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Show CHRISTIANS MUST BREAK HOME TIES Dr. Bronson Cites Abram's Life to Show Breaking Away Is Necessary. Indicating that there must be a breaking break-ing away from old ties even home ties, if necessary by the man who is just beginning to live a Christian life, the Rev. Berton F. Bronson delivered a sermon ser-mon at the Rio Grande Baptist church yesterday. Mr. Bronson's figures of speech, quoted and constructed, were to show that this breaking away referred to abandonment of former unacceptable beliefs and practices. Commencing with t he following opening open-ing quotation, Mr. Bronson thus addressed ad-dressed the subject. In part; "And the Lord said unto Abram, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee." Gen. xx :1. Last week, as we took up this series ser-ies of topics suggested by Israel's experiences, we noted in the survey of Moses o?i Mount Nebo that It was a spiritual vision, and that he did not see It until he was about to die that he had to get above the level of his surroundings. Moreover, he had to get to the place where he was willing to die. We saw what a striking parallelism the history of Christian experience In the individual bears to this story. That was a general view. As we take up the pa rticular analogies we revert to earlier characters. Tn almost every instance of the beginning be-ginning of the Christian life It Is necessary that there bo some breaking break-ing away. With regard to the struggles strug-gles for freedom, light and truth among larger groups, this same, principle prin-ciple holds. The pioneers, reformers, pilgrims and puritans of every age have had to experience the process of tearing and severing themselves from the old endearments and associations asso-ciations sometimes the very ties of home. Don't imagine that it was any easier for Abram to turn his back upon the past i ha h it would be for you to do so. But the call of God, howsoever it might have come to him, was real. He put God frrst In his life. Thus, though he. knew bo little of the place to which he was to go, he had faith In the Leader which ripened rip-ened into obedience. His knowledge was imperfect, even as ours may be, yet he was seeking "a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker Is God." Like Abram we are called to be pilgrims of the invisible in the midst of the visible. We are told to work in tbls world, but not to be contented with possessing it alone. |