The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-20
SCIENCE OFFERS NOTHING
1T CANNOT TAKE THE PLACE OF
SYMPATHY AND LOVE.
Theme of the Rev. Thomas j. viIIers
in His Evening Service at the
First Baptist Church.

Science and ethics and culture and phil
osophy have nothing to offer TO the man or
woman who wants sympathy and love and
peace. Only the gospel can satisfy the in
nermost desires of men and women for peace
and love and sympathy. The comforts of
this world and the pleasures of this world
cannot do it,
This was the leading thought of the ser
mon delivered at the First Baptist Church
last night by the Rev. Thomas j. Villers,
the pastor. His subject was Three Pill
lars" The sermon was a discussion of the
gospel. Mr.. Villers said in part:
The term gospel hasn't lost any of its
power, but its full significance is not rec
ognized as fully as when the word is spoken
or read as should be the case. Our emotions
are not stirred up when we hear the word
gospel spoken as were the emotions of the
people whom Paul spoke TO. The gospel did
not slip lightly from PaupS tongue, and it's
full significance and its message of love and
peace and rest was received by soul thirsty
people. To the Romans the gospel was preg-
nant with Gods love and His goodness. The
message TO them-that it was salvation for
the lost, heaven for the outcast. To them
it was transforming of power. To the
Romans Paul spoke a story of exceeding
abundance of love and forgiveness and peace
and rest for sinners. The gospel was a gos-
pei OF good things to the Romans, because
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people to whom he spoke from earthly tyr
amy, but freedom from a tyrant who had
held mems and womens souls captives in
darkness and sin. The gospel delivers men s
and women's hearts from bitterness, frees
them from sin, and gives them peace and
happiness now, just the same as it was a
boon of peace and love and happiness for the
people to whom Paul spoke.
1.-The gospel is gospel of good things.
| secondly, because 1t is a gospel of rest. How
deceived and foolish are the men and wom-
| en- who seek rest from the cup of pleasure
| who seek TO satisfy the thirst of their hearts
and souls with worldly pleasures Men and
! women VINO seek by these means to get
| that theirs is a desire from within, which
| cannot be satisfied except by something
| that will reach to their hearts and their
| souls. And the pleasures of the world will
| not do this These persons do not know
| what a grand thing is the gospel.
| God saw the incessant restlessness of the
| human heart and he sent Jesus with the
| message: Come unto me and / will give We
! fest The gospel of God is a gospel of good
! things, thirdly, because it is Gods remedy
/ for the disturbances of the human heart
| and the human soul. Oh the wealth of
| Gods rest, His peace, His love, His knowl-
edge of what men and women are thirsting
| for. The gospel of God is a gospel of good
| things because it is gospel of Gods love.
| The gospel does not tell us so much how
| God thinks as how he loves. Jesus uncov-
cred the very heart of God when he came
to the world to save men and women. When
men and women are tired and weary of the
things of the world they want a bosom of
| rest and peace and love to lay their heads
| on. Science and ethics and culture and phil
| oSophy have no bosom of peace and love
| and sympathy for weary men and women.
| But Jesus came from the bosom of God.
| The cross is the highest expression of
| Gods love. Everything dwindles away be-
fore the brightness which shines out from
he