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f 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.