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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
8 AT U It DAY, A PHIL 20, 190T.
TOMORROW
By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD, j
PASTOR UNIVERSALIST CHURCH !
1 J /TAX'S moat Invaluable spiritual
/1 faculty I* hope. Us possession
i 1 i, the most conclusive evidence
h la creation In the likeness of God.
, , t h is soul escapes the most polgn-
st ing of today'B realities by the
-thing Influence of the assurance of
■narrow’* posslbllttes. No matter
l,at the day may bring forth, no man
I completely miserable who has not
i, ms faith In tomorrow. No won-
r that the great artist and marvel-
! [ dramatist. In his effort to fashion
C in ost graphic description of the re.
of lest souls should have written
nve tie portals of his Inferno the
Hurtling proclamation. "Leave Hope
hind, an ye who enter here!" Hell
ii aiwa/s present in the soul which
Are hM forsaken.
The eoquent pen of the noted Sen-
uttir Infalls, of Kansas, spoke but half
I trot If when It characterised oppor
tunity U an elusive sprite, calling but
cnee 4 every man’s door, and Imme-
diatelsj whisking herself away, to be
seen P more. Hope sits not down,
bewnljig the errors and failures of
vesterky. nor the wasting of today’s
Jmportnlty, hut reads In the glowing
dawn pf tomorrow’s sunrise another
.nd astlll more glorious chance. Hope
wastf no time In bewailing the In-
contr ’ertlble fact that “the mill will
never grind with the Water that Is
nast,’ JUt. noting that the water ceaaes
pass, busies herself with the
erection of another mill, farther down
the stream. .Hope forever sings "Every
day is a fresh beginning: every morn
Is a world made new. Ye, who are
weary of sorrow and sinning, here Is
a beautiful thought for you,”
Walter Malone, a poet and lawyer of
Memphis, Tenn., has written a most
telling answer to the -famous sonnet
of Ingalls. It was published In "Alns-
lee’s Magazine” two ur three years ago.
Let me reproduce It here:
"They do me wrong who say I come no
more.
When once I knock, and fall to And
you In;
For every day I stand outside your
door.
And bid you wake, and rise to light
.and win.
"Wall not for precious chances passed
away,
Weep not for golden ages on the
wane!
Each night I burn the records of the
day;
At sunrise every soul Is born again.
"Laugh like a boy at splendors that
have sped.
To vanished joys be blind and deaf
and dumb;
My judgments seal the dead past with
Its dead,
But -never bind a moment yet to
come.
"Though deep in mire, wring not your
hands and weep;
I lend my arm to all who say, ‘I
can!’
No shame-faced outcaat ever sank so
deep «
But yet might rise, and be again a
man!
"Dost thou behold thy lost youth, all
aghast?
Dost reel from righteous retribu
tion's blow?
Then turn from blotted archives of
the past
And find the future's pages white as
snow.
"Art thou a mourner? Rouse thee
from thy spell;
Art thou a sinner? Sins may be
forgiven;
Each morning gives thee wings to flee
from hell.
Each night a star to guide thy feet
to heaven!"
Thla beautiful little poem vibrates
with the living spirit of Christianity.
It was te unseal the tomb of tomor
row’ that Jesus lived, and wrought, and
died. His resurrection was not a mira
cle. Neither was It at all marvelous.
The marvel. Indeed, would have been
that such a life could be subject to
death. The Imperishable quality of
such a life Is one of the unspoken and
unproven certainties of the moral uni
verse. And, as the world shall become
REV. E. D. ELLENWOOD.
more and more fully acquainted with
the real object and mission of the life
of Jesus of Nazareth, It shall, become
less and less vitally Interested In the
various and conflicting traditions con
cerning the physical resurrection of
His perishing body. When we shall
bo able to exchange somewhat our
Interest In nhe historical Jesus for a
genuine Welcome to the personal Christ
we shall he able to recognize and ap
preciate the value of His presence In
the life that now Is, and And here also
an all aufllclent assurance of His abid
ing presence In the life that Is to be.
Whenever the living Chrlet Is admit,
ted Into a human heart hope revives,
the flaccid will is stimulated, courage
returns from her long pilgrimage, the
old lies of Impotence are forgotten,
and once more the man remembers
that he Is a child of God. Then, too, he
awakes to the fact that he need not
wait until the peaks of the mount of
expectation aro gilded with the beams
of tomorrow's sun. ere he may hope
for the beginning of the consummation
of the dreams and longings of the long
night of pain and anguish and despair.
With the reassuring presence of the
Christ, memory ana reflection return
and he Is able to remember that the
day In which he now finds himself Is
yesterday’s tomorrow, and that, ere Its
sun shall sink, he may, If he will, And
the answer to his prayer.
Yet, undoubtedly there are a great
many people who havo unduly devel
oped this philosophy of tomorrow. They
aro almost fanatical In their worship at
the ehrlne of "the next opportunity."
They seem to have forgotten that today
Is the only, possible bridge whereby
they shall be able to reach the delecta
ble shores of tomorrow. These are
usually the people In whose theology
miracle plays a conspicuous part. Ood's
laws are made the sport of HI* crea
tures, and vicarious sacrifice Is em
ployed as a free passport to unearned
bliss and peace. Life's Inevitable pain
and loss becomes In their philosophy
an unendurable evil, rather than the
Father’s method for the perfecting if
Ills sons and daughter*.
There are*, no days lost or useless In
the calendar of eternity. We do not
escape today's discipline by our fatu
ous prayer for tomorrow's Joy. Right
eousness Is the only real happiness and
righteousness Is not transferable, nei
ther may It be conferred as a mark of
especial favor. There Is no royal road
to goodness. There Is no primrose path
to spiritual perfection.
To the sick In body, as well as In
soul; Christ comes today, even as In the
days when He walked and talked with
men, and His offer Is that of Immediate
succor and relief. Not only does He
revive hope and thereby apply the
anodyne for today*! sharp pain, In the
assurance of tomorrow's release, but,
with His Intimate knowledge of human
ity's needs, He Immediately applies the
treatment requisite for a complete qure.
With the tenderness of sympathy born
of experience In Buffering, He brings to
us the healing of the Father's love. And
though, at times, we 'may deem the
remedy severe In Its application, though
deeply may the divine mandate probs
the suffering soul. yet. let tie be assured
these are but the "faithful wounds of a
friend.”
If today we shall endure, patlenttv
and gratefully, the loving chastisements
of Him whose sons and daughters we
are, ere long there shall dawn upon our
enraptured consciousness a tomorrow
more radiant than any of our fondest
dreams, a tomorrow without a single
broken promise nor a single unsatisfied
aspiration. And the pathway leads
through today.
“laird, for tomorrow and Its needs
I do not pray;
Keep me, my God, from stain of sin
. Just for today.
"Let me no wrong or Idle word
Unthfhklng, say;
Let me be kind, In word and deed,
Just for today.
“Let me both diligently work.
And duly pray:
Let me be faithful to Thy grace
Just for today.
"So, for tomorrow and Its needs.
I do not pray;
But keep me. guide me, hold me. Lord,
Just for today." f
THE REAL PRESENCE—II.
By REV. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
•••••••••••••I
W might take every one of the
thoughts of God that the chem
ists talks about as the seventy
orlgl 1 elements and prove that In
even Instance when man turns with
his tcught toward God's thought here
exprfsed he finds God showing Him
self k strong as any one of the par-
ticur elements permits Him. Tho
earn Is true among the physical forces.
The Is heat and light and magnetism
and ilectrlcity and chemical affinity,
all tpreaalons of God's mind. They
are irms of God's thought. We have
rea ed the period In the world's acten-
tlf progress when the great teachers
ant masters are telling us that force
In I of Its forms can be nothing else
tht the expression of with The phys
ics forces are but different forms of
the ame will. Any one of the physical
foi s may. be turned Into any of the
otl *. They are expressions of omnl-
po it will, and they are also exprea-
rlt i of thought and emotion. They
a be apprehended by man'e thought
nn forced to serve hts comfort and do
hi vork. If we turn to God’a thought
n eased In electricity along with the
th ght He haa expressed In Iron, He
tv show Himself as strong to us
tt ugh thess ns the electric car or
el trie light, as the tclbgraph or the
tt ihone. Even Aristotle's thought
« never grasped until within recent
y ■*, and ao God's thought of electrlcl-
t was not grasped until within our
■I . But tho meaning we are finding
I: t now was always In It. God saw
t phones and telegraphs and street
railroads • In electricity and Iron from
the beginning.
Let us test the truth of the text In
the social world. Here we come to the
human kingdom. What Is the ultimate
form of God's thought as expressed to
us In the social kingdom? It Is reci
procity. In Scripture It Is contained
In the command, "Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself.” What does this
mean? Thou shalt como Into reciprocal
relations with thy neighbor comtner
dally, politically, morally and spirit
ually. We are to come Into such rela
tlons with our neighbor as that we mav
take from him what he has to give and
give to him In turn what we have to
give. My neighbor, remember. Is the
fourteen hundred millions of people on
the earth other than myself. Now, that
great organism, composed of fourteen
hundred million members, Is my neigh
bor. The ultimate principle underlying
thla organism which Is the thought of
God la that I shall love him as I love
myself. That love Is the principle upon
which the social organism Is founded Is
proven from the fact that the social
life In any large and complete sense Is
Impossible without reciprocity. To live
socially wo must enter into the mean
ing and spirit ot love. We know very
well that It Is Impossible for us to live
socially If we hate, because the ulti
mate form of hate Is fire snd dynamite.
In this direction Is destruction for the
race. If we are to live out our lives In
a community we must love.
Will God show himself strong to me
In the human kingdom If I turn toward
his thought underlying the kingdom. If
I love my neighbor as I love myself?
If I love the fourteen hundred million
people on earth jo as to get Into re
ciprocal relations with them, in ac
cordance wdth the principle, Thou shalt
love thy neighbor os thyself,” what will
be the result?
I hare often traveled on the
Missouri Pacific railway. This system
of railroads Is worth many, many mil
lions of dollars. I got the use of this
railway for a very few dol
lars. I owned It yesterday as com-
f iletely as the president of It could own
I. The purpose of a -railroad Is to
transport people and freight from one
point to another. When I own the
purpose of a thing I own It. This
tallroad was mine ut tho time because
wo have all come Into such reciprocal
relations with one another as that each
of us can share In the accumulated
work ot all. I have In my possession
a set of the "Encyclopedia Brltanlca,"
which cost me 1160. It can be secured
now for $26, Messrs. A. and C. Black,
of Edinburg, spent 12,000,000 before a
single set of this great work was print
ed. This work represents all the ages
of painstaking thought and scientific
research.
Billions of dollars have gone into the
making of this work through the past
6,000 years. Now. because we hqve all
come to live together, through the op
eration of the principle "thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself," I can get this
encyclopedia In my library for 22S. and
if I am too poor to pay thla for It I can
get the use of It In some of our public
libraries for nothing. I bought a copy
DR. J. W. LEE.
of a great dally paper recently for
1 cent. Huppose I lived on the Island
of Juan Fernandes and could say with
Robinson Crusoe, "I am monarch of all
I survey," -and I should conceive the
Idea of having brought to the door of
my cabin or cave on this Island a
great dally paper. No one else
on earth Is to take this paper but my
self. How much would It cost me a
day to have brought to my door for
my lone, single self one copy of the
paper? You see. It would involve
tho laying of wires under all the seas
and the running of wires over all coun.
tries; It .would Involve the building of
all the railroads now In operation and
tho building of all the cities and peo
pling them as they are today, and the
organisation of news centers and bu
reaus In every part of the globe. To
get a paper like this each morning. If
no one else on earth took the same,
would cost me bllilons of dollars a day.
But because we are coming to live to
gether as u race In accordance with the
principle "Thou shalt love thy neighbor
as thyself," because we are comjng Into
reciprocal retailor* with one another
and are building up our countries and
Institution* In accordance wlfh the
spirit of lore, I am able to get this
great paper for 1 rent. Thus we begin
to see how.strong God shows himself
to us when we turn to and practice the
thought He has expressed to us In the
proposition, “Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself.”
There Is a shoemaker confined with
in a 10x12 room all the days of the
week. He can do nothing but make
shoes. He dogs nothing but drive pegs
and draw stitches. But every time he
mokes a pair of shoes he puls them on
the great commercial wheel which re
volves through ail the world, and by
his shoeshop door, and for this pair of
shoes which he contributes to the well
being of his neighbor he takes In com-
e msatlon tea from China, coffee from
raxtl, oranges'from Mexico, pocket-
knives from England, clothing from the
mills of Massachusetts, and something
of all the products from all the rest of
the fourteen hundred million of people
who live on the earth; and all this be
cause he has put his shoeshop In h,r-
tnony with the great divine thought,
'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
self.”
Let ns test the truth of the text In
the spiritual reulm. What Is the
thought of God wlh reference to man's
spiritual well-being? It Is expressed
In Jesus Christ, who Is the embodi
ment of God's thought and heart and
will. If we turn with all our mind to
the mind of God, as expressed to us In
Jesus Christ, will he show himself
strong here?
Now we reach a height where the
yardstick, 1 he half-bushel and the mu I.
tlpllentlon table, and even Integral and
differential calculus, will have to he
left behind. Arithmetical and geo-
metical progression do not count here.
We are In u realm without bound or
shore. I-anguage and figures all fall.
We can say that when man turns to
God's thought expressed In Jesus Christ
God will show Hlmsolf as strong to
ward him as Infinite mercy. Infinite
goodness, Infinite tenderness and Infi
nite love permit Him. But thought
staggers and Imagination reels when
we begin to seek to understand what
Infinite love means. My mother loved
me ao tenderly that sacrifice and toll
were not even felt when planning and
working for me. Thus did your mother
love you. Who can tell what even a
mother's love means? Take all the
love ever felt Ip all the hearts of all
the mothers who have ever lived from
the beginning until now, und put It nil
together, and you have only a fragment
as compared with the Infinite love of
our Father In heaven.
It Is sad to remember that ns a peo
ple we are truer to God's thought on
the lower planes of existence than wo
are upon the higher. God has shown
Himself so strong to us In the field and
In the mine that we have almost come
to forget the higher reasons for exist
ence In our absorption in the lower. We
do not address Ood with the same
Intelligence and Industry upon the
higher and richer sides of Himself that
we do upon the lower levela of His
world, and because of this we are get
ting much richer In our barns and
kitchens and warehouses than In our
minds and spirits. We are staking to
make ourselves significant by merely
external accumulation. It must be u
grief to our Heavenly Father to see His
children satisfied with the lowest things
Ha haa to give lol to /.
their part such an Indisposition to call
upon Him for the highest things He
has to give.
iIMHMIHIHMUHIHHMMI
THE VALUE OF A SOUL
“The redemption of their soul Is
prtcious.”—Psalms 49:8.
“For what shall it profit a man if ho
gain the whole world and loss his own
soul?”—Luke 8:36.
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By REV. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
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T HE Old Testament Is often evan
gelical, the New Testament Is al
ways evangelistic. Concern for
souls of men Is not entirely hid
den, as we may think, under shadows
end types In the Old Testament—there
Indows- In the Old Testament
through which the most vivid appre
ciations of the soul and Its fundamen
tal Importance may be gained, but It
Is In tho New Testament, that Is to
«ay, in Jesus Christ, that the unspeak
able emphasis of God Is laid upon the
eoul and Its value.
There are churches and Christians
which live in the Old Testament spirit;
they are religious with respect to-the
fouls of men. but there are churches
and individuals living In the New Tes
tament spirit. They are Christlah with
respect to the souls of men. There Is
much Protestant rellglen that la not
Christianity. As some one has said,
the church merely evangelical Is the
church on Ice; the church evangelistic
l» the church on fire.
Now. when 1 take the Psalmist's
statement for my text,' that the re
demption of men's souls Is precious, It
Is because I can appreciate the truth
of the statement as he could not. since
tor me that fact Is made lustrous by
the words and work of the revealed
Hon of God. "God who In far former
tlmr s spoke to us through the proph
ets hath In these latter daya spoken to
ns by His Son.” That speech of God
Is about tho souL that speech of Ood
Invests every man with a surpassing
value because he has a soul to save
or lose. There are two great objects
of study In Christianity. One Is the
study of ood as Christ revealed Him:
the other tg the etudy of man's soul as
Christ revealed It. One study will re-
•nlt In a theology; the other study will
result In a glorious evangelism, and
these together and truly proportioned
will Bive us a conquering Christianity.
A c.inquertng Chrlstanlty waits upon
a systematic theology on fire. We have
a faith; \v« do believe. The fart of
what we do believe Is Immense, but
have we received the Holy Ghost since
*o believed; is our faith held in view
?■ the value of the soule of men? Tills
is th,- great question for us.
Whst and Where Is the Soul?
»hen one attempts definition
feels that i» Is blundering with words.
•My old professor In psychology was a
sreat Christian. He said that the
place to stjidy the science of the soul
"as on yojr knees alone. "Shut your
'ses, youni men,” he used to say. "and
feel this ding out.” Whoever doubts
com ernini the soul surely ha* never
felt the filng out.”
e'er nien faith had fallen asleep
1 heanifl voice 'believe no more,'
And h'ird an ever-breaking shore
That tunbied In the godless dsep;
A warmtl within the breast would melt
The f razing reason's colder part.
And llife a man In wrath, the heart
'j'ooduuand answeted, 'I have felt.”’
se know the activities of the
'fe know what the Intellect Is
t the conscience does, and
will Imparts, and what the
faculties, a ..elf .separate - from them,
though dependent upon them for self-
manifestation. Back behind the Intel
lect Is a self that commands It through
the will, and back behind'the will that
same self propels the will, and behind
all and regnant over all the same self
which receive* from the conscience the
balm, the barrier or the lash, and that
rides forth upon the motions sometimes
In laughter, sometimes In tears.
That Is the soul. A throne Is there
and a Prince of mysterious power alia
on It. Oh, have you ever realised your,
self? Some moments of sueh realiza
tion have been to me enough to con
vince me that my flesh Is a clog to
be kicked off. a veil to be sometimes
gloriously rent apart. I shall some
day know as I am known of God.
My soul! I am It I feel It. I realise
the fact. It ached. In a deep hurt—
the soul ached, a dumb, retired, unas-
suageablo pain. It rejoiced In a Joy;
It swelled In a pride: It flushed In a
shame; It paled In a fear; It trembled
In a sin: It smiled In a virtue; It shrank
In a temptation and Its last glories are
greatest—It has peace In a Savior and
rest only III Its God.
That Is what Jesus saw In a tnnn.
It was there, and It was aa much there
In the worst man a* In the best. It
Is the undying fact and the Indestructi
ble force of every life. Intellect Is
great; conscience Is wonderful; will Is
powerful and emotion Invaluuble, but
not one of these or all together can
measure with the value of a soul, for
there each and all are but the soul s
servants. The soul In liself Is more
than the sum total of its powers. II
Is the essential, eternal self of a man.
Where the Soul Comes.From.
We may be sure of this truth to be
gin with, that the soul or self Uhrlxt
saw In a man He recognized at once as
having one Immediate and thrilling
Interest, the Interest that Inhered In It
on account of It* Origin. It Was of
God.
Science confessea Itself baffled at two
points—the Initial creation of mailer
and the fact of the human moral ca
pacity. We have no science on how
the protoplasm came to be, but given
the protoplasm we can account for Its
development: but even then science
falls at the greatest of all phenomena—
the soul of a man.
Amidst the baffled confusion of hu
man knowledge concerning ihe soul,
Jesus walked with an easy assurance.
■He came among men and when He saw
them He knew them, not by their faces,
nor by their names, nor by their cus
toms, 'nor their words, but by the sign
manual of His Father written upon
their souls. Genesis Is not a dead bonk.
Christ confirmed It and It has Its leave
to live as long as Christ'* fame en
dures and wherever Christianity exist*.
Do you read 'The Lord formed man if
the dust of the ground 7” What man •*
that? The Rnlmal, the physical body
of man. the brother to the ox. How lo
I know that Is true" “
breath as any other dust. That Is noi
the man we are talking about at all.
Do you read on, "And breathed Into his
nostrils the breath of life and man
became a living soul?"
There leaps that something Christ
saw In a man. I do not care for any
essential reason whether God took two
minutes to make that dust man or
thousands of centuries? I know there
was one stupendous moment when the
Almighty Father thrust Into that dust
Ilian a breath of His own fragrance,
portion of His own divine and Immortal
being, that transformed the dust man
from mere animal Into a living soul. I
never stand by an open grave and re
peat the Scriptural formula of scien
tific truth, for the undertaker to drop
the three bits ot dirt, "Earth to earth,
ashes to ashes and dust to dust." bul
that I wish I held In my hands three
white doves. I would loose them and
let them fly with u shout, "Soul to
soul! Spirit to spirit! Life to Life!’
The pface to study the human soul
la In a cradle, for there heaven kisses
Ihe earth. Christ's eyes are never quite
so much our own as when we are
looking at a baby. The Ineffable some
thing superhuman thunders In the
cradle. But - how it all vanishes when
shoes and clothes and milk bottles
come In between.
One of our poets tried lo think a fine
thought about a baby once and he got
no further than this;
"Where did you come from, baby dear?"
Out of the everywhere Into tile here.”
Because when
[•‘slinsTlmpiy_but. r back behind ihe that body dlea It goes back to dust.
Ir ' , ’l!'-'l there la a something that can Open the old grave*. d "K;
Jesus saw a baby one day and I
think It made Him homesick. He
went to the heart of the truth, "Let
them come to Me. For such Is Ihe
Kingdom of God.”
What do you see In your child? What
about It concerns your mind chiefly?
Its tlress, curls, pretty face? Is that
the way you classify Its Importance
and Its significance. Your child—sub
kingdom Vertebrate, class insmmalld,
order, Blmanla. You love that, you
ime for that, that your science jf
Christian motherhood?
There are fathers who have scarcely
above the animal In their conception of
what a baby means. Poor Robert Burns
not an example of propriety, but
he sang what Jesus saw:
"She Is ihe buddln' o’ our love,
A glftle God gled us:
We maun no luve the gift awe weel;
’Twad be no blessing thus:
We still maun love the Giver malr
An' see Him In the given.
An sae she'll lead us up to Him .
Our liable straight from heaven.”
OR. JOHN E. WHITE.
As childhood, youth, manhood come
on. the soul is hidden by Ihe bulldcil
barriers of the flesh and the warping
of sin strains It away, hut God still
see* His Imprisoned' and endangered
child.
If parent* loved their children for
what God love* them. If they cared for
them because of that which Is In
Christ’s vision ns He hangs upon the
cross, they would toss on their bed*
every - night planning and praying to
put a stop to their growth away from
t^nanilate the Intellect and the other .tiding the nostril, and .riffling th. God and they would rls. up In tho ever.
morning and vow that they would get
right with 9°<J themselves and get their
children right.
The Soul’« Greatest Capacity.
Now, along with the recognition >f
the mysterlousnes* and glory qf a hu
man soul which rumen from ft* heav
enly origin, wc may be sure that Jenun
**aw the pneclousness of the noul Itnelf
on account of itn wonderful Inherent
powers. That capacity of a noul the
Christian must always reflect on Is gn
capacity Involving eternity. There are
Just two facts about the soul of every
man the Christian must keep a keen
thought of—-the fact that It may lw»
saved to God forever and ithe fact that
It may be lost to God forever. The
Christian Idea of the noul is based upon
the fact of Its Immortality. Christ baa
not a word to nay to any man an a
mere creature of thin world. He hnd
thin thought of every man'n life—a tre.
memlnuM fxnue. going altogether beyond
Itn little earthly day und involving In
terest* and outcomes which required
an eternity for their theater, Jesus
never letn un forget that He neen in un
that which makes un of a value trans
cending all our temporal Interest*.
"What nhall It profit a man If he gain
the whole world and lone hin ow n noul
or what will a man give In exchange
for hln noul?"
The capacity of a noul! Put away
now All narrow conntderationM and
think of the man nlttlng at your elbow
—think thin: iThat man can be naved
to Ood throughout millions of yearn of
he can be lost to God forever and for-
“Eternity, thou pleanfng dreadful
thought." says the poet. Yen, pleasing
or dreadful, one or the other. It de
pends upon what your* ntate of faith
In whether pleasing or dreadful. A
Christian should love no word like the
word "eternity."
I avow my heart's nlncertty when I
nay that I love to think of eternity, and
I do think of It often. It's the biggest
UHMurance I have that I nm Indeed u
Christian; that the thought of eternity
cleunnen my mind an nothing else doc.*.
Hmllen come to my heart whenever I
choose to bring them. I know only
one trick of religion. I can not cry ut
will, and whether preaching oy alone In
J ny study I am not able to provoke or
Imulate a sustained pathetlclsm. an I
have been told some can, but I con
think of eternity and get a benediction
out of It, one very real, personal Joy,
but I am not going to tell you what ft
Is. I have had a foretaste.
The week before lout a banker In
thin city, when a preacher lost a con
siderable sum of money in an effort
to do some good for a poor fellow, said
to him:
"Doctor, you ought not to he so
I easily bled that way. You ought to be
laying up something for a rainy duy.”
1 "A rainy day," the preacher mused
as he went along the street, "three hun
dred and slxty-flvc of them, maybe,
In a year, ten years of them, maybe,
In a decade, five decades of them for
sooth In a half century, but after that
not another ‘rainy day' for a million
decades."
This Divinest Pathos.
But there Is a pain In a Christian
thought of eternity when a sinner Is
Involved. Christ fell that pain bitterly
that morning when he sat on Olivet
weeping quietly to himself, after Ills
sad cry, "Oh, Jerusalem, how often,
how often, but ye \yould not!”
We could wish that no bad man were
Ipimortal. We could wish even that
the soul of inauy ft beloved friend
lacked Just the one capacity that makes
that friend so charming—the power to
live or. persistently after death. Hut
a Ins, we can not! Wherever you see
tt, young or old. the soul Is running a
denpernte chance to mins the right bent
and fall upon eternity faced wrong. A
soul can be lost—that Is Its marvelous
quality—It can be lost to God and to
eternal good.
Thar. Is what Jesus saw in a man--
the soul that could be lost, nay, that
was being lost, and about to be lost
forever. The door bell of a certain
preacher’s home was rung one morn
ing about daylight. When he got down
und turned on the light and opened the
door It was a poor miserable woman of
the street, one of the lowest and vllfst
of the city.
"Doctor," she said. "I beg your par
don for making you gt t up. But I didn’t
dare to wait for day. Last night a
poor, foolish girl came to the house
where I stay and I had a fight with a
man about her. It came over me no I
could have died. I got her away ahd
locked us up In my room and she slept
with me. She's a pure child, but, my
God! to think that she wag about to
become what I am nearly killed me.
She Is there now, locked up asleep.
Can't you see her before she gets out
and get her away somewhere, and save
her?"
So It can be—a soul about to be. lost.
Not In that way so often, but by much
prouder paths.
That Is What Jesus saw In a man,
and It explains his tragic enthusiasm.
As you see that and realise It your
Christianity will be like His. It will
be on fire. If there is no danger, no
sharp, tremendous exigency of human
life Involving Us eternity, then there’s
no need for Importunate persuasion
and for passionate zeal, and there Is
.none of this where the peril of the
soul Is not preached snd believed.
But If a soul may be lost then It may
be saved. Side by side these two facts
constitute the Impulsive motive <>f
Christian service. Put the emphasis
on one of them and you thrust up the
other as bearing on end of the balance*
will lift up the other.
Jesus Christ came to save souls, that
Is our gospel. Hut ID ratm* to mw
that which was lost, and being lost
forever. We who love and serve Him
are sent to save Ios{ men by bringing
them to the BavloiC If you are not
doing that we arm missing tin* one
thing needful to make us co-workers
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