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Show IW0 VIEWS dF AS SEEN BY A MISTER Sunday ovening in First Presbv-terian Presbv-terian church. Rev. Carver spoke upbn the lesson or the seeking and wailing wail-ing for the Christ. The music of the d:iy was furnished furnish-ed by Mrs. C. II. Stexeus Miss Scott and Miss Parry. Rev. Carver said in part: "Hope springs eternal in the human breast. Man never Is, hut alwavs to be, blest." That Is the poet's conception of life and hope. It Is rather too doleful, for man is often very richly blest, but, in the Inspiration of what the morrow will bring, we are made stronger and more joous for today. There are two methods of waiting Tor the fulfillment. We can either be assured as-sured in patlenco, hope and faith that God will surely redeem J Us promise, or we can, in fretfulness, distrust, vexation and impatience, wear away our strength The hope that is founded found-ed In God will bless us and make us a blessing indeed to others as wq see In them a better self than tho world sees. To implant hope is to lift a life. To implant despair i3 to blight a life "Mon might be better, if we better deemed of them. The worst way to improve the world Is to condemn con-demn it. Men may forget delusion, tney cannot overget despair. A word of hope maj strengthen a life for all time The lesson of Christians and the coming of the Christ, in the lesson of those who In ? time of social, moral and religious gloom hsd strength to hope that the Messiah would then come Is tho hope-giving message of our thought tonight We want ou to be sure and note how those who hoped for the .coming Christ were strengthened to desire and to be bettor, bet-tor, purer, stronger men and women. Hope for the coming of the Christ was as a tonic indeed unto them Nov wc all need all the spiritual and moral tonic possible A very busy age undermines our faitli and weakens weak-ens our service. "Lead us, O, Father. In tho paths of right; Blindlv we stumble when we walk alone, Involved in shadows of a moral night; By hope in Thee wc journey safely safe-ly on Tls by the faith of joys to come, We walk through deserts dark as night; l Till we arrive at heaen. our homo. iFiiith is our guide and faith our light." I For what did the world hone when it longed for the Christ? We find the answer In the blessing of Simeon. It was for "Thy salvation." To some that was political betterment, to others oth-ers economic betterment, to others salvntion from doubt and icnoranco An "nred rabbi in Simoon's day used to saw "My son. the first tiling you will bo examined unon in the dav of judgment will be this 'What 'was the salvation that vou pursued after? What salvation did you study, and teach, and proclaim, and seek affer when vou were still in time on earth?' That means In what W3y did vou long and hope and work for better things for yourself and othprs It is one of the great nowers of Christ that Po I can wondrouslv 1-etter In all wnvs the ! on who hno? r0- Hs salvation." i The world hoped for a "light" to dispel the shadows of douhL ignor- j nncp and superstltilon, v.-hen it longed i for the Christ. What Is the meaning J of the ever present thojght of duty? What is the meaning of this voico of conscience? What Is the meaning of death and sin' Again and again the world had striven to answer these questions, hut none of the world's answers satisfied, nor can they satisfy satis-fy today We still turn to the light of the truth in Christ. It was with a tone of sadness rae-thlnks rae-thlnks that Simeon S3id: "Christ I would be -a sign spoken against He Is so toda. Many speak against Him through isnorance, many are prejudiced preju-diced against Him by- others, many, like Herod's wife agninst John, are against Him. because He will not sanction Iheir sin. Many profane his name caiolcssly. thoughtlessly and Indifferently But to the world of His own, who havo fairly tested His truth, He Is still the master and savior, and. with thp old singer, they j still fervently say. "I shall be satisfied satis-fied when I awake in Thy likeness " oc |
