The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-15
POWERFUL SERMON
BY RIGHT REV. ARTHUR HALL,
 BISHOP OF VERMONT.

Christ Church Crowded to Hear the Fourth of the Berkeley Sermons Eminent Divine Spoke From the Words, "And the Word Was Made Flesh, and Dwelt Among Men."-Post Graduate Student Claimed It to he the Most Powerful sermon He Ever Heard.
 The fourth Berkeley sermon was preached by the Rt. Rev Arthur c. A. Hall, D. D., bishop of Vermont, on Sunday evening at Christ church.
 The church was crowded, and post graduate student said that it was the most powerful sermon that he had ever heard.
 The bishop took his text from John 1:14: And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only be- gotten of the Father) full of grace and truth" and said in part: The Word was made flesh, what is the Word? The Word is thought-an articula- tion of sound-I may write it With a pen-or speak it in the sign language -or nod of my head may express a word. When God spoke to Adam or to Moses, it was not necessary that sound should be heard, though it may have been as clear as if an actual sign was heard. God often speaks fhrn1lpI the conscience
 I am not saying that God has not spoken in a miraculous manner, but l am trying to explain that God some times speaks to ourselves. God speaks to us in many ways--through nature. For instance, "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the Armament show eth His handiwork; day unto day ut tereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge" not only the heavens above, but the earth beneath speaks to us. As in nature, so in his- tory, in the course of events God makes known His mind on natioRs, on peo- ples-for instance, in the past twenty months has not God been showing his disapproval of Russia? What nation sows, that will 1t reap, Righteousness
  to any people. (Proverbs 14;9D.
 According as man is prepared he hears Gods voice sometimes very clearly, sometimes very dimly--as time goes on we should see clearer, the New Testament should be palmer to us than the old, we should learn more from St. Johns gospel than from the book of Leviticus, from St. PauPs epis- ties than from the book of Hosea. We find people who say that God used to speak in Bible times, but of course We should not expect God to speak in mod ern Europe or America, and pray, why not?-and pray, why not? We believe in a God of all eternity God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken to us by His Son. whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds, who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of His power" He has spoken to us by His Son, the Incarnate Word-and to the people of New Haven.
 In religion, God is on the side of free trade-freely give and freely get--there is no monopoly in religion. God chose his own people to be a trust to guard his ordinances in Old Testament times, but when Christ came, monopoly was abolished. "Go ye and teach all na- lions" Establish universal Christian church. q mean, said Bishop Kyle, by the catholic church the entire body of Christians throughout the world).
 The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. and we beheld His Glory full of grace and truth. Jesus Christ ia the Word. He takes our nature, and acts out Gods life, and He said, He that hath seen me hath seen the Fa- ther." He was the Word made flesh.
 trv to teach church and no-church neople in Vermont two short sentences: "What Jesus was, God is and what Iesus was. man ought to be-" in his prayer. in his purity in his courage what was the message He gave? What was the revelation He made? St. John tells us in the beginning of his epis- tie. 'That which we have seen and heard, declare we unto you," that God is light, the llght thaI SlauuenS and cheers, that brings light ant health, in Him is light, life, purity and in Him is no darkness at all
 We are apt to think of God as ar eastern potentate, indifferent to thu woes of His people here below. No No! He came down and took our na ture, shouldered our burdens and H' is not only our Creator, but our Broth CT. Emmanuel God with us, His hear thrills with sympathy for our tempta tions and sorrows, and what Jesu was, man should be, if God was per fectly revealed in Christ, So Chris should be revealed in Christians. l we walk in darkness, we lie and d' not know the truth, but if we focu our eyes on Christ the Light, we wall in the light, and he is faithful an