Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-02-26
RECOGNIZE FUTURE OF
NEW RESIDENCE DISTRICT
PLAN CHURCH FOR OCCIDENTAL
HEIGHTS
Rev. L. A. Gould Gives Series OF In
teresting Sermon Lectures OF
China-Extracts From Sundays
Discourse

A few weeks ago new Baptlst
church was organized at Occldental
Heights,-the eastern verge of the
city-on property already in the pos
session of the denomination. =,
Already the wilson of the move is
apparent. The region is rapidly set
Ting up. Only last week 1T was FOUND
necessary to hold an election to author
ize new bonds for the enlargement OIL
school facilities. Residents of the city
now seem to be realizing that the beau
tiful territory just to the east OF the
city limits is fine residential prop
ertv. and close to the business center
of Los Angeles, although not yet de-
veloped.
A. glance at the city map will snow
This. The church, with full services, is
filling a need growing very apparent III
the community. The Sunday school is
we'll attended and. so is the morning
service.
At night the seating capacity Of the
chanel is well nigh taxed. The pastor,
Rev. L. A. Gould, was formerly mis-
sionary and is giving a series of SER
mon lectures on China, the Strategic
Missionary Center of the Orient" a
vigorous Ladies' Aid society is hold
ing weekly meetings, and members OF
other denominations are showing
generous willingness to minister to the
religious welfare of the community
Young Peoples Night is the latest
development of interest. 1t utillzes
Friday night and offers the young peo1
pie literary, missionary and social
program on successive evenings.
Yesterday morning the pastor
preached the second of two discourses
on 1.-THE Will Of God, Fundamental in
4,;,, nf CT "a I1itU - TIa said
in part:
Should Execute Will of God
"When Peter the Hermit was stir
ring the populace of Europe to rescue
the tomb of Christ from the hand or
the Moslem, the enthusiastic multi
tudes exclaimed in eager anticipation,
1T is the will of God Let that be
your battle cry decreed the pope, and
into scores Of conflicts the pilgrims en-
tered, shouting 1T is the will Of Cod
1--WE, Christians of the modern day,
should be actuated by no less ardent
a purpose to discover and execute the
will of God. Our motive should be that
which dominated the career of the
MASTER L came down from heaven
not to do mine own will, but the Will
of him who sent me-. (John 6:3S).
: 1.-THE will of God is fundamental in
the doctrine of creation. 1t was emin-
emily proper for the orators of the day,
at the close of the nineteenth century,
to dwell proudly on the marvellous
achievements Of that brilliant hundred
years. The scientific achievements were
no less noteworthy than the material
achievements. 1t seemed to be vouch-
safed our fathers to peer into the
secrets of the world of nature and to
coordinate their discoveries in laws
and sciences.
''The fundamental characteristic of
every science is order and uniformity.
This uniformity is universal. The
whole created world appeared to be
under the control Of sequence, and the
duke of Argyll is constrained to en-
title his momentouS book 1.-THE Reign
of Law Matter itself is invested with
inherent properties and force seems to
be eternal.
1.-The logical outcome of this ma
terialism' apparently excludes God
from his universe and renders the SUI
pernatural unthinkable. This universe,
forsooth, resembles a clock once wound
up, a clock now gradually running
down. Possibly it is like the time
lock in a bank safe. He who con-
structed it cannot touch it, and IL
the mechanism should become disar-
ranged, the manufacturer is helpless
/, Symphony Repeats Itself .
'fIIow contrary the spirit of this ex-
treme speculation to the plain intima-
ton of the word of God! At the very
outset is the declaration, In the be-.
ginning God created the heavens and
the earth And this Opening SEN
fence. as the musicians would say, is
simply the theme of the symphony that
repeats itself again and again in psalm
and prophecy and gospel and epistle,
clear to the finale, where the most ex-
plicit declaration hymns itself forth.
tWorthy art Thou our Lord and our
God, because Thou didst create all
things and because of Thy will they
We're and were created
X s'Thus the creation, becomes an eX-
preston of the will of God. Every dis
ciple becomes Christian pantheist.
The immanence of God in his universe,
CLEANS as doctrine incandescent.
star dust and microcosm, most brilliant
planet and dullest amoeb scintillate
with the intellect of God.
Nor is there any contradiction here.
Second causes are simply minor mani
festations of the great first cause. That
most eminent scientist, Prof. Louis
Agassiz, said that fauna and flora,
fossil and fish, glacier and amazon, all
talked to him OF the Heavenly Father.
He reveled in the divine voices which
revealed to him the Divine musician.
strScores Of scientists, who are also
deVout Christians. hold substantially
the same view Indeed there Is reason
to believe that the pendulum OF scien-
ttfic thought which swung so far
toward materialism. is now swinging
back toward idealism, or, at least to
the norm, to the rational balance be-
tween the two, which holds that both
univorses Ohe universe of matter and
the universe OF mind may be adored
in harmony as expressions of the Will
OF the same infinite and perfect intel
leet. Science has become reyerent, II
may become deVout."