Show CHRISTIANITY amm WILL VILL REMAIN POWER IN RELIGIONS Of WORLD The Everlasting Gospel was wu the sub cub jest of the Rev P. P A. A Simpkin ins in's sermon urmon delivered yesterday ay at t Phillips Congregational p. p ional chut church h. h H He emph emphasized t the e 1 breadth tenderness and all embracing law of Christ's Christs gospel 1 Th sermon eron wU was elo eloquently eloquently elo- elo and forcibly delivered db b before fo fortl a i large arge ge coI congregation The speaker Bp ker said in part Nothing is more striking In history history his his- tory than the fact that those who have prophesied the decadence of the religion of or Jesus have hav j been inevitably inevitably bly answered by those marvelous pe periods pe- pe nods of renaissance nce that h have ve characterized char char- the Christian religion and that have left It ever richer and purer in Its life Ute and expressions lon It is quite the fashion toda today for c certain men to talk wisely and with assurance of tho the de decay ay of Christ Christ- ChristI I anity Some are even setting bounds to its life and marking out the historic historic his his- tone spot beyond which the souls of I men shall turn to find 1 the myths of or Bethlehem Calvary Calvar and the gar gar- garden den of ot Joseph that was wu pressed by bythe bythe the feet of the risen one dead and therefore corrupted m memories morles One dares also to be a prophet pr and to speak peak clearly with the sureness of ot God that as Christianity answered Romes Rome's decay answered the dark age age answered dead ead England answered dead America a century ago o. has hu answered answered answered an an- every period perlo of human need for its twenty centuries of ot life lite be besides besides be- be sides sidell being the inspiration of every beautiful thing that has come into the social order that when hen the tides now running of luxury and of ot engrossment with culture and thu- thu nu- nu shall shan have swept men upon the rocks which have hav ever eer fringed ed edthe the ultimate of ot human reach that which Pentecost has same Ime spirit w from touched men in great periods perIod of power will sweep society ty like Uke a mighty wind and the piping voices of these wise ones shall be memories as remote as aa t that at of Celsus proto- proto t type trpe pe of oC them all 1 The Son of God has mUch marched through twenty centuries with hi his hta everlasting gospel He has not only met rust all the needs need answered all aU the problems problem of every soul that has bas tested him but h he has swept the chaos chaos' of human selfishness into the beginnings of of true order the order of love and righteousness has haa inspired a a. civilization tion so so 10 rich that th the thi hind of ot today than the Caesar Is Ia- richer in privilege of yesterday esterday so ao rich tich that the tho slave is the citizen the common man becomes becomes becomes be be- comes truly the creature with the upturned upturned upturned up up- turned face race And because he has baa and does dOeR and will rid the heart of it its It sin and doubt Its question que and the death of its own self aeU in the of his light lights and life Ute he goes on his hili way riding triumphantly while on the breezes his hll angels proclaim in clarion note the tho message of ot Bethlehem and Calvary on and on on till the very weariness of mens men's search for tor the ul ultimate ul- ul by way of tube test-tube and microscope culture and reagent and book shall break open the heart to the entrance of ot Him who can alone bring to the hearts bents sin and aneS ne need J. J qu question and yearning satisfaction life ute peace MAN MAY TEST GOD TO PROVE HIS ms HELP O 0 taste e and see ee that the Lord Is good Psalm v S. S Taste Is ts a sense by which w we try qualities of an object To Tonee see nee a a. thing with the mind Is to to grasp lit its meaning so po said Rev H. H J. J Talbot Inthe in inthe inthe the IlIff Methodist lat church yesterday morning and he continued his sermon proving preying that man may test tut God and see that ho he is true 1 In order to make a 8 test teat two things I are arc re necessary he went on There must be an un object to tOI which the test be applied and God has hM furnished us ue the object as ashe ashe he stands back of every word In fri this book said he raising r a Bible And AneS again one must have a a. faculty to which the results of the test may ad address them them- selves Belvea Our never failing faculty is h our conscience Following these assertions asset asser Dr Talbot Illustrated d his hi sermon by every Ner day event events and finished saying 8 that no man can go wrong provided he lie hos s seek k divine rul guidance anco an and followed his hll conscience through all aU struggles struggle and trials tria |