Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-01
DR.. Andreas Bard Of Kansas
City Delivers Stirring Ser
mons Before Three Monster
Audiences.

congregation tnat filled every seat or
the auditorium. Then celebrating he
said:
"Only he is n true Protestant who is
continually searching for more light.
IL was truly a protestantic utterance
| from the lips OF Lessing, SHOULD tiuu
hold truth in his right hand and tho
search for truth in his left. without
| a moments hesitation l would take
his left hand"
Constant Search for Truth.
This was the dominant idea or Df.
| Bard's sermon--that the development
of christian character requires the
constant searching after truth; that
those who blindly accept dogma and
tradition and do not seek the mug
gets of spiritual thot" found In the
Bible are not true Protestants: be-
cause the touchstone of Protestant
Ism Is unending pursuit and invesliBa-
ton OF truth
"If I believed that truth was com
pletely in our hands" said he. 81
should return to Catholicism. Truth
is not finished treasure; 1t Is an ever
widening horizon. Truth Is not u
crystal. 1t is seed. our Protestant
| churches should be headquarters for
all those ready to study Gods mystic
ries But when people. with the Bible
under their arms, say with the poet,
| Serene l fold my hands and wait,
they are poor specimens of reformed
Christianity.
I'VE must remember that progress
cannot be made by proxy. AS in lie
the child will have to verify for niiis-
self the lessons taught by father and
mother, so in religion each individual
must tread the hard path of research,
FOR by struggle we develop strength,
and only by personal experience can
we share those treasures Of truth for
which our fathers died"
Confusion OF Tongues.
This search for truth, the clergy
man admitted, may mean "confu-
sion of tongues" and while he de-
plored the growth of innumerable
sects. still ho thot II infinitely better
to have variety and progress than uni
formity and stagnation," because un-
ceasing search for truth is the very
life of Professionalism. "It will fall
only when our freedom becomes in
difference" said he.
The privilege of this search for
truth is the heritage of Professionalism.
1t was in this spirit that Luther
broke with the past like an eagle re-
fuGing to remain in the cage. He
scared into freedom of thot and point
ed the way for all truth-seekers to
follow"
Last nights sermon was the first of
n series Of five lectures arranged by
Reveien Massey, the pastor. at st.
Marks by visiting clergymen in cele-
bration of the four hundredth ami
versary of Martin Luther's beginning
of the Reformation. The second lee
ture will be heard Wednesday eve-
ming, from Rev. 10. E. Stauffer OF
Lawrence. Kan.
Yesterday morning Doctor Bard de-
livercd n masterful discourse at st.
Marks on The Immortality of the
Soul His engaging personality deep
learning and dramatic delivery en-
phasied the impressiveness of his
words. and the sermon left profound
impression upon his hearers.
Hope of Immortality.
Hone of immortality. he said was
born with humanity. when out or
the chaos of creation the soul arose
like n star out of the clouds, 1t heard
STILL small voice foretelling the
hereafter. No people. however be-
nighted, is without this witness; no
mind. however atheistic. is quite free
from It. At his brothers tomb even
Ingersoll heard the rustic Of wing"
said Doctor Bard.
"The soul Is by nature Christian
and only by being utterly untrue TO
our innermost instincts can we dis
card this elevating faith. The simplest
philosophy of life would suggest to
each of us to live up to our humanity,
and surely he who ignores his God
given instincts is not to be regarded as
a superior intellect, but rather as one
who criminally violates his very ma
ture. I am n man. says Terence
and nothing human is foreign to me-
Who can add one cubit unto his
stature? Who can improve the de-
signs of creation? Who can make
himself q higher specimen Of humani-
ty by disregarding the most sacred
trust OF his soul? l believe in immor-
tality because. not believing In 1t, 1
should lose my claim to full-orbed
humanity!
"And has not every instinct a foun-
dation In fact? The sexual impulse
proves the other Sex. The migrating
bird proves the sunny south. The
dam building faculty Of the beaver
proves the stream. Not otherwise. the
longing Of the soul proves the world
beyond.
Cannot Think OF Death.
Soldiers at the battlefront, in clos
est proximity to death. are most cer-
tain of their Immortality. We have
had various reports where men tell
OF others being shot and killed, while
It never occurred to them that they
themselves could die. Try to imagine
yourself dead and you will fail in
your effort. You can think of every
one else as having perished, but you
cannot grasp the thot of being dead
yourself. This is the natural, Unborn
certainty which every man carries in
his soul. 1t is the directest evidence
OF Immortality. To thinking be-
tng.' says Goethe, 1T is quite impos-
sible TO think himself nonexistent; SO
far everyone carries In himself the
proof of the hereafter /
"Slnce II Is scientifically proven that |
death is only name invented by man |
to cover his ignorance and that as a |
matter of fact even the material uni |
verse continues to survive In differ |
ent forms. how absurd to assume that |
personality. which Is more than ali |
physical forces, Is destined to vanish |
like a meteor In the sky. And even |
in this illustration I am incorrect. |
The meteor does not perish. It only |
seems to disappear. Not only its ma |
terial form. but its waves OF light viii |
continue forever and ever as part |
OF the elemental wealth OF creauon. |
There In no death. Life can change,