The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-02
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MEETING
Greater Crowds Going
to Central Union
Services.

It was a wise preeaution to announce
that Dr. Bosworth's second lecture
would be given in the main auditor.
ium of Central Union yesterday after.
noon for the large number who attend,
ed never could have found accommo-
dations in the lecture room. The
speakers method was the same, quiet
forceful manner of the day before and
its power lay in the personality behind
it. Dean Bosworth gives the impress
sion of great reserve force which car
ries his message to the consciousness
effect that mere oratory can never DO
One thinks over what he has heard
afterwards and takes away with him
the clear. compelling thought that has
| moved him.
The subject of the second lecture was
How did Jesus teach men that they
must proceed in order to find God.
The chief points were as follows:
THE greatest fact in the history OF
Christ. The fundamental ambition OF
Jesus Christ was to share with men
his personal religious experience of the
Father. He wished to share his deep
peace. his profound joy, his mission
and his works with men. 1t seems as
though Jesus came to the laboratory OF
his own personal experience and urged
upon men to seek and find as he did.
How to proceed in thus experimenting
to find God in ones laboratory jesus
taught with clearness.
First Jesus expected men to find
the Father in experience with Himself
as His disciples. He said No man
cometh to the Father except through
me-. There is no arbitrary spirit In
this word. It Is as though Swiss
guide should happen upon a lost trav-
eler in the Alps and say I will lead
YOU
Jesus also urged men to believe in
God. What is the content of this ex-
preston believe? Jesus means by IL
that a man shall take as his working
theory a sufficient evidence that Coo
is Heavenly Father present with him
and shall act on this theory. That
is what every scientist does in his lab,
oratory work. He takes d theory on
sufficient evidence and puts 1t to the
test by experiment until he builds up
an experience of its validity. To be,
lieve in God as Father is to act like
a son and thus put the theory of His
fatherhood to the test of experiment
again. Jesus taught men to act as
if there We're a Heavenly Father by
beginning to pray. Edison says to the
student who has as his working ny.
pothesis the theory of electric force,
Go into the laboratory and try this
experiment. Jesus did the same with
regard to the theory of the Father:
Enter into thine inner chamber. shut
thy door, and pray Prayer is no
form of words but reaching out OF
a mans spirit to the great spirit of the
Heavenly Father.
Jesus always insisted that If a man
believes in God he must obey. For a
man to act as & Son, to put the theory
Of Fatherhood to the test of experiment
means to do what he thinks his Father
wishes him to do
..Then Jesus taught that his discf-
pies must agree with his Heavenly
Father in His feeling about His other
children We must join In His
search for His lost children, those who
are getting farther from home, family
and persons to whom they rightly be-
long. The law of the spiritual world
is that he who will not share with
some other man will lose what he has
What are some of the results or
finding God? How shall i know THAI
I am finding God? First, I shall have
4 new satisfaction To some this VIII
come as a sudden illumination; 10
others it will be the slow growth or
years. In a laboratory some students
ind quickly, others must experiment
,or wears with ever increasing large
ness of results.
second. there will be graduaf
transformation of character The ex-
will slowly be becoming
ike the person with whom he assumes
,e has daily intercourse. This change
viii manifest itself in various ways
Ie win become increasingly sfncerc.
sympathetic with men, A
reat and deepening peace will enter
lis life. He will be so mindful of God
hat he viii grow less irritable, will
eel less itch for notice, for the Click
4 the camera or the scratch Oh the
ZEN. but he will become more satisfied
q his work for God. The Worry WIN
,ass out of his life. He viii feel new
enthusiasm for achievement with Goo.
With Jesus he will say, My Father
-orketh hitherto and / work.
DR.. Bosworth will preach tomorrow
aorning and evening IN Central Union
hurch. The morning subject viii be:
Is a man Intellectually justified In
The subject of the evening
ervice will be announced at mornins
rorship. Tomorrow afternoon he Win :
peak at the Y. NJ G. A. at o'clock. ,
he last two lectures viii be delivered
n Monday and Tuesday at 4:3o in Gen.
raj Union church. u