Cleave to Ckrist Or Turn to tke Fads?
A Sermon Preached tr? the Pastor of the East Side Baptist Church, Portland, Oregon DR. W. B. HINSON
women, we are singularly beset by that very thing today. There are thousands of people in America who would rather be criminal than be poor. And there are hundreds of thousands in America who look with more contempt upon a poor man than they look upon a bad man. And we have gone on making life more complex, and so filling it with additional requirements, until at the thought of the simple life our par ents lived we scornfully laugh. And when a man enters this city even good people ask the significant question, “ What is he worth?” And they do not make any reference to character when they say that. They are simply talking about the amount of his cash. And we are in danger of being absorbed in the temporal things. You young people think you have to start where your fathers and mothers left off. And because of all that, you are missing the greatest things of life. I read yesterday a sentence that seemed to come out to me from the buried past, of a young woman who married a poor young man and said, “Now I shall have the joy of helping you carve out your fortune.” But has not a man got to live? And are you advocating a re turn to . the old methods that are archaic and ancient and would be out of place? No, I am advocating no such thing. But I am saying we should learn to put first things first, and I will venture to say it would be better for us to get back to the simplicities and away from the complexities' of our every day life.
John VI:66: “ From that time many of His disciples went back and walked no more with Him.“ HE Lord had preached a won derful sermon on the Bread of Life. His audience He ac cused of thronging Him not for what He said or what-He was, but because they partook of His miracles in supplying them with food. When they remonstrated and said, “ Moses gave our fathers manna in the wilderness,” He denied their statement and said, “ Moses gave you no manna. It was given by my Father in Heaven. But I bring unto you the Bread of Life.” And they murmured, saying, “ How can this fellow give us the Bread of Life? Do we not know his parents and all about him?” And He said, “Why murmur ye in your hearts, for I say unto you except ye eat my flesh and drink my blood, ye have no life in you.” And they said, “ How can He give us his fle'sh to eat?” And He answered, “ All that my Father hath given me- shall come' to me.” Poor Christ! He had to find solace in some things! “ And him that cometh to me 1 will in no wise cast out.” “ And from that time many of His disciples went back and walked no more with Him.” You see there were three reasons ly ing right there in the heart of the narrative that influenced those people in going away. First, they were ab sorbed in temporal things. What shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and wherewith shall we be clothed? was the creed of their souls. Now, men' and
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