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SONG OF YO U TH W h e r e ’ s th e trum p e t and th e d rum . For my racing, surging song? Where’ s the leader who can show me Where my talents best belong? Here in Christ, I see the answer ■ And the echo singing loud, Here in Him, the perfect Leader, Here I find the mighty God! — ,Jeanne Fartcell Michealson.
Rendezvous
A .with Life By DON HOUSEHOLDER*
I HAVE a rendezvous' with life—a date with life. - 1 heard a young girl call to her friend across the street and say, “I have a date.” She was thrilled. You, too* have a date, and you ought to be thrilled. It is a date with life. You need a philosophy to fulfill this engagement; You may be better than your theology, but you are no better than your philosophy of life. Your environment and atmosphere in contacting and finding a meaning in life is not so .encouraging. For many, it is but drab monotony, boring routine, and at best, comparative medi ocrity. The sensualist will tell you that you live only when you indulge your self. The ascetic will call you away from life itself. The cynic, with a sneer, will say as in the words of a dying actor: “Let down the curtain, the farce is over.” The pessimist will state wjth gloom that “ all progress is a delusion whose glory ends in inevita ble decay.” * Co-pastor (with Robert P. Shuler) o f Trinity Methodist Church, Los Angeles, Calif,, and Bpccalaureate speaker during Commencement week at the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles, June, ityb. The accompanying message was his address on that occasion .
But there is Another who spoke on life, who came one day saying, “I am come that they might have life, arid that. they might have it more abun dantly” (John 10:10). The Lord Jesus Christ came into the world, not guess ing, but "knowing . . . that-he was come from God” (John 13:3). He was the greatest Teacher that ever lived, and the foundation of our civilization has been built upon His precepts and teach ings. He never dealt with trivial mat ters, but spoke on the great ultimates. Well may we hear the Voice from the sky, “This is my beloved Son. . . hear ye him.” The most important person a few years ago was the scientist, because the question of that day was “how.” Today, it is no longer “how,” but “why,” and Christianity alone solves that problem. Origin and Desiiny of Life Clarence Darrow refused to believe in God because he would not believe in . anything fhat ne could nqt form a mental concept of. He could not form
a mental concept of God; therefore, he did not believe in Him. Yet, Darrow went up and down this nation defend ing justice. Have you ever seen justice walking the streets of a city? Yes, the greatest realities are intangible—God and prayer, faith and hope and love. We join witn the one of old, who said: “In the beginning God”—not as Ingersoll would say, “in the beginning, infidelity” ; or as Spencer would say, “in the beginning, agnosticism!" Psy chology says that atheism is a disease, but the Bible says that it is the mat ter of a bad heart. The ancient writer gives us the true source of life: “The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Al mighty hath given me life” (Job. 33:4). Modern education says that so fqr as history, science, and philosophy are concerned, man is not going anywhere. Contrast this worldly wisdom with that of our Master, who said that He not only knew He came from God, but that He would return to God. So with us, dust is not our destiny. The spirit returns to the God who gave it. There was a time when we were not, but there shall never be a time when we shall cease to be.
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