The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-26
IN THE CITY'S PULPITS
REV. WORTH M. TIPPY AT BROAD
WAY METHODIST CHURCH.
Himself Through Us"-Other
Church Services.

Yesterday morning at Broadway NJ. E.
Church, the pastor. Rev. Worth NJ Tippy.
spoke on the theme, God Would Express
Himself through U.s." He spoke in part
follows:
I'm the profound philosophy of Hegel the
entire universe of matter force and mind
is conceived to be progressive OF seif-real-
ization or STANDARDIZATION OF God. Ii Is
mighty thought that grows upon one Win
reflection. 1t can be illustrated clearly py
the self-revelation Of the soul OF man In
multitude OF ways the nidd ZEN so SOU eHe
smile of the face, the grasp OF the hand
and the tone of the voice. All that men do
is story OF what they are. SO that one
might read the nature and Thought ana
feelings of a human life in the complicated
products OF civilization. Literature, art,
music the home, the church, the state, the
soul of man. Thereby we build and tell out
what is within us.
I'm like manner. only with infinite great
ness, God expresses His thought and feel-
| ing and will. The earth and the heavens,
star dust and flaming suns, billowy seas,
mighty forces and teemins life-all are His
/ Standardization.
| And the armament showeth his handiwork
| Day unto day uttereth speech,
| And night unto night showeth knowledge;
WAS there a time when God was alone
When He began that preparation Tor De-
| ings like himself. in the process of which
| a thousand years have been as day. was
| there a passion in His own soul, IKE that
which Is I'm our own, TO realize what was
within Him? Was IL as a great poet mas
| expressed 1t:
| but I need now, as then,
| Thee, God, who modest men;
And since, not even while the wniri was
worst,
| Did Ito the wheel of life,
| With shapes and colors rife. -
Bound dizzily-mistake my end to Stake
Thy thirst
STORY OF EVOLUTION.
1.-THE story of evolution, which the nature
sciences have been discovering, is the story
| of this Standardization. II Is written in the
heavens. in the rocks. in the forms and
| life history of plants and animals, and in
| the life of the human race. When the last
chapter has been written it will be a story
! of infinite love. AS yet men trained to the
| tests of the senses hesitate to call 1t such.
1.-The revelation was first one of matter
and force, of fiery nebulous masses cooling
| To planets and at last to oceans and conti-
| nents covered with mists 1t was then a
| story of luxuriant plant forms, with the
| wonder of life reaching down into the In
| animate and feeding itself Finally ii was
| a story of "a higher life, of the beginnings
| of thought and feeling and will.
| "A theist may confidently peneve ,nat even
| as a mother prepares with brooding ten
| dernesS for the babe that is one day 10 De
| born so the heart of God through these
ages was planning for the men that were i,
| max of the process. Here at last the sou!
of God touched the highest possibilities OF
self-realization The rocks. the FORCES ano
dom and His power. In the light or whal
| follows they tell of His love. But In the
| soul of man God reveals himself as spirit
| The limits of that revelation we cannot
know. 49, ,,,o,,
God can reveal himself than these. he
| must speak with silent voice through the
| physical universe, or He must speak
| through the soul of man. We must tell
| out the passion of His heart. and we must
bear His love to each other
! How inadequately the first men and
| their civilizations expressed His ineffable
| glory! How inadequately the peoples OF
| antiquity How imperfectly the men or to-
day! The light shone in the darkness. but
1 the darkness has never overpowered 1t.
IT WAS IMPERATIVE.
'"when we reflect upon this limitation OF
the self-reveiation of God eve begin to un-
derstand how imperative it was that God
| should come in Jesus Christ. The Word
| then became man, and made home among
| u.s. In Him there was the full revelation
| of Gods SOUL in the only form men could
understand, and in the only complete way
| possible to God. We know from nature
and history that God is power; We know ir
| Jesus that God is love. We can read in
| Him the presage of the last story of the
| divine activity-that at heart all Is love.
| 1.-The message of Jesus is that God seeks
| to incarnate himself in in himself
He would speak through our lips, look
| through our eyes, toll with our hands, rur
| with our feet, hear through our ears and
love through our hearts. Through us He
| would multiply a million times the purity OF
His own life and the unselfishness of His
| own heart Through us He would defend
the oppressed, feed the hungry, minister
| to the suffering and build the kingdom OF
| God in the earth.
| to live our own narrow, selfish lives, and
| gladly yield ourselves to Gods purposes
| then the exceeding great reward will be
| that the richess, the beauty, the happiness
and the Immortality of His own life will
| be ours