The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-04-03
SUPPORT OF THE HOSPITAL
URGED AS A RACIAL NECES-
SITY BY THE MINISTER.
By N. w. Harllee.

The Annual Thanksgiving services
of the Knights of Pythias and the
Courts of Calanthe were held at the
Temple on last Sunday where an
instructive sermon was delivered
with feelings of deep emotions and
Astounding in the love of Frater-
nal relation and that higher love
of the Christ and his God. The Rev.
DR.. j. H. Smith, pastor of the
Bethel A. M. Z. church, who deliver
ed the annual sermon, laid down
for a basis of his timely sermon.
The love of God in that He loved
the World that He gave his only
son TO die for fallen humanity.
DR.. Smith, showed the relation be-
tween the object loved and the
lover, stressing the thought that no
one knows what love is, but without
this knowledge, we love just the
same the object or the individual
of our affections, giving Webster's
definition of the term love. The
minister showed the burning effect
of love in all the ages; giving gra-
phic examples of the love of moth
er, of the love of the wife for her
husband, how that the one gave
her life to save the other; how that
the mother caught in binding
now storm at night, lost in the
mountains with her babe in heI
arms. takes the clothes from hel
own body and wraps her babe IN
them and suffers, and dares the
biting and cruel furry of the snow
and the cry winds that her child may
live. The mother dies but hel
child smiled in life with the warn
blood coursing through its life
while future hope and al
that life offers to it were left u
the object of that mothers love
the mother lies silent and dead will
the sweet smile on her dead brow
as much as the child does live, tn
mother seemed happy in the colo
embrace of death, the one smiled
in life, the other smiled in death
Such is love, the mysterious thlnl
that binds it's devotees with core
stronger than the very pangs OF re
morseless death. But there Is
higher love than this the preacne
urged and would keep the Knighu
and the Daughters in sight OF tina
higher love as he gave touching ex
amples after examples as to nov
a wife drew the poison from TN
wounds of her husband with he
given him up, when she knew ina
the act would bring death to he
Int life for her husband here IN
one object loved was given III
and the lover was assigned to death
Hear me-" he continued, 20
know the history and story OF ia
mon and Pythias and of Calanth
I need not to repeat it here, pu
lau of these examples OF love ar
only shadows and type of that high
or love which Christ manifesto
} toward man. Christ loved us, an
although, we had lost our right I
life. He promised that He woul
die for man. The prophets fore
told how this would be and afte
four thousands and four years, ID
fulfilled and made good his etel
nal promise, that He would die I
ransome man. So throughout th
ages we catch a glimpse of Hill
coming through the dark and shrov
ed death of condemned man, reacf
, es the Cross and substitutes Hin
self for us, will you accept hin
Hear the angels and the shepherd
the one watching the flocks b
: night and the other crying peac
on earth and good will toward NAL
Greater love has no man than IN