Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-26

know what made the rndo it, but they do it. and I don't disbelieve it because I don't know how it was done. and I don't doubt it for moment. I don't understand the electricity, nor how it works, you don't Edison himself knows nothing about 1t, yet we don't refuse to use it because we can't un- derstand it: and s6 I can ask you million questions of things you accept every day. but do not understand.
 And, dear friend. stop trying to measure cd with your two by four mind. You can't measure God with a human yardsticlS. You are finite, He is infinite, and the carna1 men cannot understand spiritual things. And, then, will you let me say that this thing is perfectly logical, for it stands to reason that iw you ever expect to get to heaven that there must be a changed man somewhere, sometime. You would be in hell, for you would not have thing in common with the l folks that are there. They wouldn't appreciate your srntItty jokes; they wouldn't appreciate your filthy lang uage; they wouldn't appreciate your | ideals, and. So you would be miserable: and common sense tells you that if l you ever expect to go there. there
 must be changed man first l The way is not by asking questlons: the way Is not by Harvard; or Yale;
 or Prineeton; or Cambridge; or ox- ford The way is over ad old fashion
 ed hill called Calvary. Now let me ask you this question
 have you been born again? Not what | church you are member of, not what
 position you have in the church. but
 have you been born. again. You say 1 you are not sures and you ought to be
 sure, and you oughtn't to sleep until 1 you are sure, because if Christ teach i es anything in this third chapter oi
 St. John, He teaches the certainty o1 religious experience. and you will be 1 tossed hither and thigher by every 1 wind that blows until you have set tied this one fundamental tl1ing-yot must be born again. You say. car
 know it? Certainly. you can, for jus as the manufacturing fiffns of tflis
 country stamp thetr trademafks of1 al l their goods, So God put his mark or
 His children.
 l These are one ar two of the mark
 of new birth, He that is born o
 God overcomet1l the worid.'' Secondly
 "He that is horn of God lovetf thj
 brethren" Thirdly, "He that is bor1
 OlstIOu QOln Jltlt cpFHH'll Sln.- lie Una
 is born of God abideth in Him"
 think the purest thing, the lowell
 est thing this side the gates of heav
 en is to see a mother with her frs baby. Her heart is~its nursery. Sh
 lives for that child and nurses il
 coaxes it and pets it. and fondles
 until there comes a day when thos
 haby lips begin to lisp out daddy. Just so the Holy Spirit comes dow ih the heart of the surrendered ati Relieving child until that heart be gins to lisp out Abba Father. Iii . Lord and my God"
 The singing led by the chorus choi and Chorister Charles r. Allen va again a feature of the evening, occu ,, pying the first half hour with a son service. Rev. W. H. Bath Norwic ! district superintendent for the Meth , odist churches. offered prayer, an ! Rev. G. H. Str6use of the First Ban [ [ tist church made the af1iionncemeHt calling special attention to tha ufiio Thanksgiving service on Thursda evening, at which Mir. Smith wi ) preach.