Arizona republican., 1915-10-04
Wife of the Pastor of the First Methodist Episco- pal Church Breaches In teresting Sermon in Ab- sence of Dr. Harker
HARMONY IN
 LAW OF GOD
Subject is One That Gives Gifted Woman Oppor- tunity to Present Strik- ing Views in Interesting and Forceful Manner

Taking for her subject Harmony Throughout Gods Law" Mrs. Ray c. Harker, wife of the pastor of the
 First Methodist Episcopal church. occupying Dr. Harker's pulpit, yes terday morning preached a sermon that was at once interesting and in structiVe. The announcement that Mrs. IIarker was to fill the pulpit in the absence of her husband, who is in California, drew an unusually large audience to the church Those Whc heard Mrs. Harker agree that she is wonderfully gifted, not only as a speaker, but as thinker able to express herself
 Dealing with her subject Mrs. liar ker said:
 There is one thought that has meant so much to me, which has so overpOWered every other thought in my life that though I have fallen far short in practice, l cant help giving expression to it whenever l have op- pOrtunity I am like the preacher who made every subject that could possibly be given him apply to infant baptism. l see so many unhappy people either overcome by a load of anxiety, or nagged by insignificant worries that I am eager to have everyone realize how Christs sweep ing promises can be applied to or dinary living.
 My subject is Harmony Through out Gods Law and Especially in Hu- man Lives"
 Great peace have they which love thy law" Ps. 119:165.
 To love Gods law is to be in har- mony with all harmony. Every law of matter or of mind, all natural law, is Gods law. The harmony of Gods law is universal In the material realm it extends through the heavens and farther than the telescope has ever revealed to man. It reaches from the greatest to the least of Gods creation. Its purpose is one, and yet for the individual; it's plan is one and yet made up of parts. It holds planets in their orbits and dew drops on the blossoms. It controls the roll of the sea and the growth of a flower. It determines the flights of the birds of earth and the actions of the angels of heaven.
 Obedience to law may at first seem a lessening of ones possibilities, a limitation to ones powers, just as the laws of grammar and of rhetoric seem to the beginning student as dis agreeable infringments on his liberty of speech and limitations to the ex- pressiOn of his thought. But as har- mOny with these laws in, the end proves a great help just where it at first seemed a hindrance; so har- mony with Gods law increases ones possibilities and gives greater play to his power
 Universe in perfect harmony with the laws that God has condescended to write on the mind of man. As you these whirling worlds. flying in (silenD obedience to the laws of the heavens, your thought carries you even to the throne that 
 Flushed be all earthly rhymes! List to those spheral chimes That echo down the singing vaults
 of night.
 The quivering impulse runs
 From the exultant suns, Circling in endless harmonies of light"
 The heavens declare the glory of God and the Armament showeth his handiwork'
 In the material world we recognize the necessity of obedience to law and the folly of disobedience. The nat lral penalty of breaking moral and spiritual law exceeds the penalty of physical law as ruin of soul exceeds ruin of body. How can we expect to escape the penalty attached to spiritual law, when we see how naturally and terribly the penalty fol-
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