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10 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. SATURDAY, AUDI ST 11. | : F rnn 1 i b y rev * everett dean ellenwood,! 5 THF f IMNIDfiTFNT RlfHTFfilKNF^ 0 i { inc \ JI IrilrU1 Lli 1 luvi! 11 LI/U3i iLi33 v I VIV/I/ { PASTOR •UNIVERSALIST CHURCH s : _ • 1 m - - T HERE Is-no more reliable index of the Intellectual status and the progress In civilization of any people than may be revealed by a study of the conception of Deity constituting the basis of Its system of religion. Even ns we believe that the habits of a man's mind may be determined by an Inspection of Ills library, so may we read his soul’s estimate of God In the attitude which he preserves toward the visible social order of which he Is temporarily a part. The World's Freedom in the Knowl edge of God. The world Is happily coming con stantly to a more complete realization of the great significance of the words of Jesus, “And this Is life eternal, that they should know Thee, the only true God.” Through the growing knowledge of the true character * 1 * * * * * of the “one true God" must come the world's spiritual, pollftcal and economic salvation. And the value of the “eternal life" so eagerly sought and longingly waited for by religious souls the world over, since man became a conscious being, shhll be greatly enhanced by the dis covery of its possibility as a present attainment. The most serious draw back to religion, according to Its crit ics, |g that It deals entirely too much with futurities. \ If these premises be true—and they will scarcely be disputed—then It would appear that the supreme busi ness of leaders \of religious thought everywhere Is to endeavor by all means to be brought to their aid, to spread abroad In the hearts of men the knowl edge of the true character of Him In whom our souls have believed. In this educational effort let it al ways be remembered that truth alone Is to be served, regardless of grievous damage or even demolition resultant to the time-honored credal products of patient. If bigoted, scholars, and to tra ditions hoary with age and venerated, If not venerable. “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free,” was the promise of the founder of (’hristlan- Ity, hut freedom for the human race, vhether It be political, Industrial or pirftual, has ever been purchased at the cost of sacrifice. Even as scien tific truth knows no halting place, hut must ever stand ready to forsake the precious holdings of yesterday for the more valuable revelation of today, so shall that spiritual truth for which our hearts strive be won to us, not by our tenacious grasp of the picture of God caught by the theological camera of a by-gone age, but it shall come to us gradually, through those varied expe riences of life, wherein, like the p trlarch of old, we meet God face to face. And whenever the clamor of the heart thus taught of God shall demand the forsaking of the teachings of the schools and the philosophy of the creeds, the eager pursuit of spiritual truth shall make this sacrifice a Joy. The Soul's Demand for Righteousness. However much of Justification for his philosophy the pessimist may find In the world’s halting progress toward perfection, yet we can not fall to re joice In the universal yearning of the normal soul after righteousness. Man may Indeed be "prone to evil as the sparks fly upward," but he does not Instinctively desire It. Buffeted and beaten to the earth by the power of temptation, momentarily triumphant over the weakness of his undeveloped spiritual self, and groaning In despair for the frequency of his sins, he is yet able to cry out, with St. Paul, "that hlch I would not, that I do. O. retched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death!" We believe, with rejoicing, that w'e have come forth from God; therefore, "original sin" can not be a fact unless we are willing to declare that evil was pre-existent In the heart of the Eter nal. Total depravity of the human soul may be u theological fact; It can never be a spiritual truth. If then we recognize with constant encouragement the universal longing of the human soul after righteousness, the constant desire for spiritual ex cellence and wholesome ethics, surely the simplest reasoning from premise to conclusion must Justify us In a be lief In the essential righteousness of a God able to Inspire In His creatures such Instincts of moral and spiritual perfection. And even as the righteous ness of God l» proven by the righteous Instincts of His creatures, so shall the righteous Instincts of His creatures be constantly nourished to full fruition by an Increasing confidence In the es sential and unfailing righteousness of their God. REV. E. D. ELLENW00D. The Soul's Quest of Power. Then, as we find that the longing for power, the desire for unconquer able strength, the Insatiable yearning for triumph unending, are instinct In the human heart, shall we not most naturally conclude that the God, from whose heart came these germs of vic tory, Is one against whom even the gates of hell shall not be able to pre vail? We shall learn also that the conscious power of the spiritual man Is limited only by the redch of his con fidence In the absolute omnipotence of his God. "411 things are possible to him that belleveth," crystallxes from an Ideal Into a triumphant reality In the life of man whose faith and whose theology set no bounds to the abllty of the A1 mighty. His watchword Is the splen did declaration of St. Pau,l "I can do all things through Him that strength ened me." The world's need of faith In a God of omnipotent righteousness. The supremo need of the world today Is for men and women who are abso lutely convinced of the all-conquering righteousness of God. No Individual less capably endowed may hope to' successfully cope with the conditions which are presented by our complex civilization. From men and women In spired and sustained by the splendid courage of this faith must we look with confidence for the solution of those per plexing social and economic problems which are the legacy of*the present generation. Shall we not, therefore, with that Justice born of the primal instinct of self-preservation, reject , as an Influ ence positively baneful to the social order, any system of theology which would tench men to believe In a God Indifferent In beneficence and Impotent In righteousness, a God whose “arm Is shortened that He cannot save?” A God of absolute and unqualified righteousness must surely desire that righteousness shall prevail throughout the whole of His physical and moral universe. A God of unllmted ability to execute the demands of His right eousness which shall surely bring to complete realization In His universe the Ideals of His own Inherent per fection. This is surely a logical con clusion to be grasped by even the sim plest mind. It is the philosophy taught by the human conscience, the only Bi ble of whose infallibility and divine In* splratlon we may be absolutely cer tain. The Finsl Harmony of All 8ouls With God. There can be but one satisfactory answer to this line of reasoning, vis.: "The final harmony of all souls with God," the ultimate triumph of good over evil in every human life and throughout the universe. Herein Is no loss of human Identity, no merging of the individual will Into the unit consciousness of the "over soul/' no surrender of that precious conceit of "man as a free moral agent." Rather la there In this belief the strengthen!!)? of the iden of Individ uality, the making of the puerile hu man will omnipotent through Its en dowment of the divine will, the change of "man as a free moral agent" from ideal to a glorious reality, by crowning him with that priceless f rp . dom from sin which shall enable him eternally, to choose the good a* d ,?• stlnctlvely to reject the evil. In “ "Our wills are ours, wft know not how Our wills are ours to make them thine.” cn * The human will Is not lost to Its t,n. sessor when It Is persuaded Into h»r mony with the divine will. ar ‘ A Safe and Sane Theology. Surely this is a safe and sane the- ology. It vindicates the honor of q 0( j It maintains the inherent Integrity 0 f HI. offspring. It throw* a gleaming ray of hope across the darkest prob. lems of human weakness and human error, while th« echo of a strain of eternal harmony given promise of a triumphant and'all-pervading m-lodr whose diapason shall one day drown the discordant clamor of earth's self Ishness and greed. It enables us to sar wltH Job. "I know that my redeemer llveth," and It makes It natural f or u. to believe that “Mot one soul shall be destroyed Or cadt as rubbish to the v dd, When God hath made the pile complete It defrauds death of his most poign- ant sting and snatches from the grave It* victory, and. for the hour that now Is, It gives a dignity, a sanity, and an Irresistible Impetus to every normal activity of life. THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD By REV. JAMES W. LEE, PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH A TERMINAL railway station cov ering 20 acres of ground In the most populous part of New York city, may be put down 11s the eighth wonder of the world. The station is bounded by Seventh avenue on the east. Tenth avenue on the west. Thir ty-first street on the south and Thlr tv-thin! street dn the north. Over this territory there stood residences, stores, hospltuls, churches and every conceiva ble kind of establishment to be found In such a center of u great city. This entire stretch of land with all above It and below It, was bought out by the Pennsylvania Railroud Compa ny three or four years ago. St. Mi chael's church, convent and school stood in this region, and the authori ties were loth to part with their place of worship and school. There was de lay In the negotiations but Anally the church people consented to give up their land nnd belongings, upon condi tion that they be permitted to worship in the church and use the convent and school property until the Pennsylvania Railroad Company could build them a church, convent nnd school on another site covering Just ns much space as the old ones and equally adapted to their use. So on West Thirty-fourth street the railroad company has built a new nnd magnificent church, convent and school to house the St. Michael congregation. It Is now about ready for occupancy and so nt last the workmen are taking down the top part of the old church. The pastor of this hitherto historic church Is Rev. John A. Gleeson, who succeeded Rev. Arthur Donnelly, call ed to succeed Rev. Father McOllnn when he resigned on account of the Henry George labor controversy. The excavations for the Immense railway station now go down as deep as from 45 to tin feet. One can stand on the street above and see the men below drilling, blasting, loading cars with dirt and rock, building retaining wails to inclose the spnee, und per forming all sorts of feats with a view to dealing oul and leveling this hole In the ground for the vast superstruct ure to rise above It. The retaining wall around this site Is built of concrete and anchored to bed rock. The problem the engineers faced In opening this lo cation was not taking down the houses that stood upon It—that was easy—but the proposition of carrying three streets, two bearing trolley car lines and hnving sewer and water pipes un derneath, the third carrying trolley lines and an elevated road, across a cut 500 feet In breadth and ranging from 45 to 60 feet In depth, so ns not to disturb traffic and the running of the ars. On Eighth avenue a 6-foot brick sewer crosses the territory. In order to cross this cut It was necessary to put a. new Iron sewer pipe Into the place of the new brick one, making of It a sort of round bridge, supported from beneath. Think of the people liv ing nt the flr*t on this ground with blasting going on down under their hearthstones, but all so quietly and ac- umtely as not to disturb the Inmates of the dwelling places. In order to give the denizens above opportunity to sleep it was ordered that no blasting should be done In the night time. It Is estimated that from the ter minal station proper, and from the •(tower house to be built on the south side of It, It will be necessary to take out two million cubic yards of dirt and rock. This Is enough to furnish foun dation for a city of moderate size. This enormous amount of earth and stone Is taken away on enrs and used to drive back the sea and bog elsewhere, thus securing more land now covered by water and inarsb. Above this deep 20-«cro hole In the ground Is to be erected the most com modious nnd beautiful terminal rail way station on the face of the earth. The area of Solomon’s Temple In Je rusalem was only 12 acres; that of the pyramids at Cairo, Egypt, Is only about 11 acres; the terminal station In St. Louis covers 10 acres; but here we are to have a railroad central house covering twice as much ground. Through this, arcades will be built for surface and elevated cars to pass just as they did before the Pennsylvania railway people ever had such a dream ns they are here transmuting Into hard staggering fact. But the station Is only the center of tills twentieth century dream. A great car house In the midst of New York city would do the Pennsylvania rail road no good with arms of the sea cut ting It off from connection with the wide stretching lines of Iron reaching out to all parts of the American Union. Something else must be done on the part of the modern masters of power, to make this center of delirium com plete. Ferries could not reach this un-, derground mansion. In order, there fore, to bring the rolling passenger conches loaded with human freight from all parts of the wide, wide world, It was necessary to open underground, and under sen the roadways, running out In both directions from the central terminal station. The main railway tatlon Is only the hub of a series of spokes In the shnpe of tunnels, which to connect the Island of Manhattan DR. J. W. LEE. with the outlying land of the country. The main spokes In this wheel, pro jected out of that Intelligence of the engineers as If from Fairyland, have been named the North River division, the Terminal division, and the East River division. Together with the sta tion hub under the city of Ndw York, the various tunnel spokes connect the continental mainland of America, and the metropolis. As far ns this side of the Atlantic Is concerned, It is proper to say of the Pennsylvania railroad that there Is no more sea. One of the engineers of this daring movement re marked that Hudson discovered the river that bears his name, but that, he was the first man who had ever stood under It. There Is nothing In the wild est romance, or in Anderson’s -Fairy Tales, or In the Arabian Nights Enter tainment half so marvelous ns the methods devised by the engineers to tunnel beneath the Hudson and under the East river. \ Four tunnels run from the main ter minals from Seventh avenue, eastward under the East river In pairs. Two of these enter the East river at the foot of Thirty-fourth street, two others at the foot of Thirty-third street. Each tunnel under the river Is Just large enough for one train to pass. These East river tunnels are being made through fine quicksand. Thus It has been necessary to devise some method to keep the water from filtering down from above, and also to keep the 34 pounds of air pressure, necessary to keep the water out, from going Into bubbles through the top. This diffi culty has been met by dumping clay on to the bottom of the East river. The clay furnishes a blanket to hold the wa ter up, and keep the enormous air pressure from the 250 horsepower com pressors back. The tunnel Is made by forcing what Is called the shield, sopiewhat larger In diameter than that of the tunnel, through the quicksand. These shields re gradually advanced to the unln- aded territory at the bottom of the river by hydraulic rams, supplying a pressure of 6,000 pounds to the square Inch. As this shield advances the sand nnd raw material Is thrown back Into the tunnel and carted away, w'hlle the bod of the river Is held up at the opening of the shield by the tremen dous pressure of the air. The men here actually work In the center of nn air bubble equal to 34 pounds pressure to tho square Inch. Shifts are frequently made, so that It is impossible for A long while to stand It. But, strange to say, the workers, while In the realm of this highly compressed air are stimulated to the point of enthusiastic activity. The only danger from working in such en vironment is that when the pressure is relieved too suddenly the laborers are seized with a new kind of disease called “the bends.” It Is a sort of paralysis. Physicians are In constant attendance and are giving careful at tention to methods of relieving this new ailment. One remedy Impressed me as very interesting. As soon as the laborer, emerging from this place of toll, is seen to be affected by the bends, he Is taken at once Into a small Iron house with two compartments, one of which Is for air pressure of as much per square Inch as that In which he worked. When he Is placed in this Iron compartment for a while he Is re lieved. After this, the pressure- is taken off so gradually that he suffers no further trouble. < Our modern poets no longer work with words, they work with mechani cal devices invented for conquering nature. The poets of New York are no longer the Bryants and the Sted- mans. Our American poets are no longer Longfellow, Whittier and Holmes. They are the men like Sam uel Rea, C. M. Jacobs, Alfred Noble nnd E. W. Molr, the masters of the situation, w'hh have this vast enter- prise of the Pennsylvania Railroad in charge. Back of all this one should picture a quiet room In a corner of the Broad street station of the Pennsylvania Rail road Company In Philadelphia. There sits a man of retiring disposition and very few words, Alexander J. Cassatt by name. When he became president of the Pennsylvania Railroad less than ten years ago, his Imagination began to work along channels hitherto un surveyed by man. His dream is being realized. He Is planting the Pennsyl vania Railroad In the heart of New York, and his plans, before long, will result In the possibility of a man who takes a passenger train In Atlanta, Ga., being able to go right through the subterranean regions of New York to Boston and Portland, Maine, without change. Mr. Cassatt found that passenger trains were being delayed by freights; he has, therefore, built an entirely new railroad from New York to Pittsburg. He found that the four tracks of this main line were so close together that when a train was wrecked on ont of them It delayed the trains seeking to move along the parallel lines. Ht Is separating the tracks now, so that fas- sengeft* trains may proceed without ob struction. His vision saw the necessity for these improvements. Ills practical mind saw the possibilities of working them rfut promptly and econom*a»!ly, and his personal tact and diplomacy made It possible for him to go to Paris and accompllim the hitherto Impossi ble and unimaginable feat of borfow- Ing $50,000,000 upon exceedingly fa vorable terms from the conservgtlve hankers of France, with which hl« gi gantic schemes might be carried nut. ifNMHHMHliM THE CHOICE OF THE HIGHEST “Our God whom we serve Is able to deliver us from the burning flgry fur nace and He will deliver us * * * Hut If not—” Daniel III, 18. II By REV. JOHN E. WHITE, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH ■•r L ET us stop Just there. Let us leave the tent thus unfinished and with a glaring hiatus, for the Hebrew children have come down In their minds through this brave tent and have looked squarely Into a gulf of awful possibility. "Our God whom we serve Is able to deliver us and he will deliver us. • / • • But If not." "But if not." That Is awful. "But If not.” That means n horrible death. I do not care this morning If I do not say one word about the great de liverance that did come to these men in the fiery furnace. That was grund. Nebuchadnezzar appreciated -that, for you know how when he saw' them walking unhurned in the flames he was astonished und rose up In haste and spake and said unto his counsellors; "Did we not cast three men bound Into the midst of the Are.’’ Ho appreciated that. But that was not tip* grandest thing. There Is something here he did not appreciate. There Is something here finer and more wonderful If you will permit me to say that, than the faithfulness of God. It Is the faithful ness of these men who said: "Our God whom we servo Is able to deliver us from the burning, flerj? furnace, and he will deliver us. But If not” They walked right up to the Are nnd confessed tho posslb!I|.y that God might not deliver them and were un dismayed. This Is tho really great thing about this story. Their deliv erance has Its lesson, but It’s no such lesson as this. Here Is the highest cast of faith. In the Bible and In human history we can And very many sorts and kinds of faith. This Is the highest sort and kind. There are degrees In the quality of faith Just as In any oth er of tho cardinal graces. I say here Is the highest degree. I want you to look at it. Ths Highest Faith. If we recount the degrees of faith I suppose we would have to start with that very common faith among men that very' common faith among men, Is professional, formal, creedal. A set of fair weather conceits, which we call our faith. It Is ornamental and quite useless except for ornament. It glit ters In modern ritualistic and worldly minded Protestantism like the broad ened phylacteries used to glitter about the shoulders of the Pharisees, In a strain, at a test, It turns out to he no faith nt all. It Is like the faith of the hoy during n protracted meeting In Virginia who declared that he had faith enough to do what Peter failed at, faith enough to walk on the wa ter. The challenge accepted, they went down to the rjver to test It. The young faithful took a look at the wa ter and then sat down nnd rolled his pants up above his knees before he would venture. It was no faith at nil. There Is an example of faith given us by Mark In'the story of tho woman who Just Imd faith enough to touch the hem of Christ’s garment In the crowd and Matthew tells us of tho poor man who Just had faith enough to cry, "Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief." I suppose we may call this “little faith." But It Is by no means to he despised. In 1st Kings we have the record of a great faith. Elijah fac ed tho hosts of Rani on Carmel and challenged their god to meet his Je hovah in a great trial of Are. They tried and but no Are*came to burn up the sacrlflce. Then this man faith set his face toward God i wrestled passionately In prayer, not a doubt In his heart, not a fear and thought of the possibility of failure We call that a grand faith. A faith that would not take “no" for nn nn swer. And that Is a grand faith. But It Is not the highest faith. Here Is the highest faith, the faith that cc say, "Our God whom we serve Is able to’deliver us from the burning. Aery furnace, and he will deliver us, but If not"— The highest faith Is the faith that can stand for God to fall, the faith that an risk disappointment. "Our <God can. our God will deliver us, bm If not"— Well, what if not? Well, "If not.” It doesn't make any difference. "If not," it doesn’t alter our position. "But If not, he It known unto thee, Oh, King, we will not serve thy gods, nor wor- Are You Still Paying-Rent? If so, lam Surprised! Rent Receipts Remind me of Money Thrown Away. Do you know that tho Standard Real Estate taan Company of Wash ington. D. C., will sell you a home-purchasing contract whereby you can buy or build a home auywhere In tho United States and pay for It In monthly payments for less than you are now paying rent? They will lend you from $1,000 to $5,000 at 5 per cent, simple interest, al lowing you to pay It. back In monthly installments of $7.50 on each thousand borrowed. For prospectus and plans of our proposition, call on or write J. St Jullen Yates, State Agent. 321 Austell Bldg., At lanta, Ga. Bell phono 2653-J. Atlanta phone 1918. Truthful Hustling Agents Wanted in Every County in tb« State shin tho golden Image thout hast set up/’ 1 say this Is the highest faith nnd I say It on the unchallengeable authority of Jesus Christ. He Is "the author und Anlsher of faith.” And this was his faith. In the garden of Oothsemnne he Anlshed. he perfected faith when he said: "Father, let this cup pass," hut if not—If not—I will drink It. 1 will not falter; I will not fall. The record of the passion of Christ from that moment till he cried, "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Is the record of a moral heroism meant for every one of us who comes to the brink of disappointed prayer when God leaves us to stand alone, leaves us to receive the full shock of failure. leaves us to the re fuge of our faith only, without support, without proofs, and without anything to fall buck on except our own moral heroism. Humbls Heroes. Now, life is full of Aery furnaces be cause It Is so full of experiences that lead men and women to face Incura ble griefs and Inevitable disappoint ments. And I do not refer altogether to sudden and crushing bereavements. There are burdens that do not crush, hut lacerate our shoulders. There are blows that do not blind us, nor dull, nor deaden, nor stun our hearts by their business, hut are none tho les terrible because they do not. They ar the ever constant, ever present Inward sorrows we must not expect to escape, They are n part of the environment In which we are placed, of tho chain we have ourselves made or of tempera ment we have Inherited. And they make their appeal to our moral he roism every day. A young man I know very Intimately has confided to me his deepest per sonal experience.. He says that jail his lire he has felt In hlrnsolf the capacity for heroic suffering, the capacity for playing a noble part If the call was ever made on him for It. When he was a hoy he used to sit and hear his father and his comrades of the civil war tell over again their battles and that when he would hear them he would go out of doors with hts whole soul aflame nnd tell God and the stars what he felt In him. that he could he a soldier, that he could stand up before bullets and cannon Vithout blinking and then he would go to bed and lie awake sorrow ful that tho war was over, that there was no chance for hint to be the hero he felt he could he. The subject of his reverie very often, he says, bus been to Imagine himself In hard and heroic situations, when upon Ids coolness and courage life de pended. And it was n»t In his mind REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE. opportunity. 'Now his life has not led him to such opportunities, hut Into peaceful and quiet labors. And he says he never reads of deeds of heroism or of public men like President Roose velt ami Governor Folk hut hts heart flushes with the consciousness thnl had tho fortune of his life made It possible he w ould dare to do as these men have done. And the man bears all the.time a suppressed and disappointed hero In himself and does not complain, but he says "God can do great things with me If He would, but If not—I urn go ing on Just the same and be brave and true and noble in my soul and do what I may Just the same." * f I do not believe his case Is unusual at all. There are thousands of po tential heroes who never come to light. You know Gray's Elegy. It was w ritten to tell just such an experience as 1 related. A country boy who never "Perhaps in this neglected spot Is laid A heart once pregnant with celestial Are; Hands which the rod of empire might have swayed 9 Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre. Some village Hampden that with dnuntless breast The little tyrant of his Aelds with- . stood Some mute Inglorious Milton here may rest Some Cromwell guiltless of his coun try’s blood." Here thousands and thousands come to stand and say God could deliver mo from the burning furnace of poverty and Isolation and could make use of me for larger things. But If not, I will be what I am and do what I may whether He does or not. Moral Heroism. Sometimes the burning flery furnace comes through a constitutional dis position to doubt. The spiritual strug gles of many people would appall you should you be let Into their secret lives. "Would appall you!” No, I am wrong, for you would in their struggles recog nize your own. I was In a company of Christian men recently, every one of whom Is onsecruted to Christ nnd His cause. One of the number craved the coun sel nnd comfort of his friends on the subject of hjs doubt—not intellectual doubts, but tho fear and sorrow of his heart which came over him at times when he prayed. Another then con fessed a similar grief, but more Intel lectual In its character. We drew close together and closer and our hearts were full fo- a space. We had every one his Aery burning furnace. And we came to this at last: "Out- God Is able to deliver us and He will deliver ns, but If not, we will be true to our deepest selves, and not fail Him though He may seem to fail us som’e- tlnies. What better are we than our Lord, and did He not come to that place nnd cry, ’Why hast thou for- Hebrew heroes and the suffering Christ and say this, that if you have sinned it Is not because you have doubted and feared, hut because you have some times failed to be brave In spite of your eclipsed faith, or should I say you haven’t found refuge In the Inner for- tIdeations of your faith—your moral heroism where God Is most surely en trenched? "Our God whom we serve is able and He will deliver us, but if not—” So I am putting a plea that flnda us all. The one thing for us all—the sure thing for us all—Is make much of the best that Is in us, and follow the light we have. Our highest faith is not taking the Bible word for word, nor a professional attitude toward God and Providence, but In being true to what we feel In ourselves, to be our duty. If this seems to be all that Is left you nnd you couldn’t go otherwise If you tried, then Holleve me, that Is God’s will and that Is God s path for your life. “Our God whom we serve Is ible to deliver us from the burning fleiy fur nace, and He will deliver us, but If nr>t —well If not, we will let it miike no difference in our courage; we trill not turn to false gods; w'e will no! lower our flag; we will not fall the call of our own hearts and be anything lf*f good' or less noble than we think God would have us be. AWNINGS TENTS UPHOLSTERY /WAIER * V0IHER& 130 So. Forsyth St had a chance. "A youth to fortune and to fame unknown.” Sweet Is the mu- i w*!»» » sic of that Elegy—its rural peace, "the Now, 1 know where this text leads lowing herds winding o er j!?® I some of you. It leads .you to the bet- f. 11 l . n *u n 5** 5JJ? I t* r hours of your life, when, though distant f<>hls, but the heart of It and many friends were around you. you the immortal power of It Is this boy xvore treading the wine press alone and w ho never had a chance, w ho lived | wer( » actually in the burning flery fur- with gold in his heart undug, with he- nace and there was no deliverance, rolsm unrevealed, a grand snuld blush- j perhaps I pain you by reminding you ing like a flower unseen and wasting Its | u f place at which your faith for a sweetness on the desert air or like a . time went to pieces, where you doubt- gem of purest ray serene condemned , P d God, doubted prayer nnd religion to dark uncovered caves of the ocean. I and everything except the undoubta- That Is the power of It that grips the . ble presence of this heart-ache. You life and holds It. It Is great because J dn not like to recall It. You sometimes It’s true. 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