The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-21
DR. HOLMES TALKS
 OF STANDARDS SET FOR MAN BY CHRIST
Associate Pastor of Inde- pendent Presbyterian Says Christians Should Invoke
 Divine Aid Constantly

Tn the absence of Dr. H. M. Edmonds, who is away on his vacation, Dr. w. B. Holmes associate pastor of the Indepen- dent Presbyterian church, conducted the evening services at the Lyric last night, which was largely attended.
 The scripture lesson was read by the Rev. Dwight S. Bayley, who also offered the evening prayer. A part of the 18th verse of the fifth chapter of Matthew formed the text from which pr. Holmes preached forceful sermon
 Christ places such a tremendously high standard for man, it is absolutely impossible to live up to it unless divine aid is constantly invoked" said Dr. Holmes. Any man can live up to the eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth doc Urine. That's just plain human nature, just retaliation, but it takes the grace of God to do the bidding of Jesus Christ as laid down in these verses from the Sermon on the Mount.
 Not doing according to law, but in love; doing just a little more for your brother than the laws and customs ex- pect of you; doing not only the square and decent thing, but more, is what the
 
 pr. Holmes related graphically several stories of actual experiences in the Ten nessee mountains, illustrating his point and stirring his hearers. He told of the different types of men actuated by self ish motives or by Christian principles and the consequent results to those with whom they came in contact. Dr. Holmes concluded his talk with the plea that Christian brotherhood obtain in all denominations all haliaVerS children of one God united in love and fellowship. Then will the church begin a new life, and religious life will become a real thing demonstrated by the Christ like lives of the children of God.
 At the morning services at Temple Emanu-El Dr. Holmes took for his sub ject, Plans Helped and Hindered," using as his text the account given of David s plan to build a great temple to the glory of God.
 When David was told it was not to be his work to build the temple of which he had dreamed" said Dr. Holmes, "he set about the task of gathering together precious metals and wood that should be needed and had them in readiness so that at his death he had done a large part toward the fulfillment of his great desire and his son was able to finish the work.
 Our dearest most cherished plans often fail of completion but are never entirely lost; each lofty aspiration, every worthy desire to uplift humanity and honor God is sometime and in some way taken care of in Gods providence and brought to a beautiful consummation though not always through the individual who conceived the thought Other agents are often the channels through which great things are accomplished as in the case of David
 Love for the cause and the work is | the paramount thing" said Dr. Holmes l "It is not who gets the glory of doing | it so much as the fact that the thing
 IS done that should count. We in this | age are reaping the blessings and bene- fits of high civilization brought abou through the suffering and self-sacrifict | of the former generations and a greater l obligation rests upon the men and womer ! of today for these very things"