Show SERIOUS HEART Question of Fulfillment Is Forever Pressing Upon Upon J the Individual p IDEALISM IS PARDONABLE SERMON COMPLETING OF SOUL SOULBY SOULBY BY REV P A SIMPKIN In a Sermon ermon at Phillips Congregational church last evening the pastor Rev P PA PA PA A Simpkin preached upon The Com Corn Completing Completing of ot the Human Soul saying in part The problem that Is forever pressing upon the human heart is that of fulfil fulfilment fulfilment ment The idea which Is bound up In Inthe Inthe inthe the thought of Christ who completes man Is that of bringing man to his full tun development and making him know the eternal likeness I The grave gr ve duty that falls upon the preacher is that of making man know that he Is more than an animal and has bas hasan basan hasan an end to realize infinitely beyond that of the reach and clamor the satisfaction and development of his physical self Mans Hans self is only low because his physical Is not swayed by the endur enduring endurIng enduring ing In him God has a call and the appeal of ot It reaches reach us in precisely the same fashion as does that call to the physical in our development only we are not compelled to find an immediacy of consequence In Inthe Inthe inthe the neglect of the spiritual such as spells illness and death In the physical realm Our time needs no voice to speak clear clearly clearly ly I and insistently more than that which speaks of ot the folly of any life fife to reach its end in any other way than the spiritual When all that the uman heart can reach of culture and t I t mind of development Is realized the pro proem em Is not yet et touched it is only felt Fo It is a problem of ot life Ute eternal Man More Than Answer Man Alan Is more than an answer to the I appealing world of things about him for that which answers to things passes with them He Is made for tor the widest sky the highest development the loftiest dreams the most glorious character and such an end predicates God That Is to tobe tobe tobe be read just as mich mr h In mens aspirations as in the plain of f Holy Writ with ita its sublime Eternal life the fullest possible life the life of God here and now Above a amah mali mah stretches an Infinite sky whose circle he Is to sweep About him is an expanse of ot life wide as that of the eternal being whom he calls Father Man Is conscious of ot it he flutters above the little thIns things of earth again and again in efforts as pitiful as sublime for tor It is only to fall Call again to the dust whence he rose Hov How shall he live Uve to the eternal measure and complete himself One can pardon the Idealism of ot our time for its vision Islon of ot man and the prophecies of development which he as asserts asserts assorts sorts lies in evolution but the completion of man is impossible without that down sweep of the eternal which brings ren ron renaissance renaissance recreation to his Ma soul lost last In sin bound by the numbing touch of death spiritual The eternal has said that His life Is Imparted by b Himself In the Son The test of all truth Is In life and sure It Is no time tiEs has seen an even close approximation to the tho fulfill fulfillment fulfillment fulfillment ment of ot life lite save that which has been expressed In those who have found the fulfillment of the divine in the down coming Loftiness of Vision I That loftiness of moral vision that sweetness and unselfishness that Joy of sacrifice that stainless morality which makes thought and motive answer the same standard stand rd as word and deed d d that of Godhood that has glorified so much of the gray time is all In the secret of the divine imparting Himself by the eternal And as the Galilean Is perfecting the social order by the slow appropriation the age makes of His Ideals and His dynamic so the individual comes to an answer answer answer his vision and the call of the eter eternal eternal nal nat to alone as he finds the God life UCe imparted to answer his appeal and his trust No mystery is In fn Is a simple fol towing lowing of ot the same law that operating In n the material world at our feet teet brings the he organism when once life has been imparted to it from above to pass by the simple appropriation of that which can alone complete It to know physical full fullness fullness fullness ness as men by faith take to their souls the greatness of eternal life Ute and wisdom and purity |