South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-18
GOD FOR
WOODROW WILSON
Says Muse of History viii
Write His Name on
Scroll of Fame.

The Methodist anG Presbyterian
bodies again held union services il
the former church Sunday. Rev. b.
L. Parker, pastor of the Methodist
body, spoke at the morning and
Rev. Dr. j. A. Burnett, pastor Of
the Presbyterian church. at the
evening service.
To a crowded congregation Mr.
Parker spoke on the Greater Need
Of a Modern Church, faith big
enough 10 meet the duties of the
day. His text was from Luke 17-5.
The Prayer of the Apostles" In
the course Of a most excellent dis
course Mr.. Parker thanked God
there was such q man in the white
house as Woodrow Wilson. and said
that the muse Of history would write
his name Eigh on the scrool of fame
as one of the worlds first heroes Of
faith. His sermon in part follows:
I'VE can not meet the require
ments OF God in our own strength.
Faith is the faculty that lays hold
on God ard enlists His aid. These
apostles had sufficient spiritual in
sight to perceive this. Jesus had
pointed cut certain high and diff
cult duties % these men and In thts
prayer we find them asking for what
they lacked TO discharge them.
There is nothing like faith to steady
a man in the path Of duty and the
higher the duty the nobler and
more difficult the faith required
LlncOln's Fidelity TO Duty.
I'VE have just celebrated another
anniversary Of Mr., LinCOln's birth,
He was one of the worlds foremost
heroes of the masterful conscience.
His fidelity 70 duty marks him al
most a super-man. Indeed he was
that No man in his own unaided
strength could have done what he
did Il is easy now to trace his fl
deity 10 duty to the exalted sources
Of his faith. He belonged to no
church, signed no creed but he was
like the patriarch, Abraham, in his
hold on God. Believing that slavery
was wrong and could not perma-
nently exist in a moral world and
that God aad some great world pur-
pose to achieve through this great
free republic Of the west ne faced
with unwavering courage and fault
less devotion the duties his position
brought him. Did his armies suffer
defeat? Were his political ideals
questioned even in the north? Yes.
All Of this but believing in a living
God who would yet rule the world
he was determined to be on His
side at any cost. You can not ex-
plain Lincoln apart from his faith.
Men of Faith.
THE men who have wrought re-
forms and done Gods work in the
world have been men of faith. In
the eleventh chapter of Hebrews we
| find the honor roll Of a nation. They
were all men of action but il is
written they were first men of faith.
IT is this element that unites the
| heroes of duty in one common fei-
lowship through the ages
We face stern duties in 1918.
I To measure up TO them will require
great faith To have a faith ade-
I quate for the needs of the hour is
the greatest need Of the modern
4 church. Faith is never easy but
/ in some respects it was never more
difficult than today. Let us not de
7 ceive ourselves Jesus and His COS
I pei stood i'm the way of the kaiser's
imperial dreams. When the treaty
guaranteeing the neutrality of Bel
GUM was torn up the sermon on
/ the mount suffered a like fate at
/ the hands Of the Hun. Forget the
new testament was the edict from
\ Berlin when the cross on which
/ Jesus was 10 be crucified afresf was
planted or Belgian soil We. too.
must be careful lest in the passion
I heat and moral combustion we TO-
get il too. The last hope of civiliza-
/ ton rests in our unwillingness 20
I be brOwbeaten by circumstances. IN
I spite OF the confusion of the hour,
of its overthrown ideals. we must
Y De guided in the path OF duty by
\ the star OF faith.
Thanks God for Wilson
/ Thank God there is such a man
\ in the white house today. He Is
! said 10 be an ideaHst. a politician
with imagination. Let men call il