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rrua DISTINGUISHED LOOK- mo MAN" was THE can: n: . BENJAMIN BREMNER. WHO nequssran THE Mss WITH- OUT GIVING ms NAME.

t. Tinlothy 3:15, “The Ohnrcn of the living God."

One cannot say everything 1Y1 one serlnon. In order that we may make progress in the direction sug- gested by our text. let us begin with the assumption that g

We believe,~all oi us. -—l.!\ God: and that by this confession of faith we mean by the term "Cvodt" _

"A Superhuman Spiritual Bclnfl all cssetitiailyi Personal and Cmlllic Poirer. an intelligent Moral Mind and Will, without whom there would have been no orderly <‘\ diving wot id. and no human race " if) C. 3h:- Illicsh.)

ll such P Gorl e ., ilieti he is‘. as this text dcscr .. n “the ii:- 1112 God." it ls ln record to the implications of tlia.t pnlnse. if we take it seriously, that I wish now to think with yoil.

But men have always believei have they not.»Christlans at any rate-in a living God?

Theoretically. Yes. They have thought of him not. only as the Creator but as the Preservel" of ml things They have praised him for his never-failing goodness and Ora?- ed for his spirit within their hearts and his light upon their way.

But practically, they‘ have often thought of him as the God who in the past. did wondrous things. mak- ing himself knoivn to men and uo- men who iii-ed lone ago In the past he talked ivitli Abraham and Moses, crdivned David and Sololnori . as rulers of ills people. and called xsliah and Jeremiah to serve him in the prophetic office.

“Little by little in different ways God spoke in old times to our fore- dathers through the prophets, but. in these latter days he has spoken tilltn us in a Son, who is the re- llPTllfYll of His glory and the re- I presentation of His being," says the Irtter to the Hebrews, mbut this was nineteen hundred years ago!

'I“l'le. written revelation of God's character and will has come down to its in sixty-six little books — lllirLv-"nine in the Old Testament and twenty-seven in the New. The New Testament consists of the story of Christ as recorded ln the (tospels, the history of the early church recorded in the Acts, to- gcther with interpretations of the Clrst. and of the Christian move- ment from the hands of the Apostles or their companions —— end this is a complete revelation; so the church ha; believed and taughL-a closed book to which nothing can be added and ircm which nothing can be taken,—-s canon. a final authoritative list. of sacred utritlnga, the latest of which must have been written eighteen centuries ago.

Do you want to know what is the form of governnnent of a trilc church? Read the scriptures, -a:‘.tt reading them. men have arrived a". a variety of answers t0 that ques- tion. some have said the early church was independent, Con- gregational in its government; oth- ers that it Wis covierned b3‘ a presbytery; others by bishops; oth- erg still, by s. supreme head, the Apostle Petcrp-first of all the

popes.

What think ye of the Christ? nicn have asked; and the answer has been again, Search the scrip- tures. What. did the early church believe? We must believe just that and no more. But again. the New Testament itself discloses different COYITBpEIOIIS oi Christ. as men view- ed him from different. view-mints.

What of duty? This collection oi booklets. -the latest. of which is eighteen hundred years old, must answer this question for us.

This will indicate what I had in mznd when I said that while theoretically the church has alvrails believed in a, living God, practically it. has believed in a God who made his will known to men a long. long time ago.

It was against this doctrine of a closed revelation that Samuel Long- fellow wrote.

"Lord, that word abideth ever; Revelation is not sealed: Answering now to our endeavor, Tmth and right are still revealed."

And Whittier,

“And everywhere thy spirit walks With man as under Eden's trees, In gardens of the heart. and talks In all his varied languages."

Truth and right are still rc/ul- Od! God's spirit. still walks and talks with men in the garden of téhtedheart, -becau.se He is the living

If “God is Spirit; and we are spirits made in his imARQ. and if, as Tennyson declared

"Spirit wit-h spirit can meet."

then the living God oaln find a way to make his will known to men today.

It is the glory of the great. pro- phets of Israel that. they attributed the highest and holiest. and principles of their lives to the

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HORO

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Woman’s Re alm '1 Social and

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN

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Personal

Dorothy Dix Says

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EVERY WIFE SHOULD PREPARE

FOR HER DAY

She Should Acquire

Interests Which Will

Absorb Her Time And Energies After The Children Take Up Their Own Ijves

An eluincnt nerve specialist say man who has tiothlllg to do or interest her HIM‘ grown and leave home is God's gift. t0 the K111361081

is sh: and

her children are profession. for it her sisters who crowd the waitln!

{cums or physicians and fill sanatorlums and who are the answers to the prayers 0i’ donor-i

not. only for

bread and butter, but. for cakes and

tile. The case history of Mrs’ Legion. 1'01” Ella? is her name. is interesting and Pathetic as be utifiilris it. lo the dlagnostlcian. I cant tinder-

stand whats happened to inc.

always been

Doctor. I have so well and strong. Why. I've done

two wonletrs work. Did my own cooking and washing and housework and bellied my hllebmld

in the store

when we were first married and he

was just. getting e. start. in business. And then

the cliildlcu

collie. For years there was one

b,“ by in n-y arms and another one pulling at lny

skills. bil. I

was so healthy I marlaged to take

care of them all. for we didn't. have any mOIIBY

then to liirc servants.

~ , _ going back b6 up hal the

(Plcfsi n New cpportunives for personal advancement. uzrxpected’ benefits imfcated. Dirt Jesitate to) long before dcdng to act in iniprrtniit matters ~ delavs are . often costly". ' A CHILD BORN ON THIS DAY A lzatherer cf knowledge, but iln- yssulnillg in exploiting wha’ he (or shot krlcivs: pleasant. ind charitable in disc sition; inclnesl to minimize h‘s icr tier» own ability. A position of trill can be ably handled by this ‘ ‘dual. Shtuld be taught to fol- iututcn and sound indig- .s'li'1‘0n a ciraral-ter-builder.

phet, ~but when he saw injustice oppression, bribery, corruption. self- ishness, ilvasteflilness, grccd in high places. and his riehieoils angrv burned within him. h" dared tn ltondenln these things ln the pain.- of Gnri

Hosea knew that the love thr. filled his own heart causing hzm to be kind and forzivlng in t'c sinful ivithin his own home, inust. be like that. in the heart. of God; and so he became the prophet. o1 God's love.

In like maliiicl‘, Jocl. Jcrrrnilli Isaiah. —-l‘cc0gliized the Cllll n‘ the llvingGod, -not the God of some far distant past. but. the Gui‘ of their own time, -t.he living Gil’. who was speaking to them at that. moment.

Let. us now now that only the living God could be the God of pre- gressive religion:

Here they are-the Ten (‘om- mandcnents, _ written as Hebrew tradition maintained by the finger of God himself upon two table. of stone, and given to Mo cs tor the guidance of God's people; anti wholly sufficient for the simple social order in which the men of that day lived:

What do they say about the =0. cial sins of our highly socinli ' agc? About holding stock ili company notorious for its unethical practices? About. the acquklitivc mo- tive in modern business? About paclficism? About a social orcler thatproduces more titan can be distributed. About u-ant in the nfljsl; of plenty?

What do the Ten CQXTIHIZTPJIWQPLS say about any of these? Not. one thing! And yet these are the questions which face the than who is trying to serve God in this modern world.

These questions are with us. They seem likely to remain with us. They will not down: and if we are to find the answers to them it must be by recognizing that fine call to fairness, to brotherly kinrl- ness. w good-villi to iustice. is the call of the living God speaking to us today.

Revelation is not scaled.

And when human resources fall. when we have done our best and it is not. good enough. or adequate to ollr need, then. because he is a liv- lug Godvwe may expect grace to help in time of ilccd

Weary in body. fllstmlmgcll ill mind. broken in spirit the wn-"lcnt prophet prays that God may take ewe)’ his life. Life is not worth the “V1118: and their E!‘ J's God Rives him new strength. new courage- and new irork l0 (lo.

_ Elijahls God! Yes. but that. iros 1on2 azo. What. Wt want lo krzow Ls whether there Ls similar help for those who are weary and worn and at the end of all their resources to- ay.

Let Sherwood Eddy answer that question for us: A man of this "1066111 World. still living, sane, honest, ll-tithftll

I “In 1896." Sherwood Eddy lays, ‘I went out to India. carrying with me high hopes and youthful en- thusiasm as n missionary. But within a year I broke dovm and was on the verge of nervous pro- slratim. One morning after a long and sleepless night I resolved to stop drawing on myself so con- tinuotlsly and begin drawing upon God. I determined to set apart. a quiet time every day in which I could relate my lite to the ‘Ulti- mate Source. and rflgaih the con- sciousness that in God I live and That was thirty years ago Since then

"H"? 6°“: ‘I hove had literally not our hour

Amos was no professional [go-

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of darkness or despair." (Quoted! in lvlaclntosh, Is there a. God? P2540.

_An ounce oi fact. it has been 1 sa d. is worth a pound of tileory. HP‘? s the lacl- that a man of our own titre. wnlh, weary‘, broken. lnuud grace to hPlp in time of tie-rd when he put. htnself into righr rclati: s to the living God. Nut. long ago! lu our car

Tnere is something else. too, that we are called upon to meet sooner or later. -all of llfip-ilrlftlély solroy ‘There l5 abundant, tcsiiniotiy that, in the past men in time of sfllic- tion called upon God and were conl- , forted: '

"Our fathers trusted in lhcc; l they cried unto thee and were de- livered; they trusted in thee/and were not confounded."

So roads the record; but that ivas long ago. What I want to know is ilrhethei" there is help today in my affliction

.c‘o all the time and

paring breakfast.- El _ i. _‘ w cleaning DRLCJHIR, darnins. MIX-ll‘.- me baby's bottle. baking a. bAl hda. cake for Johnny. making Mair l‘ new dress to wear to sciiooz, doing two women's work. Doctor. ‘out: never a s.“ day, grid all (lfllllrl . _. titue that the children were 2.0“: inst up. so much to no that I _\V0li£l_ er now how I ever got through w n it all. Hordes of 31111118 993,9“? comm; and golfigndalilfilllgxS g: ing. whooping, raldine the lullzhlz.‘ Getting boys off t0 coiled‘! a“: g camp, for Papa had made ,\7*0_ money by thrn. M.ikii‘l_‘.l_ LIB-U dresses for the gills 91m" ‘m’ lertainmeiits for them. So mucnto yet I newer s d t ‘d it Evert/bony Elildllel cellsllil? had been blessed gent; good health. Nothing l0 D0 _ _ _ ~Apd then the boqs finisllecicol- legs an; got. jobs in distant cities. and the girls sot mefrisd- R3"! P3133 311d I were left alone in _t.ie big house. And I said I Céfliilflnv would settle down now and lake life easy. with "nothing to do. "Then this shunts slfkllefis value upln me, Doctor. I flout know wvaz these queer syniblvtlli mean. I've alwllYi bee" 5°_ W“, “l pep and energy and now Iln llrrf- all the time. I don't. want. loll‘) anywhere, I don't feel like dour! anything, Maybe I have sci-lie deadly disease. I don't. know. I have been to see all the specialists and none 0f them_can find ant‘- thlng the mtltter with me. They don seem to know what. ails me.‘

Again I call a living witness:

I had just closed a service for one of our own number suddenly taken from us. I had read silch words of comfort and healing as scented appropriate to this parti- cular situation, speaking of the faith that. never dies and the love that. never faileth. There was a nituncnt‘; delay at. the close of the service, rind while we were waiting a lady’ WQCEII I had ncver seen came over to me and said,

"I can certify to the truth oi the words you have read today. Six months ago I passed through a sor- row so sudden, so uncxpccied. so crushing. that it seemed to me I could not livc, -—I must break under the load; and then, from somewhere, comfort came, and strength to carry on.

"I have never been a student of religion." she continued "I do not know how those who understand such things would explain it. I only know that in my sorrow, and in my extremity. comfort came --.'rom somewhere.

Doctors Know the Answer

' But the doctors do know what ails Mrs. legion. Th-ey ‘know that it. is being bored. It is idleness It is having nothing to do. They know that with her children's going her interest in life went. too. The)’ know that she hasn't been able in stand the lonesomeness of the big house that u/as once so gay Valid ilOisy and is now so still and silent

The doctors know that it L< a common complaint among women who have had big families, and that the more devoted mothers they were. the more sure they arr to have it. and the more difficult it is to deal with because they crln write no prescription that will give a mother back her babies and keen her so busy she will not have time to be sick herself.

Perhaps there is no surefire cure for these mothers who scquile. imaginary diseases when they have nothing to do but search their sys- tems for symptoms. But. Just as we are itinoculatled against smallpox

This, let rue remind you, !s no voice out of the past. It speaks of a recent experience. There ls no possible doubt. as to the reality of the experience. My own explanation is that, this afflicted soul cricd unto the Lord, and the Lord heard. and delivered her out of her dis-

; trcsscs. because he is a living GOll lWhst an exalted privilege is ours gtnclay as we meet. hero-a pmtioli ‘of the church of the living Gila. to livorship. to have communion with, pand to serve the living God, whose l mercies are new everv monlins and fresh every evening. and ivllosa compassions fail not I f0 Father. Thou who givest all The bounty of thy perfect love, We thank Thee that. upon us fall Such bender blessings from above.

For faith to conquor doubt and fear.

For love to answer every call,

For strength to do and will to dare

gill/la Uta-ilk Thee, 0 Thou Lord of ' (John Haynes Holmes)

LENTEN PRAYER

‘Allxllhsouls that. struggle and aspire, A d "P5 DY PTHY". by i-hee are lit; h him or clear, thy tongues of On dusky t ibe _ otwe‘ “It "a and twilight cert Yd. in whose hands are life ind death. by whose power I am sustained. and by whose mercy 1 3P1 Shared. look down upon m9 wllh my» Fotlllvc me that. I have lln_ whmliwqlg much neglected the duty 0U 1135f. assigned to me Zflgcfilllfm i!" dove and hours of "Iv-ii give account to m away without any endeavour m s: complish Thy will. Make me to rememb". 0 God that ever d l8 Thy sift. and ought to be}, :3’ according to Thy command all me. therefore. so to re nt.‘ of .f_'llfi)grglf'gl10e, that. 1 may o tam mercy W. and pass the time which

|'I'llou shall. yet allow me in diligent I

performs; f i-hloiixh curtail “mill”? Samuel Johnson (1109-1784).

SHOCKING

Mrs. Watts: "How is your new girl going on?"

Mrs. Patio: "Uh, she's q perfect heathen. I left. her bo straighten things Up befre the new minister called, and she never wen ducted the Bible‘?

before we catch it. there is a lo: o! preventive medicine that. would save them much suffering if they would only take it in time. Sulrxested Cures

The first remedy I would sug- gest to them is to be lnore wife than mother. To hold on to incl: husbands with both hands. To be chums with their husbands. so tlai. when their children go front thcm, they will not be left. desolate companionship and ones husband is all infallible panacea for that lost feeling when two aging people are left alone

Another ivay to prevent falling a viictim to the soul sickness from “Tlftll so many mothers sflffrr when their young iiv from the home licst is for them to realize tint ones children are only loaned Ulcm for a few years.