NEW YEAR SERMON.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17343, 3 January 1922, Page 3

NEW YEAR SERMON.

BISHOP JULIUS AT ST. LUKE'S. His Lordship Bishop Julius preached at St. Luke's Church on Sunday night. He based his sermon on the conscious experiences of mankind, and how we were bound together by the tie of religion. The first conscious experience of infants was that of an external world, on which they were dependent. The second was of themselves, and this thought grew at an amazing pace until the ego became of greater immensity in one's mind' than the whole of the world. Children cried, "I want this and I want that," and man struggled against his .fellow man. But there was the saving third conscious experiencethat of the belief m a Higher Personality—and so tribes and races united m some form of religion. Without tlie remedy of religion, strife, bitterness, and confusion would reign. At this time of the year we recorded wifcn thankfulness that we had Christ s relicion, believing in the God of the universe, who go loved us that He sent his divine Son into the world tp die for us. und when Jesus became a person, an> ego. like all huniarf beings, Ho lived a lite of humility and poverty and gave His love and all .He had till there was only left His Life to give, and He offered that, saying. "Not My will but Thine be done." The one hope of the world was the religion of Qlmst, the religion of love and selfSflcniic6 Bishop Julius said he did not think the world had ever before entered into a now year with brighter hope. The nations were meeting to try and stop warfare and strife, and reduce armaments, of Jesus Cnrist was getting into the hearts of men. People should pra} earnestly that the be subdued nnd forget their little quarrels, for in tho end, when our ego is gone, we have lost all unless we enter the Kingdom of Christ.