Show OUTWORN GOSPELS tt IN RELIGIONS RELIGION'S WARE WAKE of Teachings Pass Passin in the Evolution of All REV SIMPKINS SIMPKIN'S SERMON Deals With lith Tendencies of the Times and Unchanging Gospel Gospe of Christ 1 1 I I IThe rii The fhe He Hep 1 p P. A. A preached to a Il t 4 lar lage e con congregation last evening on of or the rell religious tendencies of or the wp time lime dealing especially with the elements ele elc- I ments J of or the thc unchanging gospel of oC Jesus Christ t After dealing with the cc decay of or the ethnic religions he lie on un to lo sa say part Apart from the Iho miracle of or Christ's Christs It permanence and nd enlargement In two Iwo thousand years of oC tile the palt the for fOl today lies in tile the content of rt the people of oC Jesus Christ as It II fights I c- c for tor or Itself amid tie the contending opinions of If tho time lime An AI u ago e which chichi ha has been becil too loo deeply with material values val val- c. lIC ues thu-it thu thalis Is used usell to t th tho hl procession of Ilane In machinery and method in the tho I i factory factor and shop to the tho wiping out of the tile yesterday c with Its Us Imperfectness 7 In jn the bitter bittel toda today in both library and und laboratory looks boles in Sn the tho domain of oC Ii religion for tor compounding changes But this Is tin 1111 eternal gospel Christ has hasi i for tor or men Hud and can know now flOW In Itself no nol l- l change It Thai hut I Is not 1101 l tn I i den deny progress Tho Thio I lou evolution c of the race f h is I t marked with a multitude of or outworn p Some Sonic of them have h been shot i through h with Itil lne dl colors and elements ele dc- i it S t S ments of r Intense value aluc but they have O u failed ani and ami died and lire are only m memories As s one st stands views tho the ruins of S tho the forgotten of or tho ago ngo ho he 4 S. S ii hi led Jed to in wonder whether after all 5 f the tho Christian religion will bo be with nil all 5 5 5 5 its pomp and beautiful stor story J S. S F VIle one with Nineveh ch and Tyre S e ii I lef AVo 0 realize that change is changeless change change- f- f 5 less In our day ery Very many variations l. l p J. in ill tell religions fous expression are bout about our A S doors The significant tiling thing in them themla i la Js that the they nil all hark back to Christ for j- j S. S ideal and authority and it is fl r. r IT t nut too loo much to lo expect as ono one looks into the time future that hat tue tho note of or val each hold will I I I In III SS- SS 5 value u e may ii tomorrows tomorrow's r history l o coordinated Into the time abiding f. f i f Jarmon harmony ot ot to confuse however hoo the tile o und nd tho tue church in alt all Its Us ex ext ex- ex t the lie message abiding will win survive sur sur- tt tt I vive is through h all churchly churchly- form and change because It is Gods God's message e to toman why man maim U r. r The Tiie go gospel o of Jesus is eternal IL It I t. t will survive because ll It holds not only I Ithe t n ro the tue message e of or God to lo man but bul mort mornS morn'S moro morn S S because that message Is to lo the time 7 5 5 Hal fal soul and strikes Its need It stands S f on fl u platform which lends an Infinite di dignity to the children of or men nen for all Its motive moll and all an the tue pIa play of Its Us life t aro alo VO about bollt that fact In man which es esS establishes es- es S 5 l his bis relationship In iLl tho eternal of his moral being being- fun d Van personality with Its poten- poten S J I ai IH is Js that to which the time gospel J Its HI address The Time things thing's It S. S speaks are arc addressed to the highest things In him S 1 The religions of yesterday died beI because because be be- cause enuse they failed fatted so tCO to lo do Jesus I 1 I sought time the controlling controlling- things things the Iho faith the Iho love hove and the tue will of or men Z and that which so RO deals with human I J r nature as to lo meet Its Us demands answer I J S. S Its questions and satisfy his need Un amid t. t I The fhe universal is iM a twin ln note noto to the Sy eternal al In his messages J. J M The racial endowment en en- S. S o of the tho divine with all at Us its vit- vit viti i- i of l Is on the tho forefront of or J L his 1114 teaching He lie who voiced this thus go gol pel found that value in every life i ho he touched whether time the not nol over clean child whom the ho caressed by the thc roadside tt and made the thc type of or the Uc kingdom of i heaven hcan n the sinner whose hoe value alue loomed l from nm a sycamore e tree b by the roadsIde or ortin tin tIme woman with the thc painted face and the theli li r vivid vl character to lo whom much was forgiven forb for for- iJ- iJ r b given I mint ant and who responding to his bis mes- mes f f'S r S fagu Fal found the thc of his gospel ospel and j k r came carne to lo know Iwo the blessedness of 06 his I 1 I S friendship K And nd as he lie speaks to lo that common ul in the thc age It ll Is to say a that which S reaches raches every ery life In its Us condition and andin in ed That condition Is the one which speaks speak tile corruption of the thc h heart and amI the need of oC life Por Tor Jesus Jesus' message e. e thi thia 1 abiding me message age Is to sin tn in iii this hits life lift The tendency of ot our time line to lo lo lose c sight of oC the real sinfulness of sin un under tinder el elthe the euphemisms of brain ln storm and lId time tho like hike and to soften n the time of hate lisle and low passion through h the glasses of or his higher law and social degeneracy is only a new form of oC a world tendency a desire to lessen the sense of evil c and the awfulness of iniquity The Thc age ae has ha lost Its Us peace and JO Joy Its enjoyment of life and love Its attainment of or the time hl highest t b by 13 sIn and amid it Is needless needle to touch the problem except to lo write Q K l. 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D Men kh know too tho truth for 01 or need of Here home f H trie uie vital thins thing That Je- Je SUM UH III In his gospel o abiding lies has the tho only me message age to sin that the tInt age has known the only relief for It Its bur burden ClI the only cure curc for Cor Its wound the only life for It Its death eath The Tiie age ought to lo see ee ere cre this tiis that tha Iniquity however howe sro gross g or Is only modulated b by all other timings things It I is Ia radically lealh and satisfactorily touched In Inthe Inthe the lie religion of Jesus The rue love god that thatIs I Is I expressed cd and the life god that I Is brought near In him are arc the time timings things s b by which alone we find hintI cleansing for the thc life and the thc appeal RI that thai wilt will ihl draw u us to the perfect things ne to man mali the Infinite giving sl him hint to see his moral needs need which are arc alike unchanging In iii the years ears bringIng bring bring- ing the way to him for rOl realization or of orth orthe th the hl highest co the lie human and amid divine lne to In Iii will will In love hove In l RUN t I Ice training the tendrils tendril of or the human human hu hu- liu- liu man soul across the chasm of or death and Into the realm of the lie this his re re- re ligion lighon lon unchanging slid and unfading goes goe Otte onto oti Ot to te possess R the age because It ll holds the tho h only mc message meas-e age to the unchanging ln needs of I men iren th the tho only answer to the time questions S o of the time age th the only revealed rc purpose of ot the the master of or things timings wh whose se program j sweeps from earths earth's human to heavens heaven's perfect destiny |