Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-17
REV. R. ]. BURDETTE
TALKS ON IDEALS
URGES HIS HEARERS TO SHUN
MONEY MADNESS
Speaks of the Sabbath as Gods Moun-
tain Top, Which VIII Endure
When Present civiliza-
ton Is No More

At the Temple Baptist church yester-
day morning Pastor Robert j. Burdette
preached on Mountain Top ideals"
taking for his text Hebrews S;5, "And
see, saith he, that thou make all things
according to the pattern showed thee
in the mount" He said: ,,s
1.-THE voice of God-not merely speak.
ing to Moses, the law giver, on the
crags of Sinai-but the same voice of
God speaking to you this morning. He
has called you, as he called his servant
of old, Come up into the mountain of
the law, the law of God the law of
life, the law of righteousness
Come up out of the camp-the noise
and the dust and the smoke, the petty
ambitions, the sordid cares, the money
madness, the strivings, the .jealousies,
the shallow pleasures, the brutal sins.
Come UP out of the camp-for city
of granite and steel with the mountains
at it's back and the sea at its feet is only
camp of f1imsy tents that will pass
away in the breath of him to whom a
thousand years are but a swift watch
in the night; to whom the history of
a mighty nation is a tale that is told.
The Things That Endure
"Come up into the things that endure,
to the mountain that lifted it's head to
look down upon the sea millions of
years before men dreamed of the city
and that may look down one day upon
the waste where the city was. Come
up into the mountain top of Gods own
Sabbath, the SABBATH that he made for
you because he loves to get you alone
with himself at least once a week.
Come UP into the mountain top where
the air is pure and dustless, where the
sunlight is the ether gold that the
eagle loves, where the views are long
long-long in every direction-east,
west, north, south, down under foot UP
overhead, back into yesterday, forward
into tomorrow, back through the story
of time, onward into the hope of
eternity, -
Come up into the mountain top
where the soul has room to grow and
to inhale the breath of everlasting life
that God breathes upon 1t, around it,
into it. 1t Is Gods voice calling to you
every Sabbath morning, Come up here
and stand beside me, lay your hand on
my knee like child, look up into NV
face and listen while tell you how to
live and love and worship, while 1 tell
you the order of your ritual, while I
describe to you the priestly robes you
shall wear in the pulpit, before the high
altar, in your home, on the street, in
the market place, everywhere and all
the time. Listen to me as Moses did,
"All the things of your life you shall
make of pure gold. and see that thou
make them after their pattern which
this day will show thee in the noun
tain OF holiness This is the inspira-
ton.
The Creators Message
This is the message which your soul
hears when 1t gets up in the Sabbath
mountain tops alone with God Clear
and sweet, uplifting and ennobling it
comes to every soul as only God can
speak to the earth's multitudes-'every
man hearing in his own language
wherein he was born
I'VE know, every one of us, that
every Lords day morning there comes
this message, repeated for the coming
week. Now, when we go down into
the valley Monday morning, into the
workaday world, where men live and
toll and suffer, where sin and strife
abound, where temptations cross our
ways, where storms of sorrow sweep
across our paths, where fiery trials test
our faith, where clouds of doubt drift
across the sun and blot out the guiding
stars let us remember, and see to it,
that we shape the affairs of our wor-
snip, lIldL we IOliOW lHe perfect ritual
of praise and prayer that we make the
purposes and acts of our daily life after
the pattern which God, the all wise and
all loving and all holy. showed us in
the mountain top Of inspiration.
PLAINLY do we see the pattern here
in this atmosphere of worship; here,
while our souls are responding to the
best and noblest impulses and aspira-
tions; here, where all things are trans
figured before us, where the face of
Jesus shines more radiant than the
MONDAY; here, where we hear the
voices and see the faces of Lawgiver,
Prophet and Savior, here, in the very
gates Of heaven, opening before the
reverent soul-here, we say, and we
mean it, with all the strength of faith
and love and hope, in all sincerity of
purpose do we say, All the words that
Jehovah hath spoken we win do
Let us say it once more this morn
ing. and then remember it all the busy,
noisy, hurrying, restless week-let us
see that we make all things according
to the pattern showed us in the
mount"
THE MAGIC NO. 8