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BELIEF IN GOD,'
TOPIC OF SERMON
ATSTULL CHURCH
Rev. Young Declares G Q d
Must Be Back of Every
Mans Religious Life.

Back Of every mans religious
life there must be God" Rev. Claude
Young said in delivering his sermon
on the subject. II Believe IN COD.
yesterday at the stuu Memorial
church. HIS sermon in part:
1T will always make a difference
whether or not man believes In
God. The man who believes in Cod
has a sense Of purpose and proteo-
ton running through his life which
Is wanting In the man who does n0t
believe ia God. When Francois Vol
taire died his last words were these;
I am abandoned OF God and m%n.'
when John Wesley passed into The
beyond he could only say: The tsest
CT all IL. God r. with US.
Back OF every mans religious Efs
there must be God. Tie differences
IN the religious life o. people .
largely the difference IN the god
whom they serve. and the God who
serves them II He be A nature God,
that brings one kind OF people. II
he be a God OF the Spirit. that 10
stand Christianity Alright, we know
from the words Of the founder. that
cod IS a Spirit and they who wor-
slp Him must worship Him IN spirit
and In truth When Paul wanted
20 tell US who God ~. he said that
He IS the God and Father OF the
Lord Jesus Christ But when We
have said that we have not said all,
for back Of the single word father
lies some things which make 10 posi-
bic for US 20 say. I believe in Cod
we believe IN God who is a per-
con. II IS not enough 70 say that
God - power; II IL not enough to say
that God - law: It Is not enough 70
say that God is principle The
Christian relieves that God - a per
son. one with whom he may have
Fellowship: one whom he may know,
even as he is known OF Him. Fellow
ship comes only OF persons.
I'VE believe in God who IL purpose.
This Person has a purpose IN the
world. The world is not aimlessly
shot out into space man is not pro-
rniscuously cast upon this globe.
InETe IL a EEE6DM Win . PuA R0aN
who Is behind all. IN all and over all.
II is He. the God OF the world. who
proposes TO bring good TO man and
10 His world.
we believe IN God who Ia very
near. God in the presence who is
and has been working through his
tory: God - in that process which
men car evolution; God IS present In
nature which shOweth his handi-
work: God Is present as love which
gives and serves and saves. God Is
very near. az the Apostle notes be
fore the Athenians: for in him we
live and move and have our being
We believe in God who is very
fair. We believe in God who IL holy
and whose ways we have not yet full
~ found out; his wisdom 20 be such
as We have not yet cOmprehended;
and his Righteousness Of that kind
for which man must strive long be
fore he will reach II.
I'VE believe In God who Is good
ness His goodness is not a negative
something. that Is the absence OF
evil. His goodness Is a positive
WHICH - nDlhAhk Al anu
through the world. Here we may
rest There may be evil, but selfish
and brute force will not have the
last word. God viii reign.
This IA the God and Father OF
our Lord Jesus Christ in whom ev-
cry Christian. II he be Christian after
Christ, believes. This is the God
who will bring victory TO the world"