The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-23
AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM
DISCOURSE YESTERDAY BY RET,
 THEODORE 4. FISCHER.
At the Church of the Messiah-Ths Earth and Its Changes and oatastrO- phes-GOd's Kingdom.

Earth and Its Changes and CatastrO- phes--God's Kingdom.
 An Everlasting Kingdom" was the theme of the Rev. Theodore A. F'isch- CTS discourse in the Church of the Mes siah yesterday morning The text was from Daniel, seventh chapter and four teenth verse: His dominion is an ever lasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed" The speaker said, in substance:
 "The archaeologist and historian re- veal the history of civilization Within two decades many things have been made plain. To-day we know of the buried cities of long ago-cities which fiourished and gave evidence of power and permanency. The world is very old, and some scientists state that 1t has for a million years revolved in space. And while the little atoms of which the world is made are indestruct- ible, the world itself is constantly changing. Kingdoms rise and fall; mighty empires have grown and ex- tended until it seemed as if nothing could destroy them, and yet to-day they are only a memory.
 Look at Egypt's great civilization that mighty nation skilled in the arts and sciences-and reflect that at the height of her prosperity the Greeks were nomadic. Now her gigantic ruins stand as monuments of her former glory and fill us with wonder and awe. And So, too, have other mighty nations risen and decayed. The glories of Baby lonia and Syria and Persia and MaceA donia-where are they? When the cen ter of antiquity, imperial Rome, was most exalted and supreme, a child was born in Bethlehem. The great world took no note of the event, and seemed to go on as it did before. But it did not. A power was brought into human life which was destined to flourish and grow, subduing all things and never ceasng until all empires founded on force and fear shall be obliterated, and Christ's kingdom, founded on love, shall cover the earth as the waters cover the | sea,
 We are not apt to realize the insta- bility of materia things As we gaze l at the everlasting hills and view boul- ! ders and mountains there is feeling l that as they stand year after year pre- cisely as they have stood for ages they I will continue to be object lessons and remain firm and lnmoved. But the earthquake and the sea have changed the aspect of nature, and to-day we stand appalled, at that great disaster, which has touched the hearts and awakened the syinpathies of the ciwil- \ ized world. And as we think of the dig- tress and suffering caused by the earthquake our hearts go out in ten- derness and love to the stricken ones and we are all eager to do what wetcan to assist in this time of great need And it is sympathy and love which shah en- dure. Nothing can overthrow Gods spiritual Kingdom Though the entire earth be removed and the mountains cast into the sea, love remaineth. It will withstand the crash of matter and I the wreck of worlds The power of love holds together the spiritual king dom. That which we rear with our hands is ephemeral; it fadeth away, but love, righteousness, peaoe--these abade. Are we members of this kingdom2 Is love the power with us?
 Let us turn from the kingdom of this world and set our affections on that fhich will never fail us-that which endures forver."
 At the closing of the preaching ser- vice the holy communion was adminis- tered