The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10

held with something that is unseen. It is the realization that there is no life but the God life, that when we are going toward God we are going toward a larg- CT life, when we are going away from God we are moving toward death It is the view point that the world must have before men will see things as they are, and I call your attention to the words of man who thought much and work ed long on this of which I am speaking The great Swiss historian, John von Muller, giy es the result of his long labor extracted, he says, from 1733 authors, in 17OcO folio pages. in this striking con fession:
 Christ In All Things.
 Christ Is the key to the history of the world. Not only does all harmonize with the mission of Christ, all Is subordinate to 1t. When I saw this," he adds, it was to me as wonderful and surprising as the light which Paul saw on his way to Dam- ascus. The fulfllment of all hopes, the completion of all philosophy, the key to all apparent contradiction in the physical and moral world. Here Is life and imrror- tality. l marvel not at miracles. A far greater miracle has been reserved for our time-the spectacle of the connection of all human events in the establishments and preservation of the doctrine of Christ"
 That means the utilization of steam and electricity, once unknown in their subtle operation; the great inventions, the mar velous improvements; and the wonderful fields that have been entered by the sur- geon and by the physician. The bringing up out of the earth of its treasures; the tying together of all natural forces so that they work to one end. The explanation of humanity Is In Christ And yet neither | I,x fo1f 1, oil lt- R..VI. This great universe of God moves around a centre, and that centre builds it's circle In Jesus to whom 1t has moved from the beginning and in whom Is the explanation of all that has been done on the earth. Tn Him was life. and the life was the light of men,
 Church is the Instrument.
 And that leads me fin the next place to call attention to this fact: That the means, or rather the medium through which God will work in the world is the church. It is of divine origin. It is not of human make. It came down from heaven. It was reorganized on the earth by Christ himself. Men have mistaken her mission, and therefore have harshly criticised the church. We have become so bewildered as we have recognized that which takes place in a deranged world that we have abandoned the hand of God, and the preacher and the church and the sacraments have been criticised, and the old-fashioned idea of the reli- zion that changes men has been given up, and the utterance from those who simply speak they know not what has had the ear of men. A soup house has no business in connection with the church of God anywhere. A gymnasium has no business with the church of God anywhere. An Institutional church Is nonsense. All these ideas are right, but they must be worked out somewhere else The church of God should stand alone lifting it's solemn spire toward the in- finite. calling man to remembrance that God Is a spirit, and the only end and aim of all life. and in His temple should be the unshod foot and the uncovered head. When men thus know Christ there shall be no form naked anywhere