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DOR EARTHLY H Sermon At Calvary By Bish op H. C. Morrison, D. D. AT DEDICATION OF CALVARY CHURCH pwer of the Holy Ghost, the mw or potatoes in thelniddle or at the life begins. j bottom of the ban-el as at the top Mon are willing to do anything ; 8 A Christian will be as gallant to the a salve to conscience and to placate | ladies in his home as to those on God rather than to come to Him s s the street. •"Wbat We Do For God and Hu manity Makes Us Immortal” Wbat It Is to Believe—True Life "Whosoever liveth and belieyetli in one shall never die.” Jus. xl, 26. The desire for future life is a Jbasal principal of our being. The thought of death—absolute death— t© be lost from the sight of men. to be entirely forgotten, to no longer exert an influence is one that no «ne wishes to hold. No right think ing man wishes to be forgotten. Life is a continuation—boyhood life and manhood life cannot be sep arated—so life here cannot he sep arated from the life hereafter. This life is a part of one unceasing exist ence. Here and now we are actors in a drama that shall know no end, in time or in eternity. “Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.” We shall l»e immortal not only in the other world, but also here. We shall live in our earthly influence. If you wish to name the subject of the ser- ^non call it “Our Earthly Immor tality.” “Whosoever liveth, etc.” What 4s it to live? What is life? There are different meanings: To the brutish man life is eat- -tog, drinking and sleeping. Living in the senses, the passions, the lasts, the appetites. To the covetous man life is to get, to have and to hold. To hoe, to dig, to till in order to add to one’s possessions. To thje selfish man life is introi version. The turning of everything upon one’s self. The genuinely selfish man is a sort of a human -spider who gathers all he can and delivers it upon himself. True life means expansion, de velopment, enlargement. Touch ing others in order to help and to bless. Lifting them up, brighten ing, blessing, inspirational. Here followed a magnificent piece of word painting of a mountain stream bringing life and joy and beauty wherever it flowed in the foot-hills and valleys below. A picture of a true life. Felt in the hearty hand- grasp, seen in the cherry smile, heard in the cordial greeting. A tonic touch of a true life which brightens and blesses all it comes'in contact with and frequently saves a discouraged man, or holps a toiler on life’s way who is about to fall. When and how does this true life begin? Parenthetically the speaker remarked that the sinner iR as im mortal as the saint, but it is only when a soul gets in touch with Je ©us Christ that the true life begins The terms used to describe this change are radical—a “regenera tion,” a “new birth,” a “resurrec lion.” This point needs guarding. We live in times of compromise and of loose tfieology. It is not simply “changing your mind,” “confess ing Christ,” “quitting your mean ness;” all of this can be done with out salvation, without this true life Old age will cool hot blood. Vice is taxing and human strength can not keep it up indefinitely. Mean, ness may be quit—in order to be a gentleman one should do that, but salvation not obtained. The new life, begotten by a' riew bifrth,.means infinitely more than this, There is a conviction of in nate depravity, of one’s sinfulness of one’s lostness and in answer to'a pound and, wonderful penitent sinners. Willing to at tend church,' contribute towards its expense, have their wives and families in the church, do anything and everything hut acknowledge themselves as guilty, lost, undone sinners before God. I do not argue fiat a man should know-exactly the time and place of his salvation. I may not know when the sun rises, hut I do know when the sun is up, ai is everyone that is born of the spirit.” Having guarded this point, the speaker asked the question: “What is it that makes a man immortal?’ Nothing done for self. Selfish ness cuts one off from men. It even cuts one off from his own children. Sometimes where selfishness has been the rule, the children wait im patiently for the old folks to die. How tired this old world gets wait ing for some folk to pass away. Sometimes, the l)est thing such peo ple ever do is to die and when they do they are dead, absolutely dead as far as an uplifting, inspiring mem ory is concerned. What we do for God and hu manity makes us immortal. This was illustrated by a beauti ful use of the incident in Christ’s life when Mary broke the alabaster box of ointment and an- inted Christ’s feet. Mary is immortal through this one deed, for it is told wherever the gospel is preached. What we call death is but the break ing of the alabaster box, and as ‘the house was filled with the odor of the ointment,” so the fragrance of a true life in touch with God and lived for humanity, sweetens the after years and is not buried wit our bones. Washington is noi dead. Fifty years ago he lived im the hearts of 40,000,000 Americans fid today he lives ia.the love and f QJ Wion of ninety millions an wurtive fli$t^|pijgh centuries in th affection of multiplied millions. Is'that mother dead who took, your little hand in hers and led you to the house of God? She is in her grave, but s le lives in her influence S'.ntiment, affection, thoughts,deeds done for God and men and you and will never, never die. To live the true life, the immor tal life means: 1. Union with Chrut:—in heart-beat with the Son' of God; 2. In union, in sympa thy, helpful sympathy with hu manity. Who lives thus fjffi'l never die. The text emphasizes our beliefs: “Whosoever believeth in me, etc.” Man’s belief affects his conduct. One can’t have a Christian chtp-aq? >er without a Christian belief. A man’s belief is the skeleton of his character and around it he is built, however, much good theology is de stroyed by bad living. What Is it to believe? Believ ing means investing. Believing in Christ means putting your life' into Ch rist and H is cause. “ Every man invests in his beliefs.” A young pian says: “I believe in my moth er’s religion” and then invests his life in the services of the devil. He doesn’t believe in his mother’s God or Savior, for if he did he would serve them. I^ets try the principle. Truth is practical. Truth never collides with truth and this truth that a man invests in his beliefs holds in every departments of life. This was aptly illustrated from business life—the riierchant, speculator and the stock dealer. The religion of Jesus Christ is coipmon sense in the highest sense. There is ’nothing more practical than Christianity. Religion will make a man give sixteen ounces for to relate, A man doesn’t have to be a mil lionaire to be immortal in this lih?. Illustrated by the widow who had only two mites’. It doesn’t take much to make a man immortal. Illustrated by the incident of the New Orleans gentleman who reared an (Jfpmn hoy and who took /his nans' Stanley, making it immortal thnBWi his African explorations. 'rMf lose of the discourse was a powerful appeal to parents to so live in touch with Christ that when they are gone from earth their mem ory and influence will be a tower of strength to their children and to others. “I won’t make the world any worse for living in it,” says one. A miserably low standard! Each one should make it better. Parents should want their influence t) be such as will lift up their chil dren through the years. The ap peal to parents to have family altars and to remove from their homes all such destructive, dangerous things as cards, the tool of the gambler, the constant implement of the im moral, as unfit to be found in the hointj of a Christian - much less to be handled by a Christian woman, was powerful and impressive in the extreme. “Go out from this service in heartbeat with the Sofi of God and with humanity; to live in living service and blessing to this needy world 1 Live thus and you shall never die. ’ ’ W. E. T. A Prayer. Give us courage and gayety and a quiet mind. Spare to u& our friends: soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it maybe, in all our in nocent endeavors. it. 'may hoti give us,the strength , to encounter that ^|a/pls to coim, that we ma| rave in peril, constant in tribul -ion, temperath in wrath and in all hanges of fortune and, down to be gates of death* loyal and loving one another.—R. L. Steveson. Left Husband 18 Years; Wants His Money Now Philadelphia, Pa. Oct., 3.—Mrs. Mary Lawrence, who divorced her husband 18 years ago, when he was a laborer working for the city, has applied to the supreme court to set tle the amount of alimony to which she is entitled. The divorced hus band now is a commissiSn merchant and is said to be worth $3,000,000. The woman, who still retains her husband’s name, is a seamstress. IT S A BIRD V0tXMiUM.ee and faith, a.nd by the will make him place as large apples That's what tha baat a# vartisara aay af this paps* WHY NOT MAKE IT SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE OR MORE FOR YOVT Subscribe for The Progress now It gives you all the news and is the official organ of Grady county. | Attention, Farmers^ I We have now a complete stock of Chattanooga and Golden’s Cane Mills, Evaporators, Sugar Kettles, Galvenized and Black Iron Pan Bottoms, Grate Bars, and Furnace Fronts and Doors. Come in to see us when you want anything in the above lines and we are certain we can please you. We also bave fust received a car Chattanooga One and Two-horse Plows and Repairs. — , — , - Yours truly, Wight Hardware Co., Cairo, Georgia. FALL. STYLES Ladies’ Trimmed Hats. The latest designs from $1.00 to $3.00. Will be pleased to have you call at my store and examine the great values for your monev before you purchase elsewhere.j Remember the Place: orner Broad and Bryant. I. SHAPIRO, Proprietor. wwmwnnnmwmmwmnniA TO THE PUBLIC! H AVING recently bought out the mercantile interest of K. Powell, I extend an invitation to my friends and the gen eral public to call and see me. It will be my purpose to carry a stock of GENERAL-:- MERCHANDISE. Valso buy country produce, I am no* making a special sale on “PANTS,” having just received A<hew lot. Come soon, that yWHSRay be able to get a fit in number of^selection. ' \ ■- W 5 -~n yours tIulvT C. E Vanlandingham, f ■. CAIRO, GEORGIA. ‘ J. A. OUMBIE, AGENT FOR THE Singer Sewing Machine Company, Has opened headquarters in the store of C. E. VanLandirigham, formerly the Reader Powell store. He carries a full line of Sewing Machine Attachments. Needles, Oil, etc., for all makes, and will sell you a . SINGER or WHEELER & WILSON on easy pay ments or for cash. I| Be sure to call and see me. t| Ride Easy When You Ride We have in our warehouse a j| complete stock of the J. G. Smith and Franklin and Nor man Buggies And a large supply of other makes as well as Harness and Wagons. Gin save you money by coming to see us when in need of any of our goods. W. & BAGGETT & SON.