The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, August 02, 1907, Image 7
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.