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Show DIVINE LAMENT' IS TOPIC OF SERMON i The subject of the address by the Rev, Hugh Neville at the Method! I church list evening waa ' The Divine I.;iment " Taking as his t. xt the fourth and fifth words from the Cross, the p.intor spoke of that most mysterious cry of the Savlor'a "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken nie " ,,s ine luitterance of One who was crushed with the awful weight of hum:tn sin and guilt. said Christ came to put away sin b the sacrifice of him If To do this it seemed Itecessan for Him to go down Into the depths and taste death tor everj man. "All pure souls have their times of darkness anl depression, when the overwhelming Bense human sin and folly comes upon them, and it seems as if they and the world were leinK forsaken of God When sueh : i r experience, let us remember t h : 1 1 ihi Master passed through a slmilsj dark- ! ne- arid seriM' "f rlesolniiou -in (I in that he himself hath suffered, being tempted, he Is able to succor theni also that arc tempted. "To the pure soul of Christ, the Ignominy Ig-nominy and shame of the cross, the sense of human sin. the bitter hatred i of his people with the defection ol hisl followers was overwhelming, Intensified Intensi-fied because It was so undeserving According to an old tradition,' Christ descended into heii Whatever truth there may be In the statement, ill surely must have seemed so to him as the nwful sense of helnp forsaken by Qod came upon Him, 1 can conceive! I of no greater heii than to be forsaken of God and shut out of His presence forever and aver, And such is the danger of all men who wllfullv Bhut God out of their Uvea "No true child of ;r,, ca,n ever be really forsaken of The Father Hence w- must not think of the Son of God as being forsaken of Him. For at cording to tho Scripture. God wh ' hrist reconciling the world unto Him- BSlf, hut the way of the Cross W 1 thl r';.,; ' h"ni" b1' for Hi and Tonight At O'clock the young folk- of the Rpworth league will take part In the service. There', will be , nV Kobb and Miss Lucille $"tjHr pastor - i : 1 1 k will 1"' l1"1 -: !i .1 rvl - nth ordJ JMH - i niFh'-.i ' KatB: irltL |