Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-29
SERMON PREACHED BY
 DR. WEST AT EVERETT.
Christ as Factor in Every Day Life
 Was His Eheme.

Many or ene former paIuSlOnerS dnc friends of Dr. Lester l.. West will be interested in reading the following ser mon preached by Dr.. West at the Con- gregational church in Everett. Mass. where he is now located. As publish ed in the Everett Herald it is as fol- lows. the theme being Christ as an Every Day Factor"
 Jesus Christ is the supreme fact, the underlying reality, the most cosmic energy of human society. A lone and become the most universal presence of the twentieth century. Slowly, but steadily and resist1essly, through sixty generations he has entered into the ed in all it's delicate windings and bur rowings-dn all it's vital and vitalizing processes: this entrance of his would be the one marvel of the ages.
 Tn this ts the vital significance of Christianity. In this is its uniqueness and fascination and matchfess majesty. The supreme thing is not what Christ said or did when he was here in the to be in the being of the race-in the whole structure of humanity. in the way of achievement and attainment and civilization. This is the miracle of the world that is being perpetually 'aThe great practical issue of all this | is that He is here for 1ife-for the whole sweep of life and all that it holds. There is no feature of 1t that is foreign to Him. He does not shirk the life of the street, or the strenuous life | of teh toilers, or the stressful life of | the captaiu of industry, or of the kings of commrce.
 tIf there is one thing that he wants more than another it is to get into the hardest grind and widest torrent of l lift. He is here to grappple the sin of | the world, and He wants to be put to the test by the most hopeless problems 1 that have ever arisen"
 No Sacred" No Secular"
 "EIe has had enough of that senseiess | folly of the church which has so long insisted on dividing life into the "sa- cred' and the secular" If this dis I tinction must be maintained, and He cannot be kept in both of them, He wants 1t understood now, as He dic when He was in Jerusalem. that Ht must be counted with the secular. Te Him all our responsibility is vile, whict is too sweet and too stiffly starched tt
 soil itself in touching the unwashed- fife in churches and Bibles and creeds and rituals and ceremonies and sacra. ments. or even in the lives of good meT and women who are not willing to car. " Him with them wherever they go He is here to be poured Into the veini and arteries of men as they toll ans
 suffer. He is here to get Himself int
 life through the hunger and heart aches and despafrs of the most broker fragments of men.
 we have weakened the whole struc lure and sapped the energy of Christi atty by calling it a religion. Ie is sTh Way'-tae way into Hfe-into all lif and to the Fathers house. Christ i not here to regulate rituals any nor
 than he is here to regulate railroads
 He is not here to get himself into tn
 worship of the people. any more thal l He is here to get Himself into the worl
 of the people He is no more inter ested in sacraments than he is in tn lsociaI order of the world He is no here to shape the creeds half so muc' as He is here to shape character. HI is here for the perfection and fulfil ment of all life and not any ane phas of life.
 Christianity is the proces of com pleting and perfecting the race. 1t l 1 the process of so setting men into righ relations with the laws of their bein
 that they shall come into right reIa
 tions with God and so into right rela
 tioins with one another.
 From all this we see how unscape
 able Christ is because ell is so knit in
 to the fibre and stucture of the wholt In this is the hope of the race. In ta1i of seers. The grasp of Christ upo the life of man is as the grasp of gray |, itation upon matter. The hfdings ( l His power in life are tho energies ( the spirit of the whole in which a
 this is created and sustained The au thority of Christ is no more externz
 authority of a law or power from with of things-the authority of the ccnsti ] tution Of creation-the authority of tn highest and best fin our own being an the being of the race.'