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...McPherson spoke of the necessity of faith in our modern life and read several passages in the Old and New Testaments, exemplifying the ideal of simple trust in God. In our own day genuine Christian faith is at once a vision and a venture, yet, although its visionary character leaves room for possible doubt and makes it seem perhaps fantastical, history has shown, as in the case of Rome before Christ's coming and of China today, that when men lose this visionary trust a low moral state is the inevitable result. With Christ returned the vision of God...
...choir sang the following selections: "The Haven," J. Beam; "Oh for a closer walk with God," Myles Foster; and "O Lord My God," Klein. The solo in the second selection was well rendered by E. M. Waterhouse...
...science shows that the laws of the universe are absolute, and all-powerful; that man must obey or suffer the consequences, so, too, in religion, no strong, manly morality can admit that God's love is wavering. His laws are irresistable, and apparent exceptions are, in reality, further illustrations of the great truth...
...saints of the old church used to look, for manifestations of God, not to the complex laws of nature about them, but to apparent violations of these laws, to miracles. In our own times men, by false analysis, think they find contradictions in the universe and even in God. They think of His justice as opposed to His mercy and love. But mercy does not violate justice. True justice, making allowance for weaknesses, for temptations, includes mercy. There should be no terror in the thought of a just God...
Conscious law is King of kings-God...