Show T MUST usi BE CONSCIOUS OF HAND llAND j Christian Knowledge Furnishes Furnishes Furnishes Fur Fur- Sermon for Rev Francis Burgette Short NEW RELIGIOUS THOUGHT How German Fanatics Without Without Without With With- out Belief in God Saw the I Maker in Everything Christian Chi rist hui lIu lell e was tile theme of oC the set sermon of or Rev Hev Francis Hur s gette Short at the First M. M 13 1 church Sunday evening Taking his text from feLon Timothy 1 l 12 Tor 1 I know Him whom I have o believed ci lev He Mr 11 Short point point- ed Cd out the Il ninny many ways RS of knowing that God Cod od Is P er everywhere gul guiding ln an and watchIng watch- watch In Ing ng o over his people evidences c that Appeal to the nature of or every e lOlL nan and that should be responded 10 to I Itc llev Mr Short said In Iti part I The rhe deeper nature of or mankind is hi conscious of or God This fact Is ux- ux hi I umon among n ail l 01 classi's MSS MS'S and races aces of or men Whatever er ana may be their at attitude attitude at- at t I toward Him the they arc chained to this principle and fact To satisfy their I conscience alone brings s contentment of or mind ll and soul Mankind everywhere Is hi I seeking to satisfy his deeper nature A few tew ew years a ars ago aro gave c a to lo a new mode of or religious life liCe which destroyed the he old conception of or faith in God Cod They The followed this his line of oC reasoning until they drifted into a a. suite state of or n agnosticism m which threatened threaten threaten- C. C ed I the tho stability o of thin Iho German Gennan empire Toda Today the they 1103 arc are swinging back toward a ra rational Lional faith in no God hint hill surround e themselves with what Is lerm termed New ew lous HeJlS-lous Thought or Mental ism 3 S I S l I IMS II n Soul uil The They no longer 1 lc regard th the un universe ays an eminent I writer as a n soulless machine but as an tin organization en 11 lowed dowed with a soul Scientists arc I teaching cei thai lint the till world has a a. won which Is s the be mysterious background or foundation roul of or the time nativities of or the world Those modern la radicals have haw come clime from the position if f no Ito God until they the have lIa arrived at the time position of or Go God In all fill timings things and amil themselves over 01 to lo the he position of oC In their search to satisfy their theil conscience God Goil has haN done ilone all that lint JI lie ITI could trying Ills His vei crr cry best to enable man mall to know Mini Him Ids His power may mar be seen in time tile storm Ills HI beauty In the sunset unset iris His loveliness t o III in time HIP 11 and amid the lie rose lose Ills t I tenderness sz and anti Ii urn ii I Ity tv In time tile no nodding n dal y find and fragrant violet Ills eon con in the tho production of tho ho erm cross hilt but more than all aJl IT lie has ha revealed Himself male made Himself l known to unarm man U kind In t through II lIu rough h revolution ri Mans Man's lie bo- Ilof which Is a general belief ln In the e r of or of which He Ic had no I knowledge has Inns boon been succeeded by hy knowledge lIte which Is Js a conscious conscious- lIelS of existing existing- things timings obtained b by ex ox- pcr tim 1 1 e. e III Man mu nitty know eno God consciously for COl on minim IH Is UK nil nf of hit bin If own o con oon- 8 Ills real rU self as self as bo lie i in conscious of or the tho about him hum Knowing God an a R He Ito comos Lt to UK us In Iii Jesus Christ Is he therefore them olo mans man's privilege liege which knowingly Is 1 brought blought to 0 mans man's soul or conscious self elf h by buy the tho I Lid aid of or time Holy Spirit Paul say says I 1 I t know Him whom I have hae believed etl Hauls Haul's belief r has changed into l kno edge e. e the flower I hits has become tIll the fruit faith CRith wan vas now tio fruition and just JURt as os he knew nun material tonal thing about mimi him b by the aid of or his bin mind he hue now no also know Gout God whose life tl through h 8 SUM stis Christ t hail had boon been revealed re by the tho Holy Spirit Therefore encourage your deeper nature In Its search after Goll use time the means that t He lie has ban with I in lii your rC reach which testify of Him i Satisfy HaUst your U son sou upon that bat which Is for lh the soul This Is 18 time the souls soul's 1 lego lege an and the time souls soul's method of oC knowing God Cod |