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Yesterday evening Rev. George A. Gordon preached in Appleton Chapel taking his text from Rev., 5th chapter, 8th verse. He said: Some men build up the character of God as a florist puts together a bouquet of flowers. Just as the florist chooses the flowers that produce the best effect, and in this way makes out of nature something more beautiful than nature, so do these men picking out the noblest of human qualities form a character which they ascribe to God. This is the worst kind of atheism...
...which human moral history points is a conscience absolutely independent and yet absolutely dependent,-independent in that it refuses to recognize any other authority than its own ideals, dependent in that it receives its ideals from the life of man which is the highest revelation of God...
...said to have fallen from heaven, and the sacred olive tree, planted by Athena herself. Throughout the city itself were the temples, altars and idols without number. Yet all this magnificence had no effect on Paul save to stir his spirit, while the obscure, modest altar "to an unknown god" gave him the text to his famous sermon on the Areopagus. It is interesting to note that in this sermon Paul quotes, in the words "For we are also His offspring," from the writings of Eudoxus, the originator of the Epicurean philosophy...
...keep clean the channels of communication between man and the forces of nature. We mean when we speak of belief in nature, in institutions, in art, an intimate sympathy, a perfect openness of relation, and a frank understanding. And the same is true when we speak of faith in God. It is only this which makes possible a true relationship between man and God. To the man of perfect faith God giveth all things...
...more and more as we learned to know his noble character. Strong in his aims and pure in his life, we mourn him as a brother. In our meetings, his earnest words and simple prayer of faith impressed us all as the deep feeling of one who walked with God...