The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-12-12
UPWARD GAZE OF
MAN WILL CONQUER
New Methodist Minister, Rev. w. C.
Waters Delivers Strong Initial
Address.

At union service of the Metho- |
dist, Baptist, and Presbyterian con-
gregations, at sthe First Methodist
church ON Sunday evening, Rev. w
c. Waters, new pastor of the Metho-
dist church, delivered his opening
sermon to the town in general. AL
large crowd was present. Rev. AS
ties Of the Presbyterian church well
coined Rev. Waters, on behalf Of the
town, and assured him of the fellow
ship and cooperation Of the other
churches.
Taking for his text "Set Your Aft
ections On Things Above" Rev. Wat
ers gave some true and beautiful
thoughts On love and its power, tell
ing how any person grew like unto
that which he loved. "Tell Me What
You Like, and I Will Tell You What
You Are," said he.
Every humas being has a vast
store of love, that he is going to
place somewhere The man who
hates and who loves no one is abnor-
NAL, and the man who is conscious
that he is hated and not loved, al
ways suffers the tortues of hell. Il
is natural for man to love, and man
was created to be loved" said the
speaker.
But man cannot afford to love
the things of this world, to love su-
premely pleasure, honor, and riches
The first reason is the fitness Of
things. Man was created to look
up. The definition of the word man
is upward gaze upper look, heav-
ehly look, and man was created to
look up with this heavenly gaze. For
man to turn his thoughts and affec-
tions from above to this earth, is
for man to sin against himself, his
nature, and his being. No more
would you expect the eagle to build
its nest on the ground with the small
Ter birds, than you should expect man
to turn his aspirations to things earth
ly.
Man then, was created to look up;
it is his nature; God made him that
way" continued he. Lower crea-
tion was made to look down. The
hog goes about with his snout always
close to the ground in search of an
acorn. 1t is the hogs nature; God
made hogs that way But for man,
created with the upward look to turn
his thoughts to base earthly things
is for man to put himself on level
with lower creations. Terms of dis
respect-'you're not much you are
low down, you are beastly,' mean
that we have turned away from God,
that we are not like God, but like
something beastly. Yet if any Of US
are low down, we solely are respon-
sible, no person in heaven or earth is
responsible except ourselves"
Rev Waters said that no telling
how high one could climb if he look
ed upward, that to climb was in
keeping with his nature and that il
he put his heart and life in tune with
his nature that he could rise higher
than the angels.
He said that God gave the world
to man to enjoy, and that those men
who went constantly around with
long faces, and deep signs, as if God
in His heaven were dead, made cold
chills run down his back That man,
the climax, the masterpiece of Gods
creation had, had the world made in
his behalf. That the mountains, val
leys, rivers the beautiful things
of this earth, even the planets were
all made for man, that man might
be happy here and throughout eter-
nifty, yet there were some men, who
didn't get any good out of life, didn't
enjoy life.
But, he emphasized, God meant
man to be master of everything Of
the world, not subject. God put no
evil into the world. Man made all
evil. AS it fell from the hands Of
Almighty God it was good. God
meant for every man to stand on his
own feet; to hold up his head; to en-
JOY the world, but the only way man
can enjoy this world, is TO be master.
The only way to conscientiously en-
Joy pleasure, honor, riches--things of
this world is to feel master of them.
But if riches are master and are
swept away, how can man be hap
py!
eve become IN character like the
things we love. Tell me what you