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...Edward Everett Hale took for his sermon: Ephesians iv: 13, "Till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a full grown man." Following is a synopsis of the sermon...
...religion, Christ is a door, through which Divinity comes to Humanity, just as the artist, the thinker, are door between the realms of beauty, and truth, and men. Through Christ God reveals himself to men. There is an innate passion in the human mind for expansion and one of the forms which this passion takes is a search for God. It is to this searching that the words come "I am the door...
...this door not only allows God to come to man, it serves equally well for man to go to God. And the passage is made so attractive that man is impelled toward it by an inward sense, his entrance is not left to mere chance. There is in each of us a tendency toward right or if not a tendency toward it, at least a respect for it, which impels us to that being who is the highest expression of right...
...best faith, while a faith confined and limited to narrow bounds, like that of the middle ages, shuts out the light. The broad unquestioning faith is the faith of love; there is a sort of faith taking things as a matter of course, believing that there is a God but perhaps not understanding or caring what sort of a God it may be. But the faith of love believes that there is a God who will order all things for the best, that it must be so because it is best. It believes in God as a mother believes...
...Vrooman, Sp., followed for the negative. He referred at length to Hill's connection with Tammany, and the record of that organization. He said that Hill's election would be setting a bad example to those who only god is success, as they would be led to follow Hill's corrupt methods...