South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-02
GOD FOUND LINCOLN TO
FIGHT FOR HUMANITY
Rev. E. B. ImIer breaches Ser
mon at First Union Ser
vices for August.

The first OF the union church serN-
ices 10 be held in the protestant
churches during August was held III
the First Baptist church Sunday even
ing The local ministers who TOOK
mart i'm the services were Rev l.. n.
Van Wrinkle. Rev. +. T.. Shouner anu
Rev. d. d. Spangler. Rev. +. 3: I'M
Ter of the Drew Theological seIlllh ia, ,
nreached the sermon from the Worus
aCod,s search for Men" In part he
said: ,-, for
God has always been looking Ior
men. In solving the worlds problem
He depends upon me to stand IN the
gan God needed a man TO lead MS
people from bondage and lie Iouhu
Moses. He wanted a man 10 announce
the coming and He found John the
Baptist. Again He needed man 70
turn a world of paganism 10 true
righteousness and He found Paul. In
a later day He wanted a man TO hSht
Tor common humanity and He found
"The method of Gods search for a
man is suggested in the vision OF
Isaiah. God found him and called
him by a three-fold vision. First II
was a vision of God, King Uzziah,
Isaiah's great ideal had dled; re- re-
duently some object of the anectlon
has to be removed before men can
see God. Something always has 10
be sold out Isaiah's former ideal
must vanish before he can get the
long view of life Using a phase from
the stage this vision is summed up
by the words, exit UzZiah; enter COO.
The second phase of the vision is
that of ones self in contrast to the
nersonalitv and perfection of God. He
il holy: self is seen to be impure
Isaiahs vision of himself is stated IN
his own words: i am a man or UNI
clean life Here is a strong force IN
the calling of a man, no ideal or mas
ter passion is worthy the name when
does not lift one higher than his pres
-ent condition. The gratifying fact IN
their vision is that Isaiah finds COD
able 10 make him better man.
The third phase OF the vision is
that of humanity and its needs. l
dwell in the midst of a people of UNI
clean life Accompanying this eXpe-
rience is a voice calling TO service.
Isaiah's response is: Here am l, send
me-. God is still looking for men.
The comprehensive vision OF God, OF
will and of humanity is an impelling
call to US. Everywhere God wants
man to stand against vice and greed,
injustice and industrial oppression,
political corruption and social exploit
tation The problems of the rich and
poor, of the foreigner within our
gates, of great nation awakening, o.
the great world struggle now raging
all these call for men of strongest
fibre. God calls for men not only to
talk but TO do. not only TO preach but
10 live the Christ life. God is still
looking for a man TO fill mans job"
The Union Young Peoples service,
held in the evening, was well attend
ed. Representatives from the Ep
worth league of the NJ. +. Memorial
church; the Young Peoples Alliance
Of the First Evangelical church and
the Christian EndeaVOr of the Chris
tan church, all took part in the open
discussion on the topic Little Every
Day Kindnesses," which was ably out
lined in the following subheadings:
l.. +. WicHzer, kindness in the home,
kindness in the street, kindness at
ones work and kindness at school.
The First Baptist church quartet rem
dered two selections.