| Show Study of Revelations of Jesus Discussed By Rev P. P A. A Simpkin The sermon at Phillips Congregational Congregational church yesterday morning was devoted to tho the stu study y of tho the nature ol 01 Jesus's revealing and ills His claim to bethe bethe be br the solitary light of mens men's spiritual Illumination Rev P. P A. A Simpkin the pastor said Mold John Is not alone atone In tho the claim that Jesus Christ Is tho the light of mens men's lives anc and his priority prIorIty Is but hut but In the matter of time What Jesus Himself claimed was unique and absolute Ho He Mid said eald I am the tho light of the world John echoes echoe It In the claim that Jesus li is the thA sole light giving gf to every every man that comes cornea Into tho the world VorM Ills IUs SUu And unless we are prepared as a Christian church to surrender all wo we must surrender er nothing of Jesus's JesU s 's unique claim for tor himself lC It Is not to bo ho thought that Jesus's claim mu must t stand apart from tho the test of ot all aU truth so far Car as os we wo mn may bring it to bear upon the divine content of ot Jesus's personality and teaching At least ro o far Car AS ns lIe Ho touches our life lite we wo ma may test him and In measure may go further If It there bo ho aught trite In our thou thought ht It Is the tho certitude that the vitality of or Importance rests with the un unseen c n the thi eternal the spiritual with Ith us anti and about us Material and Spiritual Nearly all lifes life's training and education education edu edu- cation and sensation havo o been In tho the Held field of the material despite the time fact that lifes life's abiding Interest Is with the spiritual And It will wm be casH easily demonstrated demonstrated dem dern- b by one who will think thoroughly thor thor- in even a n limited circle that only he lives finds oven even broken measure measure measure meas meas- ure of perfecting and satisfaction who demonstrates the spiritual The true seer and scholar are aro alone alono found b by bythe bytho tho the spiritual wa way I Splendid guesses have been made by men touching His dwelling place and n nature turc But nut what whit a L man knows of or the Infinite and the truly spiritual t he knows mows because God has given him himo to o know v It In that have been voiced through the terms of ot lila Ills human relations and nature Andrew Carnegie In an Interview inter tho ho other Qa day refused to grant the demonstration of or the soula souls Immortality Immortal immortal- ity on the base baso of human r reason or sc scientific deduction No satisfactory demonstration of at tile the Infinite things abides apart from Gods God's re The IThe Incarnation was as a. much a 0 ps psychological as a philosophical necca- necca sity For man can find illumination In spiritual things only by the windows of or the physical life lite And when n Jesus came carrie to men He was the light and andIs Is so 1 because lIe He put Into the racial cons consciousness the sense of or al aH tho great God Is In Hl HI his purpose Ills his nature and Ills life and that which by bJ life lifes liCe's 8 relationship we may and should be For Fot as lB light reveals always alwn's Itself primarily and the objective e afterward so Jesus the Christ Is tho the light lighting every man because lIe Ho brings to tho the human heart in the unfolding of or his hla t tender word anti and work the vision of ot the tho spiritual glory in which the Father abides g and the call c. to us to to tp share hare it in a life lICo whoso whose dominant value tuo shall be spiritual And If It there be bc au aught ht relatively or absolutely incomparable In tho ho universe mini uni verse It is li the light tight of the Christ measured on its relative o side by the narrowness of ot all other vision of or God and His heart or absolutely by hy that which It achieves In life given gl over overto overto overto I to the dominion of Its spirit Ideals Ideal And on only In tho lI light ht of ot Him of ot Nazareth do all men find Ond God the tho pityIng pity pity- lug Ing loving seeking Father see Him HimIn In visions that put to shame the poor of our heart In the vl vision lon lono o of all rul we have apprehended Ho lie might be knowing Him In this better belter light as the tho one tender and righteous alto alto- gether And the obverse truth If all w we lr may be and anti should be he falls a n. summer mornings morning's glory on all lifes life's seeming littleness and makes males It grand Kland and wide and rind hl high h because this pulsIng pulsing puls puls- ing lag light makes glorious humanity as asIt asit It makes adorable and perfect fatherhood father father- hood And no more In any strain save that with our beasts of Ephesus no nomore moro more In an any t tearful cry co for clearer l vision lon do we toil toll on the earth but with the tho sunlight of or tho perfect we move through lifes life's long day glad gladIn lad ladIn In all God Is and would be to us blessed In the pride and jo joy of ot all this poor humanity may bo be In Itself and for tor Him Him Him-a. a thing ever glorious In In the light of or His truth |
