South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-02-18
NEAR CLASSIC HEARD
At EMMANUEL CHURCH
Increasing Interest Marks
Thursday Nights Services
at MiShaWaka Churches.

In a sermon which was a near
classic Rev. A. J. Unthank. pastor Of
the Immanual Baptist church. APP
pealed To an overlooking congrega-
ton Thursday night A number Of
conversions were reported at the
meeting and at the conclusion Of the
services the pastor was compliment
ed by many members Of his congre-
cation.
4 portion OF Dr. Unthanks ser
mon. more or less correct in quota
ton. is appended.
Memory is that mighty power
which has 10 do with thoughts emo
tons. loves and fears Through the
power Of memory the scenes Of
childhood pass before us in review.
find AS tied to all that passed, with
its ever-varying chain Of circum-
stances.
Happy is that person who has
taught his memory to be his servant.
ready at all times 20 do his bidding.
Nor does the faithful memory wait
10 be called by act OF will but fire.
quently maLifests itself i'm the mid
die Of our daily path, saying: Thus
far hast thou gone, but no further
Thus as a safeguard against wrong
doing. memory is that potent factor
over which conscience sits enthroned.
Its service TO mankind is just as
valuable. If not more in goading one
10 higher plain and a more deter
mined effort In a line OF proper en-
deavor.
When one remembers his early
Christian Influence, his mothers
prayers. his sisters pleadings. where
is that power which can hinder him
in making a man Of himself? And
when. in the early years of life. one
learns to love. fear and remember.
is he not fortified against the tempta-
tons from unholy association?
1T is in the hours Of God forget
fulness' that men stoOp to baser
things While one is conscious that
God is. and that His eve is ever see
ing and His great heart ever loving,
then it is that noble aspirations call
one forth 20 measure strength
against the powers Of nell and stand
triumphant upon that pinnacle Of
high achievement. The time TO think
OF God is in the hour of youth. ere
yet the fires of life have burned
themselves out For in that fevered
hour great thoughts of weighty i'm
port arise and spur one on to do or
die. to bring about the act of their
fulhllment. Thus character is lost
or won. depending upon the con-
sciousness OF God in ones life. What
now is done in all the realms of good
achievement is not a 1.-THE Of what
might be If every life were conse-
Grated 10 His will, and all the world
sounded Of the Creator.
Nor could those evil days come
on so fast nor be Of such mighty
consequence. If God rememb ered'
is ones life. Those cease 10 gladden..
When the keepers of the house shall
tremble' and no longer deity tie
the bow. or flush the razor Ger the
face with safety; when the strong
men bow themselves beneath the
continued weight Of bodily exist
ence: when the grinders shall have
ceased because they are few, anG
the noises i'm the streets snail have
died: when those that look out of
the window darkened and no longer
see as was their wont in DAYS of
yore. when the doors shall be shut
and one hears the voices of friends
with lesser JOY. because he hears
them family, then il is ne nervously
wakes 10 the first faint call of bird
life But instead OF quickeued joy
through vibrant chords OF symphony
leaden weight hangs DER the heart
and fears shall be IN the way be-
cause OF Him that is high anG then
strength decays until even the
weight OF a grasshopper becomes "a
burden and desire fails into lstless-
ness and man has breathed his last
SONG out 10 his long home, while
friends and loved ones mourn.
Then 10 is true that the silver
chord is loosed and the raveing ends
Of life's small thread fly i'm the wind
while the golden bowl Of life's sweet
consciousness is broken and its con-
tents sink from earthly sight or
power: and the pitcher that has
ever been hlling and redlHng in
life's respiratory action lies broken
az the foundtain. and the wheel
that instrument Of power that sends
life's sustaining current through the
veins-lies broken and useless az
the cistern of the unused blood
Then the elements OF the BODY
detach from one another and seek
afHnities I'm eartn's lower existence
while a soul goes out into the upper
ether TO make its way back 10 God,