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-.jrE .REV,D C - I_rewe: Chiestei'ton's. rery '$Pw York C d D. ., the pestoi of theV t .Aeaue Eautist Chui-ab, preachod -i nWs PulJI Sits'day His subjtct Wa --How '.r (h'StOAd6A -- Dlscovre4 n,3 la nil.' lie toolvtor hls text Mat ney 11:2 andH 29,"_Will give. you est." "Ye shi find rekt.int your ma Com unto Me all je that ave weary and heavy laUn aMfg I will ivo You rest. rale M,oke upon :on and leni of Me, for.l**m Meek -ad lowly in heart, and ye^'Ahall fnad Nest unto yir souls," and4aild: This is Christianity's frit invita tion to the world. ,. It applies the test of universal religon. For the test of Univeral- religion is not in the num Zers of those who accept it, but in the Varieties of men and women who ac cept it, and whose needs it meets and atsfies. This invitation has been accep-el by every kind and condition of mn and women throughout the whole of the human race, and every type of character, every circumstance of need has responded to this invita Abon. The men and women who have accepted have found the rest for 4heir souls which Chrst promised. Bt I am not going to preach to-night apon this text. Millions of gracious sermons have been preached upon it -and millions of souls have been won .4 the rest promised. I have one lurpose only in repeating the words at the outset, and that is that you anay use them, not as a text to ex pound but as a motto of that which is to follow, for I purpose to speak about a conspicuous figure in the -world of letters who has accepted this invltation of Christianity and found rest for his doubting, wondering, in quiring mind, rest for his turbulent spirit; and he has written a book tell ing us how he found his way to Chris Unulty and to the rest tha.t Chris Vanity offers. The man is Mr. Chesterton. His books are freeiy on sale in this coun try and he occupies a very conspic vious place in English literary life. The book is called "Orthodoxy." It is a story-autographical-of. the way 2o which he brings himself to the ac -eeptance of Christianity. The style ta all his own. He is the supreme mauster of paradox among living men Mhe wide world over. His purpose is to take any statement about any mor :Sal thing and show that universally the contrary is true. If, for instance, I say that the doctrine of original sin In gloomy and depressing his method s to show that the doctrine of orig Inal sin is universally the most brac Ing and most invigorating and ex biUarating that the mind of man can -onceve. 'That is the man's way, and hm has attained to enormous influence -and his books to enormous sale by working this paradoxical method. It -does not follow because I call your attention to this book that I am com mending it unreservedly, but the value of the book is that it stimulastes thought. It sets you thinking about the deepest and highest things, and imany things deeply suggestive and Ielpful to spiritual life. In one sense At Is a corrective of that very curious ftgrained temper of our day which lannehes every now and then an en tirely new and original gospel that is going to supersede all other gospels tQat have over been preached and bring in the millenium by special ex Epress with -al.l expenses paid within the next fortnight. We have seen i100 much of that sort of thing and it far. correct1ve of this curious habit, 4MaS launching with banners flying andl bands playing, a gospel of' to Emrrow, which, on examination. prown~s to be merely a second-hand espy of a sleepy edition of the gospal -of yesterdaiy afternoon, Mr. Chestorton likens hiniself to an SEglish yaoltsman, who in the IEng Umk.ChpQ) loses hisi bearings and in 1kb Rmagination thiniks he is in the - spithern Ps.cific and on app)roaching Stadd believes it is some uninhab or savage island, He goes ashore wqnwared to meet wild men and ani -am,and discovers that he is among 2 is own peoplo in the.fa!ilia; ptreets ' & DoY$3r or Brighton, Mr. Cherd.or aets'out to dliscover a new eth!oc onu philosophy of life, a new mor'al U, and .he difoove:'ed Chr'stiaalty. wathe in this, country twei rundts:yet,iWW I am quite cerlain Odtthete have be9mtwenty new go,s i 0 launched upon an astonished le bIipuring thy..time. I r m?p'r ito win the world to Christ Of the next tWelve m6nths. UII*her q9nt.nme a copy of the te' 'i* iy opin10%, and I wrote him t a4~ pot csirtN two strawis about ~'at~r~ f hid, but before the ink .; ~a ~n ~gnature yvas -dry a friend on-ine and I asked him how to Boand lo's scheme was getting ~ m Oh" "ehe said, "he is about "~ I~id,Wh4 Ihave only just got J5~Lomitae pblishe1'." "That W~lU ake g 4t rence," said my "3ut,'~ i- "how can he i arul it already?" k "t me '*lk pt or my r, I ance a4d. *precia ance. gr* Ueican n the 0,V9 the 01fhili'tIn JeAui h "a ren"m de6,t 10r! ad Io r, ani !, " e& -. . ToNw a wree ilbl the -Idjt th,ers r ead:i Mr. s us tlie which'1 _16fundlt y to: 1614-. foundf.rist; d eaXts abont amzenet. i ch -h rola Voi how . dne- '.p,oto C11r-sti 0 ti canceled- an9 t .4 .Take on 9bl. jectdio ti h -and It I i - pletoly a e iother 'e t1oll 4to x , objector.' e foug0', ka Weetion in. the. rg Cinn Christianity the grou)id ou it Is a religion of foom, Anda4otor -bbtud Christla - Ity had'east & rose pink veil over ,all human .lifer *Ith- a silly, fiabby -sebt mentalin about thi -Tkhe best. of all possible worlds.* He found a'n-, other objection that it has made man wel and that Christianity took 41 the.virlity, all the manhood out of us, and another-that Christianity had deluged the nations with blood. I13 Christianity, he asks, a religion of me,ekness and mildness, or of mur der and cassacre? It may be one-or the other, but It cannot b both -at the i'ame'time. You remember .the humorous.poerm by John Godfrey Saxel about the tour blind Hindus who went to see an elephant.-, They could ot see the ele phant, but they said what they had seen. One happened to lean against the elephant- -and -declared it was much -like a wall. Another got hold of his taH and described him as being like a rope. Another got Wis trunk and said he was a serpent, and the fourth ran against his tusk and said he was shaped very much like a spear. The fact is that they had not seen the elephant at all. That is all. And that Is my sermon. The objectoras have never seen Christianity at all; they have' never understood' Chris tianity at all. They have seen mere fragments-the ta l or ear of the elephant-but they have not -seemL Christianity and know not what it t.. The difficulties of religion are great, but the diffiulties of unbeliefd are Infinitely greater. It not not true that Christianity in Its fullness t a. simple thing that anybody can grasp in two minutes. There are difficulties, and perplexities, but the difculte and perplexities and problema in which you Involve yourself h tha. rejection of Christianity are far great er than thoseinvolved in its accept ance. I could present hal a dozen, I will present one: It: unbelief has stated the case truly to us, Jesus Christ was only a peasant -boy, a car penter and a tanatic for religion, w1ho laned xn an obscure pa t t the ltes man empire and died r a brminal after three years of agitation. That is all. And yet Christianity,, the most tremendous and colossal fact In the world, has all grown out of that! Men and women, Ignorant and wise, In widely different circumstances, tell you that they have been down and have been raised, have had burdens lifted froma their shoulders, strength came to them, enabling them to bear their loads, theyhave been conscious of in and realized forgiveness, the chains have dropped from-their man acled spirits and .they havip walked -in the freedom of mnanhood and womase youd thtel o they have been w n have bn wraied fohave ha budenfsav lite fomesse thr'souherse vailn th camest them,invblifro the vtsbe thei lads, ten hae bee ao,sanduI chainshae roppe whato,Itheirh man acey spits and dethe nhve walkedi the freedo of meaanoodand on thq. hood taviou tell y thy hae. beeyo lotandt were whether myrslfiavet at times tryn ithroghThe il that hdste inthier fn rm t vsbe. andhtinye beensrad and I ae Havispean ftrom wto .o tounght the vfer gte ofvdeathiond "Coe walke tMe hills oflife aain and foun hav myen Sand.ur wslyl ide. Ifsyou scre dni.es obeltins.ja Wieac thld randz the notcre.s Chrstianit tns andiChrest maeso desisapealtillee ta up -it, ad toesghe itn ration: "Coe uno Mayethat l ,abhorg ndtare he Socrrtens fmall hingees.th We subld ralizeHe the smanls ofsalthings whntedichsed by hosa-0 ofesitho deish tha uplfto, hs5h thoughs.t~ unhealdd;th wr I t_ha nkGod fo ohur~ reed os piv lges. allthav equa ~ghbrigt dun. de'r thert'firmlynd htis Te Prt oetpubli thppMoase.edenc the baild a his darqe, nte Bdesised hiy tee thgs. tt cirh,ocerii to no thuan pod for our:gu iiu convihetions :aspnsiles. onhe torGod Th estt ath atholakes thue Jewatne aetilwoen, the b detnma chreu hris osesge the h hi tepl Asligia ,allegi We -the warouil tono thuya - pribu for o"I kneo ou thoudwells," "Wesowl oth t .Gd ITh oisra;s 4 that may h ea. addn womer i .ti k es rent, warings reu agetote cfHu -Jos0 Asai al einawt gthea wod s-." know to. peiulo us" nW1ir tanud"l~-',fknwty yt. dgen -fr~s Mozhee ealy ini Iv~ ~ia* arance. * ' he rear nA.11* thyto ma v sk to beal el misspeJ ehen ire Ur n wIS the p ' %in het doesn't y.th ~aj,et may be, lix,Ibeto t .t Wido 0 fath -a ian te lids we ineolip it wouId he hum ty, ciiscourse tan PI ay Met." . wiha silver spoon it0 n't ocut. its wisdorg t~ob 'ldY i bthaIn the kids whio ~om~ I*I~,~4~ybaggage. so proudl of their humal ti '~ '~yare constantly m retious in order that they ma Aly apologize for them. le~ Dt ents Foe Catarrb Tlat dn Mercury, us mercury .. destroy the senso of smell and co erange the whole eye tew when i t through the mucous 4urfaces. bnould never be used e oept n ns fromn reputablo phy sietaa,- .t,h q*fili they Ivall do is ten old W %YQ possibly derive from 14.~~ ~ VU 0.i I C11n-e, man1UU,actUred .. -Toledo, U., contains l'yo nmteenally, acting di ptd and nuccus surface of 6 t ringlall'vCatarrh Cure be sure genumne. It is taken in teMnally Made in Toledo Ohio, by V'. J. Cheney & U Tetimoni4l free. ts; c7 peri bottle. Sold- b.y lU price, 75c. ak aal's ]ills for constipatio(a. Humnor. and Philosophy. There probably is a wrong side to everything--e*Opt maybe the right woman. A new. broom sweeps clean, but, alas, it stays ,a new broom such a little while. Sorpe women are such slaves to dress they are willing to work for their clothes, Perhaps yqu can't help feeling en vious, but atleast you.can help show ing it and so making yourself ob It is no direct evidence that you are going to have uninvilted com pany. because you have only scraps for dinner. Still, you would better have. your weather eye out. You can 't always tell how much money a woman spends by merely knowing how much salary her hus band draws, -but taking it by and lage it's a pretty, safe guaess.' tiona.ays pamn,cures wmdl edhie, 25 a bottle A diseased imaginati6n can give a mortal anything. 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