The Delta independent., 1924-07-18

us to believe that, just stay away next
Sunday.
11.0O-The devotional hour. Dr. E.
N. Edgerton, our District Superintend-
ent, will be with us and preach at
the ll:O0 o'clock service.
The last Quarterly Conference at
2:3O.
EOO-The Epworth League meets.
Big things being planned for the
Institute. All leaguers urged to be
present this coming Sunday night.
S:OO-Preaching service. The pas
tor will preach. Text: 81 Tim: 1-6 Stir
up the gift Of God which is in you.
Subject: Where Shall We Go from
Here"
Paul says to Timothy: "Stir up the
Gift Of God which is in you" Very
few folks come to church. That is
my reason for printing a part of my
sermon, with the hope Of stirring up
the gift which is yours. The only
gift that God could give to any man
OF permanent value, is the gift Of in.
telligence, Stir up your intelligence,
or your reasoning faculties, and think
You are in this world for some good
purpose What are you going to do
about it2
1t is long way back to the first
man, Adam 1 do not care a snap
what you think about the creation ex-
planation as given in the first book of
the Bible AS to whether this expla-
nation satisfies you or not. or just
what your notion of the development
of the human race is. This much is
true, you must admit. Adam, when he
left the Garden of Eden, did not pack
his trunks and call taxi, and go to
the Union depot, and purchase a ticket
for Chicago or New York, or any
other place. II he did anything by the
way OF PREPARATION when he left the
garden it was to re-arTange his fig
leaves about and pack the few and
limited IDEAS that he had about life.
in his mind. and take Eve by the
hand aud set out to conquer the
world
1t IS long long way back to that
first matter Of any Importance in the
life complex. Along that road as we
follow It back there is a world of
increne1's and as we travel back
over thai long journey Of the human
race We listen to the whir Of the
plane above US. We hear the roar of
the express train. and we see the
weary dusty trail of the OK team. on.
and, on and. on back to the weary man
trudginr trough the wilderness in the
raw materials Of nature.
And vet unreasonable as it may
seem 10 DE. humanity is capable OF TAX.
ing the Journey back. We mean by
this, that the idea Of Richard o. Marsh
of the Smithsonian Institute expedi-
tion in Panama in the discovery OF
white Indians is merely corrobora-
tion of the possible retrogression of
man. Nj Narsh's white Indians turn
out to be the descendants OF the
Prince OF Wales of III A. D. Mr..
Marsh's idea OF white Indians was
based no doubt upon primitive capac.
| ity as evidenced by his so called
whit Indians he thought he had dis
covered. AnthropologistS OF interna-
tional explode his theory and provide
a reasonable explanation. All this we
cite smply to scar upon our conscious
ness The fact, that. II we want to
keep our civilization every means must
be taken to root out those pernicious
forces that eat out the vitals OF a
civilization. Stir up the gift that is
yours Humanity stands today at the
crossroads. Where shall we go from
here The way is easy. just drift.
The way up is climb up into high
er and clearer moral and ethical at
mosphere.
JACK STEWART. Pastor