Show FAITH PLAYS PLAY AN IMPORTANT PART Without I It t Science Business Everything Loses Its S Strength MATERIALISM IS BLINDING Issues of Life No Less Essential Essential Essential Essen Essen- Than Faith Says the Rev Benj Young I TIme The Validity of oC Faith a a c t chosen on by tho time Rev Hc Y Young o otho of t I tho lii III First t. t Methodist Jell ollist church Sunday SUII at at- forded or etl a wl wide le topic for fol discussion Ho lie said aia I In part laiL Time Tho 1 materialism m of Limo tho age ha hag hiatt blinded man many to some somo of ut the Important issues issues' of ot life IlCe It IS 13 a mistake to suppose sup sup- IJO pose hose C that tho limo real forces of or tho world and handled aro alo those which aro are seen Men often orten foolishly discount that over ove which the they cannot put the time human humai measuring rod In Jim some somo quarters cm cm- is put lint upon science to tu the thc depre- depre elation of oC faith The faith element clement has s its HA place In human life liCe Science even have loom coin tot for faithA faithA faithA faith A recent ren reading leading of or a volume vol yol- ume timmie startled me mc by b- bIt Us its It Inconsistencies At Af l e every IY opportunity the author hind hai his ills fling at the thc cre credulity of oC the time Christian Chris Chris- tian than lie had no uj use c for faith at any point Joint ho Vet vcr ho lie moves CS aon along to some sonic great chasm In Iii hl his philosophy an and 1 to get ct across S it he lie does not hesitate to use that which he ho condemns in iii time tho Christian system What That has been a advanced ad ad- o. o above HC he lie says Is Ms no ito doubt largely a Q of assumptions assumptions assumptions' am anil conjectures conjectures few fow of which arc Ie sustained by known facts But a as ai tin Limit matter stands no other metho of dealing willit with will i it t can call 10 be m since time the facts ti tithe lii In the thc case easo ha have havo e In great part vanished One might ht well be he surprised rca reading in such a volume exhibiting such antipathy antipa antipa- 1 thy by h to tho thu faith principle People who live hive in iii glass houses should not nol throw stones lones Religious dogmatism Is no nomore more dangerous than scientific There ic It a sort of or a liberal bigot l ot who with nil all his cry a against the thc cree creeds s Is apt sometimes s to b u hi as narrow liar nar row as the tho most ardent ar ent representative of orthodoxy Corollary of ur One oC or the tile greatest scholars this tills country countr has produced once said Faith Faiths Is s the time logical corollary of science and the he highest flight of reason Faith l-alth I plays lays la s 's its Ils part purt In upholding upholding- tIme tho bustness bust busl- u I- I ness less wor world The Tho great commercial cen- cen tem's of tho the world 1 are bound in iii mighty compact through In faith I In mm iii international al nl relations faith is cr very ery much In evidence evi evi- dence The ht samo am principle bin binds f to together to- to gether gethmer human humon society The Tue perfect happiness of or home Is dependent ent upon ripen the he exercise of or mutual faith nith In tho realm of or the thic live 11 senses men do o not nor lor wilt will they live Psychologists have hac mapped napped out the time brain assigning certain functions to different parts of or tho brain the faith foith function unction Is no less to to n Instinct lC l t of t or iH J tI t t. l I once met a u thoughtful man luau says sas Bishop lOp who told toM me inc that for or years lie hc karl hall rea read over every book he ime could I which assailed the time religion of Jesus i Christ an and amid ho lie sal said he lie would woul have be- be I e-I become an nit infidel but ut for three things First I am a man maIm I am ama going somewhere Tonight I am a U day nearer I the time grave than I was last night I have rea read 1 all such books bool can tell toil me inc They hey shed sited not one solitary ray upon time tho darkness rime fhe They shall not take takeaway takeaway takeaway away tho the only guide and leave lea me stone bi blind md Second I had hiatt a mother I saw her hergo hergo hergo go down Into tho the dark valley alley where I Iam Iam Iam am going and she ho leaned Jeanc upon an un unseen unseen wi- wi seen arm arm as caimi calmly as a 1 child rests on tho the breast of Its mother mothel I know that was not a n. dream Third I havo o three motherless daughters nn arid and they havo have no mio no protector hut but myself I would woul rather the they would go with mo me down Into the grave than to leave c them in this sinful world it if you OU blot out from it all on the teachings of the time gospel o g-o In the great gleat experiences experiences expert expert- of life lito the faith instinct cries ou out t for God Above IJO Back of or mo rue there thero Is causality be- be e- e neath me inc is or order er and law me there Is harmon harmony These Thes timings things 1 cannot deny deity They presuppose mind r recognized In tho time ordinary environment of life If It they lIu suggest mind In Inthe inthe the higher an and larger sphere Into which m my thought comes do time thc they suggest suggest sug sUS gest cst anything less Descartes said I t think therefore I am 1 am aimi therefore Go God Is That logic Is hard to break If wo WI had looked c at tho the swinging Into hot her llo dock k th 1 other othor day I suppose her ma magnificence ln would 1 have hae caus caused us not only to with unite with WUl others others oth OUI- ers ors In hailing her time the mistress of ot tim tho seas but we WC should have been een led led to topa pa pay tribute to tho time genius of or the time shipbuilder ull Er who thou thought ht it all nil out days a s before 1 I think thin of the time voyage of or the time world through space in la Its great orbit sailing on at miles an hour of Its history and adjustments an and economic eco ceo of or tho Limo log which whelm has imas been written and of Its Us beauty an and progress I 11 am nUl lost in hi wonder over o tho the Intricacy o of the heavens and amid the tue grip of or law Jaw Hon ICon It IC Iton on Ilm lIw one hand han I ma may go back vacle of the ship to think over 1 time the genius of time the master bUil builder er ao so in III this Instance I Imay Imay may reason back of tho time world worl to the time mind of or tho thu divine Faith then In iii God Cod Is u it very ely rational thing timing Surely It Is the time fool who ho himi hag haa said al In Iii his heart there is no lIo God doll Lifes jn st ry Is no ito bar to faith raith Th The Tho disciples were baffled by time the withered with with- crud ered tug tig tree l' l Peter t r called the attention atten tion of or the time Master to It It has baffled mitan many a man since the time o of Peter Jesus sal said Ha faith alUm Jn In Go God This Is pei perhaps haps dark arle to you ou now there thelo Is a lesson In It When you stand before the tho Inexplicable Il cm do 10 not lot let It cause you Oll to tp have havo less of or in the tho divino llIo or order or- or der ller of things The men mea who have havo hal hail great grent faith In iii God Goll have hav usually brought timIngs things 5 to pass ass I have but to cite cito the of ut 1 Livingston an and amid 1 CUI Cary y of or Mitts Miss 1 15 Mortal Moffat and Henry Martyn Martn of or Morrison and Judson of Duff Durt nn and amid Tue great enterprises of or th tho world 1 teach teach- ach- ach lug Ing out for or tIme Iho rescue of men cv C rv- rv ur ar arc backed backe by men nen who have ha marvelous faith In tn n the time great God Goll cry church which hopes to tn achieve must be permeated U by the tha same force I Faith in God means and happiness happi happl ne ness s In life Lifo Life Is not nol made up of one ne timing thing Th r is sunshine but there Is 13 sh shadow ow There is calm but ut there I is storm There Is light but thieve is darkness Thieve There rl Is JO Joy but Jut there ro ate aro also ahlo heartaches an and 1 burdens Sometimes 1 i I revel In thu tha glory of or tIme the m mountain height then again gal 1 I find Und myself In iii tho thu vortex o of tho the storm which pitilessly l pelts m mo me For the varied v experiences of life Hf so 60 that thai 1 I ma may c Q cr over r b bb at my bust I mUtt must Have Ban faith in Go V 0 L l lt t ri r I j. t. li JI |