Show Iv VALUE AWE OF CHURCH IS POINTED OUT It Is Only Institution Dealing Says Pastor EARTH SEEMS liKE BABEL SOLE REFUGE FOR PUZZLED HU HUMANITY HUMANITY MANITY IS RELIGION Is there any value In going to church Have men a duty In this re regard These were some of the questions asked and answered Inthe course of f the evening ser sermon sermon mon at Phillips church The Rev P A Simpkin spoke with In as asserting asserting the affirmative to t these ese questions It Is not said the preacher for the churchs sake that one makes a plea One of the readiest axioms on the lips of men In the discussion of the value of the church as a saving factor In our conk com community life Is The church Is necessary to our civilization One nifty may not over overdraw overdraw draw the value alue of the religious sense and the Influence of the church In behalf of morality and agaInst the destroyIng thIngs of the time The church of Christ In Its diverse forms of organization has been the salt of the age as well as a dynamic of develop development development ment The churchless sections of the west are still too clear a memory to neco need needa a picture Such rugged manhood and sterling honesty as characterized the western man at his best had root In Inthe Inthe the eastern homes and life they were reared And If the church has a message of blessing for the community life how much more for the Individual There Is more Involved than a ques question question tion of order and civilization The su supreme supreme preme element of personal life Is touched In this Church attendance Is Important because of its bearIng on the eternal things Man Is more than a factor In a civil civilIzation civilization however splendid more than a worker who does marvelous thIngs that are the glory glor of his art and toil more Is a soul with potentialities and responsibilities Immortal Soul God eter eternity are three facts that make the spir spirItual spiritual problem supreme It needs the cure of every life lite And where Is the voice speakIng of eternity save that of the church What That says says that treasured Institution to whIch we yield the shaping of the worlds young life lite Go out be brilliant be clever succeed win the spoils and enjoy them What Is IB the message of your drama sodden with passion and low suggestion What hat Is the voice of your our literature Is It not of the earth earthly And the church stands alone a voIce cryIng In the the truth we need of God and now and tomorrow I Quite apart from an any values of the here hereafter I after Is that which teaches life and to toda today da day A fine value for ones personal life Is found In the restfulness of a church servIce after the weeks drive of bUsiness care or pleasure RuskIn has well said that a man needs to dress ones soul once and again It If the mold of selfishness the fires of passIon Secret or open or the from hidden wounds have stained or scorched or marred the souls garments earth has no better place than the house of God for you wherein the light of the love Jove divIne and the radiance of the truth and pity eternal you may find a hittle hour to mend the rents rene and repaIr the fabric sin has marred It Is much for the father to sit In Gods house with life his balms to sing the hymn to lift a abit abit bit of prayer to hear of the sacred things that lend full sanction to love and honor and pIe piety h It II is more for his child children children ren even than for himself The youth In Inthe inthe the city with temptation singing Its wIn wInning winning ning song far from home and parental counsel can fInd life stronger for the tarrying In Gods house For every man and woman there Is a tonic value In the atmosphere of the church service To walt wait In Gods house to worship and think to order life to His place and purpose this will wiil make home and frIendship and duty purer and sweeter Wh When n the earth seems a Babel life a delusion humanity an aggregation of selfish lying beasts when dut duty Is a bur hur burden hurden den and the days das wInd through sunless gray stretches go and brood In the house of God and be pacified find your heart renewed and lIfes grays shall be touched with springtime light and all the world be glorified with verdant beauty For In Gods house you shall find Him and corn com compan pan pany down the long road with your our Father |