Show I a WHAT MAKES UP fiOD'S I Rev P. P A. A Simpkin Delivers 1 Ethical Sermon on Attitude Attitude Attitude Atti Atti- tude of Creator j J I MAN r i AN FALS FAILS IN DIVINITY I t 1 I Only the the Christ Realized Great Grea I Directing Powers of j f. f Father I 1 J The man who ho undertakes es to bay J b when whon and where man Is or Is not with J I. I In the Iho kingdom of God is guilty g of ot arIf an arI i f unpardonable Impertinence 4 This was a foreword to the sermon I of or last evening at nt Phillips Phillip's Congregational church when the Rev Re P. P A A. preached d on Christ and Mor Mor- I allt The theme of or the tho evening o wa 4 t I tho conversation of or Jesus with the t as recorded b by Mark Marie In the thc twelfth chapter of or his gospel j I Christ bald aid to him as the scribe mado assent to the unit unity of or God and tho the duty of or loving Him and his neighbor neighbor neigh neigh- bor whole heartedly Thou art not farron far Car 1 from ron the kingdom of or God The Tho incident opens up the whole question of moral values as the they relate I 1 I to mans man's liCe life to the Master life Upon with his Jesus Jesus' own analysis the man vision ann and splendid assent was r. r Still but near to tho the kingdom om ot of God GotI A t fair fall construction of the tho whole mci- mci dent ent is to be based upon tho the nation of or what I Is tho the kingdom dom of trend of Je Jesus Jesus' us' us usI whole God Godi The I. I 1 teaching teC Is In the direction o oc tho tim Immaterial Im Int- im- im material nature of at that kingdom It cannot In its Hs nature bo be either ecclesiastical eccles eccles- or material Its nature and f law lw are The material l in Is but a n present and fleeting dress and r expression lou Poi 4 Soul il II 2 The abiding thing In It is tho the soul Boul O lIte wherein I lit iI truth God God Coil shall 1 lilt alt enthroned in human life master of or J H Its tn purpose and possessions its Ideals I I and and end The Tho Implication and thu the only a one that ma may be drawn it seems scorns is that bat the tle lacked that which Jesus Jes Jes- us g offers otters In himself as nB the life Uro 1 The Tue scribe saw that life lICe lay not nol In aUt all aU i the formalism of or burnt offering and t I gee p It If It seem seeni Inu Impertinent in the i t arena arenc to so measure a s human soul as f 1 be did that of or tho the scribe counting counting- his hits vision to bo be that hat tho the poet lofty sings 4 f how bow k Oh iho tho little more and much r v p It Jt IB Is p i 0 Uti Ahi the little lets less and what hat worlds k 4 u away wa 1 P Then the argument must lie with k nut But sure it I Is that all moral tle- tle J. J that taU falls short of ot the emBracing em- em Bracing racIng Him la ja at nt Hi lilt word nt Philosophy ophy is all too Incomplete v apart part from the simple fact tact of ot hr life Ufo v l For FOl the kingdom or of God Is In this mis 1 that He conies comes Into life un anil 1 makes it Jt fter after His Ills fashion beautiful divine Tho The t Intellect may blaze like liko a star of ot 1 I Be Bethlehem to lead Iad tho the modern magi as It H did those of oC did to the tho cradle of s the incarnate God but it must sUren surrender sur sur- render en r at last to tho sweep and power of other function than vision Ethical Ethical Ethical Ethi Ethi- cal culture may veneer r the barbarisms of ot the tho soul with a n glitter that reflects something of the divIne glory Lifes lot lofty habit of ot service ser may add an to the heart that t whispers in it It- tImmer of ot beauty the tha glory eternal But ut at the last God speaking In Christ gives the iho restless re beart heart to know that ky its rest resl Is to be bo in th tho simple acceptance oC or that life lite IL which fl He II gives gives' to tho the world which coming into th the h heart art ma makes 8 t 1 the king king- k- k r. life lff peace ond gladness |