Show RELIGION Of CHRIST CHRISTIS RIST IS ONE Of SANITY AND ANDREASON REASON SAYS PASTOR Rev P. P A. A Simpkin Declares That on Its Its Its' Forefront Is Written Largely argey Faith h In a sermon at PhIllips con Congregational rega- rega church last st evening e the Rev P. P A A. A ln preaching on the reasonableness reasonableness reason reason- of faith as S an element dement of the therell rell religion m of or Chi 1st said ald in m part The religion of ot Jesus Christ t Is a religion of or sanity nn and reason Opposition Opposition has been made through the centuries to this religion because becam c. c forsooth it Is not a vehicle of or pure reason It Is true that upon Its forefront there Is written rItten largely h faith ralth and nd It ItIs ItIs Itis Is there faith Is 11 the only thing In the world worl that will ultimately deal with the things that remain the things matter rno most t the things that are arc trul truly vital Ital There would be so o open to suspicion nothing so 0 readily flouted Clouted or so 90 finally unsatisfactory as a re religious re- re luus teaching that thet CPU Id plat ilat an and outline explain and bring Comprehension comprehension comprehension compre compre- hension of or all alt that lies wrapped in the thc life eternal the consideration of 01 which is the tho most Important thing that Is pushed b by God Goel Into our life lite In iii the little days das In JIn line with our common experience b by which we know lenow the posse possession of ot life lifes life's s sweetest and anti most must s sacred things through h tho the loft lofty faith o of the soul Is this teaching of or tho the Christian re reI relI re- re I lI ligion I gi lon o n The things I that t the religion of or Jesus calls calli us to deal with and exercise a fath for arc real enough to satisfy the touch of our OUI lives lI There Thet can cnn be bc no nl question for the thinking person on who calmly faces life lire as It Is within or without himself that sin Rn and sorrow and death and misery are realities The grossest forms forma of lust the In ingrained selfishness of ot life liCe the cold cruelties end and tho the flaming Iniquities are too real to bo II denied So 80 also are aro the hopes an and longings the reaches and aspirations of ot life lite For all nIl alike the religion of or Jesus has its ministry b by wa way of faith alth And the marvel Is lt that the tho demonstrations of ot the reality and power of ot Christian faith lies not In the wa way ay of or mental Understanding understanding un un- tiers or 01 philosophical theorems but only In the plain comprehension and I power of actual living ex experience perl once As HAf Jesus and Ills His Interpreters flung nunS the sau gauge c that men might know in experience ex ex- so o the church stands toda today not asking men to consider th theories orles but to teat the law of Christs Christ's kingdom kingdon om omIn In life lie He who tests It It either cither at nt tho the place of Its claim to bestow eternal life or having tested It there follows It b by th the deeper test of ot that which faith will w bring in lifes life's crimson hours of or trial or Its shadowed days lla's of loss anti onu grief grid will w find the Nazareno to bo be true truo In His claim blessedly real In th the tho ministry of or faith to lifes life's deep needs s |