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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
MATl KUAV. JULY 21. 1908.
MUD AND STARS
“Two Men Looked Through Prison Bars,
One Saw Mud and the Other Saw Stars.”
By OR. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
"Whatsoever things are
and of good report. If there
virtue and If there be any
think on theee things.”—
PROTEST that If aome great
Power would agree to make me
always think what la true and
do what la right on condition of being
turned Into a rart of dork and wound
up every mormhg I should Instantly
i with the otter."
When Thomas HurleV, toward the
end of hta life, gave earnest expression
to this sentiment he won the sympathy
of good men everywtfere. He wanted
to be good. Let us trust, agnostic and
father of agnostics though he was, that
he did not wholly miss the comfort of
the fourth Beatitude, which 13r. Mc
Laren says ought to be rendered:
"Blessed are the men and women that
long more than for anything else to be
good."
Scarcely had Mr. Hurley’s proposition
appeared on this side of the water be
fore Henry Drummond accepted Its
challenge. In his Incomparable essay
on "The Changed Life" he ventured to
show that the Apostle Paul had met
the issue and had provided a formula
of snnctlflcatlon for Mr. Hurley and
for every other man who wanted to be
good. The formula he found In Second
Corinthians 1:18, “We all with unveiled
face reflecting as a mirror the glory
of the Lord are transformed Into the
same Image from glory to glory even as
from the Lord, the Spirit."
That was to say. by contemplation
of Christ, by steadfast thinking upon
Christ, a- man would grow like Him.
Such la the alchemy of thought. With
the theology of this proposition, what
it neglects and what Its Implies, we are
not now concerned. Hut there Is the
soundest basis In Scripture and expe
rience for the principle that to an
enormous extent men are what they
are because they think what they do.
“As a man thlnketh In the heart so Is
he." To be spiritually minded Is life
and peace; to be carnally minded Is
death."
If you think on “whatsoever Is true"
you will love, honor and obey the
truth - ; In a word, become truthful and
loyal of soul. If you think on "what
soever Is honest" you will cherish and
protect your honor. If you think on
"whatsoever Is Just" you will Increase
In falrmlndedness. If you think on
"whatsoever is pure," tyisullled flowers
will flourish and wave their white
plumes In your soul, and the vulgar
and malodorous weeds will droop and
die for lack of soli. If you think on
"whatsoever is lovely and of good re
port,” strength and beauty will adorn
your manhood and virtue and praise
will flow like living waters from your
life. It Is a holy philosophy of charac
ter. "Think on-these things." Poten
tially our thoughts are more Important
than our acts. Our actions are external
and occasional, requiring the Induce
ment of circumstances in lira w them
out, but our thoughts are Internal, per
sistent and spontaneous. "He that
would govern hls actions by the laws
of virtue," enld ftamuel Johnson, "must
regulate hls thoughts by those of rea
son: he must keep quiet from the re-
reeses of hls heurt and remember that
the pleasures of fancy and the ento-
tlona of desire are more dangerous as
they are hidden since they escape the
sense of observation and operate equal
ly In every situation without the con
currence of opportunities." The duly
of right thinking Is the sternest of
life's duties. Our thoughts are the
staple food of our aouls. We shall some
day learn what the best teachers are
putting Into our modern systems of
education, that whatever Induces
thought affects the fabric of charac
ter, that education must have the no
bles! and purest sun-oundings, since
outward objects nnd sounds stimulate
the Internal machinery to activity. One
of our most able Southern educatora In
a recent commencement address. In
which he was pleading for more attrac
tive surroundings for our common
schools, said that he would like to see
these words written on the lintels of
every school room: '"Whatsoever things
are lovely and of good report, If there
he any virtue and any praise, think on
these things.”
Mud end Stars.
The power of personal will, of choice
of taate, of habit and of disposition la
directly the object of appeal here.
"Two men looked through prison bars.
One saw mud and the other saw stars."
These two men are representatives of
contrary philosophies of life. The mud
was there nnd the stars were there;
the things lovely nnd of good report
are here and the things ugly and of
evil are here. I should say the prison
bars are here, too. We all have to look
and think within our limitations. Bun-
yan had these two characters In hls
Immortal allegory—-the man with the
muck-rake and the man who Journeyed
with the delecrnble mountains. In view.
I need not tell you that one was Chris
tian, the other a nameless fellow. They
are types that persist In'human society.
How many homespun Illustrations one
would find In a day's Journey through
the streets. What a multitude of mud-
gaxers our Ilfs affords. The cynic, the
pessimist, the-fault-finder, the grumpy
critic ana his tribe, who tinea not know
them? But alas! they never know
themselves. In varying degrees of mood
the mud gazer sits on the high seat of
human contempt nnd Issuea edicts of
mean comment on all who pass by. He
never sees a good quality In a man
and never falls to see a bad one. "He
Is the human owl vigilant In darkness
and blind to light, mousing for vermin
and never seeing noble game." If he
turns attention to politics every man
la selfish, greedy, corrupt. Every man
has hls praise. The government Is g
nest of rascals. Presidents and gover
nors are dominated by unpatriotic mo
tives. If he goes to church a slight dis
comfort, an Imagined neglect of the
ushers, an unpleaslng anthem, too many
stanzas of a hymn or five minutes too
long In the sermon, will cause him to
condemn the congregation which has
spent 8100,000 lo build a comfortable
church; the uahers who are where they
are because they are known to be
warm-hearted and considerate men: the
choir which Is devoted to the prepara
tion of pleasing, helpful music; the
hymn that a saint saw angels through
and the preacher who has labored and
prayed with God at his side for the
aermon, all are doomed and delivered
to dullness and misery In one short
breath of withering criticism. Who does
this? The mud-gaser. Why? Because
he la a mud-gazer. ^
Sometimes the mud-gazer, forgive
the profanation. Is not a man. Women
sometimes are found who do not look
for the stars. To the credit of John
Bunyan's chivalry, let It be said that
hla character with the muck-rake was
a man. Possibly If that other great
John—John Wesley—had written the
atnry It would have been the woman
with the muck-rake Instead.
The critical habit abounds among
women as well as among men. A taw-
REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE.
dry dress, an Ill-wrought bonnet, a
distasteful color, on Inelegant - stride,
though It were Madonna herself, well
Hhuta out all the stars for her. Mothers
may make mud-gazers of their children
very easily. They then should be very
patient with the child when he
thoughtlessly humiliates a cripple on
the street by directing attention to the
doformlty. But "one saw stars;" one
thought on the things that were lovely
and of good report. He was then no
prisoner. Hls soul swept out and dwelt
In the empyseum.
How much finer life would be If we
would live more in the sunshine! How
much nitre powerful our. Christianity
If It saw the world through the* eyes of
Christ! Perfect and pure though He
was, He did hot eeo the sinner In the
saint, but the saint In the sinner, saw
Peter In Blmnn, Paul In Saul and a
lovely ivoman in the Magdalen.
The Question of "Canned Meats.” ■
ThW text Is a hammer to strike with.
On the anvil of truth let It ring out
warning to those who are feeding the
hungry appetites of souls; tq the mak
ers of books that drip poison; to the
makers of newspapers that purvey
moral tilth. Dr. Washington Gladden
says that If Isaiah were living today
he would be the heart and soul of a
great, clean, outspoken, radical. Inde
pendent, righteous newspaper. Allow
me, then, to Imagine., that the Apostle
Paul were here now to lay hls hand
■upon these mlghtest.levers of civiliza
tion, ths dally newspapers. He would
view with unutterable alarm what you
and I are viewing with dull hearts. He
would cry In consternation and Indig
nant remonstrance against what
scarcely awakens a murmur In us. He
would stretch forth hls hand In the
name of. God and 'homarftty to stay the
Inundation of stuff that resks with
Immorality and unchastlly and foul
ness which our newspapers pour out
almost every day on our hearth-stones
for us and our children to eat and di
gest.
I asked an able news editor In our
city recently what. In hls honest Judg
ment. was the effect on my boy or on
young people generally to read the
newspapers of the week just passed,
when a deluge of murders, adulteries
and moral scandals had filled their col
umns:
It can have only a bad effect, of
course," he said.
’■'•But the blame is not on the news
paper. Jt la our. business to find out
where hell broke loose last and tell it
first, our business to print all the news.
It Is youj* business to decide whether
your boy shall read it or not." If that
Is a true and Just statement of the
case and places the responsibility fair
ly where .It .belongs, then I say "God
pliy the country; we are almost help
less." But Is It true? Have the news
papers no responsibility? In the Anal
Justlre that must be, Is there no moral
guilt attached to the collection and
dissemination of that which acts as
moral poison on the. minds of the
young. It Is current as n theory of
crime atpqng newspaper men that the
publication' of ope great sensational
crime brings on Immediately a flood of
Imitative crimes. ‘ Have the newspa
pers no responsibility then? By their
theory If the newspapers were not to
publish the crime or were to treat It
without sensation, other crimes would
not be stimulated. Here Is the pulpit
nnd the school teacher admonishing
the
lovely
peopflB'w ha trot
of good report, think on ihesc things."
Here are the newspapers, not one, but
seven days in the week, teaching the
people "whatsoever Is abysmal In Im
morality and vile In news, think on
these things." There Is a wretched
mistake somewhere. Madame . Roland
said: "Oh, Liberty, how many crimes
are committed In thy name!" The
parents of children In the city shave a
far more hopeless plaint; “Oh, Prog
ress, how many young minds are mur
dered at thy altar!"
It would not be just to say that the
newspapers are public enemies. They
are public servants. They minister a
vast good. They are a moral necessity
t j our civilization. But It Is true to
Buy that every newspaper of the mod
ern city type must share with other
agencies generally accounted vicious,
tiic responsibility for many a sorrow,
Many a woe, many a vice, and many a
crime, for they practically monopolize
the mental food Induatry of the masses.
The Chicago meat packera are purvey
ors to the stomachs of the people; the
new* pit pent are purveyors to the souls
of tin people. A keen moral sense, oh.
my masters, a keen, fair Justice."
What Are Christians For, Anyway?
"If there be any virtue and If there
be any praise.” Does the apostle raise
a doubt? Let, It be so then. The
lovely things are worth digging after.
It will require some effort often to And
the loveliness. Virtue hides In hard
places. But Is It not a great thing to
be a man who believes It Is there Just
the same? Sir Humphrey Davis found
Michael Foradag In tha lad who wash
ed hls bottles.
The beauty of It is that In an age like
ours —harsh, compeltlve, exacting—
there are men vvhty still believe that
there's more good than bad, more truth
than error, more God than devil. Who
ran pretend to know that the man we
dislike lias more bad than good In him
or the woman the world despises nnd
casts, off has sat In the depths of her
woman’s soul the patience of a lovers’
fidelity, a mother's tenderness, a
friend's loyalty, a neighbor's sympathy
and mayhap In the casket of her Inner
soul the pearl of great price, far out
weighing In the sight of God her single
weakness? Suppose with scent qq keen
as the cynic you begin to marrow the
| search for virtue and nobleness. Tike
your book and Inventory all the kind-
ne*»s and gentleness and unselflshne-,
and charity and noble-mindedness yon
will find In a single city block. Do
you think you would say the world is
overwhelmingly bad?
Take life broadly. Is there in the
balances of-Just Judgment any room
for the overwhelming pessimism that
permeates our preaching? Are we
ready to assert with this book of ths
record open before us that Jesus Christ
Is the authority for the mood that con
trols Christianity In some of Its
anrloua types1 He wept over Jerusa
lem- He wept but He did not deapair
He wept, but He did not denounce’
The Bible never deapalra. God's | n J
finite hopefulness Is to ba placed along-
slde of Hls omnipotence.
It la the privilege of the Christian
to companion with Him who traversed
life Ilmltlesaly and who said Hls last
words In the tone of a conqueror. We
ought to cultivate the dominant moods
of Christ. We ought therefore to find
sweet in every bitter, Joy In every pain
light In every darkness, and the good
In everything.
John Moaely, summing up In hls Ufa
of Gladstone, says that what every
body saw coloring all Gladstone's life
and statesmanship was a kind of u n .
wordllness which exposed him to de
signing counsellors. But, .says Mr
Moaely, who Is himself an unbeliever
as If crushing the criticism In a sen
tence: "What are Christians for, any.
way?" What are Christiana for, any.
way? What are Christians for, if not
to be as lights In dark places? What
are Christians for, If not to scatter
seeds of kindness and make sunshine in
the world? What are Christians for.
If not to live and lift above the fog*
What are Christians for. If not to think
of the heavenly,and reflect It? What
are Christiana for, If not to pilgrim in
the power of .an endless life and In
the enthusiasm of a boundless hope?
Oh, Christ, what are thy people for,
If not to think no evil, rejoice not In
Iniquity, bear all things, have faith In
all things, and hope all things? In the
true kingdom of God the unkind, un
charitable and the Inconsiderate, the
critical, tha cruel and the unmerciful
will be shunned even as now the vul
gar and the unchaste are avoided In
the companies of the refined and the
cultivated.
By DR. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY M. B. CHURCH
N O one can fall to observe, as he
goes about In the world, the en
hancement places, roads, rivers,
mountains nnd material objects of
every hind, get from connection with
the lives of great men. The fact that
Shakespeare was born In Stratford-
upon-Avon, lived there, married Ann
Hathaway there, died there, nnd was
burled there, Is worth more annually to
that little English town than all the,
wheat produced year by year In the
county of Warwickshire. This fact
alone draws twenty thousand pilgrims
every year to the place. Ayr, Scot
,land, Is Indebted to the poet Burns for
the thirty thousand tonrlets who annu
ally visit hls birthplace. Who would
ever go to Concord, Maas., but for the
significance given the village by Emer
son and Thoreau and Hawthorne?
Who would leave Boston to see Ames-
bury but for Whittier? People remain
between trains at Newburyport to see
the old church where Whitfield Is bur
led. A great man has only to stop for
an hour under the shade of a tree to
make It Immortal. General Mercer was
shot on the battlefleld of Princeton,
and a pyramid of cannon balls marks
the spot forever. Thackeray spends a
week with hls friend, Andrew Low, a
cotton merchant In Savannah, Go., and
the old vine-covered Southern munslon
takes on added Interest nnd value. Dr.
J. J. Lafferty, of Virginia, wan accus
tomed years ago to present hls par
ticular friends with puilleta made from
the wood of a tree that grew out ot
the grave of "Stonewall' Jackson. The
pen used by a great man to sign an
Important ztate document at qnee be
comes of priceless value. A button
r m the coat of George Waahlngton Is
more Interest thnn a diamond. A
C bble. worn round by the waves of
ike Galilee, le esteemed like a Jewel.
A drop of water from the River Jor
dan Is worth more than a million gal
lons from the Amason.
Reflections like these passed through
my mind ns I stood, not many months
ago, by the monument erected through
public subscription In the Plaza of San
Francisco to Robert Louis Stevenson.
It Is a granite pedestal, supporting a
brqnze galleon,- designed' by Mr: Bruce
Porter. Upon one side of It are carved
the following words, taken from Ste
venson's own writings: "To be honest,
to be kind, to earn a little and to spend
a little less, to make upqn the whole a
family happier for hls presence, to re
nounce, when that shall he necessary,
and not be embittered, to keep a few
friends but these without capitulation,
above all. on the same grim condition,
to keep,friends with himself—here Is a
task for all that a man has of fortitude
and delicacy." .
Stevenson came to Son Francisco
from Scotland In August, 1878, but was
so much shaken by the long Journey
that he looked upon hls arrival like a
man at death's door. To recover hls
health he Immediately ■ went south,
about ICO miles, and camped out by
himself In. the coast range of moun
tains beyond Monterey. After this, he
went down to Monterey, noted the
world over for Its beautiful hotel in the
inldet of ample grounds, where he re
mained until the middle of December.
Hut *'hll« there was a magnificent ho
tel at Monterhy, Stevenson did not stop
there. He lodged with a doctor and
got hie meals at Hlinoneatt's restau
rant. Stevenson describes It as having
a barber shop In front and a kitchen
at the back. The dining room, was a
little, chill, bare, adobe affair, and upon
the table was always to be found a
dish of green peppers ,and tomatoes.
At any lime, Just before n meal, 81-
inoneau, ihe proprietor, could be heard
all about the kitchen rattling among
■he dishes. With Slmonenu Stevenson
•ays "he played chess every day and
discussed the universe." After the mid
dle of December he went back to San
Francisco nnd remained there until
May 18, 1180, when he was married to
Fanny Van do Grift, In the house of
Rev. Dr. Scott. Immediately after hls
marriage he went to the country, 50
miles north of San Francisco, to seek
health In the mountalne. Here he -took
CHURCH SERVICES
BAPTI8T.
FIRST BAIT18T—Fenchtree and Coin
streets. W. W. Isondrutn, pastor. Sun
day school at 9:33 a. m. Morning wor
ship at U o’clock. Evening worship at 8
•o'clock.
8 p.m. and itrfmiuifter onHuaucc
IttptUin at each service. Sunday iu-liool
at 9:90 u.tu. Personal Workers' Club at
7:15 p.in. Church prayer meeting Wednea*
day at 8 p.iu.
JACKSON HILL BAPTIST—Jackaon at.
aud Kant avenue. Preaching at 11 a.tu.
and 8 p.m.. Iiy the former paator. I»r.
J. J. Ilcnnctt. Sunday achool »t 9:30 a.iu.
SOUTH SIDE BAPTIST—Preaching at
! I it.tit. <titf2 7:30 i*. mi. by the /tautor. Iter.
. S. Dunlap. Morning subject: “Some
teanlta«uf True Fnlth." Evening subject:
••putting on the New Rolie." Sunday
;-h«*ol 9:99 a.in. Ladles’ Mlaatonary Siwlety
;j)Q p.m. T.Oeaday. Prayer meeting 7:»
B. Y. P. U. 3:5) p.m.
BA1TIKT TA BERN ABLE—Tide will In*
Dr. Broughton'* j ant Sunday until October
15. He leaves next week for the North,
nnd will sail August 18 for I^utdou. lie
will give a parting message at night on
•The Oddo and Ends of Atlanta** Need*.’*
He will preach m ll o'clock on "Growth
In Grace.
CAPITOL AVENUE II APT I ST-Preach-
log by pastor, (lev. John E. It rig**, at
11 a. m. Morning subject, "Some Ad
ditional Bible Principles.” Evening sub
ject. ‘The Fait Young Matt Treed." Sun
day School. 9:39 a. in . and Ilarnra Claases.
Haram Prayer Meeting. Monday, 8 p. ui.
Rev. A. 7* Dunstan. Bible achatil ut 9^
a. m. Junior Baptist Voting People’s Union
at 6;45 p. m. Monday afterm*
oVfork In Sunday «rfiord* room* Woman'*
Mlmdotutry Union. Wednesday evening nt
' lock midweek prayer nervier. Itev, A.
L. Dunstan baa Juat returned from Brasil,
In which Held he haa t»een laboring aa a
missionary for the paat five years. This
la the first visit he haa paid bis home
state since entering Info hla work In for
eign Helds.
NORTH ATLANTA llAPTIST CHURCH
—Preaching 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. m.. by the
parntor, Wat. II. IMl.
TEMPLE llAPTIST—Corner West Hun
ter and Mttngmit Streets. Dr. A. C. Ward,
pastor. Regular services Sunday nt 11 n.
tn. and 7:45 p. ui. Sunday School at 9:30
?L m.^ Prayer Meeting, Wednesday evening
EOI.ESTON MKMORIAIs—Corner Wash
Ington and Fulton street*. Rev. I. 11. Mil
ler will Drench on "The Principles of the
Improved order of Red Men. Sunday
school «t 9:90 n.tn. League matting at 7
р. m. Preaching at 11 a.tn. nnd 8 p.m.*
PONCE DE LEON BAPTIST—Bev, Dr.
с. N. Donaldson will occupy the pulpit
of the Ponce l>el.eou Avenue Baptist
church, corner Piedmont aud Ponce De-
Leon. Sunday nt 11 a. m.
METHODIST.
GRACE METHODIST—At 9:30 a. in.. Sun
day sch«>ol. Phllathea class and Borneo
dan*. At 11 a. in . nrenchlug by pastor.
Rev. C. c. Jarrell. Epwiwtb League at *
p. ui. At 8 p. m.. preaching by pastor.
Young I .miles' Plillnthen class. Preaching
at 11 a. in. Song service nt 7:45 p. in.
Preaching at 8:L>. Kpworth League de-
voffoiint aenrfee nt 6:45 p. in. Midweek
prayer meeting Wednesday evening at ft
o'clock. Weekly church social at 9. Teach
ers’ meeting nt 7. Noonday prayer meeting
every day 12 to 1 o'clock.
ST. LUKE METHODIST—At Junction of
Powell street and Berean avenue. SQtiday
school at 9 a. tn. ITeacblng at 11 a. in. and
8 p. m.. by the pastor. George W. Grtner. ‘
FIRST METHODIST—Junction of Peach
tree am) Ivy streets. Charles K. Dowuian.
D.D.. pastor. Sunday sclml at 9:*) a. lit.
Piddle worship nt 10:55 a. tn. ami 8 p. m.
The piisfcr will preach nf uiornfng serv
ice. Subject, "TV Christian's Assets."
At the eventg service there will be a short
possession of all that was left of an
old mining town, and found the data
for that Interesting work of hls, "The
Silverado Squatters." In July he left
California, and with hla wife returned
to Scotland to visit hls father. He was
therefore at this time In California
not quite a year. He returned to the
United States In 1897 and'by the 7th
of June, 1898, he was back In Califor
nia.
Soon afterwards he sailed with hls
family on the Casco for a long cruise
in the Bouth seas, where among Its
Islands he spent the remainder of hls
life. While sojourning In San Francis
co, before he sailed away for the lost
time, he and Mrs. Htevenson lodged at
the Occidental hotel. The details of
Stevenson’s life In San Francisco are
given to show that while he was there
but a. short time, It was long enough
to give new Interest and color -to every
spot and hotel and person he met. It
was long enough to awaken Interest
sufficient In him to secure a* monument
to hls memory. Not one of the multi
millionaires on Knob Hill, whose pala
tial residences are now In ruins, lent as
much Interest to Ban Francisco tn alt
hls life as did Htevenson by a few
months' residence there. Not thh.t mil
lions ure counted In* public esteem
against a man, but more than millions
or billions Is the man Jilmself. If the
man who conies Into the possession
of millions of money happens to be
one who uses'hla wealth.as Stevenson
used hls genius, to bless mankind, then
the millionaire will be: honored not be
cause of hls money simply, but because
he used It nobly.
The kind of Interest Stevenson lent
to San Francisco It Is not within the
S wer of an earthquake to break, or
■troy.
I wish I could 'awaken among our
young people Interest In Robert Louis
Stevenson, at this time, when so many
prectoua moments are being wasted In
reading the shallow, worthless books of
fiction, which are coming ao constantly
and multltudtnously from the presa.
Stevenson was the greatest literary art
ist and genius of the generation Just
past. Who that has ever read It can
ever forget JR* "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
address by the pastor. Subject, "Christ—
The Light Giver." Juvenile Missionary So
ciety at 9 p. iu. Junior Rlblc study
4 p. m. Devotional service of Kpworth
League at 7 p. m. Midweek service Wed
nesday at 8 p. iu., followed by quarterly
conference.
Charles O. Join**. D.D., will preach at 11
a. ui. Sunday m*1i«m»I at 9:99. Deaf mute
clan* taught by W. F. Crusselle. No service
St night. Prayer meeting Wednesday nt
8 p. ui. •
THtSITY METHODIST—Corner White-
hall and Trinity avenue. Dr. J. W. I**e,
pastor. Services nt 11 a. tn. trad 8 p. in.
Sermons by the pastor. Sunday school at
9:90 a. m. Prayer meeting at 8 p. m. Wed
nesday.
Weekly prayer mee\liuc Tuesday nt 7:90 p.
m. I Inline** prayer meeting Thursday nt
7:90 p. m. Ready worker* Monday at 1:30
p. m. Open air meeting on Jefferson street
at 4:9) p. m.
ENGLISH AVENUE MF.THOD 1ST-West
ern Height*. R. E. L. Timmons, paator.
Preaching ot 11*. m. by Rev. Georg* W.
Isowlii. Sunday school at 3 p. m. P*oach-
Ing at 7:30 p. in. by nnstor. Prayer meet
Ing Wed needs- -* - *** '•-**•■
prayer meet In
rise meeting.
WEST SIDE METHODIST—Rev. C. L
Patttllo. p**tor. Sunday school nt 10 a. m.
Preaching by the pastor at 11 a. in. Ep-
worth League at 8 p. m. Prayer meeting
Thurndny at 8 p. in.
PARK STREET METHODIST—Corner of
Pork and Lee streets. Rev. M. L. Trout
man. pastor. Sunday school at 9:30 a. tn.
Preaching nt It a. ui. by the |mator, nnd at
8 p. in. by Rev. 4. II. Rakes, D.D. Prayer
meeting Wednesday at 8 o'clock.
BATTLE HILL METHODIST—Rev. C. L.
*attl||o. pastor. Sunday school nt 10 a.
i). Preaching by the pastor at S p. iu.
EPISCOPAL.
(6ixth Sunday alter Trinity.)
CATHEDRAL—Corner Washington nnd
Hunter. Very Rev. C. T. A. ITse. dean.
At 7:30 n. in., holy eommuidon; 11 u. in.,
morning prayer and aermonf 5 p. in., eve
ning prayer *inl nertunn. Sunday school at
9:15 a. m. All other dnya: At 7:99 a. m..
holy cotumuuiou; 9 a. ui., morning prayer;
DR. J. W. LEE.
Hyde"—the. very Brat of his work* to
jflye him world-wide fame? Not' only
hi* wqrkajof fiction, but hi* essay* are
taking ,rhnk with the very fl^pst in the
language. There I* nothing more thrill
ing in the whole history df literary
achievement - than the "South Sea
Cruise*” of Robert, Louts Stevenson,
■ailing leisurely from one Island to an
other, meeting the king of this one nnd
of that, forming friendship* with sav
age*, and amid It all, writing those,
wonderful stories* which reyeal a new
power in the Kngllah -language to de
scribe the weird, the (vfld und the mys
tical. Think of a man for year* on the
very verge of the grave, yet fighting
death, na If face to face \mh the grim
monster, and wntie holding him at bay
with one hand, using hi* pen with the
other to write- "The Master of Bal-
lantrae,** "The Wrecker" “The South
Seas," etc., and you can form some
conception of one of the moat heroic
and Interesting character* of the age.
After hls various cruises In the South
seas, hb bought for himself a planta
tion of four, hundred acrys of land In
the- Island of Upoto, in the Samoan
group. uHere, overlooking Apia, the
capital and port ~of the Island, he built
a house and lived In It until he died.
Having permanently settled himself, he
spent hls time when not writing. In
Improving hi* estate and in advancing
the mental, moral and political condi
tions of the poor natives be found liv
ing around him. He attended church,
taught a Sunday school class, and held
In hlw household-'family pray era-dally.
He died on tha 3d of December, 1894.
On the evening before his death, which
Was Sunday, ne* uttered in the pres
ence of hls family the following prayer,
which he composed for the occasion:
"We beseech Thee, Lord, to behold ua
with favor, foljc of fnany families and
nations gathered together in the peace
of* this roof, weak women, and women
subsisting under the covert of Thy
patience, be patient still; suffer us yet
u while longer: with our broken pur
poses of good, with our Idle endeavors
against evil, suffer us awhile longer
to endure and (if H may be) help us to
do better. Bless tp us ouf extraordina
ry mercies; If the day comes when
these must be taken, brace us to play
the man under affliction. Be with our
friends, be with ourselves. Go with
each or us to rest; If ahy awake temper
to them the dark hours of watching;
and when the day returns, return to us,
our Hun nnd Comforter, and call us
with morning faces and with morning
hearts—eager to labor; eager to be
happy, If happiness shall be our portion
—ana Jf the day be marked for sorrow/
strong tp endure It. We thank Thee
and praise Thee; and In words of Him
to whom this day Is sacred, close our
oblation."
By hls own direction he was burled
on the Summit of Vaea, near hls Inland
home, and after the Samoan fashion,
a large tomb was built above hls grave.
On either side of the tomb there Is a
bronie.plate. On one of them is writ-
^ 01., evening prayer. Wednesday and aermon at 11; evening prayer and aermon
lay, litany at 10:30 a. m. at 8. 8enrleea by the Rev. W. J. Page.
.. LUKES—Peachtree, next to Penck*
tree fun. opposite Alexander street. Rev.
C. 11. Wllmer. rector. At 7:30 a. m., holy
communion; 11 a. in., morning prayer nnd
neriuou; 8 p. in., evening prayer and Her*
mou. Suutlay achol nt 9:45. Friday, Utany
nt 11. Services In the crypt.
INCARNATION—Lee, near Gordon. West
End. Rev. J. J. P. Perry, rector. At 7:30
a. m.. holy communion; 11 a. ui., morning
prayer nnd sermon; 8 p. m., evening prayer
*nd sermon. Sunday achool at 3:30 p. m.
‘ Friday,
ALL SAINTS—Corner West Peachtree and
North nvenue. Rev. 8. Fnrtnnd, rector.
■ EPIPHANY—Corner Moreland and Euclid
avenues. Rev. C. A. l.augaton In charge.
At u a. m., morning prayer nnd aermon.
Hmtdny school at 9:45 a. ui. Friday, Utany
and addreiui at 5 p. tn.
MISSION OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS—
Wood* avenue, near Went Peachtree. Sun
day school every Sunday at 3:99 p. nt.
HOLY CO'MFORTER—Corner Atlanta
avenue* and Pulliam. Rev. Gilbert IllfX..
It.lt.. In riurs.. !• ,t nltiif prsjr.r ami Mi
llion nt 4:i’i) p. m. Numlay ariiflol st 1:30
p. in. Frill.?, rfonlnx prnjsr .ml rbojr
work at J P in. '
XT. ANDHKWX—4’ornrr Cl.nn'sml Kent.
Jlev., Gilbert HlxfZ. In chant.. Etc
nln* prnyrr anil soraioti nt S. Wednemlay,
litany and choir work at I p. m. '
XT. FAILS—Ea.t Point. Iter. Gilbert
Ills*.. U.D.. In char,.. Morning prnjrer
and aertnon at II.
HOLY TRINITY—Derelsr. Her.* C. A.
laincton In charge. Evening-prnjrer Slid
neruion at 4:30. W'ednewlny, lltnuy and
aildmu st 5.
ALL 8A1 NTS—Dnrncarille. Iter. W. J.
Mood? In charge. Morning prayer, litany
• ml aermon at 11, by Iter. It. V. De-
Belle.
PRESBYTERIAN.
I CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN—Serv
ices by Loyal L'uinbrrlands nt the I'nin-
Imrlsnd Presbyterian church Runrtay nt 11
n. m., corner Hprlng and Hard, alreets.
Preaching by Rev. J. A. Whltnrr, nf Hay.
ton. Tenn., a loyal Cumberland Presby
terian. Three rider, and two deacons will
be elected and ordained. Congregational
meeting Monday st 8 p. m.
the paator nt 11 a. m. The Christina En
deavor Society will have charge of the eve
ning service nt g o'clock. Prayer meeting
Wear
ten hls own requiem beneath hls name
thua:
Alpha' Robert Louis Omega
1850. Stevenson. 1894.
"Under the.wlde and starry sky, h
, Dig the grave and let me lie; - % ,"t
Olad did I live and gladly die •'
And I laid me down with A will
This be.the verse you grave for me;
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home Is the Sailor, home from the
sea, ,
And the hunter home from the hill.”
Stevenson profoundly believed, .in
foreign missions. "Iri an address made
to jhe Women’s Missionary Association
und members of the general assembly
of the Presbyterian church of New
Smith WalFS, at 'Sydney, -March-18;
1898,' he' said at-the-openlng. of-.hls
remarks; '1 suppose 1 am In the posi
tion of many other persons. I had a
great prejudice against missions In the
South Sean, und I.had no sooner come
here than that prejudice was at first
reduced and at last annihilated. Those
who deblaterafe against missions have
only v one thing to do, to come and see
them on the spot. They will see a
great deal of good done; they will see
a race being forwarded In many dif
ferent directions, and I believe If they
be honest persons, they will cease to
complain of mission work and Its ef
fects.
" 'The true are of the missionary, aa
It seems to me, an outsider, ths most
lay of laymen, and for that reason, on
the old principle that the bystander
sees most of the game, perhaps ‘ more
than usually well able to Judge—Is to
profit by the z;re«t, I ought really to
say the vast—amount of moral force
reservoired In every race, and to ex
pand and to change and to fit that
power to new ideas, and to new possi
bilities of advancement/ "
Mrs. Stevenson,' In the Introduction
to a little book entitled "Prayers Writ
ten at Vafllma, by Robert Louis Ste
venson,” says: "Aa soon as our house
hold had fallen Into a regular routine,
and the bonds of Samoan life began to
dnenlsy at 8 p. m.
It. Walker, psutor. Xundsy school st^lfso
a. m. Morning service st It a. m. Sermon
by Rev. A. J. McKrlwny, D.D., Charlotte,
N. C. Young People's Society of Chrls-
iloclety of Chris-
in. No service
Sunday evening. Prayer meellng Wednes
day evening gt 8 p, si., followed by Teach
ers’ Normal class.
NORTH AVENUE PRESBYTERfAN
Cornar Paachtraa street and North avs-
S ue. Rev. Richard Ornio Fllnn. pastor.
tornJnx worablp at 11 a. m. Krenlng wot-
*hlp at 8 p. m. Both services will tu» con*
dneted by*the pastor. Hnbbath school at
9:30 a. m. Men's League and Teachers'
Training class at 10 a. ra. Christian En
deavor meets at 7 p. m. Covenanter band
meets at 4 p. m. on Kahlmth and 6 p. m.
on Monday. Isadtea’ prayer circle meets
at 5 p. m. Thuradiyr. Young Men's league
meets at 8 u. m. Thursday evening, wed*
nesdajr evening prayer meeting at 8 p. in.
INMAN PARK PRESBYTERIAN—Preach
ing Sunday at 11 a. m. by Rev. G. A. Beat-
Sunday school nt 9J0 a. m. Young
. .^.e’a Society at 7:15. u. nt. At 8 p. m.,
Rev. G. A. lieftttle wfll preach nt the
union service of the Inman Park Presby
terian and Inman Park Mcthodfat churches,
which will lte held at the Inman Park
Methodist church. Regular tpblweck pray
er meeting at f o'clock Wednesday nlghf.
Holy
»- Iff
| nlar sc nice* at 11 a. nt. and 8 p. tn. Dr.
j Strfekler. of Union Theological seminary.
Richmond. Va.. will preach Itotb morning
and evening. This la midsummer Invitation
Sunday In the Sunday school.
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN—Rev.
Charles R. Nesblt, paator. Morning serv
ice at 11 a. tn. Evenlug service at 8 p. in.
Keraiona by the pastor. Sundny school at
9:30 n. m. Young people's Society at 7:15
& tn. Midweek prayer service Wednea-
y evening at 8.
FIRST PRBSBY’TERIAN—The paator.
Rev. C. P. Bridewell, will preach Sunday
at 11 j>. ni. No evening service. Sun
day school and Bible claaae nt 9:30 a. m.
WcHtinnlster league at 7:46 p. m. Pre*»*
meeting Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock
BARNETT PRB8BYTERIAN—Corner
Hampton street nnd Bradley avenue. J. Ed
win Hemphill In charge. Services at 11 a.
m. Subject, "Robbing God," and at 7:90
8 . ra„ "Purity of Heart and Personal Iu-
uence. Sunday achool at 3 p. m. Pray
er meeting Thursday at 7:30 p. m.
FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN—Chamberlin
and Jackson atreeta. Preaching at 11 In
the forenoon Sunday, and In tne evening
at 8 p. m. The regular prayer meeting will
lie held Wednesday at 8 p. tn. Sunday
school at 9:33 a. m. Young People's Society
will meet Juat after sundown on Friday.
CHRTiTIAN.
FIRST CIIRI8TIAN-44 East Hunter.
Rev. II. K. Pendleton, pastor. Preaching
at 11 a. m. nnd 8 n. m. Morhlng theme,
"Dr. Broughton and Dr. Wllmer ami In
stantaneous Salvation." Bible school at 9:90
a. m. Christian Endeavor at 8:45 p. m.
WEST END CIIR18TIAN—Corner Gor-
don and Dnnn streets. Rev. Bernard P;
Smith, paator. Preaching at 11 a. m. and >
HOWELL STATION CHRISTIAN—End
of Marietta street car line. Rev. Georgs
W. Mullins, paator. Bible achool at I p.
nt. Preaching at ll a. m. and 8 p. a.
WESTERN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN MIS
SION—Sunset avenue, near Kennedy street.
“* “ “ *** ^reaching at
COLLEGE PARK CHRISTIAN—Rev. Q.
H. Uinnant, paator. Bible school every
B * m - Pi****!*! first
Lord's day at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.
CONGREGATIONAL.
MARIETTA STREET CONGREGATION-
AL— Rev. W. II. Tf.lmsn. paator. Preach-
IMMANUEL CONUBEUATIUNAL—Btr.
cesslty of Including our retainers (ser
vants) In our evening devotions. I sup
pose ours was the only white man',
family In all Samoa except those of the
missionaries, where the day naturally
ended With this homely, patrtarcl\l
custom.”,
“(With my husband," continues Mrz.
Stovendbn, “prayer, the direct appeal,
tvas a necessity. When he was happy
he felt Impelled to offer thanks for un
deserved Joy; when In sorrow or pain,
to call for strength to bear what must
be borne.”
One of the moet beautiful of Steven
son's prayers Is as follows;
"Lord, behold our family here assem
bled, we thank Thee for this place In
wmcir we dwell; -for rthev.fove that
-unites us; for. tb, peace accorded.us
this day; for the hope with which we
expect tomorrow; for the health, Ihe
work, the food, and the bright skies,
that make our lives delightful; for our
friends In all parts ot the earth, and
our friendly helpers lix this foreign Isle.
l*t peace abound In our small com
pany, Purge out of every heart ths
lurking grudge. Give us grace and
strength to forbear and to persevere.
Offenders, give us the grace to accept
and to forgive offendere. Forgetful
ou&elvea, help us to bear cheerfully
the forgetfulness of others. Give us
courage and gaiety and the quiet mind.
Spare to us our friends; soften to us
our enemies. .Bless us If It may be In
all our Innocent endeavors. If It may
not, give us the strength to encounter
that which Is to come, that we be
brave In peril, constant In tribulation,
temperate In wrath and In all changes
of fortune, and down to the gates of
death, loyal and loving one to another.
As the clay to the potter, as the wind
mill to the wind, ns children tn their
sire, we beseech of Thee this help and
mercy for Christ's sake." , .
That one with such wealth of mind
and heart should have lit up the South
Seas with a new light Is not strange.
Pilgrims In the years to come will
climb that lonely hill above hls ham.
In the island of Upola, where he sleeps
draw us more closely together, Bust ....
tala (the name the natives gave to the last sleep, to stand again amid ths
Robert Louis Stevenson) felt the ne- scenes of hls closing years.
Starr C. Williams, pastor, preaching it It
a. m. ontl 7:39 p. in. Sunday w*hooi at
9:90 a. in.
CENTRAL CONGREGATION Ab-R*£
Frank E. Jrnklna, p.D.,_paMor.
MISCELLANEOUS.
MILLENNIAL DAWN
lug 111 Woodmrn'a
BIBfJ
liar weekly JjJJJ
mm mien * unii.
afreet, on flumlar morning st H
All Iuterentr<l In Bible doctrine* are
illatlr Invited to be present and enjoy u>*
services.
ST. JOHNS GERMAN EVANGEL^
LUTHERAN—Corner Forsyth and <»*rn£
atreeta. Sunday achool at 9:30 a- ‘ -
Ices frill be conducted and ® l * l JJ
preached br the paator, Rev. W. ' ou
breebt, at 11 o’clock.
UNITED BRETHREN TABERNAil-^
McDaniel amt Hightower street" I"'-”;
8. Hanletter will preach at 11
Jeer, "The Touch that Telia u-i'fceL
Blosser will preach at 8 p. m. XaaiKa
"Looking One Hundred Year, Ahead.
CHURCH OF CIIIliXT-West End
nne, corner Wellborn streef. Bl[dc
a* 10 a. in. Preaching ami 57''° Thor*,
services at 11 a. m. Fryer meeting t»»
day evening nt ?:«. ’Ihke
ear.
■nbject of the semi«T
11 a. m. Ther** will
nln* service dttrlni
ncsdajr teatlmon*
Heading rooms,
building,
YOU NO MEN'S CHRISTIAN j
TION—Corner Praor *£*»•, Jr.,.* «d'
avenne. At 8 o'clock, Ithe BR*"™?, j*
lie conducted by Rcr. C. J. yill '
o'clock. Rev. << C. Jarrell. ' :r ’ n /V ;
odist church. wtlUqtenk to uteri t!
Ject of Interest. All men are jn ' #
attend theee service. The Awo-
chestra trill plsy st 8 o'rioeh
open k from l o'eWk to « .'eked
mere wllF ne no
SIHZ£&
CHURCH OF OUR FATHER
-Corner Catn and Sprir-
Sanborn, paator. The —
»trcet*.
ranjgj!
JloOO
Ices Wlii be uierosrlBisnjjInrlae p*
August, while Mr. Ssntefc l» '. ..J s
Knuds? school hour hit>wi. g
U a. m.
