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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. UTT7KDAY, JU1CB M. Uff. i the day of the palms I s PLOCKHORST'B beautiful plc- ' lure the eye l« faaeted upon the description given us In the gospel affording to Keiths*, of Christ’s entry Jerusalem.. An eager multitude. m*operative with eontaglous enthusl, lam with emotions frensled by sentl- “ tn 't and by traditions are giving a demonitrstlve welcome to one sudden* J7 proclaimed as a popular leader. J|Jj, the hillside road leading Into the Sr rides the peasant prophet of Max- Srtt, seated upon the humble' beast* Snowed by the disciple* tor tlip <»n. ■ , road Is one ot the main thoroughfares Into the- city, and Is tfiWed *!•■» th0 * •*“ »0*»htP the Bod of Abraham, going up to the city nV_ to be present for one of the great ssBuel religious MSWU of the choeen ooople. Someone to all this vast mul- nmde rccngnlses tbs face and the tom If the calm yet Impassioned teacher, .ho for many months has been going from place to place throughout the nmitry aide endeavoring to persuade *,tn of tho neameee of the kingdom of Lavrn. Suddenly the' morning air {mblse to the eznitaat about. "Ho- -.on to the eon of David 1" The name hrpherd king la at all times oes sufficient to awake enthusiastic (motion In tha Jewish heart and now. is the deep rollgloua seal and fervor Mgendered hr contemplation of the spprosrhlng feast voices hero and there along the way. began to take up isd re-echo the triumphant acclaim, tod soon “Uia multitudes that went before, end that followed, cried, saying. -Hosanna to the eon of David! Blessed la he that comath In the name of the Lord! Hosanna In the highest!" The enthusiasm Increased. The ex* rltement became momentarily more In tense. The people vied one with Isnother In demonstrations of love and devotion. Branchee were hastily tom h3£. tt Hi![* ,, !? e P® 1 ™ »*»•• “<1 cast ggg* who. eagerly hailed as a conqueror, waa soon to be slain be- causo He proclaimed peace among all the nations of men. The extremists the feet of the “h?" which rode this new-found °. u .i ,r ««™«irta. regard- feL?* *£• ooo'lhmes or frailty of the fabric. The Uttle children, ever Mger J“ f mu '*IJ on . strewed In the roadway from M,°££ 0W ‘ r ’ fr " h The shoutlnf, ■lacing, Yejolctajr nuV * l * h ‘he Mu In the midst swept on Into the city of the great king. And •‘was no wonder that “when Its uii come Into Jerusalem, all the city was moved. laying, -Who Is tblsf " Wo may well question In our hearts4Hrath- •‘■.‘hose who gave understood any more Intelligently then those who received the aanrer of the frenxled mulUtude, “Thta la Jesus, the prophet of Nasareth of aalllM.” Through all the ages of IU history the Christian Church has celebrated this occurrence as Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem. One of the Im portant days In the Church calendar lakes Its name from the trees which freely yielded their branches to a mul titude eager to pay homage to one, but recently a stronger to their knowledge and their love. • Into whet marvellous contradictions of philosophy and of expression are we led by the extremes of religious seal and emotion, blindly followed. In that multitude which noisily besieged the rates of Jerusalem on the moraine of the world's drat Palm Sunday then was one heart which felt keenly the bitter Irony of the repeated shouts ot trlumphut acclaim which heralded ap parently the coming of a conqueror. Though the Church which claims to have chosen Him as her chief corner- w? By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD, PASTOR UbhVERSALlST CHURCH stone may never be able to recognise the briUtant mockery of her celsbratlon °£ *£>• Triumphal entry,” yet the heart Of Him who wu beforeih# Church and who shall ho after It, was undeceived by tho many surface Indications of a temporary triumph. Full well did he know the evanescent quality of popu lar-affection. For Him the sweetness of the voices which eagerly shouted hosanna was not Increased by the fore shadowing knowledge that but a few days should slapse until vary many of these same voices should as eagerly lend themselves to the vindictive and taalstantdemand. Crucify Hlrat Cruel- nr MtoJ To refer to fills incident! as one unliisnt theologian does, as Hfesui' rnnkPlnng - hmtr n# Mnmi.h " la e A •». conscious hour .of triumph." Is to at trlbuts the perspicacity of a child to Him who "spake as never man spake before," For He welt knew that even while they shouted hoeanna, the fickle mul titude hailed Him as one who should fulfill thb long desire of the race and His repeated declarations that the kingdom whloh He had come to estab- llsh was not of this world bad fallsn upon unheeding ears and uncompre hending hearts, and He knew that even now He was being thus enthusiastically welcomed Into the city because the re port had gone abroad that here In this unassuming vlllsge artisan Bved the mind and the will which should lead the nation on .to freedom from the domination of tn# hated alien. It waa literally as "tbs son of David" that He had found a welcome among Hie peo ple. And ao determined were thiy to And In Him the new "King of the Jews” that already the gathering storm of their keen disappointment hastened forward the day of His death. Soon, He knew, they would forget all that He kail triad Pew da dar Ikem Mil > ad Ike had tried to do for them, all - of the REV. E. D. ELLENWOOD. proclaimed feeder and deliverer la what the great Christian church has for con. turtes. celebrated as "Christ’s trium phant entry Into Jerusalem!" Nor do those latter days find us fra# from the mockery of It alL The mod ern Christian may not claim Immunity from that fahatlelam which made ot his religious ancestors the slayer* of the Man ot Nasareth. Even as In that olden day Hla coun • seal attempted tq make of JUaus which by ths very essential nature of HU mission to ths world He could not booome, so also today those «lu> bear HIS name and cgll themselves His fol lowers demand by their theologies that He shall assume In the spiritual world a position, which, by tho very nature of the laws of the God whom He al ways worshiped. He must And Himself unable to occupy. Still do men refuse to take Him et Hla word end still do they continue to demand that He shall occupy the position provided In the plan and formula of a mechanical the ology. He who emphatically declared that He had come not to destroy the law but to fulfill H Is made by His vary advent upon the earth to do vio lence to one of God’s moat fundamantal laws. Haraeatly entreating men te al low Him to show them the way 'to find salvation from the spiritual death of continued sin, lot He Is eagerly heralded by the noisy multitudes as the one who shall enable men to con tinually break God's laws with impu nity nor fear for any personal const- quencea of their evil living. He poured precious pracspU they had heard from His lips, all of the deeds of love and mercy which flowed unceasingly from His spirit, all of His patient effort in show to them the Father, and would be able to remember only that He had failed to maintain the position that tboy had beforehand deternMned that out Hla very life In a faithful effort to Ho should occupy. teach men the truth of the atonement. And yet this demonstrative welcome that It U the reconciling of men to God, ’ an unthinking, undlscrlmlnattng the harmonising of the-Individual aout mob, always ready to shout Itself I to the soul of the universe, and with hoarse In acclamation of any newly vociferous applause He Is received by the crowd as tbs most stupendous vica rious sacrifice the worjd has ever kitown, at once the author and tha vic tim of * scheme whereby every offender E m unwhlpt of Justice, every sinner denied the punishment essential for i compute recovery,tand God's Im mutable lawn are made a mockery In the minds of man who are not thsolo- Elans, but are only logicians. So la ths actual work of Christ to day. sorely hampered by the misunder standing and misconception of HU friends, and the members rather than the enemies of the church militate Hls Mithly life tells us how <he Nasareth was onee received by the multitude with a noisy wslrome, only to meet the death of a malefactor ere a week had passed. Today Christ comes to you and to ms. evtn as once He came to those of HU own physical nationality, offering to show us how to recognise the "more abundant life" which U already our splendid possession. He offers to "show us the Father.'' He would reveal to us the Intrinsic worth and bMuty of life's Immutable laws. He would teach us, in a way that we may never forget that nil men are Indeed brethren, that hu manity Is bound and corded together In an Indissoluble fraternity In which. If one member suffer, every member Is Incomplete. He would put us In the way of securing consolation for our bereavements, strength for our disci ples. and fortitude for the punuhmenu which our transgressions demand of nature. He. going before, so beare HU cross as to be forever an Inspiration and ah example to all of Hls younger brothers, each one of whom must, like the Master, bear his own - cross, it matters not what men may have cUlmed tor Him, through all the ogee of the logical Juggling and creed tamr i;feature, It atm remains that by the very nature of HU commission trout Oqd, Jesus must continue to present Himself to men as tho ruler of that kingdom which every man carries about In hU own soul. It U for avecy mas to decide how he shall recelvt the King who would coma Into HU own. Shall we accord Him the noisy wel come of the unthinking mob, and the* ore many day* have passed In the heart unprepared for Hls coming, allow HIM to suffer denial, crucifixion and deathf Shall we demand that He declare Kim. self, after the fashion of the hMtheg gods, by the performance of miracles and by manifestation of temporal power! Shall we not esk. rather, that out welcome be that of those who find is Him the manifestation and the fulfill ment of Uw, and God's revelation te men of the life entirely possible td every eon of HU love. ThU la the only really triumphant entry of tha spirit of Jesus of Nasareth Into the quisle ened consciences of men and wi of the twentieth century. It U lulek. r oases never It come with the shoutlngof bosons or ths tumult of many voices. 1st*, the secret pUce or the heart’s quiet' Ihour comes unannounced the spiritual K sense of the greatest Prophet ot ad ■ agM, and the merciful Father al lows us, momentarily, to forgot tho baffling myvtsriea and psychological Impossibilities of the historical Christ, and thus to be cheered and strength-. ansrt nn<! arlmnnlaharV hv ths llnlss ened and admonUhad by the llrtag spirit of the one perfect man. And then, forever, the heart sings, "Hosan na To the Son of David!"* THE SILENT SOUTHERNERS By REV. JOHN E. WHITE, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH SEE ONE head changing Into thirteen. Where! Where, are our men of ehlUtlu! Why do they not romo forthr—George Wash- Incton. / A while ego the editor of a trading American msgaxlne came South for the purpose of going thoroughly Into an unprejudiced study at first hand of our race problem, and In due time estab- llihed hie headquarter* In Atlanta, da. It Vie a short time after the riot And he found everything solemnly quiet on the surface. But going an Inch or so below the surface, he waa greatly Im pressed by what wa who live In the South know to be. there. • not only the is It tact of a serious Issue, hut most per pltxingly the existence among us and among the negroes of the greatest con fusion of Individual opinions and a into of general Irresolution and un certainty. e was Invited to attend Inoognlto — ot the meeting* ot Christian cltl- lena who had met to pray over ths eltuatlon. As we cams away I asked the gentleman for hls Impressions. Hls careful reply waa to the effect that the meeting seriously Impressed him and that It was very, hopeful to see "two or three screed as touching one thing” ibout the situation in the Bouth. Now, It Is very much easier to make icrurate and specific observations ot the injury the Bouth Is sustaining on ycount of tha presence of eight mil- Ion negroes under prevailing oondl- lon, than It la to suggest remedies for heet* Injuries. There is. however, one decidedly se- loux fact of the situation, and we are aking white men to consider It, which uggests Its own remedy. It Is some- hing entirely asperate from the final otuMeratlon of the negro problem. It 1 something that concerns the white mpie primarily on their own pert and la aomethlng that will have to have Mention before the larger problem ot icceaaful dealing with the negroes Is Meriaken at all. I refer to what we U*t recognise as a'foot In the Bouth— ir confusion of thought about the ne- «». «ur lack ot agreement among ourselves, the absence ot co-operative Intelligence directed upon the study of our true welfare. Yet the matter Is constantly up before us. the subject ever In the arena of discussion and re- There ts no failure of attention, no lack of Individual Judgment. Almost every Southern man thinks he Is thoroughly Informed on the subject and nearly every one of us regards him self as something of an authority. Probably along main lines our Individ ual convictions readily run parallel. In any ordinary company of Southern men engaged In discussion one would hear an Impressive amount of Intelligent opinion expressed, but when this man was through and that man waa finished the truth would have to be confessed that there was nothing tangible, no piering of the matter* Info wholeness so that ona could ascertain the exist ence of a social Judgment. That seema to me to be a representative statement of the general condition of public sen timent In the South. We have never tried for more than discussion. The parallels ot individual conviction which we fral do exist are not-bent toward a definite point. In our attack upon the grave dimcuUlea of our situation our spears are not In line. We lack a calm and sober resolve to get the concentration ot our abilities. Feelings, convictions, conclusion, twenty-five million of them, and at the bottom vi tally harmonious, hut nothing, whether for a slate or for the South as a whole, absolutely nothing outside the suffrage question, that can be called authorita tive In the form of an Anglo-Saxon policy or of which we can aay, These arc the things civilisation in the Bouth la pronounced upon." ' It Is this that keep.1 public senti ment in a state of llux. It ts thla con- dltlon that sequesters the pre> °f‘h® demagogue. This Is the situation that Invites the appeals to prejudice and paaalon and makes easy the control of P *Y<m hear "remises .that this or that thing will make It poislble for the white people to divide on the great economic question of government. Even politicians lament that we are without the civic stimulation of independent po. Iltlcal thinking. But we are going to see finally that the only way In which It will be possible for white people to separate on economic Issues will be to | h <« a aatllaA nmwMM, 'eteddh get them Into a settled program'with regard to our relations with the ne groes. There will be no rest, no ease ment of distraction, no escape from the resultant social Inefficiency and no cur rent out of the eddies of confusion until the race problem Is undertaken as a social Instead of a purely political question. Let us see some of the results now In sight from the leek of a united In telligence directed definitely upon the negro question. In the first place Hie absence of con certed attention and the loose sense of responsibility among our best min directly promotes the great confusion of the rank and file of the people. Es pecially the leu responsible elements of our population being without the pronounced restraint and guidance of those from whom they should receive tt think blindly without regard to any general patriotic Interest, feel blindly with little regard to the Injury they may do themselves, and os we have seen It break out they now and again act blindly with the effect of greatly. Increasing their own and the South's troubles. When we are forced by necessity to fix the fault of some Indefensible violence against taw and order, m we sometimes have, to do In the South, we may find a guilty victim for condemna tion'clou at hand, and- may punish somt newspaper or rioter, but we Jo not explain the habitual neglect of the leadership higher up to have done what bv the provision of Intelligent counsel might have been done to provide against such popular blindness. Ths Chinees have a way of punishing the generals Instead of the soldiers for re verses In wer. That peculiar species of barbarism has recognition at least ot a great principle. The attitude and con duct of leaders filters down to the rank and file. So here In the South the re grettable Inflammability of the maaees of the people over the negro question has lie morel basis. If not Its Justifica tion. In the Inaction and disagreement they see In the ranks above them REV. JOHN E. WHITE. among the educated and Influential. The negroes also are In great con fusion. The very best of them are preyed upon by alarms and rumors. Their leaders have a task of tremen dous difficulty. It la not at nil stsenge that they are seen so often to be work ing at cross purposes. If we desire as the white people of all communities ms desire that the negroes should be peaceful and quiet among themselves we should reckon upon the effect our lack of agreement with regprd to them has upon their minds. We can not gaslit the negro leaders In adjusting their people ffi the limitations of their environment be cause we haVe not defined dearly for ourselves what their environment end the conditions of their progress shall be. A very prominent negro leader In the South recently raid that the ne groes needed nothing so much os con- hls distractions to aubal negroes need now In a sense more then they need schools. Is ths mold of a masterful Anglo-Saxon stability, the security end repose of responsible pow er. .There Is one debt ot the strong to the weak. It la the duty of tha strong to be strong. That debt ot strength to weakness, of twenty-five millions to eight, will receive Its first Installments toward a real payment when the South ern white man gets hls own brat thought clean and Into clear utterance about the settled resolution of the Bouth upon the relations which shall exist between the Anglo-Baxon and the The machinery of parties, the Inter- rats of candidates for ofilce exclude the possibility of hope from them. Hu man nature being as It Is ths campaign for ofilce hot with the thirst for vlo tory will obey the ready Impulse to ap peal to the readiest prejudice of the people. The result In every Instance Is a deterioration of the moral fiber of the people and an Increase of confu sion. ’ There have been occasions when ths political Issues of the negro question were unavoidable and these III effects had to go along with certain great gains to public welfare. But are we not In the Bouth about finished with such necessity? Henceforth may we not come Into a calmer consideration of ourselves and the negro? The answer to that question lies with what may be called "The Solid South." It Is a fact that the best man, tho best minds, the kindest hearts pow engaged In the leadership of Industry, education, re ligion and professional and business In terests are silent and Inactive with re gard to the South and the negro ques tion. How many such men there are and what their wolght would be If their force were elicited combined end di rected In a patriotic effort, will appear to any one who will take up a single community and count the cltlxens who are controlled by the highest consider ation but are silent. A demonstration of capital force Is afforded by the re cent history of public opinion In Atlan ts, Georgia. The civic league made an appeal for this sort of men to come together. A thousand white men re sponded. Whet was the result? The thousand Influential cliltena drew to the Hate the signatures of two thousand other white men and about the same number of negroes, and the community of Atlanta could not now be swept Into lawlessness for an hour as It was but a little while ego for two whole day*. The silent multitude of sober, broad minded men In the South Is the re source of our civilisation on the race problem. The plea for the discontinuance of discussion honestly made by many, dis honestly made by some. Is a mistaken plea, and certainly a useless one. Our need Is not for sn end to discussion but the beginning or a public attention to the matter calling to the front the best Intelligence and the worthiest In fluence of our life. It Is the unmatched discussions of ths worse tempered among us that Injures ths South.- Be fore me lies a recent contribution to one of our papers. Ths writer Is known to m* as a man of slight stand, ing In Georgia. Hs strikes In frequent •hart letters upon the low growling keys of passion. On the other hand, I have In mtnd a strong etttran of Geor gia who thinks that we ought to have a stop to all agitation. NflW If that man who represents clear and wise per sonal convictions as to the right rela tion of the white people to the negroes would bravely eubmlt them to the pub lic. as by hls unselfish service to the South he bee the right to do, he would kill every III effect of that other min's distempered but bold appeals. Or If what would he atlll more effective he and the thousands like him would pool their wisdom pnd combine their con science In public pronouncement the front of the,South would become less ragged Immediately. The men In the Bouth who represent Ite best and are the natural leader*, on all moral Issue* are not In evidence beTore the people In making up public opinion as they ought to be and as they must be before constructive movement Is possible. If they only were so and the sense ot their responsibility were realised by them . man explaining a libel upon t . tlanlty of our state anil the clvlltraltea of the entire Bouth for the mercenary benefit of himself and a Chicago tec. ture bureau would not be suffered te malign us before the world unrebuUd. Public opinion In the Bouth would te, steadied and the work of civic Improve ment be given a fairer opportunity. It would soon cease to be a common oo. I currence that one man In a community ur n few nu n In n mate could gat to gether and plan to get through private or factional ends'at ths ballet box, by stampeding public or whet seems tor! the time to be quite contrary to the Judgment and personal conviction ot twice their number ot really stronger cltlxens who mike no opposition sad than lament results. fitBm If It be true as a great writer say* that "Nothing false, nothing qrtlScMl. can endure,” we may trust that the fu ture of the white men’s supremacy la the South will be controlled by a new sort of leadership—a leadership basing Its prims consideration on the moral fitness of the people and putting set da as unpatriotic whatever reacts upon Hi*. dividual and popular character. Gov ernor Montague, of Virginia. In a note* ble speech has Just sounded a prophecy of a braver day In the Bouth. , We are getting toward the South'* mastery by every movement of the beat men toward each other. Blood and riot and sorrow and shams may be the fin* that must burn up the partltiona'lhe* divide them, harsh exigencies may bo. necessary to draw their heart* and J hands Into fellowship, but the ptanlftat; direction of tendency Is prophetic ot •[ grippler hour for the South on the loo** I end unconstrained agencies ot confu sion. THE FIRST CHRISTIAN HYMN By REV. JAMES W. LEE, PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH hhmwmmmhow H I! WAS revealed la our nature, Ho was proved righteous In -pint, *» beheld by angels, . "x proclaimed among the heathen, - an believed on In the world, ”* *»» taken up Into glory.” Thl« I. supposed by many to be the ,flirtitlan hymn. It la found at "W conclusion of the third chapter of ft Paul', first letter to Ttmothy. It m rhythm tho eeoentlal tacts !I ' hristlan religion. The eum of «*- farts, the apostle declares, snake •sent mystery. They form what lie milt the fundamental tteme of godll- ■**> Thia is ths mystery which, nit tho ages, has been hidden. ? b-m 1. made manifest to tho salute. I “ * mystery srtth Christ a* the cen- ’/ "• ‘be hope ef glory. Thiel* the ■yitdry incidental to the Chrtitlan 2**rti m Of tb* world and life,and "Stiny it Is great, but It Is » terming. II IS great, nut It IB a sonmna, UJPIfltur. llfo-renewlng mystery. itTe J2 *'"no. as a world conception. In be- "? ‘mystery. 1-The conception of Herbert Ipsajor Sj greater mystery that! that of St. 15“, The naturalistic view of the •“fl! and life and mind and gplrtt Is a Jrrf'libm that overwhelms and par- JJ’*' It envelops matter and force 5“and time and space and man ("Ids of black. Impenetrable, un- ‘•Waniabi* mystery. The mystery of •odlin-Rn is clear and whlto a* J*® 1 "I noon hi comparison with tho gj'w ?f the naturalistic Idea of th# depths of the one. and then late te* raylesa night of the oth*r, he wm b« reedy to ••yJhfL""« w| , ‘ h b, t “' n f nn m n 1 ,^ day as contrasted night of the other. Gass for a time at the mystery of naturalism. Remember that, descrip tion Is not egjfanatlon. non » n,., —v NOW. the students of srto*re hav« anlsy»d f the contents of nature contents o, n.,—- Theyhave.lftsd out \hlnga and processesstiSs ^dK^ h *«h. c, ^s:r.ry d of , ‘s; ^“H....rict,yd,fln^une..nd lion in thing* and occurrences, end they have formulated three Info taw* Thgtf have discovered ft networe oi .•nifnrmitv throughout *11 natural phe- sm.. — imagines that the mystery of fj™ne»r. „ nnJr )(| th „ flrst Christian E™, I" greater than he oan accept, bim look steadily for a while at my stery of naturalism. If be sup- SJJ*' ,ho (sets of the Christian rellg- SLVT (°o wonderful, too outrageous. Utt*rlv tmm hs.io.j (k. nAUfgra rtf hll > comprehend. Just let him face 2* "nnoeit* quarter and attempt to by hls reason and embrace *f hi* belief the fundamental pflncl- rr* | m<lerlrtag naturalism. When tie •t"«d seriously for a time, with all ’'■“trs of hls mind, between these n-yitrrles, peering first late the e. uniformity throughout — - nomena. In tho movements of the hesv- •nly bodies as well as In the nf all living calls of animated bodlee. By'patient^ teralsteM ■•arch they have acqalnted thetnselves sufficiently' with the tact, and tawi of nature to describe them. But they have not explained nor , UB ttu reasons why they act one Sei rathir foi another There w*. Jo more mystery about IIhe Pt'»»»■*« system of astronomy than about mat or SST ThHtera "tedium more a^ratstV described, but are no better understood-the *hy or &n°^.W n ^hta teMd SS™ * hol « ‘®"Sra^h7?riore ». ta o^wlisncra the objects o> the universe S5 te. taw. wwch K v.™.;^ n must b* remsmtered » They d o do not sspteta norm"*; . u . what wi »snt to know la. to objects, wnai w and how they are mr why tte? m aa they «*. «??_ «*! Jsrsnt Todescribethem does not ex- KfejaSSntiaggg T&h SSn - explanation, of why furthtr and further beck. Natu ralism has succeeded In pushing back the riddle of things to th* forces at re pulsion and attraction, with which the smallest particles of realtor ire equipped. Out of th* endlessly varied correlations of these, come all higher forms of energy and all the combina tions which maks up more complex phenomena, out of thea* ultimate par ticles have not only com* the masses of the universe, but all special forms of nuttier nnd of plant and annual and human life. These senseless lltt * atoms with their attractions and repul sions. according to th* theory of natu ralism. have made everything. They have advanced far enough to finally dance from th® brtln of Homer Into the finest poetry' ever written. They have moved out from the thought of Phldlaa Into the Parthenon. thA finest temple aver built. They have uttered themselves from the heart of Demosthenes In th* finest orations ever delivered. The* to crown thefr marvelous powers, they have given themselves up to death on the cross of t’slvary. Bom* who hold th* nat uralistic view will rise up to soy that they are not ready to gp lhot far- They hold, they say. to a God. back of all things. They mar vainly think they do. but If they accept the natu ralistic conception ofcthlngs they must taka It with nil lie presuppositions end fundamental principle* They must he os thoroughgoing as Haeckel and take £*& back of — — force. They must be as sweeping and downright as Bpencer end reduce the whole eum of things to Inscrutable energy, end then, while standing In the I Infinite expression of heat and matter, I and man Is merely one of th* momen ' • Mirer fluinna that flaihnu mil front Itl tary flames thnt flashes out from Its I depths to tall beck In darkness when i Ills little day In over. Thought Is only so much light secreted by brain parti cles, as blit Is only ao much btarknrai secreted by liver particles. Ths only difference between thought and bile being that one Is white and the other Is blnck. Both ere but chance prod ucts turned out In th* endless, wheace- lesa whlthqrleas whirl of seething force. There ere no more morar oanc- tlonn for virtue than for vice. Moral ity I* a fiction created by moon-struck fanatics. Vice Is only bad by the stat utes of deluded, duped, evanescent mortals, who manege to feed their con ceit by the vain Illusion thnt they are superior to the hyenas who are sane enough to see no difference between virtue end vice. The church Is a mail house In which n vast multitude nf the stupid, self-lnfiaied human race sea proper to Immure themselves. The comprehension, but there are paths REV. JAMES W. LEE. tie one, were but different form* of face of It, welching It shoot lit boll- senselta* best. Think of a man ratting Ing streams, like tn Infinite geyser to music end singing till he 1a shoui- Into the Immensity of a phenomenal universe, call It all a great,mystery• The naturalistic conception ef tee universe puts a tar greater • tr * t £ up 5!S the reason than tb* Christian. No one could ever ring with any heart or hop* the fact* of naturalism. Think of a mother bending above the bed of her sick child, hot with fever, singing, while eh* called te mind the facta that the fiver In her baby ami the her heart tor tee poor pain-racked I truthful Think of one ringing an he reduced th* self-sacrificing love of hi* mother to equal lerma with poison In the fangs ot snake* It would be as reasonable to set the Itames of h*U to music, as th* tacts of naturalism. In ths last 1 analysis naturalist* means that th# universe is sufficient unto ttarif. That It needed no God to malm II. and needs no God to direct It. That it Is a huge. style of the aaturallstlc universe were the Neroe, the Calltgulas, th* Tamer lane*. The actions of tho Roman em peror who swathed Christian* In tar to light hls garden debouch were *s- actly in tune with the sweltering, burning sum of things, sent spinning through space without purpose, with, out God and without mind. Ruch n universe Is wild nnd mail, hence th* madder and wilder people become the more thoroughly do they correspond with Its thoughtless delirium. Let us turn from Insanity to sanity, from despair to hope, from night tn day. Let us turn from the nnturails- tic conception of the universe to the Christian. Let u* turn from n mad house to a school house, lo-t us turn from a universe without God to an order Initiated, directed end to be rompleted by God, who, while Creator, la at the same time the God and Fath er of Our Lord Jraua Christ, and through Him mediates snnehlp to ev ery child of man! We have not es caped being encompassed by mystery, but w* have com* Into mystery with a clew tn It. There are forks to doors and gateways still, but there are key* to them. Wi bare com* tato a realm through It. IU facts do not baffle us. Its laws do not-fMsale us. Its shadows do not blind us. Its trials do not mock us. Its burdens do not crush us. labors do -not enslave us. Thera myatary here, hut It Is on the way to clearing up. There are dark nights here, hut they are prophecies of com ing day. Cloud* float above our heoda, but they are lined with silver. Mourn era go nbutit tha etreat, but not aj thoee who hava no hope. Tears alg streaming from mothers' eyes, but they are shot through with the colors ot the bow nf hope. There nr* graves here, hut they are the portals of endlsra day. It Is all a great myatery, but ths con tents of It are the Items of Godliness and they can be aung. They can b# re duced to melody. They can he chanted. They ran be translated Info hallelu iahs. They ran be turned Intu light to color ami enhance and make radiant the booms of the poor. They ran be turn- *d Info strength for the will fighting against temptation. They can be con verted Into elixir to cheer th* heart. They can be transmuted Into Inspira tion to poise th* wings of the Imagina tion. They can be sent flowing In the enngs of children eweeten the live* of Innocence. They can thrill th# tongue of the dying with Bongs of prate*. the Incarnation to the level of ordinary human lire! And do you propose te do thl* In order to make the facta mate natural! But have you not seen at* ready what a bottomless abyss of my** lory naturalism force* you to acoeptf I Perhaps you would like a sort of com posite mystery, formed by mlxlag te* Christian with the naturalistic coswp.: tlon. Take. say. about on* part ot sutxrrnturallsm and about two. parte of naturalism and thoroughly mix them, and then bake In a moderately bet oven, until you get a good, rm ssbta rake you can eat without taxiag your menial powers ot digestion too Severn' ly. That I* the sort of spiritual food makes the world glad, harness Into a garden. It peoples the solitudes with the homes of prayer. It causes the desert to break forth In praise ns II blooms In the rose. It Alls to make It fit what etretrblng far beyond our power* of call your reason! ■ ihe vast outlying fields of space with light and breadth and room for faith and merry nnd goodness to bloom In. It nils the year* with gladness and peace. It obliterate* age and puls tb* flush of young hope on the face of th* oldest saint*. Let u* gnriiver In our heart* serin th* tact* of [he myatery: souls- on today. But thl* I* not dial ef th*. early Chrlttlana. When a company were to have a combat with lions In the arena of the colooaeam In the afternoon It Js not likely that they would be satisfied to face death for the entertainment of the heathen on A mild rationalistic luncheon. Nothing lea* than every Item In the first Christian hymn would meet the demands ot n eltuatlon like that. ' It 1* becoming clear today that **• rlety will be forced to tarn with fad purpose of heart completely ta all tha Tacts of the Christian religion to am* Itself from chan* end from hell. Th# current* of the fieth are bearing down In their awful sweep thousands at i people today. To resist (hls tide It ! necessary to make terms with aad i on the eld* of godliness with ell It Involve* Not only must w* It ** a creed, we must accept It our life. We must let Christ live us, so that the Uvea w* live shell by the frith of the Bon of God. "Ho waa revealed In our nature. He was proved righteous In spirit. He waa beheld by angels. He was proclaimed among th* heathen. He wes believed on In the world. He was inktn up Into glory." Would you cut out some of the points