The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-27
RIsHoP FowLER's SERMON.
An Argument to show that Death Does
Not End All.

large audience heard the sermon of
Risbon Fowler at Roberts Park Church
Yesterday morning. The bishop spoke from
the text: walk about Zion, and go round
about her. tell the towers thereon. Inc
bishop said in part:
MAN is a wonderful being. q complicated
machine; capable of self-repair. NO ma
chine of human invention could compare
with il: made not to run for rev years
on earth and then be thrown away, but 10
run ON and on, throughout eternity Haa
the celebrated German VINO mace tie great
clock which | saw when in that country
built to run and tell not only the time OF
day and hour, but faithfully record the
changes of seasons, for g. thousand years
had he let it tick but once ana theh nave nave
broken it into pieces, we would nave cailea
him insane and sent him to a maohouse
Would God be less wise than MANI say
with all reverence that If death ended al
with man. then God would have made the
blunder of the universe But death goes no. noe
creation. Scientists tell us that the hrst
type of life was in the form of fishes. sec
ond that of birds, third that of quadrupeds,
and fourth that of man: standing erect, per
pendicular to the earth, having the best pos
sible form that God could give him The
psalmist tells US to walk about Zion
! and tell the towers thereof.
I'm the olden times men built walls
around their cities and towns for protec.
flor On our continent but two walls or
cities remain, and they are in ruins. re-
fer to St Augustine and Quebec Formerly
men not oniy built wall around theln-
selves and their possessions, but also dug q
trench or moat, outside the wall, ana TINS
was generally filled with water; and at each
gateway a drawbridge was constructeds
which was let down for the passage or
friends. but uplifted to prevent the cross,
ING of enemies This moat around the wall
lixen to our physical ooales, so 81 Ivy
ing bone, filled with the most cosby ma,
teriaI: a skull filled with dynamite; vital
organs which may not be tempered with,
cd w rlDS. a clTculdlOly
system which nouriSheS ana repairs gu
parts of the body; central dispatch sta-
ton in the head with telesra adv c,,roIsIv
constructed Joints and hinges, besides many
other things too numerous to mentlon nov.
Wonderful body! Who bur COD coula MAKE raas
- eoS Then we are supplied with abstract
reason: original intuitive concert OF mental
powers. This the beast does not pos
sees This abstract reasoning power is
What links us with God; this comprehen-
sion of mind this intuiuve KnowseuSe VI
surroundings. This discernment OF power power
when in the presence OF power. UL touS S
and effect of time and space. or rlghl anu
wrong constitute what we can apstraS -
reasoning power-abstract because ap co.
from the knowledge obtained by the nvs
senses This is what leads US GoowaIu'
and lifts us above the Level OF the orute'
This is our drawbr1dge
AN EVENING-UP PLACE.
.I came from somewhere; don't know
where: l am going somewhere "an.
TO know where l am to go somewhere ana
cannot help myself If 1 would. How inn
pcrtant. then that 1 seek and find the right
read to the best place which lies beyond the
limits of this life. And right here want
to saw that God is not only wise, but just.
/ see wicked men prospecting around me-
nlan as carefully and work as hard as they.
7 see She weak trembling under their bur-
dens and the poor crying for bread and
shelter. while the rich roll in luxury. ! say
win there come a time when things will be
pyened up? l say reVerently that II there
were no place where wrongs VIII De rlsnteu,
and Righteousness rewarded, then COD owes
man an apology. But God has arranged Tor
things TO be evened up. The Psalmist says,
God will not always chlde, neither VIII ne
keen His anger forever And my wrongs
are to be righted with me. Not with some
one a thousand miles away, whom never
saw or knew OF, but with me. God watches
over His own. The Bible says that the
angels of God encamp round about them
that serve Him The busy bee mes , away
from its home and seeks store OF honey
among the flowers in fields and woods miles
away. When laden with its precious store,
il rises and flies straight to its hlVe. Who
gave the bee that instinct? Will He not
guide me? The young squirrel selects
hole for a home, and when autumn comes
LAYS by a store of nuts for winter, though
he never saw an autumn before. Who told
the squirrel that? In the south where no
winter comes to freeze the food or Kill the
v@getation the squirrel lays by no store of
food Who told him there was no neces-
sity? Will He not protect me? At the APP
proach of winter l see the migratory birds
living southwark. In the spring l see them
returning TO their homes in the north
again. Who taught them this plan of pro-
lection? VIII He not teach me?
In ancient days men built a wall around
q city and then built tower at each cor
ner Of the wall. Let us take such a city.
This knowledge which God gives to man
Will represent the first tower. And this
tower will stand forever. For the second
tower we Will take the Bible, that book of
writ fan nv afraF M l,nt.
tending over period Of over / $50 years
men and women of all sorts, ages and
characters. but inspired by God himself
And this tower will stand forever For the
third tower l take unity BY unity mean
that quality which enables one, when at
his best TO go on and complete his work
Moses wrote the first books and scientists
have claimed to disprove things which he