South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-04
DIR DAVIS TALKS
AT FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH SERVICES
Pastor Urges New Church
Members TO Remember
Words of Jesus.

Rev L. 8 Davis sermon at at the
First Baptist church Sunday morn
/ ing consisted mainly OF a few sug-
his church that were received Rev.
Davis said in part:
To those who are to be received
into the fellowship of the church
want 10 suggest some things YOU
must remember.
"First-Remember the words or
Jesus. Do we realize the power Of
words Do we realize what they
represent? They represent us. our
words are as much our own as our
thoughts They are the incarnation
Of our thoughts. just as our bodies
are the incarnation Of our souls. II
we change our words we change
our thoughts.
Now II we are 20 represent our
selves correctly we are 10 see 10
! 10 that we choose correct words
Words are the armory Of the mind.
Words in the dictionary. TERED and
piled up in rows are harmless. but
when they receive the vitalizing
touch Of genius, they become en-
dowed with tremendous energy and
leap with life. Job exclaims, Fifty
spoken words. how good they are
en- are like apples of gold in baskets
Of silver
Study Jesus Words.
The words of Jesus reveal him.
They reveal his wish and Will con
corning us. Study carefully his
words and come TO know his will.
Obey his words and you will do his
will Second-Remembe the life of
Jesus His life was spouess. The
greatest and best Of human leaders
have been marked by defects. To
read the lives Of saints is TO be inn
pressed. if not oppressed by their
sense of failure Isaiah said, I am
"a sinful man David said wash me
with hvsop. But after the fiercest
light has been focused on Jesus, the
verdict is, holy and undefiled.
Remember his spirituality. BY
spirituality / do not mean asetism.
ceclusion or disdain for others. Real
spirituality is familiarity with God.
The familiarity Of Jesus with God
was the familiarity OF man who
lived among men and wherever he
went. every place was lighted up
with the glory of the eternal. He
saw God touching all life. Life was
not divided into secular and divine.
Life was one. Our Sunday life is
TO continue through our Monday life
Sunday is TO give us the ideals for
Monday But without Sunday, Mon
Cay will he a failure
Need Jesus Spirit
Remember the submissiyeness Of
Jesus My meat is TO do the will
OF him that sent me-. His viii is my
meat The thing satisfied his soul.
His was a human life spiritual, ia
miliar with God, submissive and
obediant to God. Remember his
serenity In the hour Of the trial
Of Jesus. when all others were swept
by storms and excitement, he was
serene. Others were beside them
selves but he was calm and quiet
We need more of this spirit for our
daily lives. Owing to the petty an
noying things Of life some of US are
holding on 20 our faith with both
hands. Some of us act as though
sod were dead We need 10 remem-
Der that God changes not. We are
in a world of change but not syl-
able of change in God. We need 10
enlarge our idea Of God No shrap-
mel no asphyX.ating gas, no vauut-
ings of earthly rulers. no declaration
If parliament or congress has robbed
God of any element Of his being. He
is the same today and forever. The
only hope of you and me, and our
churches and Of our nation, and Of
every nation, and of humanity, is in
approximation 10 the character Of
God