The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-13
CHOIR ADDS TO Big ATTRACTION
RIVAL At THE CENTRAL
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

! vivals at the Central Christian Church.
In addition to the wonderful eloquence
of Dr. H. o. Breeder the great choir
under the leadership of Prof. w. A.
Schaeffer is contributing greatly to
the success of this series Of meetings.
A feature of the meeting last night
was the response to the appeal of DR..
Breeder. to be allowed to pray for a
| friend or relative of those present.
One little boy asked prayers for his
brother; a mother for nine children
and her husband, while another mother
asked prayers for the salvation of her
| three sons.
Life, myriad sided life" was the
topic talked upon by DR.. Breedon last
night. He said in part:
What is that strange mysterious
and elusive thing called life? No phil
osopher has ever defined it; no histor-
| ian has ever recorded it's full and COM
plete history; no scientist has ever
found the language by which it can
be classified. Is it's source in nature
| or in God? Is there life of nature
| and a life of God, or have the two
principles or two forces no separte
and independent eXistences?
81 say that all real life-the only
kind of life worth living-comes from
| God, and I think the apostle Paul was
| right when he said: In Him we live
and move and have our being Ali life
is from the source of all life and the
source of all life is nowhere to be
found except in the bosom of infiinity.
George Macdonald says:
Where did you come from, baby dear?
and the child answers
Out of the everywhere in the here. ."
After giving the beautiful poem in
| full the doctor proceeded:
rs life and existence the same? Are
they synonymous? By no means. Is
life and character the same. Are they
synonymous? BY no means. We may
have existence without life. 1t may
be an existence of a certain kind, but
it will be unsatisfactory, incomplete
and unprOductive of any good. All life
must have it's source and that source
must be life itself, for even Huxley
and Tyndall admit that life must come
from antecedent life and that in no
other manner can life be accounted for.
Trees come from seeds with the
vivfying and terminating principles;
animals come from parents, and man
from man, and thus it is true that
there can be no life without source
of life, and no source of life that is
not infinite and supreme if it is to be
eternal, and hence again there is no
life and there can be no life without
antecedent life. John: 5:26: AS the
Father hath life in Himself so hath
he given the Son to have life in Him
self; hence the source of all true life
is to be found in the Son of God the
Saviour of the world, the Redeemer
of erring humanity. This fact is we'll
stated in the words. Except We drink
His blood and eat his flesh We have
not life Christ said you think you
are alive but you are not. You think
you see but you deceive yourselves;
you think you hear but you are deaf.
Mary MagdaIene Saved.
when Mary Magdalene came to the
house of Simon, she spread upon the
feet of the Saviour the box of most
precious ointment and wiped them with
the hair of her head, she incurred
the resentment of the observers but
her action caused the Saviour to i'm
part to. her his divine life and he caus-
ed her to live Her horizon was enlars.
ed She was dead but he gave her life.
Before contact with the Saviour her
communion had been only with evil.
but now instead of an existence out
of harmony with every good environ
uIcul, she udu iAIc uSIlNcu ulTcCtIy
from it's source and hencefOrth her
soul communed with God The wages
of sin is DEATH" but the gift of God
is eternal life. 1t is only through
Christ that the great mystery of life
can be understood. No money will pur-
chase peace, no worldly advantages
will give you the joy which can come
only after harmonious relations have
been established between yourself and
God. He that hath the Son hath
life
The subject for tonight will be:
Seek First-What?"