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“Whmt do <y* more. than, othsm?" | of life. He became Immediately 111 life. One who deeliea can lln<l out
Matthew V4t' 1 marked mail. People took notice of j precisely what Ohrlet'a creed la on any
u ..... Jet- I_ Ki.a .Me of hi. I him that he had been with Thtiat. It modern proposition Involving a moral
It waa nor In the high tide of Ida] n , not the M . , h . holy principle,
popularity. when all the world seemed j tnne or any „ uc |, external and super-) Now, the Christian's creed seta him
going after Him and when He might mini Insignia that distinguished film. | apart. He belleverf things very dlf-
have been bold and exacting: It was ! it was the mark of a brand new belief, i ferent from the common codes of men.
.. .11 |h. world t a deatlnctlve philosophy of life, a start-1 The Chrlsilan's creed consjsta-of all
L .,l.t .0,1 ! „ I ling and original creed of duty In tjela- i that Christ believed and taught plus-
teemed going against Him, and *nwUj oll to his fellow men. It was the that something plUH Is very Important.
He might have been deaperate und , , nur ] ; 0 f a, new character, a soul re- It Is “plus” Christ Himself. Oharlefc
defiant; but It .waa at the .very begin- I uewed, a njlnd and heart divinely laid! H. Hpurgeon said to his students on
ning of Hla mission, when a mere man I hold on, that radiated n heavenly mag- j thp subject of preaching: "Load your
wa.Tm hiv« millA fair weather for him- tietlam. It waa the mar* of extraorrtl- Uermor. weP. put In your best thought,
would ha%e mad* fair weather nruoi nnry rondurt . of unusual behavior un-1 your best Jbgft. your best rhetoric, and
self and hla cause, that Jesus tntist, dtr p^necutlou and wrong that com-• when you have allot that at your au-
■et up the very highest and hardest i j^ued respect and even . commanded j dlehre. before you quit, ram yourself
•tandarda of His Kingdom. ' praise. These, things betrayed him. 8u | and all that you are in and shoot that
What does this fart signify? u i distinctly ut Antioch did the singular!- at them."
fttanHarri* vcmr* not *Y ot tflP apostles In these respects ap- I Jesus Christ gave to this world His
pear that the people of that city point-1 highest truth. His clearest revelation
ed at them and gave them their name i in thoughts that awakened and in
"Christtanans! rtirMtlanans!" t^iat Is. ! words that made the human heartburn
Christians. It would have been far ] and then, like Pmlissy, the artist, who
more remarkable If men who became threw himself Into the furnace to bring
Signifies that these standards, were not
an after-tfioughf or a-development, but
that they are primary and fundamental.
It signifies that In the divine order they
are not the things that are to he agreed
to aftsr a while In the - Christian life,
when the fires of human nature have
burned low, hut are to be submitted to
at the outset of the Christian life ns
the vital, essential and practical law
of that life.* In short, thht there can
be no Christianity, corporate 'or per
sonal, where they are .despised or dis
regarded. - ■ - .
Christ began His ministry of teach
ing by explaining and defining .what
should be the creed, the character and
the conduct of those who were to be
His disciples. First, Ite went fo the
highsst sorts! and religious tank, then
In the world about Him, and directed
attention to' the ethical weaknesses of
those who made great claims for them
selves, and Said* "Verily I any unto you
except your righteousness exceed the
righteousness of the scribes ana Phari
sees ye shall In no wise enter Into the
kingdom of God.”
Then Ho wont to the other extreme,
the bottom rank of society, and with
characteristic consideration for those
who are despised among men, He
pointed out the Publicans. "If ye. my
disciples, are kind and good only to
those who are kind and good to you. In
what are you better than the most de
graded class nmong you? Do not the
Publicans that well? If you are to
do Just as well as the Publicans, who
have no religion, what better Is your
religion than no religion ut ull. What
do ye more than others?”
The disciples of Christ are then to
be better than the world's bad men
and better than the world's best men.
There are forty thousand Christians
In Atlanta, six hundred thousand In
Georgia. and twelve millions In the
Houth, who. at the present time, need
nothing so much as to be aroused to
the truth and Its Imperious obliga
tion that to be a Christian means to
get out and above the crowd.
To the follower of Christ who ac
cepted Him as Lord and Master, It
was made plain at once that In coming
after Christ lie came under a new htw
embodiments of the principles and ex
amples of the character of Jesus Christ
should have been able to escape dis
tinction, than it was that such undis
tinguished Individuals as they were
should have become famous as they
did. Ho If Is true now that the distinc
tion of the Christian man dvit*’ the
ordinary run of humanity should be
Inevitable and unavoidable. ‘There Is a
superiority that. Inheres* In the Chris
tian man logically arid nhfUrtflly. The
Imprimatur of (tod Is on him. The
severest indictment to he made against
h professor <»f the religion of Jesus Is
that he can be lost In the crowd.
There are three distinguishing facts
of the Christian life. First, his creed;
second, Ills character; third, his con
duct.
THs Creed Mark.
out the supremest tints upon the porce
lain, Christ flung Himself and every
thing He was upon the Cross, "and
gave Himself up for us all.”
Therefore, the creed of the Christian
is all that Christ believed and thought,
plus Christ Himself, who is the center
of it all and the exhaustless source of
the energy that enables a man to
practice the great principles. This Is
the amazing wonder ot the Christian’s
faith. This* was Paul’s creed at Cor
inth, "Jesus Christ, plus Him? What?
—Crucified I” This Is the one creed
known among men that has truth as
truth, goodness us goodness, and also
Inseparable from It an efficient power
to reproduce It In the human life.
From another view the Christian’s
creed is remarkable. It goes further In
ery way than human nature Justifies.
Christianity la nrst a rfll*l»n of be- J* tranx entla nature piety. It ov
llevlnr Him it rellel.m of liclnr and ‘ ''"I’* H, ‘ «M">!!tlon«! KOOdlieiM. It t»
llettng, inert it religion or wing anu more „ nerou , t | ia! , ( . harlty require,,.
then a religion of doing. It Is "belle v
Ing” first. This Is the divine natural
order.
Nothing could be more unintelligent
than tin; cheap talk we hear agulnat
reeds." Every man has his creed,
that Is, If he Is anything or thinks,11s
more liberal than thrift ullows, more
unselfish than prudence dictates. It
risks the scorn of conservatism In every
way. It issues Its imperative not only
for the great muin programs of life,
hut for every thought, every feeling,
every deed. Home one has suggested
that the difference between the moral
becomes u man. Bad men have their | Ity of the world and the creed of# the
reeds. The Devil has Ills creed. Christ Christian may be Illustrated by the rtlf
ertalnly hud a distinct creed. He be
lleved things definitely. He taught
truth In crystals of thought—the things
He had received of His Father. In al
most every respect Christ’s creed was
at variance with or a revolutionizing
extension of the religious and ethical
conceptions of His mvn and past ages.
In His one statement to the Phurlseen.
"The kingdom of God Is within you,”
He reversed three thousund years of
earnest religious thinking. In its spirit
most of all Christ's creed was diamet
rically an upsettal of the world's phil
osophy prevailing then nml since. 11s
hod u creed about God. u most original
and wonderful article of Ills creed,
that was; also a creed about man,
scarcely less so. In fact, He IihU a
creed about practically everything that
comes tip for men to think und talk
about, relating to the deep issues of
ference between an ordinary weather
cock und the mariner's compass. The
weather rock distinguishes only the
four quarters— east, west, north, south
—-and by It men roughly guess their
way. The mariner's compass 4;» a much
inure wonderful Instrument. It not only
gives the four cardinal points of north,
south, east nml west, but 32 points are
exactly marked mid named so that the
sailor can guide hi.) ship with severest
precision nml find Ids way In storm
as In calm. With Ills creed there Is
no need for a Chrlstluu ever to go
•wrong.
Moreover, the creed of the Christian
Is remarkable for Its boldness. It says
more, promises more, professes more,
hopes for more. Its claims are stupen
dous. Its pledge and provision are
fh> lions beyond Imagination. Its pro
gram is imperial beyond (he dreams of
| Into three measure* of meal till the I parlor to the multitude? There la no
whole waa leavened.” The peculiar ut- I joy like It. Cut light into the quick
tractiveness of the Ohrlatlen character your human nature; go rasplngly
1.1 the strangeness of a divine some- 1 ». ,-r.jn ••nut It hurts." "F
tiling In a human somebody. Tills Is | e * .. T „ Illir ,,
the Christian's character mark. The j |J°h t want , t ®,‘J’'’a??.'
man that fllla up on Christ, assimilates ^nt “a 21L2?
the Spirit of Christ, will need to go no
further to learn the secret of personal
magnetism.
the pang will soon turn Into a paean.
What a fetich we make of human na
ture. Judge Bleckley, In one of his
famous decisions touching the question
‘ ' res hi a law suit,
. , ... comes Interest. In-
arm), Lord Wolsclc), said. I • .. » rascal* almost if not
J5 !?. a «!L il° r ^VM n tha* 'always H thorough rogue." Here cornea
, n0 , r F v m “. I human nature at every turn. Human
i to look Into join hear, uhl.-i nature! A freat rascal—almost If not
In Ills remarkable tribute to Robert | 3 .StaSait chama I
K. l^e the commander-ln-chlef of the «
British army. Lord Wolseley. sal.l: "I
smile
seemed
they searched your br*tu. I have met
many of the great men of my time, but
Lee alone Impressed me with the feei-
*lng that I waa in the piesence of a
‘ man who was cast In a gt under mould
and made of different and dt finer
inetal than all other men. lie is
stamped upon niy memory as a belli*
apart and superior to ail othei* In
every way; a man with whom none I
ever knew, and very few of whom I
have read, are worthy to be classed.
REV. JOHN E. WHITE.
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flow can a man holding such a creed
as this be a common man?
The Character Mark.
The Christian's creed fulfills Itself in
what we call Christian character. The
word becomes flesh.
Have you ever thought this question
to its human!)' satisfying answer:
"What was It about Christ that gave
Him such |*ersonal peculiarity and
power?" It was Ills Christian char
acter. "The fullness of the God-liead
dwelt In Him bodily." That Is, He In-
•arnated Godliness or goodness. This
was His clmrni.
What is It that makes a Christian?
Jt Is the Christ In Him. If we receive
Christ, Just In proportion as we do
receive Him our characters are Chrlfct-
like, Wc want to get rid of the Idea,
break with It utterly, that a Christian
Is Just an Improved sinner. He Is more
and vitally more than that. The trans
fer from the kingdom of the world into
the kingdom of God takes place at the
•enter, not at the circumference, of a
man's life. A Christian Is a better
man from the heart out than he was
once, and tlmn he fcver could be with
out Christ. ’Tls a power outside of us
making for righteousness inside of us,
not merely by improving what is found
there, hut liy thfc Importation of n di
vine spiritual dynamic.
"The woman took a hit of leaven"—
took it frcnw~Aom*«eb»e» *•»**• ' •*»•*'* »♦•»(
always a thorough rascal.
To hear some of you talk about how
natural it Is for you to think and feel
and do so and so, it would seem strange
that you don’t stop wearing clothes
because It would be so natural. "Hu
man nature” Is the demagogy o
the devil. It was to cure human nature
and make men partakers of the divine
nature that Jesus Christ came Into this
world.
The ordinary and common way of
have met with two men who realise' doing In moral matters, the average
my Ideas of what a true hero should | standard of moral conduct, is very low
be: My friend, Charles '.Chinese) GdV-leven for the publicans, not to speak of
don was one; General Lee was the the .Christians.
other." # I My friends, the world lacks Just one
I• wonder Jf it iiJd.no; occur tc lb'! touch to turn it toward Christianity,
great and generous Englishman that lord that is the touch of pre-eminent
the marvelous mesmerism of quality! Christian conduct. The Christian
that set Lee and Gordon higher than! ought to he a better husband and fa-
all others In Ills admiration was pot It her, a bettor wife and mother. The
that the fact those two men had In j Christian home ought to be a finer
common—the fact that they wer > both i place than Is common on the city street,
glprious lovers and followers of Jesus i The Christian . ought to be u better
Christ, and that it was His light with- business man. If Ills methods of bush
in them that made them so radiant and ness are keyed no higher than the
powerful? itone and habit of the street, and he is
Th* Mirb Af ftnAfi Rfhiuinr I characterized by no finer sense of duty
* Mark of Good Behavior. to lrutll and n( , keener considerations
If Christianity Is first “believing and | of h uinan!tv, but is as sharp and grasp,
then "being," It is In the last and most \ j n g as anybody else, will some one
trying analysis, "doing.” "What do ye
more than others?”
A Jocose friend sometimes says to
me: "Be good and you will be lone
some.” He 13 right If you speak of
that peculiar goodness Christ exalted
In the sermon on the mount. The
man who will love those who do not
love him and pray for those who per
secute him will be gloriously alone in
the average company. I say "glorious
ly," for there Is no spiritual Joy so
keen as that loneliness that results
from superior conduct. "Had I melted
into my surroundings life had not been
please come to the front and. tell me
what Is he better than the publicans?
The story Is told that a certain dis
tinguished lawyer In New Yor’». who
was an officer in a Christian church,
was associated with a no less cele
brated** Jewish lawyer in an Important
case. When the suit was ended in
their favor the question came up about
the fees they should charge their cli
ents. "I think It worth $5,000," said
the Jew. The distinguished Christian
laughed. "You Jcave that to me. I’ll
have you a check for $10,000 before
When he called on
tomorrow night."
Ills Jewish associate and handed him a
...x ..«* .check for $10,000 tho Jew too!: It, leaned
son lonely, but i iived among the stars j back Jn his chair n n P u * ll id sardonically,
an abstemious ghost,” said Joaquin “ *“
Miller, writing of a period of trial In
his life. It was something to have lived
among the stars, oh, It Is something
Inexpressible for the Christian to re
fuse to melt Into his surroundings, for
it means that he dwells with Christ In
true comradeship.
Mr. D. K. Pearson, the Chicago mil
lionaire, addressing other millionaires,
says about this: "You fellows arc
missing the fun of your life by not giv
ing away your money to build up things
and help humanity. Just try It." Have
you ever tried this great Joy of being
because you darA to he «u-
My friend, 'almost thou persuadest me
to bo a Christian.' ’* I do not know
the merits of that matter, but the
comment speaks for itself.
Public Opinion.
The Christian ought to be a superior
citizen. Upon public questions, social
problems and the Issues that require
the best wisdom of men for their solu
tion. the Christian can no more lay
down Ills first allegiance to the spirit
of Christ than he can safely ubjure his
faith In God on Ills death bed.
Jf a Christian man stands before tne
expressing thoughts and avowing opin.
Ions that are as far from what lie him.
self admits In the Christian point of
view as the Idea of hell is from the
idea of heaven, though he may laugh
In my face, I dare to tell him, with
my back against the throne of God ami
my face toward a future that lie will
not laugh at, "You ought to be ashamed
of yourself to be a Ue, a living lit,
even for the brief space of your
speech." • »
But what Is the use, someone asks,
for us as Christians to try to stand
up Jn oppositions the majority? Well,
trnat at** unrHUtAiw tor. anyway? Be
sides. I would not say that the princi
pal thing In n Christian’s duty is jo
stand up against things, but It Is to go
in and change majorities If # he can: go
in and reduce them: go in and sweeten
thA current of public opinion. I know
a great river that drags along Pie mud
levels of North Carolina. Its wateis
are neither clear nor 5 clean. At fre
quent interevals in ltg course there come
the sweet fresh creeks flowing, out of
the high distant uplands. They pour
In their generous sacrifice, but do not
long seem to afreet the turgid tide
thm rolls muddlly and moodily in Its
slow fashion toward the eeg. But you
are greatly mistaken. Those'sparkling
tributaries are the salvation of that
river and bt that section. The river
would rot ere It reach the sea and scat
ter death through the land without
them. Where these sweet creeks pour
In to mingle with the muddy waters the
fish In great shoals come to spawn and
thus to make the section prosperous.
On the hanks of that river the rich fish
ermen have built their splendid homes
and erected about them the best clyiii.
zatton of the stute. because those fresh
clean currents from the uplands have
been and are the saving health of the
Chawan’a mlasmlc flood.
Time is the broad bed.of a great
river. Public sentiment. is its muddy
stream running over the low fiats of
human nature, with its mean passions
and Its selfish Ideals. But Christians
are the gracious tributaries who***
waters, clear as crystal, proceeding out
of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
cleansed by the sunshine of the hills of
heaven, and kissed by the freshening
flowers of grac<\ and life. They pour
in their rivulets of Chrlst-llke thought
and feeling and save the world’s public
opinion from rottenness and death.
'Little drops of water, little grains <<t
Hand
Make the mighty ocean und the bounte
ous land."
Only a drop of water—but be a clean
reel drop.
Only a grain of sand—but you may
he a golden grain. *’
"The period of life Is brief:
It Is the red of the red rose leaf;
It Is the gold of a sunset sky:
It Is the flight of a bird on high;
Tlut one can fill the apace
With such infinite grace.
That the red will vein all time
Ami the gold through the ages shine
And the bird fly swift and straight
To the portals of God’s own gate."
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A MAN OF MARK
By REV. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
There must be facts with thought in
them before there can be any science
as surely as af a lower level of exist
ence there must be material objects
with.' farbon In them before there can
be any fire.
Bare, empty, unrelated facts, even If
any such were adrift on the sea of
being, could never get into the ports of
the human understanding. The harbors
of the mind afford no shelter for law
less 'tramps sailing the deep without
a flag and without a cargo.
Suppose the RO.OOO.OOO of letters con
tained- In the words of an unabridged
dictionary should by some mysterious
process lose all at once their relations
to one another, and Instead of falling
Into 2$ divisions, should assume as
many shapes as there are letters, each
different from the real, and all mean-
In glees, what student could express
thought through them or receive
thought from them? Conceived by the
mind and by It given form and sig
nificance. they can lie used by ttie mind
for the expression of Ideas.
tfuppose all the atoms In the entire
sum of material things should lose
their affinities, qualities and specific
gravities and Instead of ummglng,
themselves In seventy t lasses should.
assume ranks equal to the whole num
ber of elements In tlie universe, each,
different from the others, each with
ne relation binding It to the others,
each turning Itself Into a little, lone,
refractory self-centered point separat
ing It from the others, and uil together
making an Illimitable mob of pulvor-
lied Indistinguishable particles, how
ceuld the universal mind express
through them the thought man has
organized Into modem chemistry?
I.
The thought in facts the mind finds
available for science la just their kinship
to one another. In losing their rela
tions they lose their intelligible ex
istence. All in a fact the mind can
grasp and turn into science is Its re
lations. Strip it or these and It is no
longer Intelligible, and for the mind
no longer exists. We are forced to
think of all tilings as standing togeth
er In a small system we call the unl-
veree. The parts of tills are necessarily
related, or together they would not
inaka the coamos, but chaos. Fact*.
however, arc to be distinguished from
their relations. The outside of objects
we may call the facts of them and the
Inside the relations of them. The dif
ference mode In thought between the
miter, and inner side of fuels Is dug
to the mental doorways, known as sen
sibility and reason through which ull
objects* push Into the mind. The part
of an object rite sensibility admits Is
the fact of ll, the part the mason ad
mits consists of the relations of it.
Honslblllty, the servant win* opens llto
outer door, does not know anything but
facts; reason, Jhc master who opens
the second door, does not know any-
otnpreheiuled. Hwnslblllty feeji
facts, reason thinks them. Henslblllty
Is a photographer and takes pictures,
reason Is an urtlst und creates them.
Sensibility merely hears the wav
one may use to describe Its functions,!
but he should not be misled Into sup- |
posing that they cut It like bulkheads
do a ship Into distinct and separate
compartments. The conscious self uses
the mind through'Its different modes
of activity to get out of the facts that;
surround It what there Is In them for|
the whole of life.
The different sides *>f a fact come •
before different departments of the
mind for consideration. The relations
of It are dealt with by the Intellect, the
value of It Is appraised by tile desire,,
while the work Involved In getting pos
session of It Is turned over to the will.
Through the different administrations
defined by the terms intellect, desire
an.1 will, the self estimates, appreciates
ami appropriates to Its uses tup facts II
finds around It. Intelligence, desire
und will are the mental organs by
inosiis of which the self digests, usslm- j
Hates and changes Into the forms of It*
foiling against the shores of the mind | mteMor life fhe entire context of facte *
from the^ depths of sound, but^reason j of every grade and range necessary to
"“•* • • | tll equipment and furnlshmetit. Out
takas their pitch and measure and met
ody to use In building a ship of song.
Wool on the sheep’s hack Is a fact to
sensibility, to lesson It Is so many re
lated threads for Imbuing wild beasts
from the Jungles to harmless pictures
In rugs. To sensibility an Iron moun
tain Is nn enormous something occu
pying space, to reason It Is a huge pile
of related elements for chains and an
chors end bridges. By the use of st^ht
ami thought one might tuke a watch out
of a Isweler’s showcase and put It In Ills
mind, but if he. is to secure a round
box of mechanism to mark oft the
hours of the day, lie must pay the cosh
for It ami put it In his pocket. Images
and relations keep tin record of the
movements. That is done by ths
beating heart of ihe watch throbbing
second by second in line with the re
volving heavens.
n the process of transferring the
ths showcase to the pocket
of the relations embodied In fads tlie I
self working through the mind as In- I
telllgenca mokes science out of the es
sential content of facts, the self work- ,
lug through the mind as desire ap- J
praises values, an*l the self working
through thegnlml us will turns science
uml values to account In the activities [
of the practical life. If the mind hud
no function except Intelligence, the
self, like u Hindu Brahmin, would do
nothing bet think, If the mind hud no
function except desire, the self, like a
polywog, would do nothing but appro
priate. sad If the mind hud no func
tion except will, the self, like u chicken
with its head cut off, would do nothing
but Jump up and down.
All facts contained in the Illimitable
store house of the universe are either
material or human or divine. They
may be put Into three classes und
represented ns belonging to Hie one
REV. JAME8 W. LEE.
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the whole mind of the self-conscious ,| e p fu .,j i,y the term nature, or man,
perfon Is engaged. Through toe dl- ( . lM i |, j a „ nt | n be supposed, how-
vision called the Intellect he thinks t j u , t t^eae descriptive words di
ll. Through tlie division called desire | v j,| e f ulo f lH rd uml distltu t divisions
lie wants it. ami through the division J th% . f aola f.„- u *liicli they stand. They
called the will he pays for it and (ss'k- j . in , Himpiy for convenience In thinking,
ets it. Throughout the transaction the tSlM | mailt * nature and man.
whole self acts, now through the in- ] i„an**n In both, so from thl* point
telllgence. now through the desire and ; vl ,. v . M ,i K ht pay that air facts u.. .
now through the will. Not only is the j dlvlr.e. Man grasps the meaning of tlie physical science
whole self engaged in the |S*rfortiiaiu e,» , mtulv tt nd God. and appropriates the
but employs the whole tplnd in think- I value of the one and the love of the
fng the watch, the whole mind in mher. So, from tills point of view,
desiring It. und the whole mind in jn>s- ; wr gay that all fact* ure human,
sensing It. i Nature is only a v.iat scene of blind.
For convenience in thinking, it unconscious elements and forces God
well enough to divide tlie mind into so* | nses to write out tlie literature of His
called faculties and name them Intel- i mind for rite Ir.etructbm uml enrich-
lect, desire and will. These are terms | nient of man. Ills child; and so front
this point of view we might say that
the facts of nature constitute the di
vine and liumun alphabet, through
which G*>d expresses thought and from
which man receives it. The seventy
original elements of nature ar*» \u-
rlously related and thus embody the
thought the student urrunges Into phys
ics and chemistry. The relation* rec
ognised In the movements of the heav
enly bodies are written out in natron-
_ omy. The relations among plant and
nd is Ini- j animal organisms ure translated into
biology, out of the facts of nAttirc the
thought is obtained with which to build
... iuc A-utncr of the human race.
. As eternal intelligence. He thinks all
j things; as eternal will, Ha guides them,
i and ns eternal love, He veeka to edu-
I cate, discipline and redeem Ills clill-
i dren. In the revelation He makes of
I Himself In nature. In the structure of
i Hie human spirit, In history, in Hcrlp-
! ture, and In life, man find** *’u» thought
out of which lie formulates his the
ologies. But there ure other great
facts which contain thought available
for science, besides those furnished by
nature considered In itself alone, or
j by humanity considered In Itself alone,
1 or by God considered In Himself alone.
» For Instance, there are compound facts
I that are not in nature alone, nor in
man alone, but result from a partner
ship between some original human
{quality and some natural current of
i influence. There is vision. It Is not In
• the eye ulone nor In the light
J alone; Jt Is a compound fact formed by
I the union ot the sun’s rays and the
j mechanism of sight. Hearing Is a dou-
I Me fact and represents the experience
I we have when the auditory nerves
I trade with the nerves of the atniog-
| phere. Breathing I* u dual experience
that conies from the continuous truffle
between the ulr and the lungs. Physi
cal strength Is a fact due to the union
of hunger and food.
Besides these facts, which owe their
existence to something human get
ting Into association with something
natural, there are those which are clue
to something human getting Into co-
partnership with something divine.
Knowledge Is a fact made up of inside
faculty und outside thought. Music Is
u fact due to the senile of harmony in
man. combined with the notes lodged
In objects outside of him.
a fain.
man Is to the universe, what he Is by
his Intellect to tlie relations of It, what
he is by this desire to the value of it,
what he Is by his will to the reproduc
tion of it. what he Is In himself.
The constituent elements of man
have been enumerated as body, mind
and spirit. Rut these terms are not to
be taken as representing distinct di
visions in the one self, but merely a*
convenient phrases used to describe
threu phases of the one personality.
Fro?n the standpoint of breathing an
imated dust man is body, from the
standpoint of percoivlng reasoning ac
tivity he Is inlnd, from the standpoint
of capacity to live u universal and holy
life he is spirit. As body ho passes
and perishes and sinks In the earth, as
inlnd ho projects himself In literature
and lives through time, an spirit he
unites himself with God and -lives
through eternity.
Man as spirit Is the real, comprehen
sive all-inclusive self, of which body
and mind are but different uspects.
Body and mind are engaged In a per
petual warfare for mastery the one
over the other until they are reduced
to terms of service *ml loyalty and
unity in the whoteness and Integrity of
man as a spirit. The body cannot hh a
rebel live a life of nieie unlmalUy
without making the mind a slave of
lust and passion. Kven if It were pos
sible for him to become n complete
animal he would lose whatever pleas
ure there is In being an utiimal. In
tuning down with Ills outfit of mind
and spirit Into the body to find enter-
ples he prefaced u message to the Ho
man senate just before he committed
suicide with the words, "May all thf
gods and goddesses. If there be any.
('anut mo a thousand fold worse than I
um damned If I know, what to say- to
you." In triumphing over the mind
the body defeats Itself, degrades the
mind ami corrupts the spirit, but tho
complete triumph of the mind over the
body, In the sense that a Hindu monk
triumphs over It, while not ho disas
trous ns the enslavement of the inlnd
by the body, Is'still the arrest and de
feat of life. Tlje body hi the seat of
desire, and If by the ehtlrc conquest of
the mind this aspect «»f the personal
self should'utterly be eliminated, then
man would be Jlke a watch with m>
spring In it, or ati engine with no steam
In It, or a trolley with no lightning
in It, or a solar system with no sun to
heat it. Nero pormltted himself to he
constpned In a conflagration of desire.
The kind of force, that flutned In the
body of the empenA*. St. Paul convert
ed into the light and energy of ids
spirit. Without desire Nero would
never have burned Home nnd k IP d
himself. Without desire Bt. Paul would
never have planted the Uhristlsn
church In Europe. Had there been n »
desire there would have been no sin:
hud there been no desire there would
have been no holiness.
The disruption of the personal »e!f
into body with Its desires seeking Im
mediate gratification and into mind
fighting a losing battle against them,
poisons the rplrlt and arrests the l»ur-
talnment. he overw orks and deranges j pose of liumun existence. The whole
He misses the limited pleasure It Is j universe of facts t an only be digested,
uble to furnish when properly used ! appreciated and appropriated by man
by forcing It Into a strange and wild when he meets It in the Integrity of
anti lawless activity that destroys It. j himself as a spirit, whose temporary
IF VVE WERE ALL INDIANS
Bv CAROLINE PRESCOTT.
"You are an Indian," I said to my
friend the other day, a'ter *he had done
something that was particularly sav
age. "You’re on Indian, and nothing
*l»e In the world."
• What do you think her answer was? ,
Tm not an Indian,” was her reply,.
"I*only wish I were. Do you think
what I’d do If I were an Indian?”
I don't know, but I could pretty near
guess.
"In the first place 1 would be able to
dispense with gloves that moke my
nandi sweat, and 1 should wear nice j
*o?e mocasln* In place of patent I
1 lather •fives that make :ny feet feel
: Indian 1 would be Able to take a bAtli
I every few minutes instead *>f once a
| du>.
' "And If I were an Indian I would start
I out right away to get Weil with some
people. Tho first one 1 should tackle
would be the/uid-rent hug In the sum-
“~~~~————^———— me;- cars. Now nil 1 can «lo Is to cotne
a, thou*!, th.y wen- In fryln* pun*. " ,w *
. . i iv,—. ,ar > heels as I climb t.ver him to a
And theie would be no Dago band Then I should get after that oth-
around making u noise when I chose taler street car abomination, the woman
eat In a restaurant- I would not have | who leads her offspring through the
makes of Himself.
The universe ot facta man faces com
bine to define the place nnd signifi
cance nnd worth of Ills life. The whale
Is defined by a square mile of ocean,
the ox by an ucre of meadow and tlie
squirrel by a tree of hickory nuts. But
nothing leas than the whole sum of
Humanity ns parceled out In Indi- j thing Is sufficient to spell out the In-
vitiual*. living together in u state of! finite meaning of man. A flower Is the
society, discloses various relations,! outside, diffused, unorganized defliii-
vvhlch are organized Into the science a | tlon of a butterfly, and a butterfly is
of sociology, political economy, juris-! the Inside, pulsating, flying definition
prudence and ethics. • of a flower. In the flower the butter-
God ns the Infinite, self-conscious. I fly blooms, In the butterfly the flower
self-detcrmlnlng. self-active Creator. Is i takes wings. What a thing Is to an
nul the lone, cold, unrelated Absolute.. other, that it Is within itself. What
Morality Is * _
one-half of which consists of A boy wants no more power to run a home Is the body and whose Instru-
the liumun will and the other half of flutter mill than he can get by holding j ments of achievement are found In the
divine law. Religion is a fact, the hu- hip the spring branch by means of u inlnd. it is only when we think of man
man half of which Is found In the re- diminutive dam. fine turn of the Cur- J as a comprehensive spiritual unity with
IlgloUH sense, uml tlfe divine half of less engine would obliterate ids toy j body nnd inlnd as subordinate element'
w hich Is found In the revelation God and bring him pain Instead of delight.; of It, that we can regard him as the
to dodge automobiles If I were
Indian, nor get the fillings shaken out seat, so that h**
of my teeth by rtutug In one. I ; feet on.the clothing
wouldn’t have Wkwwr a veil to keep, sengers.
my hair from fijing, and I wouldn’t
have to spend toy week’s salary for
Marcel waves and manicures. I should
not have to subscribe to a fashion mag
azine to keep up with the styles, be
cause, if I were an Indian. I could wrap
a blanket an>uud uie In tl;<* cold
eather and discard it and nearly ev-
the other, uml Jab right and left In my
effort to have nt)* right to he free from
the Interference of other pimple.
'% would get out my war paint and
Ix'gln to wipe people «>IT the face of
the earth. I would commence on the
girl who sometimes wait a upon me for
luncheon. She needs wiping off the
face of the earth if any one ever did.
She wears a (xmipadour us does the
boarding house keeper's daughter in
"The College Widow ” You tetnember ,
n’gutters nnd then deposits *i|m on the | her, don’t you? Her pompadour was {about it,
though they were conferring a great
favor, and la»t, but not least. [ should
cotnmlt justifiable homicide upon a
man who *ut next to me all the wavi
The bird greets the opening day with
a tiny stream of melody that gives to
the morning one of ft* brightest and
sweetest items, but think of an orches
tra composed of five hundred members
coming with their soul:* full of song
to force through the throat uf a bird
the sweep and wonder of Di .idel Mes
siah. It would be us easy Cm compress
an oratorio into the cry of a bird os
to satlafy mind and spirit In the
poverty-stricken compass of the body.
It was the attempt to do this that
brought the Emperor Tiberius, the most
accumpushed ruler Rome ever hud. to
u very hell of ugotiy and deapalr. Writ
ing from his place of retort near Na-
human half of the Mum of things place*!
over against him. As mere body he i<
mi animal and calls for what match**
his simple and limited necessities, as
mere inlnd acting through body he i*
an unnatural animal, nnd In addltton
to what he needs he calls for what de
grades him. But when he stands in
the presence of the heavens ami the
earth a whole and unbroken spiritual
sr|f he finds all the facta they contain
und ull the thought they embody und
all the values they represent open and
accesslbk* to him. As a Unite spjrlt h*»
associates then In term of Intelli
gence. affection and volition with the
Infinite Spirit.
out to Craig street the other night. He
had i>een eating onions and drinking
whisky, and he yawned every flve min
utes. Oh, I’d be pretty busy if I were
an Indian!"
I wonder If we are not all mope or
les* Indians. I fear tnat all of us agree
with the girl, though some of us do uot
express ourselves quite so forcibly
INTOXICATED MAX
HAT ON RAILROAD;
FATALLY INJURED
After 1 had finished these two I
should turn my attention to the mo-
torman who starts the car with such
a Jerk that he lands all the passengers
In a heap on the floor. After him the
smart elevator boy who Is fu!l of the
same tricks.
»uld lead the simple life
kpe. lal to The Georgian.
Albany, Ga. r Nov. 3.—\V. II. Moore, a
white man. was fatally Injured yea-
wlMtWM tu terday by an Incoming Central pas-
anybody. * That’s the kind of pompa- 1 JOOOOOOOOOOO&OOO J Mnffe r train, two mile* west of this
big that -die had to lift ft out of her;
eyes ever)* Hm* wanted to look at {
dour my waitress wears. Then I would O SILVER IN BULK _
wipe out a few of the telephone ex-, 0 BOUGHT FOR MINT. When first seen Moore was sit-
opmrmtorn, and follow th»»o ur>| 0 Washlngion. Nov. 3.—'Tho dl- O ,|n. on the track and did not lienr the
crilhie; In ill* aum n-r if 1 were an tomahawk In one hand and a ha'idii iu uatvr clerk, who
vlth.tbe people who stand on the side- O rectors of the mint have purchos- _, , , ...
walk In Cecil way waiting for their O ed loo.ouo ounces of silver ut 71.25 O tra ! n * whistle. He stated that lie had
car. while the rest of us are obliged • G cents au ounce to he delivered at O; been drunk nnd could not
to travel In the gutter. Then I would , O Denver; and 50,t>00 ounces at 71.20 Gi. . . , . ,
get after the high ami mighty soda-IO to be delivered Ht Phtlndelphia. C being on the track.
uit u;***n J*ou a* 1 Ue zitid Mucvu U his living
count for
CAMP WHEELER NAMES
OELEGATESTOSAVANNAH
Delegates to the state reunion *>f
United Confederate Veterans In Ha van-
nai». November 13 and 14. were name.l
Friday evening at a meeting of Camp
A. Wheeler's cavalry. They are a* fol
lows; Colour I J. p. Austin, chairman;
Major Thomas S. Bowen, Dr. T. t>.
Longino, II. F. Lester, \V. F. Hhrop-
shlre. Dr. W. E. llughen, W. C. Dod
son, Nathan Lyon*. Major J. K.
Fain qr.d I*. L. Fuller. The delegation
will leave Atlanta In a special car over
the K..Uthem and expert a great timo
ii» Savanna lb