Show ON IN n TOPICS Transcript The rhe of today If It you yot havo noticed it occasionally l neglect to nook S the tho text tot for their thel Sunday sermons fa fathe Its the Ills he They at are falling failing Into Inlo tIle the hi hibit bit of ot taking an un au o I Ilo ot of modern Ill II a 8 titi starting point of their sermons sermon timId and then them apply to them certain biblical tests thereby drawing nn an obvious les Icy lesnan lesson son nan or leaving K thur congregations to tim todo do this till And Amid there hero Is i assuredly much In hi ways ind mon means no from which lessons II may be lie drawn limit Hut that person In 1 New Neit York who scored BO so unmercifully sonIc same of ot tho the rIch mon men who give tailed failed 11 to add an un infusion ot or charity to the t tuner of ot illS lilu comments com with stIth the result that his III will trill hardly till tonight in time the minds ot of his hearers n II rich rici man Han cannot himself with God Clod no u ho expressed It by giving away Iway his Hut But tile truly humble and pure ure In heart h orl believe that God Gail ree rc tho the more t ro wish to 10 get els Northwestern Christian Advocate Tho ho Now l record of ir N WrOught b 1 by Jusus of oC Nazareth I is n too positive I open and diversified to ad admit Au Alit mit of or anything other r than assent or dissent Tho Ill record li Is true or false Jesus wrought miracles or He lie did dill not Ho He was himself n 0 miracle a 11 aman aman man supernaturally endowed capable capa 10 of ot performing miraculous deeds attrib attributed to 10 Him flip Idle U It lie was supernaturally born and endowed h then It Is most pre pro preposterous preposterous to 10 o apiti to 10 Him film and Ills His works the tit tull and ana limitations that hat belong to men and amId the tile attempt to II todo do this tills a t sad sd want of spiritual perception as well as no astonishing lIck lack of ur logical consistency lIl The Interior Spite Suite of 01 all nil Its wish and will to font forti fy ty Itself against modern moiler Influences ho time of ot Home nole In these latter days of ot often otten ten tell sues Its III defences crushed ed In Ill by the 1110 pressure of ot Protest nut outside out Pope Popo Leo eo tacitly another such lIu h breach when ho h appoints 11 a n commission to de lie determine termine what freedom of opinion may be allowed to C scholars In ro to questions of or Biblical criticism It ft Is but a quietly taken step by bV which the tile pope authorizes this tills Inquiry anti and yet yel It II t Is In lit a path rath of ot revolution It 11 Is literally startling to think what shat it li may mR mean and on r cannot help hp whether Lob Leo t himself what prec precious louis ious he ho trodden upon The Time Now oss York Examiner of the tho various contra dietary assigned for tor or the disinclination of young men Inell to In enter he tie ministry none It seems scorns to us touches the tho ia source of ot thin he which may be summed Up tip In III a ii single sentence they do not want to enter It t All tho the nr ar lous objections to tha tue ministerial ca 09 career career reer flint have hlO been brell enumerated would count for nothing It If a 11 young man were possessed POll cs ell by n a consuming zeal eal for tor or that form of ot Christian service Tho The fact that tile tho ranks gt Jt f medicine and the tho law are overcrowded Dve does doel ine not Mt deter Ieter young men mell from them nor i r does the other fact hut the majority of thi fledgling doctors antI and lawyers find tho thu struggle for tor to lIay ny nothing of ot suc success cess Celia and a II competency a lung Jong 1011 und and bit bitter bitter bitter ter one act as a p barrier to aspiring youth yoU t h Thus The i The oho way for tor a I church to succeed IH Is to havi Itao members rs filled lIe 1 with the spir spire spirit it of ot Christ who whip fill others with that spirit through personal relations of friendship and fellowship They cannot do tio this thin by calling men to como cone to them for tor the chief chlof purpose e of ot being minis fed ered unto tinto for they tile the Invite them to como In 18 Ii order that they timey the may represent Him ho came not to ho h ministered unto but butto butto to tp minister ter HP lIe sought only as liS disciples those thoRo who would follow toll ow Ills His example He lIe gave uve Ills Jill most mOlt tender Invitation to tile the poor but hut He Ito Invited even the poor at and nM most musI needy man to deny him himself himself self licIt and take up his cross and follow Him lim J The Tho Leader Without superstition or the he suspicion because e a II thing thin Is written In the he It IllS Is 10 different from the same samo thing the Bible DIble we Wt nutty may affirm that In till all literature and all nil life lite there Is 18 noth nothing Ipg ing tp compare In Simplicity directness unit l I universality allty with the tho mud Beatitudes Thou halt not lIot kill Ie steel steal hear bar false witness commit adultery or orco orV cout co V et ore are things concerning which the Intelligence of ot the average man will not go Ill astray It if lot alone Tho Tile Golden f cnn can e n be he understood by II n a child chilli Rages do the not dt beyond It One can con understand the protest against that Interpretation on of or tho luo Bible which Io sacrIfices doctrines or church government abOve plain mor alit while nt at tho Iho same some time he hI may mayI I these old codes colel of ot conduct which are tro re the tile landmarks la of ot the tho Hook as ns the th finest things In the tho moral history ol ot o oan 1 an |