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CHRISTIAN FAITH.
1. ROOTS OF FAITH.
Sermon at the Cathedral.
WEDNESDAY,
man in the pulpit and the man in the paw had fought and suffered together, they could not understand each other now it was all over. The man in the new thought the man in the pulpit a fool and that he did not know what he was talking about The man in the pulpit thought the man in the pow-or the man who ought to live been in the pew-had gone to pieces since the war, that
The following sermon, the first of a series of three, was preached by the Rev, R. J. Northcott, C.Fho was not trying, that he was on Sunday morning at St. John's wasting his substance in riotaus living, in fensting" and "drinking, in Cathedral.
OCTOBER 14, 1925.
Jób. 11. "Canst thou by search-music and dancing. No doubt there writer in the Contemporary
ing find out God?. Canst thou find the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as. Heaven, what Deeper than hel! canst thou do? what canst thou know?"
Eccles. 2 "Look at the genera tions of old and sep, did ever any trust in the Lord and was con- founded? Or did any abide in his fear and was forsaken?. whom did. He ever despise that For the Lord called upon Him?
is full of compassion and mercy, long suffering and very pitiful, and forgiveth sins, and saveth in time of affliction.""
Those who study the process of life have often pointed out, in how life many striking ways, develops by a sort of rhythm of life and death. The two things go on side by side and are neces- While new sary to each other.
life is always appearing, the cle life is always wearing out and dying. At the very moment when the shell of the old seeddis break- ing up, the new, the young green corn, emerges from it.
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not because they cannot believe in him but because they are too-buny. pottering and prattling about the world to bother about the existance of anything, beside themselvas, Novortheless, even to the idlest souls, there afo, moments when the soul breaks through; in the love of a woman or a child; in a rapture of beauty of land or sea or sky j'or face to face with death or failure when the great questions crowd in upon us: Why? Wherefore! Whence t Whither? There are moments" sai Was Borne trath in the necufations deview, when the soul breaks each threw at the other. But they through the conventionalities the both missed, perhaps wo are both niall and petty round of trivial still missing, the rent truth, the thought, and stands face to face cause of all the trouble, which with inanite mystery,, and feels this, that we are together living ince the Ancient Mariner.
O Wedding Quest this soul hath one of those ages of which we havd
been. spoken when the shell of an old world is breaking, and world, unguessed, untried, known, only to God, is feeling its way. And upon our loneliness there Ortenderly through the old crust of steals sometimes feeling, a sense as earth. And not only in religion, but it were of music from the land of in other things too, we have not God; faint first; and far away and feet. Frankly laden with our sins and sorrows; yot quite got our over many things, there is confusion, till it grows, speaks; till it echoes, transforms, radiates 'thrills, And when there is confusion there is always the danger of panic, through our whole being; till we "men's hearts failing them fear, then shall they begin to say guess at what St. Paul means when with you, Lo, here! and Lo, there! he speaks of a man being taught up to Paradise and hearing un- but go not alter them."
Or what speakable words, Richard Rolle, the fourth century The world today is 'littered with mystic, means when he speaks of people crying Lo, here! and Lo the soul being "lifted and ravished there! People who think that the out of mind of any earthly thing" particular branch of knowledge in then he says "the soul may bear which they are interested contains and feel Heavenly sound, made by the whole truth of the universe the presence of angels in loving They have got hold of one aprig of of God." "Love and Joy," he says the new knowledge and they are so again, "with great voice outbreak-
the ing as
ascending spirit oxcited about it they feel they can We are living to-day in an age throw away all the old knowhaige, stretches out towards the Only Fair." Or to return to our mat- when new life, new thought, new ideas and theories are appearing
ter-of-fact writer, in the Contem with starting rapidity in almost Ged in it. They allow themselves porary Review, speaking on the every department of life. And it to be hypnotised by new thought same subject, "This is no expres-
our And
at the sion," he says, "of an overstrain- is invigorating to remind solves how this old world is al miracle of new invention, at the ed spiritualism, on the contrary, ways teeming with new life. But, advance made in the physial it has been verified in the experi because we all grow old so quickly,sciences, in medicina and surgery.ance of men of every age, the mys we find it sometimes a little dif-or historical research; another tics, the reformers, the seers, the ficult, a little disconcerting. It is studies psychology or gloats over prophets, a Socrates, a Paul, a.
lesser particularly difficult in the sphere payoho-analysis; another stands Luther, and a Lincoln, and myriads spirits who bear of religion. Because religion. wide-eyed and mouth open end of if it is going to be anything, must listens to the wonderful story of witness that through communion be the ground-work of everything evolution; and together they feel with the Unseen have come com- we do, and it that it disturbed. they have only got to find the fort, strength and insight, which there is going to be trouble. But missing link for the last church to no. human. fellowship could im- that is just what has happened. be shut down and the idea of God part." That is the conclusion of he whole matter, "through com- "The young green corn divinely finally abandoned springing has pushed its way
munion with the Unseen have come even into the sanctuaries of our
comfort strength and insight, which
It started over fifty
no human fellowship could im- churches,
art." years ago when Darwin published his "Origin of Species." But the average man, though he may have heard much, bothered little about Darwin and his theories: He went to church on Sunday just the same and found more comfort in the old story of Adam and Eve than in a lot of chattering professors swearing that their forefathers were monkeys Even if the man whp went to church believed that it was true about the professors, he indignantly denied it, about him- self. But not many years after
stands at the have found by experience that God wards the man who went to church had to go to war. And wifen he
our universe than mere mechanism, life, and the need
always claimed to bé and do. went to war he found, there was
or mere life, or mere finite per among our primary instincts. cried unto the Lord in my trouble more often bloody murder sonality-that is how we come to But although our faith in God and he delivered me out of my dis- Sunday morning thin
the conception of God A man must other day in the week. More learn to get a point of view which holds such a safe place in our in-treas" says the Psalmist and, look- whole experience includes the universe and himself tellecte, intellectual considerations ing back on our own lives, almost
strain. on great
in it. If he does that he will believe are not the main things that per every one of us could bear wit
The following competition results his emotions and his morals in the ultimate reality of the susde men to believe in God, for, ness to the same thing. "Look than he realised at the time. When universe-believe its foundation in as of old "Canst thou by searching at the generations of old and see,
he mind-beliovo in God". Lord find out God? Canst thou find the did ever any trust in the Lord and are announced: ho came back from the war
Bogey Pool.-G. A. Benson, all tried to pick up the old life again Haldane's words cover the whole Almighty unto perfection? It is was confounded? Or any abide where he left it off, and on Sunday ground, they show how very much as high as IIcaven what canst thou in his fear and was forsaken? Or square; C. Bulmer Johnson, 3 down; morning he went to church with harder it is to explain an ordered do? Deeper than hell what canst whom did he ever despise that call-1A. H. Ferguson, 4 down; W. Lang, his mother. But somehow things world apart from the idea of God thou know?" Every intellectual ed upon him? For the Lord is full down. were not quite the same The old than to believe, as he says, in its question is met by an answer, and of compassion and morey, long Medal Round (prize presented by mon in the pulpits, however, holy foundation in mind, to believe in every answer by a counter ques- suffering, and very pitiful and for or however scholarly, seemed God It seems to me that that is tion. If we try to get our faith giveth sins and saveth in time of Harry Hancock Eaq.), won by G. A.
man through our intellecta alone we
affliction." amentably out of touch with human the conclusion any normal.
That witness was Benson, 89-14-75,
Other Scores,--A. H. Ferguson, Anture it was as it really would come to if he set himsell shall find ourselves in a vicious given well over two thousand years
ая thought and felt. The young men seriously to think about those things circle of futile argument which ago and every day of that two 84-4-80; T. S. Whyte Smith,
never leads us any further. Men thousand years has added to the 94-12-82. in the pulpits were equally trying
Communion With The Unseen.
in all ages have come to belleve value of the witness. "Age after Instead of settling his faith back
Foursomes only again in its old ruta they unsettled
in God not so much through their age the living seek Thea" wrote bim more. They seemed uncertain
intellects, or their emotions, but Martineau, "and find that of Thy four couples entered and the Com-
petition was declared vold, themselves about the very things
through their experiences. They faithfulness there is no end." ho was uncertain. So, although the
over, was
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I have tried in what I have been go down. Lord Haldane pointed this out the other day in his grent saying to show, that although we
and "Thought on
Ex-are living in an age when an old words perience." "Thought" he said "is world is breaking and a world of always pointing to an ideal "which new thought emerging from it, is abovo ourselves and above on the roots of our faith in God are individual minda" (Evolution ac too well woven into the heart of counts for the organisation of the things for outward events to move world but first pre-supposes the them. "Though the earth be re- mind to which the world owes its moved and the mountains carried existence) we thus como back to into the midst of the sea," the sure mind as the foundation of the fact of God will stand secure. universe our senso of tho Divine is Faith in God the indication that there is more in threshold of the thought is and God does what God has
The trouble is any number of people do not think. They do not want to think. They leave out God
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