Sermon Preached by the Rey. A. N. Rowland in Union Church] Shanghai, on March 23, 1924
"(Sehoual) smote the men of Betkshemesh, becatice they had look into the ark of the Lord." (1 Sam. 6, 19). "And the ark of Jehovah Femained in the house of Obed-com the Gittite three months, and Jehovah ticesed Obed-dom and at his household." (2 Sam. 6, 11).
"Thies the frst of a short series of talks' on the faculties of our Sind and their beating on reli ion. Various powers contend or Shoperate within us aod. v0 of She contradictory. forces are Curiosity. nnd Awe, One. seems and' true religion depends, upon Sigua' at the clher'e experien
Bheie eauitibritan, each having its lage and pail, The be Wecrafed jo these mysterous "stories of the ari how blend the house of Obed-dom be-fae ho trented se with reverence, Kew "brought cane upon te people of Bethshemeeh oeeauas Bhey peered into fe with curious on What then is curiosity? the desire of effort of the mind to find the whereabouts or wherefore a of things; it prompts the eager {questions of curly" boyhood Jada youth on ¢o the highroad it of learning. By following the spirit Sone Vike the Greeks have, prot.
inquiry. and experiment. nae
ted to th the creators of civiee-Gon and the Genetectors of man: Kind. "Tut when curiosity Tas been neglected peoples have grown all em Sie and have sunk into Curiovity then is. 2 penaiblo element of hunan ree, yet the Bible connect intely with, the root of 8 was the curiosity of Eve that Joo "her astray. "She sayw the desired to make one demned bink No influence, no love of home and wife "Could overcome within me the de-had 10 be experienced of the world, Ana f the Vio ani Virto of Man So he and his travel-worn com-any passed the point "where Hercules "his landmarks sot as signals that,'man no farther. onward should adventure." Thus ho came to a tad vend. Te wae against this kind of prejudice that Columbus had to Gght
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