Excerpt from Addresses at the Dedication of the Church of the Unity, Cleveland, OhioWhen I preached in this city before, there were a good many standing, as there are today. I made a remark at that time which I find has been remembered as something new and carrying with it a little crumb of comfort. I told those who were obliged to stand, that I was very sorry, and that the only consolation I could offer was that I shared that disability with them, for I also have to stand. I hope that we may all of us become sufficiently absorbed in some high thoughts and ideals and hopes, so that we may forget to be weary.The Church.I shall speak to you this morning concerning The Church. My text I find in the first letter of Paul to Timothy, the 3rd chapter and the 15th verse: "The Church of the living God."Is there a living God? Is there a church of the living God? If there be, then in spite of all the evil and sorrow and darkness, we may sing the song of Pippa:"God's in his heaven:All's right with the world."A hundred years ago the beliefs of the people in this country and in England were practically settled, and there was a certain unanimity and homogeneity in those beliefs. They believed substantially the same things about the world, about God, about the origin and destiny of man, about this life and the next, for they supposed that they had authoritative, divine warrant for all these beliefs. But as we look abroad over the face of society today, we note a great change, and a change that has disturbed and troubled many. People are no longer so sure as to their beliefs as they once were.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.