Show I ION TALK ON REPENTANCE Rev P A Simpkin I Impressive Sermon Yes Yesterday Morning STATES ESSENTIAL BELIEFS TO REPENT MEANS TO THINK DIFFERENTLY The sermon nt at the thc Phillips tonal church yesterday morning i one of oC n a serIe series covering the or of Christan Christian doctrine In which the pastor Re Rev P A Simpkin Is seeking to state the essential b beliefs of orthodox Christianity The he words or of gospel Jesus Jestis to pr preach anti to say re re rePent pent ye e for Cor tJ the kingdom of oC hel heaven n Is at hand were tile basis or of a sermon on tle Repentance lr said that It WIt significant that Je Jesus us should ott on the v very r eve of his ministry voice oice to one of th the mot most es essentially religious p People ot of all time this message His temptation was wa just behind and his brief strenuous ministry before him said auld Mr Ir Simpkin Ho He hind had found the ct meat ment at th the hands of men and God alke alike His real work began In the call to the therace therace race to repent He could sa say naught chat ls The rich meaning of his If was not oti to be What He Came For His 01 Own assertion wa that he had conic come to answer the tho of tho the ages the questions of the soui the dEmand demand of ofIs Is its aspiration and and struggle and lie he must nee needs assert the heart with such a mc massage sag as this He caled called the soul from Is its anguish of oC outreach for a Invisible dreaded God Gol from Crom Its effort to la lay hold on that should evolve from sel self from the error of oC view that saw the soul and Go God and In hideous distortion The very foundation of oC al all that was to 1 be for the heart lay In the tho fact of Did OU ever stop to thinK there ther has never been a foot Coot of progress ss In truth until some one has hns thundered out Re Repent pent lelit l lIn In an all It Its simplicity of oC m meaning re nent means to tink think differently I It is such a thinking Oer over life and conduct ns 15 to bring about a change in that Ifo life and character because Q of th the thought One of th the two Bible wor words s repentance a sorrow a regret for that conduct which b hUH has been changed b by the tho 11 nev W thought The teach teaching lug ing of th the e has hns attached 1 n a primary mar mary importance to tlc the net at of oC repent anCe anes There can te lie nO repentance worth worthwhile worthwhile while that wi will not Cnn the accompaniment ment of oC golly sorrow Bt Bit the UI nfl doubted les lies In the orl original up upon upon on the life the tho conduct changed b by earn eRt eat serious tho thought ht The fundamental difference that in inh h bored red In this between Roman and Protestant in Iii the tas days Is not one unimportant We e havE have seen In the past century the harm that has come from setting the emOtional at the fore forefront front Jesus caned called men to repent ho he was not calling for th them m to come to grieve but to rasp grasp a new vision Islon of oC life nn atUl duty ut and character i Message of Jesus The Ih nH SUf of Je Jesus ms was to the things He would motion and wi into Jn lint wIth Ute the high of Go God 1 and lie hp would woul 1 do I It through lh the Int Intelligent or of the minds of oC men menThe The supreme revelatIon of wi will for Cor men In salvation development kingshIp yas In him He IndIcated that ant tl the new thought to be gape grasped 1 hay Iny In al all that wa wrapped about that fact of the kingdom of oC heaven n lie He wanted m men n to catch the thou ht ot of the love lon or of d das das as n a thing to shape siape life anew He came caie bringing the vision HUon of God Cod ns as 2 a father o oC ore one who lo loved mn who would save sae and renew them b by the power ower of that love ad perfect them in his service All n that 11 Is involved In that ne new thought and we cannot dwell upon here hare UR and let all your life be nm your our renewed ret Let the vision of oC your own worth In m my coming m my message m my sacrifice be bea l la a thing to grf grip you yon and 11 live n a the vision And that is iR the demand ikI of oC Jesus rr every life Jus Just as much as a when he spoke to hl his Jewish fellows calls 15 us to a thinking which shall shape Ip conduct and character into likeness to the kingdom ot of heaven hemen That thought life for God God In Ir life and all that is 1 in the fact of Christ has al changed the centuries Change in Orient Men Ien sometimes point to China Quiescent cent conservative unchanged It Is now because the lund hand begins to i echo wih with this this ChrIst cry repent ii repent I needs a wIder deeper thought than tnt tnt gento gentle Confucius over spoke One has but to observe how marvelously Individuals End nd nations have been swung Into Jfe life of beauty and power by the r response to his command The glor glory and amI riches of the years t ars are arc found In those splendid lives and awak ened nations that haNe looked looke up to catch the vision of a loving and holy Go God 1 and father and have sought to answer th vision islon In a character ani and life worth worthy its glory lor and baut Just as upon the is I Parlan foundations ot Grecian culture and development there then was the house of oC unrest and the palace of failure so toda today r upon al all the fall fair culture of our marlous marvelous time we wc can erect no house hous save sae that of discontent no structure that wi will bt be fied filled wih peate and fair life of hope unless we 0 hear his demand and an It In a thought which will catch Go unveiling of al all lifes possibility wi or of the heavenly as we om embrace brace that of oC God Gods love and life and Purpose that sweep through the of him who challenged 1 the world in its unrest and misery and has haR give h unfailingly great jo joy ro rest t and victor victory to those e who have measured life In the light of oC all he nI speaks for forthe the age |