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TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
SATI IlllAV. JI NK IS, IX
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| BEING ALIVE
By REV. DR. JAMES W. LEE,
Raator Trinity Methodist Church
! ¥ IFJC," w* ar* told, "Is the con*
} l tlnuoue «dju*tmcnt of Inter*
' ■' nal relatione with external re
lailona," that 1% life la adjustment to,
and correspondence with, environment.
This le not a definition, but an accu
rate description of the way life mani
fest. Itself. A complete definition of
life cannot be given, because no one
knows what It is, by Itself and within
Itself, and what Its behavior la likely
to tee In combination with this or that
externnl element; no one can tell until
he -cs the combination.
I.lfe Is a perpetual partnership be
tween original Interior qualities and
external currents of Influence. It la a
pci nutating compound formed by the
uni in of something within Itselt with
^■Ktblng outside of Itself. Its most
distinct characteristic la Its rapacity
for forming associations and of being
trnn-formed In accordance with the
t lut tetter of the company It keeps.
Here we find Its peril and Its I
in c onjunction with what Is high,
I. noble; In partnership with what Is
lnv. It Is degraded. By refusing to
consort with what la beneath It, and
by choosing Its companions from the
asc • ndlng ranks above It, human life
has, on Its upper side, step by steps
though measureless ages past, climbed
tho upward stairs of creation. Human
life regarded as adjustment to and
correspondence with environment Is
ric her today than ever before, because
of t he completer knowledge we have of
the contents of the environment and of
life « rclRtloi. to them.
The environment of Ilfs Is the unap
propriated part of Itself. The ocean
outside Is that part of the whale which
has r-t been converted Into fish. The
rllmate, soil and atmosphere of the
tropics together make up a vast sum
nf nebulous, diffused, unorganised and
unappropriated elements which are
watting to be turned Into cocoanuts,
ban.cna.s, coffee and monkeys.
Thnt we may see how much more
life has within Itself power to become,
in o U r time, than ever before. It Is
only necessary that we consider the
varied and boundless .wealth of that
infinite store house we call environ
ment.
The Environment as Interpreted by
8olsnes,
All. the ancients knew of the envi
ronment they were able to express by
four gensrsl terms, which they named
earth and air and Are and water.
Science has divided and sub-divided
these huge masses until now, Instead
of four terms through which to express
our knowledge, we have about seventy.
These elements have not only been
named, they have been weighed and
measured. Their affinities have been
determined. Helenes has taught us how
i to group particular elements, so as to
get compounds of one sort, and then
how to take the same elements and
group them differently to get com
pounds of another sort; how to make
carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen stand
together, so as to give us bread, and
then by swinging corners and changing
sides to give us prussic acid. Science
has changed caloric from an Igneous
fluid Into a mode of motion, and. by
so doing, has started to flying the
countless wheels of toll. Bclence has
turned astrology Into astronomy, bnd
out of the wheel of fortune that once
set In the heavens has made a useful
and universal dock, by which our sail,
ora ride the era. Bclence has convert,
ed alchemy Into chemlsty, and while
not giving us the philosopher's stone
which was to turn everything It touch
ed Into gold, has given us something
better. In the secret of preparing our
food so as to turn disgruntled dyspep
tics Into amiable men and women.
Bclence has driven the gods and god
desses from the classic mountains, the
dryads and genii from the woods and
the streams, hobgoblins and ghosts
from the darkness, and closed the ca
reer of the fortune teller among edu
cated people. Science, has changed the
doctor from h conjurer Into a rational
physician, who no longer gives pre
scriptions on a level with that of which
Montaigne speaks, which consisted of
the left foot of a tortoise, the liver of
a mole, the blood from under the left
wing of a pigeon, and rats pounded to
a fine powder. Science has Increased
the vision a million fold by the vlft of
a telescope, and the power of hearing
gift of the telephone, and the
sense of smell by the chemical test.
Bclence has taken down -the thought
habitations of the fathers and replaced
them by others so wide and high that
many earnest people, long accustomed
to close mental quarters, have been
afraid they could never move Into
them without catching, in the wide
cosmic spaces, their death of cold.
Bclence has Just recently given us the
secret of sending messages on the un
dulations of the luminiferous ether and
Professor Ayerton, a cool and level
headed man of science, tells ,us that
we are In thinkable distance of the
time, when, If a father wants to talk
with his son, he knows not where, he
will only have to call In a very loud,
electro-magnetic voice, heard by the
son, whose bar Is electro-magnetised
to the same pitch—and by no other,
and say: "Where are you, John?"
The low reply will come hack: "I am
at the bottom of a slate quarry In
Wales, father," or “1 am three days out
from Bouthsmpton on the Atlantic,” or
“I am spending the day with a friend
on his sheep ranch In Australia.” It.
In spite of his calling, no response
comes back, then he may know his son
Is dead.
When the time of which Professor
Ayerton prophesies comes, then the
world will be brought together like the
rooms nf a commodious dwelling house,
so that all the millions nf people who
live In It ran talk to one another, as
the mepibers apeak one to another
from the different rooms of a modern
home.
The Environment as Art Gives It to Ue.
Bclence gives us the Invlrnnment In
terms of use, art gives It to us In terms
of beauty. Bclence puts the elements
around us to work, art puts them to
singing In the oratorios of the master,
or to the glowing In the radiant vis
ions of the painter. The question sci
ence asks of the environment, Is, what
contribution have you to make toward
giving life better food, better clothing,
better shelter and better modes of
travel? The question art asks of the
environment la, what help ran you 1
render toward entertaining life, toward
embellishing II, toward transfiguring It.
toward decreasing the humdrum and
monotony and common place nf It, and
toward making It thrill with Joy In the
performance nf the common task?
The environment as manipulated by
science takes forms which are useful
but they are temporary. The Inviron-
ment as art deals with It, takes forms
which are permanent. The steam en
gine rusts and wears away, to be re
placed by another and a better, but the
poems of Homer are eternal. Science
touches things for time, art for eterh-
Ity. Art la Indifferent to mere huge
ness and bulk; quality Is that with
which It Is concerned. Art, through
J*>of Bums, takes a tiny little
Bonnie Doon, and lifts It to a
place of more Importance than the
Amason. The Avon la not large enough
to float a respectable river steamboat,
but Its waters, bv association with
Shakespeare, have been Idealised and
brightened, until ever * hM
shines like a dlamom
more water In the lakes of Minnesota
than In those of Scotland, but because
Sir Walter Scott has put the color of
his many-hued genldk on those of his
native land, they draw sightseers from
all over the world.' Athens, that fair
and radiant city, among the capitals
of the world Is small; it never had any
commerce nf Importance, bat because of
the great artists, who walked her
streets, they gleam, and always
with . unparalleled brightness. The
Alps do not compare In bulk with the
mountains that form the Andes range,
but the former made glorious In art
are a resort for tourists, while the lat
ter are lert to solitude, unbroken, save
by the flight of the proud condor.
True art Is truer than fact, and When
gives setting to an epoch makes the
characters In it live. In a sense, trder
to themselves and to those with whom
they are associated, than history re
cords. William Pitt once said that he
had learned from Shakespeare all he
knew of English history. In his Henry
VIII, Shakespeare has put Into ever
lasting form the reel truth of a great
time, and one can learn more of the
king and his queens and cardinals and
intrigues from this plan than from
reading the recorded history of his
reign. Shakespeare does' not make
king or queen say whs
actually said, but what
hearts to say, what. If they had spoken
the word true of their real essential
selves, they would have said. His pic
ture of tha time, therefore, Is truer to
the actual men and women who lived
In It than that of any chronicler, had
he been able even to record every word
they actually did say or every deed
they actually did perform.
The Environment as Interpreted by
Literature.
In literature we have the environ
ment lifted, refined, sublimated through
the machinery nf Intelligence and col
ored by the changing experiences of
the heart, as In our finest rugs we have
crude silk and wool made Into pat
terns of beauty through the compli
cated looms and marveloua dyes of the
carpet weaver.
Art transmutes the environment Into
REV. OR. JAME8 W. LEE.
The
great masterpiece* of poetry, or music,
or painting, each standing out distinct
and oomplete In Itself. Literature
breaks the elements up, pulverises
them, and turns them Into an atmos
phere which the spirit breathes, sa the
lungs take In the breath of the morn
ing. Through literature the environ
ment la translated Into Ideas. In lit
erature the elements around us qre
served up In the exhalations of great
souls, as they have contemplated the
lights and shadows of nature, the
hopes and fears of life, and the un
speakable mystery of God. Through
literature, we are permitted to travel
Into that Immense region of territory
we call the Past; to witness Its scen
ery, climb Its mountains, sail its seas,
and Utk with Its Inhabitants, as they
have taken Ideal form In the writings
treat men from Isaiah of Jerusi'
Thomas Carlyle, of-London.
Simply to go round this little world
as enisled by the time In which we
live, leaves us parochial, provincial,
and country-bred. If one Is to be
come cosmopolitan In manners and
widely enhanced and cultured in mind,
he must travel outside his time and
mingle with the peoples of other ages.
He must sit down with Job on his ash-
heap In the dim and distant land of
Us, and hear him pour nut poetic wrath
and Indignation upon the heads of
those miserable and conceited com
forters, Ellphas, the Temanlte; Blldad,
the Bhtihlte; and Zophar. the Naama-
thlte. He must walk with Bocrates In
dreece and hear those marvelous con
versations with Plato, which are to live
forever; or visit with Horace In his
cottage out at Tivoli and hear from his
lips the best methods of raising cab
bages.
When our traveler returns from i
voyage of this kind, there will no long-
Environment at Interpreted by
8ociety.
In society ws have the environment
served up In terms of life. (As the
mineral climbs upward to bloom In the
flower, and as earth and sunbeams get
together to grow In the oak, so at last
matter and Ilfs conjoin tp smile In the
face of man. In partnership with him
| protoplasm stands up, oxygen walks
| about, plants sit at the table, rocks
breathe, and clay Is agitated by the
beating pulse. He Is the representative
and trustee of all below him, and suc
ceeds In compressing the whol
world Into the small compass
hundred and fifty exquisite pounds of
animated dust.
The environment Is man spread out,
man Is the environment gathered to
gather. In him the elements find i
head and a heart, a tongue of utter
ance. and a fare of beauty. In the
blood which flows through his heart
he carries In solution hills and
streams, winds and clouds, flowers and
birds, continents and seas.
Out of relation with others of his
kind he has no significance, but In
the rare to which he belongs he sees
his other and better self. And when
in friendly, reciprocal relation with
his larger and kindred life, his arms
become long enough to encircle the
globe. In correspondence with the
social whole of which he la a pari
he finds It possible to multiply the life
of each by the life of all. In relation
he becomes significant and great, for
upon the supposition that there are
1.600.000. 000 of persons like himself on
the earth, he finds his Individuality
augmented by the possession of 1,000,-
000,000 of hands to help him work, and
1.000. 000.000 of eyes to help him see,
and 1,600,000,000 of hearts to sympa
thise with him, In solving the prob
lems and bearing the burdens of life.
His existence Is not then eked out in
lone. Bedouin Isolation. He Is a part
ner of a life as wide as the planet,
whose throbbing currents come up
around his beating heart to refresh
II and to float Its outgoing pulsations
round the world.
The race from the beginning of Jts
career has been painfully and slowly
but surely pulling Itself together Into
one great human whole. It Is the un
speakable privilege of those who live
at the beginning of the twentieth cen
tury to see the work about complete.
Humanity Is united today as never be
fore. The elbows of the nations touch
and they are supported by a common
commerce and Inspired by a common
hope and moved to a common destiny,
as not In any previous period of tji#
world's history.
In relation with universal life, man
finds himself at an open port, where,
for a small contribution to the multl-
f ilex flow of exchanges passing through
t, he can take toll of the merchandise
of the world. He can us* the millions
Invested In street car systems for 6
cents a ride. He can avail himself of
t outlay of m iney and thought j the stage nf action at the beginning of
which unite to produce the morning the twentieth century, destined to be
paper for I rent a copy. He ran use the greatest the world has ever known,
all the bllllnn- which have been spent They start life with more capital and
In the establishment of railroads, under skies deeper and wider and full-
steamship lines, electric light plants, er of stars than persons of other times
shoe factories. Iron foundries, and I ever did. To make p«>sstble what to
other form* of modern Industry, to day Is within their reach, martyrs
serve every side and relation of his life, t have ngonlzed, patriots have given
at such compensation as comes within 'their Urea, and prophets have record-
the range of every earnest toller's In- *d their visions. By no power of arith-
come. No king or queen of ancient rnetlc Is one able to compass the vast
times ever had the comforts and con- value of the revenues from which you
venlences enjoyed by any Industrious I can draw In the years to come.
laboring man of today. No Lucullus
■ il '! L.t.ulll. over f.l red ;|S he does.
and all because we have come to the
time when man Is recognized as one
factor of an equation, of which the hu
man race Is the other, and to the time
when the smaller factor, which spells
Individuality, tips learned how to In
crease its power nnd multiply Its effi
ciency by the multitudinous immensi
ty of the larger factor, which spells
humanity.
The Environment as Interpreted by
Religion.
Science turn* the environment Into a
shop, art Into n song, literature Into a
library, society Into a brotherhood, but
religion lifts It Into a temple of wor-
ahlp that not only atands for the
eternal without, but for the undying
and Irrepreaalble principle within man,
which corresponds to It. Through re
llgfon the environment'll served up In
synagogues, mosques, churches, lltur-
glee, prayers and songs. It la remark-
able that man has used the religions
gateway, standing as It doe*, between
the deepeet within him and the high
est without Kim, more than any of the
others, through which he holds com
merce with the universe about him.
Nothing In history Is more wonderful
than the everlasting cry which goes up
from the deep, burdened heart of the
race for companionship and peace, with
the great Being of whose presence. In
every age. It has had a conviction that
nothing could destroy. - That there La
an eternal and universal reality in the
boundless, outlying spaces responding
to the spiritual nature of man, la the
glad truth It has been the function of
religion to Interpret
It Is the work of science to give us
the environment as It can serve ua
In this world: It Is the province of re
ligion to give us the environment as
It ran serve us In the next. Science,
by Its kindly ministrations, lets life
down gently to the grave. Rellgon
points It to a realm where no tomb
shall stand as a reminder of Its mor
tality.
Those alive on earth today are to be
congratulated; first, on being alive, and
second, on the opportunities they pave
of making their lives so useful and
beautiful and rich. Around them for
equipment, fumlshment and Inspiration
are the contributions made by all past
ages. They are on the top of the cen
turies, and form the latest links In that
human chain wfllch extends back
ward to the time when our ancestors
first began the awful struggle of sub
duing the forces within them and tha
elements without them. They come to
But we muat remember that the un
limited amount of assets* which the
ages have placed to our credit. In a
sense, cun not be drawn on by us
unless we are willing to pay for them
In attention. Intelligence, discipline
and strenuous living. While all things
have been named, classified and ar-
ranged for us In lhat Infinite ■ ■ ..
house we have called environment, still
the universe does not propose to treat
us as so many paupers, giving where
we do not seek, and opening where
we do not knock. Today we stand as
so many throbbing specimens of tha
latest edition of humanity; hoping,
fearing, expectani midway between
nothing nnd everything. Kor the fu
ture. as so much has been Invested In
us, each will be expected to add to bis
Individual worth, first by receiving ths
highest the world has to give, and
then adding to It the Increment of his
own contribution, return It for the en
richment of the environment that shall
feed the souls of coming generations.
To receive the highest that science,
art, literature, society and religion
have to give will require on our part
the constant cultivation of the will,
the Intellect nnd the henrl Paderew
ski brings from the unseen about him
the notes which .thrill all hearts, but
only nt the price of the most constant,
persistent discipline. In order to be
able to fully appreciate his musle, It
requires training nnd discipline and
refinement on the part of the hearer
almost equal to that of the great per
former.
Tho things we can receive without
strenuous effort are cheap and" com
mon. The outer layers of one's sur
face nerves may he set to vibrating
by the ragtime music of the tin-pan
siranaila without aflort on our part.
Such music bombards us nnd captures
us, very much as Buffalo Bill's wild
Indians tnko the mall coach. But If
we are to feel the wondrous meaning
of the fugues of Bach and the scenes
nf Mozart, we must bring to their con
sideration a delicacy of thought and
height of spiritual culture which
can not be attained without great dis
cipline.
We should not permit ourselves to be
browbeaten Into the supposition that
we arc not of value. We may not
be permitted to add to the world's
wealth any great Invention or poem,
but remember that the greatest per
son who ever lived on this earth said.
1 am among you as he that aerv-
eth.”
In the direction of service, there
fore, we can pay the debt we owe
for all the world has done for us,
an'd In this direction find the shining
way along which the noblest of our
race have walked and labored and
triumphed.
T HIS lesion Is a complement
Peter's confession, and narrates
an event that soon followed.
J< sus selects the three disciples that
on a former occasion He had taken
with Him In the death chamber when
b- would restore the dead to life,
with them He would hold a little
prayer meeting. In alght of Calvary,
He needed help, and they needed lo be
prepared for the coming event. Peter
must learn that the cross and crown
are Inseparable; that without the
shedding nf blood there can be no
remission of sins. It waa the only time
In <<ur Savior's ministry that HIsllll
xlnity shone forth In all Its glory
through the veil of Hls humanity.
li wa> the only time that any of
i he departed ever appeared In vUlble
form. It was fitting that tha two per
son- who appeared should he Moses
and Ellas, as they represented the law
anil the prophets. One of the charges
that had been frequently brought
against Him waa that HU leaching
»»« contrary to the law of Moaea and
the prophets.
If these disciples had any mlsglv
in«x before, they would now be fully
eatietied with ChrUt'e statement that
H- had not come to destroy the law
amt the prophete, but to fulfill. They
ale ) represented the living and ih*
drtol.
.'lose* died and waa burled by the
hand of Ood; Elijah waa one of the
i».. who leaped the grave.
Now Moses that died and waa bur
led. and Elijah who waa translated, ar*
enjoying the same privileges, and com*
ha. k to earth on the name mission.
Conscious Existence *f Departed
, Saints.
Th>-y have left ua; we no longer see
their bodily forme, but they etlll live.
They do not sleep Ih cold unconacloue-
n< -. there are no age* of slumber till
tiu trumpet of the resurrection shall
m ml. They ImmedUtely pass Into
glory. Moaea who died and Elijah who
ne\. r died are consciously existing to
gether.
I ll nigh the sunken cheek and the
- Iom 1 eye, and the hand that no longer
Hasps our own speaks to us of death,
l et we may be assured that our de
parted friend* still live, as If we had
seen them go up In a chariot of lire,
'*i an angel convoy taking them to
K'oflr. We should think of them trans-
'atrd rather than dead. Moaea and
Elina are together, though 600 year*
• itildrd them on earth. They had dif
fer-n work to do at different times.
■Mia servants are placid In different
i - <llt,lea; they never may be able to
nc et each other on earth, or they may
ii". In the same place at different pe
ri -la, but yonder they are together.
Heavenly Recognition.
We are not told that two angels, or
t» • unknown glorified beings appear-
"1 but two apeclflc. person*. Mom*
an,: Ellas. How the disciple* knew
■ hem. w* afe not Informed, but they
knew them, and, doubtless, no Intro-
u action «u necessary.
They may bare been granted aplr-
' . il Intuition. Just as It will be grant-
• 'I us to recognise prophets and other*
ws have never known.
<> the bliss of meeting there the
I ie-i ones who have gone before;
'••re where the eye shall never lose
, lu luster, where the cheek shall never
fade, where the brow shall never wrin
kle, where no Infirmity, shall remain,
no possibility of misunderstanding,
nothing to mar the harmony, and
where the Joy of reunion shall never
be clouded with the thought of repara
tion.
Mores and Ella* wire with Jeaus. »
Thle le the chief Joy of believers
now. There I* no Joy comparable to
thle conscious presence of Christ on
earth. We are never eo happy as
when, like Mary, we ell at Hls feet,
or with John, lean on HI* breast, or
when He walks with us, as He did
with the Iwo disciples on their way
to Emmaus, and our hearts burn
within ua because nf Hls presence.
But here we see Him through a glass,
nr In a mirror, but then we shall see
Illm as He Is. face lo face.
Heaven will be (o the ealnls xvhat
Mount Hermnn was to the three disci
ple*. Heaven would not be heaven
without Illm. Bo we have Hie prom
ise. ”1 go to prepare a place for you,
lhat where I am ye may be aleo.” He
said lo the dying penitent thief, 'To
day thou shall be with Me In Para
dise."
"I will that they whom thou hast
given me be with me where 1 am.”
Paul expressed hls longing when he
said. "Having a desire to depart and be
with Christ, which Is far better.”
"Absent from'the body," without any
Interval, "and present with the Lord."
Oh! to behold the glorified body nf Je
sus, the same Jesue who wa* trans
figured on the mount, th* same Jesus
who ascended from th* slopes of Oli
vet In Hls chariot nf cloud, whom here
we have seen faintly, obscurely, yet
have loved and served, though Imper
fectly; to be In Hls vsry presence,
where there Is fullness of Joy, and at
Hls right hand, where there ar* pleas,
urea evermore.
Is death then so very terrible? I
departed saints still exist. If they are
In glory. If they are with one anoth
er, If thej rejoice In recognition. If
they are In the very presence nf Jesus
and no longer see Him by faith, should
we dread death for ourselves and la
ment It for our friends?
This Is-our consolation If we are on
the way. and whether we are or not,
the character of Mores and Ellas In
structs us. They who sustain their
chancier will go where they are.
Moses |>y faith renounced the pleasures
of aln, and th* luxurte* of the world,
and eo he came nut from the world and
was separate. If w* are willing to do
the same, then w* are like him In tha
substantial element of character.
Elias' Steadfastness.
Ellas was remarkable for steadfast
ness and decision. He stood for God
and righteousness when he thought he
stood alone. Are we like him In char
acter? Then we are on our way to Join
Ellas. If we are sharers with Mores
qnd Ellas In fslth and decision for
Ood, then w* are on our way to Join
them. If not, we have no hope. Was
there anything special about the mis
sion op Christ to which them repre
sentatives of the law and the prophets
pointed? In praise of the coming
Christ, David swept hls harp, and with
tha suffering He was to endure and
the glory that waa to follow, Isaiah
crowned the gorgeous canvas of hls
W^tat shall be the theme of this mid
night conversation on the summit of
Mount liermon? Events that had
transpired In heaven since our Lord's
Incarnation, or events that had occur
red on earth during Hls ministry.
Only one thing la mentioned, Hie
coming death.'
How strange It ream* to ua at first.
That countenance shining oa the sun,
suggestive of th* countenance furrowed
with grlefl That crown of radlanca
suggestive nf the crown of thornsl
The Iwo saints, of tjie two thieves. The
voice of the Fathers' approval of the
bitter cry. "My Ood, my God. why
hast Ihou forsaken me?” liermon with
Its glories suggests Calvary with Its
woes! Yet that was the very theme
about which Mores and Ellas and
Christ were moat likely to converse.
It was the event In which the angels
hail been Interested and to which Moses
and the prophets hail constantly re
ferred by ceremony and prediction. It
wns to that decease that Moaea and
Ellas owed the enjoyment of their
glory. He died for them as well as for
u*. He bore their sins In Hls body on
the tree. They believed In u Christ
that wns to come, while we believe In
a Christ that has come. No wonder
that owing centuries of bliss to that
decease at Jerusalem, they should
gratefully speak of that which should
■o soon be accomplished.
As Hls death on the cross was the
subject of their conversation on the
mount of transfiguration, so Hla suf
ferings and death will be the theme
of the glorified throughout all eternity.
Aa 11s appeared to John In vision on
Patmns. lie will appear to us aa the
Lamb that waa slain.
We will not forget that the crown
of thorns rested on the brow, that wears
the crown of glory; our robes <tf white
ness will remind us that they were
made white because washed In Hls
cleansing blood. The Joys of redemp
tion will not obliterate the agony nf
Oethsemanr and the sufferings on Cal
vary. The thought that will evoke the
sweetest note In song of the redeemed,
th* richest music from the trembling
chord of heavenly harp, that shall fill
and thrill the soul with deepest gratl
tude will be, Jesus died for me.
“8oon the delightful day will copta
When my dear Lord wjll call me home
And I shall see Hls face.
Then, with roy brother. Savior, friend,
A blest eternity I’ll spend.
Triumphant In Hls grace,”
Peter Speaks.
Peter, as usual, was the first to break
th* alienee. "He spake, not knowing
whnt be said.” He was so delighted
with the scene. No human, volca or
footstep la heard. The birds have gone
to their nests. The only sound Is the
melody of tho streams that have been
swollen by the melting of the snow-
on the mountain. The bright stare
that a moment before were gemming
the sky with their bright lustre disap
pear by the efulgence of a brighter
light, and Mt. liermon becomes a pal
ace of glory. Peter was so delighted,
Jesus so glorious, even Hls apparel be
coming whiter than the snow that
crowned the summit nf the mountain.
Moses and Ellas so glorious, that he
wished to bulltl three booth* where
they might remain free from the plots
and persecution of the Pharisees, and
the wiles of Herod.
Now the scene changes like a dis
solving view. A white fleecy cloud
seemed to come. In which the heavenly
.visitors are enwrapped, and disappear.
It waa the Shrrhlnah, the divine glory,
the token of God's special presence;
the same cloud that rested on the tab
ernacle, and went In the form of a pil
lar before Israel In th* desert. And
then a voice comes out of the cloud.
"This Is my beloved Bon, hear ye
Him." It wus the voice of God, con
firming Peter'* anawer when Jesue
asked, "Whom ilo ye say that I am?"
Now the affrighted disciples fall on
their faces, while Jesus la lost to their
py of glory. And they
hey hear Hls gentle
them, "Arise, be not
. garb. The sun of
their souls waa etlll left. They might
have to face new trials, but they had
obtained s sight of the crown, and now
they can return, to the foot of the
mountain, more than aver willing to
bear the cross.' It was a scene never
to be forgotten.
Tears afterward when writing Hie
gospel John saM: "We beheld Hls
glory as of the only begottoh of the
Father, full of grace and truth.” And
Peter In hls old age when writing a
beautiful letter to hie converts, speaks
of one place and spectacla which aeema
to have fastened Itself above all oth
er* on hla memory. It was not hls first
appearance on the banks of the Jordan,
nor the chamber where the dead came
to life, nor some Incident In th* home
at Capernaum nor In the temple at
Jerusalem, nor the walk on the sea, not
even th* garden of Gethremane, nor
the cross on Calvary, but "We ate eye
witnesses of Hls Majesty . . . when
we were with Him In the Holy Mount.
WILL ATLANTA GRASP
GREAT OPPORTUNITY?
voice bidding lilt-111, niinr, u® »•»**
afraid.” The dasxllng light, tha bright
mosaenger*, tha awe-lnxplrtng cloud*
are all gone. And they see Jeaua only,
not In garments woven In sunbeam*,
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‘Will Atlanta grasp the opportunity
which I* held out to her relative to the
establishment of th* Bible School and
College?", Is the question asked In an
article which will appear In the next
Issue of The Watchman, the organ of
the Congregational Methodist Church,
so It Is stated In a communication re-,
celved by The Georgian from Milner,
Ga. The article on this subject will
read aa follows:
A friend writes that Atlanta ha*
ced before ber a great opportunity
having secured the location of tho
Bible School and College that Annis
ton, Ala., and other enterprising cities
would have liked so well to secure.
What may this not mean to the future
of Atlanta If that great Gate City of
the South will rally to the liberal sup
port and patronage of the Bible School
and hasten the opening of a well equip
ped college? To Atlanta many eyes are
turned, especially the eyes of Congre
gational Methodists from Pennsylvania
to Texas, to see If she will show the
boasted 'Atlanta Spirit' In behalf of a
great religious and educational Institu
tion that Is to be national In Its scope,
and for the benefit of all denomina
tions. This Is one £f the greatest op
portunities ever ofged Atlanta. Will
she seize It by the forelock? I believe
she will!
A Baptist Ministsr'a Opinion.
Rev. R. L. Bolton, a prominent
young Baptist minister, an alumnus of
Mercer University, and one of Dr.
Hunt’s former pupils, said the other,
day: 'Somehow I have been greatly
Impressed for the lost few days about
Brother Hunt's work up there In At
lanta. I believe that God le In It, and
that the people of Atlanta' will soon
recognise It and rally to Its support
aa they have to the work of Dr.
Broughton and others. Brother Hunt
has always been eo consecrated, and I
believe that God will use any man who
will give hla life In each unselfish
Christian service. He is a young man
yet, and I believe the Lord has a great
work for |tlm.
■"A* soon ai
fully realise th* oh. ....
School and what those behind It In
tend to do, I believe they will gladly
recognise In It a substantial way and
co-operate In the gnat work.' *
"Gracious!" exclaimed Mrs. House-
keep. "twenty-five cents a box for
those strawberries? Why, they're such
miserable little, half ripe things they'd
sure to give me colic."
But look at de site o* da box, lady,"
replied the huckster, "You don't gtt
enough o' dem to do you no harm."—
Philadelphia Press
"You say there wasn't a dry eye In
the house r*
"!>'ot one. But the throats were
something fierce."—Milwaukee Senil-
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS
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as the people of Atlanta
bject of tha Bible
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