Show CALLS MARRIAGE SCHOOL I OF LIFE UH The Rev Louis S Bowerman Preaches Second of Home Homemaking Homemaking Homemaking making Sermons In Immanuel Baptist church last night the Rev Re Louis S Bowerman delivered the tho second of his Making a Home series of sermons In the course of his address he said John The story Is that of the first miracle of Jesus The turning of water into wine at the wedding feast In Cana of Galilee The significance of the scene finds expression ion in the thought that it was at a wedding that Jesus first manifested His glory The sanction netlon for marriage Is from God the Garden of Eden and Cana of Galilee Honorable in all men these th compel us to notice how from beginning to end the Scriptures touch upon relationship The union of the man and wife is set Sit forth by the apostle as a type of ot the mission ml slon of Christ and His church Coming Comin then to the marriage altar Is Isone isone isone one of the tIte most sacred aCred scenes in life not lightly or unadvisedly but In the fear of God GOO GodAt GodAt At the very vcr beginning let me remind you of the Saviors words And He an answered answered and said unto them have ye re not read that He which made them at the beginning made them male and female and said for tor this cause CRUse shall a man leave father and mother and shall shan cleave to his wife and they the twain shall be one flesh Wherefore they the are no more twain but one flesh What therefore God has Joined together let no man put asunder No Marriage in Heaven U In the resurrection they neither mar marry marry marry ry nor are given glEn in marriage but are as the angels of ot God in heaven Matt 2230 Marriage is for this life Ufe till God takes one or the other Its purpose is two twofold twofold twofold fold First the divinely ordained means in making the bond of society through the foundation of the family Aristotle main maintained maintained maintained the true unit of ot the race Is the family Plata Plato regarded the state as the central idea of a community Jesus makes no artificial distinctions The Bible be begins begins begins gins with the family as the basis for tor the state and the safety and purity of ot the family is of paramount importance The protection of ot the woman and the chil children children children dren are ever vital to the honor and welfare of or the state Again It is not only the thought of a awell awell awell well ordered family and state but mar marriage marriage marriage is intended to be a school for the development of the individual Here is where so many rail fall and the refusal to consider this is one of or the causes for the tremendous increase in divorces in this country Here is where are developed the ministries of or love the spirit of fice the power of ot demanded in many man ways Here is where is called into exercise the ability to lose the pres present present present ent good In the larger r wOd od of the fu tu future future ture It is only a fathe or mother that can recognize this and it comes after atter the years Selfishness must die if the Ideals of or this relationship are attained and the overcoming of or self sef is one of ot the purposes of our probation Love Grows Slowly The uThe greatest school in alt all the world 1 It is the home some of or lifes greatest les lessons lessons lessons sons are there learned and love not fancy rancy or sentiment must be the beginning the theone th thone theone one essential thing at the altar Now let me give you ou what I believe was the Masters thought In turning the water into wine and thus incorporating this story into the ministry of His life The wine was always getting better and th the best was at the last Yes I know full well the ordInary ry interpretation the spiritualizing of It but let Jet me ask you OU to think If Ir He had not In mind marriage it itS itself itself S self f I shall touch upon Pon this later more fully The thought is this Enter rightly in the fear of God upon bended knee be fore the Lord of human soul knowing you are entering upon the greatest cur m of your life Ufe Enter it as with the Christ present and to be the Ideal deal of each in the new home and the marriage Years will each be better and the tho best at the last and not the first It takes years to make the real love for life to grow STOW into lift for two hearts to beat as one Be Begin ln at the marriage altar with the thil Christ pre present ent |