Show I I I SPLENDID SERMON r I BY REV SIMPKIN The Itlie The sermon at the Phillips Congregational Congregational church last night was as on the need of things in their proper order The pasI pastor pas pas- tor the R Rev Peter A. A aptly I f I urged the necessity EI t of first things s first I Th The speaker saw much to fear in the genI general general gen gen- eral attitude on spiritual things in the dally daily rounds of pleasure and work worle In tho tue modern mortem life Ufe He spoke poke in part as follows follows- All tIl 11 that rightly enters into life ma may proper properly reo receive i e our devotion de But without without with with- without out presenting an ascetic Ideal it is true that a Ii life which finds no inore more than that which appeals to the creature element in all th the range from torn lu lut t to ambition is not more than We e are learning to trul truly enter Into the universe we were ere set to dominate But i e e forget torget too often otten and easily that values are all relative save lIIa one and that is in the purpose to find the spiritual unity which is alono alone found In that which Jesus called the en entering entering entering en- en Into the kingdom dom The age alte i is a marvellous manElIous one in its privileges privilege lieges for human life It Is wonderful wonder wonder- ful In its opportunity for the expression of the Ind individual Rut But the determining facto In all that makes a a. man nian Is within himself and not in mere privilege or op op- op The fhE other factor that completes corn com man II Is not In thin things and cannot bE be It IR is in the great groat God bark back of things who nho can alone alne make man the complete I unit and anti add to him that which makes kes the true success and happiness When nen that factor is found then has hM a man the secret ecret of life and victor victory The elements that make up the life to be bp desired are not In any material substance but are above e all material things thing Indeed it Is almost trite to repeat the truth of the age the truth that most mOlt things worth worthwhile worthwhile worthwhile while have ha been wrought rought out of narrowness narrowness narrowness narrow narrow- ness and the stress tres of poverty The man who ho finds his own orn life a R. maze or th the universe universe universe uni uni- uni- uni verse a a. riddle does so because he hI has left out the God factor as a part of hi his personality per per- and therefore of th the tho problem For this is I the marvel man that th-t however wide life may be he in its reach or however howe narrow nar oar row it is still ever tru true that the solution solutionis is within the individual heart When one finds the thA truth of the real possibility of life me with God as the th completing completing com coin element one finds the beginning of the life beautiful for he lie has found the purpose and the end Ind of God Bro Browning said aid It takes takeR the infinite to brush a hairs hair's breadth oft off the th dust of the actual Until a heart comes to its abiding in the truth eternal that touches touche our little lives live he will m not mould the actual I to the ideal of either his own dreaming or Gods God's revealing re But in the vision of that which sees the infinite in the little things of now tho the vision that is born of our union with God It will touch beautifully fully and profitably all that may rightly fill life and make possible the true conquest of earth |