Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-07
FAITH DlSCLOSES
WONDERS OF LIFE
RELIGION OPENS HIGH LEVELS
TO HUMAN CAPACITY
Great Poets and Men of Scientific
Genius Rank with the Prophets
Declares Rev. William
Horace Day

1.-THE liberation of clogged powers
and discovery of new levels of ca
pacity always follow to those VINO
find the meaning of the coming % y,
him who was called God with u.s.
said Rev. William Horace Day, pas
tor of the First Congregations Gnu rO. ci'
in his sermon yesterday on Ine Iiao -
tice of the Presence of God" Cohtlhu-
ing, he said:
9Patient. persistent practice of the
presence of God will work wonders IN
human life. -,
"'Know We not that ye are the tenn
pie of God and that the Spirit of Goa
dwelleth In you? In these words ST
Paul summarizes the fact that we are
created to become shrines and that ne
fulflls it's purpose only as he dWells
in MS and works through us. The ex-
perience of exalted souls in all ages
has persistently affirmed this truth.
Isaiah told of one who should be porn
who should be Immanuel-God with
us. Matthew, trying to interpret the
significance of his Masters Words'
wrote: And they shall call his name
Immanuel-God with us. John, record
ing the most important sayings of Je-
sus which were fixed in his memory
wrote: If any man love me- We
will come unto him and abide with
him. And Paul but records his con-
viction in the text, The Spirit OF Goa
dwelleth in YOU The foundation of all
progress in life is based upon the un-
derstanding of this truth.
Science and Faith
what has been called the outstand-
ing controversy between orthodox sci
ence and orthodox faith has centered
here, is the world controlled by a
Person accessible to prayer, influenced
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intervene, to guide and wistfully 10
lead without compulsion spirits in
some sort akin to himself?'
"That conflict is symbolized by the
dying skeptic who, in his poor gar
ret, wrote on the broken plaster by his
bed, God is nowhere by which he
meant God is nowhere, but which his
little daughter read as God is now
here He would stand for the older
science and his child for the newer
generation of thinkers.
"In the discovery of the as yet un-
charted ocean we call the subcon-
science, many psychologists are ask
ing, rs not this the presence cham
ber of the Unknown whom unscientific
faith has always worshiped and which
we have not SEEM Instead of Mr..
Tyndal's famous saying that no prayer
for rain could succeed any more than
Rhone and make it run over the Grim
sci, we hear a distinguished country
man of his saying. Even in medicine,
for instance, it is not really absurd to
suggest that drugs and no prayer may
be almost as foolish as prayer and no
drugs
Men of Science Are Prophets
"The assertion of our fellowship with
God is on many lips, and not only do
our poets prophesy, saying: Speak to
him, for spirit with spirit can meet
but our men of science are also among
the prophets. The pages of Sir Oliver
Lodges Science and Immortality
would seem strange reading to men of
the earlier generation.
1.-The test of the reality and power of
the indwelling Spirit of God is, after
all, to meet its final test in the at
tempt to act as though men did know
it. In the fortieth of Isaiah we read
that they that wait upon Jehovah shall
renew their strength. They shall
mount up with wings as eagles, they
shall run and not be weary, and they
shall walk and not faint The ability
to fly, to gain the instant of genius,
the finest moment in a life we yearn
for and miss. The power to run, to
work freely at high speed, the hour
when we do our most active work and
the strength to meet more monotonous
days of heavy burden where mere en-
durance counts, all of these are prom
iSed to such as wait upon Jehovah +"