The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-19

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was broad enough to encompass the
whole earth
"His kinship with God was another
earthly life of thirty-three years was
but the fragmentary segment of a
circle embracing the whole existence
of God Himself. His short life on
earth was only brief period of hui
man existence out of aeons of time.
AS the eddies that play around the
Gulf are part of the great Atlantic
Ocean, so the earthly life of Christ
was but a small part of the eternal
all embracing plan of God"
Or. GiIIon Opens Session.
In the absence OF DR.. H. c. Risner
who was to be the opening speaker
DR.. T. J. Gillon, pastor of the First
Baptist Church at Gulfport, preached
the opening sermon
| The speaker chose the thirteenth
verse of the second chapter of Tim.
,othy as a basis for his remarks, Sc
lecting as his subject, THE Faithful
ness of Cod
DR.. Dillon said that God was giving
Paul instruction in the building OF
character. Character" he said, sis
the basis of all things AS Paul de,
,veloped God wanted him to see that
He Himself was the basis for all
character. And in teaching Paul this
there was no better way than to i'm.
press upon him the absolute fact that
God is faithful in all things"
|. He said: "The faithfulness of God
means that God will keep His prom.
Uses. All through the ages God has
fkept His promises. There is not
promise in the Bible from Genesis to
! Revelation that has not materialized
/ under Gods hands. God never made
a past promise but that he fulfilled
/! it never made a present one but that
| it is being fulfilled and never made
/ future one that but that it will come
to pass. Human beings fail to keep.
their promises, but God is the same
every day. Faithful to keep each
promise.
God has been faithful to man in
! the past. He created him in the high.
! est manner and of the best material
he had. He made him in His own
| image and endowed him with the
| highest and noblest instincts and en-
| dowments. And when man fell, He
did not leave him alone and unguided.
EHe was faithful to bring man into
redemption and back into His fellow
ship. Having punished man by put
ting him out of the Garden of Eden,
God made all nature subservinet to
/ mans uses, thus proving again his
'faithfulness."
| Gods faithfulness is guaranteed
by His willingness to forgive, but the
progressive perfection of Christian
character under His tutorship, and by
| His providing heaven as the compile.
God is willing that all the sins OF
mankind be laid at the feet of Jesus
| Christ, whether those sins be of omis-
sion or of commission. Many people
get discouraged and give up because
they seem to lack the determination
to develop Christian character But
God is faithful in prosecuting to the
end that which He has begun. He
Twill continue to develop that which
fyou have entrusted to Him and which
He has called into being. Whatever
the conflict, whatever the crosses,
whatever the trials of life, God will
bring to perfection that which He so
searnestly desires and which Christ
died for-your soul. Heaven is the
completion of earth and of the Chris
tian development on earth. No artist
lean paint it. but it is real, true, incar
mate, and a fit habitation of those who
Igrasp the true significance of Gods
.faithfulness."
In conclusion DR.. Gillon pleaded
that the Christian people make their
faith match Gods faithfulness, that
they would get into fellowship with
lGod, and that the relations between
them and God might become like the
faith and faithfulness of father and
son.
/ Evening Sermon.
At the evening service, DR.. Gillon
spoke on the subject, Shortcuts, not
Gods" taking as his text the seven.
teenth verse of the thirteenth chap.
ter of Exodus, God led them not
in the way of the land of the Philis.
tines"
"The children of Israel were going
from Egypt to Palestine" the speak