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Show DR. BACON PREACHES AN EXCELLENT SERMON "I iim thu Almighty God. Walk thou boforo mo and be thou pcrfoct." From the above text Rov, Dr. C. E. Bacon of Indlnn:iiolIa preached an eloquent elo-quent oermon at tho First Proabyterlan church in the morning. The trend of hln argument was to show, that only by a knowledge of God's ways ajjd teachings will tho world lu rodocmcd and Ihut all the plans of ull thp philanthropists and hclnntinc men for the lifting up of do-l?r;ided do-l?r;ided man aro vain unleas th ono which thoy oeek to uplift has a conipro-linneton conipro-linneton of Deity. Tn beginning, tho Hpoakcr uald that no subject can be understood by tho study of that subject alono, that while UiIh Is a day of opoclallBtrf, wo aro coming to know that breadth of knowledge 1b npce-Btiry npce-Btiry before taking up the study of a spoblalty. In thlH connection, Mr. Bacon said ho was not suro but tho tlnio will como when In all lines of research the study of God's word will bo necessary; that in tho atudy of geology and zoology there will be a theological department; In other words, men will come to recognize that before they can know this old earth thoy must know something, of Him who created the earth; that before they can know thu stars thr;y muflt know something of Him who held and holds tho univorso In Ills hand; that beforo they can know anything any-thing of each other, thoy must know . Romcthlng of Tllm who created , man In His own imago. Mr. Bacon imilstcd that men do not understand life In Its sevoral periods while In each of tho periods; In other words, man ie willing to admit thnt he Is Just beplnnlng to learn how to llvo when ho ia ready to die. From this fact ho drow tho conclusion that no man understands under-stands life, until ho begins t,o lnterprot It from tho standpoint of eternal years. Tho speaker than went on to tell of the study that Is today made of life from overv standpoint In the .homo of tho capitalist cap-italist and tho laboror; in the palaco of wealth and the hovel of poverty; among the Illiterates and among those of trained nnd cultured Intellects. Out of this study, he said, have arisen a number of thconos - ... fii nrmfi solution of the great problem of paving mankind. Some believe that the social problem is to bo solved by oducatlon. Another class, which tho ppeaker said might bo termed tho scientists, sci-entists, and their theory Is that the moro nulckly a man Is allowed to bring about hiH own end through his own v cea. tho better off tho world will be. Still othe.rH havo the theory that men should bo prevented pre-vented bv legislation from perpetuat ng their evli tendencies that are coming down the centuries, through their blood. "But every one of these theories Is defective." de-fective." said the speaker, "not erroneous, but defective, because each omits to bring out tho truth of tho text which 1 give; vou today. '1 am tho Almighty God.' AVould you help mnnklnd? Give my thothts unto him; let my conception of man llnd expression at your hand, Is tho thought ot God. So, there Is not a temptation of life, a problem of life, but that Is Intcrpretablo from tho standpoint of God. and he stands beforo tho problems tho temptations and the Scriptural passages and saye, If you would understand them, begin to understand under-stand mc; 'I am the Almlgnty God. |
