The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-20
THE WORLDS HOPE
AS SERMON THEME
Address at Emmanuel Baptist
Church Delivered by Louis
S. BOWerman.
CHRIST FULFILLED WANT
CHILD OF GALILEE FURNISHES
GREAT SOLUTION.

The cantata by P. A. Schuecker entitled
The Hope of the World" was given by
the chorus of the Emmanuel Baptist
church. The pastor, DR.. Louis S. Bow
erman also used the theme for his even
ing sermon, selecting for his text Luke
ii-32: "A light tor revelation to the Cen
tiles and the glory Of thy people Israel"
He said in parts
The remarkable feature in the char
acter of Simeon was in the firmness of
his hope. The golden age to him was
coming; it had not yet passed. This child
upon which he was now gazing embodied
his hope for the world.
The aged saint waiting for the con-
ISOLATION of Israel realized that his own
day was ne4r its ending; but in the
child he saw the fulnllment of his hopes
The servant of Jehovah goes back to
the beginnings and tries to trace out
the promises Of God. In the garden the
first message was given: The seed Of
the woman shall crush the serpent's
head Down through the line of Seth
the tragedy of the deluge, the race with
the new trial and the rainbow of hope
given 10 Noah. The centuries pass and
there is the call TO Abram, the promise
renewed TO Isaac and Jacob, Israel in
Egypt, the days of Moses and release
from bondage. Centuries again pass and
under David and Solomon a part Of the
promise to Abraham is fulfilled. The
kingdom reaches from the river to the
sea-
Children of Promise.
1T is not for any of the royal family
10 bless the families of the earth. Israel
fOrgets her purpose in the divine plan.
Dark days and captivity come. 1t Is only
i'm great Dayids greater son that all
families can be blessed and, strange to
the sons of men, God begins the fulfilling
with a babe that lay in Bethlehems rude
manager cradle.
Simeon may depart in peace and be
gathered with the fathers, but the story
of the blessed hope moves on.
How suggestive the change light
for revelation to the Gentiles.' Israel had
failed In touching the world; narrOWness
and eXclusiveness had deprived her OF
The divine promise for a little while. Paul
begins the unfolding of light for the RO
man empire. The Caesars may try to
stifle out the life and Quench the light
of tho early church. The hope changes
the face and form Of the empire. The
barbaric hosts from out Central Asia
may come IN their fury and end the days
of the empire, but the missionary is bear
ing to the tents and camps the story of
the worlds hope.
Dark ages after dark ages may come.
and the false prophet and the hierarchy
seem to kill the hope in the breasts of
men, but the hope eternal springs again.
Luther ZWingli, Huss Wycliffe and the
men who saw anew the vision and caught
the promise went again as with angel
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world
False Prophets Fail.
And so the world runs and grows and
nations come to the sun-rising. The
powers of hierarchy and false prophecy
are breaking ard the peoples IN the
grOsser darkness are seeing the light that
is to tighten every man ard to catch
the hope that is 10 change the face and
form of the whole round world The
hope of the world centers not in philOsO-
ply or the developing Of merely mental
power. The hope is not in great wealth,
riches heaped pile on pile. The hope is
not i'm great armies or navies, with lead
ers skilled in strategy. 1t is not in any
ism, sO-caued, or through party power
in craftsmanship blindly followed.
1T is not i'm unions or in combinations
or even by inventions multiplied. No, the
worlds hope is i'm that child to manhood
grown the Christ OF Galilee.
Jesus. the worlds hope, points to the
fun age and freedom of man-Paradise
i'm the true sense of the word, and not
Eden of the beginning