The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-31

INSPIRING
MESSAGE
Rev. Frank n. White,
Pulpit Orator, Talks
In Detroit
FAITH MUST BE
EARNED, HE SAYS
Asserts We Find Our
selves by Trust
In God

The Rev Frank N. White. d. D..
OF Minneapolis. MINI, who Ia one
OF the most gifted pulpit orators
the summer vacation season has
ries Of four sermons in the First
Congregational church. Sunday
morning with a notable message on
The straight gate and the narrow
way"
DR.. White described supremacy In
every field OF human endeayor az
the straight gate and the narrow
way. All who excel in athletics,
literature, exploration, astronomy
and art must enter the straight
OF aspiration and tread the
narrow way of discipline, suffering,
loneliness, study, practice and per
severance.
He continued In part:
When once we get this point OF
view how sane, how wise, how IN
Christianity now TO come To- NJ I'M
der any other guise. We should sus-
pect II FOR hollow mockery or
cheap fraud. Think Of what the
Christian life stands for. 1t Is dis
covery OF ourselves. We just begin
TO nud ourselves whom we get in
touch with H.
II is vision that beggars all dis
closures Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard--neithcr have entered into the
heart OF man to conceive the things
which God hath prepared for them
that love Him.
II H. an artists masterpiece be
side which the microscopic beauty or
the Japanese pattern Ia crude. bung-
ling always In the making. and ever
giving fresh surprises OF harmony
and beauty.
for any soul. FOR all souls, but IL Is
too narrow for selhshness. too con-
tractCd for vice, too restricted for
any touch or inhumanity. too small
for any meanness, too pinched for
any undiscardcd sin.
Men will put a generation OF years.
millions OF treasure and lncalculahle
thought and labor into the produc-
tlon 81 fast horse or yacht Shall
we bcgrudge the time, the thought,
the care, the cost involved IN making
possible that vastly more momentous
thing, man. woman. moving In
the glorious liberty VI the children OF
God?
Shall the acrobat. slaving 10 win
HIS precision. strength and grace FOR
the amusement Of an hour Guido the
Christian whose career X genuine.
will mean the immeasurable enrich
ment and Inspiration OF his fellow
menu
Shall Peary. the first TO discover
geographical point called the pole,
denial. you and me in service which
10 ourselves and humanity viii. I'm
real vital Importance. make hts ex-
plot sink into iusign tcance7
prominent man talking for the
press on his birthday not long ago,
said There rs one thing that have
never permitted myself TO do and
that Is 70 dwell on the three RS
only oue thing TO be said; either he
has not had very good time, and
gotten much out OF life, or he has
q pitably low idea OF what consti-
man life has Ca give
lie who has nothing 20 regret;
who knows no pangs OF remorse.
who sees and faces nothing OF re-
form. who doesn't know what Il Is
to struggle. aspire sacrifice and un-
sparlngly serve--all above him, un-
touched are the things that make
life glorious--and farther still above
that best thing In the world. the
saved life OF him who IL one with
us In God After All, does the old
UOeFllOn Keep coming paCkF W ny
should good, the thing God demands
OF US be 80 difficult? Why, II He -
80 hent on our having good things
should He not make them easy.
cheap. within ordinary peoples
reach?
The reason is plain They are
within ordinary peoples reach. but
they can't be easy nor cheap. Moth
ing, no one, not even God Himself
can make them go. For Christian life
In not suit I can purchase, nor
wages ! can get by going through
tho motions ot work. II is charac-
ter. and character comes high You
can get great bargains at the IRE
on hand 10 take advantage OF the
opportunity You can't pick up self
control by aimply putting down your
coin. Gentrencss carries no special
label there. Moral heroism never
goes TO the odds and ends counter.
Honor and integrity are no mere
stock remnants. Generosity and char
itableness are no mis1ts returned to
he sold NJ great cut In price
You do not happen on faith as
YOU are poklng among the articles
on display Hop" does not make its
appeal TO you by a few figures IN
there for love Service and saliva
ton are strangers 20 the spiritual
bargain hunter The fellowship OF
Jesus and the peace which passeth
understanding are beyond the touch
Of any who reckon vHtues In dollars
and cents. once more, even the ON
nipotent can't make holiness cheap.
ny Gods help and under His guild
ance, II must be won.