Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-01-17 | Page 28 | Ideals and Idols Theme of Sermon

IDEALS IDEAL AND mOLS I II I it THEME OF ER tON il Reigning Thought Becomes t I t Lifes Life's Prominent J i i Factor Facto 4 1 t 1 TWIG J BENT TREE INCLINED i If 0 Child Is s Father to the Man an 4 M and Desire Leads to t t 0 A Action C t lOll r At the Central Christian church Rev ne A Ibort Buxton Ducton Ph D. D the thc pastor A morning on the Sunday preached r Idols and Is Dr Bu Buxton Bux- Bux I C t ton took toole tt for tOI text I John h V. V 0 21 1 I Keep yourselves from l idols and anti l t ho 15 1 Grow UP into Him b s Dr jr Which 1 is 15 the Head Hea Head Even Even Christ f ton said sail in part each t. t The rhe texts text cem to contra contradict lct other Idols are aro to be bo yet h tinned yet taken close cloO Into the thc V one Idol 1101 Is to be bo V V lute un soul This is Snot not a a. Wo 0 are areV tion It Is a i discrimination V All 1111 servants ervant of or inner souls Vic Wo must V bo be BO so o by bv our very soul constitution p the tho nature of ot the Idols within nsf us ns y J determines thc s-thc the nature o of the outer life liCe t we ne live Hence the thc fundamental law 0 of f our spiritual responsibility is that V from and und Invite In Into our WEI both reject rom f- f ft V souls temples l Idols to be there thera suF suo su- su F reme In our The o only act when we have hae joul somo some pre predominating imago Image that sla all sill weaker rivals an and alone aiono on r V V. V V V the tIe battlefield leads lead us to action This will volition Into the Vp alone Is Js choice imagery of or the boy bOT comes the winsome I V V image e o of somo bo boyish IRh p prank It and the tho i V V stern terii Imago image u of the masters master's rod roll He lIe the approval al V fallows ono one and und gains the punishment of the teacher The or V V tired workman homeward bound has hils hasIn In Sn his his- soul the Imn Imago image e of the saloon j with Its convivial glass glass side side by side V fireplace TUh the Imago image or of It a welcome a 1 I kt 1155 I. I on and Wifely V Ills His ii struggle gi may be brief or long faint or heroic but at last one of ot the idols is 18 supreme the supreme the other prostrate V V and antI he spends the night In debauchery of home or in tho tito happiness V 1 TIle The entrance of each cach new now idol In Into o V the soul is a L danger or 01 a safety Mans Man's s sy y character la Is enriched or 01 impoverished Impo r b uy by his Ideals MelLIs The bo boy with the tin J word wants to become the tho soldier hero ero that his father Is Is tho bo boy with to h become V the rusty revolver wants V V V another prairie brigand The girls sings to her doll don and ft It Is her real teal motherhood that increases to crown her lier years roIS with virtue or t she Nhe hc folds her little dress into a ball gown sown and sooner soon soon- V er r or 01 later Inter enters tho whirl of ot lifes life's dangerous Joys The Tho child grows Into his Inner hero V Into nto the heroism of somo some old older r friend 01 or Into tho the trickery of somo some dishonest but eminent town townsman maJl V V V Tho Thio men of ot Greece became the lust- lust lul servants ants of ot the wanton Venus or orthe orthe ortho the tho warlike devotees of fierce Mars Moses Closes says of Israel In the waywardness wayward wayward- 1 ness BOSS of l idolatry They The consecrated V themselves unto the shameful hAm tul th thine In and became abominable like c that which they loved loved- An Englishman of or renown once gave Kavo a tire the secret of his life I had a friend Queen ere repentant that she had not been a L true wife to Arthur noblest of ot kings cries In ro- ro V Ah Au my God What might I not have o made maclo of thy V V fair world t Had I 1 loved lond thy highest creature i. V V hero hero V tIEl loads to the US UE conquest of or V tl orld ld V by bv bitha tha Christian lie He e has bas hasi V t i Into his lis soul as QS all aU must a ao 1 supreme o Ima Image c but his imago image Is that of ot who has conquered conquered one one who attained And Ancl he too humble bumble but f Carless arless disciple cries ciles I r 1 can do all things g through Christ who strengthens strength strength- ens me mc or