South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-05-29
LINKED WITH GOD
TOPIC OF FORCEFUL
SERMON BY PASTOR
Rev. Davis Declares Nation
Suffers Because II Has
No Time for God.

The nation BE- zufering today be-
cause % has 10 time FOR God, Rev
Davis stared in delivering his
Sunday morning sermon Linked
wlth COD" to rhe congregation OF
the FIrst Baptist church Rev.
Davis pointed out the Importance
81 religious education for children
o. the public school age God must
be taken into our government. our
educational system and into our
com us-ce and social relations Rev.
DAVIS said.
His sermon .n part
"The prophet Ezekiel opens up
his book ~ the Prophet Ezekiel
win The declaration ] saw visions
% God No man can speak FOR
cod until he has heard God speak.
SO man can reveal Cod until no has
seen Him This seeing God not
only gives the speaker = message
but authority for the message.
The first vision the prophet saw
was a wing. beneath which was
the hard OF q man JIM The scrip
lures the wing Us always the sym
Dol ~ the divine while the hand Is
always the symbol OF the human.
I'm the figure the wing is above
and the hand is under the wing
Where the wing went the hand went.
The civine directed the human To
recognize this was the failure or
the people in the prophets day.
such n failure On our day viii bring
the same ruin 10 brought in the
days of the prophet The people
maguifed man and minlmized God
The result was the utter ruin Of
the nation and the final ca ptivlty
or the people.
The prophet saw also under the
wing "the face OF man The
face OF q man connotes personality.
Personality implies nationality. mo-
raj sensibility volition and affection.
or. iu other words. the power TO
think. 20 judge between right and
wrong. 10 choose either the right or
the wrong Thus We arrive at the
suggestion OF Christianity that is
thoughtful morally discriminating.
voluntary. and love motived. A per
sons choicest powers and capacities
are laid under the willing tribute
10 Christ II his Christianity registers
the value - SHOULD
Christian living lacks virility In so
many Instances because 10 ls not
thoughtful living Keen minded
business men devote the most
thoughtful and painstaking think
ing TO business. but allow their
Christian living TO slip along In
differently without concentration or
careful attention and then wonder
why religion IS so unsatisfactory.
Others are always turning over
the phrase. Faith OF our Fathers"
When rightly understood that say
ing Is true and should be kept But
we are not 20 understand that the
faith OF our fathers had no flaws.
They acted well and wisely for the
day in which they lived Yet
changes and experience may prove
that some things must be restated
and reldjusted % meet the needs
Of the present.
"Our fathers said that religion
must not be taught In the public
schools. Fear OF sectarianism made
them say 10. Perhaps We Will find
that religion is not sectarian. Per
haps we viii find that education
without religion make the youth
uopsided and TO balance the charac-
ter of the youth we will decide that
the youth must have religious i'm
struction and that the public school
age is the time for such instruction
III the home fails 20 give such in-
struction and the church school fail
what Will we do? VIII the Shib-
boHth faith OF our fathers. help us
The vision taught the prophet
that Intelligence must be linked uT
with Cod. The human which
means all business and all affairs
of government must be linked with
God We must take Cod into oui
educational system our commerce
and our social relations
The nation Is suffering today
because SO has no time for God
Church going IS not everything. bu
church attendance is the messur.
az the attention men give 70 seekir-
10 know God. The mass IF neapl.
are pleasure seekers We are iy
danger Of losing the serious rte ON
of life When a man loses his re-
ligi1u he loses everytN 70 cons
tructive value in his ule Amer
ica must find tiu cod