Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-10
LIFE IS REVEALED
IN PSYCHOLOGY OF
THE SUBCONSCIOUS
New Moderator of CongregationaIst
Conference Declares the Highest
Achievements of Science Are
FuIfiIments of Religion

"The creative and recreative forces of
life are found in the subconscious," said
Rev. William Horace Day, newly elected
moderator of the Congregationalist con-
ference, in his sermon at the First Con-
gregational church yesterday morn
ing. He SAID in part:
Everything that survives, lives in
virtue of it's correspondence with the
enVironing universal life, and that uni
Yersal life is the infinite and personal
God. The more a man conforms to the
law of that universal life the more
alive he is. The first generation of
modern evolutionists were too busy
with the bubble that the creation story
was meaningless, because it took more
than six times twenty-four hours.
"They missed the heart of the first
of Genesis and left God out. Later and
wiser men corrected their mistakes,
telling us evolution is not merely the
unfolding from within, it is the I'M
folding from without
"Man is not a self-sufficient mi
crocosm, but lives in proportion as he
receives from God. One great eVolu-
ZIONIST went so far as to tell the people
of Boston evolution, at the top, is
Christianity. The third generation of
scientists are busy with the more GER
tain assurance that we are created in
Gods image, disclosed in the psycholo-
gy in which the functions of the sub
conscious are analysed. Here the crea-
tive and recreative forces of life are
found; here God dwells in us in power.
AS Paul tells us, that which is known
of God is manifested in man.
Must Use Our Faith
I'VE are children of God by creation
and yet we must become the children
of God by our own faith. We find God
in the subconscious. but the effects of
his power depend on what each puts in
himself. Every noble faithful thought
or deed helps to free the spirit within
for his blessed service of making us
live like angels of light. If we think
thoughts or do deeds of anger, pride,
vanity, lust or insincerity, we block
the power of universal life and become
angels of darkness. Ezekiel knew moth
ing of the new psychology, but he
preached the soul that sinneth-that
misses living in God-it shall die AS
always in the Bible he went on to say,
If the wicked turn from his sins
from missing the mark in Gods life
and do right he shall surely live and
not die
Even if you are too familiar with
st. Paul's words on Mars Hill to pay
attention, will you not listen to the
great preachers of modern science when
they tell us we do not live till we live
in conformity to the law of universal
life?
"Life is, as Mr.. Spencer said, CON
tinuous adjustment With any ma
chine after it is invented and manu-
featured. the task of adjustment is the
one on which success depends. The
mission of the church is that of adjust
ment between the finite soul and the
infinite soul
"The physician is called to discover
10, Of in the hOnW and the
teacher to teach the law of God in the
mind, while the clergyman must in
struct men in the laws of God in the
soul
80 with every other good calling in,
human life, it must at some point con-
tribute to mans knowledge of the laws
of God, Many men will hear, but few
will do. The bridging of the gulf be-
tween knowing the laws of universal
life and willing to obey them is deep
and wide Many good men have helped
humanity find the divine law, and
many have helped their fellows obey
that law, but there has been but one
complete life among men, and he alone
has been able to lead men of every
kind. He alone is equal to this task
when all others have failed.
paul had tried the righteousness OF
the law and a way of gaining COM
plete adjustment, and 1t sometimes
failed, and then he was persuaded TO
trust in Christ and it was done. His
heart sang like the morning stars for
ioy and he who knew that all men
manifested God saw in his Lord full
disclosure of the universal life, as he
wrote, For in him dwelleth the fullness
of the Godhead bodily
"There is nothing we want so much
as life. We want the fullness of life,
which belongs to him who is blameless
before God. Whoever is identified with
Christ shall live by Christ. Do you
wonder that men have adored him who
is able to keep you from falling and
to present you, not faultless as the old
version had it, but without blemish or
blame?'
I'VE are not made faultless at once.
ages of growth, perhaps we may be
fauitless. DR.. Morgan once told us of
the letter he had just received from his