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Show SAYS THE WORLD HUNGERS FOR GOD ' As God incarnated himself In Christ, so would Christ reincarnate himself in us. Let Christ be your creed and put him In the temple of your heart and error will bo driven thc-refrom." Thus spoke the Rev W. F. Richardson of Kansas City, who delivered a strikingly forceful sermon ser-mon on "Tho Creed of God' 'at the Central Cen-tral Christian church in this city last night. The object of the speaker was to bring out the difference bilween belief In a creed and belief In Jesus Christ, and this he did In words strong and eloquent. Christ, he said, must be held up as the creed of God. and that belief in Christ and not In creed will save the world. To bs Christ-like he considered the highest ideal of humanity. "We are pleading with tho world," he went on. "to leave their doctrinal creeds and take up the creed of God, the creed that throbs in the heart and lives In the life." There Is one purpose for the church, he explained, that of bringing the world, through Christ, to God, and that can be accomplished onlv by holding up Christ as the unifier of the world, by exhibiting a oneness, by being one. The Rev. Mr. Richardson sought to show that It Is not a man's teachings, but that It Is the' example he sets, that accomplishes ac-complishes things In this world. He whoso lips havo spoken words of hist and who speaks from the pulpit, he said. Is uttered ut-tered to by men who can do naught but ficon". The world at the present he characterized char-acterized as being extremely restless, as crying out for God. hungering for righteousness. right-eousness. He told of instances where the. Disciples misinterpreted the words of Christ and asked If the world Interpreted his teachings any better today. He narrated nar-rated the circumstance in the Scriptures of the company of Gentiles, ' unclrcum-ciscd unclrcum-ciscd Greeks.'' as lie called them, saving to one of the Apostles, "Sir. we would see Jesus." and of how the Apostle, with misapprehension, , had carried the message mes-sage to Jesus, who said, 'Now Irt the Son of God glorincd." All truth, said the preacher. Is not the same". God. he said. Is the truth as the sun Is the light; other truths come from God. but are as. the candle flame and the brilliance of the Incandescent bulb compared com-pared with the light of the midday sun. "The church must show Christ to the world as the creed of God." |