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SOMETHING FOR NOTHING" 11 By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD, j PASTOR UN1VERSAL1ST CHURCH I HAVE headed this article w nortion of 'the title of n collectlun nf essays written by an illustrious ’ «orernor of the state of Illinois,' *’»use I desire, under this title, to fl, attention to one of the menacing, rnlclous tendencies of modern imerican life. Fverv individual who has ever had Vision t" sign or-to receive the slg- , ture to such on instrument knows ", a portion of the form of every " II,. drawn promissory note consists , he ,vords, "For value received.!' nntP thus becomes a certificate to hf fact that some medium of value “ been passed between and recog- . d by the parties to this transaction, .H ,hc man who holds high his flnan- J? honor, or who "keeps his credit “i,- Is the man who Immediately *Trniscs the claim of the obligations created and never so much as ffS! „f attempting to evade them, ■i". Is the type of man whom the ■r„k, call "good" and whom the com- ircial agencies rate as “A-l." The ■n.n who repeatedly Incurs financial ■"*" with no definite thought or clul opportunity closed and barred to him. and then promptly sets up a wall about the coldness and hardness of the world, and the extreme difficult^ encountered by an honest; well mean ing man In making a living. The Universal Law of Obligation. Failure to recognise and unhesitat ingly to obey this universal law of ob ligation Is responsible for nearly all of the moral and financial shipwreck of the world. Failure to render as "our reasonable service" all of the good of which we are capAbte in return for all of the good which Is constantly lav ished upon us, must speedily render us Incapable of receiving good from any source Just as it will certainly Inca pacitate us for its transmission. The farmer speedily learns by experience If he possess not the knowledge by in heritance, that he will receive back from the land only In proportion to the diligence of his sowing and his tillage! In this modern and practical age he does not hope to gather "grapes from thorns nor figs from thistles,” neither does he confidently expect a bountiful yield of the sown crop from a field im poverished by years of constant and injudicious husbandry. He does not attempt to get "something for nothing" from old Mother Earth, whom he may SUffi™'their prompt and honorable knot successfully enjoie or (fatter or isctiaige soon finds the doors of flnan- deceive. He knows that he will re ceive back from his Held only in di rect proportion to Ills Investment of seed, of fertilizer, and pf labor of brawn and of brain. Foil the crop which shall gladden his heart at the end of the summer he knows that he must pay the full price of money, of careful study of the condition and needs of the soil, and of persistent ro tation of crops us well as of earnest and faithful toll. And so It is In ev ery avenue of man's material activity. Youth’s golden dreams of the free glftB of a fairy godmother are soon dis pelled, and stern experience soon teaches us that the value of the things which life has In store for us shall al ways be in direct ratio to the price we are willing to pay. "The heights by great ones reached and kept . Were not attained by sudden flight: But they, while their companions slept Were tolling upward through the night." That wondrous talent over which we exclaim In awe, and for which we praise the artist, the sculptor, the mu sician. consists chiefly In the deter mined application to patient and per sistent toil, through all the trying and tedious days of obscurity, the liking and the adaptability to hard work. It REVi E. D. ELLENWOOD. was the price he paid, that Is all. [keen and cultured Intellect Is the re sult of constant companionship with the world's greatest thinkers, together with much of purposeful meditation and careful and persistent thought practice’. A man does not become a savant or a philosopher by constant companionship with those Intellectu ally his Inferiors, nor by devouring, mentally, large quantities of the "Alt Story" magazine, or the "UnJversnl Flreidde Monthly." A man's state of mind and nf Intellect Is almost al ways a record of the price he has been willing to pay for the thing he has Wanted. The Obligation Is Unescapsble. The analogy holds yiood In the moral and spiritual as well as In the physical and the Intellectual realm. I care not what certain theologies may teach conwnlng a vicarious atonement for sin, moral character Is not and can not be vicariously secured. This would be contrary to the laws of nature and of nnture'a God. I may be encouraged. Inspired, up lifted by the righteousness of one whom I love and trust, but not thus alone may I become possessed of his graces of deportment nor the excel lence of character from which they spring. I may not have a character bestowed upon me, neither con 1 In herit it. True enough. It is that I may have transmitted to me certain tendencies of strength or of weakness of moral nber, but these shall prove only a help or a handicap In my own Individual struggle for n character which I may call my own, and which I In turn shall find myself utterly pow erless to bequeath. Character Is not a moral commodity to be bestowed upon the eager supplicant ns the free gift of God; It la an Individual attainment and Its Worth, like everything else In life, shall be measured by the price of the soul's needs and possibilities, the persistent and relentless throttling of the sensual and the selfish, and the patient nurturing of the spiritual unto life eternal. • When we come to fully realise that Character Is not merely the "way of salvation," but that It Is salvation, and when, having given over tlio Idle and delusive dream of-havlng the charac ter of Christ bestowed freely upon us b.v the sacrifice of Christ, we set pa tiently and manfully about the task of winning, by God's help, a character for ourselves, we shall be able to compre hend as never before what St. Paul meant when he demanded that we should "work out our own salvation, with fear and trembling." It Is the only way. Character Is not bestowed, It Is developed. It costs much of In dividual sacrifice and effort. Young man. If you really want to be a man. you must pay the price. No one else can pay It for you. Distrust as your worst enemy that sincere blit misguid ed theologian who holds out to you the hope of the Immediate attainment of the character of Christ as a result of your belief In the efficacy of Ills atunement for your shortcomings. God does not will that Christ should thus bestow upon you His character. He would not be n loving and wise Father if he thus gave to you what can only possess value to you ns It represents the results of your own continued ef fort. Be thankful, indeed, that In. your struggle for a character you shall have the help of every noble soul whom God has raised up to he a witness for Him, that the yternal spirit of right eousness shall constantly brood over J’otl, and that you shall be strength ened and upheld by your contact with the spirit of the living Christ, whose shout of triumph comes to you across the shortened centuries: "Be of good cheer! I have overcome the world.” So shall your Innate manhood assert Itself, arid you shall rejoice, rather than lament, that the struggle is your own and not another's, and that In tha moral market, as In every other activ ity of life. It is impossible to get "somftl^lng for nothing.” THE CONSERVATION OF SPIRITUAL FORCE By REV. JAMES W. LEE, PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH T HE discovery of the law of the correlation and equivalence of forces, has had vast Influence ipon the thought of the present time, has furnished men with a new open g , through which they can behold he nature of things from a different mgle of vision. It has given them a isiv working hypothesis, and richer inceptions of the universe and Ita lUthor. The civilization of the pres, nt time, with all it contains, and with II that It promises, Is due more to his than to any other single dlscov ry, or scientific principle. The brief. St formula of the principle la no force I ever lost. It shows thy agencies 1th which the world Is regulated-and unrolled to be one great brotherhood. All forces are ultimately one force. The rising up of fo^ce In one point, Ives the subsidence of force In e other point. The amount rising aji. too. Is the exact equivalent of the lpmunt subsiding. When a man lets a mlt fall from a church steeple, the arth rises Just as muchjo meet the rock In proportion to Its mass as the rock Mis to meet the earth In proportion to iss. When a man shoots a rlfleball ■ a gun. ns much force goes back igalnst the man's shoulder, aa goes out brinish the muzzle of the gun. What he gun lacks In velocity It makes up n mass, and what the ball lacks In It makes up In velocity. When a bine tree is cut down and spilt Into imall pieces and put Into an engine, It the same amount of heat Is gath- d from It that was garnered from he sun In' the hundreds of years of is growth. Then this heat Is con- ert«l Into an equivalent of steam, this 'team Into an equivalent of mechanical notion. The sunshine, the pine tree, the heat, the steam and the mechanical mo- |.m are only different forma of the same ihlng. Many scientific men claim that Mi taw not only reaches throughout the 'hyslcal Physical and Husky said that a speech was arid, but through all realm, metaphysical. Professor so much transmuted mutton. This principle, which Is perhaps the best established and far-reaching of nil scientific principles, we desire to apply to the life and work of Christ. Grant ing, as we must, the truth of this prin ciple and its bearing In all realms, and .granting,, too, that the work of or dinary men may be estimated by It. we desire to Inquire If the life and work of Christ form no exception to Its operation, as ordinarily regarded. Es timated by this principle, cam we ac count for the work and Influence of Christ among men on the assumption tholinh« ( >T>WWdft''lWTlWA>y-«rtTTlni,' Mb fwlille large operators remain okt little dan- in Christendom today but has been I armed directly or Indirectly with ref- rence to Christ. ' In these places where character Is formed, where rev olutions are started, where Napoleons, and Wesleys, and Gladstones are de veloped, where eternal issues pend, Christ has come, quietly and silently, to regulate, to dominate and control. To thus influence and vitally touch homes, an Immense amount of force is Required. Christ has given new dates to the calendar of the ages. Infidels In dating their letters pay tribute to His character, In the fact that they •ecognjze he has ushered In a new era. .hrlst has claimed and held through rger Is lurking for the small buyer. It Is hearly two thousand years one day recognized, however, that prices might , ut of every week to be devoted to his tfhonV , ?h£ n wSSr5o < } hoinV/.XjEmriS WTIW. The day upon which He was iher^ow Jld felr toholdtS’onXulth! >» celebrated In the hearts of lobbing season. ben and In the arts of men. To change New Orleans. Sept. 8.—Liverpool 114 to 4 ihe world's calendar, to Inaugurate own Is a shade lietter than doe. Was ez- I ml make permanent a new date, to .ported 5 points lower. mpcl the world to set apart a day ' T ‘" r ';f/! , %"?:nn'i U MonaT^or HI. worship, to furnisl! the world TyleE *»d m-Jraw Jrop already “SS* i W,h , MW ***«*•»■ and holidays has II weevil has done great damage In Im- Required, certainly, a marvelous nedlnte vicinity of Tyler. Taking every- amount of force. But greatest of all, .hlng aa It appears In esst Texss, ts fsr Christ has won the hearts of men. To .«» I have seen, has good crop. Weevil Is win the disinterested love of one man worse In, this Immediate section than north la k e> much force—more than most b Western forecast Indicates fair weather ; n * B have. To VVln the loveof a *1®}® might and Sunday for weatern Texas and fakes more. But to w in anil to hold morally fair tonight for Louisians with .hrough the perturbations and revolu- •obnhle scattered showers Sunday. For Ions uf kingdoms and republics, the le balance partly cloudy weather tonight Andylng love of'the best and the pur- VU°'" or E::™, iniu—,-. .hew.™ 1st. tat of men on earth requires an In ks stern forecast Indlratea Jhowera bite S nUe ot n OU nt of force. This point in force, financial, mental to build them. Then to keep them sup plied with preachers and lights and furniture has taken much force. Con sider art, music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture. Handel’s Messiah, Dante’a Inferno, The Laat Supper, Powers’ Eve, St. Peters at S ome. The subjects of these have •en furnished by Christ, and the In spiration which produced them have all come from Chrlat. In the concep tion and production of these, a mar velous amount of the most refined, subtle force has been expended. Con sider the Influence of Christ on the homes of men. There Is hardly a home west Florida Ala- lnuc amount oi tone. un, balance fair Ichrist'a character greatly I il arid muscular, the first Napoleon. Snld he: Impressed T know men. Christ Is not a man. I have seen the time when I could Inspire thousands to die for me: but It took ihc Inspiration of my presence and the power of my word. Since I am away from men. a prisoner on Helena, no one will die for me. Christ, on the other hand, has been away from the world nearly two thousand years, and yet there are millions who would die for Him. I tell you Christ is not a man. I know men.” Time would fall to tell of all the Institutions, books, philo sophic apparatus, poem*, symphonies, lyrics, .newspapers, colleges, clzlllzn- tions, laws, discoveries, Inventions, DR. J. W. LEE. homes and hearts Into which the force of Christ's life hns for the past nine teen hundred years been lifting Itself. As the sun expresses l|self In the mea dow and lifts Itself Into the trees of the forest, so Christ has been embody ing. Himself In the Institutions, litera ture, licurts and thoughts of men; The scientists say all force can be account ed for. When force rises up nt one point It subsides nt another. The amount of force that rises up, they say, Is the exact equivalent nf the amount that subsided. Upon this the ory we must account for all the force coming from the life of Christ that has expressed ltsc|f In the domestic, so cial, political, ecclesiastical, literary, commercial and other Institutions of tnen. More has risen up than can bo computed by human arithmetic or compassed by human thought. Where did It come from? Where did It sub side? At what point did It disap pear to rise again In such overwhelm ing volume, and such sweeping nnd fur-reaching Influence? We go back through eighteen hun dred years. Wc are standing Ih Jeru salem. We hear conflicting rumors ,of a strange, dnrlng young man. At length he Is pointed out to us. Th«ro Is nothing remarkable about his np- pearance. He Is a Jew. He was born among the poor. He is not noted for culture. He has no social position. He hns no money. He hns no political power, or prestige. He hns no nrmy at his command. He faqs no philosoph ical Bystem. He Isi connected Aylth no academy. He Is only 3.1 years old. His words are contained In no books. They are simply In the memories of His disciples. He Is misunderstood. His own disciples do not knifw what to make of him. Finally he Is arrested and tried and condemned and crucl- lled. He dies between two thieves, scorned,. scoffed, buffeted nnd friend less. Keep In mind the principles we > Are considering. All force can be meas ured. No more force rises up than subsides. Action, nrtd reaction nre equal. We are seeding to account In accordance with thin principle for the vast amount of force Christ has poured Into the Institution and thought of hu- manltv. Is this young mnn’s life, seemingly so Insignificant and weak, the exact equivalent of all the churchea, schools, colleges, arts, literature, homes. f overnments, sacrifice, good works, he- olsm, martyrdom, patience, love nnd hope, that have, by general consent, resulted from His existence In the. world? If so, was He only a man. Multiply 33 years fay poverty, toll, con tempt, sorrow and crucifixion, and yop have one product. Multiply 1900 years by millions of churches, schools and homes: by social position, wealth nnd power; by success, triumph and con quest: by love, mercy and truth; by a hold upon humanity unequaled, and by nn Influence upon human thought un rivalled, and you hnve another product. The question is,' Does one nf these products seem to be the equivalent of the oilier pass, by an Infinite degree, Is not the evolution out of all propor tion to the Involution? Has not n (rent deal more force risen up than Seemingly subsided? Is there not much more power seemingly on this side the cross than intro pas on the oilier? Manifestly nnd dearly, Christ's life nnd work cannot be accounted for by the law of the convertibility of forces. Mahomet’s life and work can be ac counted for by this principle. He suc ceeded by the ordinary methods by which men succeed. He appealed to men's love of fame, conquest, wealth, power, pleasure. He offered man, ns a reward for their fealty to him, a great enrthly kingdom, and sueh n heaven boyond the grave ns would regale the senses, please the fancy’ nnd gratify the appetites. He simply organized and applied the Intent enrthly forces already existing In his countrymen. His success is In line with Caesnr and Bonaparte. The kingdom which Wo proposed to establish was a merely earthly, sensual, carnal kingdom. His methods were carnal, the motives to which he appealed were sensual and the hopes ’ he inspired were carnal. Christ, on the o|h*r D Bn< h condemned man's love of conquest qnd fame and wealth and power. He made the con ditions of dlsclpleshlp tQ consist In the denial of self and the relinquishment of all eqrthly hopes, gratifications nnd prospects. "If you find your life In My kingdom.” snld He. "you must lose It In thlA" He proposed to build up a king dom that should be a» wide as the world and ns lasting as eternity, wlth- f iut adopting a single method or utlllx- ng any of the means ordinarily relied on for success. Not only did Ho pro- hose a new kingdom, but to populate it with new men, motives, hopes, con ceptions and opinions. Hence, to come Into His kingdom, men were to be made over. They were to die to self,- to the world, to pleasure. So Christ's work and Influence In th* world not only forma an exception to Che principle of tho correlation of forces, but here wc have an unparalleled amount of force rising up, when to all human appear ances none subsided at all. A poor young carpenter dies. He goes down In Ignominy. Amid the Jeers nnd contempt of the multitude He goes down Into the grave. But from (hat moment commotion begins. Fur- S ivencNs of sin In the name of Christ ' preached; disciples are won; churches nre built; bonks are written: Civilizations nre touched; movements nre Inaugurated; persecutions, relent less and bloody, nre waged. The fires Of liafC are kindled, storms from all round the social, political and religious Sky gather and howl and empty their fury upop the new movement. Noth ing Impedes It: fire runnnt hinder it; the sword does not alarm It. Now, we Submit, does not such a movement, starting from such n source, nnd mov ing out with sueh vigor, nnd hemm ing Intenser nnd deeper as It Is ex tended, form a remarkable and singu lar exception to the principle we are considering? Is there-nny rule known among men by which It may be esti mated, and classified nnd labejed? Can any human, or logical, or philo sophical formula, Or principle necount for tho multiform nnd widely diversi fied facts In this ease? Is It not an exception to all rules and human meth ods of measurement? Do we not aug ment the difficulties of accounting for ihe work of Christ by minifying Him. nnd railing Him a mere man? Is not the easier way to account for Christ's wtirk, to ' accord to Him all that He claims for Himself and all that Ills dis ciples claimed for Him. He snld: "All power is given unto me In heaven and in enrth." Jt wc accept this’as-true we can account for His work. Then we enn apply this principle In it* higher bearings to the life of Christ nnd the Influences which have grown nut of It. Then wo can say that the life of Christ was the equivalent of the kingdom which hns been established in the world through His name and the power of His word. But in this view \fe will see that Ills life was di vine, nnd one with that of the Father of us all. Then we will see that He was the Son of God, the Word made fiesh. the lncnrnntlon nf the Divine mind and wisdom nnd power. DEATH-SONG OF JESUS “And whsn they had sung an hymn, thay went out into tho Mount of Olivot.”—Mark xlv: 2#. t i ! 4 L By REV. JOHN E. WHITE, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH W E are constantly supposing that all the facta and eventa of the life of Jeaus have been fathomed and set forth by the students <he h>w Testament, that nothing has escaped thetr attention. But It la ■ »» This text contains, what to I:t and to most people, I Judge, la a Kl stai-UIng portrait of Jesus. nr»t pleaching. Chrlat weeping, tnri.-t suffering, Christ weary. Christ “ins. j'hrlst ascending, Christ In Hl» wueMuniwn portraits wa have coma well. But what one of us has to knu » bis gallery a portrait of Christ sing- 115 * ""ng? I pause to let that picture nzm,, Itself before you. The singing Christ! This once and I j? onl >' are wo told that Jesus sang. n,lt doubt He sang many times woide. but only once did He sing as no d.„ s he re This was the death song «Jesu*. in front of His great passion fto sang „ hymn. Strange that neither !;*' n ?‘ no inter nor expositor has cel- „rj."" the Significance of It and the sublimity into which the fact lifts the ‘“ranter of Christ. Song, of the Haartbraak. •' -'W always arrests us. On the ,,r 'et. Issuing from the open window. S'herevf. hear It. we ,xlve atten- ' Especially songs aupg In dread- hours. song* on the death bed. 1,1 sickness or sorrow, take on Paul and rtlius singing at midnight W llu 'igc<in at Rhiltlbi: Jerome of Chrf, ? singing at the stake: ths hsmn ,l!< " l the catacomb* chanting then ' lev went out to death 111 . unman amphitheater; how our •hale hav « thrilled with such heroic Mozart ompletlng his reverie on 41, bed feverishly then called *« hl .* r ' Km| lv. telling her that . asflnishod; that his work was I*. ,,u t she should sing It to him, ante obeying; and at length, when He., 1 IloteK of her voice and the b, '*’”* 'bed out, she turned with tun, g, eyes full of tears to refolce t,.;.. ™'i. -'he found him Bmlllng In ■ ’ "e feel the beautv and the »iui,i,„ ‘ ,n tne lire or n great Ton you recall'the first time Pfinbl,", lhe , Hlor y ° r the fall of the Ho™ 1 "'Ml In New Hampshire? It th, , n a hundred girls employed i»ta by aide, a sudden. it, th „ “ sh . as the floors gave way utr- «n J, ''eight and throb of machln- Honing ne al ! to the ground and "" n the workers at their St jo," ;l , y i«e of crushing timbers! btJ*? “ f hfe starts from an over- fatt th.ts Bni * spreads amid the kh-jtwi 5 Bre “bowing the helpless ,ku ‘ “th white and terror-atrlck- cn faces awaiting their doom—the un speakable horror of being burned alive —the ring of apectaura from the other mills gathering for tescue, only to be driven back. Oh, the sickening scene! The screams have teased. Then one of the girls, perhaps delirious, perhaps not, started up the song they had been singing In chorus whenthe crash came, and one by one, till their voices all Joined In a great song that rose above the roaring-of the flames, and died out onlv when every tongue was still In death, they sang— "Our heavenly home Is bright and fair. No pain nor death can enter there. Its glittering towers the sun outshine, That heavenly mansion shall ba mine.-' The death song of Jesus was like unto that, a song of victory, of pralae. of trust, of triumph nmld the encir cling gloom, the deepening darkness of Impending agonies. "And they sang n hymn and went out Into the Mount of Olives." Let us ask a question you hnve never asked, and probably never heard asked before. Tha Death 8ong of Jesus. ■ What waa the hymn that Jesus sang with His disciples on the night of His betrayal? There la every reason to believe that It was the 118th psalm. This psalm Is the laat of the great Hlllel which was always sung at the conclusion of the Passover. That night In Jerusalem thousands were singing |t as they rose from the feast apd parted. They sang It os was their custom, drew from It the Inspiration of their faith and went out and away to their peaceful homes In Palestine. Christ took that psalm as His death song. He fulfilled It, filled It full of reality. No other singer that night could sing It as He did. no other singer felt It as He felt It. The shad ows of Gefhsemane and Calvary, the awaiting torture, the fast closing mis eries of physical and spiritual pain are like a Hood Just outside the door of the upper room. In Ihaf terrible buur this Is what Jesus sang: "The Lord Is on my side. I will not fear; what can man do unto me? I shall not die, but live; the stone which the builders re fused Is become the head of the cor. ner. Thla Is the day that the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad of It God Is the Lord which bath showed us light. Bind the sacrifices with cords; even unto the horns of the altar. Thou art my God BBd . 1 l w * , ! ll P™' 1 !! Thee, thou art my God, I will exalt Thee. O give thanka unto the Lord, for He Is good, for Ills mercy endureih ,n The«e were the words of the song that Jeeua sang In the face of His afflictions, and then He went out Into the Mount of Olives to meet them alone. "Into the woods my Master Went" with this song on Ills lips. I think It 'nrmcd HIM for the conflict. I think It comforted His soul to Its papnlnn. great «oi|l8 have drunk deeper of fht courage of forint than Martin Luther. He had learned the power of tfae denth song of Jr-in"- The 118th psalm was his favorite. oftentimes when the perils of death were about his head and dread persecu tions, he would seek out his faithful companion, Philip Melanlhon, nnd say, “Come, Philip, 1st us »Jng the 118th psalm.!' Luther's room became like unto the upper chamber ringing forth the words, "I shall not die but live. Tills Is th« dll" - hl-h the Lord hath made; we will rejoice arid be glad In it; O, give thanks unto the Lord, for He Is good, for His mercy endureth forever." When Luther came to trans late this psalm and dedicate It to his friend, Frederick of Nuremburg,. he wrote. "This Is my psalm, my chosen psalm; I love (hem ell. I love all holy Scripture, which Is my consolation and my life. But this psalm Is nearest to my heart, and t have a peculiar right to cull It mine. It his saved me from many a pressing danger from which no emperors, nor klpga, nor safes, nor saints could have saved me." Oh, It I* more than Luther's! It la Luther’s Lord's own hymn dedicated by Hint to all who face agonlea and pains andetecessllous houra. The Midnight Agony. But our eyee are still upon that up per room In Jerusalem, our ears are llitenlng to the tinging there. What a trial to sing It must have been that night. Here Is John on one side and Peter on the other of Jesus, singing, "Bind the sacrifice with urjrds, even unto' the horns of the altar.” Blessed Ignorance! They do not know what they are singing. Had they known, could they have sung at alt? But Issut knew. Yet He sings. He sang that song knowing what It meant, aang with the heart-break upon Him, sang on through to the end, and aang tri umphantly. But recently I have read an account of a young mother wlibae meana of livelihood waa her gift of song. An actress she was and must face the heartless throng night after night, though her only child, a little girl, waa III unto death at the hotel. She had to sing for bread. Bhe refused an encore one night to hurry back to the little sufferer* side. When she got there it wa* only to hear that there was no hope; that the child had been calling for her, begging her mother to sing to her. fan you think of any thing more terrible than that midnight aguny? In the very presence of the REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE. shadow of death the brave little woman gathered her baby to her breaking heart and u-nLked up and back the death room singing what Jhe child wanted: "I think when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was once among men. How He called little children like lambs to His fold. I should like to have been with Him then." Can you think how hard It was to sing In an hour like that? Oh, then.- what a sublimity of pathos It was for Jesus to sing on the night of His be trayal! The footsteps of the betrayer have hurdly died away; The whole day and night has been one pressuro of pain, fan words bear half the bur den of love and tenderness which the hour, the circumstances are putting upon the lips of Jesus? Taking the bread from the table und holding It before them. "This ts my body, bro ken for you," and the cup red and beaded to a bleed glow, "This Is my blood which is shed for you," and then rising up, surrounded by the eleven men He loved so well, who could not understand, who In a few hours'would forsake Him; his murderers yonder waiting with swords and staves; In full view,to Him Ihe hall of falapha*, the carpenter at His own old trade mnklng a cross for shameful suffering. In-which he would be the sufferer; I standing there, the loneliest soul of the world, singing— "I shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. This Is the day whlc)t the Lord hath made. We will rejoice and be glad In it. God la the Lord who hath showed us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords even unto the horns of the altar. Thou art my God jnd I will praise thee. Thou art my Goil. I will oxnl| thee, O, give thanks unto the laird for He Is goqjl. for His mercy endureth forever." Oh. there’s a life’s gospel In that for us somewhere. A message from God today for every one who will see tho courage and fidelity nf Jesus In the face of hi* troubles. " r | In n few minutes you will be going out. Do you know, can you know to what? Yes, some nf you know exactly whnt you are going out to. Some here will be going back to the old Geth- semane, the old cross nnd the pains they have become familiar with. Some times the constant going bark to the old sorrows seems unbearable long er, "I* It to be this, tMa always?" You ask, and resentment Is In your heart against your fate and often against God! One time you have dared even to say, "It would be better for God If I didn’t believe In Him, for then I would not feal th* resentment against Him." So you are going out today to front this old Gethsemane and the crucifixion of your. life. Will you not be entreated of Christ and sing some thing brave, something noble, some thing with the larger vision In It? I do not mean that any man should !try to sing aw*y the facts of his life | cheaply, that your song should be an ' effort to forget your troubles. There I Is enough of that, men drowning trou- I ble, kicking It off and casting It out of injnd. There Is enough of that, wom en .throwing themselves Into the gay- etles of society to make forgetfulness. There Is nothing noble In that. It Is only a kind of cowardly mental opiate. The song that Chrlat sang was In the face of His sorrow, not away from If. As on the cross He refused the nno- dyne, so In HI* song He turned not away from the path of Ills pain. He sang and went out—out to meet His sorrow, nut to tread the wine press alone. That Is the entreatv of this text. Don’t try to forget, don’t sealr escape, but alng a song In the face nf your old griefs and sing It bravelv through. And do I mean, my friend, that vott are to go on end on forever In a plaintive, pathetic fashion of tune ful resignation? No, I do not. Re sign nothing. Hope, believe, expect everythin*. The hour will come when voit will not need to sing songs In the night, because the day of victory and relief hit" come. The song of Jesus was a prophecy throughout. "Oh, but who can see as far as that? Who can ace all the way to resurrec tion and dellverpnce?” 1 do not say that any man can "see the triumph from afar and seize It with pie eye.” ns the old hymn has It. I do pot suy that Christ saw all the way beyond Calvary to the Enthronement when a e snng Uls death song; but I do say nt He knew It. He knew It by faith. Fnlth never sees. Faith knows, trusts, goes on believing thqt somehow, be cause the Father has promised, clouds will brink, somehow deliverance will cotpg. Faith goes on stepping In the fight of the present; trusting for light for the future. T do not psk to see the dlllgpt se*ne. rtnc step enough for me." Wns It not grand last wlpter In At lanta, yet fearful—the trees all man tled In lee, rnch branch apd' twig grip ped In winter's cold, hard hand and crushed and bruised nnd broken? Woe has come upon the trees. Ixiok nt the sill) fresh wounds. We called It hav oc and ruin, but do you know nature was not singing n sad and hopeless song that day? All her outlook wai toward repair and replacement. She foced her trouble ruggedly. Nature knows that spring Is coming;—that resurrection Is yonder. If we will thjpk we pH) know It, too. Because we see any buds or feel any euminer wind? No. By faith we know that spring will come and cover all these wounds In bowers of green. "Oh, ye of little faith. If your Father so repair the trees (t°w much triore shall He re pair your' broken heart, liow much more a little pays hence prill He cure' your darkness and give you floods of light, and such fight as was never seen on sea or land. Ev ery brave song and every brave etep In your gloom le carrying you through and out of It toward the sunrise. There are others here who will In a few minutes be going out of this upper room. Do you see, can you sec to whBt? You cannot see, but you can know, for faith acquaints' us with griefs as well as Joys. Let me tell you, the pealfhltst and happiest nf yop. that there waa nothing endured by Christ which each one of you may not be called op to suffer In his own degree. You cannot see your Gethsemane, but you con know that It Is Inevitable. "Into each life some rain must fall." May I not know It for myself, that upon my.’as yet, unbruleed shoulders a heavy cross will yet be laid, that fife will not, cannot be all health and youth nnd unaffylctcdneae? May I not know It for you? Before you Is a garden of Ollyes and the oil press of agony. What song Will you Sin* to day before that? Let ua atrjke a brave note, sing a brave song and go out unshrinkingly to confront whatever cross awaits us. Let us be strong In the Lord nnd In the power of His might. Sing On, Dear Heart, Sing On. A friend In this city called me to Ids room three years ngo and said: "The doctor has Just pronounced a sentence of death upon me. He suys I cannot live more thnn two years. He advisee me to glvy up work and take things quietly nnd easily. Now. I cannot do that. SJy family, my chil dren nre dependent upon me. I don't want to do that. I nni not going to do that. Between you nnd me I like my doctor and I believe him when It will do any good l». but I don't be lieve a word he says about this. I am not going to die, I tun going to live nnd serve God." ■ r ' - And he did. He snng n brave song. He sang It and went nut to his Geth- seinane and his crucifixion and con quered both. Therp Is something be yond the cross of pain to the man nr the woman who will sing the song of faith and confidence and go nn. ' The death song Of Jesus Is a song of health tor u«. lie Is singing It sifll. It Is an endless music that heaven K ura down for us all. But we must In tune pith It nnd sing- It with a will if we alng It nt nil. "When friends are few or far away, Sing on, denr heart, sing on! They rl*e to sing who kneel to pray. Bing on, dear heart, sing on. The songs of earth to heaven ascend And with adoring anthems blepd. Whose ringing echoes ne'er shall end, 81ns on. dear heart, sing on." "And whep they hod sung n hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives.” Important Change of Sched ule on Seaboard Air Line Railway. Effective Sunday. September 8th, important change of schedule will ba made on the Seaboard Air Line. Par ticular attention Is called to the fact that train No. 38, which now leave* Atlanta, 9:33 p. nt.. will oo and after September 9th. leave Atlanta at 8:00 m.. Central time. QPIUM and WHISK IY HAKTI cared at home with* t%e^£rsiat as W. WOOLLEY, dice 104 V. Pryor