Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-04-15
THE RiEDECOvERY OF.
GOD IS THE SERMON.
TOPIC AT BAPTIST CHI.
REV. CHESSMAN TELLS cONGRE.
CATION or DIFFERENT WAYS
OF TURNING TO DEiTY-SER-
VICES IN OTHER OTTAWA
CHURCHES.

Rev G. W. Chessman spoke last
night at the Baptist church on the
subject, THE Re-discoyery of God"
Part OF the sermon follows:
"The father of the prodgal son said
upon the return OF his boy This my
son was lost and Is found. The son
might just as truly have said This
my father was lost TO me and is
found again The boy made the re-
discovery of his father and men make
the rediscovery of God.
God is re-discoyered by some who
thru wrong living lose Him They go
cut from homes OF Christian train.
ing to be influenced by wrong environ.
ments until they 90 to pieces morally.
Then like the prodigal day of great
awakening comes in which they see
the enormty of their sin and the nee
essily OF getting away from it. So
they arise and go to God The redis
cover the faith they departed from;
they lay hold upon ii and begin to
( live by it anew. They have rediscov.
/ cred God Harry Monroe of the
/ Pacific Garden Mission made the
/ statement that almost all the men re.
| claimed TO the Christian life in the
rescue mission are men who at one
time lived in Christian homes. Their
| coming to God is a rediscoyery OF
what they once had and lost
God is rediscovered by some who
thru intellectual doubts lose Hin.
The method is most modern theolo.
gieal seminaries Is not TO shield th2
budding preachers from things that
disturb faith. Data pro and con is
set before them and they must
wrestle for a vital faith, they must
think their way thru to a firm faith.
Men coming from ultra orthodox at
mosphere face a crisis when they
must rediscover God and a vital faith
have known men to 90 for weeks
With worried looks on their faces that
told OF troubled minds ! have seen
the same men pass thru the ordeal
and come out with a splendid evan
ntegrties of the Christian religion,
they anchored among the things that
them until they rebound themselves,
/, We must have the greatest sympathy
. with students who are honestly try
ing to square mp scientific knowledge
, with traditional religious beliefs
They need our sympathetic help in
, the crucial struggle to find anew a
vital faith in Christianity.
Last night the auditorium OF the
, First Methodist church was filled with
, an audience OF representative mel
and women to hear Dr. +. l.. House
, deliver the first evening address OF
| his series Of sermon-lertures, He
+ chose for his subject, "'rhe Powers o.
g the Mind and by his compelling elo
/. quence. iorcelul logic and poweriu
7 personality held the closest attention
{. Of his hearers thruout the lecture.
4 His lectures are occasionally illus
V trated with stories as superior to tn
!. ordinary platform stories, whose chic
/. aim is to raise laugh, as are tn
art treasurers in the Louvre superio
|. to the pictures in the comic section
d of the Sunday papers His illu+rt
" tions are pointed and well chosen, an
y not only pleasantly relieved seriou
G tension but clineh a thought irrevoC
ably. His logic is clear iorccful an
IS the path he points is so PLAN lht
II "a wayfaring man. tho fool may nc
n err therein"
It Speaking on The Powers Of th
10 Mind DR.. House said in part. 9TH
20 mind is Il trinity conscious, subco
N scious and sunereonscious. The col
i. sclons mind Is one Of sense perce
ts iion, has in il Will, Judgment and
" the court of final appeal It is know
ry in the Word of God as the mind of II
" flesh
,e "The suhconscious mind accoun
m for phenomena outside Of the co
". scious mind and is greater in |
Ic. power. II not only has institutio
d. but perfect memory, extraordina
is. power at times, and functions the h
lis man body. II never sleeps, and can
TX. made to perform wonderful feats
Sc healing il given conscious suggestio
nv II stimulates the conscious mind al
ny is related 10 It az the engineer is &
,is ship is related to the pilot. TIL
,s this mind working properly can cor
49,. wonderful feats of healing upon t
body.