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THE TULTIT. ;
AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. F. BOYD EDWARDS.
Subject: Personaljty.
Williamstown, Mass.—The Rev. F.
Boyd. Edwards, assistant pastor of
the South Congregational Church,
Brooklyn, who graduated from the
college here seven years ago, was the
college preacher Sunday. His sub
ject was: “Personality— Its Influ
ence and Secret.” The text was from
I Thessalonians, 5:23: “And the
very God of peace sanctify you
wholly; and I pray God your whole
spirit and soul and body be pre
served blameless unto the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ.” Mr. Ed
wards said:
Huxley declared that if some great
power would guarantee to enable him
always to speak what is true and do
what is right, on condition of his be
ing turned into a sort of clock and
wound up every morning, he would
instantly close v/ith the offer. Would
you? I think not one man in a hun
dred would. Why not? Because we
have instinctive aversion to doing
violence to the greatest thing in the
world. And what is that? Drum
mond said “Love.” Let us look at it
a little.
Consider Helen Kellar, born to im
prisonment in the dungeon of her
own mere selfhood deaf, blind,
mute. Miss Sullivan, by patient and
inspired service, released her from
that imprisonment, led her slowly
out into the light and glory of life.
The something which made Miss Sul
livan eager and able to render this
beautiful service was love. But in
point of greatness even that high and
beneficent quality is absolutely in
comparable with Helen Kellar her
self. The greatest thing in the world
is personality. Love is but a part of
it, supplementing and crowning its
other parts, all beauty and majesty
of physique, all vigor and grit and
courage, all mental keenness, reach,
grasp and decision, all the subtle
graces of mind and heart, high spirit
ual vision and deep insight, all puri
ty, dignity and serene poise of spirit.
These combine to make what we
name personality.
Look about you in a railway car
riage, a hotel lobby, a great college
grandstand. Your eve passes lightly
over 100 men. The one hundred and
first holds it. You may not know
who he is, nor ever have seen him be
fore, but straightway you say to
yourself, he is somebody. Something
about him distinguishes him, gives
him a manifest significance, like the
evident value of a gold coin. That
something is personality and it is
self-revealing. Take Webster, for
instance. They said when he walked
in Beacon street the houses looked
smaller. Sidney Smith called him
the greatest living lie, because no
body could possibly be so great as he
looked. Edward Everett declared
that when he was earnestly speaking
sparks of fire leaped in his eyes. A
bust of him, exhibited by a European
sculptor, was mistaken for a head of
Jove. Or note how Emerson says
that “William of Orange won a sub
ject away from the King of France
every time he put off his hat,” so no
ble was his bearing. A Boston news
paper reported that on a certain day
Washington street was dark and
gloomy, until Phillips Brooks passed,
whereupon the brightness returned.
One might have profited almost as
much by a look into Emerson’s face
as by reading his books. Just a
glimpse of Napoleon at the hour of
battle doubled the fighting force of
those who saw him. Often one can
tell by the author’s likeness in the
frontispiece of a book whether it’s
worth while to go any further. The
halo in art is far more than a me
chanical contrivance to denote saint
hood. It witnesses to the fact that
true men carry an atmosphere: they
are fairly luminous. The captain of
an athletic team, if well chosen, takes
rank not by virtue of superior play
ing or technical knowledge of the
game, but because there is about him
a quality which makes his vim and
spirit contagious.
Church committees looking for a
new minister pass by a score of pos
sible eligibles and choose the twenty
first. The others were as good
preachers, as thorough scholars, as
faithful pastors, hut the elect one
possesses this rare ana compelling
something we call magnetism, which
is hut a vague term indicating per
sonality. The speaker who possesses
it often influences his audience al
most as much, while he stands silent
before them for a moment, as during
the hour of his speaking. This is the
quality which accounts for the say
ing: “You have to like Mr. Roosevelt
after you have met him.” Person
ality!—no other creation equals or
approaches it. Indeed, when Jeho
vah accerdited Moses as His ambas
sador to the court of Pharaoh, He
commanded as the chief authority:
“Tell him I Am seat you.”
Now, then, since is the
greatest thing in the world, what is
the chief duty of man? I answer,
deliberately: To honor, develop, ex
press and invest that personality.
This is not egotistic and selfish. God
gave man this personality as his tool,
the finest, noblest, chief implement
with which to make his mark on the
world, serve his kind and honor his
Maker. When the old bishop of the
Methodist Church was examining a
group of candidates for the ministry,
he asked them: “Are you willing to
be a nobody in Christ’s service?”
And every last one of them piously
(as he thought) answered yes.
"Then you’re a poor lot!” exclaimed
the bishop. And so they were. That
is a klud of humility which is not
Christian, because it is not only un
productive, but contemptible. Christ’s
man should be willing to take any
humble station, but wherever he may
Se, always determined by God’s grace
so to live, to labor, to fight, and to
pray that as the servant of the Most
High he shall weigh every ounce he
can, strike blows that hit hard, and
mean to his time all that he can pos
sibly signify.
Being a Christian man is being all
a man can be. Holiness is near kin
to haleness, which means health, and
haleness close kin to wholeness,
which means integrity, soundness,
completeness. Christian life is not
giving up, but growing up; not lop
ping off, but looming up. Its true
note is not ascetic, but athletic, and
when Christ announced that He came
that men r ight have life more abun
dantly, He did not mean longer life,
but life overflowing, rich in content
and extent, with far horizons and
wide outlook. Just this Browning
emphasizes when he says:
God gives each man one life, like t. lamp,
Then gives that lamp due measure of oil;
Lamp lighted, hold high, wave wide.
All very fine, you say, for the man
who happens to have been endowed
with personality! But how about the
hundred men who do not strike an
observer as being somebody, who
haven't the gift of personal magne
tism? Well, my answer is that per
sonality is not all endowment; it may
be acquired, or more accurately yet,
developed. When the spring comes
and the sun’s rays fall more warmly,
the grass and leaves begin to grow.
There are seeds in the ground and
life-dormant and waiting to be
stirred. The sun might shine a mil
lion years, hot as midsummer, and
without those seeds lying there wait
ing, no fair garment of verdure
would ever clothe the bare, brown
body of earth. And vice versa. Just
so, we notice now and again a former
stenographer and private secretary
to presidents becomes a Cabinet offi
cer. Partly it is from native endow
ment, and partly from the wakening
Influence of association with great
men. Character is not taught, but
caught; not fully inborn, nor spring
ing, full armed, like Minerva from
Jove’s head, but wakened, roused,
kindled by the contagious touch of
another of a little longer develop
ment, and maybe, of larger growth.
Yet after all, this is the fine funda
mental truth of life. Every man is
of unique value, has a rare gleam of
virtue for his own, his poiut of view,
his individual work and message,
which no other man can have had.
His business in life is to live that
out, build it up, utter it, make it ef
fective.
How shall he do it? By getting
out where the sun can strike down
to those seeds that are waiting in
him; that means: make helpful
friendships, listen to wise teachers,
keep high company with men who
have deeps and heights about them.
Read Paul's prayer written to the
-men in Thessalonica: “The very God
of peace sanctify you wholly (set yon
apart, distinguish you in every great
way), and I pray God your whole
body, soul and spirit he kept without
blemish even in the presence of
Christ. Faithful is he who hath
promised, who also will do it.” Just
to this point was Emerson speaking
when he said: “Follow God, and
where you go men shall think they
walk in hallowed cathedrals.” Phil
lips Brooks puts it: “The influence of
a roan whose heart God hath touched
is like a breeze of fresh air let into
a heated and stifling room.” You are
a lamp of three wicks—body, soul
(mind) and spirit. Let God light
them (most likely He has alreaay);
now you turn them up; keep them
trimmed, let them blaze wherever
you are. throwing out your cheer,
your light, your beacon message in
your time. Then, “as one flame kin
dleth another nor groweth less there
by,” so shall your life kindle, waken,
rouse others.
In every-day terms, what does it
mean? Mv body; honor it, build it
up, keep it undishohored. By noble
uses, make it to become a sanctuary.
Build time more stately mansions, oh my
soul,
! While the swift seasons roll,
Leave thy low-vaulted past.
T,et each new temple nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven by a dome more
vast.
Till thou at. length art free.
Leaving thine outgrown shell
By life’s unresting sea.
My mind; meditate, store it with
true thoughts, pure thoughts,
thoughts fit to treasure up; let it
keep company with the noblest men
of the ages, whose wisdom, vision
and profitable experience may be
made my own by an hour’s reading
every day; let me prepare myself to
recognize, appreciate, respond to and
succeed the truest, most devoted and
helpful spirits of all the days past
and present, and finally keep my
eyes on the stainless peaks where
Christ is.
My spirit; how great a word it is!
All generous impulses, all chivalrous
motives, all noble aspirations, all
love of beauty and truth and good
ness; every hatred of weakness and
wrong, every fine portrait of mem
ory and ideal! Oh. match this spirit
with all the best about you; open it
to Him who knows what is in man,
and who alone has grace to bestow
and loving power of mastery to de
velop your urawakened best. And
always remember how He reckons in
the yearnings, the unuttered and un
utterable aspirations there:
All instincts immature, all purposes un
sure.
That weighed not as bis work, yet swelled
the man’s amount,
Thoughts hardly to l.e packed into a single
act:
Fancies that broke through language and
escaped.
All I could never I e. all men ignored in
me.
This 1 was worth t,” ! im.
Whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MENTS FOR AUG. 4 BY THE
REV. I. \V. HENDERSON.
Subject: The Tabernacle. Ex. 40:1-
13, 34-38 —Golden Text. Ex.
40:34 —Memory Verses, 34-35
Commentary.
The tabernacle that Moses set up
in the midst of the journeying peo
ple of Israel after the commands of
Jehovah concretely and vividly ex
presses and exemplifies the concep
tion of the relation between God and
Israel that was dominant at the
time. It may perhaps be difficult for
many to become very acutely inter
ested in the study of the fashion of
the tent and its furnishings. But
that will be largely because we fail
to grasp the underlying and uni
versal religious needs and expe
riences of which the structure in all
its parts Is an objective representa
tion. The tabernacle represents in
outward fashion the central and con
trolling religious fact of all the ages
that God Is in the midst of His peo
ple. It represents the outworking of
subjective religious experiences into
outward and material expressions.
It symbolizes in its furnishings
many lasting and precious spiritual
truths. We shall be foolish if we
do not learn spiritual lessons and per
ceive spiritual meanings and secure
spiritual instruction and comfort as
we study this Scripture. The ark, the
vail, the incense, the burnt offering,
the oil, the consecration of the priest.,
surely the mention of each should
supply us with suggestive thought.
In verse 2 in the authorized ver
sion the Scripture is translated “tent
of the congregation.” The revised
version properly translates these
words “tent of the meeting.” And
the change is as suggestive as it is
corrective. Here indeed in a word
is given the reason for the taber
nacle; here in a word is described
the use to which it was to be put
and was put by the chosen people
of God. “Meeting.” Here they met
Jehovah in that peculiarly sacred
manner that was a distinguishing
feature of their religious expression.
Here they met Jehovah in the holiest
and most satisfying manner. Here
they met God. It was indeed a place
of meeting. A tent dedicated to
meeting from time to time with God
Himself. It was also the place where
they gathered in the expression of
their common religious longings and
for the exercise in an especial manner
of their spiritual inclinations.
Everything within and about the
tabernacle was to be holy. A!) that
went into the service of God was holy.
And it waswisethat such an emphasis
should be laid. The Israelites had
long been living in the mid&t of a
people whose religion was not what
it might have been. There was every
danger as we have seen in previous
lessons that they would get to have
a shallow conception of religious
truth and that they would place a
light valuation upon those things
that are religiously most essential to
humanity. The tabernacle simply
exemplified to them what should be
the hallowedness of their own lives.
It kept constantly before them the
value and the beauty of holiness. It
emphasized in no uncertain fashion
that only that which was pure
and undeflled was of highest use to
Ged. It stood q,s a constant rebuke
to personal or national uncleanceas
and unworthines3 of mind or heart
or soul. They met the hallowed al
tar of sacrifice as they approached
the sacred precincts of the taber
nacle. The sacrifice enforced the les
son of persona! responsibility before
God and the need for personal con
fession of sin as the primal requisite
for entrance into the presence of
God. As with the altar of sacrifice
so with every other hit of material
in and about the tabernacle. By a
process of association all was exem
plary.
We note also that the priest who
was to officiate in the services of the
temple was to be washed and
anointed and sanctified. And that
was a valuable regulation. The
priesthood of the surrounding na
tions were not always men of the
deepest spiritual experience or the
most consecrated. Judging from the
previous lessons Aaron needed the
washing and the anointing and the
sanctifying to make him properly ap
preciative of the high office to which
in God’s providence he had been
called. A clean priesthood is as
necessary to God as a clean people
and a clean and holy temple.
It is also noticeable that as soon
as God's commands were complied
with Israel entered into a new ex
perience of God. Verse 33 tells us
that “Moses finished the work.”
Vers? 3 4 relates that “then the cloud
covered the tent of meeting and the
glory of the Lord filled the taber
nacle.” Further comment is unnec
essary.
All that the tabernacle was we
ought to be ourselves. All that it
symbolized we as living temples
ought to exemplify. God should find
in us the sacrifice of a clean heart
and of a contrite spirit and should
be able out of us to construct a tem
ple holy to Himself. All that the tab
ernacle was Christ is t.o us. May
God give us ail the vision to se?
many precious and helpful truths in
’ the lesson for the day. For in that
which is usually considered pretty
dry reading we may discover much
that is helpful and instructive and
suggestive. Under the guidance of
the Spirit of. God we may have un
thought of beauties revealed to us.
Rest and Work.
While the Master says, “Come and
rest,” He is sure to also say, “Go
and work.
OFFICERS RE-ELECTED
iy Georgia Division of Farmers’ Union.
No Affiliation With the
Cotton Association.
The second day’s session of the
Georgia division of the Farmers’ Un
ion convened at Atlan.a Wednesday
morning at y o’clock in the Peachtree
Inn ball room with a delegation even
largi r than that of the first day and
for every delegate it was a day of
bard work.
The most important feature of the
day was the election of officers far
the year. That election proved that
the officers eketed a year ago had be«.n
faithful to every trust imposed in
them, for it was a re-election through
out, not one of the officials finding the
slightest suggestion of an opposi
tion. The officers re-elected ar»:
I President —It. F. Duckwoiah, of Pike
county.
Vice President —W. P. Quiuby of
Bartow county.
, Secretary and Treasurer —J. L. Bar
ion of Upson comity.
State Organizer—J. L. Lee of De-
Kaib county.
State Lecturer —G. M. Davis of
Floyd county.
j State Business Agent —J. G. Eu-
I banks of Polk county.
Conductor —T. N. Bazemore of Tay
lor county.
Doorkeeper—J. W. Burns of Bartow
! county.
Chaplain—Rev. J, C. Venable of
Gwinnett county.
Sergeact-at-Arms—R. A. Wilbanks
of Gwinne;t county.
In creating the executive commit
tee, the organization showed its sat
isfaction with the work of the mem
bers of that committee of the pas:
ytar, so it is that J. H. Hoyle of Up
son county; S. J. Smith of Forsyth
county; W. V. Martin of Tift county;
| W. T. Hogue of Haralson county and
: J. D. Anderson of Cherokee county,
were retained for another year, Mr.
. Hoyle of Upson being again the chair
man.
The feature of Wednesday min
ing's session was the report of Pr s
ioent Duckworth. It was a paper in
which the life and the history of the
| order in the state w-re teviewed. It
demonstrated that every officer of the
association had placed within the
hands of the president eveiy detail
1 of the work which hud been effected.
Reports of committees and officers
were more than satisfactory to the as
! sembly. Especially interesting was the
annual report of J. M. Davis of Floyd,
I the state lecturer. That report showed
that Mr. Davis had visited during the
year every coumy in the state and
that in making ,hese visits b s average
had been one each day for the year.
State Organizer Lees report indi
cated that there were 456 unions in
the state a year ago, while there are
now a thousand and eighty-five unions
1 with charters, while there are many
more organizations awaiting that game
charter.
The line dividing the Southern Cot
ton Association and the Farmers’ Un
ion appears to be growing stronger.
State Lecturer Davis, in speaking of
! the situation, said;
j “Our organization has taken no offi
cial action, and will probably take
none, in ngard to any relations which
do now or may hereafter exist between
our body and the Southern Cotton As
sociation. 1 may state, however, that
we will have no kind of affiliation with
j them. We will run our affairs in onr
! own way, and they can run theirs as
they see fit. Our aims and theirs seem
I to be different. In any event, I want
! to say in ihe most positive manner
that we will have nothing to do wi.h
i this organization.”
“And 1 may add,” continued Mr.
Davis, “tbai my dull s have called me
in the last few months in every sec
tion of the state, and nobody pays any
attention to this organization. 1 have
found that all the members of the or
ganization are dead except the uflfic r»
and those who have quit.”
A SAVANNAH “DUCKTOWN” CAS*.
Fertilizer Company Must Pay for Damage
Wrought by Sulphur Fumes.
The first of Savannah’s local "Duck
town” suits has been tried and the
plaintiff got a verd ct. William Jones
sued the Mutual Fertilizer company for
ruining his crop of vegetabl s just west
of the city. There are stvtn.een oiher
cults against the same company. It is
1 claimed that the fumes from the for
-1 ttlizer factory killed the grafting vege
j tables just like the copper fumes a:
i Dukctown, Ttun , kill d he v.-gfation
j there.
BOND ALLOWED MOYER.
Haywood’s Partner Freed Under $25,000
Bail-Some Comments on Verdict
Rendered at Boise.
Judge Wood, in the district court
at Boise, Monday afternoon, ordered
Charles H. Moyer, president of the
Federation of Miners, admitted to bail
in the sum of $25,000.
The trial of George A, Pettibone,
one of the alleged conspirators, was
set for Tuesday, Oc:ober 1. No appli
cation for bond was made in b< half
of Pettibone, the confer nee of coun
sel having been fruitless in this re
speot. Haywood expects to leave for
Denver at once. Moyer will leave whoa
bail proceedings are arranged.
A New York dispatch says: Presi
dent Roosevelt, not William D. Hay
wood, is now the “undesirable citi
zen,” said Alexander Jones, socialist
leader and editor of the Volks Zel
tung, when asked how he regarded
the result of the trial in Idaho. His
reply was perhaps the ru st proncur,.
od of many opinions by 1 cal ipe< iaF
ists and organized labor Baders. Mo
ses Oppenheimer, the organizer of the
Moyer-Hay wood cot terence, in speak
ing at the meeting of the Central La
bor Union, in whica socialist and non
socialist unions are represented, said:
“I have been a great many years in
the labor movement and in al! my
memory this is the first time the work
ing class has exerted Itself in the same
way it has done for these men, ’ m< an
iug Moyer, Huy wood and Pettibone.
Efforts will be made to persuade
Haywood to visit New York to attend
a socialist parade and mass meeting in
his honor to be held in Madison Square
Garden. It is said that 50,000 persons
.will be in the parade. Tbs New York
socialists claim to have bten the first
to come to the financial assistance of
Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone. They
con:ributed $25,000 o? the fund of
SIOO,OOO raised for the defense,
William Jennings Bryan is quoted
on the verdict at Boise, Idaho, as fob
lows:
”1 am glad to learn of the verdict
and that it was not guilty. 1 watched
the trial and did not see how any cue
could be found guilty on Orchard s lure
timony. Every crime he charged was
one he himself suggested, and it was
shown he was in communication wi'lb
the mine owners and attempting to in
duce the defendant to engage in crime.
“The manner in which the prisom rs
were taken from Colorado was hardly
in keeping with a fair trial.”
VVLhout comment President Roose
velt made public the following t f le
gram received by him Monday, refer
ring to the verdict in the Haywood
murder trial at Boise, Idaho:
-New York, July 25, 11)07—Presi
dent Roosevelt: Undo Arable citizen*
v ictorious. Rejoice.
“Emma Goldman. Alexander Burk
inan, Hippolyto Havel.’’
BOTH FOR JEW AND GENTILE.
Sabbath is Sunday for Legal Furposes
Says St. Paul Judge.
Judge Hand of the municipal court at
S. Paul, Minn., has decided that for
i gal purposes the Sabbu.h da’y ia
Sunday. The decision came in con
nection with ’he arrest of Joseph Birn
berg, a grocer, accused of selling gio
ct ries on the Sabbath. LUrnberg is a
Hebrew and made the point that lie
observed Saturday as the Sabbath and
that he had therefore not violated the
law.
BETRAYER OF RUNYAN INDICTED.
Woman Who Exposed Thieving Bank Tel
ler Also Gats Into Trouble.
Julia M. Carter, the woman who bo
trayed Chester Runyan, the paying
teiier of the Windsor Trust company
at Now York, who stole $26,000, has
keen indicted for receiving stolen goods.
Runyan says he gave her $15,000 of
tl» c * $30,000 in cash, and she took slor
000 when he was not looking.
SCHMITZ rs DENIED BAIL.
imprisoned Mayor Is Also Barred From
Visiti n g His Attorneys.
Judge Dunne at San Francisco refus
ed to admit Mayor Schmitz to ball and
denied him the privilege of visiting hi*
ii’orneye. Schmitz appeared in court
Wednesday to aak for bail and to an
iwer the indictments charging him
vi h accepting bribes from the gas
, ■ upany and the United Railroads,
in the first he failed. The second was
x formality and was carried through
. «f:hout Incident.
