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IN AND AROUND BRUNSWICK, GA.
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By REV. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
1TUATED “by a world of marsh
S that borders a world of sea,"
BnwowirJc to tbs confer of a ra-
iral features and hta-
than any other sec-
It la made up of a
i patch 8§ the planet not yet fln-
uhrtl- 8lr Charles Lyoll. the dlstln-
.Uisned aeolmut, came here all the
... ;,om Bn(tand to take leaaons dl-
|‘„ worid* building. Here, "elnuouo
MUthwaM Will olnuouo northward the
•loin roaring band of ths sand beach
<»,trno the fringe of the marsh to the
(M , of tha land." Here "Inward and
outward, to northward and southward,
orach lines Unger and curl," en
gine one to are bow all the ahofes of
earthly tall ware made. The Cre-
„„r is hero today, measuring off the
terclnal Hio of the mam." and fixing
Ooliu larloo between It and the finished
chart se L
I^y el I - discovered
dor. evidences of the presence of the
t,or»o on these shores long before Co
lumbus discovered America. How the
ies disappeared absolutely and en-
uVeiv from the continent Is a problem
Melt naturalists are still at
.>rk-
John Bertram, of Philadelphia, ap-
p,,lnied botanist for America by Oeorge
, ame here In the eighteenth centu-
n study plants. Linnaeus declared
1,1m to be the greatest natural botanist
the world. Hare he discovered
,,... iee of tha bay tree, the only one of
It. hind ever found on the earth. He
the seed of Ihta tree, from which
luidante of the species have been
preserved In the different botanical
garden* of the world. Were you to go
the Sltaw botanical gardens of Ht,
Louis, on In tha botanical gardens of
Leyden, In Holland, or Into any other
!m world, and ask for the history
of the aordonla pubeaceus or gordonla
Itainaha, the ttchnlcal name of the
,i vies In question, you would be told
that the only species of the tree ever
rn was discovered by John Bar-
tram. near Brunswick, Qa.
Rut places receive far more of slg-
nlllcance and charm from association
»lt It heroic, nobis human life than from
Students may be attracted to
a tcslon because of Its unparalleled
geographical, botanical or other natural
aspects, but the maaaes of the people
win make pilgrimages only to places
that have been enhanced by their con
nection with great deeds and great
persons. The litll rising from the sea
and overlooking Smyrna, In Asia Minor,
uhere Polycarp was put to death. In
terested me more when I passed the
city In 1814 than all the rest of the
metropolis put together. That hill had
been baptised by tha blood of a heroic
soul. Even drop* of water from the
muddy River Jordan have a market
value bec&usa taken from the stream
In w hich our Savior waa baptised. The
Knglish lske country has been glowing
«lth unearthly splendor ever since
Wordsworth put upon It the brilliant
colors of his genius. Tht woods around
Concord. Haas, are wlneome and sua
ble In the deep glooms of thsir shade
because the free spirit of Thoreau ones
moved through them. Any museum
would welcome as a sacred relic a
time-dried shoe made by tha hand of
William Carey. The timber Stradlva-
rius used to form hie violins Is almost
priceless. Th# touch of his fingers
was enough to turn lumber Into gold.
1: UciuM of the historic aasccia
lion* that have been Interwpven with
the environs of Brunswick that enables
this town to take the chief piece among
the centers of Georgia population. Tha
place I* humanised and Immortalised
by the spirits of famous people who
have lived In Its neighborhood. Its
live oaks would "be as commonplace
as any In south Georgia had not Sidney
Lanier turned every one of thelr limbi
Into torches to burn forever with the
light of hie genlui. Its vest, wide-
reaching plains of marsh,*"candld and
simple and nothing—withholding and
free," would not today be publlehlng
themselves to the eky and offering
themselves to the ssa lied not the Geor
gia poet lifted them out of the sand
■ty* ,‘he water to grow and play with
Ideal wlndM and ocean forever In the
realms of thoujrht. Lanier did for the
marshes of Glynn what Bums did for
little Bonnie Doon—he made them uni
versal made them Immortal.
The solid land will doubtleaa in days
to come be here built up faat and hard
against the waves of the restless sea.
but “the length and the breadth and
the aweep of the marshes of Olynn"
that Lanier saw are safe from the en
croachments of earth or the enterprise
of man. They will stand “waist high
broad In the blade, ■ - green, and
all of a height, undecked with
a light or a shade" and
“stretch leisurely off In a pleasant
plain, to the terminal blue of the main"
throughout all time. What a pity that
all the cities of Georgia could not for
a time have claimed the prt senes of
Lanlsr. that he might have given to
their trees, or rivers, or hills, or street*
some fixed and secure place In all fu
ture time. Just a touch of genius Is
sufficient to change “Bingen on the
Rhine” from an obacure village to one
of the best known placet In the world.
The memory of Shakespeare Is worth
Oglsthorpe returned to England In
17(4. and being a friand of Oliver Gold,
smith, doubtleaa related to him some
of his experiences In America. In his!
"Deserted Village." Goldsmith refsis
to this region a* the wild home of some
of his countrymen who had lafl “8»<< <
Auburn” and dearribea them:
Stratford than alt the wheat grown
from year to year In the province
around It.
Near Brunswick, on St. Simons
Island, lived General James E. Ogle
thorpe, the first governor of Georgia.
He had for hie private eecretery no
less a person than Charles Wesley,
whose devotion elnaa In more hymns
than were ever written by eny other
man In the Christian centuries. The
author of "Jeeus Lover of My Sou!”
took up his work aa private secretary
to the governor of Georgia here in 1734.
His brother. John Wesley, came down
from Savannah and preached here to
the soldiers. Not far away, under the
direction of General Oglethorpe, was
fought. In 1742, th* battle of "Bloody
Marsh," which settled the question si
to whether Bpali. or England should
direct In the begtrnlng the fortunes of
this commonwealth.
“Through torrid tracts with fainting
steps they go,
Where wild Altumaha murmurs to their
wo*.
Those blaalug suns that dart a down
ward ray.
And fiercely shad intotarabia day,
Those matted woods where birds for
get to sing.
But silent bats In drowsy duster*
cling-
Those poisonous fields with rank lux
uriance crowned.
Where at each step the stranger fears
to wake
The rattling terrors of th* vefigeftir
snake."
The picture Goldsmith gives of the
country around Brunswick, being
drawn mostly from hi* Imagination.
Incorrectly represent* this .beautiful
realm or Island, marsh and ssa.
Frederica, on Bt. Simons, waa In th'
early days the rival of Savannah, and
her* Is the only ground th* first gov
ernor of Georgia ever owned. In later
tlmea many of the most wealthy ami
cultured famine* of Georgia lived on
Bt. Simons Inland. Shell roads were
made from one end of the Island to the
other (a distance of about twelve
miles). There were twelve or four
teen families nettled hers with elegant
residences, beautiful grounds anil
flourishing cotton plantations. They
dltlons of hla grandfather s will, cam*
Into possession of th* estate. After
OR. J. W. LEE,
nlnn as major In the
casl in his lot with the colonists. Aft
. - . —. . , er the war was over he moved to Bt,
owned among them four or five ItiOU- si„mnn Island, bringing with him ItflO
try cams on he resigned hie commls-
> English army and
sand negroes and raised the famous
sea Island cotton. ' The hospitality
shown by tho owners of thase great
estates amateil famous travelers, who
visited here from all parts of the
world. Hlr Charles Lyell. who waa tho
guest of Mr. J Hates Hamilton Couper.
while making ills geological observa
tions, speaks of U In his bonks. So
does Krederlka Bremer, the popular
Swedish novelist, who also visited tho
homo of Mr. Couloir.
The Hon. Amelia M. Murray, one of
Queen Victoria's maids of honor, was
here In 1845, and writing from the
home of Mr. Couper. she said: “I for
got to mention that there are from
three to four hundred negroes on tht*
estate. Mr. anil Mrs. Couper have no
white aervants; their family conslata
should not tike to Inhabit a lonely part
of Ireland, or even Scotland, surround
ed by three hundred Celts. I believe
there Is not u soldier nr policeman
nearer than Bavannah, a distance of CO
miles. Surely this spedks volumes for
the contentment of the slave popula
tion."
Open houio was kept on the Island
for all eomers. whilst picnics ami r«-
gattus were constantly taking place.
Islt to one home meant a visit to
Major John Couper. the father
Mr. James Hamilton Couper, a
Scotchman by birth, eettled here In
1792.
At th* northern end of the Island
wos the home of Major Pierce Butler.
At the outbreak of the Revolutionary
War he was an offlcerin the BrHJeti
army, lie had married an heiress, a
Miss Middleton, of South Carolina.
When the war with the mother coufi-
fr
slaves,
Major Butler was a friend of Aaron
Hurl-, and after the dust In which he
killed Alexander Hamilton In 1804, ha
was Invited to visit on Butler's Island.
Here Burr found a refuge from the
storm that raged round him at the
lime.
Major Butler was descended from a
famous Irish family the head of which
was created n baronet In 1628. Major
Butler, being the third son of tils fath
er. could not succeed him. The earn*
title, however, 1* maintained In the
Butler family In Ireland today by 8!r
Thomas Pierce Butler, the tenth baro
net. He served In the Crimean War
In 1S55 when he was only to years of
age and curried the queen's colors of
the Fifty-sixth regiment on the 8th of
- " nf Be-
b.istnjiol
rangement with this brother. John
Mays, by which he consented to give
him a half IfTe Interest In th* prop
erty If he would change hi* name to
Butler. This the elder brother did.
Then th* two brother* further agreed
that If sons war* born to them tb* es
tate should go to the elder son of lb*
elder brother. If no son* wero born
to them the propel ty waa to de
scend to the heirs of the younger
brother. It so happened that neither
brother hat! any eon*. John bad one
daughter and Pierce had two. Mo me
daughters of Pterc* Butler Inherited
the eetate. Pierce Butler married In
1814 Frances Anns Kemble, tbs bril
liant English actress. Their sldesi
daughter waa named Sarah. She mar
ried Owen Jones Wlsttr, of Philadel
phia, They had on* son, Owen Wls-
jar, ihe author of the mmnus "Lady
Baltimore." Their youngest daughter
wa* named Frances. 8h* married the
and Aiaey—Rav—Jamaa^-Weiit^
worth Lalglt, D. D.. dean pf Hereford.
England since 1194. He was the third
aon of the first Lord Leigh, and la
now the unci* of th* present Lord
Leigh, of Stonelelgh Abbey. Kedll-
wortli. England. Thty had one daugh
ter, Alice Leigh, who. I understand,
married about two year* ago a distant
relative belonging to the original But
ler family. Mr*. Fannie Kemble But
ler, though marrtad to Pierce Butler
In 1834. contlnuad to live on her hus
band's place near Philadelphia
1888. In November of that year she
came with her husband to th* Georgia
plantation, and remelned ther* UU
about the first of April, 1888. She
was not happy In Georgia. The Insti
tution of slavery she hated with all tha
imwer of her remarkably strong nature.
She wrote a book while on St. Blmons
He Is now 71 years of age,
ns 7,000 acres of land and lives at
Bnllln Temple. Tullow, County Car-
low. Ireland. Our American Major
Buller, who came from South Carolina
to St. Simons Island, had two children,
u son and n dnughter. The son went
to England to be educated, and, not
agreeing with his father's political
opinions expatriated himself and never
came bock to America. The daughter
married Ur. Mays, of Philadelphia, and
two sons were born of this union.
John, the eldest, and Pierce, the
younger. At the death of Major But
ler hla will declared that his eldest
grandson. John Mays, should Inherit
his entire estate upon the condition
that he chahge his name to Bullcr.
TM» Jahn.-iu._flrat JXfus.eil t" do, but
nnsented to change tils name to But
ler. and thus complying w ith Ihe-con-
lied our soldjers In Northern prisons
and assisted them by bit own means.
After th* war, In ISM, ha cam* with
Ills daughter, Frances, back to th*
plantation.
More tban half of bl* servants en
gaged to work with him for wage*.
Pierce
tation." that makes one's bl
cold to read even now. Jt Is tb* most
direct and brilliant and msroilsss ar
raignment of slavery ever printed In
waa not published until 1888. It waa
In the form of letter* and thase had
been pasasd around and rtad by her
friends In England and America. A
strong movement was on foot In Eng
land to recognise the Southern Con
federacy. The friends of abolition
were terribly concerned to defeat this.
It lias been said, therefore, that "Life
on a Georgia Plantation" was pub
lished at the solicitation of Influential
Beecher and Mrs. Harriet Beecher
BToVH:, wtlll 111" vleer nf having It read
In England before the question of the
recognition of the Southern Confeder
acy was finally determined. Anyhow.
It Is said that John Blight read the
book, and John Bright defeated the
movement looking to tha recognition of
the Southern Confederacy. It I* re
markable that euch a book should have
been written by the wife of th# owner
of a thousand stave*. Owing to Incom
patibility of temper Pierce Butler ob
tained s divorce from hla wife An 1849,
the conditions being that tha children
should spend elx months with thsir
mother and six month* with thsir fath
er. Fannie Kemble was th* most bril
liant woman of tha nlnsteenth century,
and Pierre Butler was a man of the
very highest character. During the
Wur Between -the State* he Uvsd la
Pbtledelphta, but all hi* sympathlee
were with th* Southern eauae. II* via.
Butler died on his plantation In
1867. Frances Butler managed the
Plantation for ten years after her fa
ther'* death. She wrote a very Inter
esting book about her experience* here,
entitled "Ten,Tear* on a Georgia Plan
tation." In the early part of 1187, be
fore her talber died, eh* tell* of n
serenade th* negroea gava bar on har
hlrtMav. A dear old servant by th*
name of Uncle Johh cam* UP to ner,
and taking her band* In hi*, eald:
'God bless you, missus, my dear
mlMus!"
Her father, standing near and being
touched by the old man's devotion to
his children, put his arm round the old
man's shoulder* and sold:
"Ton have seen five generations of
us now, John, haven't you?"
"Tea. masaa," said Uncle John: "Miss ...
Sarah's ttttl* boy, be d* fifth: bless de of holel men w
Lord."
Miss Sarah's llttls boy, referred to,
was Owen Wirier, at that Urns about
asvsn ytara old. -
-When In Brunswick last week I
w'ent with Professor Ballard, th# coun
ty school commisalonsr, In a launch
to St. Simons Island, and walked over
the grounds of the old Butler home
stead. Cedars are growing in Fannie
Kemble's garden, higher than the tab
la still oifned by Mr*. Sark
of Philadelphia, but Is uow utterly
neglected, The roofs are off th* walls
of the houses built of shells and time.
and the cedar* ars growing up through
them. Soma day a great Southern sto
ry am be written, the aeon* of which
will be found In this neighborhood.
Owen Wirier could never have written
"Lady Baltimore" but for hie knowl
edge of the men and wgman who once
lived In thle charming region, which
must have been a ve ry paradise. On*
might say with far mors meaning about
Bt. Simona Island whit Goldsmith said
about “Sweet Auburn:"
th* ground the flow-era which aiss.
dar th* clroumsuic e« in which sh*
found herself placed, could not grew
In her heart
But Brunswick la now entering upon
a naw career. She turns her fee* te
the future. As tha eastern termlaus
of the Atlanta. Birmingham and At
lantic railroad, aha Is destined to be
come the gnat seaboard town of the
gulf stats*. Sha has Ule beet harbor
south of Norfolk. Already steamship
Brunswick and Naw York and Havana,
Travelers going settlor south by MM
II. In th* futura sail from Broni*
cfc. irndtr tha direction of Mi. H
m. AiRinauii,
rltlssns. two million* of mousy am
being spent hers between the sea and
the marshea of Glynn for docks. This
pise* Is destined to be th# great ehlp-
plua port of the Southern states.
The Oglethorpe Hotel has been :
Oglethorpe Hotel has been pi
chased by tb* Atlanta. Mlrmlngfu—
and Attantlo Railroad company. It la
being fitted up hr etagant-etyta and ta
now being managed by tb* asm* prince
m who conduct* f
“No more Ihy glassy brook reflects the
day.
But, choked with sedges, works It*
weedy way;
Along thy glade* a solitary guest.
The hollow sounding bittern guard*
Us nest:
Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing
files.
And Urea thsir echoes with unvaried
cries: _
Sunk are thy bowers In shapelessTUtfr
ell.
And the long grass o'ertops Ihe moul
dering wall:
And, trembling, shrinking from - Ihe
spoiler's hand.
Far, far away thy children leave the
land." »
While standing In Fannie Kimble's
garden the verses of Goldsmith came
to me:
“Near youddtr copse, where once th*
garden smiled.
And still where many a garden flower
grows wild:
There, where a few torn ehrubs the
place disclose,"
1 thought of that beautiful, accomplish
ed woman, laboring to make grow In
IMH8I9IMHMHM8I
THE PROMISE OF INCOMPLETENESS
"Apart from ue they should net b*
made perfect."— Hebrew* xi:40.
ir
w
of hotel men who conducts !h" fortune*
of th* Piedmont Hotel In Atlanta. All
Brunswick feels the quickening pulsa
tion of new blood. A froth Installment
of robuel Ilf* has com* to this historic
corner. Now people are moving Into
th* city. Mr. John L. Allen A Co. ar*
finishing up a splendid now bank build-
lag. Th* Idealism and poetry and tra
ditions and history o* the past the peo
ple there appreciate, but they ar*
averse to Its ever becoming possible
for any Goldsmith tb find a text In
their .dilapidated ruins for a poatle
wall. They refer with pride to La
nier* "Marshes of Glynn" and point
out the oak under which he wrote tha
poem, but they expect to see th* day
when even the msrfhes will be re
claimed-end turned into fouadatiank
fur street* and warehouses. Fusts
who go there now will be under the
necessity of petting their muelo to tbs
ring of tho hnmmer, tho whirl of th*
cotton gin, th* whistle of the steam
engine, the splash of th* steamer's
paddle, the daeh of th* launches, and
th* hum of worid.wld* trad*. They
take no practical stock In melancholy
ditties about sea-rivers, "choked with
sedges, working thsir muddy w«y." In
the midst of its history and heroic
deeds which have mad* It Immortal
In aong and atory, they proposeAu build
n mighty city with gates op*h to alt
the world. Already they ars dreaming
of th* day when the Panama canal will
j
■'M
be complete. They ar* getting ready
for that which will be the greatest
commercial event In history.
Hu) Humph Bnl"«w | ck
tha
when a half million population a* i
and when ships from her ports shall
whiten every sea. still and forever will
It be that th* imperishable transac
tion that took place In this town was
the deed Sidney Lanier performed
when he took th* marshes of Glynn
away from her people, awar from
Georgia, and gave them universal be
ing In the wide, Imperishable world Of
it Brunswick Lanier
thought. In the Id .-at
lias made famous to all eternity:
"Sinuous southward and slnuou*
northward, the shimmering hand of the
sand beech will fasten tbe fringe of the
marsh to the land. Inward and out
ward. to northward and southward,
the beach Una* will linger and curl as
a silver wrought garment that cling*
to and Mteen the firm, t ‘
a glrt.“j
K)W)HIHWKIWIIM>6hIWWi
By REV. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
T
HE Hebrew heroes were the
high water mark of ancient
ivlllxatlon. But they were
iM perfect men. very far from
It. Indeed, If they were to ap-
P-er, puet as they were. In our cen
tury which haa the fashion of reck-
••ning goodness by the clothes It wears,
»ub ‘iirlstlanlty by minute observance
•I religious convention, “mint, anise
and cummin," to the neglect of th#
weightier things of true religious char
acter, thee* ancient heroes would most
likely be accounted as ancient hoboes
•nil turned In for vagrancy. Their
'Munition waa rudimentary, their
moral habits crude and their personal
■ n< l tribal practices very far beneath
th- standard of a modem gentleman.
There It great expressiveness In the
"•hi- statement about their customs:
The times of wlcknedneas God winked
•’ ' Moreover, It ts worth while to
'•ke notice of the fact that
•nrient worthies were very Ignorant
Intelligence.
he-ple at tvs measure
They knew very little about the world
'•'ey lived In, about Its laws and about
ht mysteries. Think of all that Vast
■ ■ titcnt nf knowledge which haa come
to light elnce tho day of Moaes. Re
flect upon the actual narrownees of
their lives as compared with the lives
of children In our day. The result will
be two fold In Its Impression. We
will know the truth about them anil
loao off some of Ihe glamor and eclat
which blinds us to their providential
significance In the Bible, and we will
have a deepened regard for them as
Illustrations of the divine fact, ths fact
of the power and wisdom and patience
of God? and wo will be amased that
In the vital Inward Impulses of trim
Godliness wo have not done better with
tho light which God has poured
upon us In Jesus Christ.
Th* Larger Fsith.
They were the men of faith. That
Is their meaning to the world, and
this Is the claim they eet upon ue.
was their fault that waa accounted
upto them for righteousness. 1 shell
speak of their faith as "the larger
faith.” I will not say that It wo
these better faith, or s greater faith, but a
larger faith. What was thsir faith, ths
faith of Abraham, the faith of MnsesT
Can thev teach us at all In the subject
of faith?
In th* tint place their faith was not
quits what we aseoclate with Ihe word
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In our vocabulary, the main Idea of
which Is a mental reception and ap
propriation of Bible slntemenlM of
truth and doctrine about God or Christ,
which ive believe and make tho motto
of our live*. It ivss something larger
also than a personal trust In God for u
persona! good. It ivas more like the
exercise of an Instinct, the reaching out
of a primal faculty, the obedience of
an Inner Impulse which waa not of
conviction, or reusun or 111 any way
dependent upon reason or Judgment.
Nor was It whit ive usually apeak of
as religious faith, l! was not about
attars and warship their faith waa
chiefly concerned. Abraham'* fattb
was more the faith of an explorer than
of a priest. If you coll Ihe faith of
Columbus a secular thing because It
trusted to discover America and on
that trust ventured, so you mult also
the faith of Abraham. If you speak of
the fHlIh of George Washington aa a
political fallli because It looked to
ward the -American republic, so also
must you regard the faith of Moses.
He was a nation savior, u nation
builder. His religion was mainly ex
pressed In whHi lie call statesman
ship. We do greatly narrow and be
little religion byeconflnlng Its essential
manifestation to act* of worship and
altitudes of piety. William E. Glad
stone was, I think, llie greatest Chris
tian of the nineteenth centflry. Was It
because ho sometimes read prayers
and sided with orthodoxy In the cifirent
rontroverxles of hit generation? No,
he ivas a great Christian In his states
manship. ns true n doer of the word
and will of God as though he had been
a foreign missionary
and Robert E. Lee were very
great Christian*. They were soldiers.
True religion Is not something tliat
substitutes Itself for everything, but
something that penetrates everything.
The faith of Abraham and hla noble
companv was Hie larger faith In anoth
er sense. They were not consumed
with the Idea nf personal religious
safety. The splendid fact brought out
here Is that they lived anil believed be
yond themselves. What they them
selves received In their lives Is not even
so much »< reckoned In tile appraisal
of their faltli. "These all died In llio
faith." They died In the faith In which
0K J
Bk S
Caesar's hand
Lord Christ
strain.
nd uM I
'* heart
Plain'* brain,
and Shakespeare's
Such privilege Is obligation also. Dr.
Yates, the missionary lo China, once
engagi'il u Chinese brick maker to
edptily him with brick for Ihe building
of a .impel. “Now," he said to thr
ChUiuniuu. ”F don't want bad brick; I
want a good, honest lot."
Th- Chinaman drew himself up
haughtily ami with every exhibition of
great offense mad* reply:
vl have been making brick 4.040
years."
The Chinaman never estimates him
self spurt from his family, his ances
tors. The weight of their honor Is ht*
pride mu) responsibility. Hss not our
Intense Individualism lost us some
thing? Have our forbears left us no
trust? our vlrture or success Is Ihe
pet t- tlug of our fathers. Our vice and
our failure Is ths dishonor not only of
our living, but of all our dead. Our
Qeorgln pocl exclaimed:
“Old past, lei go and drop Into the
Till fathomless waters cover thee;
For I mo living and thou an dead.
Thou druweet bark. I forge ahead
The day to find."
who knew her: “Aunt AH* was a grand 'you heavenly. Ther* ta
DR. JOHN E. WHITE.
they had lived that God waa working
a greet scheme ”* '“ ”
far bey
a greet schei .
far beyond their day. They submerg
ad themselves In a vaster good which
God would bring to those who came
after. They were the seed of a far
off linrveet. In that faith their souls
found a great contentment. What a
tender touch nf appreciation wa* the
words of Christ. “Your father Abra
ham rejoiced to see my day and he saw
It and was glad.” This Is Just what
the apostle 1s saytng In the text. They
were not perfect men. but they were
men of Joyous trust. And now after
going on. their llv#* were being ful
filled and this Joy Justified. Without
declares, but they are of us and we of
them and our attainment Is their at
tainment. I not* that In the sweep of
this tribute to their faith the apostle
looked up and saw them, a cloud of
happy and Interested witness**, en-
ieritage end Honor.
young people If one of their number
would attempt the calculation of hot*
many lives were concentrated In Ids one
life. This ivas the result: He had
four grandparents, eight great-gtund-
parenl!'. sixteen great-great-grandpa-
renta. thlrty-lwp grandparents thrice
return-d, and counting from the landing
at Jamestown there were behind him
4.096 American grandpnrenls of whose
blood he was Hie result. For every
onp of you-these iieoplw. every life of
which uas the lifu of an Individual,
had lo he and work and suffer lo make
you. No when I read that all the
Him the past will not lei us go Its
Incompleteness Is the burden of eiery
present hour. We are the trustees of
it* Imperfection. The shortcoming
of all Its men and women I* on us.
for "apart from us they should not he
made perfect."
The Premiss of Our Inesmplstsnste.
The truth we are Illustrating may
non also he turned upon our own In-
cninpletriiess and the promts* we lisle
In those who come after ua. Depressed
very often
our lives nnd
us short In our plans and ambitions,
we lose «e*t and hope. Just this week
I uas talking to u woman who lo u
persona! sense has lied a hard life, he,
low even the level of ordinary success.
NIi" has n promising son. I told her
that she ivas a happy woman. In the
in i.nl of my message I told her Unit
n ii11ont him she was Indeed Incomplet
hui that he would fulfill her life. Is
not true for those of us w ho hare chil
dren and for those who have non* of
their own. whp put their lives Into the
ung. that comfort and courage are
woman, wasn't she?
There was a plain nwcbai
Hills town In Scotland who feared God
and bulll houses for a living. He never
liad more than three months' schooling
In Ills life Draw « circle round the
7S years of that life and look at It
merely by Itself. How cramped It Is!
But how dare yon do It, In th* face
of facts, how dare you draw such a
circle and any "he was Just here anil
ended here?"
You can not do It. Tills humble
mail whs the father of a son whose
name I* known and honored wherever
the English language Is road and
spoken. To James t'arlyle's simple life
In the Scottish town must be added
the sum of Thomas Carlyle’s life, his
genius and the Influence he'wrought In
the world. Who said so? Thomas
Ctrlylsalilmself said so at James Car
lyle’s funeral: "l.et me not mourn for
my father: lei me do worthily of him;
so shall he still live oven here In me
and hi* worth plani Itself honorably
forth Int new generations."
That ls the truth here In tills text.
H has a million and morn Illustration*
right here in our country today tn the
univrli lives of fathers and mothers
who ure not lo he denied th* honor and
success of lives for which they sur
rendered much of their own personal
ease and privilege. Let me tell you a
typical story In rude verse:
Tou never hear of DunTGrcgg, I don't
suppose; but say,
I want to tell you there ar* few as
hs great as him today.
He never held no offices, hut Just
iulxt me and you.
Ain't this here boldin' office some
thing great men seldom do?
No, Dani lie Just farmed It—licked
along through thick and thin—
.... niong tnrougn thick and thin—
by! care* that seem l» limit [Quiltin' 1st*strut stallin' early, mealin'
nul b» failures Which slop irouble with a grin:
inortaltam and there is a heavenly I
mortality.
Thsee man of the Hebrew
who are said tv have died
did not dl* at all. They
seed die* to live In the harvest. Tbs
have seen that. Now. from tbta text,
this limiting statement of tbetr earthly
Imperfection, which throws a sadness
over their earthly careers, look un.
Whet do yon seer Behold "a clou*
of witness**." They have found what
they sought. They confessed that they
earth. They confessed that they de
sired a batter country, that 1s an heav
enly Well, they found It. Ttar
have attained the suprent* altitude.
Life, the Imperfect Ilf* they quitted,
the world they have ptlgrlmad from,
lies out before them In a clear vision.
Go back and march with Abraham
as by faith he went out and
went on trusting God. Go bgck further
•till and see Enoch un that wntk with
God from which he never came back.
Go beck and make the alow and pala
tal ascent of Nsbo with Moaes and
throw farewell klsaea with him at
caanan puttying yonder. Suddenly
mere Is a silence and on earth vncaa-
cy. What haa become of thee* men?
The apostle because he spoke the I
guuge of men says; "They died"—4
however. In a. striking way. "In the
U*ri
were weary, their bodies of flesh went
wore, their feet cam* to tbe summit
and th* earth trail became lndtattnet.
confused and the next w* know of
Enoch I* her* In th* cloud of witnesses
end the negt we know of Abraham Is
that he ha* caught up a poor, d**plee<l
beggar named Lasarus to hla boeoni,
and the next w* know of Motes la
lo Hattlra
ua they could not be made perfect, he. are sumlliiK on the shoulder* of good
ivel
ourl.cn generations, nnd from David j ranilllrs are HfiiV being dl*cut#*d-*~tb*
unto ihe carrying away Into Babylon ; famous Field family and the Beecher*,
are fourteen generations, and from the Those households were humble places
carrying away into Babylon unto t'hrlsi .mil both llie fathers preachers, hard
are fourteen generations. I get xonic 'iuu to provide a living for Ihelr nu
clear Insight Into that marvelous prin- j morons children. Rut what a triumph
clplc or Divine Providence upon which | awaited those humble homes In len
tile linlsilun doctrine of the lndl-|men end women who have been an
vlduol's value rests. It allows no break , honor to the world.
In Gad's plan and the thrill of It nus : t'p before me today rises ihe bent
upon the apostle when he realised ihe | form nnd wrinkled face of an old worn,
burden of privilege anil responsibility j an I knew In the mountains fifteen
upon him ami the people lo whom hr | years ago. She did all her own work at
spoke We are llie heirs of age*. The | 70 years of age. and 'two* a narrow
our feet
centuries are piled uniter i
ami gieai men. down tier after Her.
whose lives ur* ihe mountain anil ih
peak or udvnntuge from which u
survey o present nnd a future full •>
glorr We cqn sing with Emetnon:
owner of the good round
Very recently I asked a eumpnny of The stai n stars, the solar year,
life.
the
fore thei old wumun as though she
were n queen, and In their simple manly
mountain fuahlon lay all Ihe kntghlhood
of ihelr breed ai her feel. There have
been thousands of finer, fairer women
across my vision since then, but when
my heart nml my soul and my inlnd
and my sanity speak, 1 say, to my wife
He didn't leave no millions, hut again
I n Isli tu stale
Thai. In my opinion, Dun'l should be
- numbered with the great.
H» never done no flghtln' on the land
or on the see;
lie wasn't no Napoleon nor a Grant,
nor yet a Lee;
No doubt this Plerpont Morgan could
of skinned him In a trade,
And n* far us cddyratlon ta concerned,
why. I’m afraid
That Dun'l wasn't hardly wlial you'd
call A number one.
For he got his schoolin' mostly out he
neatti thr shinin' sun;
T*r paper* never bothered over Deni
Gregg's affairs,
But a great man hail departed when
he chini the golden stairs.
He never wrote no poems, nor got up
Invention so *
The world would move on swifter than
Ihe good Lord made It go;
He couldn't pleach s sermon nor
' ekspound th* law to you.
Bui he raised Iwo boys, by golly, that
were decent through Slid through.
He taught ’em to be honest, and he
inughi 'em to be tree:
He laugh! 'em lo be manly, ami that
there’s it lot to do.
He raised hla hoys lo honor him, and
so I wish to state
That, In my opinion. Dani should he
numbered with th* great.
Leek Up.
But If I have shown you earthly
Ihlngs in thta text 1 will now show
iluii he has come for a visit 1
Inhere t.'hrtat was tranaflfiure^H
one thing Is dear: they have not
ceased tu lira and th* Jay of their Im
mortality la connected with their sons
and daughters to whom they Intrusted
the future when they wearied and f*u
on sleep. From III* galleries of lift
call lo us as ws bear onwan
track. "Lay aside every weight gn(1
the Bln which doth beset yotl to easily
and run.” W* ere, friend* now in
the glare of th* ages. W* are called
ta^rra^syu^rler. Tbe need
on right and left.
strongest and lend*rest InapIrsUen mt
ell comes from.the witness** who say.
"Hun." On th* day I turn from, my
father's grave,. I shall hear him In a
new urgency saying. “Run," atul then
two voloaa will be one crying to me.
"Hun." Bo let us run till the day daws
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