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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. HATI HI»AY. JINK H». llMi. IFE," we are told. “I* the con | ttnuoue adjustment of Inter- K *— J nal relations with external re. Inti .ns,” that la life le adjustment to. and i irrespondence with, environment This lx not a definition, but an amt rat. description of the way life mani fest* Itaelf. A complete definition of Ilf.- cannot be given, because no one kn-.-vs what It la by Itself and within Itself, and what Its behavior Is likely m be In combination with this or that external element: no one can tell until lx aeea the combination. Mfe Is a perpetual partnership be txeen original Interior qualities and . x terns I currents of Influence. It Is a palpitating compound formed by the union of something within Itself, with something outside of Itself. Its most distinct characteristic Is Its rapacity for forming associations and of being transformed In accordance with the i tiaracter of the company It keeps. H.ire we And Its peril and Its hope. In conjunction with what Is high, life l- noble: In partnership with what Is lour, It la degraded. By refusing to i r.nsort with what Is beneath It, and by choosing Its companions from the hf. . ndlng ranks above It, human life bn-, on Ita upper side, step by step, tl>r,mgh measureless ages past, climbed th<* upward stairs of creation. Human !IM regarded as adjustment to and i rrcapondenre with environment Is richer today than ever before, because of the completer knowledge we have of tint contents of the environment and of life's relation to them. The environment of life Is the unap propriated part of Itself. The ocean outside Is that part of the whale which ban not been converted Into flsh. The .ilixste, soil and atmosphere of the i topics together make up a vast sum of n< bulous, diffused, unorganised and unappropriated elements which are uniting to be turned Into cocoanuts, hominas, coffee and monkeys. That we may see how much more life has within Itself power to become. In our time, than ever before, It Is only necessary that we consider the varied and boundless wealth of that infinite store house we call environ ment. The Environment as Intsrprstsd by 8eisncs. All the ancients knew of the envi ronment they were able to express by four general terms, which they named earth and air and fire and water. Hr k-nee has divided and sub-divided i he.- huge masses until now. Instead of four terms through which to express our knowledge, we have about seventy. There elements have not only been named, they have been weighed and measured. Their affinities have been ilctormlned. Science has taught us how to group particular elements, so as to cl compounds of one sort, and then how to take the same elements and croup them differently to get com pounds of another sort; how to make carbon. hydrogen and nitrogen stand x.K-thsr, so as to give us bread, and then by swinging corners and changing rl.lt-a to give us prussic acid. Science hits changed caloric from an Igneous tlulil Into a mode of motion, and, by a.) doing, has started to flying the countless wheels of toll. Science has turned astrology Into astronomy, and out of the wheel of fortune that once set In the heavens has made a useful and universal dock, .by which our sail ors ride the sea. Science has convert ed alchemy Into cheiqlsty, and while not giving us the philosopher's stone which was to turn everything It touch ed Into gold, has given us something better, In the secret of preparing our food so as to turn disgruntled dyspep tics Into amiable men and women. Science has driven the gods and god desses from the classic mountains, the dryads and genii from the woods and the streams, hobgoblins and ghosts from the darkness, and cloned the ca reer of the fortune teller among edu rated people. Science has changed the doctor from a conjurer Into n rational physician, who no longer gives pre scriptions on a level with that of which Montaigne speaks, which consisted of the left foot of a tortoise, the liver of a mole, the blood from under the left wing of a pigeon, and rats pounded to a fine powder. Science has Increased the-vision a million fold by the vlft of a telescope, and the power of hearing by the gift of the telephone, and the sense of smell by the chemical teat. Science has taken down the thought habitations of the fathers and replaced them by others so wide and high that many earnest people, long accustomed to close mental quarters, have been afraid they could never move Into them without catching. In the wide cosmic spaces, their death of cold. Science has-Just recently given us the secret of sending messages on the un dulations of the luminiferous ether and Professor Ayerton, a cool and level headed man of science, tells us thnt we are In thinkable distance of the time, when. If a father wanta to talk with his son, he knows not where, he will only have to call In a very loud, electro-magnetic voice, heard by the son, whose *ar la electro-magnetised to the same pitch—and by no other, and say: "Where are you, John?” The low reply will come back: "I am at the bottom of a slate quarry In Wales, father,” or ”1 am three days out from Southampton on the Atlantic,” or ”1 am spending the day with a friend on his sheep ranch In Australia." If, In spite of his calling, no response comes back, then he may know his son Is dead. When the time of which Professor Ayerton prophesies comes, then the world will be brought together like the rooms of a commodious dwelling house, so that all the millions of people who live In It can talk to one another, as the members speak one to another from the different rooms of a modern home. The Environment as Art Oivss it to Us. Science gives us the Invlronment In terms of use, art gives It to us In terms of beauty. Science puts the elements around us to work, art puts them to singing In the oratorios of the master, or to the glowing In the radiant vis ions of the painter. The question sci ence asks of the environment, Is, what contribution have you to make toward giving life better food, better clothing, better shelter and better modes of travel? The question art oaks of the envlronnent Is, what help ran you render toward entertaining life, toward embellishing It, toward transfiguring It, toward decreasing the humdrum and monotony and common place of It, and toward making It thrill with Joy In the performance of the common task? The environment as manipulated by science takes forms which are useful, but they are-temporary. The Invlr >n- ■nent as art deals with It, takes forms which are permanent. The steam en gine rusts and wears away, to be re placed by another and a better, but the poems of Homer are eternal. Science touches things for time, art for etern ity. Art Is Indifferent to mere huge ness and bulk; quality Is that with which It Is concerned. Art, through the genius of Burns, takes a tiny little rill, like Bonnie Doofk, and lifts it to a place of mors (gatllMM than tbs Ammon. The Avon Is not large enough to float a respectable river steamboat, hut Its waters, bv association with Shakespeare, hare been Idealised and brightened, until every drop of them shines like a diamond. There Is far more water In the lakes of Minnesota than In those of Scotland, but because Sir Walter Scott has put the color of his many-hued genltn on those of his native land, they draw sightseers from all over the world. Athens, that fair and radiant city, among the capitals of the world Is small; It never had any commerce of Importance, but because of the great artists, who walked her streets, they gleam, and always win, with unparalleled brightness. The Alps do not compare In bulk with the mountains that form the Andes range, but the former made glorious In art are a resort for tourists, while the lat ter are left to solitude, unbroken, save by the flight of the proud condor. True art Is truer than fact, and when It gives setting to an epoch makes the characters In It live, In a sense, truer to themselves and to those with whom they are associated, than history re cord*. William Pitt once said that he had learned from Bhakespeare all he knew of English history. In his Henry VIII, Shakespeare ha* put Into ever lasting form the real truth of a great time, and one can learn more of the king and hi* queens and cardinals and Intrigue* from this plan than from reading the recorded history of his reign. Shakespeare does not make king or queen say what perhap actually said, but what It was li hearts to say, what, If they had spoken the word true of their real essential selves, they would have said. His pic ture of the time, therefore. Is truer to the actual men and women who lived In It than that of any chronicler, had he been able even to record every word they actually did say or every deed they actually did perform. Th* Environment as Interpreted by Literature. In literature we have the environ ment lifted, refined, sublimated through the machinery of Intelligence and col ored by the changing experiences of the heart, as In our finest rugs we have crude silk and wool made Into pat- tema of beauty through the compli cated looms and marvelous dyes of the carpel weaver. Art transmutes the environment Into REV. OR. JAME8 W. LEE. great masterpiece* of poetry, or music, or painting, each standing out distinct and ' complete In Itaelf. Literature breaks the elements up, pulverises them, and turns them Into an atmos phere which the spirit breathes, as the lungs take In the breath of the morn ing. Through literature the environ ment Is translated Into Ideas. In lit erature the elements around us are served up In the exhalations of great souls, as they have contemplated the lights and shadows of nature, th* hopes and fears of life, and the un speakable mystery of and. Through literature, we are permitted to travel Into that Immense region of territory we call the Past; to witness Its scen ery, climb Its mountains, sail Its seas, and talk with Its Inhabitants, as they have taken Ideal form In the writings of great men from Isaiah of Jerusalem to Thomas Carlyle, of London. Simply to go round this little world as enisled by the time In which we live, leaves us parochial, provincial, and country-bred. If one Is to be come cosmopolitan In manners and widely enhanced and cultured In mind, he must travel outside his time and mingle with the peoples of other ages, tie must sit down with Job on his ash- heap In the dim and distant land of Us, and hear him pour out poetic wrath and Indignation upon the heads of those miserable and conceited com forters, Ellphas, the Temanlte; Blldad, the Bhuhlte; and Zophar, the Nsama- thlte. He must walk with Socrates In Greece and hear those marvelous con versations with Plato, which are to live forever; or visit with Horace In his cottage out at Tivoli and hear from his lips the best methods of raising cab bages. When our traveler returns from a voyage of this kind, there will no long- "Thlnk the rustic Cackle of his bourg, The murmur of the world.” The Environment as Interpreted by 8ociety. In society we have th# environment served up In terms of life. As the mineral climbs upward to bloom In the flower, and as earth and sunbeams get together to grow In the oak, so at last matter and life conjoin to smile In the face of man. In partnership with him protoplasm stands Up, oxygen walks about plants slf at the table, rocks breathe, and clay I* agitated by the beating pulse. He Is the representative and trustee of all below him, and suc ceeds In compressing the whole wide world Into the small compass of one hundred and fifty exquisite pounds of animated dust. The environment Is man spread out, man Is the environment gathered to gether. In him the elements And a head and a heart, a tongue of utter ance, and a face of beauty. In the blood which flows through his heart ho carries In solution hills and streams, winds and clouds, flowers and birds, continents and seas. Out of relation with others of his kind he has no significance, but in the race to which he belongs he sees his other and better self. And when In friendly, reciprocal relation with his larger and kindred life, his arms become long enough to encircle the globe. In correspondence with the social whole of which he Is a part, he finds It possible to multiply the life of each by the life of all. In relation he becomes significant and great, for upon the supposition that there are MOO,000,000 of persons like himself on the earth, he finds his Individuality augmented by the possession of 3,000,- 000,000 of hands to help him work, and 3,000,000,000 of eyes to help him see, and 1.000,000,000 of hearts to sympa thise with him, In solving the prob lems and bearing the burdens of life. HI* existence Is not then eked out In lone. Bedouin Isolation. He Is a part ner of a life as wide as the planet, whose throbbing currents come up around his beating heart to refresh It, and to float Its outgoing pulsations round the world. The race from the beginning of Ita career has been painfully and slowly but surely pulling Itself together Into one great human .whole. It Is the un speakable privilege of those who live at the beginning of the twentieth cen tury to see the work about complete. Humanity Is united today as never be fore. The elbows of the nations touch and they are supported by a common commerce and Inspired by a common hope and moved to a common destiny, as not In any previous period of the world’* history. In relation with universal Ilfs, man finds himself at an open port, where, for a small contribution to the multi plex flow of exchanges passing through t, he can take toll of the merchandise of the world. lie can use the millions Invested In street ear systems for S cents a ride. He can avail himself of the vast outlay of money and thought the stage of action at th* beginning . which unite to produce the morning the twentieth castor}-, destined to af paper for 1 cent a copy. He can use [ the greatest the world has ever all the billions which have been spent. They start life u Ith more capital In the establishment of railroad*, under skies deeper and wider and fnn steamship lines, electric light plants. , er of stars than iiersons of other tlm.l shoe factories, Iron foundries, and ever did. To make possible what other forms of modern Industry, to day I* within their reach, mun.,! ■nrva aM« onA ralnflnn rtf hla life* HftTf Hg->niZ**d, PtlllOtl hgyg . * ** their lives, and prophet* have rt-™? ed their visions By no power of a m-' metlc Is one able to compass the , value of the revenues from which v„a can draw In the years to come J 8 But we must remember that the im limited nmount of assets which ih, ages have placed to our credit In a sense, can not be drawn on h- ,,, unless we are willing to pay for the,,. In attention. Intelligence, discipline and strenuous living. While all thins* hove been named, classified ami -,r ranged for us In that Infinite » tor , house we have called environment still the universe doe* not propose to treat us as so many paupers, giving « hfr , we do not seek, and opening where we do not knock. Today we stand a. so many throbbing specimens of t h* latest edition of humanity; hopinc fearing, expectant, midway between nothing and everything, for the fu ture, as so much has been invested in us, each will be expected to add to his Individual worth, first by receiving the highest the world has to give, and then adding to It the Increment of w. own contribution, return It for the en- rlchment of the environment that shall feed the souls of coming generations To receive the highest that science art, literature, society and religion have to give will require on our part the constant cultivation of the will the Intellect and the heart. Paderew ski brings from the unseen about him the notes which thrill all hearts, bo* only at the price of the most constant! persistent discipline. In order to be able to fully appreciate his music it requires training and discipline ind refinement on the part of the hearer almost equal to that of the great per former. The things we ran receive without strenuous effort are cheap and com mon. The outer layers of one's sur. face nerves may be set to vibrating by the ragtime music of the tin-pan serenade without effort on our part. Such music bombards us and raptures us, very much a* Buffalo Bill's wild Indians take the mall coach. But If we arc to feel the wondrous meaning of the fugues of Bach and the scenes of Moxart, we must bring to their con sideration a delicacy of thought snd a height of spiritual culture which can not be attained without great dis cipline. We should not permit ourselves to t* browbeaten Into the supposlttor that we are not of value. We may not be permitted to add to the world's wealth any great Invention or poem, but remember that the greatest per son who ever lived on this earth swld. “I am among you as he that serv- eth.” In the direction of service, there fore. we can pay the debt we owe for all the world has done for us, and in this direction find the shining way along which the noblest of our race have walked and labored and serve every side and relation of his life, at auch compensation as comes within the range of every earnest toller's In come. No king or queen of ancient times ever had the comforts and con veniences enjoyed by any Industrious laboring man of today. No Lucullus or Hellogabulus ever fared as he does, and all because we have come to the time when man Is recognized ns one factor of an equation, of which the hu man race Is the other, and to the time when the smaller factor, which spells Individuality, hus learned how lo In drease Its power and multiply Its effl- clcncy by the multitudinous Immenal ty of the larger factor, which spells humanity. Ths Environment as Interpreted by Religion. Science turns the environment Into a shop, art Into a song, literature into a library, society Into a brotherhood, blit religion lifts it Into a temple of wor ship that not only stands for the eternal without, but for the undying and Irrepressible principle within man, which corresponds to IL Through re ligion the environment Is served up In synagogues, mosques, churches, litur gies, prayers and songs. It Is remark, able that man has used the religious gateway, standing as It does, between the deepest within him and the high eat without him, more than any of the others, through which he holds com merce with the universe about him. Nothing in history <■ more wonderful than the everlasting cry which goes up from the deep, burdened heart of the race for companionship and peace, with the great Being of whose presence. In every age, It has had a conviction that nothing could destroy. That there an eternal and universal reality In the boundless, outlying spaces responding lo the spiritual nature of man. Is the glad truth It has been the function of religion to Interpret. It Is the work of science to give us the environment a* It can serve us In this world; It Is the province of re ligion to give us the environment as It can serve us In the next. Science, by Its kindly ministrations, lets life down gently to the grave. Rellgon points It to a realm where no tomb shall stand as a reminder of Its mor tality. Those alive on earth today are to be congratulated: first, on being alive, and second, on the opportunities they have of' making their lives so useful and beautiful and rich. Around them for equipment, fumlshment and Inspiration are the contributions made by all past nges. They are on the top of the cen turies, and form the latest links In that human chain which extends back ward to tho time when our ancestors first began the awful struggle of sub duing the forces within them and the elements, without them. They come to I triumphed. T HIS lesson le a complement Peter's co&feeslqn, and narrates an event that soon followed. Jesus selects the three disciples that on a former occasion He had taken with Him In the death chamber when be would restore the dead to life. With them He would hold a llttl* prayer meeting. In eight of Calvary, lie needed help and they needed to be prepared for the coming event. Peter must learn that the cross and crown are Inseparable: that without the ehrddlng of blood there can b* no remi-ei.in of sins. It was the only time in >ur Savior's ministry that Hla dl- Mnlty ahone forth In all Ita glory tlx 'Ugh the veil of Hla humanity. U was th* only time that any of the departed ever appeared In visible fa. It was fitting that the two per son*. who appeared should be Moaes and Ellas, as they represented the law and the prophets. Ona.of the charges that had bean frequently brought against Him was that Hla teaching was contrary to th* law of Moaes and th, prophets. If these disciples hod any mlsglv ln«s before, they would now be fully satisfied with Christ's statement that Hi had not come to destroy the law an<l the prophets but to fulfill. They also represented the living and th* ili-nd. Moaea died and was buried by th* ii.nd of God: Elijah was one of the tv - who leaped the grave. Now Moaea that died and was bur- b«L and Elijah who was translated, are • njoytng the same privilege*, and come I'm* k to earth on the same mission. Conscious Existsne* of Dsparted Saints. They have left us; we no longer see Uxlr bodily forms, but they still live, They do not sleep In cold unconscious- in -s; there are no ages of slumber till tl" trumpet of the resurrection shall , Wind. They Immediately pass Into s ; *ry. Mooes who died and Elijah who rarer died are consciously existing to gether. I Though the sunken cheek and the ctoood eye, and the hand that no longer BWaa *>ur own apeak* to ua of death. ■M we may be assured that our de- l«rt*d friends still live, as If we hail f Men them go up In a chariot of fire, er an angel convoy taking them to ' glory. We should think of them trans lated rather than dead. Moses and I Bias are together, though &00 years divided them on earth. They had dlf- ferant work to do at different times. God’s servants are placed In different localities; they never may be able to meet each other on earth, or they may Hv* In the same place at different pe riod*, but yonder they are together. Heavenly Recognition. W* are not told that two angel*, or two unknown glorified being* appear ed. but two specific persons, Moaes sad Ellas. How tho disciples knew them, we are not Informed, but they : knew them, and, doubtless, no Intro duction was necessary. . They may have been granted spir itual Intuition, just as It will be grant- 1 ua to recognise prophets and others * have never known. O the bliss of meeting there the ed one* who have gone before; re where the eye shall never loae luster, where the cheek shall never fade, where the brow shall ntver wrln kle, where no Infirmity shall remiln, no possibility of misunderstanding, nothing to mar Iho harmony, and where the Joy of reunion shall never be clouded with the thought of separa tion. Moses and Ellaa were with Jesus. This la the chief Joy of believer* now. There la no Joy comparable to this conscious presence of Christ on earth. W* are never an happy as when, like Mary, wa alt at Hla feet, or with John, lean on Hla breast, or when He walks with us, as He did with the two disciples on their way to Kmroaua, and our hearts burn within ua because of Hla presence. But here we aee Him through a glass, or In a mirror, but then wo shall Him as He la, face lo face. Heaven will be lo the aalnta what Mount Hermon was to the three disci plea. Heaven would not be heaven without Him. 8o we have HI* prom ise, “I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am ye may be also.” He said to the dying penitent thief, "To day thou shall be with Me In Para dine.” "I will that they whom thou hast given me be with me where I am.” Paul expressed hla longing when he said, "Having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which Is far batter.” “Absent from the body." without any Interval, "and present with the Lord. Oh! to behold the glorified body of Je sus, the same Jeau* who was trans figured on the mount, the same Jesus who ascended from the Hope* of Oli vet In Hla chariot of cloud, whom here we have seen faintly, obscurely, yet have loved and served, though Imper fectly; to be In Hla very presence, whore there I* fullness of Joy, and at HI* right hand, where there are pleas ures evermore. la death then so very terrible?. If dsparted saints stilt exist, if they are In glory. If they are with one anoth er, If they rejoice In recognition. If they are in the very presence of Jesus, and no longer see Him by faith, should we dread death tor ourselves and la ment It for our friends? This la our consolation If ws are on the way, and whether we are or not, the character of Moaea and Ellaa In structs u*. They who sustain their character will go where they are. Moaea by faith renounced the pleasure* of sin, and the luxuries of the world, and so he came nut from the world and was separate. If we are willing to do the same, then we are like him In the subatantlal element of character. Elias' Steadfastness. Ella* was remarkable for steadfast ness and decision. He stood for God and righteousness when he thought he stood alone. Are we like him In char acter? Then we are on our way to Join Ellaa. If we are sharers with Moaea and Ellas In faith and decision for God. then we are on our way to Join them. If not, w* have no hope. Was then anything special about the mis sion of Christ to which these repre sentatives of th* law and the prophets pointed? In praise of the coming Christ, David awept hla harp, and with I 'ie suffering He was to endure and | it glory that wa* to follow, Isaiah crowned the gorgeous canvas of hla : Imagery. What shall be the them* of this mid night conversation on tin summit of Mount Hermon? Events that had transpired In heaven since our Lord's Incarnation, or event* that had occur red on earth during Hla ministry. Only one thing la mentioned, Hla coming death. How strange It seems to ua at first. That countenance shining as the sun, suggestive of the countenance furrowed with grief! That crown of radlanc* suggestive of the crown of thorns! The two aalnta, of the two thieves. The voice of the Father*' approval of the bitter cry. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Hermon with Its glories suggests Calvary with Its woes! Yet that was the very theme about which Moaes and Ellu* and Christ were most likely to converse. It was the event . In which the angels had been Interested and to w hich Moaes and the prophets had constantly re ferred by ceremony and prediction. It was to that decease that Moaea and Ellas owed the enjoyment of their glory. He died for them as well as for ua. on th* tree. They believed that was to come, while we believe In n Christ that has come. No wonder that owing centuries of bltaa to that decease ‘at Jerusalem, they should gratefully apeak of that which should so soon be accomplished. As Hla death on the cross was the subject of their conversation on the mount of transfiguration, so His suf ferings and death will be the theme of the glorified throughout nil eternity. As He upuenred to John In vision on Patmos. He will appear to ua as the Lamb that was slain. We will not forget that the crown of thorns rested on the brow that wears the crown of glory; our robe* of white ness will remind ua that they were made white because, washed in Hla cleansing blood. The Joy* of redemp tion will not obliterate the agony of Gethsemane and the sufferings on Cal vary. The thought that will evoke the aweeteat note In aong of the redeemed, the richest mush- from th* trembling chord of heavenly harp, that shall fill and thrill the soul with deepest grati tude will be, Jesus died for me. "Soon the delightful day will.come When my dear Lord will coll me home And I shall aee Hla face. Then, with my brother, Savior, friend, A blest eternity I'll spend. Triumphant In Hla grace.” Pater 8peakt. Peter, aa usual, waa the first to break th* alienee. "He epake, not knowlm what he said." He waa so delighted with the acene. No human vole# or footstep la heard. The birds have gone to their neats. The only sound Is the me|pdy of the streams that have been swollen by the melting of the snow on the mountain. The bright stars thnt a moment before were gemming the sky with their bright lustre Ulanp- ar by the efulgence of a brighter tht, and Mt. Hermon becomes a pal ace of glory. Peter waa so delighted, Jesus so glorious, even His apparel be coming whiter than the snow that crowned the summit of the mountain. Moses and Ellas so glorious, that he wished to build three booth# where they might remain free from the plots and persecution of the Pharisees, and the wiles of Herod. Now the scene change* like a ills solving view. A white fleecy cloud seemed to come. In which the heavenly visitors are enwrapped, and disappear. It waa the Shechlnah. the divine glory, the token of God's special presence; the same cloud that rested on the tab ernacle, and went In tha form of a pil lar befnr# Israel in the desert. And then n voice cornea out of the cloud "This la my beloved Son, hear y« Him." It was the voice of God, con firming Peter's answer when Jesus asksd, "Whom do ye say that I am?” Now the affrighted disciples fall on their faces, while Jesus Is lost to their sight In his canopy of glory. And they ao remain till they hear Ills gentle voice bidding them. “Arlae, be not afraid." The dassllng light, the bright messengers, the awe-lnapliing cloud, are all gone, and they aee Jeaus only, not In garments woven In sunbeams, TELEPHONE TIME One o£ the attractive features of the Bell telephone is that it is ready for use all the time—day or night. It is always on duty, In an emergency it may save lives. It is necessary in the modern home. , Bell Service Is Satisfactory. The Rates Are Reasonable. Call Contract Department, Main 1300. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. but In His lowly garb. The sun of their souls was still left. They might have to face new trials, but they had obtained a sight of the crown, and now they can return to the foot of the mountain, more than ever willing to bear the croaa. It was a scene never to be forgotten. Years afterward when writing Hl« gospel, John said: "We beheld His glory as of the only begotton of the Father, full of grace and truth." And Peter In hla old age when writing a beautiful letter to hi* converts, speaks of one place and spectacle which seems to have fastened Itaelf above all oth ers on his memory. It was not hla first appearance on the banka of th* Jordan, nor the chamber where the dead came to life, nor some Incident In the home at Capernaum, nor In the tempi# at Jerusalem, nor the walk on the sea, not even the garden of Gethsemane, nor the croes on Calvary, but "We are eye- witnesses of Hla Majesty . , . when we were with Him In the Holy Moynt. WILL ATLANTA GRASP GREAT OPPORTUNITY? "Will Atlanta grasp the opportunity which la held out to her relative to the establishment of the Bible School and College?", Is th* question asked In an article which will appear In the next Issue of The Watchman, the organ of the Congregational Methodist Church, so It Is stated In a communication re ceived by The Georgian from Milner, Go. The article on this subject will read as follows: V friend writes that Atlanta has f flared before her a great opportunity n having secured the location of the Bible Bchool and College that Annis ton, Ala., and other enterprising cities would have liked so well to secure. What may this not mean to the future of Atlanta If that great Gate City of the South will rally to the liberal sup port and patronage of the Bible School and hasten the opening of a well equip ped college? To Atlanta many eyes are turned, especially the eyes of Cc/hgre- gatlnnal Methodists from Pennsylvania to Texas, to see If she will show th* boasted 'Atlanta Spirit' In behalf of a great religious and educational Institu tion that Is to be national In Its scope, and for the benefit of air denomina tions. This I* one ^f the greatest op portunities ever nfa-ed Atlanta. Will she srlxe It by the forelock? I believe she will! A Baptist Minister’s Opinion. "Rev. R. L. Bolton, a prominent young Baptist minister, an alumnua of Mercer University, and one of Dr. Hunt’s former pupils, said the Other day: ‘Somehow I have been greatly Impressed for the Inat few days' about Brother Hunt'a work up thero In At lanta. I believe that God Is In IL and that the people of Atlanta will soon recognise It and-rally to Ua support aa they have to the work of Dr. Broughton and others. Brother Hunt has always been so consecrated, and I believe that God will use any man who will give hla life In such unselfish Christian service. He la a young man yeL and I believe the Lord has a great work for him. 'As soon as the people of Atlanta fully realls* the object of the Bible School and what those behind It In tend to do, I believe they will gladly recognise In It s substantial way and co-operate In ths great work.'" "Gracious!" exclaimed Mrs. House- keep, "twenty-fire cent* a box for those strawberries? Why, they're such miserable little, half ripe things they'd be sure to give me colic." But look at da alt* o’ d* box, lady," replied th* huckster. "You don't git enough o' dem to do you no harm."— Philadelphia Press. "You say there wasn't a dry *y# In the house?" "Not one. But the throats were something fierce."—Milwaukee Semi- DO YOU KNOW Why we request you to use this label on your printing? i If not, send for our little pamphlet “To Our Friends# The Merchants.” ATLANTA TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, P. O. BOX 266. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS W# now have In operation th# largest and beat equipped Cement Stone Plsnt In th# South. W# make a full line of building stone, window and door sill*, tentela, columns, pillars, steps and brick. Mr. P. Pelegrenl, the oldest and most efficient stone worker In At lanta, Is In charg* of our omamsntat snd special work department. 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