Show HIi b rt to Tell WIn GOI Is e J R a k r I W I rather than submit to a heresy trial with himself a defendant preached his hll Brit sermon ermon lat last night from the ItS mouth church J pulpit of Beecher Ab A bolt and hulls Dr lii In Introducing Dr i fort fn said laid that Dr Brigga was expelled from a church for that there thre were wre two Isaiah I marine Imagine several vera I hundred men said Dr lulls none non of them knowing a word of abrew d di by vote whether there was a oie or two to Isaiah Dr took for tor hll hi text Pauls worda I 1 would that ye e all spoke with many tongues tongue but rather that y ye and spoke of prophesies II He said laid that for a century and Ind a halt the Church communed with God and that not until the Church became grad gradually d duall secularised In tile latter halt ot of the century did It commence to I look to the put past for guidance Piul ht he did not mn r tell b but t the telling of t something metr i learn d of God by the term ot of prophesy sy IY In this age when think tn log man esteems only firsthand knowl knowledge edge edle BI as of an any worth and the permanency and nd uniformity ot of lAw It Itis is II hard to convInce men that God was wa once present on earth and Ills not be beIn being In ing here now leads leade mn men to deny that Ue He ever ner was Wat here There I seems ml to be added Dr Mc a widespread notion that 00 1 exposed himself to mn man In a WilY way In which He Is III no longer loner seen Ien and the scientIfic man says this means that lie never Himself to man But don does It not mean that God Is II Himself to us ue now This demand for knowledge is II bringing us UI back to Ii ft condition enjoyed by br the Church hurch before It became ft oar vision Illon ot of God grows larger larer tb the visions of others grow row larger Irger and we to appreciate the larger larler and nd clear cler tr er visions ot because they tell us UI they have hae seen lIMn God but because we e too have rein Him Christianity stands tand for tor the actual presence ot of ODd God In thin age The de demand mand ot of this age for hand band evIdence hu baa crested a habit ot of direct vision which III i making makin itself luelf felt within the relIgious sphere This habit of mind Is II laying a greater ater responsibility ty tf upon u us Christians ien n will not accept opinIons oPinion framed by us UI from what others hv have told u us It Ii 11 our own visions th Iy want and nd this demand cause us ue to God for Cor ourselves and w we hod Thin Ulm It seems to is we ma soon lOOn net uk ask converts Do you In God but may substitute Ue have you seen 11 God This Thle seemed to Ita startle rUe the and Dr added It may mar startle you rOUt but what a thing It would II be It If In all our churches churchea each Christian might be able to II III say I I 1 hive have seen n God Our but creeds creM hn have not been altogether blessings to us UI The transcendent God we have worshipped for ii giving way war to the Immanent God The Th world needs not A hind hand at stretched retched out OIt from another sphere but buta a heart and life throbbing here amon among u us |