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2 ©uv pulpit TH- EXPELLING AND IMPELLING POWER OF LOVE MISSIONARY SERMON AT MERCER COMMENCEMENT, BY REV. W. H. SMITH, DD. Text; "For the Son of Man is come to eeek and to eave that which was loot " Luke 19:10. ‘‘lf ye love me, ye will keep my com mandment.” Jno. 14 15 (Revised Ver ■ion ) Since the day that Luther nailed his theses on the door of the cathedral in Wittemburg great stress has been laid on faith —being saved by faith. The blows of that hammer not only knocked a hole in the head of Tetzel's drum, as Luther said, but they resounded throughout Germany and re-echoed through all Christendom Faith became the watchword of the reforms tion and the key note of Proles tantism. Well it might, for it is a grand word. But is it not pos sible that we have emphasized it until we have come to have the form of faith, having denied the power thereof? If so, the cor rective is to lay more stress on ‘"saved.” What does that mean? I wish 1 could stop and have each of you answer. What do you mean by being saved? WHAT IS IT TO BE SAVED? Let me answer for you. It does uot mean merely getting ready to die or being prepared to go to heaven when you die. It is not simply getting a man into that comfortable feeling that his soul is saved, or will be at death. Drummond says: “In re ality Christ never said save your soul. A mistranslation says that. ” It means all this, but it means worlds more. Look at the case of Zaccheus. A rich publican, a notorious sinner, a lost man. Christ implies that he was lost. But there was something in his contact with the Master that coin {detely changed him. He left off cis evil ways. He made restitu tion fourfold. He gave half his fortune to the poor. He was saved. Here is a tine illustration o! what the Ixird meant when he said that he came to seek and to save that which was lost. Man was made to walk in a glorious pathway of truth and righteous ness. He was intended to be Godlike in his character, to be unseltish, loving, sympathetic, helpful —as the children say, “good to everybody.” That is to be Christlike. To be lost is to wander from that pathway thrO(^P*|W|“*!W!lTW Satan'' ’ n '’trrs’*uj become selfish, unloving, hurtful rather than helpful. It means hell here and hell hereafter. Now to save a man is to take away his evil heart of unbelief, make him turn away from selfish ness and sin, and begin to be lov ing, helpful, good to everybody. If he has means, he begins to be liberal towards those who need his help. If he has done any one wrong, he wants to make restitu tion. Mark you, he actually be gins to do these things. If he doesn’t —I can’t think of it and krep down the lump in my throat —if \e doesn’t, he is not saved. If he begins to do these things t.e is saved. HOW CHRIST SAVES This is what he says he came to do. But how? Through faith, which is the hearty acceptance of Christ as being what he claimed to be, as having the character ascribed to him in the Bible and as doing w’hat he said he did and would do. But you say, ‘I be lieve all that and yet remain un changed.” My friend, that is impossible. Faith is like a tree If its roots lay hold on the proper soil, it will send forth its branches and produce fruit in our lives. If you have a believ ing knowledge of Christ, you must be m ide better, you must be saved. But why? How does faith in Christ save? It pro duces love. You cannot know the Redeemer and believe in him and not love him. You are bound to love him. I need not argue that point. It is self evi dent to all w’ho know him. Now we come upon a great principle. To know Christ is to love him. To love him is to be saved, be cause love has a mighty expell ing and impelling power, “If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.” If we love him we will cease to do evil and learn to go good. That is to be saved in the highest sense. Having thus brought forth this principle, let us next proceed to amplify it and apply it, as the oc casion demands, to the great question of missions. Let us consider THE EXPELLING POWER OF LOVE. The philosophy of it is plain. No two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. The one expels the other. Incom patibles cann it be mixed. One destroys the other. So love drives out that which is incon sistent with the object loved. It is true of all kinds of love. Take the love of money. It will cause a man to neglect his family, his church, his religion, his God. If a man truly loves a woman he will give up any evil habit that would make her unhappy. On that principle I advise young ladies never to marry a man to reform him. If he loves her as he ought he will give up his evil ways, for her sake, before mar riage. If he does not love her enough to do it before, he is not likely to reform after he is mar ried. Especially is this true of the love of Christ. “No man can serve two masters.” Love of Christ and love of sin are inconi patioles. They can not coexist. (>ne destroys the other. Hence the best way to cleanse the heart is to have a believing knowledge of Christ. It will produce a love for him that will expel all sin, just as a living stream of water cleanses a stagnant pool when flowing into it. TWOFOLD APPLICATION. The application of this expell ing power of love to the great work of missions is twofold 1. It will cast out of Christians those things which keep them from supporting and prosecuting the work. Selfishness, indu) gence, the gratification of our own worldly desiresand personal am bitions these things are chok ing and drying up the fountains of benevolence. They clog the streams which ought to flow out to bless and enrich the sin-cursed world with the gospel. We need such a rising tide of the love of Christ that its flood would sweep away the driftwood of worldli ness and unclog the streams. We are not poor. We have money enough to enable us to give the gospel and its blessings to all the world to help the poor and sin ful at our doors and the heathen beyond the seas. 2. It shows the supreme need of those who are without the gospel. If love alone can expel sin, then we must bring Christ to all men e’er they can be saved. He alone can inspire the love that casts out sin. Whatever heathen religions may possess, they certainly lack love. Not one of them is a religion of love. Among all the gods of earth, only of him whom Christ reveals can it be said; “God is love;” “We love him because he first loved us.” It is childish folly to talk of sinful men being saved with out the gospel. None but Jesus can engender in them the love that must save them from sin. Beyond all question the whole heathen world is tilled with sin. Men and women alike are cor rupt to the utmost degree. Like sinners in our midst, they can only be saved by the expelling power of love. That is their supreme need, and without Christ and his gospel they can never haueJt-. . . . THE IMPELLING POWER OF LOVE. Love has not only a great ex pelling power but it lias also a mighty impelling power. “ If ye love me, ye will keep my com mandments.” That is, we will do what he has told us to do This principle again is true of all kinds of love. See that awk ward, gawky, careless, lazy, tri fling fellow. He has reached the years of young manhood and is the disgust and despair of all who know him. But 10, a change comes over him. He wakes up, becomes attentive to his dress and active in his work. It looks as if he had suddenly determined to succeed and make something of himself. What is the matter? He has been ensnared by two bright eyes. He has fallen in love —or rather been lifted up in love—and is impelled to exer tions to which he has heretofore been a stranger. Tnat is the whole secret. What will not love impel a mother to do ? She will give even life itself for her child LOVE TO CHRIST. If we have a believing knowl edge of our Lord we will love him; if we love him, we wili keep nis •commandments; hence we come directly to the subject of missions again, for the first and greatest command of Christ is, “Go ye into all the world and preacn the gospel to every crea ture.” You say that Jesus taught us that our great law’is to live God supremely and our neighbor as ourselves. Certainly, but, ah ! fools and slow of hfeart to be lieve '. Can we not see that the command to preach the gospel to all is but the most practical form of the first great law of love ? Os c jurse love to Christ impels us to keep all his com mandments. They are many and important. But I shall not un dertake to discuss them in detail now. It is out of the question to do so in a limited time. Besides we have before us the most im portant one. What will it avail, if we keep the other command ments and persistently neglect the first and greatest? “ Go, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever* I have commanded you.” James says: “ For whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point he is become guilty of the whole.” What then of him who refuses to keep the greatest law of all ? ARGUES YOURSELF UNSAVED. So strong is this point that it seems to me, that for a Christian who has had his attention called to it, to say that he does not be lieve in missionsis to argue him- THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY, JULY 2. 1896. self unsaved. Christ’s meaning is plain. The logic of it is this : Salvation implies faith. Faith begets love. Love impels to obe dience. Obedience means that we must go and make disciples of all nations. Now, not to believe it. missions is to be lacking in obe dience; if obedience is lacking it shows that love is not there; if love is wanting, there can be no faith, if there is no faith, there can be no salvation. Therefore, he who does not believe in mis sions and does nothing for mis sions is unsaved. How can we escape the conclusion ? Let us put it In this form: No missions, no obedience. No obedience, no love. No love, no faith. No faith, no salvation. The only way to refute the ar gument is to say that mission work is not essential to obedi ence. But can you say that sue cessf 11 y ? Listen to the follow ing dialogue and draw your own conclusion : Christ: If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments. Go ye, therefore, and make disciples of all nations; and 10, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things I say ? Christian: No, Lord, I love you, but I don’t believe in mis sions. I will do anything else you say, but when it comes to preaching the gospel to all na tions, 1 will neither go in person nor give my money to send some one else. James: Alas, poor deluded man to call yourself a Christian! He that refuses to obey in one point is become guilty of the whole law. Therefore in re fusing to do anything for mis sions you show yourself lacking in obedience, and need not claim to be Christ’s. My brethren, it seems to me that henceforth the impelling power of love to Christ must be come the argument for missions. Other arguments are not suffi cient. We have made much of the argument from the standpoint of humanity These people need the gospel to ameliorate their condition even in this world. That is true, but that is not enough to open the fountains of liberality. Again we have ar gued that their souls are lost without Christ. That too is true, but it does not seem to move men constantly. It is all so far away. Again, we have made much of the romance which has heretofore surrounded the work of missions, but that has lost its ■povTdr an~ is passing away" We have one appeal left. “If ye love me, ye will kefip my com - mandments.” Unless we love Christ and are impelled by that love, I see no hope for the future of the mission cause. APATHETIC “IF.” It is to me one of the most pa theic thingsinthe world,lhis“if," which the Lord must ever use in speaking of the love of his peo ple, as if he could never be quite sure of that love. He came from heaven to earth, he wan dered here, poor, despised, weary and lonely, yet ever ten der, loving, sympathetic and reaching out his hand ready to help, and at last died that we might live and ascended on high to pour lavish blessings upon our unworthy heads. And yet musthe ever say to us, who are made rich by his poverty, re deemed by his death and kept by his intercession, “ If ye love me; if ye love me!” God forbid! Oh ! poor heart of mine, if thou art not quite a heart of stone, let hi u have no cause ever again io doubt thy love. Say to him, “ Lord, I do love thee and w’ill keep thy command nents. Hence forth where ever sinful men lan guish, thirsting for the wa’er of life, I will go either in person or send a substitute when I cannot go, and tell them of thee.’ The Critical Habit. “ Do not drift into ths critical habit,” writes Ruth Ashmore in discussing “The Critical Girl,” in the Ladies' Home Journal Have an opinion, and a sensible one, about everything, but when you come to judge people, re member that you see very little of what they really are, unless you winter and summer with them; find the kindly, lovable nature of the man who knows little of books; look for the beau tiful self sacrifice made daily by some woman who knows nothing about pictures; and teach your self day in and day out to look for the best in everything. It is the every day joys and sorrows, my dear girl, tnat go to make up life. It is not the one great sorrow, nor the one intense joy, it is the accumulation of the little ones that constitute living; so do not be critical of the little faults, and do be quick to find the little virtues and to praise them. So much that is good in people dies for want of encour agement. As I said oefore, have an opinion, and a well thought out one, about everything that comes into your life, but do not have too many opinions about people. Their hearts are not open books, and as you must be judged yourself some day, give them the kindest judgment now The Impress of Life. The following paper was read by young brother Park Adamson at the Young Men’s meeting, Carrollton, Ga., and requested by the meeting for publication in our Index: 1. LIFE LEAVES ITS IMPRESS. Glaciers leave their impress upon the mountain side; rolling rivers lea v e their stamp upon the sand; the massive and luxuriant foliage that covered the earth’s surface in the carboniferous age now blesses mankind in the form of coal. Read God’s language: he has written upon the flower that sweetens the air, upon the dew drops that refresh the moss of the desert, upon the ocean, upon every penciled shell that sleeps in the caverns of the deep, as well as upon the mighty sun which warms and cheers the millions of creatures that sleep in his light: upon all be hath written, “ None of us liveth to himself.” Everything leaves a history and an influence. Man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indeli ble stamp on his race. 2. The impress of an ill spent life widens in its capacity for evil as time passes. The history of the young man Absalom affords us instructive lessons against the sins to which we are prone, particularly van ity, passion, and filial Absalom, having his brother, fled into he re mained three year? In his pa ternal kindness, David permitted him to return to Jerusalem, and soon received him into favor again. This young man grossly abused his father’s kindness, as sons now too often do. Remark able for his personal appearance and tine talent, he turned them into improper channels; he be gan to play the demagogue, and by many artful devices stole the hearts of the people, and got himself proclaimed king in He bron. In the battle which soon followed, the troops of Absalom were defeated, and he himself, being caught by his hair in a tree, was slain by Joab. He oc casioned his father many days of bitter trouble. His was a life of waywardness, disobedience, and misapplied tai ents. He has had many imita tors, yet many have striven to shun the wayward disposition and to point out the true appli cation of strength Let us remember the end of such a life. The tender climb ing plant of summer takes hold of some object,, directs its course upward till its tendrils shoot high and beautifully into the air; but the prop fails, and there it is full of life and vigor still, but prostrated, a worthless weed. Such, at the moment of its great est vigor, is the state of those seeking worldly greatness by selfish motives. 3. The impress of a well-spent life is no less lasting than eter nity. The best inheritance a fa ther can bequeath to his son is a virtuous example, a legacy of hallowed remembrance and asso ciation, a blessing which will repeat itself in perpetual show ers of benediction. The life of Howard, the great prison re former, is shedding a greater influence for good to day than ever before. Spurgeon is still preaching to us. Foolish, indeed, it is for one to resolve not to be at all. be cause he cannot be as great a man as the great lights of his tory Let it always be remem bered that the tree grows out of the bush, and that a number of small lights burning together make a great light. It is a startling fact that too fev of our young men lay out their young unwasted strength in the service of God, that too many, like Absalom, deaf to a father's words of counsel, delu ded by the angel of worldly greatness, are fast nearing the fateful tree in which they shall be entangled and destroyed. “My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother.” “Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which tes tify of me. ’ Nothing Small with God.— Noihing is small in God's sight. The little flower that is so mi nute that you can scarcely see it down among the grass, or just peeping out of the earth, may be just as perfect and beautiful as the largest and most showy flow er that blooms in the garden. The smallest insect that you can find with a microscope in a drop of water, or on a leaf, or in the bosom of a rose, may be just as perfect in all the functions of its life as the greatest animal that treads the forest or lives in the sea. Tne smallest diamond may be as brilliant as the Koh-i noor, or the largest gems that shine in the crown of royalty. So the smallest action may be just as beautiful, as noble, as pure, as godlike, as the greatest deed that shines out in splendor before all the world. Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers can be applied when at home, and is uniformly successful in coloring a brown or black. Hence its great popu Itrity. Severe Tests in Life's Common places. Man meets his severest test in the commonplace demands of daily practical life. The achieve ments of the scientist or the ar tist we look upon as manifests tions of rare and subtle power. The ordinary man wonders how it is possible to find a new ele ment in the atmosphere and to separate it from other constit uents. He would not know how to take the first step toward it. So, too, does he stand in wonder at the artist’s power of making a canvass palpitate with light, a violin speaking messages to the soul in melody. Rare powers these, yet not more rare than to live a plain prose life really w’ell. Who can repeat a remark made by another without distorting it or coloring its intent if not its phrase? One need go no farther than this, if he is seeking some form of achievement in which to labor to go on to perfection. This is a commonplace duty, falling to every one many times a day—this saying what was said. But to perform it in abso lute fairness, justice and literal truthfulness, is no commonplace achievement It is an achieve ment which means many a trou ble averted, many a heart's es cape from wounding. It is not easy to calculate the evils that arise from the underestimate of the worth of right hearing and right reporting. One might eas ily rival the scientist if he were to set about discovering the hid den elements of discord and hu man misery that lie in careless speech—to say nothing of willful misrepresentation. He may be something of an artist who can skillfully make the truth to lie,but his is much the better art who can speak the truth so that nothing but truth is conveyed by it. The world does not class the plain truth-teller as among the learned professions. But any one who is determined neither to indulge in gossip nor to misrepresent an other, will find himself pursuing a calling in which there is not only “room at the top,” but room enough only half way up. It is worth while to try to be both just and generous, fair and kind.—-S’. S. Times. Encourage the Ministers. —ls your minister helps you by a sermon, tell him so. You have no idea how much good it will do him. If you have received a blessing do not grudge to give a blessing. Dean Boyle in his “Recollections” tells the follow ing story “When I first went to Bridge north,! found myself in the house of a very thoughtful man, who told me that he owed his soul to two sermons preached in my church by my predecessor. “I was a regular infidel,” he said, “and I went after many years to the church. There I heard a sermon that gave me a week’s misery. The next Sunday I went again and heard another. Those two serjnons set me to thinking. I began to read the Bible, and at last I found peace.” “You went and told that cler gyman, I hope, and encouraged him in his work?” “I!'he said. “Oh, no; I never spoke to him in my life.” He Saved My Soul.—The Presbyterian Banner is authority for the following story: “A backwoods preacher, who knew little of books of theology, but who had what was a vast deal better, a practical knowledge of salvation through Christ,was be fore a Conference Committee once for examination. “ ‘Brother,’ said one of his ex aminers. ‘will you please name some of the evidences of the di vinity of our Lord Jesus Christ?’ “The brother's face wore an expression of puzzled bewilder ment, and he was silent. The examiner repeated his question: ‘What makes you think Christ is divine?’ “With his eyes full of tears he started to his feet, and, stretch ing out his arms and hands, he exclaimed: “ ‘How do I know he’s divine? Why, bless you, he saved my soul and I love him for it.’ ” The Result in Maine.—Re garding the success of the prohi bition laws of Maine, Supreme Justice L A. Emory says: “Gen eral, I favor the prohibitory law for the reason that it drives the retail business out of sight. Throughout Maine there are no visible signs of liquor being sold. Children see no place where liq uor is sold. Women see no such place. The traffic is kept out of sight. L : quor can be bought in the large towns, but not without inconvenience. In the small towns the inconvenience isgreat er and often unsurmountable. The consumption of liquor is les sened by the law, and the result is good in my opinion.” If you must form harsh judg ments, form them of yourself,not of others; and, in general, begin by attending to your own defi ciencies. If every one would sweep up his own walk, we should have clean streets. Among the Any publication mentioned in this de partment may be obtained of the American Baptist Publication So ciety. 98 Whitehall St.. Atlanta, Ga When prices are named they include postage The Editors of the Christian Index desire to make this column of service to their readers They will gladly ansver. or have answered, any ques tions regarding books If you desire books for certain lines of reading, or desire to find out the worth or pub Usher of any book, write to them. School History of the United States. By J. Win. Jones, DD. 454 pp. Illustrated R. H. Wood ward & Co. Baltimore. The advance sheets of this book have been sent us It is of convenient size with type clear and good The larger illustrations are wanting in these ad vanced sheets. The smaller pictures of the Presidents are very poor—a num ber of them black daubs. The pub lishers ought to see to it that in the completed work these are changed. The book in general seems to be well prepared and the necessarily brief ac counts of events are clear and well ar ranged. The great distinguishing fea ture of the book is that it is written from the point of view of an intense Southerner, for Southern schools. Its aim is to " do full justice to the South ern States.” The author says in his preface: “In traveling all over the South, I have heard general complaint that histories by Northern authors were unjust anl unfair to our section in their Colonial, Revolutionary and Civil his tory, and that when they come to treat of the causes, conduct and results of the great ‘ war between the States,’ they are utterly unfair and misleading, both in what they narrate and in what they omit. And so the author writes to correct the wrong. As might be expected under such cir cumstances, the book has a strong Southern bias But the facts stated are those which we have all been taught to believe were facts and we are pre pared to receive them The language of the author is quite forcible, and he sometimes uses stronger terms than are necessary to convey s’mple histor ical truth, but on the whole he has kept himself quite well in hand and said not many things that had better have been left unsaid If we cannot have a his tory which is unbiased and written in the true historical spirit, it is impor taut that we should have one that tells the truth, as we believe it, and Dr. Jones does that He is fair too to those who fought on the other side Those who expected from Dr Jones a work full ot anti Northern " thunder ” will be disappointed, and many of them will join in saying that our brother has done well. With the Fathers. J. B McMaster. D. Appleton & Co. New York Few writers of history have the de lightful and entertaining style of Dr. McMaster. His volumes on United States history are unsurpassed in read ableness. One feature of his style is a connection between paragraphs and subjects that gives a continued interest < >ne cannot find a place to stop before he reaches the end. This volume con tains thirteen articles and not one is dry or uninteresting. Some of the chapters are. The Monroe Doctrine The Third Term Tradition. Political Depravity of the Fathers, The Riotous Caree/'Sf the A' Cen tury s Struggle for Silver. Is Sound Fi nance Possible under Popular Govern ment ? From this it will be seen that the book is of practical value as well as of historical interest Business men will find this a charming book, and its brisk, narrative style one that enter tains as well as instructs The Life of St. Paul. S W Pratt, A. D F. Randolph & Co. New York. |1 00 The life ot Paul is given in Scripture words. It is a Scripture harmony of Paul s life with his letters in their proper places We tried to read it just as we might have Conybeare and How sons. It is intensely interesting and surprisingly clear in its facts. Not a word of human comment is added be yond headings and dates At the close the Scriptures are grouped to de velop certain general themes. Such as Paul s Apostleship. Paul's Gospel. Paul and Peter. Barnabas. Mark, Luke and Titus, each have the treatment. His In firmities, Sufferings for Christ and Per sonal Faith are grouped in the same way It is an extremely helpful com pilation. Legends of the Rhine. By H. A Guerber. author of " Myths of Greece and Rome,” "Myths of North ern Lands" etc 350 pp A S. Barnes & Co. New York The au hor. who has given much time and labor to this sort of work takes his readers up the Rhine, from its mouth to its source, and en tertains them all the way with the le gends attached to each locality as he reaches it The book is well illustrated and very entertaining, as are always those stories which in some unaccount able way grow up, not being made, in a people's thought and life It would be especially valuable to persons who are so fortunate as to be able to take a trip up the beautiful river. Heroes of Faith. Burris A. Jenkins, D. B. Introduction by Prof. Thayer. Funk & Wagnails Co. New York. SI.OO. This is primarily prepared as a Greek study for beginners. It deals with the eleventh chapter of Hebrews. First the Greek text and a literal translation are put one underneath the other: on the opposite page the King James and Re vised Versions of the same passage ap pear together. With this is a com men tary. a sketch of the various personages mentioned in the chapter, and literary extracts using the thoughts of the chapter. Altogether it is an unusually fine book, not only for beginners in Greek but for English readers. The Seats of the Mighty Gil bert Parker. D. Appleton & Co. New Y’ork Price SI.OO. A historical novel of unusual excel lence and thrilling interest. The scene is laid in Old Quebec during the French and Indian war and culminates in the capture of Quebec by Wolfe'sarmy. The plots of the favorites of the King of France and their intrigues are made the causes of both the war and the final defeat The book is clean and whole some and the story well told It is a re markably well written and well printed book to be sold for a dollar. Literary News and Notes. Familiar Trees and their Leaves is the title of a beautifully illustrated book to be published by D. Appleton & Co. The author is Mr. F. Schuyler Mathews. The book will not be tech nical, but will give botanical terms. This will be a most desirable book. Poor | I Pilgarlic, \ n < there is no need for you Y sto contemplate a w *g a S when you can enjoy the | b pleasure of sitting again Y k under your own “thatch. V You .can begin to get > your hair back as soon jjn ■; as you begin to use S I Ayer’s | Vigor. | Another book by D Appleton & Co., will be Sir Mark, a Tale of the First Capital. It is a historical novel of the days of Washington and Adams. A New Elementary Solid Geometry by Prof Henry D. Thompson, of Princeton, will be issued by Macmillan A Co. For the Index. Pen Droppings BY L. L. V. Perhaps citizens of the United States who are members of the Church of Rome are honest when they assert that their church is not the foe of civil and religious liberty. We do not doubt the loyalty io our institutions of many lay men of that communion. But we con tend that those who are thus loyal to our civil government are less devoted to the Roman hierarchy than their priests would have them be. Perfect allegiance to the Italian who reigns in the Vatican and whom they profess to regard as godly vicegerent, precludes full allegiance to any other power. Implicit faith in a ruler to whom they ascribe infallibility cuts off the possi bility of devoted attachment to a sys tem which is ever erring. The two sentiments are not always brought into antagonism Did the priests confine themselves to their spiritual functions as they profess, and as by the law of the Bible they are required to do, there would be no conflict. But in its far reaching ambition, this august super stition of Rome aspires to control the polic.es of administrations and to direct destinies of nations. Her ministers, while claiming to represent a Prince whose kingdom is not of this world, are very largely interested about the ac quisition ot temporal power. They are indeed ever on the alert to see where and how they may extend their influ ence and render their grasp upon men the stronger. We have no reason for supposing that they will be less greedy for power here than they have been in other countries; for it is one of their proudest boasts that Rome is the same at all times and everywhere In other lands they have appropriated a large share of the wealth, and by means of this have sought to control the whole machinery of government. The power thus acquired is never employed in the cause of civil or religious freedom. On the contrary it is always so exercised as to make men more and more th(*slaves of their system There are. we doubt not, many honest laymen who have fallen too far under the fascination of these artful enemies of human liberty to perceive or even suspect their de signs. When these assert that their church has no wish t > change the liber ality of our institutions, they doubtless speak as they believe. The full confi dence that they entertain in their priests as men devoted to the service of God rent’era them blind to the insidious ap proaches of these toes t > freedom. They read history with minds prepared to misinterpret its lessons The great fact that priestcraft has always sought to enslave the human intellect they fail to apprehend, and more decidedly still do they fail to recognize that in the religion of the New Testament as its Author designed it, there is no room for priestcraft It was a sad day for hu manity when the Christian minister came to be regarded as a priest. wYlTstanton. Atlanta Real Estate Baroils. 8 Choice shaded lots on Gordon Ave. 12 lots and one cottage on Culberson and Lawton streets. This property Is located In West End, At lanta's most desirable residence community where. Ist. 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