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Show SUNDAY SERMONS AND NEWS NOTES CONGREGATIONAL l the First Congregational church ' ihe Rv Godfrey Matthews preacVel pom the word. Perfect love cas'eth oUt fear" 1 John 4-18. Characteristics of the present lime )(j tnP preacher, are fretfulness, fenr-fulnesp. fenr-fulnesp. anxletj and feverish loe of 1 rlraure The marks are on the Iftes yf the man- , nnnds distracted, ne-rc-out of control, wills no longer submit -tod to a steady purpose. With too manv everything is wen if pleasures arp many and money is plentiful i tu r t0Urcrs of happiness are deemed m bo in the mat. rial tangible world or the f nsrs The inward kingdom is n. g ipcted You are constantly apologiz-i apologiz-i :ng for your friend that "ho Is one of i- $o?p nervy people whom a very little. upsets He has a habit of going off l)0 handle Kind though oui apo'o-I apo'o-I I ties rnav ourselves and our fricnnV. the) neglecl the supreme Pad that bene.iih ..II other ca , of unrest un-rest is a deeply felt and widespread luck of conscience in God and Inve r (or men. He who would spf.u a w rd for the virtue or patience today is z rounted by many an arrant fool ith legard to priaie fortune on every J hand the gospel is preached, "Erh ior himself and the devil take the hind ' most " To do a day's work as though f t,ne believed in the divinity of the commonplace and do it with all one'? will is to cause laughter from every I I ide. We have more careless work f nien who do not know their trade than J 'ny eoun'r under heaven. Anything E is right, they say. if you can get away villi it The patience that learns how - (o work, the patience that is ront nt to work are not seen at every Ride - nd on every hand. So with our political t 'ifc. The only conception oi poljtics in manv minds is that a politician is I a man who wants a Job at a salary that nobody else would bo foolish enough 1 to pay him Degraded levels of politl cal thinking have called forth poor enough politicians in the past. The f patience that studies human govern-I govern-I ment into action is not widely known nor deeply revered The first prin-F prin-F riple of good government is "The p- a-I a-I ervation of life and property ' We have been thinking backwards We I are so much in love with gain nd greed that we place property before I. life The police guard the down town It stores, but there is a powerful tel?-L tel?-L scope that will discover them In the i residential quarter when life is jeopardized jeo-pardized and homos threatened r Thinking upon external things as the I source of happiness we have confused ' the whole philosophy of existence To I be happy we must have, so we think, io we say, so we do Hut to be h, iv we must be that is ihe Christian word which this distressful, agonized, I and confused day needs to learn I 'Perfect love casteth out fear." Lova our work, you wont nerd to fear the I bos? Love your city and you will vote the right ticket I ove your state r.nd you will make it great. Love our I country and it will return your love a i thousand fold in happy lives and con-I con-I .ented home-: Love your Hod Mi 1 I out lrom the heart ot you will pass ull thoughts that molest all featy that shake the loundations of you, exiflt- ence. The expulsive power of i ht il -affection, as Dr Chalmers used to Bay, Els the secret of individual, social and I- national salvation. EPISCOPAL At the Church of the Good Shop-I Shop-I herd yesterday morning, Ihe Rev. J. Wilmer Hresbaru, I'ean of Grace C,v I thedral, San Francisco, preached from Hhe words, "Therefore put on the whole armor of Cod, that y may be able ;o stand against the wiles of the d i The preacher said "One of the ino6t famous paintings in any of the i galleries "f Luropo is a mast erpieci t' which tells ihe story of a Roman BOl" oier who at the time of the overwhelm-i overwhelm-i ing of Pompeii stood faithful at his posl After ihe city was reclaimed wis charred remains were found, his i armor about him, siient in his death, faithful to the word of command. tn!y by such faithfulness is the world to g b made better and al the present time Christian people everywhere are called upon to remember that they gpl need the aid of The Great Strategisl aj B Great Reserve. The lately v. on war was not won un-ggj un-ggj ill first of all 'he allies arm.- saw (he necessity and acted upon Ihe need for I Is supreme command to which evi army in the western field should be iibfolntely subject Then loch caT.e rj to the front, a soldier, who knew er-gn: er-gn: vice In the actual field, but a stra; pf who had given years to the study ol great militarv problems Action did , not come q iirkly enough They ex-jll ex-jll t ptcted t-pee'acular movemenis of thi fil troups, macnifieent and .da-hin ,e-l ,e-l tones announced every day But as t time wore on the people generally, :nd I 'he German army particularly realized 'hat a vast and gigantic brain war. at tel work in behalf of the allies whOM (1 clarified vision of the ihir.g that n d to be done as an essential element in 'he final victory o with our bun an itf llvcs- I'istra. ten, di-ip : e.l. I ard .ir. I by the love of pleasure impoverislu J wyward loves the lives of many I SO to ruin. We all uend the guiding hand of the Oioat Strategist, who en-courages en-courages within us the lovo of pail pa-il lience. We see not all he is doing in U"?. for us, with us, but committed to F Him our lives are safe fromh arm. I caved to the world, and blest to God. Another fact concerning the vlcti ry I 0"er the Central Eraplrei that cannot , he disputed is this However the f a6 v.on and won by whom, this re 1 ; mains true, thai the steady, porsis'.er.i building up of a vase reserve force I Wcely recruited, enlisted and drafted fA f'-om the I nlted Slates ha.l Its michtv O f I f r.. . I i' .... i fi . u y,na us. vve can no more live lives of personal usefulness, iu! ourselves, to society, to God v.i.hout , 'be aid of a great reserve than we r in j fctop the sun. Happv and blessed th 1 L man whose lalth has found it final I abiding place, and focal energising t Point in the fact of God. Though he1 be old he shall walk and not la'nt. ; 'hough he be at his prime he shall i nin and not be wearv; though he be ' a genius yet his life shall be fed that lie may soar as the eagle in its flight. ho pessimists are thoBe whose gail I deludes only the failures of lite The fptimists are those who sec above And beyond all life's tordld story and j: agic failure the fact of God in whom t j1'1 goodness dwells and with whom s the last word in victory over all ihul t'-'ars down. ,j , "Thirdly," said Lean Gresham. "we j'arned d-irlng the war how import: m i w the morale of ihr troops How i I leutul to the mafcin of a, good oficu- 1 "ViHOHMBMHHnr sivr and defensive fighter were the conditions under which he trained to the disciplining or the will Manv people peo-ple were nervous of the American troops It was felt that our troops had heen reared in a wrong atmosphere for the making of great soldiers Bui IhefJ hod been trained In the onlv richf one for soldiers fighting on a" right side. The responsibilities of freedoLi were felt by us all during the war and o not only equipped men with the necessary fighting equipment to make B victory possible, but we landed in l s many other ways as we could for rhelr mental, moral and spiritual welfare wel-fare with what good result we now know So in the matters of our individual, indi-vidual, social nnd national life we need to carp for the morale of our dally living liv-ing FYee to have access to God liroi-eh the one sufficient sacrifice of cur Lord and Savior Tree to make con-ions con-ions of our sins to Him alone, who can absolve them; free to feed upon 'he symbols of His broken hodv nnd his outpoured lif, we are wi.-e ir we H these means of grace, so contributing con-tributing to the upkeep of a morale inch shall ensure our true witness to God In the challenging days of peace." BAPTIST CHURCH. "If Jesus Christ were not God Then W hat?" Dr. Ray Palmer preached on the above topic at the First Baptist church Sunday morning. He tok for his text the words of Jesus in Mathew 19:17: "Why Callest Thou Me God? There is None Good But One, That is God." The speaker said in parf "If Jesus Christ were not God. then he was not a good man. No mere man could claim to be God and at the same lime be good such a claim would be blasphemous If Christ were not God, by claiming to be God. be robbed God of that glory! that belongs to deity, alone If Christ' were not God, it would have been preposterous pre-posterous and wicked for him to claim! to have the power to save the souls of I mau The only way for us to claim thai Ohi isi was a good man. but not ( God, is to say, that he was eelf de-1 ceived. This could not be. He was the most intellectual man the world has, ever known. He met the genius and I wisdom of his day, with spontaneous j overwhelming wisdom. There is no j meaner man. than the man who will from vicious motives, propound questions ques-tions to a speaker in the presence of I a hostile multitude The Pharisees did that again and again: Jesus Christ, In-, variably, silenced them He showed, that he possessed the giant mind of the world and made his enemies seem like ' fools, even in their own eves Again, Jesus Christ has demnstrat ed the superiority of his intellect, by ; the fact that his sublime words have: been perpetual inspiration, for the J mightiest mental activities, in all the' world. From his crystaline teachings, at from a fountain have flowed rivers Ol theology, metaphysics analysis ,an: eloquence By Him. poets have been in spired, prose writers illuminated, statesmen strengthened and ministers made mighty. The words of Jesus ChrL-t have challenged the intellectual l acumen of the wisest men of all time The princes ol thought ihe kings in 1 1 h- realm of erudition men of profound pro-found penetration have been uplifted into intellectual glory through Jesus I Christ Astronomers, geologists, psychologists, psy-chologists, anthropologists, and esca-j tologists, all admit 'hat Jesui Christ' rises Infinitely superior to them in I knowledge and wisdom in every function func-tion of intellectual possibility and achievement. Ws do not need to demonstrate dem-onstrate it It is self-evident. The whole world admits it. Jesus Chris' ; was the most intellectual being who ever came to our globe. He could not therefore, be self-deceived. If he were not God, he knew It knew it in every liber of his being: knew it far better than our Unitarian friends know it; I kne wit far better, than our advanced scholars know il; knew who are so lost in the clamor of Christ's human itv that tho are blind to the more glo lious fact of his deity. If Jesus Christ knew that he was not God and ye' again and again claimed to l God then he was not a pood man Thiu is Christ's own argument. A young man j came to him and said: 'Good master.' Jesus answered" 'Why callest thou m u;ood. there is none good but one, that ! is God.' Christ's argument is this: I "You call me good. God alone is good! if I am not God, I am not good.' Christ means to say. 'I claim to be God, my whole mission and ministry are to establish es-tablish this claim: If I a ranot God, then I am not good, but the opposite of good which is evil.' Jesus Christ intended to say to that young man: W hen you call me good, vou are cor rect I am the embodiment and the manifestation of all goodness. I ami good.' Yes, Jesus Christ, the son of i Mary, the Man of Galilee, the lowlv j Nazal one "Is the Almighty God.' and i before his Judgment seal we shall all Stand at last to be judged according to the deeds done in the body, may w? I all trust in him, love and serve him I'lhat on that judgment morning, w? may hear him say; 'Well done, thou good :ind lailhful servant enter thou, into the joy, of thy Lord " METHODIST. "The Personal Factor in Religion," was the theme used by Rev christian 1! Carver a the Methodist Episeopp', church Sunday morning. He took for a text the following words: 'Tor My Sake and the Gospel's," found in the eighth chapter and tnirty-fifth verse of the Gospel of Mark. "When you speak of Christianity you are not speaklnc of a philosophy, creed, or an organized system of thought, but of ,i form Of passion, unlt- 1 1 i' i'lriuf nllh Individuals Judaism Is a composite creed, the work of manv hand! I brlstianlly Is Christ The life' or Paul had its source in one thing.' nnd one alone, personal loyalty to Chrlsl Ths same ihing is also true of all ihe heroes and saints of christian. Uy in all ages. Xavier, Wesley Fran cis of Assissi and Chalmers of New Guinea all speak a common languae when they speak of Christ. Their whole lives were liv.d in and through Christ, i he sere knit closer to Him than to any earthly friend. "Alone among all religions.. Christ i anltj centers in a person, makes its chieT motive love to a person, and counts even the apprehension of truth as of less importance than warm and loyal passion to that person. The keynote key-note ol Christianity is thus loyaltv to Christ, and its two great watchwords fro: 'Lovesl Thou Me"" Follow Me.' "The second outstanding haratteri.v tic of Christianity is that Christ's ;re- 1 cepts gain all their real force f-ora his own lire Other teachers have told us to love our euemies. but It is only when we sipnd at the cross and hear Him blessing a thiol, and also praying ior his murderers that we comprehend what he meant Others have taught us pity for the sinful, but the true scope of such B teaching Is only felt when we see Him eating and drinking with sinners, deliberately seeking the,r company, and saying to a xuilty woman. wo-man. 'Neither do I condemn thee, go in peace' that wo feel the force of His teaching as actually practiced by the Teacher. As it was His precepts so it is with His doctrines. His groat doc trine of immortality and life eternal passes from speculation into fact when WS stand by His open tomb. Jesus was well aware that the true and moving mov-ing revelation He brought the world was not so much what Ho taught as what He was. "Men are continually seeking to un derstand Christianity, what it realy is, nnd what it really means to b a Christian. Chris-tian. Can I give to any man a clear statemetn of what it means to be a , Christian? Here is a god answer To, be a Christian is to be brought into; such a personal relation with Christ j that henceforth the soul is obedient j to His authority, and all truth is seen i through Christ and the whole life isl lived, in all its acts and tempers, for Christ's sake. It Is not a question of creed, dogmas, proofs and evidences but. for personal relationships to Christ, and personal loyalty to Him Christianitv is nothing more or less, than the story of the human soul in its j personal relationship to Christ. "Looking through Christ's whole ministry we find that his ministry was j constantly addressed to individuals Qreat multitudes followed Him. but His converts were the result of His, personal touch upon the indiivdual life. :.ir Macdalene was ncd won by I the sermon on the Mount, but by ihe tender touch of Christ himself. It is ;he power of His own personality acting act-ing on the souls of men, that draws ihem to Himself and changes the current cur-rent of their lives." The Bpworth league and the Phila-! thea class of the Methodist church gave a reception to public school teat h ers Friday night ol Ir.sl week C. H i Wilton uave a BeriPif of readings ftomi Tennyson Shakespeare, lllley and Longfellow A veiy enjoyable t'me was had by all. Refreshments were served. The Ladies' Aid society is to bold sn Si day meeting next Thursday tu do work for the annual hi aar to be held in the early winter. CHRISTIAN. The pastor of the Christian church spoke Sunday morning on "The Church," taking as his text. Acta ":-5 7. "And ihe Lord added to the church daily such as were being Saved.' He said in part : "The church was a new thing but the early disciples used an old term The Greek word from which "church" is here translated, coul. be applie 1 to any assembly, even a mob. A divine thing with a common name But today, to-day, our Enplish word church, at once brings to our mind, God and heavenly ihincs. "To us, however, it has two mean ings: a local congregation, and all the, followers of Jebus Christ. What is the church of Christ? It includes all of His faithful followers from its es'ab llshment on the Day of Pentecost to when 'time shall be- no more.' Any-true Any-true follower of the Mastor is a member mem-ber of His bodv. the church and is mv brother, whoever and wherever he may be. "In the beginning Ihe church was r.ne. It should never have been other wise The last night Jesus was with His disciples He prayed that they liilsht be one. 'Holy Father keep through thine own name, those whom hou hast given me, that they may bo one as we are," John 17:11. Ami again in the 20th and 21si verses. He says, Neither pray I for these alone, but for them nlso which shall believe on me. through their word (that would include in-clude us i that they may be one; as thou, Father art in me and I m thee, that they also may be one in us; that ihe world may belie ve that h u hast t-ent mc.' "But the church apostatized. Then i-rose the great reformers, each doing a great work, each bringing forth some new light, but in doing this good work, they divided God's people into various parties, until we have what Is called todnv. a divided church Bui are wc divided in the sight of Qodl Does lie recognize these petty div hions? "It was impossible Tor the disciples to have one meeting place, therefore, those In each locality were organized inot a local church or congregation, These local churches co-operated, but so far as the records show, had no organized connection. Thev were independent in-dependent with apostolii oi evangelistic evangelis-tic oversight. Bo tar as their local work was concerned they were autonomous autono-mous "There were two classes of officers ihe elders and deacons, the first were ; to look atter the spiritual part of the church, to see thai it was being taughl ihe word of God, to help the weak and (o lift up the fallen TIih deacons had in care, the material affair Today they should be responsible lor the i w-ing w-ing of the finances, and to look after the needy 'The Apostolic church left no form of worship or ritual.. There are tw ordinances, baptism and ihe Lord's Supper. These should be observed so far as possible, just as they were In tbo day of the apostles ' I |
