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r* —«*»«*»4 IN AND AROUND BRUNSWICK, GA. HMMHWMm (•••••••••••••••I MNMHHNIIIHHHIH 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 LABELS When placed on any article guarantee the a bto lute purity and quality of taid article. Huddlssten * Christian, 21 8. Porayth By I. Lester A Co 2 1-2 N. Brood Porham Pig. Co. . . . 2 1-2 •- Brood N. C. Tompkins. . .1# W. Alabama Tologram Pub. Co. .80 Contra! Av*. Franklin-Turnor Co 86-71 Ivy Down* A Stadel 14 1-2 N. Fortyth LaHstte Ptg. Co 20 8. Broad Ward Printing Co 55 8. Pryor John Thomooon Co .8 1-2 8. Brood Blossor Ptg. Co M-40 Walton Convoro* A Wing .104 Edgowood This Label Placed on Your Printing Guarantees Living Wages and Decent Hours of Labor to the Printers. Atlanta Typographical Union 520 Candler Bldg. Atlanta \Phone 873 p. O. Box 266 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 *'i' 1 SlttaiiVWianl I'TtiftTiMla iaai i.iat FOR YARD, BOULTSY. LAWN. CEMETERY AND FARM—EREC TING PACE IALTY. w.j. o^ny taptaMBt Ciy II Is. 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