| Show LIFES LIFE'S OBSTACLES SUCCESSES Whether They Be Made Stumbling Slum Slum- bUn bling j Stones or Whetstones the Thing ACTION DUE TO OPPOSITION I P. P A. A Slums S 'S I v llo tho tw 1 Reforms Result I H 11 Prom Enforced Stu Struggling At Phillips Con Congregational church yesterday a largo large congregation atol greeted the pastor Ito Rev Hev p I P. P A. A Simp- Simp kin hum nt at his lIt first service after aCel a brief vacation Mr took for his morning morning theme Time The Value alue of or Dif Dif- basing his sermon on the attitude attitude at nt- of oC Paul laul In his facing of or time the Athenian life with the he Ideals anti and practice so antithetic It to tu those of or his own o ministry Paul found stirred to the Lime core by tho time vision Islon of or ofin oran an in Idolatrous city not hot to the time extinction t ion tion of ii his Is enthusiasm and ministry in I mm ton i the speaker limit but lut to a sh sharpening sharpen sharpen- nH nIng n- n Ing ng of or his keen keon mind and amid tense soul for tom time the fray Cray that was before him The flue demand of or our OUI own souls for progress th tin necessity for advance al are not nut dependent on Oh now new truth It I h Is neither uie new truth now new forms of or ex- ex nor mice limo Iho unusual In it lt U Is Just the tIme wrestling with he tilt old ohl world worl-ohl worl olti old truths that on one time the secret of or advance ance Inels That which time the laboratory of chemist chemis or biologist has to say 1 time tho thC things voiced In th time tho very emy river of or wisdom ar are alike only tiny tny itt cups cUS of broodings upon old timings things 9 All Al things remain as the they lie were wen sere basically from the time foundation of the theo o rId There Is only one old new new oll-new truth It I t Is that which In Christ rivals time the tt love ove and amid purpose of or God tom for life It ItIs Its I Is s only new imes' in the lie sense rense that It touches louchs he tIme cote cole of all souls bouls born Jorn Into earths earth's activities The Tue revealing of a purpose for Cor us one one of high life lofty loft loC thinking ln and und as worth worthy children of the Father Fathers Is s hailed h by U us gladly but the warm dies out in face of or the s that depress and ancl rest arrest the time upal up- up al ard varl movement mo t. t The he grave glavo fa failures i lu i-es i of f life Ife are arc not based In a neglect of Gods God's call but rather In a forsaking of f the time high purpose The Time sect secret of strength for continuance ant and ancl mastery Is s tho time lack lck It Ils Is hinted here hero In Pauls Paul's Athenian experience Time The root of this his stirring Is that lint contention which mean sharpening It I suggests time the whetstone and that hat Is just what Paul found the tw obstacles to be But Dut of or that stirring there was born tho the eloquent advice advie delivered reel on Mars lulL Hill 11 U IUt the lie Use Ur One of or the tIme evidences e of weak lIfe weak lre-weak- umess nes ess Is hi expressed tl in the tho modern ques- ques lon Lion the time use muse If I Paul had lon brooded over rather rathel than d lifes life's Ife's fe's fes obstacles ho would perhaps have imae failed ailed He lie 10 succeeded u e his spIrit was as only whetted by opposition Time The difference between failure and success lies les In just this whether lifes life's obstacles be made malle stumbling stones or whetstones The he dominant figures of or histOry ry demonstrate this Time The truth truth applies as a surely In the time life fe of or scientist or saint in timings things temporal or Ol spiritual It I Is not hot to lo be forgotten how some of oC the greatest reductions of literature have been heen Tilen ritten not in the Uw luxurious library or orthe he time cosy COS don den but lut behind time tho Iron liars bars of nr f a jail jai in the time shabby rooms wh where re chill chi penury left let marks of nf f repression nd sightless eyes reamed dreamed the visions that lamo in biding glory with time tho passion love lo c of real but burdened souls Reforms Reform's Ht Require ull Struggle lc Time The reforms that have changed eel the tho tie face of society economically and anel eti had hal not their birth in Iii the time places daces of or case cam nor did dil time they ride ide In Inho inthe ho tho highway of or history In carriages es of comfort and auth with wih time the emblems of or luxury anI They are nrc all ni shot blood-shot and anel tear teolO car mildewed cd antI and on their faces Is I time the score of nr the time thes s saddest test time the soul out has ever I ung un Struggle le stirring spirit spIrit whetting the he choosing of or that which grinds and anel years wears and amid strains this strains this has imas Hung liming In all ni their f figures figures ures for 01 time the ago ngo here hele a n Lincoln yonder a Luther hero a High Miller there a am Win m oth- oth Ath- Ath erton hero lucre a n Milton there a a. Bunyan Dunan The ho law of or progress Is In struggle Every man maim who has over ever er e of oC circumstance circumstance circum circum- Breasted time the waves stance I I And Amid climbed through struggle to lo u a a. a throne Has las done elone so o hl because use he ho made macle lifes life's his Ms stepping stones And nel in the spiritual realm all this lies les s easier casler for a man because e in his struggles Ie against the tho destructive he ime headds adds himself to God God om God O or God GOll to him self So like lee Paul the time humblest man maim cornea comes moved d by ly that struggle glo boundless boundless bound bound- less Iss and flowing It to the time achievements affecting beneficently his time as os his hb character Is rounded and all perfected and amid he lie 10 his lifo life 10 In service |
