The herald., 1898-09-19
SOME SUNDAY SERMONS
UNITY's NEW PASTOR breaches
ON OUR DIVINE HUMANITY
THE PASSAGE OF A KINGDOM
Services at the First Christian Church.
Rev. Bliss Touches on Political
Subjects-Pulpit Themes

was one of two OF three texts pertinent to his
subject, "Our Divine
Our Divine Humanity" selected
humanity oy Rev. c. K. ).
Jones at the Church
of the Unity. Through all his teaching. ="
said the speaker, Jesus placed value on
man as such, and nothing in all the world
equals it, as Jesus saw it. 1t was the i'm
measurable faith in man that has made
him the great prophet in our humanity
Contrasting the estimate placed on man
by the old orthodox teaching compared
with that of the liberal faith and the grow
ing away of the Christian church from the
teachings of Jesus, the speaker continued:
I'VE are here not to destroy religion, but to
help fulfill it. Our purpose in society is
to help people to find themselves. l would
teach boys and girls to believe in them
selves as God-created, God-destined be-
ings. No element of essential religion is
ever traduced. The man who can look
ND into the heavens with the consciousness
that God is in himself. should have con-
yiction that there is no higher being, save
God himself.
1--WE are supremely believers in the divin-
ity of man. God himself, working to the
about the creation of the intelligences that
are on the earth this morning. To think or
man necessitates thought of the power that
brought him here. We know God by what
we know of man and what we know of
mans intelligence. If he has demeaning
idea of man. he will think of God in a
dcmeanng way. He will not think of him
in the highest ethereal. spiritual sense.
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in the present century. All the theories
taught today began before there was any
knowledge of man. Today the world is
behind where it would be had not theolo-
gies been based on the theory that man
was wreck, lost through the wrath of
God
1.-THE perfecting of humanity is the con-
summation of natures long, tedious work.
Man. in the highest mental and moral con-
seriousness, is to be the product of future
ages The coming people are those who
shall believe most earnestly in the divinity
of man. The men who are ethical and spir-
itual shall be the world-possessors. This
is all the tendency of past history. This
is all there is in the good, old days of the
pnst-they contained the germ of what has
come in cur day. Liberal faith will con-
ouer the earth. The time will surely come,
as God is God and right is right, that which
shall be increasingly is because man is
divine, and not an outcast and forsaken of
God"
David Walk, in the Church of Christ on
Eighth street, near Central avenue, read
II Kings, xvii, 9-23.
Passing of u and announced as the
Kingdom subject of his SER
mon, THE Captivity
of Israel" The three chapters of Deuter-
onomy, $3.50, We're written 700 years before
the date of our lesson. In the fierce white
light of accomplished facts, these chapters
should be read today by every citizen both
of the United States and Great Britain,
because they stand in relation to the ma
tons of the earth now as Judah and Israel
stood to all the Kingdoms of antiquity. To
the Anglo Saxon race is committed the
solemn trust of educating, ChriStianizing
and governing the peoples of all lands.
This mission is manifest destiny, and will
be the outcome of the enthronement of
Jesus Christ as the only rightful sover-
oign of all souls and supreme respect for
the authority of the Bible as the infallible
rule of the faith and practice alike of men
and of nations.
We stand in astonishment as we contem-
plate the studied disregard of Israel for
the warnings of Jehovah, and have no
trouble with the anthropomorphic state
mcnt that he was provoked to anger. The
plain meaning is that God descends to the
mental and spiritual level of man in order
that he may instruct him in ways of right
eousness. His people, whom he had led
like a shepherd, deliberately sold them
nelves to do evil. Trained in the school OF
monotheism, they set up images on every
high hill and under every green tree. The
Indictment, as drawn by the pen of inspi-
ration is awful.
They forgot the very God who made them
n nation; they deliberately consorted with
the heather around them, copying their
customs and adopting their infamous re-
ligious cult: consecrated to the worship of
their divinities rites that must now be
namelcss; rejected the teachers whom God
sent to them, and treated a idle tales the
most solemn ami oft-repeated messages
vouchsafed them by Jehovah; trampled un-
Ger foot all the commandments delivered
TO their fathers under circums tances of
exceptional inlpressiVcnesa; brought them
selves to believe in auguries. fortune tell
ing and spiritism; inundated their children
upon affairs of fire. and reached the cul-
mination of degcneracy by becoming ma
tion of drunkards. The same God rules in
the armies of heaven and earth today;
human nature remains unchanged; like
causes will produce like results now as
them and we have the same demons to con-
tend with. The rum power menaces our
homes and Mammon worship our liberties.
Rev a. c. Smither preached yesterday
morning at the First Christian church
upon"A Living Serv-
Living ice,'' from the text
Service present your bodies
living sacrifice
holy acceptable to God, which is your rea-
sonable service" Under the Jewish figure
of a sacrifice Paul presents Christian life
as q sacrifice or service to God: for serv-
ice is the supremest test of human worth
apart from religious affiliations Sacrifice
in this text means commitment to God
setting apart of ourselves to the sacred
work to which God calls each of us As a
soldier is pledged to the service of his
to his God. This enlistment in Gods work
means a transfer Of our ownership to him
We are no more our own and are no moro
to subserYe our own selfish wills aparf
from the will of God. The earth is the
Lords and the fulness thereof and we
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