The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-04
SPIRITUAL SUPREMACY
LEGACY OF RIGHTEOUS
Rev Frederic Tower Galpin
Urges Men To Dedicate Their
Lives and Money To Christ

The INSTRUMENTATION Lenten
services in the Detroit opera house.
Wednesday, were In charge or the
Baptists. and the speaker was the Rev.
Frederic Tower Galpin, OF the First
Baptist church. lie spoke on the
Supremacy of the spiritual" and said
In part:
Jesus has left us the parable OF the
pearl of great price that eliminates
our theme. Like a merchant seeking
the highest good on which He might
spend his all. He beholds, sunken in
the flesh OF all men, Gods image, and
determines by an alchemy all His own
TO restore that image. He selected a
few only, that He might release spirit
in all, proclaiming as His great creden.
tial that the poor have the gospel
preached unto them
Isaiah found himself when he had
vision OF God. lie forthwith dedi-
Gated himself TO the divine task.
Moses is the emancipation OF his race,
freeing Israel from Egypt as this
Passover week celebrates, yet, while
feeding Jethro's flocks, he caught the
burning heart beside the burning
bush, and, with divine vision, began
the spiritual acknowledgements OF the
human race. Bryce has asked, VINO
are your great men?' and answered,
They who dream your dreams ana see
your visions. In this latter day all
men are catching vision and THIS
great laymen's movement, In the III
terest OF religion, that VIII soon hoiu
conservative congress in New YORK
Is the best possible testimony 10 TINS
spiritual democracy OF Jesus.
I'VE need the pull of an objective,
whether we be boys at school or men
in the. school of life. This VIII keep
rs going. though there are mud-puo-
dies about and hills TO CLIMB anu
much discontinue in between. Is
there not sufficient motive 10 the
challenge of the dead2 Lincoln ana
Washineton cast up great bulwarks
for the nation. Two hundred nus
slams for the sake OF this truth
sntritual democracy, have been cast
into TAIL this last year. one martyr
of liberty. for nine years, Was mp 10
oned and while a prisoner, IKE rau''
won 20 converts TO the faith OIL iie'
spirits. - yaste
and human misery lei us oeuie -
ourselves. AS the planets tug On Ine
heart of the sun, the human louu
weighs upon the heart OF Goa. lheie
is a lost word today. 1t Is grace.
II is TO love what sunlight is TO llgh..
-Things tfoUm IN tire sun. Gee
grace is TO be distributed. Give me,
The elevated mess with It's symboilsih
that announces grace for lost SOULS
in preference to the cold, calculating
Iight with the warmth all gone, that
has no grace for men.
spirit may be released In the yer!
soil of discipline. The need OF On
equivalent for war Is here. Back Oh
every single evil personality is an EN-
nire of evil. But. listen! Back OF
good men is Gods spiritual empire OF
right. We need the united testimony
az Christendom TO wake this mar
dead world For the sake OF the
Christ. men, dedicate yourselves ana
show many masters that there is oit
one Master. When He calls men. he
calls them TO give as the sun gives,
for we are joined 10 spiritual re-
sources. Then, while He becomes
Master. He passes over to common
men His power. Dedicate your
money, your business, your stren6th,
YOUR life TO spirit. It one day VIII
be all. Dedicate the seen TO the un-
seen"