The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-14
PASTOR HIGHLY PRAISES
MISS M|LLER'S NEW BOOK
Rev. Albert Hurlstone Is an Adj
mirer of "The Yoke" Just
Issued.
POWER OF GOD SHOWN

Rev. Albert Hurlstone in his sermon at
Roberts Park Church yesterday morning
on 1.-THE Power of God as the Resting
Place for the Christian Faith" alluded to
Miss Elizabeth Millers book, The Yoke"
in high terms of praise. His text was l
Cor IL, W:
Among other things, he said:
This chapter reveals to us the dominant
ing power of a great purpose in life. Holmes
said, Faith in something and enthusiasm
for something makes a life worth looking
at Here we see Paul taking his stand
amid the commercial capital of Greece and
declaring that he had come to them not
declaring unto them the testimony of God
For / determined not to know anything
among you; save Jesus Christ and Him
and fear and in much trembling. And my
speech and my preaching was not with
enticing words of mans wisdom, but in
demonstration OF the spirit and of power;
that your faith should not stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God
Mystery of power, who shall declare it?
Men are ever worshping power. All ages
and all sciences in our day are sitting to
find and solve the problem of power. Power
in its lowest conditions belongs to the ma
terial. Power is in the storm and in the
wave that like a wiIlfuI child, sports and
plays with the mighty vessel on its bosom,
and in the flashing lightning that. like
Power, latent or active, belongs to every
atom in the vast universe of God. But there
is a higher. more ultimate form of power
that unique, intangible, immaterial but
triumphant power of thought. Men crave
position because 1t gives power. They grasp
for riches and submit TO the narrowing lust
of gold because money is power. They
deny themselves the pleasures of life and
in retirement search out the secrets of
the universe because knowledge is power.
Power to build temples OF beauty, to con-
struct engines OF strength, to embody
thought that shall thrill the ages, to
/ crystaliZe into thought forms of immortal
beauty. TO forge. to frame the rallying
cries of justice and of liberty, cries which
have surged through the nat and
through the generations Great IL the power
of triumphant thought. Marvellous is the
/ knowledge, power and wisdom of men. But
Nifty the power of God and to teach that
/ our faith should not stand in the wisdom of
| men, but in the power of God. How clearly
| this is demonstrated in the redemption Of
| has been reset and retold by writer I'm our
own city in fascinating book entitled
| The Yoke A book which Bible readers
| will greatly enjoy inasmuch ii brings
| out the Affections of Gods chosen people,
their influence in Egypt and the silent
| power of their faith upon some of the
| Egyptians. Gods power was manifest in
the ten plaques and in the mighty deliver
/ ance of a race. They are led through the
| Red sea as on dry land They were guided
/ by the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar
/ of fire by night. The feeding of this ma
ton in the wilderness is one of the miracles
| of history
Gods power is seen in the origin and
growth of the church Only the power of
| God seen in Christianity can account
/ for our churches, cathedrals, colleges
asylums. orphanages. hospitals. works of
mercy and philanthropy. Looking back 100
years the pessimist can get no encourage
ment for his views. This is an age of
| faith. Never there an age when so
much purposeful faith, such triumphant
/ faith existed among men More work has
! been wrought for God in the past century
than ever before Gods power. working
through the church agencies is regenerat-
ing nations and lifting cannibals into civil
| lied men and women a new volume of the
acts of the apostles might be written to-
| day"