Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-02
CHURCH A FAILURE
DIR. DAY ASSERTS
LAcKc HIDDEN ENERGY, SAYS
PASTOR
"Most Important Thing for Christians
Today Is Discovery of Way
of Prayer" Preachers
Opinion

| DR.. William Horace Day yesterday
preached on 'The Hidden Energy at
the First Congregational church.
"All about us. ever within U.S. otten
unnoticed yet always present is the MD
den energy. The life in which TINS en-
| ergy is wanting is n failure ana the lile
| in which 1t is at work is successful ne
said.
land they were not able records the
failure of the disciples to heal an epilep-
tic boy. These men who tried and could
not are a type of the ineffective ite.
Nothing is so pathetic as to see man OF
MANY talents unable to make good Not
able to carry them far enough TO reach
the goal Not long ago l was listening
to a public speaker. He has genius with
the pen, but when he attempted to give
his thoughts on the platform ne is IKE
one bound hand and foot IN grave
clothes He cannot set the hidden en-
ergy free.
velous in our eyes Never had she so
many men, so much money, so wise
methods and extended knowledge as To-
day, and yet her work is in a measure
futile. She wants the hidden energy.
OF us Christians today 1t must be record
ed as we suffer defeat, and they were
not able
1--WE read, He rebuked the uncean
spirit--and raisel MIN up. In tue
strength of the hidden energy Jesus had
brought that boy into normal life we,
too, are in al age of miracle-if we mean
by miracle the mystery OF the uheA-
pected and the unexplained.
Finds Life
Some time ago The district nurse al
the College settlement noticed a boy IN
one of the house courts who never played
why don't you play with the others!
she asked. oh, / don't know he said
Later, he came one night to the arts
and crafts class. He sat silently while
the others were learning to use their
hands He came again, but one night
the lad reached for the crayons and be-
gan to try. Like magic, there came a
new light ir his eye and life to his
sleeping brain; at last he had touched
the secret spring of some of the hidden
energy and today he is living in new
world.
"What Is this hidden energy! All sorts
of answers have been given, but Jesus
told his followers very clearly the source
of his power. The Father abiding in me
doeth his works. and then he tells
them that the use of the hidden energy
is not Lne Blll TOT q iSW, pue ~ N'S-y
faithful soul
1.-The will is the key to the way, but
many different incentives have reached
the result sought. The key which un-
locks the ray to the most difficult
tasks. Jesus told his inquiring disciples,
was prayer They asked, How is 1t that
we could not cast it out?' He replied.
This kind can come out by nothing save
by prayer
Turn with me to a page in the records
Of modern science and we hear DR..
Theodore Hhsop, the great English in
sanity expert, say to the British Medical
association: TO counteract the miserable
sequels of the distressed mind l would
give the first place to the simple habit
of prayer. Relatively few of us scientific
men can pray. / fancy, yet many of us
are we'll aware how much freer and abler
our lives woult. be were not such inipor-
tant forms of energizing sealed up for
US The Carpenter of Galilee and the
doctor of sritain. though 1900 years
apart agree tina. prayer is the way TO
the hidden energy. The most important
thing for Christians today is the discov
cry of the way of prayer"
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