Show LOVE GREATEST THING IN WORLD Says Rev P A Simpkin in His Discourse at Phillips Con Congregational Congregational Congregational Church REASONS OF UN UNHAPPINESS HAPPINESS IN CHRIST AND THE CROSS IS COMPLETE EXPRESSION At Phillips Congregational church church last evening the pastor Rev P A Simpkin spoke upon The Biggest Thing in the Religion of Jesus What Is It He said in Dart uart To this question one must answer love Philosophically and practically that is true We Ve dwell in the practical side only and the meaning of love on its practical side is manifest in its touch anc and effect upon the most serious problem that life holds Because of lifes deepest problem problem lem the cross of Jesus and what It speaks becomes the expression expressIon expression sion f love loveIt loveIt loveIt It will not be seriously questioned that thai in Jesus Christ and his revelation of God there Is the Lordship of the race both bothin bothin bothin in ideal and as a source of power Now the ascending authority of Christ lies not in his dicta It is not In his teach teaching teachIng teachIng ing It rests not in his philosophy These are all essential parts of that which makes the sum of his But the spring of power is In his life and its complete surrender for there is that which touches a mans deepest gravest problem Of what use Is It to tell teU men of love when hate has its hand on the hearts helm Of what use to hold ideals Idea of justice before men for whom self lipIds olds the only law We can readily see that hat all which fails to reach the deep problem problem problem lem fails utterly to touch men lovingly at all Reasons for Unhappiness Think for a moment that the sin problem is the supreme problem Meas Measure Measure Measure ure that statement by lifes actual con conditions conditions conditions A man fails to find happiness Why Because of a thousand things rooted in himself and others all of which are evil His happiness dies out because either his ideal purpose or pursuit Is wrong his conduct makes what mars or from the life of another lust greed hate brutal power or selfish interest cuts across all the beauty of his planning He fails falls to find culture true life and suc sue success success cess for the same reason The world is not one of unhappiness of undeveloped life or of sad failure because there Is not room for a general happiness not because the universal potential of cul cultured cultured cultured free and successful life is missing from the earth No If life finds art artan artan artan an eagle with crippled wings that swoops ever downward in the circling flight re returning returning returning turning to the things that have marred it and left it unable to voice the high messages of which the creator would make it the preacher if music has the minors and discords which set the world in tune with yesterdays brokenness rather than tomorrows which it should express if the soul flashes through the window of the eye e e the mes ines messages messages sages of Babylon or the baleful opalescence opalescence opalescence cence of the alluring low rather than that which speaks In the material ma eye the glories of the highest if life lifo be a broken thing tiling creeping in the slime wounded by surviving barbarism crippled by injustice Injustice Injustice tice limited by selfishness by its perverted passions It Is in all cases because sin at the door Must Deal With Sin He who would save society society and order it in all happiness and rightness must first deal with the sin problem The rhe su preme promo thing in Christs religion is that it deals with this in such fashion that a aman aman aman man is freed from the burden of sins guilt and domination of Its power Mil Milton Milton Milton ton says truly In our proper motion We e ascend up to our native seat And the glory of Christs religion is that it sets a man where he may follow fonow the souls sours proper motion and rise to his native seat And the one argument unanswerable for this claim is in iii the lives of an un unnumbered unnumbered unnumbered numbered host who in the years have found the Christ of God so dealing with lifes keenest problem And with it in invariably invariably invariably variably there comes that right direction of lifes forces that correction and eleva elevation elevation elevation tion of its ideals revelation rf ef rela relationships relationships relationships and consequent duty dut that give to the soul its ennoblement and furnish it with the instruments and the secret of lifes abiding success Yea verily if we confess our sin he heis heis is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteous unrighteousness ness |