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i*HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
HATCEI»AT. MARCH 1C, lMt.
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A LIVING ADVERTISEMENT
IIIIHHHtHIMIIIMHtl
By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD,
PASTOR UNIVERSAL1ST CHURCH
A DVERTISING ha, bocoma a flne
,rt. In an ax* when Increasing
imiipetllion render, commerce
taC rt».ln*l>' compHoalai, and the
enlevement of succasa Increasingly
difftculi. >< follow,, aa a natural con-
*Z„ n ,r, that the man who oan moat
,»Ktu»Hv call to hla fellow, la In-
MilnRtv In demand. Therefore, the
of announcing the commodltlea of
, purveyor to proepectlve purchaaera
b». dev oio[»e<l Into a distinct profession
,1,1th offer, alluring prospects of sue
fff any one endowed with oriel
V,,j. 0 f conception and ability to an
tldptie the demand of tha public ap-
p,lie. Schools of this naw profession
n. v e multiplied with astonishing rapid-
iiv end the commaretal world swarm,
.1th men and woman eagerly looking
hr something to advsrtlu.
' This splendid Gate City of tha Naw
..-Ih tv noted for tbs enterprise and
usorttv of lie bualnaaa men, very many
whom have developed the advents-
mi depet "nents of their respective ts-
tibllshmeiits to an almoat marvelous
.me of efficiency. Among the Inatltu-
which occupy a place of pro-
,ounce<l (ommerclal success there Is
■me whose advertising department must
i| IF admiration of atl who love
..rlcinulitv of Idea and Ingenuity of de-
however much they may be In
clined to mi*"tIon the contribution of
rviuhllthment to the health and
ictus! prosperity of the community.
With an audacity which at times very
■ l.rselv approaches Impudence, the per-
,I,tent energy of this firm endeavors
to occupv every avenue of Human Im-
., u l<e anil emotion In order that the
rnmmndltv which It ensragee to distrib
ute mav i«- brought constantly to the
setae and consideration of the public.
•». persistently Invoked that she
may yield her benediction to tut suc-
«•",«£ thl * business; music Is coen-ed
until her concourse of sweet sound"
Is compelled to yield Its contribution;
literature eerves also Its full purpose of
publicity, and even tha hypothetical
weredness of true courUay and hospi
tality Bland not In the way of this en
terprising proprietor, who flnda In hla
city a cuvr and unfeigned welcomu to
a worthy guest of honor but another
opportunity to make known to the pub-
lie IiIm U'■ rmm gml hie v,. ■. I r , -
lie Ills wares and his business.
But omniscience is not an attribute
of humanity. Because of this, it fre
quently happens that even the most
colossal audacity and the most mag
nificent originality falls of Its most Im
mediate opportunity. Often'do we al
low to pasa unrecognised the utility
of material cloae at hand In our eager
March for the new and the strange In
fields afar.
The establishment of which I apeak
displays as one of the mottoes of Its
business. “A satisfied customer Is the
beat advertisement." This Is hardly
orlgbial. Indeed. It Is so entirety axio
matic as to require no comment. “The
proof of the pudding is In the eating."
The seller of any machine knows that
he must successfully demonstrate Its
efficiency for every intending purchas
er. Vendors of nostrums depend for
their greatest success upon the testi
monials of satisfied patients. We are
more readily convinced of the worth of
any material by the contemplation of
the finished product, and. Indeed, as a
moral proposition, Judgment upon any
other basis Is unfair. The value to the
community of any Institution, whether
commercial, social or religious, can be
determined only by n consideration at
Its direct or Indirect products.
This principle being basic, ths won
der I, tint thl, establishment, whose
business house Is one of Atlanta's
landmarks end wltoee enterprise arid
originality esclte admiration, should
neglect any opportunity for unique and
effective advertising which either blind
chance or providence might bring to Its
very door.
Passing along the sidewalk In front
of the door of tlila bualness house, one
evening tlila week, iny attention waa
rather forcibly drawn to thla splendid
opportunity for advertising whan It
lurched violently against ms In an un
certain and unsteady effort to convey
Its body somewhere. In response to the
cell or a muddled and a shattered will..
I say "It" advisedly, for the thing that
for a moment impeded my. progress
and tremendously escltad my pity waa
not actually o man. God had made
him a man. Indeed, and what a man he
must have been at one time! Tall,
straight of back and limb, with the
cheat of Vulcan And tha alnewa of Her
cules. with a countenance In which an
honest man might recognise a friend
and a little child a willing protector.
Yes. one time he had surely been good
to look upon, but that was when lie
was the man whom God had made. It
may even be that some time ha will
again lie good to look upon, for God,
who never wearies of trying to make
man In His ow n Image, can make even
this thing over egeln Into a man If Ha
be given a fair chance. But when I
first made my acqualntanre with him
he was not a pleasant thing to see. fur
he had temporarily oeaaed from being
a man and had turned himself into a
powerful living advertisement for a
commercial enterprlee which basks In
Ihe sanction and protection of the law
of the land and In the practical ap
proval of many a good man and true.
No, he was not exactly a good thing to
look upon. The once proud and defiant
shoulders had the pitiful druop of ae-
REV. E. D. ELLENWOOD.
nlllty. The palsied limbs with difficulty
bore the burden of the reeking and of
fensive body. The once strong and
purposeful hands grasped gropingly
for some object of stability amid the
dlssylng dance of buildings, sidewalks
and men and women. The well molded
mouth drooled with the Impotence of
a new bom babe. The windows out of
which hla soul had one time looked un
troubled upon the world were elnuded
and dim, and to the befogged brain
there came fleeting Images of things,
distorted, horrible and unreal. Only
the great loving heart of tha Alt Eatb-
er, who tied originally endowed thla
thing with humanity, could any longer
recognise In It the son of Hla deep
affection.
Yet thla was but one of the natural
products of the prevailing Idea of civ
lllsatlon. It seems Just a little strange,
therefore, that other humans who en
deavored to occupy with him a portion
of the eldewalk should hare Indignant
ly nroieaied as against en abnormality.
Balmily gowned ladlea. fresh front the
matinee, drew aside In dismay and dis
gust and demsndsd to know why such
spectacles were permitted on Atlanta's
most fasblonabls thoroughfare. Pros
perous looking man, whose clteeka bora
the (lamp of health and virility, curled
contemptuoue llpe In the wondering ex
clamation that a man ehould make inch
e beaat of himself A little child fled
screaming to her mother when one of
the meaningless ‘lurches of the derelict
sent Its towering bulk In har direction,
and kll breathed a distinct relief whan
Anally ths law arrived from somewhere
to take charge of the thing In whose
making It lied co-operated.
Think of the splsndld advertising
possibilities showed to go to waste.
Just because of the lack of anterprlse
and appreciation. What a novel Idea
foe this Arm, constantly seeking Inno
vation. If it should borrow' thla thing
from the law. for a little while, and
place li In one of the splendid show
windows with ths placard In all of tha
languages of the community; "Our
Finished Product; Look at this and aaa
wltat we can do for you!"
This Idea Is nut copyrighted, and I
freely offer It for ths consideration of
all the bualneaa establishments whose
success produces this sort of fruit. It
would scarcely, be necessary to ask any
kind of an nffleer what had happaned
to tha object In the window, for clvlll
sallon makes us perfsctly familiar with
Its striking by-products, and human
beings rendered offensive to society by
the "taking Into thalr mouth, that
which steals away thalr brains” am no
longer w novelty In Ihe average com
munity.
Another reason why this thing that
wee once e man should thus be used
as a living advertisement Is the argu
ment of utility. In the traditional ac
count of the beginnings of things na
ture demanded of man that he should
forever be a producer aa well as a con
sumer, nor may this divine command to
labor In torn* capacity be long or suc
cessfully disobeyed. Tills thing which
the law removed from the street has
become entirely unlit for tha purposes
for which It was manifestly Intended.
Once It possessed capacity. In abun
dance. to make the earth yield "bread
for the eater and seed for the sower."
Once It was able lu cu-uperate splen
didly with Its fellows In the mighty
Inc It minister to ell tha phyaicel end
spiritual demands of mankind. Once
It was s strong and capable man In
tha flashing lova-ltght of whose eyes
some pure and holy woman found her
beacon star of hope. Once It was s
man whose smile could let loose upon
the tired old world heaven's sweetest
music, ths laughter of little children.
Once It was a man of charitable heart
and Inflexible will, who. establiihlng
and maintaining a home, created one of
the units of civilisation. But now- that
he has ceased from being s man and
has become merely one of the problems
of society, the performance of his old-
time functions has become Impossible
to him, and unless we shall be able to
find him something to do he becomee
by hla Idleness an Increasing menace.
He lias become a disturber of the
peace end happiness of other mtn who
wleh to work end bo uaerul, so we find
It necessary to lock him up where he
will be out of the way. And then. In
order that the policeman who locks
him up-may be paid hla wages, we must
impose a flits upon tha derelict, to in
aura the.perpetauatlon of tM system.
Now, why not give the man a chance to
earn the amount of Ills flne by hiring
him out by the hour as a living ad
vertisement for ihe business which has
made of him a splendid testimonial?
Frequently I attend tha recorder's
court at the police station, securing
there more profitable auggeitlom for
sermons then may be found In all of
the theological books ever written to
confuse linen's minds and warp their
hearts, and there on an afternoon of
this week I witnessed tha sequel to the
little story of actual Ilfs which T have
here tried to relate. Ths sequel did
not require much time. A name wta
called, and from the prisoners' pen
there came a man who stood before
the Judge and heard the otHcer make
a charge of "drunk on the street." In
the prisoner 1 recognised the unfortu
nate of the previous evening—the same,
yet vastly different. The man was
struggling valiantly against tha legion
of devils which still sought to possess
him. Remorse and shame held down
his head as h« murmured, "Guilty." In
resiKinse tu tbs query of the Judgo,
upon whose brow tnercy sat enthroned.
The penitent was told that his liberty
might be purchased for $}.;&, and aa
I Inwaidly gave thanks for tha admir
able Judgment of the court, f reflected
how entail a space thla amount would
purchase In the advertising columns
purchase In the advertising columns
of those dally purveyors of publlolty
which, by selling to It their services,
do thereby sanction and abet a traffic
upon which must forever rest the cures
of Cain.
ilMtHHIIMIMHIHMMMCMHHMIl
Should and Can There Be a Southern Program?
By REV. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
I T 18 eeriouely proposed end
moirment toward that end
now being Influentially organised
tlui th" need of the South, le for
Southern pulley—a white man's pro
cram In ihe face of the grave end In
.Ifa-lnsly graver situation with re
qieu to the negro In the Southern
•law. The movement originated In
Oeoriut. w here there are 1.100,004 ne
gru<> where larger provision for the
higher education of the negroes
made than In any other state, and
where the race situation has probably
Hi in..-t typical development In the
Soul!:.
The underlying principle of the
pnipoultlon Is that the movement shall
he altogether In the hands of South
ern men. that the Intelligence of the
South can and should be brought to
hear in better agreement and that the
Southern white people as the domi
nant and responsible agents of clvtll-
tttlon are rapable of a more confident
instructive attitude toward the
tituation it Is therefore essentially an
*Mieul to our self-respect end patriot-
It in not a movement which pre-
•uniea that the race problem can be
»lvrd hv a stroke or a promulgation,
but Hint alma to create a current of
tangible policy which will lead out of
lien of Uonfuaton to which ee
on submitted. It elms to pro-
iui-Ii an understanding and to
rebuilt such definite condition that the
i me forces of adjustment ntay
healthier field In which to work,
ere flnpneea and reaolu-
!t, 1 e
I wile
■ regard to our own and aynt-
• till regard to the negroes' true
"tihln the Inevitable llmlta-
•( their Anglo-Saxon envtron-
|< cement liss already been sub-
d if ihe critical Judgment of more
'Mm < hundred prominent Southern
"( the best thought and con
science In tlie South, and with such a
result as to Indicate a general realisa
tion thut some such movement Is great
ly needed.
The first suggestion that any propo
sition relating to the negro makes on
the mind of prudent Southern men Is
that all agnation of the subject Is In
jurious. We have had and are having
so much discussion of a harmful kind
that tnen who love the South utiael
flshly are much concerned to put an
end to it. The people who are now
earnestly engaged In bringing this
proposition for a consensus of South
ern Intelllgenre and the pronounce
ment or a definite policy with regard
to the rnoe problem are without ex
ceptlon of thla prudent, conservative
claws. It Is observed that crying.
"Peace! Peace!" does-not bring peace.
It la forced upon us that discussion and
agitation are on the Increase and that
the drift of It Is stendlly toward con
ditions worse and worse. The ques-
tlon has therefore come to the front
whether we have any reason to quar
rel with hurtful agitation or with lb'
considerate agitators, so long as our
wisest and best people hold aloof and
make no movement to organise the
Intelligence and conscience of the
South Into some sort of understanding.
On ths part of the leaders of South
ern thought In morals and In Industry.
In education and religion there is no
genuine effort to reduce matters to the
simplest terms and to make It possi
ble for the white people and the ne
groes to reach a calmer mood. The
movement now proposed alms tomnko
the reduction of Injurious agitation
possible. It concedes that agitation l
Inevllablv forced by the conditions
long as conditions are allowed to riot
without check or ahaplng. It concedes
that the agitation tnuat go on Injurl-
oualy eo long aa the Held Is abandoned
either to natural developments or the
unnatural presaure of Influence which
make a huslneas of agitation for Ihe
achievement of party or personal suc
cess. But It claims that the only way
to get rid partially or wholly of the
evils of our agitations la tor the men
of light and leading, und these con
stitute ths majority Influence In every
state of the South, to bring their reso
lute Intelligence to bear on the situa
tion and Issue a line of policy so clear
ly marking Ihe things our Anglo-Saxon
[civilization Is settled on, that the white
people will be led to accept them ns
flnalUles not necessary to agitata over
any longer and ths negroes given i
definite understanding of the condl
esa and peace are
Before going further Ipto the reasons
which plead for the support of all good
people In the South there are three
objections to be considered.
It will be said that this Is
tlousl question end therefore that the
South ss a section cannot deal with It.
It will be pointed nut that the conflict
of the races Is Increasing In the North
and Hast, wherever negroea ere found
tn numbers. Kmphaala will be laid on
rite collisions w hlch have occurred and
the violence of mobs In certain North
ern cities. These farts have their prop
er weight ami application, but the
Southern - people are not prepared to
admit the logic. We are not willing
that our share of the rare problem
shall be considered aw a national con
cern. Thoae who make the most of tha
negro troubles outside the South will
be the very lest to agree that the
t'nlteil States government shall deal
with the race problem as a national
question. As a matter of fact. It la not
a national problem aw yet. though how
wooii II may no one can tell. The South
haw ninety-nine one-hundredths of the
negro trouble In her ow n borders. We
are Incomparably more Involved In It
than all other sections, tlw seriousness
reryw ltere else lw a contrast compared
It Is Its seriousness here. But one
thing will mHke It iwieslble for the gov
ernment to regard It ns a matter for
national treatment and that Is the
neglcd of the Hnuth to take hold of It
a Southern obligation before Ihe
REV. JOHN E. WHITE.
present drift brings on what Senator
Tillman publicly predicts Is coming on
—wucli outbreaks of massacre aa the
Atlanta and Mlsalaalppl riots, which
will Involve Ihe nanonul honor with
ihe conscience of Christendom. In-
Mead of our Illogical shift of the prob
lem on the nation on account of the
negro troubles In other parts of the
country where they have had no ex
tended experience with the negro. It
will be an honor to the Southern pao<
pie and an applause worth deserving,
If we will prove that we are capable of
laying duwn Intelligent llnaa of dealing
with the negro for other sections that
they may profit by odr statesmanship—
a statesmanship tha South cannot
creditably ehlrk.
Another objection will probably be
heard that the face trouble Is a local
question to be left to states and
localities to handle without any
concert. That objection will ap
peal tn the easily satisfied, but
when one comes to egamlna Its ar
gument he realises at once that thai
Is Just the trouble now. We an treat
ing the biggest sociological problem a
people ever raced as merely a local and
political question. We are pretending
to handle a situation that cells for all
the united morel Intelligence of 20,
000,000 white people and all the force
they can organise together, with a bed
lam of sectional disagreement. Our
Southern attitude r Is certainly
anomalous. If these Is a South, a sec
tion peculiar In Its conditions. Its life,
Us civilisation and a race problem
which, as we generally Insist, the South
la to be let alone about, do we then dis
pute that we have a common Southern
Interest In It? But conditions In tha
border are not so serious as tn the
lower Southern etetse. Grimed—but
since when did Virginia withdraw har
Identification with her old comradaa
moge beset than herself? Less per
plexed, calmer and tharafora fitted for
wlso counsel tHoae states of tbo South
whtetr-are less seriously Involved with
the race trouble ere In a favorable poll-
tlon to. promote a Southern program
nobly for ell the South. An examina
tion of the Southern newspapers for
last September puts at rest the objec
tion to a Southern concert of policy on
the ground that our conduct of the race
problem Is a local concern, une and
ull, from Maryland to Texas, expressed
u common Interest snd honor injured
by the Atlanta riot of that month. We
do. In fact, regard Ihe twee problem as
more than a local quextlon. It really
matters very little with the a us rage
Southern men whether something re
lating tu the negro takes place In his
own stale or another—his Interest In
the matter le but little altered.
The self-respect of every Southern
man who loves the land Is touched by
the fact that though we Invariably In
sist upon the question of the negro as
the South's business, In dealing with
It ws are not facing It as the South's
obligation. Mare than that, the self-
respect of white people everywhere la
Involved In the failure. If we shell fall,
of the white men of the 8outh to deal
Svlth our situation masterfully an-l
constructively aa Anglo-Saxons have
always dealt with their situations.
The most serious objection yet pre
sented to the movement to bring South
ern sentiment Into concert on this sub
ject Is that It Is "absolutely Impos
sible" of accomplishment because the
Southern people can not be gotten to
gether to agree on anything about the
negro. It ta stgnlOcwnt. however, that
the gentlemen urging this objection
evidently so feared that co-operation
and agreement would b» effected that
he has bestirred hhnself to prevent It.
It le going to he true tn the South that
people for one reason and another, will
not be wanting to hinder nod prevent
If they can nil movements to ameliorate
Southern—esittUtleWa-i That Is not
strange. There fir*hundreds of mtn,
from strong men down to the weakest
politician, who would feel tomorrow
that they had sustained a serious per
sonal Injury If ths negro Issue should
today be resolved Into a negligible
quantity In Southern politics. But the
objection that the South la Incapable
of general consensus on the negro
question will not stand before patriot!"
scrutiny. Here Is e closer Issue. It Is
o be met squarely before It Is be-
iouded. Are wa Southern white men
apable of thinking a community
thought, and of organising that thought
Into policy about a matter admitted
ly grave In Ihe extreme In which the
whole South lx Involved? It is charged"
by some among us that eo great It the
confusion of opinion that we are In a
state of mind Incapacitated for delib
erate concord. Suppose that point Bad
been made by a Northern editor? The
question is narrowed down to this, not
whether the race problem le capable
of solution, but whether the Southern
while men are capable of solving their
own problem of chaotic sentiment.
This Is a serious phase of our sltuotioa.
he thrust forward
to cure our confusion we are surren
dered to hopeless distraction. An
American authority on Russia hat Just
declared that the weakness of the Rus-
their incapacity for agreement. Read
the utterances or Georgo Washington
Juet after the surrender of the British
at Yorkiown/ Listen ss he speaks In
hla circular address to the governors
beseeching them to "for get
prejudices, opinions and policies:
make those mutual concession* which
and In some Instances to sacriae* itizyc—n , ,
Individual advantages to the Interest *0 1
of the community." The smallest and
least Important dtlssn of tha South
may dare under ths shadow of Wash
ington to plsad hla words even to gov
ernors. Is the charge against our in
ability to find a common ground of In
telligent policy with regard to the
negro Justified In the* fact? Who can
assart that It Is? Hu any effort by
our leaders ever been mad* to lint up
the prudent'* snd the wisdom of tho
beat elements tn the South to Uul with
the matter adequately? There I* great
reassurance In more than n hundred
recent letters from prominent South
ern leader* of public opinion of tho
fiu't/that In their minds, faith In th*
rapacity of Southerners to gst boldly
above the fog und leak the co-oper-
atlon of their seat patriotism on a
common ground has not yet reached so
low en ebb.
By REV. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
E VERYBODY Is reedy to admit
iiat love I* a very good thing
t"i' theologians to write about
»n l ! r philosophers to speculate
*<> u’ and for poete to drum about
'he question deep down In the
minil. ,,f many | S> can love, at taught
ln u " Si li mures, be successfully prac
I 1 "! mi i Us hard work-a-day world
Mi- Scripture declare* the whole law
*' fulfilled In th* on* word, “Tliou
* h,: ' ■»» thy neighbor ts thyself."
” " i- a principle, for business, for
for soetel life, and for Ilf* In
*' 1! ‘ manifold problem*, reaponstblli
work, la not practical, then the
nut Ihe hook w* need to regu
> omlurt In this reel, strenuous,
oseil world; Men must sow
uni reap and trade and prac-
nnil form governments In this
notion. It cannot tie that
"ne [a* for the practical side
“nil another, and a different
'he moral and spiritual side.
>r» us. therefore, to Inquire
practicability of love u *
''•* Minclpt* In the life w* are
sni i J 1 hr necessity of living. We
His. .. °tt our way toward eet-
„ '* u *stIon, by noting whether
kltn.
"f Ilf-
!»*. f...
h be-.-i
i‘"rural. If some ona should
* ’hat Hr* would not cook our
r 11 I' would be well to And out
wnuld. lint* w* can easily
not practical, for the Apoetl*
iu> r : hue and devour on* another,
! i> ,h *' y* bo not consumed on*
mi ,"7 ,f 1 hat* one In a prec
is* ..'V 'letermtnod and all conaum-
'ten-.. 1 '" I 11 "** lc *° Osstroy him. The
hate art pistols and dyna
f 0P i* , '" 1 ' therefore It not practical,
" "?• upon, to the fullest extent,
„ ' upon, to the ft
L," J . destroy tbo race.
i* Hi* only thoroughly practl-
"orkabit principle, and there
"l> lesson for It. The com-
'■ l"Ve one's neighbor as on*'*
'"'"<1 upon th* deepest needs
11 nature. Who Is my neigh-
• w hy should. 1 love him ts 1
•* hu, ,
fed end brought up to the age of tn
tv-one years by Ihe squirrels and ...
birds I would not have been'as well see the difference between n |»ngan and
furnished, when grown, for taking rare n rhiistlntt community, look at Lgypt
of mvaetf. as the lower animals. I in the time of I hetips. w hen the wealth
would have had no house, no clothes, [of the country nss used up to build a
no Are, no morals, no Ideas, no Ian- tomb for one man, and at America In
jtuair* and no religion I would liuvejthe *‘ mr •>* l “'
known nothing about God or myself. ;r v"*' f
fip-ith or Immortality. The animat*! muetei
around me would have been far belter I roads, or street car systems, which look
Hff 'They knew Itow to take care of to the cou"iion good._R_*o happens,In
themselves by Instinct. Each lower
animal at birth Inherits the sense
Vanderbilts, when the
omtilutefl properties of the
>f rtnnnce are Invested In rail- |
the specie*. The first bee ever created
had a* much senae as the last one,
snd any tine bee haa us much sens, .is
all the bees In the world pul together
But mangels nothing at birth, but the ,
bare possibilities of a man. Keep hint
.... MoiatirtH tviih hla in* fflihor und • u* > i
out of relation with his neighbor-and |J™'
he lives anil dies a blank. Any .me of, ' r
us living in w civilised community l'«» '
n foi-.tilth.nent or blessing he did I ’ I .
It followX.I ■ *
our day tliMt rvrry man of u* own* Ihe
wealth thill liur been Invented In ln»tft-
tuilon*. width nerve in*. To whom do
th*- mreei rullwuy nyntemu of grout
» IUe** belong'’ To you und to me. Some
one will Noy: I thought they belonged
to the Mookliohlrn* “ The h| IM ''kluddt*ru
hem hr much u* we do.
moil* tax
ghi to mnnltnilnte them, while
..... .. furnl»hmen«
not gel from hi* nelghlx
therefore, outulde of Scripture.
manipulate them,
lino* they ran hot une
in lhey ride on them,
hie on them, pay no tux.
he line of u hundred million
Uli to go from ohe
ihe imall *utn of
iiib'i ■«»*•'• *’•"•••— vvitat. i live iTiiiR. io tiii« rtenno we own Ihe
love hie neighbor •» h .«,!!elr.-irh- light plant*, the (an work?*. Ihe
ever 1 have of even *o Un *;°2 e wuierwork?* .the aim* fuctorlea. the Iron
worldly a thing aa money njj foundries nnd ihe vaat network of rail-
given to me by my "v/USSi; ‘ |roa»U that *nwi«|» thla cohilnent. We
money, too. I* k*l»t vuluable berguee ^ Hr< , nol j Mlor; we are ull rich, und rich,
my relation to my neighbor, a mini n : t0l> hecauec we have com** together and
therefore, outaiae or "" ,dnllara. when we wl*
ground* of political , /.V* place to another, for
that, quid p, „ ,,U" that a nmn ahould C .
or a billion dollars would have t*'*®' 1 * I orgattlscd ourselves
nothing to Robinson < rusoe, had ">• 11„ accordance with the principle of
ommunlty
boen forced t" stay alone on his Island j-.
h. iiii.il Bv eo much as our re- .
“."tl^'wl't" 1 ' “c "Y^bor become
?hT^ b otVv.ro C Jrwortd.r^f..
Through the working of th* principle
of love, those who live In Fhrlstlan
■tales, find themselves rich. Much I*
skid concerning the puor. hut In tha
deeuest sene* there are no poor people
In ihle country. Few people In thl*
BAHHtPV aver HUW d Ktllf |HK)T ItUin.
Thole’who have traveled In Rstoattna
beyond the Jordan have seen poor folks.
SS?._ .h.v are divided up tnlo small
has given to 1 me nil that I
Hud t been left at birth on
There they *r* divided up Into entail
Bedouin tribes. They hnv* such clothe*
ns they make with their own hnnda
and such food ss they can steal or
gather from a crudely c “ 1 * 1 '
Th»v hive no clock*, no newnpmpcr*,
ebooks, and nothing bywhlchlhcy
are placed Into relation with the great
body of mankind Every MvW
thl* country I* rich, an mm pawl with
thamemter* of a Bedouin tribe. Nearly
all tho money In title country bas been
But some wlnh to be rich In the or
dinary *en»e of having million* of *ur-
plup money to their credit. Hardly one
could be found but would be wliljng to
acknowledge having the wi»h for a
round million laid up In bank* to hi*
credit. Kuppotte every per*on In At
lanta had u million dollara aurplua to
III* credit In bank. Who wo»uld bring
up milk ami vegetable*? Who would
cook Tor ii*7 Who would mend our old*
iitnbrellHP? Who would drive our
drayp and act a* motornien on our
Ptreet car*? Millionaire* would not
>ok. or mend ehoe*. and beside* *ur
In himself unreached and unused. Out
of aelflshuepp. pelf-centerednes*. wrhlch
Ip the raw material of sin and mean*
hops man bullup for himself a tomb.
In which he think* hlmaelf living, wrhllc
he Ip dead. We have all seen people,
who. by their opposition to what la
right and proper, by their antagonisms,
by their spite and envy, and III will,
gradually phriyel and shrivel, growing
smaller and smaller with the passing
year*, until In age their very uamea be
any tendency in the d
toward our neighbor,
to deepair and death.
loving our neighbor. Not only are th<
great riches within us called out b>
love to our neighbor, but whatever en-
transfigure* us, t* to conie
through love to our neighbor.
we are Insulated. What i
give us must come to us t
love to othet*. In Christ «h
fullness of the God head
form. We touch Him tl
neighbor. l*nless we love o
REV. JAMER W. LEE.
In the deptha of each one of us. Tho
great question Is how shall these bo
called up and organised Into character?
There ia but one wgfr. and that Is the
Scriptural way. Hfranda of love from
the depths of each one's life must be
thrtiwn about every other human being
In the world. The neighbor thus con
stituted of the fifteen hundred millions
of people other than ourselves pulling
plus wealth might encourage us In jat the Interior depth* ofqis by the cords
idleness and result In untwisting (he of love will lift to heart snd will and
moral fiber. Ii was Intended that we mind ambfsce all the divine and human
should all he rich, but rich through resources within us that go to complete
relation to the organised community to jus. as men and women. By falling to
w hich we belong. j love his neighbor, a man exilea fend Iso-
We res Use ourselve- through hales Mrdself By so much hn one cuts
loving our neighbor. There are vast re-j a single cionl that binds him tn love
serves of i*ower. of affection, of cour-jio a single human being, by so much
Inland «h-ra.Hara iIwmI not Uni ho monev In this country nss ween serves or iiower. or auction, or * our-no a single human netng. ny so muri
human being, gild tod I b^n invested in auch Institutions, commtr- age, of faith, of goodfiess sleeping with- does he leave something of value with
all the grat e, truth and life
to give
Hi. We cease to be common and
HI vial and Insignificant through lov
ing our neighbor. It Is In this way
that we get Into ths world that really
belongs to us. Travel over the world
of sea and Und does not enUrge us
much. We are pretty much the same
after a^trlp to the Alps ur tu Egypt
or to India as we were bafore we left
home. This earth Is not our home and
ia not our real place of action. The
strengtheneth me"; aa** »taewhere
aays. “For,whs* •* -a cuuld not »o
In that It waa • ;nr«»ugh the flesh,
God sending His om Son. In the like
ness of the fleati, and for sin, con
demned sin In the fledti. that the right
eousness of the law might be fulfilled
In us who walk not after the flesh but
after the eplrlt." and again. “For the
law* of the spirit of life tn t*hrlst Jesus
hath made me free from the law o»f
sin and death." Through faith, which
la the spiritual sense, the universal life
of rhrtet flows into my lift, ao that
tha life I live I live by the faith of
the Bon God. so that I do not In a
selfish and sinful sense live at alt. but
f'hrist llveth In me. In this way I
love my neighbor as myself, or rather
Christ in me loves my neighbor
through my heart, and helpa my neigh-
and waepe over
through my
real, the deep, the essential, the* uni
versa! and eternal within us must have
a roomier realm to range In than this
small planet. If I am to find enlarge
ment through travel then I must
through love roam through the great
universe that faith In (*htist opens up
to me.
How am I to lovs my neighbor at
myself? To tell one to «lo this In hie
own unaided strength t« like com
manding him to fly. I am bound up
wjth a nature of flesh and earth that
will not let me do what my conscience
tells toe I ought to do. I an* to love
nfy nriicftbnr *v» mp4elf through faith
tn Christ, tft. Paul. said. “I can do
all things through Christ, who
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