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THE PULPIT.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. W. H. M'MASTER.
Theme: Spiritual Awakening.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—The Rev. W. H.
IdcMaster, pastor of the Jfimbury Me
iorial M. E. Church, Lewis avenue
a nd Decatur street, preached Sunday
morning on "The Spiritual Awaken
Ill of Man.” The text was from
Luke 9:32: “When they were fully
awake they saw His glory.” Mr. Me
Master said:
The common yet strange phenom-'
ena of deep and waking provide us
with a significant simile. I he state
when the body is dormant, the senses
are stopped and reason is absent, be
comes the symbol of inaction, ob
livion, unconsciousness, death. The
state of waking comes to represent in
our language, action, awareness, re¬
sponsiveness, life. Sin is said to put
the soul to sleep in a"s moral nigh(.
Christ is represented the awakener
of those asleep, the lifter of those
dead into newness of life. A sin isi
represented by sleep and death, life is
represented by light and glory. The
basal suggestion in the word “glory”
is that of dazzling brightness, of efful¬
gence, and it will gather a deepening
content as the wealth and wonder of
the spiritual life are unveiled.
Religion has as its subject matter
not the morbid, erratic and abnormal
things of dreams and nightmares, but,
the normal visions of the awakened
soul. When the soul Is most normal
and when it has most nearly attained
the ideal state, then its sight is clearest
and its vision greatest. When Peter,'
James and John, on the Mount of
Transfiguration, were heavy with
sleep, they saw nothirng and heard
nothing, but when they were fully
awake they saw Christ’s gloi-y and the
two men who stood with Him. The
non-religious mind is asleep and dead
to the all-enveloping realities of the
'unseen spiritual world. Having ears,
they hear not the upper harmonies,
having eyes they see not the tran¬
scendent glories. The awakened
mind, on the other hand, has come to
spiritual consciousness. He responds
to spiritual stimuli; he feels the lure
of moral beauty, his faculties have
found a sphere of blessed action and
his whole personality is awakened to
a spiritual sensitiveness which catches
ravishing glimpses of the divine
glory.
The world of spiritual reality is ail
around us. It inspheres us as an at¬
mosphere. It is underneath and im¬
minent in all material forms, “in
God we live and move and have our
being.” Our real selves are unseen
and spiritual, the body being the
earthen vessel of the unseen gift of
life. Our words are visible or audible
signs of spiritual ideas. Our draw¬
ings of lines and angles and circles
but visible representations of purely
ideal relations, our books and li¬
braries but means of concreting and
preserving that spiritual thing
call literature. We are asleep and!
dead to all we are ignorant of. If
we are aware of the treasures of lit-i
erature we are awake and alive to
them. If w.e are conscious of the un J
seen and spiritual things we are
awake and alive to them. Because
we do not see these spiritual glories
does not argue their non-existence,
but only our dead condition. Those
who see them are the prophets, the
seers, the men of spiritual authority
and leadership. Christ was just aS
divine and just as glorious down ini
the valley healing the demoniac child
and restoring him into his father’s
arms as He was o’n Mount Hermon
when the disciples saw His garments
as white as snow. The only differ¬
ence was that on the mountain “they
were fully awake and saw His glory.”
The waking of the soul is a process.
The true object of education is to'
awaken and arouse and develop the
powers of the personality. The
growth of the bodily powers is largely*
conditioned by well-directed activity,
hence calisthenics and gymnastics.
The development of the mental facul¬
ties is conditioned by stimulating!
thought activity, hence systems of in¬
struction, and teachers and courses of
study. The awakening of the moral
nature is conditioned by doing the
will of God, hence prayer and
churches and rituals and preaching
and religion. The object of religious
instruction is to awaken the sleeping
conscience, Hie dormant feelings,
inactive will and enlist them actively
in the spiritual love and labor of
Christ.
The history of religion ■when
■written from the standpoint of pro J
gressive development will be thet
story of the awakening of the soul
to spiritual things. Professor Bourne
says: “When there is little mental
or moral development the religious
instinct can cling to a stick, or a stone
or some low and hideous animal.
But as life unfolds and intellect is:
clarified and conscience becomes reg¬
nant in our religious thinking, it then
appears that there are certain condi¬
tions that must be met by any religion
that is to command the assent of de¬
veloped humanity.” All races have
worship ing and religion. The aweken
of the mind, as evidenced in the
progress of education, has made wor
worship ing and religion. The awaken¬
of the sense of the beautiful, as
evidenced by the progress of art and
esthetics, beautiful. has made worship .more
The awakening of the
moral nature, as evidenced by ethical
systems and ethical emphasis, has
made worship more ethical. When
men are fully awake they will see the
glory of Christ, for He is the truth for
the mind, love for the heart and
power and guide for the will. No true
development of the human personality
will exceed the glory of Christ, nor
its go so high that He shall not remain
ideal and its good. We can think
r f nothing in the moral and spiritual
scale beyond or better than Jesus
Christ.
Christ is not only the ideal of this
spiritual awakening, but He Is the
great cause of it. He is the inspira¬
tion of the modern scientific research
for truth. His challenge was “Come
and see.’ He exalted the child mind
of inquiry, of openness to the truth,
as the type and by taking that atti¬
tude toward nature man has come
into possession of her truth. By
obeying nature man has come to eon
trol her. By getting down humbly
to learn from her, she has exalted
man by her treasures and her secrets.
The mind of Christ, which obeys,
which is open to the truth, which
challenges investigation, which sub
mits the nailprints to the most doubt
f u i scrutiny, is the instrument of
progress in knowledge. So also in
the moral realm, Christ is the great
power to quicken the conscience, pro¬
duce repentance and win the moral
nature to the highest standards. He
has developed the moral nature to
the place where no man can hope to
be religious beyond the extent that
he is moral, and no corporation repre¬
sents Christian things beyond the ex¬
tent that it incorporates the ethics
of Christian love in all its business.
Christ is leader in the great intel¬
lectual and moral awakenings of our
times. He has led us to this mount
3 f awakening and we, like the favored
apostles, when we are fully awake
will see the glory of Jesus Christ.
Christ, is the most powerful force
in human life for the awakening of
the intellect in search for truth, or
the quickening of the conscience to
repentance and faith, and for swing¬
ing the soul with all its awakened and
aroused powers into service for men,
even to the point of free and glad self
sacrifice.
As men follow Christ, He has re¬
habilitated their faith in the spiritual,
and broken the Illusive spell cast over
them by the material, the false and
superstitious views oi Cod lose their
hold on their minds and fade away be¬
fore the sun-like doctrine of the di¬
vine Fatherhood. The selfishness of
men’s hearts is softened into brother¬
ly good will and the old religions cast
aside their crudities and sink them¬
selves in the more effulgent light of
Christianity, the basis for the final
and ultimate faith of mankind. Who
shall say what greater glories await
to surprise the more fully awakened
powers of man’s soul! When we are
fully awake we shall behold His
glory.
Discoverers of Opportunity.
It is a peculiarity of human nature
that we do not readily respond to op¬
portunities for doing good unless we
discover them in ourselves. There is
something in the self-discovery of op¬
portunity that carries with it both in¬
spiration tfell and the sense of responsi¬
bility. one that the chance con¬
fronts him of doing this or that, show
him the human need, and show him
ialso the way to supply it, and he will
thank you—but how seldom he will
follow your well-meant but more or
less officious advice!
| On the other hand, let one ought discover to be
for himself the thing that
done, and most likely he will go and
do it. The very discovery of human
need is an incentive to human help¬
fulness. One is ripe for the joy and
inspiration of service that begins with
his own initiative.
Is not this one of God’s wise pro¬
visions for keeping us alive to the
constant presence of opportunities?
He gives us great joy in the personal
discovery of them, and the personal
response to them, whereas an oppor¬
tunity discovered and pointed out by
another is a kind of lifeless and re¬
mote thing, that we respond to, if we
respond at all, perfunctorily and with¬
out enthusiasm. At such times we
feel as if we had been cheated out
of the best part of the joy of doing
good—the doing it upon our own in¬
itiative, with the glad heart that is
alert to opportunity’s call. Wisely
has it been said that “the value of an
opportunity largely consists in having
seen it for one’s self. The Watch
man.
Why It Pays to Conquer Sin.
It is better to conquer temptation
than to be freed from it. Therefore
God does not, at once, take us out of
the world and beyond the reach of
temptation; He does better than that
when He keeps us here and offers
us His omnipotence for the defeat of
bur enemy. A victorious, sin-beset
man has more to be grateful for than
an undisturbed angel. For every vic¬
tory over sin brings two notable re¬
sults. It increases our own power
hgainst temptation, and it lessens the
effectiveness of that temptation in its
next onset. So God actually helps us
to get freed from temptation every
time we use His strength to defeat
temptation. It may not always ap¬
pear so, for temptation dies hard; but
it is so, and we can prove it if we
will fight on in undiscouraged as¬
surance that it is a one-sided conflict,
after all, and God and we are on that
side. Sunday-School Times.
Teaching Nuggets.
They who fear the Lord do not need
to fear.
A crooked life cannot lead o*l the
straight way. contribution
A good life is no small
to any man’s logic.
To be true to the best is the best
we can do for truth.
The welfare of any people is de¬
termined by their worship.
All His love in the past calls for
loyalty in . the present,
i our
I Present consecration is the best
| corrective of past crookedness,
Much moral astigmatism is due to
pressure on the money nerve,
i Many an ill of the heart v. ould be
j cured if the hands were kept clean,
There is nothing that will help yon
to lead others more than being able
to look back over a right life your¬
self.— Henry F. Cope, in Sunday
School limes.
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THE APPLE CURE.
In Of these fever days and congestion, of indigestion,
A new and pleasant remedy has lately
come cure-all to light; and simple,
’Tis a pure
The very latest round wrinkle, apple and you’ll be
Just eat right. a big
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HE KNEW.
Sentimental Young Lady Ab,
professor! what would this old oak
say if it could talk?”
Professor—“It would say, ‘I am
an elm.’ ”—Fliegende Blaetter.
ONE MONTH.
Mistress—“How Jong were you in
your last place, Bridget?”
Maid—“Shure, an’ if I’d stayed
there eleven months longer I’d have
been livin' there a year.”—Life.
UP TO THE MINUTE.
Mrs. Style—“I want a hat, but it
must be in the latest style.”
Shopman—“Kindly take a chair,
madam, and wait a few minutes; the
fashion is just changing. Human
Life.
IN MITIGATION.
Magistral So you acknowledge
having stolen the overcoat? Any¬
thing more to say?”
Prisoner—“Yes, your Honor. I
had to have the sleeves relined."—
Punch.
WHERE HE LIVES.
“That society man lives in very
humble quarters, doesn’t he?”
“I don’t know where he gets his
mail, but he lives where people Invite*
him to dinner.”—Catholic Standard
and Times.
A HARD WORLD, INDEED.
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First Office Boy—“Unsympathetic
world, I call it! I went to the boss j
and showed him the rings round me j
eyes, and asked if I didn’t need a hol¬
iday?”
Second Ditto Well, wot did ’e
say; 7 ”
First Ditto—“He said I needed a
half bar of soap.”—From Ally Sloper.
HE COULD TELL.
Church I don't believe you can
tell the difference between a stable
and a garage.”
Gotham—"Why, do you think I
have no sense of smell?”—Yonkers
Statesman.
IN OKLAHOMA.
Keeper — ‘‘I don’t know what I
shall do with No. 1323. »r
Assistant—‘‘What’s the trouble? > j
Keeper—“He’s too far gone to run
around here at large and not quite
crazy enough to send to the Legislat¬
ure.”—Judge.
THE USUAL WAY.
‘How do you expect to spend your
vacation this year?”
“Judging‘from the number of peo¬
ple my wife has invited to visit us at
our cottage, by sleeping on the floor
as usual.”—Detroit Free Press.
A DIRECTOR’S IDEA.
“This business of giving people a
lot of straps to hang on to in the cars
is all wrong!” exclaimed the indig¬
nant citizen.
“That’s right, answered Nr.
Dustin Stax, with sudden interest,
“the public ought to be made to fur¬
nish its own straps.”—Washington
Star,
| POOR CAB HORSE.
Cabman (with exaggerated polite¬
ness)—“Would you mind walking the
other way and not passing the
horse?”
Stout Lady (who has just paid the
minimum fare)—“Why?”
“Because if ’e sees wot ’e's been
carrying for a shilling ’e’ll ’ave a
fit.”—Pick-Me-Up.
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ANTHOINE’S MACHINE WORKS.
Fort Valley, Ga.
Everything to Build With.
We have recently purchased the Harris Manufacturing
Company’s lumber plant and stock and will devote our
exclusive attention to the builders supply busines in tho
future.
Our very complete stock includes
Brick,.Lime, Sand, Cement, Fiber Wall Plaster, Paris
Plaster, Laths, Framing-—rough or sized to order;
Weatherboarding—several grades; Sheeting, Shingles,
Prepared Roofing, Kiln Dried Flooring and Ceiling, the
kind that don’t crack open—several grades; Doors—
plain, and fancy glass front doors; Sash and Blinds—
in usual sizes; Window Cords, Weights and Pulleys;
Mantels, Columns, Balusters, Brackets, Mouldings,
Wainscoting, Corner and Plinth Blocks; Turned and
Sawed Work Made to Order; Door and Window
Frames; Sherwin-Williams Paint, Oils and Varnishes;
Guaranteed Roof Paint.
IN FACT
Everything to Build lilitb
Bring us a list of the material that you want, or a plan of
the house you anticipate building, and let us convince you
that our prices are right.
Fort Valley Lumber Company.
SAM LOO,
FIRST=CIASS LAUNDRY
FORT VALLEY, GA.
PRICE LIST.
Shirts, plain.............. 10c
Shirts, plain or puffed with
collar. J21-2c
Suits cleaned 50 & $1
Pants pressed 25c
Collars , . v. .. •. .....2 b2
Capes, collar or fancy.... -----5c
Cuffs each per pair. 5c
Chemise........... 10c !
Drawers........... 5c
Undershirts....... 5c
Socks, per pair ... 5c
Handkerchiefs..... 2 1-2
Handkerchiefs, silk 5c
Shirts, night, plain. 10c
Coats.............. ... 15 to 25c
Vests.............. . .. 15 to 20c
Pants.............. ... 25 to 35c
Towels............. 2 1-2 to 5c
Table cloths............10 to 25
Sheets....................7 1-2
Pillow cases, plain..........5c
Napkins..................2 l-2c j
Bed spreads...........15 to 25c
Blankets.............. 25 to 50c
Lace Curtains..........20 to 25c
Ladies’ shirt waist......15 to 25c
Skirts...............2Q to 35c
One Sure Thing.
One thing is sure, my friends: If
God is going to forgive us our sins,
we have got to repent of our sins and
turn from them, “Let the wicked
forsake his ways.’ Not only must we
forsake our sins, but we must bring
forth fruits meet for repentance. I
don’t know who the young man was
who went to his employer the other
morning and said: There’s the
fnoney I took from you some years
ago, but that was bringing forth
fruits meet for repentance. We have
hot only got to forsake our sins, but
if we have injured any one, if we have !
felandered him and caused him to !
suffer, we must make restitution as j
far as we can. And when we bring |
forth such fruits, men will have confi- j
dence in our Christianity. I have |
heard of a man who had four of his j
n eighbor’s and he she#p took stray the marks in among off them his j
own, j
and kept them. When he was con- i
verted, these four sheep troubled him. 1
Don’t think that you are going to j
have peace with God if you’ve got
four sheep that belong to somebody ^
else, or have put somebody else’s
money into your pocket.—Moody. j
We have put in the latest
improved
Turning & Block Machine
and are fitted up to get out
round, square and octagon
Balusters, Porch Spindles,
♦Base and Corner Blocks.
We also A have a first-class
Wood Lathe for all kinds of
hand turning. ,
We are prepared to get out all
kinds of Dressed Lumber for
buildings. Rough and Dress¬
ed Lumber, Flooring, Ceiling
and Shingles on hand at all
tim^s.
Don’t forget that we are still in
the Repair Business of Engines,
Boilers and other Machinery.
W. H. HAFER,
DENTIST ,
Fort Valley, Georgia
Office over First National Bank.
C. Z. McArthur,
Dentist
FORT VALLEY, GA.
Office over Slappey’s Drug Store.
A. C. RILEY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
WRIGHT BUILDING,
Fort Valley, (la.
Practice in all the courts. Money
loaned. Titles abstracted.
fire $ Cife I nsu rance
fL D. Skellie
Office Phone No. 54.
FORT VALLEY, GA.
C. L. SHEPARD,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Fort Valley, Ga.
Office Over First National Bank.
TONSORIAL ARTIST
For anything 1 in the tonsorial line
don’t fail to call on
WILLIAMS
Next Door to Post Office.
Experienced workmen and courteous afc.
tention to all. Everything up-to-dats.
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PROFESSOR UPSON A SUICIDE.
Minnesota Eoet and Former College
Instructor Drowns Himself.
Minneapolis, Minn.—Arthur W.
TJpson, former professor at the (bli¬
versity of Minnqsott. and ,a post of
some note, drowned himself and his
body was found in the river at Bem
idji, Minn.
Arthur Upson, though only twenty
nine years old, had clone distinctive
work as a post and critic of litera
tvre.