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J 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. 7" ess*##.see* By REV. JOHN E. WHITE, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH “f" 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. 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