Show PREACHES SERMON ON DI VINE DIVINE COMEDY Rev C R Neel N el eI Points Out ut Les Lesson Lesson Lesson son to Be Drawn From Dantes Life Dante the Poet of Conscience was made the subject of ot the sermon yes yesterday yesterday evening by Rev C R B Neel at atthe atthe atthe the Central Christian church The life lite of ot Dante he said Is divided Into three periods distinctly marked The first has to do with his youth up to the death o ot of Beatrice His early life was spent In the study stud of ot music poet poetry ry 0 and nd art the first great event In his life was the meeting of ot Beatrice From this time on she becomes the idol of ot his heart the angel of ot his dreams Xo No o fairer figure Is known to history To Beatrice Dante gives all al the de devotion devotion of ot his heart Her death was Vas his first great sorrow He now enters upon the political portion of his life lite there comes the clash of contending parties Owing to political strife he was banished from Florence In 1302 and was to be burned at the stake if it he ever returned He now nov becomes a wanderer upon the face of ot the earth In 1316 he was recalled to Florence upon condition that he pay pa a fine tine He says sa Is this the glorious recall from exile If It so be Florence I shall never enter thee Ve Ye now enter upon the literary work of his life Dante seems to be a spirit deeply wounded he is a I good hater he hates sin with an Intensity that burns yet his life was as sweet as his h s words were bitter The great work of at his life lite is called The Divine Comedy This Is called a comedy because of ot Its happy ending The end Is mans complete victory in inthe inthe inthe the battle of life ure The Journey that Dante describes here takes place in inmans Inmans Inmans mans soul Hell to Dante Is darkness within Purgatory the way ot of salva salvation salvation salvation tion Heaven Is disposition of mind The Divine Comedy Is a portrayal of how God deals with human life lite It Is Isa isa Isa a vision of the possibilities of a sour soul that works out its own destiny 5 |