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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AXD NEWS. SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1907. The Truth In Love By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD, ' Pastor Universalist Church M AN’S search after the hidden thins* of human knowledge Is one of the unmistakable proofs of the divinity which is within him, The mind, forever* unsatisfied with present attainment, reaches out con tinually after the unknown, and even at times it may be after the unknow able. Forever do the son* of aod en deavor to “think His thoughts after Him." Life Itself Is one continual quest after truth, and the query of the Roman ruler I* forever on the lips of those who feel surging within them the Indomitable spirit of progress, which Is only another name for God. Man’s rise from savagery to civlll nation, the development of spiritual law out of moral anarchy, Is nothing more nor less than the fasclnatfng history of the unremitting search aft er truth. And It Is Inevitable that the pages of this same fascinating history should be frequently stained with blood. In every age of human history the pflce of truth has been grief and tears, and until we shall see with per fected vision and hear with ears undls- tracted by error's distracting discord, we may rest assured that ne who fear lessly seeks truth must walk Its path' way with bleeding feet. There Is no final chapter In God’s revelation to man. That which was undisputed truth In the generations that have disappeared In their ghostly march Into ubllvion Is remembered ARE YOU LOOKING FOR BUSINESS? If so, the UNION LABEL on your printed matter will bring IL IT COSTS YOU NOTHING OFFICES THAT FURNISH THE LABEL: Hoddleaton A Cbri*tl*n.21 8. Forsyth Kyi Ulster A Co J4 N. Ilroa*l Parham Printing Co...... 24 H. Broad N. C. Tompkins 16 w. Alabama THejrram Tub. Co.....86 Central Arc. Franklin-Turner Co 66-71 Irjr St. Index Tub. Co 91 Central Arc. JeuIIuttc Printing Co 29 S. Brood Ward Printing Co 55 8. Pryor John Thomaaon Co 64 8. Broad Hloaaer Printing Co S8-40 Walton Converse A Wing 104 Bdgewood ATLANTA TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, . 520 Candler Building P. O. Box 266 Atlanta Phone 873 REV. E. D. ELLENWOOD. THE FOLSOM METHOD OVICW*> When clssacs (It rl«ht, rloflr nn«l comfort near seeing glasses supplied here. and recounted ns a remarkable relic of superstition by the restless explor ers who today set sail upon the ever- mystertous seas of undiscovered knowledge. And that which Is today the truth for which men will gladly give up their lives will be pityingly spoken of as the foolishness of a by gone age, by the men and women who, a thousand years from now, shall walk the paths of life. So do we readily relinquish our grasp upon the things once most precious, os our yearning hearts ’reach out after the things still more desirable. So do we ruthlessly raze the fair castles of yesterday's Im agination, In order that today's beauti ful but temporary structure may send Its pinnacles a little nearer toward the heaven of truth's most earnest desire. ‘Build thee more stately mansions, O, my soul. As the swift seasons roll; Let each new temple, nobler than the Inst. Shut thee from heaven by a dome more vast. Till thou at length art free. Leaving thine outworn shell By life’s unresting sea.” But, whenever truth be discovered, revealed and analyzed, its basic ele ments will be found to be the same. The life that Is In the violet Is the same life that is in the orchid. The life that Is In the moilusk Is the same life that Is In the elephant. The enr- bon In the coal is exactly the same carbon which renders the diamond precious In our choice. . And In what ever new nnd varylng'form truth may be revealed to our eager search we may rest assured that the fundamen tals which make Its possession neces sary to us arc eternal and abiding. God has not changed, no matter how thor oughly our conception of Him has un dergone evolution or even revolution. He Is still “the same, yesterday, today nnd forever.” And we need never be troubled by the foolish fear that His attitude toward us will be changed In the smallest fraction of a degree by any of the distorted and Imperfect pic. tures of Hlin which we may fashion In our unceasing striving after truth. God’s love Is not such a puny thing that It must die If It be misunderstood and unappreciated. Therefore, we may press, undismayed, our quest for truth, and know that ulways we shall be within the bounds of safety, so long as we are able to say, honestly within our hearts, as did the' nuthor of the book of Genesis "In the beginning, God.” One of the leading apostles of the most perfect system of religious belief and practice which tho world has yet known evidently realized the necessity of the soul's unceasing search after new knowledge, concerning God, and also realized that the searcher must con stontly remind himself of the unchang- - -- •» SANITARY PLUMBING COMPANY, PLUMBING, STEAM AND GAS FITTING. Special attention given to contract work. Repair work promptly done, Phonos. 26 W. HUNTER STREET. s^ls WALL PAPER SAMPLES FREE , make a iDccUlty of hleh-cUu decorating. Baumatea furaohed on out or town wwx. ■wyng,»»° WILLIS WALL PAPER CO. ^gHEMfeggg Ing nature and attributes of that God. The exhortation which he gives to the church which he was trying to foster at Ephesus comes to us today, undl mlntshed In value. “That we, hence forth. be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness. Whereby they lie In wait to deceive; but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up Into him In all things, which Is the head, even Christ.” We must not cease, therefore, to speak the truth, as God reveals It unto us, lest we thereby deny our Lord and suiter the remorse of him who knows Tilmself to be a coward and a traitor. But we are also to remember that we are commissioned to “speak the truth In love.” Here Is one of life's most dif ficult tasks, and we may scarcely hope that Its performance shall always be so successful that we shall experience nothing of regret, Ohd humiliation and self-dlssatlafactlon, as the Hhadows deepen into the dusk nnd the hour draws near when we must “go apart and rest awhile.” Nothing seems more difficult for the one who is granted tho priceless opportunity of acting In the capacity of a public educator than to bear constantly In mind that the con ception which comes to him as truth, self-evident and beautiful, may be for some earnest and sincere reader or hearer blasphemy, flagrant and unfor givable. And so It sometimes happens that In his zeal to present a newly-dis covered truth as strongly and as con vincingly as possible, his unthinking wording of that presentation consti tutes of Its non-acceptance nn unchar itable reflection. And yet “God makes the wrath of man to praise Him.” Some there are who persistently refuse to think In new channels until the dor mant Intellect receives a rude jolt or shock. Thought Is the means and'the medium of progress. The man who will not think Is a dead weight upon socie ty, and the man who will only think the thoughts of other men Is an Intel lectual parrot who deserves at once the pity and the contempt of him to whom God has given a mind, which He has also commissioned him to use. There fore, It would seem that although the public writer or speaker may some times be faced by the embarrassing discovery that hla utterances have caused grievous pain, yet if he can also discover that his enunciations have made the sufferers think along a new line, then he need not utterly deny himself the consoling reflection that the wounds which he has made have been “the faithful wounds of n friend,” and that still he has not entirely failed to "speak the truth In love.” Some men and women there are who seem to labor under the delusion that love .is maudlin sentimentality. There Is nothing more essentially true than the severity of love. And probably It Is only natural that the father who loves his son unkindly should form the con clusion that God will be guilty of the same offense toward all of His sons and daughters. The man who for years has so far forgotten his duty toward Ids children as to refrain from "speaking In love” the Immutable truth of his man dates is quite likely to conceive of God as a being, the law of whose love holds no penalty for those who blindly fancy that they are the objects of His special favor. Bui God does not love us aft?r so weak and Inefficient a fashion. When He touches our eyes so long dimmed by - superstition nnd unstops the ears dulled by reiterated tradition, we shall be able to see and to hear marvellous new things out of his law, and with the heart we shall perceive the truth which He constantly speaks to us In love, und that truth shall convince us, beyond all question, that "though hand join In liuod, the wicked shall not go unpun ished.” WHEN THE GREEN GETS INTO THE TREES In the spring, when the green gits back In the trees. And the sun comes out and stays, And your boots pull on with a good, tight squeeze. And you think of your barefoot days; When you art to work and you wunt to noL And you and your wife agrees It’s time to spade up the gurden lot— When the green gits back In the trees— Well, work is the least of my Idees When the green, you know, gits back In the trees. When the green gits back In the trees, and bees Is a buxzln’ ’round again In that kind of lazy-go-as-you please . Old gait they hum 'round In; When the ground's all bald where the hayrick stood And the crick's rls, and the breeze Coaxes the bloom In the old dogwood. And the green g»8 back In tho trees, I like, I say. In such scenes os these The time when the green gits back in the trees. —James Whltcc*.ib Riley.