Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-05
UNITY.
DR.. BOvard's Sermon at the
simpson Church.

DR.. Bovard, of the Southern California
University, preached very able sermon
yesterday at the Simpson NJ. E. Church,
taking his text from Galatians CO; "Bear
ye one snothers burdens, and so fulfill the
law of Christ" and verse s, For every
man shall bear his own burdens" The fol-
lowing is synopsis of his sermon
These two statements seem perpetually
contradictory, but l will try in this dis
course to show wherein they are similar
One of the things which we particularly no.
tice in these days Of critical investigation
is the apparent analogy between things of
the spiritual and of the material world.
think the most natural manner of drawing
the seen and unseen world together is fonnd
described in the book entitled 1.-THE Unseen
World" There is a great effort being made
to separate these worlds, but there is a great
spirit endeavoring to bring them together
These are principles which hold true in sci
ence, and If it were not SO this great world
would cease to spin away, and would fall
and be crashed to atoms Heat is one of the
great elements which performs the Office OF
throwing out the different bodies, but
they are brought back or retained in
their proper place by affinity. II is the will
of God that these powers. should work one
sgaip st the other, for by the proper balanc-
ing of them they are the great forces, (which
maintain order. God don't want souls
together or too far apart but he wants them
so arranged that one expells the irregulari-
ties from the other.
God created man so he could SUCCESSFULLY
ma nipulate the things for which he was in
tended and the great trouble with so many
first act is to get man in conformity to Him
self and then to locate him, and in order to
do this God took this factor, For every man
shall bear his own burden" No man knows
\ h; IN bao h
burders. This is the way. God develops in
dividually, mans knowledge Of Himself,
and of his consciousness NO man knows
how much he can lift until he has lifted;
speed, or how much he can do until he has
worked. You have no idea how man will
grow in his own respect when he has
done don something to Pumoa draw oo,stn out
thing provided for him, so he does not have
to rely on hims elf for anything, or one whom
no one holds responsible for the perform
ance of any duties, and he don't know
what responsibility is, and it is for this rea
son that we are constantly finding men
born in poverty towering above those who
were reared in houses of plenty. Those
men who, whea they were boys, had to per
form hard work, make plans and execute
tablished and cultivated individual
powers. If it were not for individuality
we would be one chaotic mass. Christ
came in the fullness of time not to destroy
the law or the prophets, but to fulfil the law,
and the prophets did not understand what
he meant. In that wonderful sprayer of
Christ's he says we are to be one, as the
Father and the Son are one, and thus the
redeemed mind is to BE- 6e one, as the Father
harmony in individuality. and the unity
before the throne of God will be harmonious.
You say if do good for any one they think
more of me. That is not Gods will. He
says that in doing good for anyone !ou will
like them better, and this all lays in your
power Do good to others that you may
like them better, and if you like them they
will like yon. God starts the work for man
but we must execute the opportunities to do
what we have done for him, but for what
He has done for us through the power of
affinity, and when we exercise to the best of
our ability every individual power Tor the
throne of God. If our ocean cables which
enable us to talk across the ocean, our tele
graph system by which we can dispatch
messages across the continent in an Instant
steamboats, that are able to cross the ocean
In six days time had been placed in the hands
of our predeces sors prior to the demand
for such cOnvenienCes they would have
been absolutely useless, as their individual
ity or individual powers had not been estab-
lished, but as the country grew and circum-
stances demanded additional powers the
SCIENCE of confirming steam to space, and
the complete annihilation of space by Ell c.
tricity was disc c,vered. The great study of
to day is how to carry out the purposes of
God. l may BIZ able te make money for my
self and you cannot prevent IT, l may be-
come g, eat artist, or gain eminence in
some other channel, but the brain and
knowledge, endowed by God, is neces-
sary; and that Gods great spirit and his
presence may go with us in this great work,
Is my honest and earnest PRAYER.