Show BIBLES BIBLE'S STRENGTH AN ABIDING ONE The Rev P. P A. A Simpkin Closes Series of Lectures on onS S Great Book j. j MUST ANSWER IN HEART l-I l r S. S Lessons in ill Christendom's Christeni Christen Christen- Through r i doms dom's Masterpiece Men Learn Truths of Life r. r S. S The congre congregation at Phillips Congre- Congre I church heard a 0 sermon on The Tho Bible What Is the Final Test of oC Its Sunday evening c It was r tho the closing one oiw of a series on the great S book of oC Christendom and In the tue message mes- mes sage MaKe of oC the tho opening evening the thought of ot the I hearers was directed to two things things- 5 5 the proof of oC the thc Bibles Bible's answering nil all the hearts heart's question and antI demand for tor illumination on Its problems and Its 1 ability to bring men into the secret of or self The rho speaker In asserting the abiding abiding- ness and supremacy of the tIe Christian book traced somewhat broadly In the tho efforts of at tho the worlds world's 8 rell religions lont the at attempt attempt at- at tempt to answer answel the hearts heart's questions Forever ol hasS has I from tho lie beginning man nian S cogitated on self an and Its mysteries on life and Its Us on duty and S destiny and anti eyer every great system of or philosophy phil pull every ethnic religion lon has sought to answer said the pastor tho the Rev nC S P. 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A Simpkin And n the tue efforts to meet these questions ques S which ever every awakened soul must ask of oC Itself of till thu life lire about it it Ila have been becil attended b by monstrous errors born of oC mans man's limited d wIs wisdom om and his pathetIc Ic weakness S Tlc The altars of yesterday estellIa were either elthe tev terrible Islands 8 about which there then t if swished tides of cruelty materialism c sensuality or 01 superstition or 01 white i bases of fire nrc that reached no further ii In InS S their s than the narrow limit i of human wisdom within whose whoso chr cir clr- r cle do men found Cound room to sit sll nn and weave a ai i strand In which the thread of truth ivaS was iva S lost In the coarse things thInS's of oC souls sous nl r I nr nut But this book has an nn answer ful for evory cv- cv V 01 ory y lifes life's question Do you ou ask usk of oC Him whose presence Is subtly speaking for forever o or- or Si ever Yer of ot the un universes universe's over-lord over whom you ou feel Ceel to be the Master perfect Master all perfect un and powerful The Tho book bool tells you ou of His Ills nature will and purpose In Iii its philosophy of 01 history no less than thanS I S the glorious center of Its message e In the Christ He lie revealed rc a as Love Loye fontal and perfect Crushed b by the sense of ot lifes life's ill m the thc hearts heart's sin do lo you OU beneath the hanging hanging- vengeance that II Is lifes life's desert A A glorious voice vo s sings s the song of hope nu and pardon of ot life lite an and of oC rest and ontI heaven which last is but the name o of 0 loves love's for tOl life liCe For or the theS S hearts heart's questions as to life for tor its S broo on its ol at the tho ual things thinas the 5 lIght S Far more malc beautiful than titan all dreamIng dreamS dream dream- Rm r-Rm- S Ing lug is It even en the tho Imperfect realizing That Jesus Christ Is making possible le that this Book Dook helps bring to pass For ForS S two thousand years amid the changing t environment of or life In Its culture culture cul cul- ture turc its ever eyer gentler life lire and antI Its as ascending as- as ascending Ideals Meals this Book Dook has Ims brought to men I he Hie secret of pow power r to be what S glowed in Sn the heart of the thc revealing lIng of or orS S truth It holds Vois man verily a n son of or the Eternal God Was Ya It possible for or hum him to rise above lifes life's Were ero the glories of or his heritage e to be realized In Inthe inthe I Ithe I the field of or endeavor and amid the things of oC earth And AntI emphatically In un uncounted count cd human lives that have ha reaS realized rea rea- S not not perfectly In Indeed that that end ntH aId ond glory glor of oC life lite It reveals rc there Is S assent n to a n power divine lne and its abidIng abid- abid Ing glory glor on and l supreme value arc po In hi the verities of or an ages age's possession 6 of oC f Its promises L by U in living e experience S And An as one reviews the centuries as 4 I. I f f one marks the transition of or character an and ad Ideal as the tue and teaching 5 o of the tho Book Doole are aro measured In the life Ufe lifeS S which rc nl th tho degree of Its acceptance accept accept- pt- pt t t S. S once ance and which comes becomes glorious j a-j It I becomes possessed of oC the message oft of or L t tho the hiLbie Dible and the power within It It one onet i t l Is compelled to yield Ie to It not alone j y v. v revelatory supremacy but to acknowledge ff edge alge Je too the power that Ican can an but be o or of S Go God A lesser spring can not yield th the S stream a low life lIro can not lift to La dreams so 80 O high au and certitudes KO so beau- beau r as have hU flamed In the great souls that have hll known It Its power flower an and as are arc moving to 10 their perfecting In th thy as- as ee Ideals of oC n n. civilization noted S I hi iii I the Jno message of oC the Bible Dible |