in the prophets, incarnated in the Christ, working through His spirit in the fellowship of believers, the Church. They proclaim the purpose that has been in God through eternity and is now made manifest in Christ, that in the end His will of justice and love is to prevail as in heaven so upon earth. This and this alone is assumed to be the power of God unto salvation unto all them that believe.
Perhaps in sermons like these we may catch a glimpse of what Spengler was groping after and could not find, when he wrote:
“In this very century, I prophesy, the century of scientific-critical Alexandrianism, of the great harvests, of the final formulations, a new element of inwardness will arise to overthrow the will-to-victory of science. Exact science must presently fall upon its own keen sword. First, in the 18th Century, its methods were tried out, then, in the 19th, its powers, and now its historical role is critically reviewed. But from Skepsis there is a path to ‘second religiousness,’ which is the sequel and not the preface of the Culture. Men dispense with proof, desire only to believe and not to dissect.”1
October, 1933,
Lancaster, Pa.
CONTENTS
Psalms 24:7
Proverbs 16:2
Proverbs 18:10
Ecclesiastes 3:11
Isaiah 54:7–10
Isaiah 60:19–20
Matthew 11:28
Matthew 5:8
Matthew 6:25–34
John 3:1–10
Luke 12:49
Matthew 26:14–16
Revelation 1:17, 18
Ephesians 1:1, 2, 4–6
1 Corinthians 15:12–14
Acts 2:4, 7–11
“SEEK THE THINGS THAT ARE ABOVE”
Colossians 3:1, 2
Philippians 4:7
2 Corinthians 2:5–11
THE FREEDOM OF THE WORD OF GOD
2 Corinthians 2:14–17
2 Corinthians 3:12–17
2 Corinthians 4:7–15
2 Corinthians 4:16–18
2 Corinthians 5:1–8
2 Corinthians 6:1, 2
THE SERMONS OF KARL BARTH
By JOSEPH FORT NEWTON
Why do people go to church, if they do go? What do they really want to hear, though they may not have formulated their need clearly in their own minds? What is the unasked question for which they are seeking an answer? Why do they go again and again, in spite of many disappointments, yearning deeply, listening intently, as if the word they want to hear may any moment come to birth and bring the blessing they seek?
They do not go to church to hear about science,
