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■ ' "V T" THE DESCENT FROM THE-MOUNTAIN By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD, PASTOR UNIVERSALIST CHURCH .TIBNCE. per#ev«rance, practice- P s .ffiSS.'XSIS'S; hop* to realise hi* dream* In “»«• #f hl * *•>*>"•• Sfouyh he have th. wisdom of Solo- rr. h . p»*io<> o* ** ur - **>• “*■ ° f ™ u , ,„d ihe devotion of John, nod y*t f*V c yin* In tho*o preraqtflalt** of •*.,r hie ■•nrto# mo*t fall for ebort !? m rreeteet poaalbl# result* Th , fair caatlaa of onr dream* — ™*«d of » moment'* Intern* longing lid fad* forever before the chilling Math Of fact, hot th* *tructur* of ijl—cter. bullded through patient veare by many * groan of travail and Lith many a <'° od of tear*, prove* alone* th* enduring hop* of eMUsatlon. Jpjnrt which all th* unl*a*h*d aplrlu evil atorm In vain. lawM tell* o* that -endurance I* th* crowning quality. »"<1 patience all th* of great heart*," and Indeed he truly, tor out of It may com* UTth* quelltle* thet can make ue of worth to Ood and man. Among all tho mas* of tradition* Vbleh form th* oorliar portion of our *acrrd literature non# le more faednat- M »nd Illuminating than the den-rip- tloa of the reception of th* la* for the Ht brew nation through th* panonallty af their great deliverer, b) th* »tory a* Jlr.n ue by the loepired writer, all of Ihe natural element* end clrcumetanoee M* made a* Impreeelve and aa awe inspiring aa poestble. All the host of laraal la gathered by divine command nt th# baa* of the mountain of teitl- mony. Up Into the mldet of the cloud of smoke With which the Lord has covered the top of the mountain goes Mo***, accompanied only by hi* prim* minuter, to receive from Ood (tlmeelf the moral code which should make of Ivrael a chosen people. In the valley, far below, walu th* multitude under th* temporary leadership of Aaron. But .th* absence «f Mom* tor tony day# upon the mountain waa evidently too extended a period without strong and compotont leadership for a flckle- mlnded. weak-willed people, but a tew ■nort months distant from serfdom. They became Impatient, native, appre hensive. They were In a strange coun try! to them It waa a wilderness. They were surrounded by strung end war like peoples, whose hosUllty bad al ready been demonstrated: Th* pros pect* tor food end shelter seemed non* too certain. They began to wonder whether It had not been better to en dure th* evils which were visible and certain than to "fly to others that they knew not of." Undoubtedly they had begun to experience the pangs ot home sickness. Th* milk and honey-of the far-off promised land were not so al luring aa the memory of (he flesh pots of their slavery. Then happened thn most natural and the most certain thing In the history of the progress of the race. They began to murmur against their deliverer. They denounced S* a profitless dreamer, sJisre-bretnad fanatic (Ms man of (Mr kind who had persuaded them «o follow him In on at tempt to ehang* destiny, tht* man who for a home land, but to people a wilder- had led them out In a fatuous search nee* with grave*. Then came that most natural reach lag out of th* terrified and despairing heart after th* guidanoe, the consola tion, th* protection of that power ever unseen yet ever present tn the human tout. In Egypt food and raiment end physical safety had been assured by allegiance fo tbe estabtlxhed deities, but out here, away from all th# evidence* of civilisation, th* comforting presence wisest course. Man has never been able to long endure without a god, and If tha mind and heart flail to Had Him, then the fertile brain and nimble hand* must supply the deficiency. "Up." said the people to th* bewildered and terrified Aaron “Up: make for us gods which shall go before us to lead us, for, as for this man It OS**, who. led ue forth from Egypt, we wot not what has becont* of him." Then th* iewelry and trinkets purloined from their neighbor* at th* beginning of th* hur ried exodus were eagerly sacrlflced and soon th* chtld-llko mind* were sat jelled by the visible presence of it new and gloriously re - ’onddenc* was once more restored, and the gloom of anxiety aul apprehension lifted front off all facea. Moses and bin Ideule and bis prowl*** wore forgotten, but what matter. Here waa a god. Ilk* unto th* soda they ha-1 known aforetime, and whose worship had brought safety and happiness. It REV. E. D. ELLENWOOD. was worth ntuch to have a god whom they could ace with thetr own eyes, and In whose help they might thus have faith. A day of general rejoicing was proclaimed and all Israel gave herself over to thanksgiving for th* presence ot the golden calf which she had made. But, although th* people had forgot- ten Moee*, ho had not forgotten the people., HI* communion with Ood bae been for thMr sake*, and during nil this period of his enforced aepertlon from them their needs nod their possi bilities have been constantly upon hi* heart. Idealisation had received with him trash Impetus. Already he saw his nation, the chosen people of Ood. dominating th* civilised world, and ay universally recognized moral Integrity and true spirituality proclaiming end increasing tha glory and power of the one true Ood. And now, tilled with humility and with gratitude that he should be cnoMnrto be th* leader of great a nation, bla period of meditation and communion with Ood being ended, he begins tbe descent of tbe mountain, carrying wltb him th* lawn which are to save and to preserve tbs' house .if Israel. And now copies th* teat of hie faith, the<«rlai of his patlenc*. the prov. Ing ot th* worth ot his Inspiration. A* he naan th* camp where he fully expeett to And the people eagerly and anxiously awaiting tho return of their leader, he' hears th* soond of music and of unreserved rejoicing. Aeton- lehed, wondering, he hurries onward, and soon the whole unhappy Iruili burets upon hie outraged sens**. While he ha* been bringing to them Ihr man- dates ot Ood and preparing for them a truly spiritualised worship, hi* peopl-i, for whom b* has prayed-and tolled and agonised, have been engaged In tho worship of a god mad* with hendat His disappointment, dlsmsy and -dis couragement era more then he can' bravely bear, and In the revulsion on-l reaction of tha moment he petulantly dashes to the earth the tablets upon which he bad received from Ood the stated articles of the Inw. in momen tary anger and Impetus#*, ha declares a* worthless any rule* of conduct d*. signed, for the uplifting of a people SO utterly given over to materialism and the leadership of th* eenee*. Hie faith In th* power of Ood eeetna unable for the moment to cop* with his own per eonal disappointment It affects but lltUe It* power upon our otvd live*, whether we be disposed to regard this story ns history or as tradition. Its personal vain* U only evident as we are able to recognise It a* an experience frequently repeated In our own struggle* for tbe realise lion of th* ideal. How often do w* discover that the splendid vision of some mountain peak of Inspiration baa but slight possibility of realisation and Immediate apples- tlon In the valley of life's actual work and experience? How often do w* retch some whispered Intimation from th* over soul of th* exalted possibili ties of our own spiritual natures, only to bear, whan the vole* hoe pasted, th* familiar snarling and whining of th* beasts within us which dally cry for food? What than? shall we ruthlessly shatter our Ideal and cast It upon the world's rubbish heap because, per- chance, It must watt and labor through weary age* for Ite realisation? If It ha* been granted unto ue to talk with Ood, toe* to face, shall w* be pet ulant and Impatient with those who have known only the air and tha toll of th* lower valley? Dreams ere well, and without them la progress Impossible, but th* great pity Is that so many ot th* world's dreamers of most beautiful dreams can not stand tha shock ot being awakened. On* cannot help tho feel ing that had lb* law been graven upon the heart of Moaes'as wall aa upon th* tablet* of Stone th* latter would not havo suffered fracture as th* result of hla temporary loaa of fsltb and cona- dencfl In Ood. We can never give to other* more than wo ourselves pneeies. Unless our Ideal la to ue eo vital and so possible that we eagerly live it, day by dey. w* need not aspect that th* m*n and woman to whom w# would present tt will b* In any haste to forsaka for It their gods of wood and atone. Let every men demand more of himself than he dee* of other men. Of hit own condition, of hi* own circumstances, environment, poeelbtllllee, he knows something, and may govern his de mand* concerning conduct according ly. Of bl* neighbor's Inner life be knows next to nothing, and has no moral right, therefore, to demand ot him allegUno* to his own personal Ideal. Keep, then, your Ideal, and after It fashion your life, and, as for your neighbor, help him to And on* for him. eelf. for yours may be for him Impos sible. "Let nothing disturb thee, nothing Af fright tbe*! All things nr* passing! Ood aevn clmngeth: , Patient endurance nttalneth to all thing*: Who Ood posseaaeth la nothing If wanting: Alone Qod auffleeth.” —Longfellow. Ifffffffffffffft “WHO'S WHO AND WHY?” •trait it tha way and narrow I* th* gate that laada to lift and few there be that find it—Matthew vll ltd >•••••*•*•*•*•#*•••••••••*••**•*! .11 ‘ By REV. JOHN E. WHITE, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH L OOK elwsy* for the oceanic quali ty in th* words of Christ. When He spoke. Hie thought rolled ■round the world. Listen and you wilt near It throbbing on *v*ry shore of Ilf*. Teu can never any, "Christ's words min this and nothing more: this hi tnetr application and nothing further,' (or to Him life waa not n narrow vale between the peaks of two eterntttas, but life was a continuous, unbroken (act and etamlty was th* her* and now ot I He, ae wall aa Its "to-be" and Its -to-rome" He spoke th* language of Me. When Christ said, "Strait Is the tray and narrow Is the gate end tew there be thet find It." He meant a law (or the trie that now la, aa welt aa the Me hereafter. The dteclple* asked Him tf there vert "few that be saved." He said, Tew." and th* reason was that there rat (ew who were willing to pay the ,11ft of tt. that th* condition* of salve- Ue* were th* conditions of the strait war and the narrow gats, and that be came there were few who were willing it able tn abide them, there war* few who would com* out successfully In th* end. other words, Chrtwt raised the Issue of character as the true tetus of a suc cessful life. It was His way of com menting on the fact that on th* highest plateau, nf success there |s much room ar.d great loneliness. ~ t pMloiophy of Christianity aa a melon touching Hr* at every paint t* hi this text. I passed by th* road that leads to the highest earthly socceei and I saw posted In plain view, "Strait b the way and narrow Is the gate and few there be that find It," I pawed by the road that lends to the dismal realm of failure and I saw It there. “Broad Is the way and wide I* th* gate and many there be that go In thereat," I came to the kingdom of mu*lc and saw the way and the gat* there, through which the great musicians hod passed, and this text wan there, the kingdom of knowledge, ot poetry, of statesmanship. of business, and It was tl)*re, "Strait Is the way and narrow ie th* gat* and fow there be that find lb" TheTargWr^foporttwt ,:f yauog mem who enter college never graduate. Tho majority of those who get dlplomes for law or medicine do not practice. In the commercial life there ere TO per cent failures. In the war of the world's work the slain and th* fallen are strewn In heaps Ilka the awful piles of dead In on* of Vereetchogln'e. famous Ruaalan war pictures, the route of the march Is glutted with abandoned pur pose* and forfeited projects, and over all then words, "Strait Is the way and narrow la the gate and few there b* who have the character to aurvlvo the strenuous passage." Who'* Who? I have In my hand* through th* klndnsaa of a friend, • hook entitled, "Who'* Who tn America?" -lu con tains eight thousand six hundred and two name*. It records th* men and women who ere at the top—th* Ameri can aristocracy. Don't laugh at this book. I’d rather you would eay. “Let me see tt. I'll have my name In th* next edition." It Is not a hook of fops and milk tops. These eight thousand men and women cam* Into their aris tocracy by th* "strait gat* and the narrow way." That Is why there are #o few of them. This 'book preaches tn Its method and Its catalogue exactly what my text teachei—the peerage tf character. It la the earthly reflex of the heavenly truth. Character counts. 80 long ago the Psalmlat ptfiarhed the aristocracy of character. "Who shall ascend Into the hill of the Lord and who shall atand In His holy place? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart. He shall ascend Into the hill of the Lord end he shall eland In His holy Pl fto' long ago' the 8eer of Pstmoe preached It, "Who are these which are arrayed tn whit* robes? These are they which came up through great trib ulation and have washed their ! and made them white In th* blood of the Lamb." My friends. It le character only that narrow gate. In th* Market Pleo*. Men are at a premium. Farmers or. ganlse to huld cotton from an over stocked market, but society needs no organisation to put up the price of mqn. Ikrng ago the prophet started th* ory. “Run ye to and fro; see now If y* cm And a man." "Oood Ood. how rare men ere!" said Napoleon. "I have 11,000,000 n Italy and I have wltb difficulty found two." Another time be said: "I have 100,000,000 francs In my coffer* and I would willing give them all for Key." ' % to hie trusted field marshal, r ran, the field* of endeavor, from th* charted seas of commerce, th* throb bing highways of Industry there ts going up the demand tor man. Aa.thft. world's work bulks mightier and Ita problem* Increase Imperiously, the cull for manhood grows louder and more Incessant "Give ue men to thatch our mountains. Give ue men to match our plain*, Men with empire In their purpose, With new eras tn thetr brains." Character la to ntenhood what crys- tallxaUon le to the carbon. It crealoe tie llsmond value. Character Is mightier than armies. There w*s not a throne In Europe that could stand ngalnat. Washington's character. When tver with Franc* wee imminent In I7M Provident Adam* wrote • letter and ad- dreused It to a farmer living In Vir ginia—a private rltlaen minding hla own business, saying to him: “Sir. we must have your name. There will be more efficacy In It than Ih many M for men to marry their daughters nn< army." Xou know who that dtlsen trying to stave off the fellow who has everything else except the one thing DR. JOHN E. WHITE. The business world Is ever on the hunt for character. There Is a down big petitions waiting In Atlanta for a man. In any group of leading business men they talk about the difficulty nf finding the men they need. There ere needful—a fine character. A. well-known and universally hon ored cltlsen of Atlanta remarked to me th* other day: "I find myself at the point where to make money and rep utation Is easy, but without th* phy sical health to accept and discharge faithfully th* responsibilities that are offered"--f quoted lhar~reniartt-tii a gentleman and he said: "Tea, that man la aasy to agree on among alt tha lawyer* and judge*. They ell have absolute confidence In hie character." If there I* nothing In th* world great out man and nothing truly great In man but character this man of whom I speak fiiaa achieved life's greatest earthly aucoeaa, to whleb the addition of public office or of n fow million dol lar* can really add nothing. People do not put thetr confidence In prop* In position: they put tt In a man. man only baa succeeded In Uf* who has deserved and won tbe confidence of hi* fellow men: who has never betrayed their trust In him, who hoe never gone beck on hta word and who can look hla couwlance In the face without flinch- "Old Hickory" Jackson. Now and then w* have object lessons of tho truth, th* political peestmlam sometime* obscures It, that th* most popular and the . moat forceful politics la the politics of character, Joeegh KVilk. ot Mlaeourl. came up and atood on this single narrow plat form and said: "I have been fighting ihe political corruptionists with ell the power at my command and have lashed them wtth the-whtp of the law. I havo no favors to aak of them and no quar ter to give. It la unrelenting war to the end.” The people of Missouri knew a man when they found him and In rallying to him they said what the heart of society la aaytng all th* time, that character le the grandest thing. This country never had a president who gripped th* conscience of the re public as did old Andrew Jackson. The people knew that whatever hie political mistakes might be they had a mas at tho head of things who waa not to be bought end not to be sidetracked. And they gave him a throne In the hoart of the republic. At one time the combined Influence of the banks, the buelneaa world and Mark runlr 1 hindered at tha White House to compel him to deals! In hi* policy, but th* wave* beat against a rock of granite character Uke Gibraltar. One ot the' number who approached him with a great delegation from New Tork and Philadelphia years after de scribed thetr visit. "Well do I remember the day we called upon him. He ret there In hi* arm chair. I can see that old warrior face, with lla enow-whlt* hair even now. "W* told him of the public diet rata— th* manufacturers ruined, the twenty thousand angry cltliens that had gath ered In Independence Square. He heard ue all. W* begged him to leave the deposits where they were; to uphold th* Great Bank tn Philadelphia. Still he did not say a word. At length one of our-members more fiery thanlhe rest. Intimated that If he persisted and th* bank were crushed—a rebellion might -follow. "Then the old man rose. I can are him yet. 'Coma' he shouted In a voice of thunder re bis clutched right hand was raised above ble gray head. 'Coma with bayonets In your hands Instead of petition*—surround the Whit* House wtth your legions. I am ready for you all. With the people at my back whom your gold can neither buy nor aw*. I will awing you up around tbe capital, each rebel of you— on n gtbblt—high re Haman'e."' "When I think of that one man stand ing them at Washington battling with all th* power* of bank and panic com bined, betrayed by those In whom he trusted, eesatled by all that the snake of malice could hies or the fiend of falsehood howl—when I think of that one man placing hie back against the rock and folding his arms for the blow. while he uttered his awful vow, "By th* eternal I will not swerve on* Inch from tho course I have chosen!" I must confess that the record* ot Greece and Rome, nay. tha proudest days ot Cromwell and Napoleon, can not fur nish an Instance of character ttka that . of Andrew Jackson when he placed life and soul and fame at the haaard of a die for (he people's welfare"" You may not agree with roe. but my prejudice* every omo ot them tell awmv from th* man tn th* White House new like enow flakes melting In the stub when I am told, and I believe IL that Theodora Roosevelt Is a man Uk* that. He may make a thousand mistake*, but be will, stationed where hr fa, be mightier than all tho colleges, fur the common people In inculcating to our youth the education of character. Christ th* Comereten*. All thin and something more Is la this text, "Strait Is tha way and narrow In the gate that lends to Ufa and few there bo that find IL” Ho who gave than* words to are lifting th things gTvda - tain them. Christ It th* cornerstone of the character that survives. He ;s not only tbe example of all that I* no ble In mjuihood, set before ue to Imi tate. hut Ha le also tht power here m our bmeets to drive us along tb# strait way and through the narrow gat*. With HUn re tha westering pas sion ot our live*, wo begin her* that course of victorious progress which sweeps us through at tha fast than conquerors." Tha efforts of t to be (ood and to be great tn ; •elves are not to be wholly dh aged, but three effort* are pethstlc, In view of Him who stands always at hand to do for us the one thing eseeu- tlal to the wring of human life to God. There le an outstretched hand. Take It and lake the powers of It; taka It and from thenceforth Itfs and destiny at* resolved Into the certainty ot a suc cess you will never know without IL words to young men who their faces to the tdghrei in himself to help thero at- THE BRAIN AND THE MIND By REV. JAMES W. LEE, PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH It can not be that the thought we m embodied In civilisation, with all l<> institutions, laws, literature, art •nd science. Is only the exudation ot brain stoma. It can not be that ma- Jcrtsl brain molecules, secreted as the llrer swreise bile, the pyramid*, the lempie of Diana, th* statu* of Hoe**, Ibr paintings In the Statin* chapel, lUnJii * 1 , Messiah, th* epistles of Bt. raul. m Augustine's City of Ood, *nu Emerson's essays. The thought ■nan ho-, used to change th* face of nature, to bridge IU riven, to tunnel nt mountains and to span with Iron m i« in comments, has not been dle- tilleu out of perishing nerves, but ha* wn discovered In the things God has and transcribed Into the human ■tlw. 1 have itone the whole round of crea- i . J l0 , n ' 1 •»»' and I spoke. " * Worl < of God's hand for that pur- received In my brain And pronounced on the reel of Hie u„ hundlwofk—returned Him again “* rr "“'ion'a approval or censure; I • _ ato'ke as I saw; repo, a, „ mln may of (jog-, work. Sow I* * 1 : ,v *' ?•* ah’* law. •'«* l lay down th* judg**hlp He lent T the—**eh (acuity taatad p ""‘ v « Him. ha* gained an abyss. Have i ‘"I * a ? w| lrop was aaktd. *. . Xnowledg.? confounded It B*... , ,l rlv '‘a *t wisdom laid bare! I, ’rethought? how purblind, how ho l ft the infinite car*. ' 1 «u?r?",V llCUlly hl * bMt *° Image ' d ° b u- ‘tf" “T ayao. and perfection, i. ,. ■'" more and no laas. h * k ‘ m ' 1 imaginedTfuh fronts me. ■ i 1 <,od l» eeen—God “ ,Ur - 1“ the (tone, In tb* fleeh. «xm"'V, 10 :. 1 ! l “ Haeckel, deny the Is notSm* I 0od ’ *"* c, aln> that there I*id "f "tetter and motion, and tone. of 00 »or*-impor ts on: o r I? u J" v «ra* »‘ Bug* than ittch to ot a summer’s day, "•aicri, I i,r, ,hou * hl *• a function of u »br*m. r , a !» t °ma. They lack upon I* Produce? mi.”**? *" which thought *na .•■ the liver niters bile. •allvaA ," aland* ot ‘h* body prepare brain diI" , th a ,r reteem th* •tern mfo’lh „7 1 ?t* , *l°na and convert* « Ihe stomiih Juu •» «>• nerves "*»«. nutrition* eub- "nucie f ,. 1 " ‘hem Into blood and JW'r ad—co. mo- rare are accord- ' o«cre»d by the mind. are on th* same level with gastric Jutcre which are secreted by the stom ach, Those Who speak of thought aa a function of the brain. In the sense that bile Is a function of the IWw m»d nutiic juice a function of the atooiicn. teach that thought Is actually produced by the brain. Professor william James. In his little book on 'Human fmmortalltv," has shown that In the world of * physical nature productive (unction I. not the only kind "f tone- tlon with which we are familiar He shows that thought may not only b* regarded a* * function of the Drain, aa ateam la a function of tha> tea- kettls. or as light Is a function of the electric circuit, or a* power le a func tion ot the moving waterfall, hut that the brain mey be regarded ns having a transmissive function In Its relation tn thouchl. aa a prism haa a trons- missive function In relation to light, end as the keys of an organ have a transmissive function In relation to sound. Light l» not engendered In th* prism: It l» only transmitted and lim ited to a certain path and shape. Air It not produced In the orgun. It Is only transmitted through tho pipes of It Into harmonious sound. James represents Kant as coming very clots to the transmission theory In hi* Idea of the function of the brain Itt relation to Immortality. He held that the death of the body might Indeed he the end of the sensational use of the mind, but only th* beginning of the In tellectual use. Thnt the body "would thus be not the cause of our thinking. but merely a condition restrictive thereof, and. although essential to our sensuous and animal aonsclouaneaa. It may be regarded aa an Impedsr of our pure spiritual life." Mr.- Schiller In "Riddles of Ihe "Sphinx" expresses th* earn* Iflp*. It le ao Important that the extracts given by Professor James In th* notes to hi* "Human Immortality" are here quoted: • Matter," he eay*. "I* an admirably calculated machinery for regulating, limiting and restraining the conscious, ness which It encases. • • • If th* material encasement be coarse and simple, aa In Ihe lower organisms. It permits only a little Intelligence to per meate through It; If It I* delicate and complex. It leavo* more pores and ex ists, an tt were, for the manifestation of conaclouaneea • • • which per mits us strange glimpses of a lucidity that divines the realities of a tran scendent world. And this gives the final answer in materlallem: It conelaU In showing In detail • • • that materlallem Is a putting of tha cart b*. fore the horse, which may be reclined by Juet Invertln tween matter an ter Is not that which products con sciousness. but that which limit* IL and ronllnaa Ita Intensity within cer tain limits: material organisation does not construct consciousness out of ar< r atoms, but contracts ttu i the sphere which permits.” According to this view, "the lowar Is explained by the higher. Matter by aplrlt. Instead of vice verse, and thereby attain* to an explanation which la ultimately tenable. Instead of one which la ultimately absurd.” The brain may be regarded as tht organ of thought In th* eenee that the mind uses It as an Instrument by means of which to think, but to hold that thought la produced In It and by It. and that consciousness Is engen dered In It* Interior depth* put* human credulity to a Strain that It can not endure. Atoms es w* have awn In a former chapter, when Invwtad with self-con aclousness, self-determination and self action, era capable of amatlng achieve ments. but tt were easy for atoms to build n planet In comparison with climbing tn th* tnatde of the' human skull end there generating the mystery and Immensity of human conscious ness. n«ll*v*r* In Ood credit them- selves with having som* faith, but nsver In their highest moment* of all- rnnquerlng belter have they ever seen a time when they could accept a prop osition likt this. The materlell*!* have gone ion far; they have asked too much. It la not difficult to nccept what Lowell says: Each day the world Is horn anew For him who takes It rightly— Rightly? That’* simply! "Tie to eee Home substance cast these shadow* Which we call life and history. Hlmply? That'e nobly! Tie to know That U»d may still be met with Nor groweth old, nor doth bwtow These senses fine, this brain aglow, To grovol and forget with." But It Is simply Impossible to hellevo In brulh atoms, (hough endowed with tho qualities of aelf-cnnsclousnoss. self- determination and self-action, reckleee enough tn generate human conscious ness capable when produced of destroy ing Itself and Hie nerve elements that created It. It Is Imposelbte tn believe thet material molecules would gener ate a personality like Nicholas Ridley, who In turn could use the same mole cules to think out a resolution assign ing himself to the martyr's stake. Self- constituted and self-directed mental machinery would hardly turn out an Individual capable of using the same whwlwork that brought him Into be ing to burn himself up and hi* Crea tor, too. Think of atom* arrang«d In ihr head turning looae on the planet a f lowing life Ilk* that of the Apostle 'aul. who uaod thain to write his epis tles and at length force* them to pro dure the convlctloh that leads him '.n have his head rut off. Tn accept this la about aa reasonable aa believing th.il the Mississippi river, after finding Itself brewed nut of the snow and the rain In the Rocky Mountain*, turns back and uses the melted end the frosen water to generate the power of taking Itself off Ihe map of the United Htaten This Is about as reasonable a* would be the declaration that music after getting Itself Into th* air from the haa amid hla naUtrff WHERE IS THE POLITE BOY? W By Poyothy- Dix. -It AT HAS become of the polite boy? Where hss the Istl tone who used „„ i„ sat "Yes. ma'am." sad. Nw VV V r “ahen he was addreaajsl bv bis .M.rsS Sene' I lead! Kztlnet la the io<lo! Adlu.h.foi beta, to bereadsbo-' only lu ■uch book* th* Kollo Hrrlo*. In br.pts.ewe; tore ‘.^rfwlT'i.a" "New "*'uo blatter how dlfttlBed. bow dls- tlttfuished or bow teaer.T.le tho amt. or M-iimaii w ho niMr«’*w» liliu- *A mlJt msnnered small boy. a bo, who ffirPtWaJf w ”• *b" «"* *• * ««‘ui!^ a b »lfbt* # e®'hotel 'lu m» ripe rlMC*. For beboM tbe dlfftmu* t*tw«*n fturh •n liloiil fronturo aud tl» Iwja that all about ua und who aro a tuaoaca and limb and bapploeaa. Inconaidaratt Boy a. You ran not walk down Ihr atraol wit boot tb* rlak or l>*loff monlarod by a (roup of )mtngalara»wkM kav« pr* ctasbkl tb* fid* nallt for a »katlaK rink. aaAMrfco do not iirotrod to try to avoid cullldlnir wttk It itor* not matter ““ “ — tnttrrlui; old man, whom n fall would America own* tbervof. and — — aai If they do oat mlafc to-few. fn the atrvrt -wrt you dally ae* hoya Ml- lu* at ease. while my-hnded me* and women, wbn might he teetr grandparents, cling painfully fit atrip*. In hotels small beys ride ep end dews Is TdffabSt VtSLST* - business bouses messenger boys dart la end nut. Jnetllng every one they meet. Iiefor* whom- Insolent "What's yer aolnie hn' business?'' the most famous men and women tremble and grow pale. Tbe man you go In see niey be courtesy, leiusterrarloo sad MmpIMte Itself, ten net ao wfih the lordly boy. wlto feels that he hss a perfect right to Issult you. All lll-Mgnnorod. In hlo home the hey Is oqnnlly larklnc In th* dseeerias of ore., lie goto aot.heiltnte to cootradlct eay ernnhin, or to assert hi* own ffe mseopottiaa tb* resv-rsatlM, U be rSenses, So matter bow brilliant the tvrratrd. Hr »*k* HmrUMSt notations, ol ifeft bS*dw?WM' hits at tho wWo. i not to In? In- notations, offers rod* tb* r**l«**t the lid II* nnrr tkilnka of atirh a thing n» of ferine hi* chair to a lady, or opening th* door Tor her. or tatrodlng h*r any of the llttl* coart**(*a that aaad to im runsldercd th* very groundwork or c*ntlem«nllnwm. and that wer* Inculcated In a txiy along with th* alpliabat and th* catechUm. Th* affliction of th* lll-aMnn*ml modern of prreooal WWMWW end become* a grave national wrutir*. For thee* brutal hoya ar* growing up, aud will be th* men or tomorrow. What la to becomrof them, and what Is to become of a coantry peopled with men w bo have Item taaght no reveres?* for age, we reaper< fur women, mo 4»f#r*wae foe lew. end ut) coualdcrnllou for the right* of oth- that parents fall to give their children Mf* admlnleters to them with a aledg* hammer, and an perhaps three anmanaeriy mb* will meet together la the end and light It out between than salt as Ilka Kilkenny cats. In th* furautlin* the bn Inner of ua innet Buffer, and how acute Is our ulaery le beat evidenced by th* fart thnt Iniya arc re garded In the uui* light a» ravening beaata. and thnt It le practically liupoeetbl* for n family that posM-awa one or more of these terrors to get Itoonl lu n flret-ctaaa hotel, or Ivstae tt dr 11 ruble n|Kirtllirtit. Title la a shameful atntc of affaire. It le wroree. It le criminal, for the Itrat atep to ward hoodlumtaui le lack of manners. Just •a the Brat step toward detvucy lu life le good manners. AH parents can not give their eon* n college eduratlou. nor n for tone to start In a business or profession, bat all apnreote raw teach their boys the gWe^'ewSwliSiMw!^ 111 '^ ,,u ‘* ,,Mt >B n *Tn»lMihJy*1fC^old story i»lt.»ut the polite Imy who Iril n feeble, blind man serose th* afreet and waa left a million dollara In the old man's will a* a slight reward for his art Is nut literally true, but It Is true In aplrll. Hood mans will earry a j pianos and violins and flntaa and drntaa or an orchtstra. whatla about and forest tha tamo Instrumonta to massure off anotbtr multltud* of wav* cur ia* and daatrap tatemtnt that the brain (cIoumims la not amlff ■ Irrational, hilt tt I* dellriou*. It acl,but th* wlhlaM and mom I l*** .peculation that a fow ada m*n ever attempted!o hypnotise I reive* Into believing. Th* pinch of duit one* activa In tha brain of 8hakt*p**». now *l**ptng In tha church at Stratford-on-Avon, did not crest* the wondiona mind through which b* gave to tha world Ma Play*. "Though ShakwpMre'a dual b*n*atM our footsteps r" III. iptrlt breath** •klaa; With meaning won from him forevar ■low* Each sir that England fo*la, and Mar it know*: Hla whl*p*r'd word* from many a mother'* vole* Can mak* her sleeping child tn dream* rajolc*. And gleam* from iphtres ha flnt con joined to *arth Are blent wtth rays of *ach new morn ing'* birth. Amid th* sight* and talas ot com mo* thing*, flower deaths ot kings, Of ihore. and ***, and Nature's dally round* Of Ilf* that toll* and tombs that load th* ground. HI* vlilon* mingle. *w*ll, command. P«c* by. And haunt with living praaane* heart and eye; And ton** from him by other bosom* caughL Awakan flush *nd attr of thoughL ■he Ion •ion’d l Rouse Custom's Irene*, and spur th* faltering will." •ay other ooe thtag. Tb*y an wore to be J—Iced than (era taint or nmeev. tel isz ra?a ■ 'tSTMva isae their .l.ty by th.lr j&prii """ r th* til Menu,'re at the lll-onairag boy ore the.maaaera be wo* (Bight q« hut*. 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