The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-28
MUST GIVE ALL
Bryan Says Half Way Religion
Is No Good.
Forty Years as Sunday School
Teacher Informed Him.

Kansas City. No, June 2s.-The In
ternational Sunday school convention
closed last night after an address by
w. ]. Bryan. His subject was All.
As Mr.. Bryan told of his forty
years as a Sunday school teacher, and
related experiences he had in that
time, endorsed the principles of the
International association, praised its
work and methods, he was interrupt
ed many times by applause. A gath
eEing of more than five thousand per-
sons heard his talk. That the gath
ering was entirely in sympathy with
his adherence to the strict teachings
and their strict Interpretation from
the Bible was manifested by the
crescendo of applause which came
when he said:
''Darwin's God was nowhere-he
could not find Him; Darwin's Bible
was nothing-it was uninspired; Oar
wins Christ was nobody mere man
with a brute ancestry.
ALLOW me to express my cordial
appreciation of the invitation extend
ed by those who have in charge the
program of this great International
Sunday school convention; am CRATE
full for the honor done me-, Mr.. Bryan
said, in opening his address. 1.-The
justified in so rearranging my lecture
engagements as to enable me to be
present.
Man Ignorant of Existence.
History proves that man, unaided
by revelation, finds it impossible to
guess the riddle of his existence or to
frame a philosophy of life that meets
his needs. When he knows that he is
the creature of an all-wise, all-pow-
erful and ALLOWING Heavenly Father
and knows the purpose of His creation
he seeks to learn the Fathers will and
to do it.
that it never wears out. No matter
how often we read it some new truth
is likely to spring out at US from its
pages whenever the book is opened,
or some old truth will impress US as 1t
never has before. 1t is so with the
word which I ask you to consider to-
night. During recent years 1t mas
stood out from the Bible texts as if
printed in larger type 1t is a little
word-one of the smallest in the Ian
Ruage-and yet it is the most COM
prehensive of words. Christ used the
word ALI many times and when we
consider the connection in which He
used 1t we see that no word of limited
application could take its place.
an Matthew (chapter %, verses IS,
36) we are told that a lawyer, tempt
ing Christ, asked Him: Master,
the law?' The lawyer gave Christ an
opportunity to launch upon the world
a truth of infinite Importance.
It's AII-Or None.
Taking the commandments which
relate to mans duty to God, He COM
pressed them into one and proclaimed
as the first and great commandment:
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy
SOUL and with all thy mind Here
Christ uses the word ALI three times
what less could He have said? D.
The history of Christianity would
have been entirely different if Christ
had said: With. nearly all thy heart
or with some of thy soul or with a
part of thy mind All is the only
word that describes the need of man
today as it did the need of man nine
teen centuries ago. A whole-hearted.
a whole-souled. a undetermined love
of God is not too much-it cannot be
less if love of God is to dominate
every impulse and energy of our lives.
Have you thought how much de-
ponds upon a belief in God? 1t is the
basis of all the controlling influences
of life. Unless one believes in God he
cannot have the consciousness of
Gods presence in the life-the most
comforting assurance that the Chris
tian has.
UNLESS one believes in God he can
not have a sense of responsibility to
God for thought and word and deed |
Have you considered what would be-
come of the world il in a day every
thought of God were erased from the |
mind and heart? Civilization would |
be impossible, for civilization rests
upon mans sense of responsibility"