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Show FILLS PULPIT AT 11 - i REMARKABLE PRECOCITY OF LIT. TLE LOS ANGELES GIRL. Recently Took Place of Sick Pastor and Delivered a Really Eloquent Sermon on the Subject of Love. Los Angeles, Cal. Taking her Blck pastor's place In the West End Congregational Con-gregational pulpit, Inez Dowers, 11 years old, preached a rcmarkablo sermon. ser-mon. Inez has shown remarkablo facility tor discussing theological subjects. 3ho Is an earnest student of tho Dlblu and knows hundreds of passages by heart. She wears short dresses, and when tho pulpit does not cnll her she devotes much tlmo to her doll, which she calls Sue. The church members woro much surprised to hear a sermon worthy of a "grown-up." Tho girl apparently had not memorized It, and sho stated at the outset that sho always depended depend-ed upon occasions like this upon dt vino guidance Here Is a part of what tho child preacher said: "Ood called me and I want to do his will. I speak without notes, trusting thnt the master, who has seen fit to guide my steps this way, will glvo mo words to speak that I may glorify htm. "I will choose for my toxt to-night a verso from Romans: 'Ood commend-eth commend-eth his love toward us, thnt while wo were yet dead In trespasses and sin, Christ died for us.' "Qod gave his best and ho Is not satisfied short of our best. When wo do our best, only then have wo dono bur duty. Then what can wo say of thq,so who have failed to be filled with dlvlno lovo, without which no one can do their best? In studying tho word wo discover that thoro are two kinds of love the divine and tho human. Wo seo much of human love and but little of the divine. "To lovo thoso who aro lovable is easy for all, and that is only human; t . but to love those who have not tho qualities that we admlro nnd enjoy and lovo them for Christ's Bake, takes tho dlvlno love of Ood, which t&shcd In our hearts by tho spirit of the Holy Ghost. "I think there would bo fewer back' sliders If thoro were more good shepherds. shep-herds. Thoro should be more pnstors at tho prcsont tlmo llko l'eter of old. There should bo moro lovo for tho returned re-turned sinner and even for tho ono who Is not nlready in tho fold. We need Cod'B lovo nnd wo need tho love of our follow-mortnls. "I should be discouraged If I did not think God's lovo can forgivo all sin nnd lead nil things right" |
