The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-01
WEEKLY SERMON.
REV. LEE s. MCcoILEsTER-CHURoH OF OUR FATHER
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things known. Civilization has de-
veloped by correcting the mistakes and
building on to the true OF the past.
Each age has sailed into the new by
course has been safe and satisfactory.
Men live more by the laws OF God,
written In their constitution, than by
the temporary articles set up by any
system. True politics is measured by
the progress OF nations in justice and
equality; the true religion Is measured
vice and love. The worlds faith Is not
determined by the occasional indiffer-
ence OF men to customs and rituals, but
by their interest In truth, knowledge.
faith are practiced instlnctively by
men, and often in diametric opposition
TO the dictates OF theological creeds.
Tho lives OF men are perpetual affrma-
tons or the realities of essential
righteousness.
Nineteen hundred years ago on Mars
bill Paul said TO the Athenians: The
God that you ignOrantly worship / de-
clare unto you" Prophets In every age
have said this. 1t was the word of Au-
gustine, OF Savanarola, OF Luther, OF
calvin and all the way down 10 Chan
ring. Bailou and Brooks: This age re-
peats the word. The only change IL to
palmer statement growing out or
better knowledge. The message OF the
prophets has grown simpler, stronger,
more Ineligible. The prophet OF the
unknown says today, Let us direct our
course into the future upon the bear
ings given us from the route over
which we have sailed Out beyond US
is the course, always we shall be trying
the unknown. Thus far humanity has
moved onward; from the things learned
let Us shape our course forward
shaping the COurse-ThinEr We Know.
Naturally every man asks. But what
lawyer asked Jesus, who is my neigh
borr And as Jesus showed that the
Eeighbor was one nearby, who needed
our help, 30 our course In this life and
for the life to come is TO be shaped from
things which often are SO simple that
we do not appreciate their true rela-
ton to the eternal things OF life. To-
day l wish to urge on your attention
some OF the things known from which
we do now and shall forever shape
our course safely onward.
10 One OF the things we know Is
that good and evil unite in the lives
of us all Zach man dreams OF victory.
Each man weeps over mistakes. Each
man means TO do better than he does.
knows he ought TO give to others the
mercy he asks. Each man spends some
days down I'm the valley OF despair;
all ambition and hope gone. he feels
Each man climbs up TO the sun crowned
SUBMITS once In while, where life Is
worth livins. and thore is not a man
meant when nee Ss saI h1 sa% 0% wna ses n
-
two selves. The good i would do not,
and the evil would not that do, and
l do not know myself"
Cd We are sure of another thing,
and that IL that in the real battles good
Is stronger than evil. There are times
when we DO not see II. When one Is
stunned by sudden sorrow he can see
nothing happy In the morrow. Down I'm
the slums OF our great cities II Is easy
to doubt IL God Is and II Is natural TO
ask: " God Is Love, Why is there 90
true religion. why is there 30 much mis-
cry after nineteen hundred years OF
Christian teaching? But life does not
continue always In the slums and the
that time heals wounds, and health
brings strength, and even the poorest
may climb out OF his poverty. It Is not
human nature always, to weep. Dis.
ease In not our normal condition. Bad
men are not In the majority. Fathers
are not usually cruel Mothers have
not the h bit Of deserting their chill
monster who makes torches of the iiy-
iLg, even though he be an emperor,
Nero. The prophet OF the new day pro-
claims new vision. He 10 teaching
which makes the world unafraid. and
everywhere souls have caught the
quiet courage OF the Concord sage. who
said. 'oh. friend, never strike sail TO
the seas with God"
Doing Ones Best Brings Happiness.
(3.) We know another thlng-that
doing the best we know brings US our
higher happiness. We must "each
paint the thing as we see II for the
God OF things as they are" Men do
not see things alike, and with the best
OF intentions they do opposite things
One eats meat and the other eats
herbs, one keeps Saturday and the other
keeps Sunday, one wears a crucihx and
another reads his Emerson. Each IL
happy. not In opposing his brother but
In keeping faith with himself Under
an equally high ideal OF honor, men
have marched against each other.
died happy IN the consciousness that he
had been true TO life as he understood
Il. Men IN blue and gray were both
brave: each did his duty as he saw IL.
90 We also know that the men
who take the path Of duty or Of service
never turn back 10 In an inspiration
20 know the triumphant gladness OF tho
men who have struggled through the
worst. These hold the masses up to
their duty. IL In natural for us all. as
we stand et the foot OF the mountain.
to wonder II the hard climb will be
worth while. The timid will doubt and
wish to tern back. II IL the insurance
iof the oee who has gone over the path
most. that the climb pays, which gives
courage to the weak The world gets
it, Inspiration from men who have done
things u In impossible TO estimate the
inspiring value OF a Moses, a Socrates.
a Lincoln. The greatest thing In Lin
coins life was not tho writing OF the
emancipation proclamation, nor the