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of God, and brings help In return.
The preacher mentioned the continued
prayer of Paul for the removal of the
thorn in the flesh, and spoke of Moody's
remarkable deliverance in answer to pray
er from the steamer Spree, which oc-
CURED few years ago. The speaker
saying that he thoroughly believed in the
efficacy of prayer. After taking mp the
word Thanksgiving" and mentioning
some of the chief things for which we
should be thankful, closed as follows;
The promise of our text is worth strlv-
ing for, 1t is worth more than wealth,
position or power. Many have these but
have not the peace of God in their hearts,
which Is worth more than anything the
world can give, and if we, in everything,
by prayer and supplication with thanks
giving make our requests known unto
God then, Praise His name, the 'peace of
God which passeth all understanding will
keep our hearts and minds through Christ
Jesus"
At THE BAPTIST CHURCH.
We have no report of the regular
service.
At O'Clock in the afternoon Rev. A.
j. Cardall discoursed on the Fatherhood
of God, taking for his foundation the
first clause of Mathew vi, 9th; "Our
father who art in heaven
We give the salient points of the SER
mon;
How sublime are the words of the text
which stands at the head of that universal
prayer. 1t suggests the source of help
where we may appeal for that assistance
which the human soul finds ever needful
and without which it could not exist 1t
shows also that the central fact of the
universe is the Divine Father, that all
things center in him, nothing that has
been, nothing that is and nothing that /
will be can be divorced from him. And
then it establishes the idea of Father as
central in theology and religion. For in
this too, do we find all theological ideas
and religious thought center viz in the
fact that God is Father.
God is the Father in creation. God is
more than perfect intellect he is a moral
being, God of love and had moral and
fatherly purpose in creation. God is
father not alone in creation but in disci-
pline and retribution. The conditions
under which one soul is developed is diff
ferent from that under which another
can be developed. The conditions under
which one man is living are different from
that under which another-can live. We
readily see how essential this is. 1t must
be so, otherwise there would be no such
thing as progress, and without which the
world could not exist If then the condi-
tions of the Divine retribution is found
in the peculiar organism of man as such,
then it follows that these conditions be-
ing ethical the penalty has it's motive not
in law but in love; that all discipline, suf-
ferings and acts of sin are not in end as
such but implies an end in harmony with
the idea and the fact-of Fatherhood. Is
this not, brethren, plain refutation of
endless SIM The Fatherhood of God will
not permit of It, In order to allow such
a doctrine even for moment for sake of
we do by such destroy the Di-
vine Fatherhood. The two propositions
are incompatible. Fatherhood and per-
mission to sin endlessly, cannot exist in
one and the same person. The idea and
the fact of Fatherhood carries with them
such as to at once destroy such notion.
So, discipline, suffering and acts of sin
must by the necessity of the case, be as
| have said, in direct harmony with the
end which Father would propose. We
will find also that God is Father in res
toration. There is nothing in the fact of
sin which contradicts Fatherhood. 1t
has been thought otherwise by spiritual
ly short sighted persons. People who
have glanced over the theological surface
only, have erroreously thought that the
existence of sin in the world denied the
divine fatherhood. God has made us Ii :
able to sin-why? that we might be capa-
BILE of holiness. Please grasp the dis
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