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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 190L OWEN WISTER AS SEEN THROUGH LADY BALTIMORE By REV. JAMES W. LEE, PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH A UTHORS unconsciously reveal themselves in their books. No one can help loving Dickens, not because of what his biographers say of him, but because of what “Bleak House,” “David Copperfleld” and his other immortal stories say of him. In not one of his creations is Dickens consciously giving any account of him self. He is seen between the lines he writes. He appears, not directly, but indirectly, as the sun makes Itself known in the flowers.and the trees and the changing winds. What Lockhart, In his charming blog- raphy, says of his father-in-law does not tell us a tithe as much of Sir Walter Scott as we learn of the great writer of romance from “Ivanhoe," -Rob Roy,” etc. Art, therefore, gives us truer history and biography than recorded fact. Shakespeare's “Henry the Eelghth” teaches us far more of the king, his wines, his cardinals and his age than we get from the literal chroniclers of the sixteenth century. Literature becomes doubly Interest ing to us when we use it as a means to study the men who create it. “The World as Will and Idea” Is a marvel ously striking and interesting philo sophical work, but one will find It far more absorbing If he thinks of it as so many openings through which to look at the strange and tumultuous soul of Schopenhaur. If the great pessimist had of set purpose been determined on giving the world a sight of himself, he could not v have succeeded half so well by narrating every act of his life, as he has by giving us his metaphysical treatise. He set out to give a concep tion of the universe, Its ground and meaning. The picture he gave fur nishes a much better drawn portrait of the interior life of the author than of the actual nature of creation. Very few will agree that the system of things set forth In his philosophy agrees with the real order of exist ence, but all will agree that Schopen- haur did succeed completely in build ing a metaphysical frame In which to hang his own picture. All this Is preliminary and may be regarded ns so many rounds of circling approaches, spun off for the purpose of enabling us to arrive in thinking dlstanco of Owen Winter and his Lady Baltimore. This is the most generaly read work of Action perhaps that has appeared during the year. Southern people es pecially have hailed It with delight. It Is clean, clear-cut and exceedingly wholesome. The picture of the Kings port society Is true to the life of our grandfathers and grandmothers of the olden time. Through this admirably drawn sketch we are uble to get glimpses of the sane, simple, aristo cratic. elegant Christian life our ances tors lived. It was aristocratic, not be cause of Its money or other merely ex ternal accompaniments, but because it was serious, and pure and consecrated to lofty Ideals. It was the aristocracy of refinement, and conservatism. It. was aristocratic because it was not cheap and loud and inflated with the, sense of making a show In the world. It was aristocratic because of Its his toric consciousness. It was perhaps a little extreme In the emphasis It placed upon having descended from long gen erations of pure and pious ancestors. But this was Infinitely better than the protruding Insufferable conceit cheap people succeed In filling themselves with, upon no- better reason than that they have managed to lift themselves up by the diligent use of “their moral inefficiencies.” This old-time Kings port society was aristocratic in a sense that the New port Society at the present is not, because as one of the characters in Lady Baltimore declares, the Kings port people were connected by marriage and a very important element of New port people are connected by divorce. Newport society Is divided into three classes—“those who have to sell their old family pictures; those who have to buy their old family pictures, and the lucky few who need neither buy nor ■ell. who are neither going down nor bobbing up, but who have kept their heads above the American tidal wave from the beginning and continue to do so.” This last class Is put down as be ing fine as any'people in the world. Wlster makes the leading spokesman of hJs story wish that he could buy Kingsport and put it under a glass In a museum, the fine, correct old women and all. When asked for whom and for what, he answers, Why, you ought to see! You have Just been saying It yourself. They would teach our un- llcked boy cubs, our alcoholic girls who shout to waiters for “high balls" on country club porches—they would teach these wallowing creatures, whoso money has merely gilded their bristles, Tne manners we've lost, the decencies we've banished, the standards w lowered, their light Is still flickering in this passing generation of yours." The picture given by Wlster of the society In Kingsport, which Is really Charleston, S. C\, ought to be studied and fallen in love with by all our young people to such an extent that there should be formed the deep determina tion to reproduce it. Sooner or later we will come back to it. It is easy to see that the step being set by the "high ball,” “cigarette smoking" Newport young woman is the pace that kills. It Is Intimated In Lady Baltimore that Southern society has been saved from these excesses, so far, by Its poverty, if poverty is such a boon as this, we might all well wish to remain poor for ever. But this is not necessarily so. Many of the old-time charleston' fam ilies were rich, but they never thought to find in their wealth grounds for out raging the everlasting laws of decency and morality. How the Southern peo ple are to meet the temptations that come along with great wealth In this approaching new, time remains to be seen. But we know very well that the owners of great plantations and slaves before the war were of the very highest type of life. The wealth of the Southern people who lived before the war did not hurt them. But the Vast riches soon to come to our people will cheapen us and coarsen us, and reduce us to the level of common mud, unless we get our Ideals of social life from Kings port Instead of from Newport. nut we are only circling round Lady Baltimore, pointing out thoughts stored up by reading the book. What about Owen Wlster? This Is the question. How could a man, born and reared in Philadelphia, write such a book? One can hardly resist the conviction, after reading Lady Baltimore, that the au thor of It must at least be a half Southerner. But more than this Is true of Owen Wlster. He Is Southern complete through his grandfather and English complete through his grandmother. Many, many years ago. before the beginning of the nineteenth century, one Major Butler was living In South Carolina, pernaps In the neighborhood of Charleston. He was a planter and slave owner. From some cause or other he did not succeed In Carolina. Because of debt he became embar rassed. In order to mend his fortunes or recover what he had lost, he started for Oporgla. But before reaching his destination he was overtaken by the sheriff of the region he had left, who followed him In order to collect what was due his creditors. Major Butler was a proud, high-minded man—a typical gentleman of the old school. To be arrested for any cause was, In his esteem, to be disgraced. So he faced the sheriff with a pair of large pistols and gave him to understand that he would die In his tracks rather than be arrested. The sheriff, there fore, in the terms of Mark Twain, waa persuaded to let the major pass on with his family, his negroes and his holdings to Georgia. He settled neur Darien, Oa., on the Altamuha river, and began planting operations again on St. Simona Island. He succeeded In a large way, and soon paid every debt. with Interest, he owed In South Caro lina. Major Butler had two sons— John and Pierce. The fortunes of John, we are not to follow. He mar ried In Philadelphia. Pierce Butler mar ried Frances A. Kemble, a brilliant English actress, the daughter, I thin*:, of John Philip Kembl#, who was one of the most celebrated English actors of the eighteenth century, and the brother of the famous Mrs. Siddons. Two daughters were born to Pierce Butler and Frances' Kemble, one named Sarah, who married Ow-en Jones Wis- ter, and one named Frances, who mar ried the Hon. and Very Rev. James Wentworth Leigh, dean of Hereford, England, since 1894. Canon Leigh is the third son of the first Lord Leigh, and the uncle of the present Lord Leigh, of Stonellgh abbey, Kenil worth. Owen Wlster, the author of Lady Baltimore, is the grandson of Pierce Butler and Frances A. Kemble, and the son of Owen Jones Wlster and Sarah Butler. After the marriage of Pierce Butler and “Fannie" Keinble (as she wm but was so deeply opposed to slavery that she wrote a book against it. She finally went back to England, wrhere she spent the remainder of her life, leaving her children with her husband. This history, for which I am indebted to a gentleman In Atlanta whose grand, father's plantation adjoined that of Major Butler, helps us to understand Lady Baltimore, and how Owen Wlster, a Northerner by birth and training, could write it. FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE By REV. JOHN E. WHITE, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH ItHHMHHHIl IIHIMHHIMII I N mediaeval times the idea pre vailed that the Bible was God's book for a special and elect class. It waa secluded and guarded In ab beys and cathedrals. It tvas a great day In the history of mankind when that idea was exploded and the Bible was placed In the reach of the plain man. It 1s easily discovered, w'hen one conies to the New Testament for him self, that the revelation of Christ is delivered at the level of the plain, or dinary, average man. Christ was at pains to declare that He had come not to deal with the righteous, but sinners. His message, His life and His minis try was keyed to the pitch of common humanity. Now, when we begin to study the work of the Holy Spirit, under whose dispensation the church of Christ waa to go Into ail the world and preach the gospel to every creature, we may be absolutely certain that the personality, presence and pow-er of the Holy Spirit was a truth and an experience for all the,Christians.. We do not need go far Into the matter aa the New Testament reveals it before we discover the error uf the current conceptions on the sub ject of .the Holy Spirit. The plain man Is in Christ'n thought In every utterance prophetic of the paraclete, “I will not leave you com fortless, but I will send you another comforter,” Christ Is thinking of men who needed help, men who had in firmities, not of -uncommon or unusual saints. It seems conclusive beyond dis pute that the ministry of the Holy Spirit, and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and the empowering of the Holy Spirit are directed not for the extraor dinary characters, not for the prodig ious, colossal, conspicuous, overwhelm ingly distinguished souls; not for the man who gets his holiness advertised in the papers; talked about on the streets and proclaimed from the plat forms, but for the comfort and help of the unimaginative, unpoetlc, hard- pressed believer who is neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet. There are prophets and sons of prophets, but they ure not the average men. The Holy Spirit, as He Is set forth In the New Testament, is God's provision for the religiously unglfted as well as the religiously gifted. He Is doing quite ns great u work In the unendowed and unimaginative souls as He Is in those who so readily yield to spiritual in fluences. It would be hard to decide whether the Holy Spirit Is doing His greatest work In a man I know who has strong and passionate fleshly In firmities, or the good woman I know who has been spiritually, virtuously minded all her life. One is a saint; the other Is what most of men are. a sinner saved by grace and kept by the spirit, who mightily helps him to do as well ns he does. Mr. Edison selected a bit. cf bamboo to perfect the electric light because It offered most resistance to the current. The men of apostolic days and the men of later years who exhibited in the results of their living and labor the greatest power of the Holy Spirit were men, without exception, who made no large claims of holiness, but owned themselves the chief of sinners. The Economy of Grace. Now, in the wonderful words which conclude the chapter, than which hu man thought never soared to grander heights, the theme is Grace. This sug gesta that which should never be lost sight of, that In all His work the Holy Spirit operates according to the econ omy of Grace. Grace Is the Holy Spir it’s law of action. He is the gift of Grace—not the reward of meritorious ness, even as was Christ. He Is with us by the free and unmerited favor of God and with us In the double sense of being in us and for us. "And if ye, be ing evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?” And this Is the highest word that can be spoken about the Holy Spirit. It rings out above the groaning of the struggle. "What shall we say then to these things of God if God (by His Spirit) be for us, who can be ngulnst us? Nay. we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us." When you are exhorted to seek the Holy Spirit, remember this. He Is already yours; He Is In you the gift of Grace, and you can not lift your hand to seek Him ex cept by Him. I w'ould rather exhort you to welcome Him, welcome the Helper who has come. Let Him have His way in your body, His temple. Now, there are great questions about the work of the Holy Spirit, which are plainly answered In ourt text: Who does the Holy Spirit help? Where does the Holy Spirit help? How does the Holy Spirit help? First. Who does the Holy Spirit help? He helps those who have infirmities. This answer lies clearly upon the facts of the 26th verse—“The Holy Spirit helpeth our Infirmities.” Second. Where does the Holy Spirit help? He helps at the point at which our infirmities hurt us most, ut the point of prayer. This Is also evident In tho text, “The Holy Spirit also helpeth our Infirmities, for we know not what to pray for as we ought." Third. How does the Holy Spirit help? He helps by making intercession for us and with grounlngs which can not be uttered. Let us look ut these things in turn. Who? The Holy Spirit helps those who have Infirmities. Was that ever made quite plain to you? Have you never heard it other wise? Yet is that not exactly what Paul is saying here and throughout this chapter. Always read the 8th chapter of Romans in the light of tho seventh. I have heard that the Holy Spirit will have nothing to do with us unless wo are holy. That Is not so. It Is mis chievously false. The Impression has often been made that the Holy Spirit Is exacting as to the conditions under which He will work; that He Is harsh In Judgments, rigid in requirements, and that He occupies a position out side the Christian's heart from' which He makes certain severe demands on a threat that unless they are compiled with He can not come In. That Is not o. It Is desperately false. Nothing ould more misrepresent Christ, Ills spirit, His life, His method and minis try. The Holy 8pliit, by those who fall Into this error, Is sometimes Illustrated by a bird that Is frightened away by a hostile movement. How untrue. It is almost a blasphemy. “Know ve not that your bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit?” Not ought to he the temple, but actually are. And vory mean temples they ure sometimes, but if a man is a Christian the Holy Spirit will persist there and help there, yea though It be us Paul REV. DR. JOHN A. WHITE. declared hla body to be, a very body of death. But does not the Spirit also dwell In the-saints? Yes, and very richly, especially the saints of humil ity and modesty and sweetness who wear the graces of tho spirit which are “love, Joy, neure, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance." But He also dwells In us who are not saints, to make us better than we are and richer In these graces. He helps those who huve infirmities The most perfect statement of the facts In the average Christian’s life I ever heard in the sermon of an Irish preacher from the text, “By the grace of God am what 1 am,” the outline of which as. "I am not what I once was—not what I ought to be; I am not what I shall be." Surely this Is a truth about the Holy Spirit In which every one may find courage. He is not a potent right of the aristocracy of the church, but the plain man's friend and helper. Whero? The Holy Spirit helps us where our infirmities hurt us most—at the point of prayer. Experience is the best coni nientury on this truth of the text, our humun weaknesses focus all their mis chief in an attack on prayer. Their power Is directed to the central citadel uf the Christian's life. I believe that all Christians feel, without the exhor tations of the pulpit, that if they could pray aright the greatest sorrow of their Christian lives would disappear. If they could—why can thev not? We have had no break with our be liefs In nrayer. As a doctrine of reve lation we give to all that Is claimed for prayer u full Intellectual consent. We know as a matter of religious fact that In the mind of God prayer is no fiction, that God has determined that He will be Inquired of and that nrayer should have a positive influence In di recting the course of His creatures. We also know in a more realising way that there Is a connection between human mind and divine mind, of which prayer Is the link. We are never disposed to question the good poet who sung: "By prayer the whole round world Is bound by gold chains about the feet of God.” We are too familiar with the fmpultv to pray to doubt the reality of prayer. “Oh, when the heart is full. And bitter thoughts come crow-ding thickly up for utterance*, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour Itself In prayer." We know all that and more than that about prayer. We know- that ft Is vi tal In the Christian's life—the soul’s very hands and mouth by which It feeds on God. And we have the hun ger. We have desire. We have/things we want God to do. There are effects and results in our own lives, In the lives of our children. In the lives o| our friends, we want to see broughl about. We see a hundred things nboui we would sincerely rejoice to see changed; yet we can not pray. We do not take hold of praying with anything like the earnestness and de termination our simple common sense would suggest we should. But we have not far away the explanation of prayeriessness. Our Infirmities, our fleshly faults, our mental and physical weaknesses have all conspired to as sault us at the point of prayer. We have a body and It Is a body of death. We have human Intellects and they are carnally minded. These are our Infirm ities. Every whit of the praying wm do Is contrary to them. What a cata logue would they make If we should call them over. If we could get a clear picture of our Infirmities, assem bled In a company, we would not so much wonder that we are hindered In prayer. Look at that figure of youi pride, of your self-love, of your Jeal ousy, of your desire for gain, your love of pow-er. your self-confidence, your resources of hate, your unforglveness, your lust to get all you can and keep all you can for yourself, of your ani mal passions, of your resolute preju dices, of your stern and unbinding wll- fulness. Now- all these are aimed to keep us from fellowship with God. I do not think the devil trembles w-hen he sees the weakest saint upon his knees, but Instead he loads his gun and takes good aim. We need the help of the Holy Spirit against these odds, and we get It. How? How does the Holy Spirit help? “By making Intercession for us with groaning* that can not beJ uttered.” Now, this does not mean that the Holy Spirit makes Intercession for us outside of us at the throne of Grace. We have an advocate of G«d, Christ that died, who Is ever at the right hand of God, maketh Intercession for us. But the Holy Spirit Is In u* and He Is praying for us through Us, In a vica rious way He Is at work teaching us to pray the prayer He gives us. Have you not seen a mother with the little child? At first, when the baby Is very small, she prays for It outside of Its consciousness altogether. She takes the baby up In the tender arms of her prayer and says, “God bless my little one tonight as he sleeps. God guard my child this night." But after awhile the child can talk. The Idea of prayer Is realised In Its little heart and mind. Then watch the mother. She prays no longer outside, but through the child. Puts the words into the child’s ear on Its memory, on its Ifps, catches the word that drops and places It in place again. Gently, patiently, she teaches the prayer, and then she kneels by Its side and follows every word through with her own faith at the child lisps: Th# mother helpeth the child’s in firmities. She maketh Intercession for It by going with her cry through Its uplifted heart. That 1h the work of the Holy Spirit In us making Intercession for us. The doctrine Is that the Holy Spirit mediates In us for Christ while Christ mediates for us with God. Our Infirmities are nil the while drawing . our hearts away from God. He Is there keeping the fires of desire and impell ing our thoughts to Christ. If the Holy Spirit should leave this world there w-ould never be another Christian prayer. There Is pow-er enough In my natural Infirmities 4o (hug ine to my feet and aw*ay every time I bow- my knees In prayer. If If 4 * did not help us we would pray no more. Our souls would be gangreened through and through by the dead bod- » that enswathe them. "With groanlngs that can not be ut tered." That Is the conception that Paul had of the hard task set for the Holy Spirit. That Is his conception ot the resistance the Spirit meets In us. The channels are choked by Infirmities, as He struggles to express through us the desire of our hearts. His cries are muffled. He Is like a giant striv ing to break open the walls of a dun geon It Is an overwhelming concep tion. but wc know- something of. ejacu lations that die away with a grasp from our lips, Incoherent aspirations that fa»l buck on our hearts like a bird worn tied by beating against a cage. These broken prayers that are only great soul w-helmlng longings are the prayers the Holy Spirit heaves against the barriers of His fleshly temple, as He struggles In us tor our expression god w ard. The Issue Is clear. Our Infirmities „.-e robbing us of a full fellowship with God. Draw the lines. Mark the roes of your soul, the hindrances of the heav enly life for which God created your spirit. Our Infirmities show us where to begin. We will begin to be better men and women right from them. Remember, you do not fight alone. The Helper, and He Is mighty. Is at the front and calls you to His side for your own deliverance. You can roll the bat tle on Him when your arm is weary, only stand with Him; do not desert Hlni with your light good will. THE STONE PILLOWED DREAMER I. By REV. EVERETT DEAN. ELLEN WOOD, PASTOR UNIVERSAL1ST CHURCH •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••a I N’ the Old Teetament account of the beginning of things we read the lancinating etorjr of a young man turning hie back upon home and Its •ooclatlons and faring forth Into an untried land. Impelled by two of the primal Impulse* of the human con- •elence, the fear of justly deserved ret ribution and the unconquerable stir rings of a new ambition. Night over- **kes the traveler, with no shelter of human habitation supplied to hie need. Committing himself to the protection of lb' Hod of hie fathers, he makes of the earth his couch, and, pillowing his hrsd upon one of the etones In which the unfriendly district abounds, his sins nnd his ambitions are soon surren dered to the Insistent demands of "death's twin sister—sleep.” The etars l keep unceasingly their vigil: the eool- i Ing breeze touches lovingly the face ! of the wanderer: the tired body relaxes 1 gratefully to the soothing Influence of ! close contact with Its earliest mother, | and In the still active mind, now swept clear of the bewildering maze of the 'fiercely contesting passions of the wak- i Ing hours, there gradually assumes definite shape a vision of surpassing beauty and of wonderfully compelling j Incentive to better living. I The young man dreams, and In his dream, lo! a ladder set up betwixt earth and heaven and t*opled by the angelic I forms of the messengers of light npd , truth, and to his quickened and enrap tured senses there came that voice which still shakes the earth, speaking | to him In command and In prophecy : of the things which should come to WHEN IN THE COUR8E of human events It becomes necessary" to build a house, a home, a hovel, a hut, a bam, a hungalo, a factory, a tene ment. a shelter, a shack, a shed or any plats? requiring roofing, consult us about _ _ . _ VULCANITE It Is the logical thing to use, for reasons too numerous to mention. People who have bought Vulcanite are buying u when they need roofing again. There are facts which actually- hap ten and they speak louder than w-ords. It does not require jxprrt labor to apply It. 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Since the beginning of conscious hu man life upon this planet the souls of men have been lifted onward and up ward, from year to year and from age to age, by the dreams of the drenmers — the dreamer* of wide-open eyes and of ear* ever attuned to catch the faint est whisper of the Infinite. These are the dream* which are really worth while*, and which have made the race what It Is today, the dreams thut visit men and women, not in the' silent watches, when night has closely drawn her curtains, shutting out the noisy day. but in the hustle and clash and clamor of the busy, work-a-day world; the dreams which have for the arena of their waking realisation the dusty per spiring scene of life’s actual conflict, and for their constant Inspiration the flushed and eager, yea. oft times, the saddened and despairing faces of those who struggle for the mastery. Yes, these are the dreams which must con stantly be dreamed and realized ere we shall hope for the answ-er to the prayer which Is so often upon our lips and In our hearts, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done." One of the most helpful of all of man’s God-given qual ities Is his almost Instinctive self- dlssatlsfactlon. True enough It Is that this Is one of those virtues whose un due exaggeration becomes a disas trous vlee. but It Is also certain that without It there Is no progress. -Reign and keep life In this thy deep desire, Our only greatnesa Is that wa aspire." REV. E. D. ELLENWOOD. Thus truly sings Jean Ingelow, and thus It Is that the world owes Its constant progress toward the freedom of light and truth to the Insistent and noble discontent of Its dreamers. NVe must learn that he most truly “hon ors father and mother" who has passed the frontier of ancestral attainment and has pitched his own tent a day’s march In the van. Difficulty the Parent of Endeavor. Let us not forget the sort of-pillow that this drear.i«r of the story- had perforce chosen upon which to rest his head. It was “one of the stones of the place.” The world Is filled today with the bftter complainings of men and women who really seem to believe that nearly nil the rest of us would long ago have been smothered In the dust of their chariot wheels, If only they had been given a “fair show," a decent chance like other men. Untiringly they pour Into our ears from their throne on the Upturned empty drygoods box In the country postofflee or the corner-stone, the tale of the marvelous achievements which would have been theirs, the splendid benefits they would have con ferred upon the race, If only there hail been doled out to them the needful preparation for the fight with circum stance which they were called upon to wage. Why, bless your heart! you poor, whining waller of "the things that might have been," don't you know that nearly all the lifts the world has been given God ward have been the result of dreams conceived In the hearts «.f dreamers whose heads were pillowed upon a stone, yea, all too often, whose bodies rested upon pebble-strewn gran ite! "We rise by the things that are neath our feet," by the difficulties and handi caps we have overcome, by the evil impulses we have conquered and con verted Into servants, "by the pride de posed and the passion slain," not by the good above us which our covetous ness may enable us to pull down to own, but not to possess. Our dreams and longings shall reveal to our en raptured vision the ladder upon which we shall rise out of low aim and un worthy desire up to the vaulted dome of a spiritual conception of our own vast possibilities, when these dreams have their Ineepthm In some undesir able condition of mind, body or estate. What a long list of stone-pillowed dreamers history- presents for our In spiration and encouragement! Jems of Nazareth, Paul the Apostle, Socrates, Gregory, Paschal, Bernard, of fiarl- veaux. Richard Hall, Robert Green. MJIton, Beethoven, Channtng, Lincoln, Helen Keller, here and there their names shine forth as we turn at ran dom the pages of life’s record of worthy- deeds, and each of these dreamers knew his individual pillow of stone, varying In hardness only In degree, yet how poor would the world be If any one of these dreamers had refused to take as his own "one of the stones of that place.” Action Must Follow Revslstion. If our dreams are to be of any prsc tlcal worth to the world, we must re member that action must always promptly and decisively follow revela tion. In the Genesis story, which we are using as the basis for our thought. It Is related that the author of this wonderful dream “rose up early In the morning and took the stone which he had used for a pillow, and he set It up for a pillar, and he poured oil upon It and consecrated It.” He made of it a monument to the splendor of his In spiration and to hla subsequent achievement. Not dreams alone can sing songs, paint pictures, win battles, build cities, w rite books, save human souls, or es tablish ethical standards for the guid ance of a race. If our Inspirations are ever to be anything more than the shadow- of their environment, we, too, must rise up early In the morning and with the oil of a determined will and an unswerving purpose, we must con secrate our lives os n monument to the fulfillment of our splendid vision, the realisation of the dream God has given us. The Responsibility is Individual. The need for the dreamer of great dreams Is by no means past. Every roil of the printing press and every flash from the telegraph reveals to us the world’s Imperative need of men of higher Ideals and more exalted ambi tion, and the man whose realised vision the world waits for Is not the man In the next state, In the next county, In the next street in your own city; It is you, my friend, right where you are, no matter what your environment, no matter what circumstance apparently so pitifully hinders. It Is your thought, your prayer, your work, your sacrifice, which the present hour demands. Art you ready? But, you say, It will cost a good deal. Yes, It always does. Never a prise w-as worthy the striving but It left the win ner spent and weary. We would all fain stand upbn our own mount of ascension, but, between lie Gethsem- ane and Calvary. Yes, truly It deea cost a good deal. But the rewards are richly commensurate. 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