Show SERMON ON TITHING Gifts to the Church Must be Free FreeWill FreeWill FreeWill Will Offerings Dr William M Paden spoke on the I subject of ot tithing at the First Firlit PresbyterIan Presby Presbyterian I terian terlan church yesterday morning His MIS main position is that there should be he heno beno beno no extortion but that all gifts gUts to the church should be with a perfectly free tree freewill freewill will if 1 not the virtue of the giving is lost lest He said id in part Without free will offering there is no true loyalty no true charity no true Jove without such willing sac sacrifice sacrifice rube there is no true morality no real deliverance from front sin and no enduring religious vitality Loyalty cannot be hired or made b law Jaw charity cannot be created or collected by force love bye cannot be manufactured to order nor can men be saved saed from sin or made either religious or moral by act of leg or any external application of superior power He who is not willing willingly ly I moral or religious is not moral or religious at alt all aUDr Dr Paden applied the principles of proper propel giving to the members of his own church He spoke feelingly of the sacrifices they had h d made to build the church free It from d bt and maintain It through the years of its It trials Sum Summarizing Summarizing he said that the best gift girt that a man could give to the church churchin in the world was himself second that all gifts should be voluntary and third that a growing Christian will give to the church of or all that God has given to him The closing thought o g of f the h eS sermon waa this The church c is l meant to develop the character of those bo are in it but It was founded not solely or chiefly for that purpose This church is or ought to be conducted by those who are in it in the Interest of those who arc are at present outside of It here herc and throughout the world Its It education education education tion and inspiration are arc meant to pre pee prepare JIe pare men for service It must serve the community and the race or It can cannot cannot cannot not and does not deserve to survive This is 1 not the church of ot the I lder brother it belongs to the prodigals father and we are here as Gods chil children children dren to keep the door on the latch and the table spread for all who c come gme me home from the world It Is our free tree freewill freewill will offering to God and humanity and andin andin andi in i so 80 far as we administer it so 50 we e shall have power with God and map man |