The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-22
Is Formally Taken Into the Con.
gregationa Fold
REV. EDWARD MILLS GIVES SERMON
breaches ON INTERESTING SUB
JECT TO LARGE AUDIENCE
PROGRAM AS CARRIED OUT.

OuVeC congregational CHurCH was
formally welcomed into the Congrega-
tional fellowship yesterday by a coun-
Gil composed of representatives of
churches of that denomination from
all over the state.
Rev. Samuel Green of Seattle, was
chosen moderator, and Rev. d. H. Reid
as scribe. The right hand Of fellowship
was extended to the church on behalf
of the council by Rev. w. w. Scud-
der, Jr., of Seattle.
Rev. Harry Mason of Dayton, deliv-
cred an address on the Importance of
the work of the church.
Rev. ]. H. Bainton of Colfax, spoke
on "Denominational Loyalty and
Rev. H. Edward Mills of Plymouth
| church, Spokane, gave the recognition
sermon on oceans and their Con-
quest His text was 1.-The Sea is
His and He Made It." The speaker
said:
Comfort Of Man.
ut is a great comfort to a man to
| become certain that this is Gods uni
! verse. AS long as he thinks it be-
| longs to the devil he is in trouble. The
! text asserts that the ocean is the
! property of the Almighty because He
made it. l will speak briefly of three
great oceans each of which belongs
to God and for the same great reason"
| Mr.. Mills then enlarged upon the fact
that the waters of the globe have not
been able fully to conquer the land;
! that the ocean failed even with the
deluge to do this, and that. Neptune's
conquest lies in the slow process of
erosion.
| The second ocean, he said, is the at
mosphere, which has more success
| fully blanketed the entire globe. No
mountain has been able to reach half
way to it's top.
The conquest of the sea is made by
utilizing the seas wealth, its forces,
its tides, it's currents, its corporations.
The conquest of the air is in ODE
dience to the forces of the air, not
by wilful opposition to Them
Mr. Mills said that the fish is a
reasonable fact in the world only when
there is water for his gills and his
fins. - bird would be an insult tC
nature were there no air for its wings.
So we are compelled to believe in a
third great ocean of fact because it
has to be. Man has a stomach for
food, an eye for light an ear for sound
a pair of lungs for air. But man has
more; he has a soul. There must be
a vast environment of psychic reality
Or the soul side of man is a merciless
mOckery of the Almighty.
Of Divine Creation.
What is this ocean Of spirit all abou,
us? 1t is the atmosphere Of God. Goo
made it as much as ever he made the
ocean or the air. He made it for man
as truly as for man he made the sea
and the land. In this realm man finds
his true conquest, the real meaning Of
his existence.
J The speaker asserted that the com.
plete conquest of this realm mean!
mans absolute triumph over the uni.
verse, over all sin and every form Of
evil, over all accident and all disaster
over all sickness and all pain, ever
over death itself. He pointed TO,
proof to Jesus Christ who is Cod:
ideal for man, and who, while walking
the earth as man, never slnned
never sickened; was never afraid O.
storm by sea or pestilence on land
and who Knocked the victory of deatf
by coming forth from the tomb.
Mr.. Mills pleaded for practical
working belief in mans unlimited pos
sibility as a conqueror. He held that
no man is ever compelled to sin; that
evil is able to control men only when
they let it; and that the time IS ripe
for mans conquests in the spirit realm
as great as any he has made in the
realm of the senses.