| Show RECTOR PERKINS SERMON on lie III I ot of Cod Being i With Rector e C E Perkins or St Bt hauls c pal church preached e morning on I flue h Idea of GotI being with man maim hoMo hold In ins that thal birth wa was I a dIstInguIsh dIstInguIshIng Ing ot of The text was from rom w I z 4 The shall call his name J Emmanuel whIch beIng In Iii I Is loil with us liS rime sermon was In iii part art tic follows Christmas octave gIves Us Ul an oilier opportunIty to study some le on the rho fhe simple record o 0 Christs birth Is ha found In two ot of time the flU Ds St SI and St luke It is h n II short hort te record hut but It contains one of th the dIstInguIshing ut of Chris The study ot of re hiss teem a trent great t ten ln to 10 our 01 reo iC While there thoro have been tIle tho arlous ns a utter If 1111 they might mind the yet et It hils r h to th the I rJ relIgion to 0 brinK to Li light Fat desire ot of Ill all nA aft lIon tion It Is I fount In time tho Incarnation deIties and ha hecO belll Invented but l arm th the sal sale Th They that made them are like unto Item Mutt never rises rise higher than h his conceptIon or deity The bins Is Istar Sc tar far above nil all earth that its Ita anI Cu could base hwe been In God eel who In Christ WAS bringing man to himself lt and to III Ills In iii heaven For incarnate Is the climax to nil all this searching ot of th the piali for light and lIfe liCe This doc doctrine III no has hall been lucid held h b time church from its lis ter er ning It II Is the or oC the truth after which the old sought It Is III time tho only solutIon to the difficult In ot of thIs existence It cf Is hint mUll man who sets up ul his In Individual loin Inn In time the taco fuco ot of time the history ot of time church as gIven Itlen In her scrip scriptures tures ant and In III her creeds creed The burden ot of proofs lies with him him to gainsay this tact fact S St Luke lukl th history ot of the thIng flint have havo been held from the Anti And St SI Luke ruke was wall not an enthusiast Tak the facts IA an they land hlll been receIved he lre the tho record for tor the ot Of his hie fellow tellow ChristIans of nil all ages rn lii tInts day we ask for the he practical results ot of such Illch belief and rIghtly do wo we won n ask k In III the It f the idea God and with us we must first about Gods ws In the tho natural world lie He was In thu tho world mind the word was made by film the world know him not IY IYer er ery flower that blooms blooml and everything that has life lite Is an unconscIous v wILiness to the pr encl ot of IoU In Ills world lie Is there thero th y know thai Hint pot oot In out olle form torm It Is but the through which u a part ot of Ills life lICe anImates all things s In time light that very every that Into the tho world lIe He Is manifest to it a Some call him but bul lIe Is there Old Socrates and both Loth bear lints to Ills f power Jer for tor righteousness Oel is II In man In that spark or Ic divinity to which the ChrIst appealed is hI Iii 1111 men It Id Cu from depths ot of sun sin and It I Ionly Is only on such a basIs that wo we can account for the tho amid spiritual regeneration that hu has taken lIken place In man lie Ito came unto unla Ills own anti Ills own received net tint but as many nil as received to them lie Ife a power to 10 become time the ions Ion I Int of nt Got God lIer Is II where the ChristIan reo me lI takes Il a firm hold anti and at thIs we learn accord log to the room that lip lIe finds In our hearts so o Ills presence be a power to u tue It speaks to the dIgnity ot of human Ity for tor lIe Himself elC has bu become one of ofu ofus u us As Aru lie He Is po pa shout should we 1 he be How prone pron We inn to thInk only ot of Christ In III tho Our humanity has hUK been Ix ex exalted alted The Vod comes romes unto each ot of otI I I and asks us ims to become Ills HIs anti liS as we do so WI we lJ become orno for tor God lod In the Iho world worl As 11 Ito silt 1111 of himself that TIe lie was the tho light lIht or Ih the so o also lIe that his lIts ills II the might light ot of the world Thus the IncarnatIon homo to 10 tre teaching of God with tic liS Ills church lt Ills mo II lIla Instruments whOm II Js 14 workIng that It ma may the son ot of God Gael |
