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Show 10 INTERESTING SEHMONS SUNDAY V Rev. Edward Laird Mills D D delivered two Interesting sermons' ves-terday ves-terday la the First Methodist church He is a clear and oonv1nc4ne soeakpr snd bis talks were ll.tened STw?u appreciative attention bv large con Peac A,drillge 'ket Us Have Rv. Mills took for his text at the Van Dyke wrote the story of t hi Ught That Failed Not.' a burning and ashing lirt?LWM of his peraonaUty. ereT, uae difference between iS&V'JES1 and making a itf m"via satisfied with merely mZkJ S58 At. bo was a great n. v cause of his setting uThlstorJ bT common man may tory- A common EZttJ' wy un- of unueaal KV'Cg - also gTeat because of his asceticism. Out alone with nature he communed with God. Id the cities most things are the product of human activity, and man Is likely to become self-centered, but out in the mountains one sees the works of God's power John was so 4 great an influence because of his cour- 4 f age that led him to tell the truth re- ( gardleas of consequence. 'Then John saw the greatness o I Christ. He perceived the great connection con-nection between the death of Christ and the forgivennees of sins as Chan-ning Chan-ning says Then he preached a great message He demanded tliat the people peo-ple repent There can be no salvation salva-tion except it begin In renunciation of unrighteousness. But the call to repentance was made upon the perception per-ception or the coming of the Kingdom King-dom The better thing is here, there- ' tore, let us renounce the lesser. Then John was a superior figure because Christ put so high an estimate upon him 'He was the greatest of the prophets. In the evening Rev. Mills took for his theme, Our Citizenship is Tn Heaven. He declared that people can not properly live "one world at I a time, because to live their best It is necessary to take both worlds into their lives "We walk a straight er Pathway." he said, "when we have our aspirations fixed upon the higher Wngs of the future. The cry for a J 'Sweet Now and Now,' instead of -A ll our conscious ness of 'Aeet X" and Bye Citizenship in heaven d rnands that we support the cause t hi-" ta. pay the taxes of tne kingdom A theiJSon tcheraa "Uklng ust fight for our Wdom I ness has to fight evil n, I Good' M self iw 1 or enounce it- tho.. who belong to God - sszxSttZZ 4-;l |
