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T HE statement of Kraut Haeckel
that "human nature haa no more
value for the unlverae at large
than an ant or the fly of a summer's
day," does not square with the facta
Man haa more Importance for the uni
verse In wholesale and detail than any
of the lower animals, for he learns
enough about It to Improve It and In
crease Its value, while they get a living
out of It without enhancing Its worth
a particle. Consider the difference In
the value of the American continent to-
dny, as compared with Its value four
hundred years ago, when Columbus
discovered it. The present wealth of
America Is more .than sufficient to buy
out the whole Eastern. hemisphere of
the world as the people knew It before
U92. And It la all owing to what man
has added to It. The beavers have not
helped any, nor have the ants or the
files or the mosquitoes. The thought
wo call Instinct the animals carry in
their blood does not grow. It Is sta
tionary. It Is man who has to struggle
for what he knows by changing hla In
tuitions Into general Ideas which he
reproduces In modifying climates, alter
ing the courses of rivers, Invading the
domain of the ocean, with his fields,
and making forests grow on new
ground prepared for them; who turns
the face of the earth from a wilder
ness Into a blooming garden. He It Is
w ho finds out the secrets of things In
themselves. He It Is the Almighty has
endowed with a mind capable of har
vesting the thought sown In the stars,
and In the light, and In the mighty sea.
and In the human spirit.
I.
He It Is who uses his knowledge to
tunnel mountains', bridge rivers, sub
due the ocean, and make out of Wire
anil electricity a nervous system for the
social human whole as perfect as that
ench Individual has for hla own body.
He has abolished space and obliterated
time. The great ether sea through
which suns and constellations swim he
now proposes to subordinate to his
purpose as he uses the Atlantlcs and
PacIflcH. Whether he Is more Impor
tant for the universe at large than the
"ant or fly of a summer's day" or not
nip- thing Is certain, he haa forced th*
universe to serve him In an Infinitely
larger sense than the ants and the
»1 t/»r» have ever been able to get It to
serve them. The truth Is, the Author
of the universe (which Haeckel says Is
matter and motion) seems to be using
him, his Intelligence, will and emotion
through which to transmute the whole
material order Into higher realms of
being.
II.
Man. according: to the Psalmist,
made but a little lower than God. God
Is the Infinite self-conscious, self-de
termining, self-active One. Man Is the
fllnite self-conscious, aelf-determlnlng,
self-active one.
The brilliant essayist and biographer
of Browning, G. K. Chesterton, said
that one might declare with truth per
haps that comparatively few men are
manly, but that no one could say that
all whales were not whaly. So one
might say to a friend after he had ta
ken hla tenth drink, hoping to deter
him from taking another, "Be a Man,"
but no one would ever think of saying
to a crocodile after he had swallowed
his tenth explorer, "Be a crocodile.'
Whales and crocodiles are not spirits;
but man, essentially and fundamental
ly, Is and In calling upon a human
being to be a man, an appeal Is made
to what he essentially and eternally Is,
In distinction from what he locally and
temporally Is.
III.
The evolutionary process that for
millions of years steadily moved up
until the topmost plane of creation was
reached, has since that time seemingly
kept up Its ascending movement
through the highway of the human
soul. Horses, cattle, sheep and all ani
mals that have promise of a career on
earth go up Into liner forms by way
of the human spirit. Chrysanthemums,
roses, honey-sucktes and all flowers, as
well as pears, watermelons, grapes,
peaches, and all fruits, climb now by
way of thought. Pigeons, ducks, chick-
nay ui iuhuhiii. a iBfruitn, uutnn, uiiitn*
ens and all birds ascend through hu
man life. The evolutionary process af
ter an adtve business career of from
fifty to one hundred millions of years
along the lines of matter and motion,
seems to have mode a complete change
In Its method of procedure when man
appeared on the scene of activity.
Plants and animats struck not for
higher w ages but for'a different road
up which to travel. Things generall)
appeared averse to climbing any more
except over the human rimifwny. At
the first man was new to himself and
the world was new tq him. It has ta
ken some thousands of years to build
a human highway broad enough for all
earthly things to move up through. But
with the process of the suns the
thoughts of men have widened until
now there Is ample space for all things
to move abreast along the upward way.
Atoms, molecules and compounds, elec-
1 tricity, heat and magnetism, gravlta- |
tlon. chemlsm and ether, a* well as tor-
gnr,!sms / of every grade and type are all I
finding their way to higher realms of
existence through humeri*nature.
IV.
Haeckel may not cAre to share In the
glory the universe has thrown around
man by selecting him as the medium
through which to continue the evolu
tionary process; he may prefer the
lowly estimate of himself which aspires
to no higher level than that occupied
uiftiici tt vci kiiau iiibl ucuupieu .
by the ant and the fly; but he has noI
right to publish 5>ooks filled with Ideas |
which would lead the rest of the human i
race to feel.as humble as he does. One I
would think. In his attempts to feel as I
unimportant as the ant or the fly, that I
he displayed enough of the spirit of <
self-efTarement to satisfy the demand I
In that line of things for the whole of j
mankind. One mortal on earth feeling!
that Way Is at least enough for.a gen- :
eratfon; especially when it la remem
bered that he has not ,a single suno
reason for taking such an enormously
low estimate of himself. - .
V.
The thought that things have steadl- ;
ly moved upward from the beginning
Is the most stimulating and wide-
reaching conception ever grasped by
the mind of man. The conviction that
underlying matter and motion, and. life
there has been an ascending purpose,
widening and deepening, and gradually
disclosing Itself, has come as a brac
ing and universal tonic to the modern
mind. It has put pessimism, together
with the atheism and agnosticism,
which made It possible, out of busi
ness. It has closed the careers of the
Schopenhaurs and the von Hartmans.
It has caused a complete change in
the outlook of the human race, lead
ing It to see no longer Its Ideals In the
narrow Edens of the past, but to press
toward a. paradise In the future where
all the sons'of men shall stand together
In the wide, ample gardens of God. The
companion thought to that of the gen
eral upward movement of the evolu
tionary process throughout all time
and space Is the one that since man’s
appearance on the planet, the divine
purpose haa been mining toward Its
consummation through the Intelligence
and will and emotion • of humanity.
Through man, even things are lifted
Into finer forms and higher values.
Through man, lands and rivers and
places are. transfigured. The barren,
commonplace Palestine Is transmuted
through Joshua and David and Isaiah
Into a country of fadeless beauty. Sun
burnt and rock-ribbed iGreecc gets an
REV. DR. JAMES W. LEE.
eternal lease on Immortality through
her artists and philosophers and poets,
The Scotland of Sir Walter SSott Is
Inllnttely more attractive than was his
native land before It begaii to glow’ In'
the colors of his genius. The waters
of Burns' Tiny Bonnie Boon are of
more value than those of the vast
A mason. . The Avon outranks the Mis
sissippi. Not only through the artistic
genius of i men are' things enhanced In
value, but through the practical genius
and patience of men are living things
advanced to higher uses.
VI.
For the past\wenty-live years there
has been a regular procession of Cali
fornia plants making their way through
the genius of Mr. Luther Burbank. |ito
finer forms than ever grew on this
earth before. He believes there Is not
one weed or flower, wild or domesti
cated, Which will not sooner or later
respond liberally to good cultivation
and persistent selection. He finds his
delight In lifting up from the race of
I weeds the vile, the neglected, the down-
|trodden and the despised of all. He
I>elleves that ■'weeds are weeds because
1 they are Jostled, crowded, cropped and
! trampled upon, scorched by flerce heat,
' starved or perhaps suffering with cold,
wet feet, tormented by Insect pests,
or lack of nourishing food and sun
shine."
"The whole creation groaneth and
travalleth In pain together until now."
But through man the natural creation
Is moving up into use and beauty such
as was never seen before. Man who
lifts up all things around him must
also go up Into the full perfection of
his being. We know better than ever
before—thank God—the way of human
ascent. Through Jesus Christ, the Son
of God. the Son of Man. the universal
Life, man has been coming to salvation
from sin, to freedom end hope, for the
past nineteen hundred years, nnd the
way gets brighter and wider with •wry
passing century. iThrougli Him we
are to do for the human world what
such patient workers as Mr. Burbank
are doing for the pltmt world. Human
beings arc far more susceptible and
responsive to treatment than are the
weeds of the Held. But if we are to lift
them up we must take hold of them in
the wholeness of their being. They arc
primarily and essentially and persist
ently religious. The only treatment to
which they permanently respond Is
Christian treatment—the treatment of
love and sacrifice and sympathy. VCe
have a concrete Illustration of the ef
ficiency of this method of redeeming
human life In that furnished" by Dr
Thomas J, Barnardo and his .ninety-
three . homes established In different
parts oCJingland today. Thirty-c-lght
years»ago he began with one poor little
waif of a bo)• named Jim Jarvis, found
In the streets of London. The boj
was motherless, homeless, friendless. In
thirty-eight years he has gathered from
the streets of English cities nearly 60,-
000 wolf children. In his homes they
have been educated, trained to work,
and taught to trust In Jesus Christ for
livntion from sin. When the children
leave the homes for the great world
they go out trained In'mind, disciplined
In hand, and committed In heart to
Christ. The results are far more amaz
ing than such as Mr. Burbank has ac
complished In taking the shell Inclos
ing the kernel from stone fruits, or In
making tl)e plum-cot by crossing the
apricot and the plum. Out of the
nearly 60,000 young people trained In
Dr. Bernardo’s homes not more than
2 per cent have turned out badly.
Think of that wretched procession of
waif children, Jostled, crowded, cropped,
trampled upon, ■ torn, beaten, despair
ing, making their way to noble man
hood and womanhood through the
Christian soul of a man who loves his
fellow man, as Jesus loved him,
cause filled with the spirit of Christ,
and you get a view of the direction the
evolutionary process, as guided by the
mind of Christ, Is taking In the sad,
dnful, human world.
VII.
This upward movement of human
life and Its affairs through Christ
must not be regarded as merely dog
matlc and doctrinal, It Is cosmlcal And
universal. Lamenals said long ago
that "Christianity can only continue Its
evolution by entering Into the circle
of the natural laws of man. It Is now
entering on this new era, one of those
solemn moments In which everything
seems to be perishing, but In which
everything is being bom." We arc
now beginning to see In the light of
the history of the past nineteen hun
dred past years that the ethical and
spiritual forces which Christ set work
ing In humanity are destined to domi
nate the world. The great truth Christ
taught was that men live by dying,
they go up by going down, they find
themselves by losing themselves, they
triumph through sacrifice, Christ sac
rificed Himself. He descended from a
higher to a lower order of social ex
istence.
“While In the form of God," he
"counted It not a prize or a thing to
be grasped to be on an equality with
God, but emptied Himself, taking the
form of a servant, being made In the
likeness of men, and being found, In
fashion as a man. He humbled Him
self, becoming obedient even unto
death, yet the death of the cross where
fore also God'hadh highly exalted Him,
and gave unto Him the name which Is
above every name; that In the name
of Jesus every knee should bow, of
things In heaven and things on earth
and things under the earth, and that
every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ Is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father."
By His descent from the heights of
holiness. Into the depths of wretched
ness and sin enough redeeming power
was liberated to redeem and transform
the world.
VIII.
It Is a well known truth of the ma-
terial.realm that energy, whether radi
ant, electrical or chemical, always re
sults from the conjunction of that
which Is the higher with that which Is
lower. If all things In the physical
world were on a dead level such a
thing as energy would not be possible
Whenever It is generated It may h»
known that something above Is na.«in.
to a level below. If the atmosphere
surrounding the steam engine was
heated to the same degree of ih#
steam In the boiler not a wheel would
turn. To the difference of temperature
of that within to that without we owe
the power that moves the flying train
When the water plunges down more
than 150 feet at Niagara power Is lib
erated sufficient In <iuantlty-to turn an
the wheels nnd light all the streets of
America. When water goes from the
boiling to the freezing point heat !>
communicated to the surrounding at.
mosphere.
It Is equally true that spiritual pow.
er Is due" always to the entrance of
higher life Into the conditions of low.
er life. And the amount of force
liberated or made available by such a
down-falling process will be in pro
portion to the energy of position oc-
cupted by the life, and by the moral
and spiritual value of the life, h it
beyond any question that one person
can never raise the moral grade of an
other above that which he occupies
himself. An Ignorant man can never
add to the Items of knowledge pos.
sessed by his neighbor. If all men
were thieves and liars by settled prac-
ttce and confirmed habit, available
power for converting them into lovers
of honesty nnd truth could only be se
cured from some holy life coming down
from above them Into their midst. If
the sun were to cease to come with
his light and heat Into the atmosphere
of the earth we would soon all freeze.
The annual spring revival that
comes to meadow and, plain, forcing
the plants to swejl and bloom, Is due
the coming of that which Is above the
earth Into contact with living things
upon It. All analogies break down at
some point. This does because It falls
to Illustrate what we mean by the de
scent of Christ Into the conditions of
human life, In that when the sun parts
with Its heat It does not get it back,
but In giving away Its force Is gradu
ally getting poorer In resources.
Now the sacrifice of Christ, while it
does stand for the coming of the Son
of God from a higher Into a lower
realm, and does give us the secret of
his success among men, yet Christ does
not, like the sun, loses Himself by giv
ing Himself. Here is a distinct line
differentiating the material. from the
spiritual power, for man to draw on,
but Instead of losing Himself by this
process He flnds Himself multiplied
and magnified by all who are, redeemed
through His sacrificial movement.
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RAISING A BIGGER ISSUE
“And the Lord direot your hearts
into the lovs of God and into the pa
tience of Christ.”
—2d These., Mi: 5.
By REV. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
N OTING that the text Is In the form
. of a prayer, we naturally Inquire
for some explanation. The ex
planation Is the situation In the Thes-
snlonlan church. It Is to that situation
the second Epistle la addressed. The
Christians there are In the throes of
an unhappy division over (he question
of the second coming of Christ. Some
think that Paul had himself unwitting
ly furnish'd the occasion of the discord
by rather ttrong and unguarded state
ments about Christ’s return, as though
It were Immediately at hand. With
vivid and startling emphasis he had In
the former letter pointed to the while
clouds of the "Parausl” as If at that
moment they were In the sky. "Be
hold! He cometh with clouds and every
eye shall see Him. The Lord Himself
Mi nil descend from Heaven with n
shout, with the voice of the archangel
and with the trump of God.” Com
menting on this and what came after a
great Scotch preacher says;
"Paul drove the nail too hard and
split the plank.” If the authorised
rendering la the correct one. the sad
disruption at Thessalonlca may have
been brought about by a spurious
epistle which some tricky enemy wrote
and signed Paul's name to. In the
second chapter Paul refers to It: “Now,
we beseech you, brethren, touching the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and
our gathering together unto Him, that
ye be not quickly «haken from your
mind nor yet troubled by epistle as
from us, as that the day of the Lord Is
now present. Let no man deceive you
In any wise.” Whatever Its origin,
whether In Paul or In a forgery, the
trouble was there In full blast. One
party going wild and turning away
from labor and duty to sit down and
Indulge rhapsodies of high-strung ex
pectation; the other party flyliig to
the other extreme and In disgust with
fnnattclsm throning the whole doc
trine of the second coming overboard.
So bitterness and strife rent the church
In twain. It has always been so. One
extreme creates another, and the truth
falls through. The distortion of truth,’
fanatical extremes, by very earnest and
h -nest people, provokes and supports
unbelief.
Now, Paul, who hod founded nnd
nourished the cause at Thessalonlca,
witnessed this disruption sadly. The
note of distress Is evident In his ad
dress to them. In the course of this
address our text occurs. Hehas coun
sided, he has exhorted, he has warned
them In his best wisdom; now, as
though he suddenly realises the gravi
ty or the trouble, that human effort to
harmonise the factions would fall and
tbana higher power must take It In
hand, he appeals to God. "The Lord
direct yuor hearts Into the love of
God and Into the patience of Christ." I
commend to you the Apostolic diploma
cy. Christianity has this witness still
to bear to modern life. It Is accredited
by history. Ollyer Cromwell prefaced
his bailies by prayer. Marlin Luther
anil John Knox In their revolutions
made Illustrious the Pauline diplomacy
of prayer, David Livingstone actually
fought his way Into the heart of dark
est Africa on his knees, and then out o/
Africa he went to Heaven on his
knees, for so they found him dead.
Chinese Gordon and Btonewnll Jackson
took It to the Lord In prayer. At Val
ley Forgo George Washington went
ulono and laid the Issue of war nml thu
destiny of this dear land before God.
Benjamin Franklin railed for prayer
at the launching of the American Con
stitution. If General Toombs nnd
Thaddeua Stevens had sworn less nnd
prayed more a Bloody and ruinous civil
war might have been averted.
A Bigger Issue.
Dr. Sylvanus Landrum, the distin
guished father of his still more dlsttn-
gulshed son, left behind him for
preachers a charming bit of wisdom.
”1 have learned,” he said, ‘in forty
years' experience, how to deal with a
church row. It Is to always raise a
bigger Issue, take a great collection
or project a new enterprise.” The night
before Snlamla Tbemlatocles brooded
discouraged In his tent over the dark
shadow that hung over Greece and
the fateful battle that Impended. Suc
cess had crowned his ambition. He
had succeeded In having his rival, Aris
tides, banished. But now a mournful
melancholy tilled his heart. Suddenly
a figure darkened the door of Ills tent.
It was Aristides. The hand of Ther-
mtstocles flew to hla sword as he saw
hts old antagonist. Aristides advanced
and extended his' hand. "Thermlsto-
cles." he said, "let us he rivals still, but
rivals now for death tomorrow to-save
our common country." He raised a
blggerrissue. On the morning of Tra
falgar Lord Nelson called >a council of
his officers. He noted the absence of
Captain Rotherham. He was Informed
that It was on account of a disaffection
between him nnd Admiral Uolllng-
wood, his superior. Nelson sent for
the captain and upon his arrival took
him by the arm and led him Into the
presenco of the admiral, and stretch
ing forth his hand toward the ships of
France and Spain, said; "Gentlemen,
these are the enemy. Shake hands."
He raised a bigger Issue. In one of
our court rooms-a bitter suit for di
vorce was In progress. The husband
was on one side nnd the wife on the
other pf the court room and between
the warring array of attorneys. By
the mother's aide was a little girl, the
object of the struggle, between them.
Suddenly that little figure flew across
the room, climbed Into the man’s lap,
hugged his neck and said In the hear
ing of the startled company: "Daddy,
we love you." In the hands of the wise
Judge who looked through a mist of
tears, the case came to an end nnd the
litigants want out with the child be
tween. The child raised a bigger Is
sue.
Thus Is Paul's statesmanship. He
does not propose to settle their dif
ficulty, He raises a larger Issue. He
appeals to religion, to the love of God.
A Lovs Like God’s.
The principle behind the suggestion
of the text Is that the love of God
Is the law of harmony and the proper
mood of the Christian. Traced through
the New Testament the phrase as
sumes a particular Christian signifi
cance. The words are old enough but
when Christ comes to reveal and cre
ate a new relation between God nnd
mnn "the love of God" becomes un
expression standing for a well defined
force and fact. The old preachers had
the Idea when they spoke of "the love
of God shod abroad In our hearts.”
It does not mean God's love for us, nor
yet our love for God. It means Chris
tian love—thrfdlvlne love as a posses-
REV. DR. JOHN A. WHITE.
slon, a love like God's that Is the Chris
tian's own distinguishing quality. In
the thirteenth chapter of First Corin
thians a certain vlrtuo Is invested
with a surpassing dignity. The au
thor says that without It faith Is noth
ing, hope Is nothing, ’nothing Is any
thing so far as the Christian is con
cerned unless be has this wonderful
virtue. He calls It love. Now, the
thing that Pawl says It greater thun
faith and greater thnn hope Is exactly
what he Is talking about In the text.
"The Lord direct your hearts Into the
love of God."
It Is an exact nnd n most exacting
virtue. It make* no allowance for bit
terness against brethren or any hu
man hate whatsoever.
Now, this love of God comes to us
when His ,|ove-for us Is revealed and
realized and our love awakened and
aroused In respqnse. A new moral ele-'
rrlent drops Into, our lives and a love'
the heathen knows not comes to power
tn us. It Is a love like God’s that
Huftereth long and Is kind, cnvleth not,
vaunteth not .itself, le not puffed up,
doth not behave Itself unseemly, seek-
eth not her own, Is not eaqjly pro
voked. thlnketh no evil, rejoiceth not
In Inqulty, beaseth all things, bellevetH
all things, hopeth all things, endureth
all things.”
A love like God's! Can such a thing
be? Two men who were brothers were
visiting their old father. They were
talking about the old man while he was
going about the place happy enough.
One of the brothers said to the other:
’’Do you know I have come to have a
'strange feeling about father? I do not
love him like I used to exactly. I feel
like I would like to have him In my
home and look after and make him
take care of himself and care for him
just like a child. I’ really feel like a
father to him." I do not know a bet.
ter definition of this love of God about
which I am speaking thnn this sug
gests. It Is (toe spirit of fatherhood In
is. What does It mean when Christ,
ne man Christ Jesus, says so clearly
and with such n distinction of, em
phasis, that His words eut the air like
blades of steel, ”1 and the Father are
one; If ye have seen me ye have seen
the Father?’ And how far Is Paul
from saying the same thing of himself
when he pointedly declares, "For me
to live Is Christ. Nevertheless It Is
not I that live, but Christ that llveth
In me?”
Mr. William T. Stead, the great Eng
lish publicist, has told In a book of a
Christmas he spent In prison when he
was arrested as the editor of the Pall
Mall Gasette. He says that he had a
revelation there that changed his whole
life. He wae writing a letter to a
young lady who had written to him for
advice. She was having a hard time
trying to live a better life In the city of
London, and he was saying to her In
his letter that she ought to become a
Christian. He seemed to hear a, voice
saying to him distinctly, "Why are you
asking that girl to be a Christian?
Never say to any one any more, ’Be a
Christian.’ Always say, ’Be a Christ.’ ’’
He says at first the’suggcstlon shocked
him. It sounded almost blasphemous,
certainly presumptlous. Ho '.recoiled
from It. But as he thought more deep
ly of It he Saw’that It' was a; flash of
truth of most vital Importance. He
writes: "Henceforth I shall never say
-to any one, 'Be a Christian.’ It Is not
Christians who will save the world.
No, not even churches. What we want
Is not to be Christians, but to be
Christs. The name Christian has come
to mean to many an Infinitesimal sem
blance of the shadow of Christ and a
whole ocean of self.. We have got to
be real Chrlste or the world.wlll never
be saved.” Now, this bold way of
stating It, though I can not see that It
is any bolder than Paul's way of stat
ing It, may excite a momentary re
pugnance, but think about It, think
about It with your New Testament be
fore you. I think you will get a new
light on your path. The peril of blas
phemy Is far more real for us when
we use the term "Christian’' loosely ond
with little significance than It Is when
we put the power Into It that belongs
there. If we take His name In vain
we do blaspheme. The name "Chrls-
tlan" Is an Irrevsrent liberty with the
name of the Bon of God whenever It Is
made tq stand for any spirit abhorrent
to the Spirit of Christ.
A Southern Exposure.
What has been said brings me to
an application I cannot avoid. As I
understand my calling, os I understand
the significance of this gathering, we
are representatives of Jesus Christ be
fore we are anything else. I speak
also to a larger audience, which may
read these words. Here In Georgia
and here In tko South Christianity Is on
trial as It Is no where else In the whole
world at the present time. Christians
are undergoing a harder test than
Christians ever underwent since the
days of'the reformation. We are call
ed from two directions to adopt In
dividually and as a people a “modus
vlvendl" for our dealing with the ne
gro race. Dark and difficult as the
problem Is when we come to consider
practical solutions, the approach to the
problem Is not so difficult. The first
question to be met Is not a complicat
ed one. We have simply to decide the
question of attitude and temper, wheth
er It shall be rash, vengeful and wick
ed, or calm, thoughtful and with the
purpose to do that which conscience
and justice will approve. There are
two principles to choose between and'
only two. On one hand Is the dictate
of Christianity, the spirit and princi
ple that Is behind overy theory of the
Christian religion oa that religion le .
Incarnated in the historic Christ. It
1# >Ute • principle that animates and
Inspires the Christian enterprise In
missions at home and abroad. No
creed denies it, our creeds affirm It.
It Is a* distinct and a distinguished
philosophy of man’s relation to his fel
low man, which I might with the ap
proval of the - centuries and the Chrls-
tion millions, propose solemnly and
earnestly In the name of the Father,
and tn the name of the Son and In the
name of the Holy Ghost.
On the other hand an opposite princi
ple and temper clamors. It Is the prin
ciple of the human nature. It Is nat
ural and racial and Instinctive. It runs
In the blood, It riots In the veins nf
the natural man. Ita passion Is as
flerce as the human animal knows.
Its law Is vengeance and hate. It
arouses and supports a murderous tem
per and the most ferocious and tact
less expedients. No one can say to It
"Come, let us reason together." Gov
ernors and statesmen plead with It In
vain.
Here are the two way* before every
Southern cltlxen’e feet.
I for one am going In the path that
Is marked by the sandalled feet of
Christ, even though I go It alone.
And If In God’s good providence we
shall see the clouds rolled away, the
fearful problem solved and Its peril
averted of one thing I am sure. It
will be found that true statesmanship
did not lie with those who cry "Take
v Into your own hands! Kill.
Shoot I Burn!" But with those larger
men of unclouded minds and steadfast
hearts who could think clearly and or
der wisely even though methods In
volving tremendous measures.
And If not, If there Is no way In
God or man out of this peril, there will
be no regret that we chose the high
est way and walked In it. "The Lorn
direct your hearts Into the love of Goo
and Into the patience of Christ."
THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE GIRL OF TODAY
IlKATRICE FAIRFAX TELIA YOUNG MEN NOT TO DISCOURAGE Gill!A FROM
BECOMING INDEPENDENT.
By BEATRICE "MRFAX.
Woman Is much more Independent
than she used ta be. Of that there Is
not the slightest doubt.
Htr independence Is largely due to
the fget that there are so many waye
open to her of earning her own living.
Twenty-live years ago there were few
chances for the self-supporting woman.
She had her choice between teaching,
aewing, becoming a saleswoman or en
tertaining domestic service.
Those were all womanly occupations,
but they gsve small chance for ad
vancement
Hot Weather Trips via Cen
tral of Georgia Railway-
Summer Excursion Tick
ets. t 4
To tb* SEASHORE, MOUNTAIN and
LAKE RESORTS Id tb« north, south,
test end west.
A trip by roll snd soil to NEW YORK,
Boston, Baltimore. I'Hilaoki.
1*111A snd points In the Nit Tls SAVAN
NAH and HTEAMHIIIP LINES, Is delight
ful st this season.
Tickets are now on ante at all coupon
ticket offices. For rates, schedule*, etc.,
apply to nny agent or representative or
the Central of oeorfta railway. W. U.
Vvfgt UUutct Passenger Agent* Atlanta.
I
The woman who advanced one step
beyond the most conventional lines was
accused of unwomanllness. .
The result was that Ihe average
woman had little or no self-reliance
once outside the narrow confines of
her home.
She was brought up with the Idea
that the men of the family always
knew best, that their word was law.
They let her do pretty much as she
liked concerning the ordering of ths
household, but one step beyond that
she must not go.
To marry, to be a good wife, mother
and housekeeper, that was supposed to
be Ihe sum total of her ambitions.
No matter how many daughters
there might be In a family, and no
matter how little money to clothe and
feed them, not one would be allowed
to step out for herself and order her
own way of living.
The term "bachelor girl" was an un
known quantity.
Today many girls are self-supporting
who are not driven to It by actual ne
cessity.
The modern girl has learned that
there Is more content tn be found In
living the life of a busy bee than that
of an idle butterfly.
Man's attitude toward woman's In
dependence Is exceedingly changeable.
It he Is personally Interested In a wo
man he likes her to be clinging and
dependent.
But If he Is not she cannot be too
Independent. He does not want her to
rely on him In the slightest degree.
He thinks woman In the aggregate
should get out into the world and earn
her own living.
He would prefer his own womankind
to stay at home.
Woman has advanced a great deal In
the last decade, but man’s Ideas re
garding her have not advanced one
step.
There Is no reason why the fact of
earning her own living should detnftt
In the least from a girl's womanliness.
Sam Jones Tabernacle
Meetings, Carters-
ville, Ga.
On Beptemper 15th to 23rd. Inclu
sive. the Western and Atlantic rail
road will sell tickets from Atlanta-
Dalton and Intermediate stations, to
Cartergrllle. at rate of one fare for
the round trip.
Sam Jones will be assisted by
Evangelist Oliver and other ministers
of renown. Prof. K. O. fcjxeoll will
hare charge of t.' music, and other
gospel singers of note trill attend.
Three services each day, 10:30 a. m.,
3:00 p. ro. and 8:00 p. m., and the
people of Cartersvllle will welcome
the great crowds with the same hos
pitality they have always shown.
CHA8. E. HARMAN,
Gen. Pass. Agent
She ran be modest and dignified and
not so Independent as to become uti-
femlnlne.
The girl who Is needed at home Is
fulfilling her mission In life to the ut
most.
But In families where there are sev
eral unmarried daughters It Is far bet
ter for some of them to do something
toward self-support
It need not Interfere with their mat
rimonial prospects, for the girl who
makes u capable business woman
should make a capable, economical
wife.
Do not discourage the girls from be
coming Independent, young men.
Tell them that you admire them, and
encourage them all you can.
It Is said that there are eight million
more women In t(je world than men.
So you sec there are not enough hus
bands to go round, and a good many
of the eight million superfluous ladles
must support themselves.
- The business woman of today Is be
coming a factor In the business world.
She Is fayt making herself Indispen
sable to her employers by her faithful
ness to duty and general trustworthi
ness. /
Instead of criticising her Independ
ence. men should admire her for her
capability.
ARE WE BEING EFFEMINIZED?
The Stamp of tho Feminlns Mind Is
Upon Everything American.
From the World's Work.
In the United States there are at
least a million more'men than women,
and only one.tenth of the women are
at work outside of their own homes.
Yet the stamp of the feminine mind Is
upon everything American, and In
many of the higher phases of culture
women take the Initiative.
Thle rule of women In the United
States begins In our public schools,
where boys and girls are educated to
gether, add where the teacher Is al
ways, In the lower grades at least, a
woman. In the great cities the femi
nine influence goes Into every nook and
cranny pf social development. A wom
an has been suggested as mayor of
Chicago, and the "civic creed" of Chi
cago was composed by a woman, and Is
recited every day by thousands of
school children.
Women compose very largely the
reading public, and no current novel
can succeed without their patronage.
Some of the most successful mogaxlnes
are devoted to their Interests exclu
sively, and those given to scientific and
philosophic discussions seldom exist
long, or they become the organs of
small and detached organisations of
men.
Art exhibits are conducted by wom
en. and women hold executive offices
In worM's fair committee* they serve
os chairmen of school boards, and they i
torment, through their municipal
leagues, the party leaders. They are :
notable as charity workers and they
have made reputations as doctors,
lawyers, magaxlne editors, newspaper
reporters, preachers, political speak
ers, and labor organisers and agita
tors. Indeed, where In the United
States do we not find the woman with
her Influence, battering at all doors?
F. E. PURSE
'•THE PRINTER1"
PRINTING
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS ^
16 1-2 E. MITCHELL ST. ATLANTA, GA.
•Tell me bo»e#tljr what you think of ay
intmlnt! talent.** •
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fewle«r*—
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Tal»-a from Mergerijorfrr Blaetter.
LAST CHANCE.
Our sale of rammer Shoes is still on, but must end soon. Only
■ few more days.
Our Repair Department Is rapidly increasing. Call us up and wp
will send for your Shoes” and return them tn good order.
CARHART SHOE MANUFACTURING CO.
Bell ‘Phone 1355. II VIADUCT PLACE, Bet. Whitehall and Broad