Do we realize that our girls have as good a right to knowthe things that make life rich and fruitful as their brothers? We are living in an age that is not keeping faith with thepast. Many of our spiritual treasures are meanly tradedaway. Our religious birthright is sold for a mess of pottageof pleasure. Remember those who as elders and ministers have servedthis church, recall the children they taught and sent atcrushing cost to find a higher education at Princeton,Wilson and other colleges, and resolve that, God helpingyou, the old faith and the old training shall not be givenup in this time of automobiles and picture shows for thetrifles and trinkets of a shallow life. 32 HISTORY OF PATH VALLEY. REV. JAS. A. GORDON, D. D. REPORT OF ADDRESS BY REV. JAMES A. GORDON On this notable anniversary I bring you my hearty greet-ings. It was my privilege to be here at several celebra-tions, the twenty-fifth of my fathers pastorate and againthe fortieth; but none will be more memorable than thisone, observed with so much enthusiasm in both branchesof the old historic Church of the Valley. The fact that thisis my own birthplace also, and that for the first time inmore than thirty-five years I am back at my birthplace onthis day. lends additional interest to the occasion for kind old lady who declared she had not seen me since thewar, during which I was born, kept eyeing me very closelyand in a few moments said: Well, Jimmie, you havntchanged much. Such unconscious flattery is pleasing. Soa
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