Show MAKE PROVISION FOR ENTIRE DEBT First Methodist Church Dedicated Dedicated Dedi Dedi- After All Pledges f Are In J fJ BISHOP MOORE PRESIDES Vigorous Appeal Results In Uniting In r Needed H Rex hInt Tc 1 After having m made provision n for forr f r th HIP Ilie entire debt on the tho building thel the thet l t First l Methodist Episcopal church was dedicated last Jast night Tho The gervice service serF ser ger- ser ser- F vice was as the simple an and Impre impressive sl r one ne of If the thc church conducted h by Bishop David H. H Moore and the i l k de dedicatory prayer irner was wa rca rend read I by hy H Rev of Un the Benjamin Young YounS' pastor church 4 At the thc morning service BI Bishop hop t r y loori did effective l work In raising the remaining Indebtedness on r I the building r t. t An Au case easel I on the rostrum bore a plc- plc 1 lure ime of the church building that wa was covered completely b by slips of paper of various colors color's representing sub sub- I of various allous amounts ranging rang from 6 5 to As the tle subscriptions followed II In rapid succession the slips were taken from rom th the lie picture and when Bishop Moore looie had done with l his vigorous appeal the ho entire plc- plc t t tore turc lire was revealed It H was d discovered Isco k J however howe that through a clerical error crier the lie last subscription ml had hadnot not hot been covered and a n like plan to 0 raise this amount at the thc evening service was vas a adopted that the entire indebtedness might be cleared before I the tle formal fornal dedication f Bishop Moore Preaches Bishop Moore loore delivered red the thc sermon nt itt the morning service speaking on j the vital need of a n conscientious r preparation In this life for fr the life to C come Clune and emphasizing the statement tf t that no matter what our surroundings i f were ere here herA or how beautiful the they might b be the they were Ie not to be bo compared com coin pared with tJ tlc the e beauties of the thc world I 1 tc te come Rev Re Robert McIntyre pastor of 1 t the First Methodist church of Los Angeles preached 1 the sermon of tile the evening service speaking for nearly 7 two hours from flom the thc text A After ft el this t. t t- t therefore pray y ye Our Father found foun II In Matthew sixth chapter ninth vei verse e. e Following the thet t sermon fermon were the de dedicatory Y services ser and the the- benediction was pronounced IJ by Rev W W. M. M Paden pastor of th the he First Presbyterian church I The central theme of Dr McIntyre's Mc- Mc rc- rc Intyre's sermon was the magnitude ude of or the fatherly love of nf Go God and lie he relations between God and man Daniel Webster ebster whom we all aU recognize co as nS' g one o of the greatest thinkers of modern rn times Jmes expressed tj t the tle opinion that the greatest thought i i he ever had hall was that of his l to his Maker said Dr Mc Mc- Intyre This thou thought ht Is exemplified J. J in the eve every 13 day life liCe 0 of each cach of ot us I I. I lean can not lint know my responsibility lo to tot t you ou unless I 11 know m my exact relation t to you and In the same manner 5 J f i cannot tell what my duty ut Is toward towar rt you ou until I know kno the relation that i exists between u us Just so 80 the human human hu hu- hiu- hiu man race has 1 always asked what whal stands behind our m moral and spiritual i relation elation to God Clod We Ve are all nil a part Jart f of creation In Its entirety and citizens of oC this world and more an and more as ns the generations climb the terraces of or evolution e man manis is b asking what is God lad and amI what Is Ism Ismy m my relation to him What hat arc are our mutual relations and anti how do we depend on each other On our answer r to the these e questions our hopes hOIs In great measure depend Finds FIre T Teachers Mankind linda finds s five fi teachers ready roady to lo answer this problem Let us ask asle those these SP The Thc first teacher In the tho form of a beautiful and graceful woman is Nature What Is God I ask an and Nature says MY God is our Creator end nd our Maker the tue great Smith d standing i h by hi his anvil shaping cOnstellations constellations con con- and antI zodiacs clusters and groups Nature however is If only onh a n servant and her hel knowledge of God l Is I only that of a servant senant The Tho second teacher Is Moses MoseR an au anold anId old Id scholar nn and the lawgiver o of I r Israel ra H. H anti anu ne says rays ay All AH nature sale said Is o truo true but I go farther God Is II 1 King Rul Ruler r l Emperor swaying his stepter scepter with omnipotent power over o overall all the universe he ho has made Il He lie Isa Is ii a mighty ruler over an Immeasurable kin kingdom The Tho third teacher is dubious and dark clark calling himself an agnostic The word Is derived ell rl from froni two Greek Greel words J meaning know nothing and this teacher t-acher claiming to to tol know nothing comes to tell ell us about God Coil The agnostic Go God Cod Is rays ays a nebula an undefined cloud clou or 01 a a. sort of cipher with willi the rim rubbed out lie He says all worshippers of or any kind of or deity are deluded The fourth teacher Is Satan I a ask k him what he knows about God Cod t and he tells telis me that God Is a n tyrant t t u Il great preat rent despot who sits on his thit one and lets man suffer stiffer I T remember that this witness hits has a grudge e a against Gb and I 1 ray my to him that I will not accept the testimony of an any witness rt regarding one against t whom he lie has a I. I gru grudge ge fot Important Witness Christ Is the lie fifth ant and mo most t Important Im tin- 1 witness in the question He lie I was wa near 31 to Lee tec wise to know and infallibly In In- In fallibly truth truthful Cui i IP In telling what he Im knew w. w Christ says pays when whon we se pray IHa WP we should not pray to to our cr creator ator maker maler emperor nebulae or tyrant but 1 we should lra pray to our Father Fathel Our OUI Father We e e can all understand under under- stand that An And our understanding helps us to understand the lIw supreme led God as our Father Dr Mcintyre spoke at length to te II illustrate u the evidences of or fa fatherly love Jove shown toward mankind anti and on or I the divinity of mankind as ns direct L descendants of ot Go God |