Show nECO RECONSTRUCTIONS IX IN LIFE Unitarian Pastor Preaches on OP Ic Lessons ems Taught nl hl I by Fa lime At the time Unitarian services In Unity hall hal yesterday a Jo Jos E. E Poll Pol sang the tue ll solo I am ani a an and the ITo Unity Ity quartette san sang sane tho ho anthem Bow Dow Down Dawn Thine Ear 0 O Lorl Lord The re reconstructions reconstructions re- re constructions of life that are arc conse- conse luent quem on our OUt failures and uni defeats was wa the he general generl subject of or Rev Re Frank Pay Fay Eddys Eddy's Edly's sermon himself But nul when he came unto These are aro the six words of or 1 my amy text lext said saul Mr h Edd Eddy It I I Is brief Ile but It Is m many manya n a da day since Ince I tried tied to 10 interpret a text that thul seemed so IO satisfactory to 10 me Into Inlo these six words word IH is crowded the Oie whole II significance sig sg- of or the time b beautiful parable of the lit ll Prodigal Son to this climax clma nil all al that hd has preceded leads Jeas and nil all al that follows becomes be he- conies comes ethically and nd logically 11 possible because be he- cause the time prodigal In time the wreck of his fortunes in the depth of his degradation came caine care to 10 himself I co do not time the rest rt of or the tho thee e verso verse o because loda today I am simm not Interested In what whal follows the COUl course of reasoning that clu caused cd him to arl arise e and ant SO go o to 10 hl his father m may have been beel Inevitable tor mor this particular prodigal hut but without concerning ourselves with the he conclusion we can COl fm find suggested In lii tIme the brief words of or our oer text lext a great theme time the subject still haz In Willie was ti hazy m my mind I prepared the lie announcements for th time the and ami gave C out U as u a I sermon sermon- topic Time The hc Goad of oC Failure Hut But lut when 1 f came to 10 work It out In moru morn definite definite- shape I 1 saw sw that It would have h iCen en better to 10 have culled my theme Reconstructions Recon In Life The Time Prodigal Son Let us t then U use out our Ol prodigal son ius- ius Illus ilius- I laid hud tar far He I it hul Into Inlo a ar country countr and anI h hind had wasted his patrimony b In riotous living 1 h he lie had imad hal come to 10 wan want and despair and saw ww clearly at al last that thaI anc I anc he ime had been been living In iii u it I fools fool's paradise I which laud had hat vanished leaving anI only the lt fool foo behind to be te a u fellow of time the swine Then S he came caine caie to himself Hl Ills HIM past lat life appeared appeared ap ap- ap In time the of a mistake which hud hail hut ended In swift ruin I lie Ie realized that he lie was a failure allure Then there was WlM hope for or him hm We c have It I on good I ity that mit the tIme fear tear of or time the Lord Is t tho the beginning of or and ant perhaps It ItIs I L i Is sometimes but hut It II appears to 10 me that Ilat time the beginning of wisdom h Is usually to 10 o be e lower mower down on tho the spiritual ual scale It I begins with wih most of ot us when we wo stop slOp short take tako an Inventory In of or ourselves and r I our past and ant earnest earnestly sn say Thou fool tool That fiat watt was the time beginning of wisdom with wih the the prodigal son aon anyhow The Th fear o of the lie 1 Lord came Into Inlo hl his life at al a n later date dale I we may a suppose hut but we are not are not enl ht- ht I I ened for tho limo parable arable stops slops with wih our hero tall 8 Hie lii il fatt calf cal A A SIt tl 13 H of I ManThe Man I The type o of a i man with which wo we arc lre was waR on one who was strong enough h to reconstruct his Ir lift life after It II had hod seemed to lo end In blank lonk failure So we wo ale aie let led lella a away way from Crom the he theme therm of how lives liven ma may ly be lit I. I crushed i antI anil 1111 broken to that of how f 1 lives may be lu resurrected from seeming ruin how they ma may be he lined ansi and s by hy defeat and sorrow orrow In tact fact aN our theme that of ilie e anti ami growing life as nut It I Is IR most often lived In time the I world of actual enc ence nce Mr I r. r EcI Eddy con continued by lu Illustrating t the impossibility or of attaining ah absolute control anti and final success In I lime lite We are not allowed to create for ourselves es on any ista- ista ta- ta I V h he lie suld As the law of exists nan man mal must utmost 1 learn In it at al least L by his failures lart 11 and mis mis- takes Th The strong things In II time the til lives PR I o of each tacIt of or us LS are art explained In time the working out omit Olt of II this law lai la No Xu Finalities C in iii il LiftIn Lift Lift- Lre In the concluding part vart of or his sermon Mr Ir Eddy said sall What Whal then l Is the limo 11 plain Is It I not I that lint there can Cn be lie beno lieno Il no finalities In Ir life The Time plain lall moral of all al this I Is to 10 le leash lead leada leasha 1 a anti and alt responsive life Is our highest slimly duty To Fe do this In time the world as asI asIt asIt It I Is means that In lii our hours of or seeming failure and wreck wred we shall be spurred on 01 to 10 something wiser nod and saner that lint In Inthe Inthe inthe the time of apparent defeat we ive still sti find rhul finda a n challenge e foi rOl effort erfort If I our lives become be be- come com failures it i Is more than anything els else elf e du due to their submissive attitude to toward to to- ward defeat and amI failure Lifes Life's gravest langer then is il stagnation AntI And there Is hope hope lot for 01 every Iry soul that can lad find n a goad geniI od In n failure and amI a challenge In defeat |