Cañon City record., 1907-10-03

his address by a tender and pathetic
reference to his own mother now of
sainted memory, who had remained
queen in the home for so many years
and who upon her departure said that
family to meet her in heaven. She
said that though she had left the home
the memory of her would ever be
fresh and she would still reign as
queen there. -t
When the invitation was extended
one lady came forward to be received
by statement into the church. The
impression made was deep and abid-
ing and will tell in the services to
come.
In spite of the muddy streets and
the rather cool atmosphere of Monday
night, a good audience assembled at
the Christian church to hear DR..
Breeder on the Life Abundant" and
to take an active part in service that
proved to be productive of much good.
DR.. Breeder was in fine form and
proved that he was entitled to the
fame that he has achieved as a preach
er and evangelist.
He took for his text the words found
in the tenth chapter and tenth verse
of the gospel according to st. John:
Il have come that ye might have life
and have it more abundantly." The
doctor said in part as follows:
What is that strange, mysterious
and elusive thing called life? No
philosopher has ever defined it; no
historian has ever recorded its full
and complete history; no scientist has
ever found the language by which 1t
can he classified. Is its source in
nature or in God? Is there life of
nature and life of God, or have the
two principles or two forces no sep
arate and independent existences?
Il say that all real life-the only
kind of life worth living-comes from
God, and l think the apostle Paul was
right when he said: In Him we live
and move and have our being. All
life is from the source Of all life, and
the source of all life is nowhere to
be found except in the bosom OF in
fnity. George Mcdonald says:
Where did you come from, baby
dear?"
And the child answers:
"Out of the everywhere into the
here"
After giving the beautiful poem in
full, the doctor proceeded:
"Is 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 certain kind,
but it will be unsatisfactory, incom-
plete and unproductive Of 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.
THE source of all true life Is to
be found in the Son of God. This fact
is well stated in the words "As the
Father hath life in Himself. SO hath
he given the Son to have life in Him
self" And again Except ye drink
his blood and eat his flesh ye 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.
Herbert Spencer. one OF the great
est thinkers OF the past century, tells
US that life is the harmonious rela-
tons of internal relations with exter-
nal relations Rather obscure, but
little later he proceeds to elucidate
the matter further by saying that 1t
Is the Correspondence OF an organism
to its environments What the scien-
tist calls correspondence the theo-
logian calls communion And there
can be no life without the souls cor
respondence or communion with God.
The oyster. the tree or the insect has
a limited environment, but man, the
crowning work OF creation, has God
and with him all things that are good
for his environment. So his life may
he an abundant life"