The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-12-07
P FACE LEAGUE is
PRAISED IN SERMON
DR.. J. F. Shepherd Makes Pow
erfd Plea for fraternity
IMPEDIMENTS TO TRADE MAKE
FOR DIVISION OF PEOPLES
Commercial War and Physical War
Must Give Way to Understanding
and International Friendship.

Taking for his subject "The Gospel
and World Peace" and for his text
Matt 6:1O "Thy Kingdom Come, Thy
VIII Be Done, as in Heaven, so on
Earth" DR.. J. F. Shephc I'd, pastor OF
the Presbyterian church, IN his ser
mon Sunday morning advocated the
formation of a league for peace among
the nations and censured the idea that
this world war should be followed by
war for trade through the forma-
ton of rival trade leagues leading to
still other wars. He said:
Our Master measures the required
perfection of man, and Of the redeem
ed world, by Goa Himself and by
Heaven. The perfection Of Heaven is
the standard toward which earthly
society is to move, for the full realiz-
alton of which in +he world we are
taught to 1aily pray. and therefore
daily work.
May we give you two or three pic
lures? The first is the struggle of a
sin polluted world in its need, seek
ing to apDrehend truth: a world in
which gross darkness covered the
people; a world in which the wisest
/
tes and Plato, were feeling after God,
if happily they might find Him" a
world where cruelty and vice indes-
cribable ran riot in the ranks of the
worlds nobility, where the finer feel
ings of the soul were lost to view; a
world which seemed ready 10 destroy
itself in mad orgies and inhumanity;
fifty described as a world, where
fbara uac M avo fo Yoffx- ond M orr,,
to save"
A second picture centers in a little
despised land, but at tie conveyance
of the great continents of the then
known world We see a peasant, sur
rounded by a few followers, speaking
as never man spake, setting forth doc
trines that are revolutionary in ten
dency, and contradictory to the teach
ings of the day in which he lived. We
see this same peasant, working man,
not of earth's nobility, but Of Heavens
Royalty Going about doing good"
ana at last dying for the truth he had
declared and for the very people who
prosecuted Him We hear Him saying
of Himself, "And l, if 7 be lifted up
from the earth will draw all men unto
me-" In the light of His wonderous
teaching. life and death, we turn back
to the utterances of the prophets. and
discover that in Him was fulfilled
their glorious ideals, not only is this
So as to His suffering as foretold by
Isiah in the 53rd chapter, but also
as to His mission. For Isaiah says OF
Him, 'IIe will judge between the ma
tions. and lecide concerning many
peoples; and they hall beat their
swords into plowshares and their
spears into pruning looks: nation
shall not lift up sword against ma
ton, neither shall they learn war any
more lisa. 2:14. Then as if the
ideal might be forgotten, he adds, 20,
house of Jacob. come We, and let US
walk in the light of Jel ovah" Micah
in the 4th chapter uses almost the
same language, and adds this beauti-
full picture "And they hall sit every
man under his vine and under his fig
tree; and none shall make them
afraid; for the mouth OF Jehovah OF
hosts hath spoken it Is this to be
realized or not? Jehovah of hosts hath
said so. Let God be true though all
men be liars. Or is This glorious and
impracticable idealism, and was Jesus
a dreamer Of the impracticable? The
wording and the infidel say He was.
and too often His church las acted
as if we so believed
Let us look at a third picture.
Nineteen centuries have passed since
the tragedy Of the second picture was
enacted. A few have apprehended his
spirit and sought to make it practical
Dreamers have dreamed Of a Utopia,
but the church of God has listened to
the voice of delusion, and instead of
leading toward the realization of this
!, Christ ideal, have Otter been found
/. advocating the opposite The Cru
sades, and the methods of the middle
ages, were Numerically opposed tc
this teaching. Today churchanity
beautiful formulas of worship, where
: the lips speak what he heart has
never felt. are substituted for Gods
/ formula. ITO do Justly and to love
mercy and to walk humbly with thy
/ God"
/ While we have been praying this
{ prayer all over the world, but failing
to work for its fulfillment, the doc
trine of evolution. of 'the survival OF
= the fittest~ has been promulgated
Great philosophers. who pretended to
J accept in part the standard of ethics