The San Francisco call., 1910-08-29
PREACHER PLEADS
FOR HIGH IDEALS
President of OberIin College
Says That Character Is
Only Vital Thing for Man

OAKLAND, Aug 2S.-Henry Church.
III King president of Oberlin college
and one of the leading pulpit orator!
OF the day, was the speaker at thi:
| mornings services of the First Con.
gregatlonal church. He was introduced
by Rev. Charles r. Brown. pastor Of
the church, who spoke of his recent
tour OF the world and declared thai
| PRESIDENT Kings writings had won hin
recognition as one of the leaders ir
modern religious thought
In taking for his subject the theme
racing the Facts of Life the speak
er declared that after the real facts
of life had been summed up in thei,
true meaning and Importance it would
be found that the only thing of vita,
moment to man was character. He said
in part:
Character does not spring up
out OF the ground. 1t roots itself
IN certain great convictions, hopes,
Ideals and decisions, growing out
or principles that must be settled
every man for himself The facts
OF life are individual questions and
must be individually settled. They
can not be made to order for us
AS the moral and spiritual in life
IS real only to the degree in which
we iws+ make make 1T real. so is character
GREAT PRINCIPLES REMAIN
There has been no greater revo-
luton in the history of the earth
than that which separates this gen
GRAFTON from the first. The changes
are almost incomprehenSible from
every andpoint--eXcept one. The
great fundamental principles and
truths that always were and al
ways viii be q part of the uni
verse have not changed
There is a great deal of unbeJief
Ioqay, but the essence of this un-
belief is not SO much denial of
the truth as it is a failure to treat
truth as true. In the degree that
we love truth more and victory
less we shall be inspired to find out
what 1t is that leads the other man
TO believe or think as he does, and
IN the, end we shall always find
that those same great common
at the root out of which spring
convictions. hopes, ideals and de-
cisions that make characters in
harmony with eternity.
Should man permit himself to be
influenced by. that within him
which links him with the dog he
could not at the same time link
gressive movement. For a double
nature is one of the things that
defeats progress. Let us live on
will is always deepening and ex-
panding. Our obligation to man
will then deepen in proportion with
our deepened insight, and we shall
realize that we can not fail alone
neither can We triumph alone
For one life is inevitably inter-
woven with every other life it
touches.
INFLUENCE ON OTHER MEN
If this be true, we can not
choose whether we shall influence
our fellow man or not. We are
bound to do so. But We can choose
hat ri s-f a..
be- 1t always will be in accord
ance with our convictions, hopes
ideals and decisions We can not
MAKE make a truth grip, another man
selves, and if we are to help our
Fellow man in the great upward
and onward movement the great
direct it at ourselves.
AS sure as there is nationality in
me universe, so sure will the. life
and each one of us will give an
account to God. We must five our
future lives out with ourselves and
our memories to catch the secret
of it all. Every man sees once
that ideal or vision of man he
would be-. and we have greatly to
rejoice that one has appeared
among us to point the way.
LECTURES IN BERKELEY
Doctor King will deliver his first
address in the E. T. Earl foundation
tomorrow evening" at the First Con
gregational church in Berkeley. The
lectures, of which there will be six
are to be given under the auspices OF
the Pacific theological seminary.
The general subject of the lectures
has been announced by Doctor Kink
as The Moral and Religious Challenge
of Our Time" The specific topics will
be given as follows:
August 2S-"The Meaning of the Guidinr
Principle-Reyerence for Personality"
August 29-'The Challenge Of the External
Conditions of Our Time
September 2-"The Challenge of the Inner
World of Thought"
September 6-'.Light From the Histories,
Trend of Western Civilization
September THE Challenge in Our Nationa
Life-a No Puritanism'
September s''The Program of Western CiviIi.
zation in Its Spread Over the world-the Guidinc
Principle in International Life"
The lectures will all be given in the
First Congregational church. corner
of Durant and Dana, and will begin AT
S o'clock.
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