Show BEAUTY Of JUNE IN MANS MAN'S HEART Exquisite Touch of Nature Responsive to Purity of the Soul GODS GOD'S GREATEST LESSON The Rev P PI P. A AI A. Simpkin Draws Poetical Picture re of Gods God's Law I At tho the Phillips Con Congregational church last night the pastor the Rev Hov P. P A. A Simpkin preached a sermon on the thc Message of oC June Juno I He eald said that Tho The relation between tho the material and spiritual order in i tho universe Is too Intimate and nd subtle for mans man's clums clumsy fingers to lo unravel cl or orman's ormann's mans man's little vision Islon to understand One I cannot stand In these matchless June days and landscapes without tho the thou thought ht of ot that verso verse of ot holy hoh writ which speaks of tho time beauty of holiness holt holi ness for tor It Is sung In the time holiness of ot beauty that Is la spread so prodigally all about lifes life's doors That Identity of ot law tho time movement of or forces Corces In like method in the tho material material ma ma- tonal and spiritual orders has to do with tho tIme message mes of b aut and tho time s that it holds of ot the tho Eternal God has use used the tho book of nature to speak a needed neede message to men Its word ma may not finally be a as vital Ital but It speaks that which supplements the message go of ot the truth held In tho thu pages o of the tho revealed re word And this Is the singular ular fact tact wo we must note that no true vision of or beauty beau benu- t ty no cleat clear concept of oC the message It brings brInG's to lifo Is possible without tho right moral vision Islon apart from true spiritual life That may seem narrow but It is true truo Tho The rich literature of ot tho time n ago o holds tho time assent of ot the times time's thinkers think thInk- ers era to the truth The Bible holds this timis truth on ott all Its Us pages that pages that the man who would mould see trul truly must see with tho the eyes of ot the soul Law Ln of Nature Do you ou remember how Tennyson rennyson In his meters that will hold In form Corm abiding tho Idylls f t time tho King so sets sels forth this law in al so Instances most notable of or which Is In his Imis limning of ot oro When she sho comes to tho the court pure and womanly tho rich landscapes are aro aJl alight ht with a glory wonderful the woods melodious and life lIe a sonG ong of Joy As the woman be beloved beloved beloved be- be loved falls tails In the hour of temptation and the time black stain of lust rests on the time white robe of ot her soul tho time glory dies and all tho the witching beauty of ot the time landscapes ll fades tades and earth becomes bo- bo comes a a. place of ot gloom It Is no Idle timing thing that tIme the master poet of ot tho the English Eng Eng- lish speech sings here It is Js as true as God The persona personality JI t with its worth vort h or Its b by the time earthly or 01 its grip of tho time eternal verities Is what makes the light truth and glory of every landscape or leaves it with wit Its sinister ter shadows and meanings of ot gloom and death dath Think of that t as you vou seek seele to measure measure measure mea mea- sure the time glory glor of this June time How hIos sweet its son song Tho Time dewy mornings s I with the pearly pearl light that creeps soft soft- footed tooted but swiftly over O laden dew L landscapes touched with the miracle m of or new creation Fair as when the master master- master builder first flung It ne new painted minted Into space it lies in time the dawn n fragrant with life liCe at bloom green reen and L perfect laden flower and delightful to tc time the eye ec the time trailing veils ells of mist accentuating accentuating ac ac- ac- ac through half revealed beauty beau t ty of or summers summer's handiwork Glorious 3 U What Wima mornings morning Iong Long and sweet full tun of ot light and son song and the t prattle of happy children to whom tho the I miracle of or lIro and sweetness are eter eter- nal nat Afternoons aglow with light repressive in warmth vibrant with tho the I happy lifo life of oC a nature fecund to b be bem m measured Evenings s with sunsets perfect per per- feet daylight ht stealing with regretful I feet into the shadowed chambers o ol ot t the tho west weRt across whose portals Goc God I hangs the gorgeous curtains stained 1 with the tho tint of ot I Is fingers and afterwards afterwards aft aft- the tIme unclouded sky ablaze with the carnival lights of ot God mellowIng mellowing mellow mellow- Ing ng tho time halt nl half night ht to witchery of ot sot soft I splendor that seems the cr very robe o of ot I Ilove love ove and happiness s. s I Aye Ayn and all this set amid scenes 3 where richest storo of ot natures nature's most I exquisite manifestations arc are revealed 1 on lull hill and mountain b by brook an and 1 rl river r mid lush fields and rich orchards all this may have its finest lon tion only give Its sweetest message 3 to o tho heart which catches the moan mean fag ing eternal that has has tho the tho vision Islon God Cot 1 vouchsafes to those who trust Jim Him 1 and ind read His purpose ri n the age Nature Is If but tho the hanging of ot the tho big house our Father prepared for us And those like JIle as aI great phylactery in the edge we find ono one message mes mm sage or another In accord with what we ourselves are Eternal Harmony There Thore is an eternal harmony harmon whose whoso m note noto we ma may catch cl It If tho tIm car ear be opened I aright And for the time most dreary life or limited soul It has a message of ot otIest rest lest and hope But Dut here hero is the truth I that is greater than all nit Wo Vo fix tho value anti and tho tIme message of our landscapes land hand by what we are are In In ourselves It Is a simple message and yet a B abig big one ono that Juno speaks In Its beau beau- t ty If It you OU would catch tho the music and I the beauty of ot the summers summer's song of or then bo be first In tuno tune with L God Gol For what a Cl man is In his essential essential essential essen essen- self sel of ot purity rightness 9 and character character char char- acter actor fixes what ho he finds In the time swellIng swelling swell swell- Ing landscapes of ot tho tIme beautiful earth I that are writ over oyer with tho the script of ot Gods God's ingot fingers Only tho timo heart reverent the life lIto tender and anel lott lofty can find the tho deep leer meaning of or river and sea valley and mountain star rind and cloudA cloudA cloudA cloud A man climbs not through nature n I up to natures nature's God Ho lIe touches God Cod and nd follows Him through His Journey In the carthAnd earth carth And the marvel of ot our personality that can so 80 variously read the glory of ot universe erse is worthy worth our thought and an I care calC As tho tIme squid sailing through some submarine fairyland with all nIl its beauty of ot form and life lire and color ejects from his own body the black fluid that dulls the color and pales the tho Glor glory Into dullness so 80 tho the heart of ot ofa ota a man lifes life's true trims center can discolor the landscapes and distort tho the written written writ writ- ten me message sage of ot a glorious world miss miss- lug Ink the beauty and the time Inspiration that God Gol has tucked there for tor his Joy IN SM Within And a as aj tho time sense of or man has imas ma made e. e in the Great drama and poetry of tho race nature to be bo the each ench and tho the foil of ot the tragedy or happiness of ot the time human heart It has hit an age truth that what wo are aro In ourselves will make about us the tho good and glory or the evil and shadow of or our own selves It Is 18 to think that nature Is In this timis marvelous maT fashion subjective subjective tive to ourselves But the ver very fact tact of It should so 80 stir us that In the glory glor of or this time when the vcr very robe of or God seems to lie llo In rich folds upon tho the face of ot the earth In the tIme June glory of ot natures nature's 8 reincarnation as to make us eager er to find the e secret of ot God which la Is with them that fear Him and so know earths earth's fairest landscape to be bo but an adumbration of or the tIme fair fah or er ones to be be Its Us richest revealing of or love Jove tl M broken syllable ot of f that which we shall find as wo we walk with God noil through tho little gardens Of ot the earth to wIder landscaPes of ot of June eternal |