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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, APRIL 13. IMf. T ii declared In the ninth vecae of In faith. I the sixteenth chapter of second * t'hronlclea that the_ eyee of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth In order that He may •how Hlmielf strong toward them wiho«e lives are -perfectly turned to ward Him. The meaning of the dec laration In that tho mind of God, in cluding hla thought, affection and will, •re In every place all the time In order that he may show hlmaelf strong In hehalf of them whole mind. Including their thought, affection and will, are perfectly turned toward him. Hero we have, in abort compaae. a complete •.'■•tern of theology and philosophy. It is a sad discount upon the spirit ual refinement and sensibility of the average person that he Is unahle to recognize the presence of Ocd In the ordinary relations of life. . In a class nieeilng some years ago In a Southern city the brethren commented on a rail read nitnstrophe In which several per, •ons were killed. The accident was so heart-rending that It was In every- I ones mind. Reference was made to It n the class meeting as an awful prov idence intended to’warn people of the Importance of getting ready to die. It occurred to me at the time that the In terpretation given to the disaster by these religious people was unsound and misleading. Finally I remarked that on the day before the cars collided *freight train passed on Its way and a passenger train also. Fathers on the Passenger train were not killed, but reached their.homes In safety and kissed ihelr children at the gate. I Wanted to know If this was not a prov idence also. It Is the habit of mind of most people to be awakened to a sense the presence of God only through a steamboat explosion, a yellow-fever epidemic, a railroad collision, a hur ricane or an earthquake. God to them |s not apparent In the rising and Bel ong sun. the quiet revolving stats, the changing seasons, the Aowlng corn, 'he blooming flowers. He Is In dts- ** ,e but not In health; In death, but hot In life; In disorder, but not In or der; in famine, but not In plenty; In , spalr, but not In hope: In weepings, but not In laughter. Religion with Wls Class |g not health and something be desired. It Is’ rather an abnor mal state of mind and something to ”* drafted. It la not to be sought after oly In sight of threatening death. It , to complete life, but something I?., desired. It Is rather an abnor- ml state of mind and something to 'dresded. It Is not to be sought after hly In sight of threatening death. Ihini vnmp'ele life, but soms- Those who hold this view of relig ion regard It ns an essence rather than, as a method of life uod actual substance, a fit of emotion rather than a moral and spiritual mode of motlbn, a kind of heavenly manna falling Into the heart at particular seasons and In moments of peril rather than con stant conformity to the law of God. Such people talk of getting rellglbn. It Is something to be gathered from without. It matters not whether men get It at sixty or twenty years of age, lust so they get It. A man. It Is true, runs some little risk In waiting until old age to get religion, for he might be killed by a stray bullet or a sud den fall, or a kerosene explosion .with out a moment’s time to make the prop er preparation. But the chances are that each Individual will have a few hours’ time to get reedy »o die, and (lien there has been’a clear gain of thirty or forty years of untrainmeled worldly living. A man has lost noth ing If he waits forty years to have his house Insured, as It has not caught tire during thet time, but has really gained the coat of the Insurance. Religion with tble class Is of uo mortal use In healthy end robust life. It Is a cor relate to disease end weakness. It comes along with old age thunder storm*- and graveyards. It when the great earthquake , ailed Charleston some years ago there was not room enough In the churches to hold the people who wanted to IP™> • All this Is because people have not cul tivated the liablt of seeing God In what is ordinary and not what Is ex- traordlnary. There tnust be a trench to break or some violent upheaval In order to arrest their attention. If God were to accommodate hlm- telf to this spasmodic, cataclysmic- theological view of things he would be under the necessity of keeping the earth perpetually trembling and shak ing, and this trembling a . nd "h»klt£ would have to he Increased «y»«X f«w months In order to keep people re minded of his presence. This entire conception of God In hl« relation to nature Is pagan. It Is »bou on a level with the theology of the Chinese, who never see God only when Iho sun Is under an eclipse or when the cattle are afWcted with some ter rible disease. Against It ill we have the teaching of Scripture, which rep- reeents God as In every• place and In every event throughout the whole earth JHW&riM’ofS?-"Mi may be demonstrated that when man turns with his thought toward the thought which God has expressed In nature, In the social world and In the spiritual realm, God shows Himself strong to him. Let us test the truth of the text In nature. Nature stands for materiel and tangible creation. It Ii composed of about seventy original elements. These elements are expressions of God’s mind. They are God’s thoughts relating to our physical well-being. Wll. Ham Kingdom Clifford said that the chemical elements or atoms were only so much mind stuff. Suppose we turn our thought nnd Industry to God's thought as expresssd to us In the orig inal elements of which nature la com posed. Will we find God showing Him self strong to us here? Iron Is one of the elements. It Is _ thought of God. There Is much capsulate In this thought. All things Into which Iron may he turned have always been potentially In It. They were lodged In It as It came from the mind of God. What does'God Uo when men turn to Hie thought expressed In Iron? Does He not show Himself as strong aa Iron permits Him? Does He not show Himself as atrdhg to men here as tracechalna, handsaws, Jack planes, clan -hamniemrs. mowers, reap ers, pocket-knives, typewriters, steam engines and raxor blades? All these things God must have seen in Iron when He expressed It as a thought. We can hardly think that man with his Intelligence has been able to see more in Iron and get more from It than (he mind of (he Almighty put Into It. ' Yes, there Is in Iron the thought and affection and will of God. but because of our failure to see God In things ordinary, we miss It. How many of us. when riding In one of our modern palace cars from one part of the con tinent to another, ever atop to think of the part the thought and affection of God are playing in the M-mlle-an- hour speed with which we ride over J. W. LEE. at once we wake up to a recognition of the presence of God. Take carbon, another thought- df God, and one of the original elemants. It la the element that makea up the content of our coal beds and fuel. Fir a long time coal was buried In the mountains and unused,' but when man at length turned bis thought to this vast ami manifold divine thought God showed Himself as strong through this element as the tire In the grate that warms our children, as the best In the furnace that drives our engine, and as the steam In the bolter that moves our ! great palaces across the Atlantic. How ’ many of us ever see our Father’^ thought and love here? Upon dark, stormy nights, when the coal bums bright In the old home fireplace, how many of us ever remember that our loving heavenly Father’s thought and emotion and will are expressing them selves In the warmth and glow that make our rooma an confortable and bright? Here God’s mind Is manifested toward us In strong and steady, but In quiet und peaceful ways. Therefore, we miss It, because of the dullness and lowness of our spiritual Insight. But If while the fire le send ing out Us quiet warmth and light and mingling with the playsand happiness of the children the walls of the dwell ing wero to begin »o shake violently because of an earthquake or cyclone, we would at once begin to recognize the presence of God. The real truth Is, however, that our Father was speaking to us more really In the quint heat of the the that! III tile HWflll rocli- i;iK of tin - rat t tiqunke. Hut many of us are so coarse and heavy that It Is necessary to knock 11s down In order to get an Idea Into our obdurate beads; We are so earthly and leaden nnd llv- so completely In the earthy part of ourselves that tho pulso of the spirit Is only perceptible at such time when the body Is being shaken out of Its ae- customed grooves of ease and Indolence. llte mountains and across the valleys? In the emotion of ouf Father's heart, who always felt for us, that .speed and that comfort were always existent. But we fail’ to recognise God here, unless our car happens to get thrown from the. track and we find ourselves tum bled down an embankment. Then all POSITIONS Contract given, baefted by $300,000.00 capital a DRAUGHON’S ,K 'c Business 28 Colleges in 16 Htate*. Indorsed by bu*ln< LEARN BY MAIL!;; ; laSw. Letter' Writing. English. Drawing. Ii Inltmtiiig. etc. Money l*nck if not satisfied Secured or Money Back ! nd 18 yetis’ success COLLEGES is men. No vacation, sfl*r completing '*our»e. I-or “Catelogin* i H." on Horn** Btttdy «»r "fstslogn* IV* nn ; intending Col lege, phone MS tBHI pbon*». I amlri'rfx M<in<tfi>r Draugbmi'n I College; ending H'llm'l nil WATSON’S WEEK! LY J EFFEKSONUN " Thomas E. Watsons newspaper devoted to the ad vocacy of the Jeffersonian theory of government AND THE ATUN1 1 1 * fAG iEORGIAN ■ ONE YEAR $4 .50 S—W— 1—rn ■BHMMBr mnN complete me, dui fuim«- n.vHiinr . f be used la cases of Upeea Scripture la sueegpllbte of proof. ATLANTA, 122 Pencilree. Piedmont Hot el Ulock; or Jacksonville or Montgomery. WHAT’S IN A MAN? "What it man that thou shouldest magnify him; and that thou shouldest* set thine heart upon him?"—Job 7:17. "But Jesus needed not that arty should testify of man, for He knew what was In man."—John 2:25. By REV. JOHN E. WHITE, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH . DO not see any thing great about I that picture." said a pompous 1 tourist In front of the painting exhibition In one of the European Queries ” Ab " 831,1 ,bP pa,nter ovfr - HrinB the remark, ’’but don’t you you could?” That was the dif- I'erence between the bllmLman and ths ,rl j*b did not know what was In . Jesus did, and that Is the fact measures the distance between , b , spiritual power of Job and the spiritual power of Jesus. Have any of you thought or said, "X • «ee whet people get so stirred up I >bou t, trying to get people converted?” 1 ,1. but don't you wish ■ on < MM ! Vow the unconcern of some Christians, eckle seal of many others and ths ( 'I-Uow 'faddlsm'' wf still others In the mitter of personal effort to win men to Christ, must havo some explanation. 1 believe it lies profoundly In tho in- uoi,reflation of what's In a man, the unrealised value of a human soul. What'" In a man that God should set m, peart on hint? What's In a man, ,i 1 -V a girl, that vve who represent God ■,Villa world should be exercised by a passion to save them? This was Job’s 'mestlon when the world was younger uni people were scarce: this Is our uuestion now. whon the world la muen older and the streets are swarming with human beings. Playing ths Gams. Mw question would be less tmpor- ■ tent were it not for a scandal and a shame that Is out upon tho Church of Jesus Christ. A scandal In the Church „f Christ: What do you mean? 1 mean this, and I mean It very’ seriously. Including inyself In the shame of It, that the root Idea of .lesus Christ has I with n powerful majority of Christians heroine practically almost a negligible quantity. That Idea, and It was (lie verv first conception we bail of Chris tianity. is that the Individual disciple of Jesus Is pledged to bo In the world an avowed active agent of the Gospel, the member of a brotherhood dedicated to the business of personal witness and endeavor, to the end that other Indi viduals shall be saved from the power' and the Impending penalty of sin. "here fs a poem entitled "Playing the Game." The story It tells is of on English boy In a hard-fought football match, when muscle worn and spirit weary the victory was about to go against Ida ajde. But one thing re vived hla courage. It was the low. tense call of the captain along the rani, of the men, "Play the game." The second stanza finds the lad a soldier In South Africa. Another sort of battle Is on hand. In the desperate hour his courage Is again stirred by the calling memory of his old football cap tain’s voice. “Play the game." The third stanza finds the English lad a man touched by Christ, out .f one army into another. He is a minis ter In London. The work Is hard, dis appointing. discouraging, but assailed by doubt, fregret. despondency, the old football captain has become Christ and He Is standing by him with pierced hands and blood-damped brow and wounded side, saying "Play the game!" "Play the game!" The esprit of the Christian Church fs sadly broken: its front of it toward unbelievers, the Christies* and God less and hopeless ranks of the sinning multitudes is dreadfully- ragged an 1 disorderly. The friends and comrades of Jesus In His Church are not playing the'game. That Is, the scandal of the church, and we have this vital prob lem on hand; Why is it that so many of the members of the society of Jesus havo gona back on the program? What is the secret of so many "quitters" In the church? • , If not a complete explanation, tills is hear to it: We haven’t the vision to see the value of a soul nor to realize the Import of a lost spirit. An Atlanta Business Man. The other day a minister was urging upon a noble Christian friend that he ought to be a soul winner. In the cod- versation he used that worn out phrase, "soul winners." The gentiman candid ly turned to him and said: "I am sure there Is something In that line 1 ought to do; but men like inyself are not clear as to what you mean by a 'soul winner:’ the reality of the effort you urge upon us is not clear or honestly genuine to our minds. What do you mean by winning a soul? What is a soul? You do not mean that we should button-hole people to Join the church or, at least, that Is disclaimed? What Is it about-a man we are to go after? I hpar preachers and evangelists saying that insuistu <■ agents ami candidates f*»r offle- arc il!ii-! rat urns >>f w hat < 'hrlsthins ought to be like. Do you wonder that) business men do not get anything out of that? We know what Insurance agents are up to. They want to get a man's signature to an application, to land them In the company and get their commission, if you will tell us straight out that Is what you mean—that you want to get people signed up for bap tism and church membership—you make the matter very aliaQr. Bat fOO do not mean that, and what I want to know Is w*hat you mean by 'a soul winner’—what is a soul?” Your thought Is that the gentleman was a crank, a captious sophist. Not TO fast. A -• • 1 1 i. - A 11, U hat lie said. Job’s question. "What Is man that Thou shouldest set Thine heart on hint?" was right along that line. Da vid, surveying the vastness and splen dor of the universe, wanted to know* likewise what it was In a man that God so sought and honored. Phillips Brooks once warned young ministers that they would be sure to feel some times the unnaturalness and Incon gruity of the great truths-of Incarna tion and atonement In contrast with the apparent insignificance of a human life. ‘ There must be something In a man, capable of appreciation, and great enough to justify the vastness of the outlay of God and the sacrifices of His followers. John says Jesus could answer this question—that He knew what was In a man. It is not wrong to, ask It. then. If you have the faith to feel eure that there Is an answer. Oh. Lord, what Is It In these seventy scholars of our Sunday school and in these young men and women of our congregations and In these thousands of our streets that we should be dead In earnest to have saved? Is there not something we do not appreciate? What Did Jesus See? Wesley and Whitfield and Finney and!with her pistol, but he came toward Xirjlia M<l Mgodjr—^who toUfia and (her. "I will shoot you! I will shoot DR. JOHN E. WHITE. George Muller and Dr. Barnardo. who gave themselves to the passion of sav ing children, are you not Impressed that they could see something In a little, dirty, foul.tongued street gamin that we do not see? Or the lives of men like William Casey and Adontram Judson, is It not evident that they saw In those disagreeable foreign fellows of heathendom a something hidden from common vision, that they should set their hearts so desperately on saving them? Likewise, as you take note of the When you read the lives of men like great modern pleaders of the gospel— traveled and gave up tlielr whole hearts to tears and labors and to eagerness and passion for sinners that they have an appreciation of something In a man that w’e are blind to? Look at Paul and Peter and Philip, what Is that stirred them to such labors? And especially when with unusual diligence to follow the every day ministry of Jesus Christ for the three wonderful years, do you not fefll awed by the Im pression that He sees something In people, a worth, a wealth, a something of infinite and mysterious Import and consequence that Invests a human be ing with a sort of compensating value for His passion and His power? And you are not mistaken. There Is and theiv HUN l"' ?n:iieiiiiiiu in a man to justify God's setting His heart on him. Whatever it Is, that Is what Jesus Christ knew was there nnd that was what He was so Intent upon saving. We read that when He beheld the rich young ruler "He loved him," that when He beheld the multitude "He was moved with compassion." We read of His patience with Peter, of His tender ness with the woman taken In adultery, of His pursuit of ZacheuA of His bold entrance Into the Pharisee’s house, of His Imperious call to Matthew*, Ills piercing frankness with the woman at the well and Hla painstaking argument with Nlcodemus. What did Jpsus see In these people? He saw something, and that In every man Is what a Christian ought to look for. For In every human being you meet and pass on the strest, and In every one you do nof usually see on the streets, but can be found in places of shame or crime. Is that something God Is looking for to save it. The Little Girl thst Was Afraid. I have heard the story of a little Austrian girl who was brought to Paris, where her father made & thief of her. She became as a young woman the most dating and akillful burglar of Paris. One night as she was robbing the safe in the library of a mansion she made a noise with the box of Jew-* els she had taken from the safe. Jn a moment the wealthy man she was rob bing, who had not retired, opened the door and saw her. She threatened him you!" she cried. "Oh, no you will not,' he said. "For you do not know me. I want to talk with you. I believe you know that It Is not really you who arc doing this. What is your name? Tell me about yourself. Are you not afraid In this dreadful business?" "No," she said, still defiantly at bay. "Were you never afraid?" he queried. "Yes, I used to be when I was a little girl." "Oh. lei me ite." and he laid his hand kindly on her shoulder. "I*t me see. let me see." Looking deeply Into her eyes, he said: "Do you know w*hat I see? I see the little girl that was afraid and I am going to have her out." The man talked to her earnestly, told her there was a better life nnd that there was one to help her be a good, pure woman. She fell upon her kneis and sobs shook her frame while he bent, over her tenderly and led her soul to repentance and saved her. Take your bit of humanity wherever you find It, take it In the barrooms, where profane men congregate, and in pool rooms—take it in the rich club*, where so many men of the Christl type find their social pleasures, take It In the proud circle of Godless, selfish, vainglorious society and there something there worthy of your Infinite mptet, souls i himr i hat is going to be lost unless Jesus Christ can win It by Ills love. The necessity for special effort to get eti to Christ Is all over every street In Atlanta—necessity, the greatest ne cessity. It is In every church. Thou sands of the kindest-hearted Chris tians are blind to this one great ne cessity of waking up the souls of shi ners—of seeing first that they have souls and of realising that they can he sweetened, purified, and by Jesus Christ. 1 wish I could make people see what Is iq a man. Ah, much Is there appealing to see, but beneath It all that soul, that eternal self, which the Son of God died to save. Is there anything more awful than the fact that men and women are allowed by us to forget their souls and by us allowed to move In Christian circles utterly away from God and none of us to love Christ enough or their Immortal souls enough oven so much as to make them remem ber they have souls at nil, <<r th,v th«ve Is such an one as our great Saviour? Gypsy Smith’s Best Story. The most beautiful and touching story told by Gypsy Smith was, I think, the story of tlutf Highland shepherd and the scientist. The great naturalise one lovely summer day a year ago went out In the highlands of Scotland with Ills microscope to stuwy the heather hell in all Its native glory and In order that he might see It In its perfection he goc down on his face without plucking tho flower, adjusted his instrument and was revelling In Its color. Its delicacy, its beauty, "lost In wonder, love and praise." How long he stayed there le does not know, but suddenly there wan a shadow* on him and his instrument. He waited for a time, thinking it might be a passing cloud. But It stfiye i there, and presently he looked up over his shoulder and there was a fine spec imen of Highland shepherd watching him, and. without saying a word, he plucked the little heath* r bell an I handed It wltti the microscope to the shepherd, that he, too. waa^beholding as If he hod a vision of heaven. And the old shepherd put the Instrument up to his eyes, got the heather bell in place and looked at It until the tent* ran down his rugged face like bubble* on a mountain scream. And then, handing back tho little heaiher bell tenderly and the Instrument, ho said: "I wish you had never shown me that: I wish I had never seen it." "Why?" asked the scientist. "Because," he said, "mon, that mde foot has trodden on so many of ’em.” , My#friend, if you will get Christ’s eyes for a man today, and that is what we are going to ask you to pray for, and see a soul as He saw* it and as it In the unsaved people you are with every day In thoughtless, careless gaie ty, or In rough, selfish business dealing, you will have a new sorrow—the sor row that you have so much of your life lived heedlessly of that precious thing, the soul. May the Lord tear away the flesh from between our eyes and what Is in a man and help us see once In our lives what Jesus saw! ‘ “THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD” s : j By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWQOD, | PASTOR UNIVERSALIST CHURCH X bringing horn" to His hearers His great spiritual truths. Jesus al ways used the strongest and yet tlie simplest and most readily compre hended figures of speech. We find Him drawing Hie great lessons from the birds o( the nlr. the flowers of the flehl. the beasts of burden, the commonest tasks of the commonest lives. Ofteil, loo. He utilized for His purposes the familiarity of His hearers with the or dinary phenomena of the universal ele ments of nature. Always Ho sought that medium of expression which would le a common mental pathway tor Hla hearers. . . — - ■ Nothing was more universal than light. In the knowledge nnd experience "f Utose. wltt) were sd. fortunate tt-t to listen to Ills s'poko.i \i.i d-. \ flfSi tlt absolute prominence was accorded It, In the minds of the ancients, with rela- 11011 to all commonly recognized cle- tnents of nature. In the Gen tile story »f the beginning of things, the creation ■ f light precedes the origin of the I planet which our modern scientists do. > be the cause of all licit:, either | direct or reflected. The sun was an- i psrentiv merely an after thought In the I mind of God. the people to whom Christ first | on Inred Himself to be "the light of tho j world" ft Is quite possible, therefore, I that the figure of speech possessed an i even greater significance than thst with which It falls upon our ears today, for they associated light In their thought as the first natural element to make its appearance, when, out of primal chaos, order began to evolve, as "the Spirit of God moved 'upon the face of the waters.” But. “upon us. too. Ins the light shined," nnd. while our Ideas concern ing the origin of light and Its Imme diate source may not be those «f Christ's first hearers, our conception of Its Importance, and our gratitude for Its possession should be even greater than theirs, for we have trained our selves to use It In ways of which even their astrologers nsver dreamed, c To hearing ears; and understanding tlbarls. therefore. He speaks when to u* He declares Himself to be "the light of the world,"'nor may we plead Ignor ance of the full significance of that soK emn admonition, "ye are the light of the world." Our scientists no longer dignify dark ness by denominating It as a. positive force In natdre, as opposed to light. Rather do they declare that darkness has no element of reality, but Is merely the absence of light. Light Is thus recognized as the positive, the genera tive force In nature. The vugue terrors Incident to our unfortunate conception of darkness soon disappear when we learn that this nameless terror has no reality. In our gratitude for tlie posi tive reality of light we turn glahy away from our foolish fear of Its tem porary absence. Here the analogy Is close. Indeed. The glorified life and the matchless teach ings of Jesus constitute the positive element of uur moral universe. Ab sence of this "life which wae In Christ Jesus" constitutes that gross spiritual darkness which settles like a pall upon tho heart and the life of the man who wilfully chosea to turn his face per sistently away from the light, sir who lacks the word of kindly counsel \o teach hint how to open the shutters which darken his soul. This Is also that’dsrkness which enshrouds the eohl which depends for Its Illumination upon the letter of the law. losing the vaster power of Its spiritual significance. Christ averred tlpit He had coine, not to destroy, but to fulfill the law. The stern “thou shall not" of the early lawmaker loses nothing of Us deterrent power, but finds Itself divested of Us negative and repellent quality, and thrilling with the high Impulse of that positive note of command, "Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thou shalt love thy nleghbor as thyself.” Thus the fife of Jesus Illuminates with the law of love ' REV. E. D. ELLENWOOD. eager aervk'e. the aoul darkened saddened by the shadow of the I fear of the lam*. From being the cring ing subject of an awesome monarch, man becomes the loving friend and trusting child of "our Father who art in heaven." Instead of being under the bondage of tho law, the spirit of Christ dwells within him, and "the law* of his God Is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide." Another commonly understood prop erty of light Is Its universality, vlt knows no limitations of locality, no bounds of social or racial distinction. The light which sparkles In ths rip pling mountain stream Is the same light which enfolds the traveler on the burning desert waste. The light which renders glorious the splendid w’indow of the cathedral falls Impartially upon the wine-stained floor Jn the lowest brothel In any city. It kisses, with equal tenderness, the upturned face of the sleeping babe, and the distorted, repellent features of the meanest drunkard. It visits, alike with Its cheor- Ing presence, the mansion on the hill and jhe ttny cottage at the bend of the road. So Jesus comes to us absolutely as "the light of the world." With Him there is neither Jew nor Greek, bond or free. He comet with His message of love and forgiveness, alike to the thoughtful and the Indifferent, to the prosperous and to the unfortunate, to the wise and to the foolish, to the brave and to the craven, to the pure In heart and to the wanderer In sin. His loving heart, knows no division of rank or station, of dress or culture, With* Him there Is no suggestion of special privilege, but always the con sideration of special need. He comes : to a world of men and women who need His teachings and the wondrous transforming power of His life, and He finds them all His brethren, the chil dren of a common Father. So Jesus Is. in very truth, the "light of the world," when tried by this test. For nearly two thousand years has this wondrous light blessed by Its rays the moral universe, and today its pow*er Is greater In the lives of men, than w*hen It first dispelled from darkened souls the gloom of eternal night. From this Inexhaustible source has been drawn the solace of the sorrowing, tho com fort of the suffering, the admonition of the erring, the strength of the weak, the courage of the oppressed, and tho hope of the tlyHsft.'. The light which has streamed across all of these cen turies, Illumines our hearts, today, with undltulnlshed power. We must not forget, also, to think of light as the absolutely Indispensable medium of sight. Indeed, without light* there is no vision. Naturalists tell us that the fish which live In the streams and pools found In great caves In the earth, are absolutely without night. Light thus enables us to use this price less special sense for the transference of Intelligence to the mind. It Is the great reveoler. By its aid, vve form our ideas of distance, size, and form. We obtain a true perspective, nnd learn to estimate values, with refer ence to the relations of objects, one to another. Through light, wo become possessed of the knowledge and ap preciation of beauty. Jesus brings to us n revelation of the nature and the character of the’ heavenly Father. He enables us to see and to know* God. As He said to Phil ip so He says to us, "he that hath seen me, hath seen the Father." Wit Ii our spiritual blindness changed to clear sight and Intelligent perception, the fear of a wrathful and avenging God gives place to the adoration of a loving and merciful Father. Tho fran tic attempt to evade tho Inevitable cor rection for misconduct 1s forever aban doned, and all discipline and chastise ment, however grievous, is gratefully welcomed as the only means to the at tainment • 1 f spiritual perfection. Also, do we thus become possessed of tho proper spiritual perspective, and loarn w’hat are the real essentials of life. Thus do many of tho old life's bitter disappointments lose forever their sting. THE REAL PRESENCE—I. By REV. JAMES W. LEE, PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH