The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-12-12
"G0D REVEALS HIMSELF
rs A PERSONAL GOD
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could not bow down and worship any
thing in Heaven or on earth. Men
who hold to faith in God as the Gre
ator, can never be idolators.
How God Reveals Himself.
God reveals Himself to men as a
personal God" Here the Bishop told
of the personal fellowship of God and
Moses. God is spirit. God made
man spirit like Himself.
God reveals Himself as a Holy
God" continued the Bishop, telling
how He made Mosess lake pr ghis
shoes in His presence. 4 y kssssss
In the New Testament is, the COM
mand BE We holy, for I am holy God
loves the right and will ultimately
crown the right. The day is coming
when God will stop the wrong on the
earth.
God reveals Himself as infinite
compassion, full of tender mercy.
There is atonement in the heart OF
God, and repentance in the heart OF
the sinner. Whatsoever else man
knows about God, he never truly
knows Him until he knows Him as
forgiving God. The finest thing in
the Bible is the Psalms of David and
the finest hymns are those of a for
giving God"
God and the Prophets.
But it may be asked, In what ways
did God make Himself known to
men?' None of the prophets ever
looked through nature up to natures
God. They were men to whom God
had spoken personally. Having first
known God, then they say God in ma
ture Nature is dark enough for any
many until he knows God. They saw
God in their history and were never
tired of telling it. Blessed is the ma
ton that can see God in history"
God in Our History.
Here the Bishop said impressively,
God is in our history also. God
never left this world; there is no such
thing as sacred or profane history
unless you make it profane. A man
may see God in history, in nature,
may believe in this Book, but that is
not knowing God The heather re-
ligions bear testimony to mans need
of God. Fundamental assumption OF
agnosticism Is false"
Dangers of the Church.
Later, Bishop Mouzon declared
some have valued too high emotion
al experiences and listened to inner
voices until mems souls have been
drowned in perdition. The danger
doesn't lie there today.
"The dangers of the church today
are "a classically cold religiosity.' We
need to kindle the fires of religion of
our fathers!"
In telling of the Jewish priest and
his faithful few who knew their God,
and who had fed to the mountains
from the Syrian Kings wrath, heaped
on them for protecting the temple, the
speaker said the success of this small
band in wrestling their people from
heather power demonstrated to mel
that the people who knew their Goo
did exploits. In fact, all the early
history of christianity is an example
of this text.
Faith of the Fathers.
eye shall receive power after thu
Holy Ghost has come upon them
This is the victory that overcometl
the world-our faith The holy spiri
is just as real, as mighty and as nea
as in apostolic days, and if we haven
the power of the fathers, it is becaus
we haven't the faith of the fathers
1t was not learning, culture or theolog
that made Martin Luther great. H
knew God personality The barrier
that Roman Catholicism had built III
had fallen down.
Birth of Methodism.
"The birth hour of Methodism," tn
Bishop pointed out" was not at o.
ford, it was at prayer meeting
Aldersgate street, where John Wesle
felt his heart strangely warned TIL
veil between the seen and the unsee
was rent asunder; mortal man hs
seen immortal God.
Preach About God.
"Be done preaching about trifie
but preach about a knowledge of G.
and the forgiveness of sins; that
the kind of preaching to meet at Il
Judgment bar! We live in time
pportunity-meanwhil men worsh