Show I REV C. C E. E PERKINS I ION I ON T I IThe I The Christian Year Pass Passes s Before Before Before Be Be- fore Us Like a Grand Panorama THE MESSAGE O OF EPIPHANY and amid E. Mon In of Church Ordinances Om Strongly n nEI nf f EI The Time service ser and arid the Ito sermon at St. St Paul Paul's church ChUlch on Sunday Sunda morning were In lii keeping with th m clo closing inS inS' o of the time Christian year Hc Charles Chades E J. Perkins look took his text from Crom tho the th verso sc of the imp chapter of or the the- Acts of or time the Apostles 4 po which read For Fol ForI FolI or orI I have ha not shunned to declare unto you ou all the couns counsel l of oC a God ll I Mr- Mr h Pet Pel kimm said lId in tim part pail Time The Christian year rear has haM passed before before be be- fore us like a and giand It began nn with the h heralding o of the thc birth of oC Chi Christ 1st by br tho time mes who ho should Pt PI his wa way vay and andi taught laught ht u us the significance of M ever e being cud I-cud for forthe forthe forthe the coming of t the time master Thus the thc church J keeps cep appropriately before her the eat reat lloc doctrine of or the advent of The Th Joyous festal tal tide of oC Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas limits hi Jugs to our mind the Import Import- ant fact of or the Incarnation fulfilling tIle the desire of all nations Adequate time Is 15 given I en during that season to emphasize the great truth which the I vise lse men and the philosophers of the ages age had sought and which now no is full fully hi ought out in Im the time light which I every man that I is born Into Juto the worl Ic- Ic c of or Epiphany n Season The church goOi goM forth in the epiphany sen season to tell th the good news I I Ito to all an the fhe worl world wort iI nn and the missionary l' l spit spirit finds lYe We ate often u ushered into intimate relation elation with our ma master in his alb cally Ufa and walk culminating cul cul- In the three e great temptations I CUI-I and hl his coronation colO day olay which Is Good Friday the soul finds t to tt face It its c conscience and test It Us its moth motives s. s When hen this task is accomplished them e I is no tin r i that it lJ rises from oni death unto life Ute in III the glorious us commemoration of time the Easter m n wll with Its empty m tomb and all its life giving significance e e. e Immortality is n assured aured mold with this hope man mannee nee needs s the tho h po power cr to live JIve its meaning power Is foun found l In the ascension sion slon I and anel III in the time coming of the Holy Ghost which is brought hought before e us in inthe th the spiritual power lower that comes mom moma om oma a rJ right might h t observance ance of or tHe tao IH pentecostal n season seas Then arc ame blou brought ht Into those practical lessons of or tho tim long iong trinity se season son wherein tho the church ho tio OO wn way to put Into practice that hat which wo ye have tied learned through the tIme year cal Example E of or IJ To convert con t these Wonderful les lessons sons soils Into pr e every day R life ff is Ig the gre great object of lu t th n irO h ti c r ru tho And olt o It closes l tho petition on on our o r lips HilS that our wills nUl may be hc so stirred up that we WI ma may bring forth the fruit of works It Is practice of our nul J religion ti that th 11 the world asks tot for and ind lma has a a. right t to ask AV f that a true trul use uso of or time the year yeal will enable u us to do O that very CIT thin thing to lo show forth in in our nUl lt 11 os ll f'S es what we f vi- vi profess 1101 with our 1 lips SonIC Some of time advantages of oC the ob ol observance servance of or the time Christian year u tim are t to tobe be hf seen slen In iii time the orderliness time the development dove deve c and tho s 's of the character char char- acter Licter of or tho ho vito observe I It Th Tb The procession of truths before 01 QUI out minds in a chronological leal Ol order Pl does have c It ft Its effect upon our lIves Jives It hows us its also that U life Is a growth ih both hoth in knowledge el e and ami grace And nd emphasizing the Hie whole round of Ii hll i 1111 II doctrine d tI 11 I It I I tends ty to for fur a t full rounded cham Oh I of oC if Christian Year Yur The observance of nf th the Christian year Cal lays as time the emphasis ls in due 1 I lion tion upon the various arious doctrines that thai I I I Christianity sets Ns forth There rheme is a i mo moderation that thai I Is bec ICo So our e O is emphasized to the lie neglect I I 1 and del detriment t of oC ni III others hems Already I some me Christ Christian lIa In n lod bodies les Is are arc hf legI beginning 1 mining I to lo se see whal the th lost Jost by dh limo lUll h tIl Il at ut the 1 time hue of ur and slime i lit t th III hi r reformation Ion Th The fhe raIson I I Idere detre dere If r of t I ipso ho y vo ol organizations t lion Is bet tog ii iU touted bj hr r rv 11 1 i n then then- I abl abl t t exponents Mail Mau of If them v rn em or- or I d to lay Y stress upon some phase of thought ht That thy they thought needed emphasis Today the they have aId a Id wider r l Vision aUl ami man many are beginning to realIze realize real real- 17 ize that to develop a full rull character the Iho church chuich can cart not afford to n neglect cl cl an any t teaching th that t has stood the thc te teSt t of or the age ages To illustrate the force of our re remarks re- re marks I would call your our attention a to rell religious louK bodies les lesho who ho are arc not ln- ln InV InV- Il- Il lug Ing thy tho stress th thy y once did dill upon w what t thc they supposed were the time sine qua hurt non of the church The Thu organ- organ th that t have denied baptism m to Infants aVe are toda today acknowledging some sume kind of ut a covenant relationship hll be between bp- bp l tween w n the child chilli and md and baptism J with lh nf has imas become practically ll what confirmation has hUH been In Iii the time church from m apostolic times Tho rho o organization tI that at taught a ahard haul hard and fast idea of JU predestination i is I today u using methods of teachings that are arc not in accord with wilh tho those e sQ sp principles S upon which that body Joy Was ifs f established It has haM not only emily a wider vision of If IC God but also that which re results re- re suits from a a. big view V of a l great God na nel a a. great eat desire to lo save l all nil men On ll If It th the God Cool they once worshipped woe wor shipped was Wi so HO small that lint his love Jove a was confined to the thc elect few to- eve Another nother society has continually preached conversion lon and amid every CI sermon was wI weighted d with this mess message o until time faithful of If their I fold who had been c n converted got sol hungry for foe Ol meat tJ rou through h which tory night might ht become edified e that 1 Is i up Ul In the time faith fulth As a natural f result sult this society which sprang JI directly from the time mother church Is giving g to lo the time Episcopal church hurh many of h lice her I en earnest sons sorts and 1111 daughters ht who vimo crave lJ tho ho meat ment that lint a alj aright aright lj right hl observance ancl 1 of If time the Christian year will ili give e In the of or the time doctrines of ot Christianity To Hc the J Lobs Ios o s. s I Wo 0 express 8 our ideas in n all 11 charity charil an n we wc arc cl in iii OUt our ns n- nCI er- er lions by the tue ablest l mid arid loyal lend lead n li of lr these I oilier ilmer organizations who vimo urn ait doing nil all in iii their power to re- re reI I t C that which they believe belle was a a aIn In loss 1015 s to tn their organizations the time ChristIan Christinn Christ Christ- In inn Ian n year Ci I In the vices of the time church all the time doctrines of rf Christ t and apostles apos apos- ties timid fine expression lo Should her minister min ister fail fall lo to ci emphasize phases hases of or the thu truth for tor an any lra reason on whatever still the lie liturgy s 's teach ch the lie people A Aright right o observance t or of the time year ar in her Sunda s anti amid holy days das would still build Up the people In Iii those Doctrines which make for COl our oum t temporal as well as ts our QUI spiritual or en eternal good there Is no ito church year cur tim Iho tho person nh absent enl service ser misses cs something of course hut but not lIec necessarily so 80 wRit with the church where it is observed c The rime sick may worship at al home nn and use use- the same Mine service that thatIs Is being u lI ed In iii th the lie church And Ant with the thC accessories of a fine Cine musical rendering ren ien- dering dein o of if the tiie service sem and expounding of Go Gods God's i word that person who ho ml misses sl our vice service is the time poorer He lie can not hi be the thO Christian he lie should without a amill mill full appreciation of or the Importance nce of Clr Christian ye year I wherein the church noes does not nOl shun to declare clare all the co coun- coun nc n- n set c of God unto the time people The Time late lato Coxe likened Un the church year to 0 a a. grand oratorio io say a time tile Messiah 11 lah One who Comes casually nUl may Hear time the m portion another ah- ah an an- other oIlier a trio Irio another the sublime hallelujah chorus but bUl to 0 appreciate tint limo grand finale he must hear It all nil Then h lie will sec see how th the church cn- cn deavors IS I'S lo to idak tho th whole year focus around tho time life and character of our OUI Lord und Savior iol Jesus Christ It Is With this idea a that the tho year tho-year year eal closes and imd time the alpha and omega is heralded cd is Lord oUt our |