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10 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. SATURDAY, AUGUST IS, U« THE OMNIPOTENT RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD | By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD, PASTOR UNIVERSAL1ST CHURCH * i T HERE is no more reliable Index of the intellectual status and the progress in civilization of any people than may he revealed byl a study of the conception of Deltyl constituting the basis of Its system of religion. Even as we believe that the habits of a man's mind may be determined by an Inspection of his 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. Tht World’s Froodom in tho 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 of the "one true GodT must come the world’s spiritual, political 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, shall be greatly enhanced by the dis covery of Its possibility as a present attainment. The most serious draw back td religion, according to Its crit ics, Is that It denis entirely too much with futurities. If these premises be true—and they Witt scarcely be disputed—then It would appear that the supreme busl- negs of fenders 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 ql 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, Christian ity, but freedom for the human race, whether It be political, Industrial or splrltunl, has ever been purchased at the cost of sacrifice. Even as scien tific truth knows no halting place, but 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 pa triarch of old, we meet God face to face. And whenever the clamor of the heart thus taught of God shall demand the forsnklng of the teachings of the schools and the philosophy of the creeds, the eager pursuit of spiritual truth shall make this sacrifice a Joy. Ths 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 caA npt 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. HufTeted 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 Ht. Paul, "that which I would not, that I do. O. wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death!" We believe, with rejoicing, that we have come forth from God; therefore, ‘original sin" can not be a fact unless tve are willing to declare that evil was pre-existent In the heart of the Eter nal. Total depravity of the human soul may be a theological fact; it can never be a spiritual truth. If then we recognise 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 «1n 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 Is 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. ELLENWOOD. 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 reach of his con fidence In the absolute omnipotence of his God. "All things are possible to him that bolieveth," crystallzes 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 Al 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 supreme 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 seif-preservntlon, reject as an influ ence positively baneful to the social order, any system of theology which would teach 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 unlimted 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 spiration we may be absolutely cer tain. The Final Harmony of All 8ouls With God. There can be but one satisfactory answer to this line of reasoning, viz.: "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 Is there In this belief the strengthening of the idea 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 an Ideal to* a glorious reality, by crowning him with that priceless f rP -l dom from .In which .hall enable him eternally, to choose the good and he sttnctlvely to reject the evil. " "Our wills are ours, we know not how ° ur „ are cure to make then The human will I* not lost to It. no. sessor when It la persuaded Into har. mony with the divine will. A Safe and Sane Theology. Surely this la a safe and sane the- oloffy. It vindicate, the honor of God It maintain, the Inherent Integrity of HI. offspring. It throw, a gleaming ray of hope across the darkest prob lems of human weakness and human error, while the echo of a strain of eternal harmony gives promise of a triumphant and all-pervading melody whose diapason shall one day drowii the discordant clamor of earth's self. Ishness and greed. It enables us to say with Job, "I know that my redeemer liveth," and It makes It natural for us to believe that "Not one soul shall be destroyed Or cast as rubbish to the v>ld, When God hath made the pile complete. It defrauds death of his moat poign ant sting and snatches from the grave Its victory, and. for the hour that now Is. it gives a dignity, a sanity, nnd 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 ztatlon cov ering 20 acres of ground In the most populous part of New York city, may be put down as the eighth wonder of the world. Tho station Is bounded by Seventh avenue on the east. Tenth avenue on the west, Thlr- ty-flrst street on the south and Thir ty-third street on the north. Over this territory there stood residences, stores, hospitals, churches and every conceiva ble kind of establishment to be found In such a center of a great city. Thin entire stretch of land with all Above it and below it, was bought out by the Pennsylvania Railroad Compa ny three or four years ago. St. Mi chael's church, convent nnd 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 nnother site covering Just as much space as the old ones and equully adapted to their use. So on West Thirty-fourth street the railroad company has built a new and magnificent church, convent nnd school to bouse the St. Mlclfael congregation. It Is now about ready for occupancy and so at last <h© 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 McGIInn 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 6o feet. One can stand on the street above nnd see the men below drilling, blasting, loading" cars with dirt nnd rock, building retaining walls to Inclose the space, and per forming all sorts of feats with a view to clearing out and leveling this hole In the ground for the vast superstruct ure to rise abpve it. The retaining wall around this site Is built of concrete nnd 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 having sewer and water pipes un derneath, the third carrying trolley lines nnd an elevated fond, across a cut 600 feet In breadth nnd ranging from 45 to 60 feet in depth, so ns not to disturb traffic and the running of the cars. On Eighth nvenue a 6-foot brick sewer crosses the territory. In order to cross this cut It was necessary to put n new Iron sewer pipe Into the place of the new brick one, mnklng of it a sort of round bridge, supported from beneath. Think of the people liv ing at the first on this ground with blasting going on down under their hearthstones, but nil so quietly and ac curately ns not tj> 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 power house to be built on the south side of it, it will be necessary to take out two million cubic yards of dirt nnd 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 cars and used to drive back the sea and bog elsewhere, thus securing more land now covered by water and marsh. Above this deep 20-acre nole In the ground is to be erected the most com modious and beautiful te'rminal rail way station on the face of the eqrth. 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 ID acres; but here we are fo have a railroad central house covering twice ns much ground. Through this, arcades will be built for surface and elevated cars to pass Just ns they did before the Pennsylvania railway people ever hnd such a dream as they are here transmuting into hard staggering fnct. But the station is only the center o? this twentieth century dream. A great car house in the midst of New York city would do the Pennsylvania rail road no good with nrrns 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 bo 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 ffoin all parts of the wide, wide world, it was necessary to open underground, and under sea the roadways, running out in both directions from the central terminal station. The main railway station is only the huh of a series of si»okes in the shape of tunnels, which are 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 New York, the various tunnbl spokes connect the continental mainland of America, and the metropolis. As far as 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 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 as the methods devised by the ehglneers 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 hns 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 clny on to the bottom of the East river. Tho 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, somewhat larger in diameter than that of the tunnel, through the quicksand. These shields are gradually advunced to the unln- vnded 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 and raw material is thrown back into the tunnel and *carted away, while the bed of tho 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 Cf an air bubble equal to 34 pounds pressure to tho square inch. Shifts arc 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 tho 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 plnce 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 tho 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 and E. W. Moir, the masters of the situation, who have this vast enter prise of the Pennsylvania Railroad I charge. Back of all this one should plctut a quiet room In a corner of the Bma street station of the Pennsylvania Ital road (,’ompany in Philadelphia. Thor sits a man of retiring disposition an very few words, Alexander J. Cassatt by name. When he became president of the Pennsylvania Railroad less that! 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 possltylity 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 one of them It delayed tho trains seeking to move along the parallel lines. He Is separating the tracks now, so that pas senger trains may proceed without ob struction. His vision saw the necessity for these improvements. His practical mind saw the possibilities of working them out promptly and economically, and his personal tact and diplomacy mnde It povlble for him to go to Paris and accomplish the hitherto Impossi ble and unimaginable feat of borrow ing $50,000,000 upon exceedingly fa vorable terms from the conservative bankers of France, with which' his gi gantic schemes might be carried out. THE CHOICE OF THE HIGHEST "Our God whom wo servo Is able to deliver in* from the burning fiery fur- mice nnd He will deliver us * • * But If not—" Daniel III, 18. By REV. JOHN E. WHITE, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH L ETT 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 squurely into a gulf of awful possibility. "Our God whom we serve Is able to deliver us and ho will deliver us. • • • But if not." "But If # not." That is awful. "But If not." That means a 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 grand. Nebuchadnezzar appreciated that, for you know how when he saw them walking unburned In the flames he was astonished and rose up in haste and spake and said unto his counsellors: "Did we not cast three men bound Into the midst of the fire.” He appreciated that. But that was not the 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 serve is able to deliver us from the burning, fiery furnace, and he will deliver us. But if not"—- They walked right up to the fire and confessed the i»ossibll|y that G«hI might not deliver them nnd were un dismayed. This is the really v 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 find very many sorts and kinds of faith. This is the highest sort and kind. There are degrees lu the quality of faith Just ns in any oth er of the cardinal graces. I say here la the highest degree. I want you to look at It. The 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 nnd 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 be no faith at nil. It* is like the faith of the boy during a protracted meeting in Virginia who declared that he hnd faith enough to do what Peter failed at, faith enough to walk on the wa ter. The challenge accepted, they went down to the liver to test It. The young faithful took a look at the wa ter und then sat down and rolled bis pants up above his knees before he would venture. It was no faith at all. There Is an example of faith given us by .Mark in the story of the woman who Just bad faith enough to touch the hem of Christ’s garment In the crowd and Matthew tells us of the poor man who just had faith enough to cry, "Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief." I suppose wo may call this "little faith." But it Is by no means to be despised. In 1st Kings we have the record of'a great faith. Elijah fae ed the hosts of Baal on Carmel and challenged their god to meet his Je hovah In a great trial of fire. They tried and but no tire came to burn up the sacrifice. Then this man of faith set his face toward Got! nnd wrestled passionately in prayer, not doubt in his heart, not a fear and no thought of tho possibility of failure. We, call that a grand faith. A faith that would not tnke "no" for an an swer. And that is a grand faith. But it Is not the highest faith. Here Is the highest faith, the faith that could say, "Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning, fiery furnace, nnd he will deliver us, but if not”— The highest faith Is the faith that can stand for God to fail, the faitfi that can risk disappointment "Our God can, our God will deliver us, but if not"— Well, what If not? Well, "If not.". It doesn't tnnke any difference. "If not," It doesn't alter our position. "But If not, bo It known unto thee. Oh, King, we will not serve thy gods, nor wor- Are You Still Paying Rent? If so, I am Surprised! Rent Receipts Remind me of Money Thrown Away. • Do you know that the Standard Real Estate loan Company of Wash ington. D. C., will sell yon a home-purchasing contract whereby yon can buy or build a home anywhere In the United States and pay for it in monthly payments for less than you are now paying rent? Thoy 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.G0 on each thousand borrowed. For proa pectus and plans of our proposition, call on or write J. St. Julian Yates. State Agent, 321 Austell Bldg.. At Ianta, Ga. Bell phone 2653-J. Atlanta phone 1918. Tnrthful Hustling Agents Wanted in Enrj Cunt) in Ike Still whip the golden Image thout hast net up." I nay thin In the hlghext faith and 1 nay It on the unchallengeable authority of Jesuit Christ. He Is "the author and flnlHher of faith." And this was Ills faith. In the garden of Octhsemnnc he finished, he perfected faith when he said: "Father, let this cup pass," but if not—If not—I will drink It. I will not falter; 1 will not fall. Tho 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 u moral heroism meant for every one of us who comes to the brink of disappointed prayer when God leaves us to /itand alone, I leaves us to receive the full shock of ! failure, leaves us to the re- | fuge of our faith only, without support, without proofs, nnd without nnything to fall hack on except our own moral heroism. Humble Heroe*. Now, life Is full of fiery furnaces be cause it Is so full of experiences thnt lead men and women to face Incura ble griefs and Inevitable disappoint ments. And 1 do not refer altogether to sudden and crushing bereavements. There nre burdens that do not crush, but lacerate our shoulders. There are blows that do not blind us, nor dull, nor deaden, nor stun our hearts by their business, but ure none the less terrible because they do not. They are the ever constant, ever present Inward sorrows we must not expect to escape. They nre a part of the environment In which we are placed, of the chain we have ourselves made or of tempera ment we have inherited. Anil 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 all his life he has felt In himself 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 boy he used to sit and hear his father and his comrades of the civil war tell over again their battles nnd tlint when he would hear them he would go out of doors with Ids whole soul aflame and tell God and the stars what he felt In him, that he could be a soldier, that He could stand up before bullets and cannon without blinking nnd the** he would go to bed und He awake sorrow ful that the war was over, thnt theie was no chance for him to be the hero he felt he could be. The subject of his reverie very often, he says, has been to imagine himself In hard und heroic situations, when upon Ills coolness and courage life de pended. And It was not In his mind that lie could be afraid and fail the opportunity. Now his lift- has not led him to such opportunities, but into peaceful nnd quiet labors. And he says he never reads of deeds of heroism or REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE. of public men like President Roose velt und Governor Folk but his heart flushes with the consciousness that had the fortune of his life made It possible ho w ould dare to do as these men have done. And the man bears'ail the time a suppressed nnd disappointed hero In himself and* does not complain, but be says "God can do great things with me If He would, but if not—l am go ing on Just the same and^be brave nnd true arid noble in my soul and do what I may Just the same.” I do not believe his case Is unusual at all. There are thousands «»! po tential heroes who never come to light. You know Gray’s Elegy. It was written to tell just such an experience as I ha\o related. A country boy who never had a chance. "A youth to fortune and to fame unknown." Sweet is the mu sic of that Elegy—Its rural peace, "the lowing herds winding slowly o'er the lea," tin* drowsy link lings Unit lull the distant folds." but the heart of It and the immortal power of It is this boy ho never had a chance, who lived Ith gold In his heart nndug, with he- >l*m unrevealed, a grand sould blush ing like a flower unseen and wasting its etness «»n the desert air or like a gem of purest rav serene condemned to dark uncovered caves of the ocean. That Is tiie power of It that grips the life and holds It. It Is great because It's true. It is great because the poet leaning over the grave of thnt country lad ipoke what we know as true of ourselves, of hundreds who never 1 ninoupt to much In the .world’s eye, when he said: "Perhaps in this neglected spot Is laid A heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands which the rod of empire might have swayed Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre. Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields with stood Some mute Inglorious Milton here may rest Some Cromwell guiltless of his coun try’s blood." Here thousands nnd thousands come to stand and say God could deliver me from the burning furnace of poverty and IsoljRlon 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 fiery 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 consecrated to Christ and His cause. One of the number craved the coun sel and comfort of his friends on the subject of his doubt—not intellectual doubts, but the 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 for a space. We had every one his fiery burning furnace. And we came to this at last: "Our God is able to deliver us and He will deliver us, but if not, we will be true to our deepest selves, and not fall Him though lie may seem to fail us some times. What better are we than our Lord, and did He not come to that place and cry, 'Why hast thou for saken Me?’" Now, I know where this text leads some of you. It leads you to the bet ter hours of your life, when, though many friends were around you, you were treading the wine press alono and were actually In the burning fiery fur nace. and there was no deliverance. Perhaps I pain you by reminding you of the place at which your faith for a time went to pieces, where you doubt ed God, doubted prayer and religion and everything except the undoubta- ble presence of this heart-ache. You do not like to recall It. You sometimes feel that you have wounded your faith and sinned against your t’hristian pro fession. Will you permit me this morn- I ing to stand here in the presence of the Hebrew heroes and the suffering Christ and say this, that if you have sinned It Is not because you have doubted and feared, but because you have some times failed to be bruve In spite of your eclipsed faith, or should I say you haven’t found refuge In the Inner for tifications of your faith—your moral heroism where God is most surely en trenched? "Our God w hom we serve is ^ble nnd He will deliver us, but If not—” So t am putting a plea thnt finds 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 nnd 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 and you couldn’t go otherwise If you tried, then believe me, that Is God’s will and that Is God’s path for your life. "Our God whom wo servo Is able to deliver us from the burning fiery fur nace, and He will deliver us, but If not —well If not, we will let It mnke no difference In our courage; we will not turn to false gods; we will not lower our flag; we will not fall the call of our own hearts and be anything less good or less noble than we think God would have us be. AWNINGS TENTS UPHOLSTERY /AAIER J volberg 130 So. 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