| Show ENTOMBED MINERS THEME fOR T TAU ALIThe ALI The Rev Lewis S. S Bowerman Gets Lesson From Recent Accident The Tue Rev Lewis S S. Bowerman of tho the Immanuel Baptist church spoke to a crowded crowde house yesterday morning tal taking asa n theme The Tho of tho Entombed Miners Tho The texts chosen were from Crom Luke 10 For the Son of Man Ian is Js come to seek and save that which was lost and John As thou dl didat st send semI me mo Into the limo world even so tend I them Into the world Dr said ald In part All have ha been Intensely Interested during the last week In reading the accounts of ot the time rescue of the two miners so recently entombed In the St. St Patrick mine Wo We give Ive only words of praise to the tho rescuers How different however however how how- ever over Is the tho Interest In the tho cast from what It would have been had the miners been killed outright in the cave In of at the tho mine Then Their a few words would have havo told tho the story no headlines and no columns of interestIng interesting interest interest- ing detail The uThe Intensity of or Interest in the tho rescue of or the miners ought to find equal strength on the tho part of the th church to seek and to save vo that which was lost Jesus came camo to a world that was lost in sin dead ead through Its trespasses tres tres- passes lases and sins it It was to a world of men and women not that were gOing goIng goIng go- go Ing to be lost but that were lost Jesus sends the tIle disciples with the same message message mes mes- sage to men lost already because they have havo not believed on the name name of at the only begotten Son of ot God The gospel of the 1 kingdom is the good news of salvation of ot deliverance from sin and death The Tho now testament testa testa- m meat ment nt hints of no other way save lave In Inthe Inthe inthe the power of the cross of Christ and I him crucified It pictures the tho world as helpless as the miners It is because because be be- cause the Christ knows all the beauty and the glory of the one and amid the darkness darkness dark dark- ness despair and death of the alternative tive e that he sends out the disciples bidding them to tt tell 11 men to choose one and shame the other To 10 turn from sin and unrighteousness to God and to holiness for nothing sinful can enter cn en en- en ter tel heaven |
