Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-10
MANY PEOPLE HEAR
ELOQUENT sermon
BY DR.. SULLIVAN

Suppose" said DR.. William Lau-
renee Sullivan of New York City !
Mission Preacher of the Unitarian |
Laymen's League. speaking last night |
to an audience of enthusiastic listen |
| ers at All Souls church. that we sum |
moned to our meetings. the great null |
| titudes of churches. sects and schisms
, that are called Christians. And sup
pose we put to each of this great num- |
ber What is the Church of Christi
! The answer at first. fear, would be
confusion of tongues
"One Will say there is no full mem |
| bership in the church unless you do
i baptize in such a way: and the mem
| Der across the aisle would say that
baptism Is to be done in another way
1t is upon the Lords Supper that one
of the main matters that determine our
discipleship win be dependent. Still
another will declare that there is no
Church of Christ except they have
bishops; and that unless the 10 fingers
of the bishop have been laid upon a
| mans head he is not authorized to
preach in the name of Christ.
suppose we have listened to the
| final appeal. The confusion of tongues
/ has died away. And then suppose that
upon the stage came Jesus Christ him
| self. And what says he?
Let no man put the words Of an
other upon his lips but only let him
speak his own
"'Blessed are the pure in spirit
| Blessed are the mcrciful. Blessed are
| they that hunger and thirst for right.
| Blessed are they that suffer persect.-
! ton for righteousness sake. Thou
shalt love Cod; thou shalt love thy
neighbor; this is all the prophets and
! all the law
| "Whatever he our attitude toward
! the question of The Church of Christ
: and It's Conditions of Membership
/ there has to be a church for the wor-
! shippers of God in the spirit of Christ.
! BY what means shall the seeker find
the Church of Christ? It is hardly
possible to answer that question with
out looking back little and looking
back naturally to the person for whom
and from whom the Church Of Christ
| takes its name.
DR.. Sullivan then retraccd some of
the ground covered in previous ad-
dresses Of the present series. and
stated that Jesus was born into a
| great church. the Jewish church which
| had had n long history. To the end
of his life he was a member of this
church. and long after his death the
first Christians rcTained within Ju
daism. and never dreamed Of going
outside or it or thought that Christiani-
~ cdlleu inPHh OUTSIDE but lhouSh
| Jesus WIS III inns chufcn pS blr'h ne
Was toiu toWafu y. re Was no ar
uehL irlrhu o. hrlcS.hoou' hau no par
ticular inclination for legal systems
for schemes and ordinances; was not
the type Of mind and spirit that was
! institutional.
Let it he said now that more and
more scholars of tho New Testament
lt'l 'oh ih'tu that Jesus never useu
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