The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-16
MAN IN TROUBLE
 SEEKS HIS LORD Rev. Tyler Breaches on Sub-
 ject My Task" :
HOW TO KNOW WORK
Man Must Have Personal Interview With the Planner Before He Can Know What Gods Plans
 For Him Are

At Che East Lake Methodist church yesterday morning the pastor. the Rev. R. F. Tyler preached on Paul, under the theme of My Task using as a text Acts 9:6. Lord. what wilt Thou have me to do?9 He said in part:
 "Whether using this scripture in it's strictly eXegetical sense or as a motto. or both today, in a world where there is so much to accomplish 1t is well for each Individual. whether saint or sinner to ask as did Paul of Tarsus. Lord, what is Your plan with me?'
 "The first essential in seeking to know the plan the divine mind has in view for you Is to have a personal interview with tho planner. A man whose mind reaches and runs in no higher level than the materialistic will not likely discover the pattern in tho mount
 Until a man meets God the tasks of his life may seem unnatural and in the end be unsatisfactory. Visions rule the world and are therefore im- portant in human lives, but going to the top of the mountain with John and James and meeting Moses and Elijah and seeing a cloud and hearing a voice should not so exhilarate one as to make him desire no task but remain under the spell forever.
 Make Life Easier
 "ro find our tasks easier and make life run more smoothly one needs to bring these rich heavenly experiences down among their fellows into tho common drudgery and necessary relas~ 1 of bon q a h we will find burning bush in sight of our herds that will talk to us as we approach It. It will speak of moro humble things still. And as we stand shoeless In the presence of our heav- enly friend we will receive our com mission
 "There are three special things about our tasks and getting down to them that we will impress just here. CD It seems to be necessary to havo a. nat ural downfall before we can have a great spiritual upheaval. Not Gods plan but Just the way the world rocks. God himself couldn't do anything with Pau1's high ideals riding along the road. 1t was necessary to knock him down into the dirt and strike him blind to get him to say, Lord what will. etc. Zaccheus had to come down out of the sycamore tree before Christ could go home with him for dinner I knew man who was never sick--fine physique, who glored in his health but he did not look up from where these came; cared nothing for the church. After six weeks tussle with typhoid fever. when the glow of health was no longer seen in his face. the spark of delight in the eye and strength in muscle, he lifted his bony hand and said, Lord. what, etc. l knew fel- low who had plenty of money and who was 6 great sinner; he cared nothing for the poor toilers about him; he lost all his wealth and later looked up out of his misery and squallor to the everlasting hills and said for the first time, Lord, what"
 Submit to God
 "Another teaching of this text and requisite in finding d task that will keep Is: (2) An unqualified submission to the will of God. There is task for each member of this church this year Gods desire and our duty may not al ways be our first wish. It is easy to say, 'Thy will be done when every thing is coming our way, but mighty hard sometimes when sickness and trials and death of loved ones come. But the secret is in this self abnega- ton and desire to serve. I'll do this and that, but will not do the other. etc will not come up to the what of the text.
 "Cs) Intense personality dominates here When Paul got up he might have thought that there was plenty for others to do but he was quite sure there was task for him, and that was what he wished to know about. It is easier for us to see the other fel- lows duty than discover our own. To find the upper places where the light shines brighter and loftier skies than now shelter us let us serve in Gods own way. The explanation of Paurs to the holy vision