South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-29
MODERN MAN"
MUST FIND GOD,
SHANNON SAYS
Chicago Pastor Declare s
Earthly Goods Are Going
to Rack and Ruin"
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the physical forces in this cosmlc
world-we do not need God any
more We were not saying It out
and out, but that Is what we were
I trying up 10 1914. God has been
boring right down 10 the root OF
I things. I would rather be a preach
er OF the gospel than sit on any
golden throne built on this planet.
This modern man IN all his perplex-
\ tiles must have this-he must have
\ IL In his religious tenets-a new grip
upon the new testament proof OF the
\ personal providence that God has for
human life.
IAN the great preachers have en-
Y phasized the truth that God does
care for individual people. He not
\ only cares for men and women in
4 the mass but he Is so wonderful he
cares for the individual He taught
IL 10 the flowers. TO the birds, and
II every stem knows its place and
can go 20 1t. then this great soul
must have some individual knowl-
edge OF the sources he has created
in the world. The law OF gravity is
pulling upon every atom and ion n
the watch. One OF the things the
modern man needs brought back to
him Is that God cares-that no SPAR
row can fall to the ground without
sending a thrill up 10 the heart OF
! God.
Man Must Rethink.
How many millions OF people
have asked the question, why was
1 born In Chicago a young man
asked his uncle why ne was born
and received the reply that his uncle
did not know. A short time later
he was passing the Iriquois theater
when the great fire broke out. He
rushed in and succeeded in saving
13 lives but suffered severe burns
from which he later dieo in a hos
pital. AS he lay on a cot in the
hospital his uncle visited him and
he looked up into his face and said
Now / know why was born, IL was
TO save those thirteen precious lives
that God brought me into the world.
/ There Is no other way for the
modern man TO become a world
power in this modern world In meet
ing realities except by rethinking
these things that have made the
Christian church in history. We are
compelled TO think in terms OF that
kingdom which will abide when all
/, other kingdoms have passed away
as other Kingdoms have passed away.
and we have got to think supremely
in America OF the value of Christ
10 the nations OF the earth.
Why is 1t the name OF Arthur the
Great for a thousand years stirred
music in the souls OF men? Because
he was big enough In his spiritual
dimensions 10 believe that one prin-
ciple that il good enough for indi-
viduals is good enough for nations
and the Sermon on the Mount is the
one document upon which our social
and national life in the world exists
and grows"
Sermon of the Mount.
!. Have We not lived 90 see the
time where God has driven the ma
tons into a corner and put this
that not as individuals but as peo-
pie In a social and national and in
!, ternauOnal relationship they must
give the Sermon on the Mount wing
power. that 1t may go through every
avenue OF life. That is what he has
given US. Why? Because the more
the forces that bind nature are re-
leased, the more imperative is II that
men and women get together on
, spiritual things because the other
things are things that make for war
and war is hell"
The war OF 1914 20 1919 was a
terrible war but what do YOU think
. OF the next war? God has driven
the. modern Tian into a corner and
, he is not going to come out OF that
corner except he comes out follow
ing the footsteps OF Jesus Christ.
Unless we take these spiritualities
out into the markets OF life. hell Is
, bound 10 come upon this planet
The modern men must realize them
selves the commercial units whose
, genius runs through animal and
vegetable life right up into the hu-
, man world Man cannot lead his
. life alone God has driven the ma
tons together and we are here to-
gether for good or III. A French
phuosoI her says the modern man
has developed a body that Is too big
for his soul. His body has outgrown
his soul. What this world needs to-
= night is not a new mind alone but a
new heart. II you have a new heart
YOU can get all the mind you want
but II you have only the new mind
YOU are a humanized devil Real
thinking with real doing is the only
power that can do II and IL Ia 20 be
obtained enly through Jesus Christ "
Mcdowell TO Talk.
Rev. W. NJ Writ. OF Gary. Ind j..
talked on Religious Education"
lie declared that in our modern cit
les we have a multiplicity OF ad-
vantages fron1 the standpoint OF the
adult while the development OF the
child OF the city has been neglected
He made a plea for a definite plan
on the part or the church 20 govern
community welfare work along the
lines that child welfare work has
been conducted for years. He pre-
scented charts 20 show that a mod
ern school could be so planned as 20
make Il possible 10 add religious and
physical training 20 the curriculum
d 80 that the child could devote eight
hours a day 20 study. recreation and
religion. al under teacher supervi-
son.
Bishop william T. Mcdowell viii
give a talk at the conference session
az $50 this morning followed by a
business session At 10 o'clock the