The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-10-08


iieve In himi In answering the ques.
ton, my mind runs back to childhood
for ! was brought up to believe In God.
But BY and by, experienced God;
that is. crisis came and prayed to
him, and he answered me. II was Ike
putting out a little hand IN the dark
to feel for him and he took Il, and
pressed 1t, and led me in the right
way.
BY and by, i learned more about
him, In church and Sunday school,
and through the Bible and through
what others said.
But this was not enough. ] eraved
! for reasons, asked, l read. ] pondered
and thus | learned that oil men be-
lieve in God. god Of seine kind.
Really there are no atheists.
How came they TO believer The hFst
answer is, Creation, which IL an eifecs
and must have cause. Moreover,
there is harmony and order In creation
Lord Kelvin, while walking In tho
country with Lieblg, the great scien-
fist, asked him IL he believed that
grass and flowers grew by mere me-
chanical force?
mo MORE" said he, than ] believe
work OF botany describing them
could grow in such way"
In other words, we have not only
Creator but IN intelligent Creator.
Indeed, our own possession OF min0
determines this, because stream can
not rise higher than its source. II !
ta.e a mind and ideas then he who
made me must have the same. As Des
Cnrtes, the philosopher, said. Mans
possession of the idea Of an infinitely
perfect being Is itself q proof Of the
existence OF that being"
And then there 10 the fact of con-
sciousness which make this argument
still more real to u.s. That Is, the
sense o. a spiritual presence and pow
er In nature and IN ourselves. A.
wadsworth said:
/ "A sense Of something far more
deeply interfused." Or 80 the inspired
Apostle Paul calls Il In Romans ~.
..The eternal power and Godhead."
| II Is this power that man vsrships.
and worships rs q holy. personal
spirit standing over against bis own
spirit and explaining or accounting foa
II.
The knowledge Of God thus comes
to man without reasoning. II 10 writ
ten In his constitution Even the child
or the savage knows what you mean
when you speak Of God. He thinks OF
someone who is righteous and heiy
and a Judge Of men.
And 1t is this consciousness that
makes us tremble at the thought Of
sin because we know that some time,
somewhere, we must stand before this
Judge and give an account Of our
selves.
And this brings before Ms another
thought. IL there 10 such q God ~
this, and II man. even By his own
fault. Is In such distress rs this win
! not that God make himself known to
man in some other wayf
i WIN he not reveal TO him the cause
Of his distress. and means Of escnps
from Il? Surely a God Of love and
mercy will do this.
And praise his Name, he has done
|. MI That is what the Bible Ia ard II
. there were no other evidence that IL II
his revelation, the fact that u thus
meets mans deepest need were proof
enough TO satisfy u.s.
And how does II meet mans deep
/ est needf The answer 10 In Christ.
.whom God hath set forth to be q
. propItiation through faith In bis
. Hood" Romans 1925. How wonder
4 full is that declaration Of the inspired
APOSTLE Paul In his letter TO the Corin-
thlans. that God was In Christ. recon-
; Cling the world unto himself. not inn
putting their trespasses unite them
: Therefore. II is the duty and the joy
OF gospel preachers 10 put themselves
hide by side with Paul and say. Nov
then we are ambassadors for Christ,
AZ though God did beseech you BIZ n:
We pray you 10 Christ's stead. Be ys
reconciled to God" II Cor. b:1e. %.
thus plead with you today. and
: beg Won to receive Christ BY faith 80
your Saviour, and confess HIM b.