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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
SATURDAY. SErTEMBKIt 29, 1WW
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THE AX AT THE ROOT OF THE TREE
j By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD, j
PASTOR UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
nt<i
HEN the sharp, agonizing par
oxysm of pain haa yielded to
the skilfully administered an-
:\nd the torture racked aulTerer
again ease Hnd comfort and the
kalians of comparative health, the
■an tvho l* really worthy his pro
does not for a single moment
>f relaxing his vigilance. He Is
ntent with having temporarily
Laved the immedlute and grievous
e-rt His business, If Indeed he be
healer of men's Infirmities, Is to
,*h cut, and, If possible, destroy the
garlic malady constantly menacing
life and happiness of his patient,
re and Insidious In Its progress,
nly manifesting Itself by these
think
fcbscur
Important sections of our mighty re
public. scenes have been enacted, re-
(tulrlng r.o further advertising of their
Sickening details, whose history should
be chronicled only in that dark period
of human development when the hearts
of men were dominated by the pas
sions of the Jungle, when altruism was
unborn, when weakness was a signal
for oontemnt und persecution, when
justice was but a name, and when the
Htlongest arm and the deadliest club
made of their possessor the arbiter of
the weal or woe of his fellows.
We are grateful indeed for the
prompt administration of the anodvne.
To those who manipulate and to those
constitute the local machinery of
»nd order,* the community cer-
wes a hearty vote of thanks
tainly
onul throbbing outbursts of the and Uhquallfled commendation. We
lirnlM
, u traced nerve sentinels. And, In «r-
Uer that ha shaft have the absolutely
i«pon»able co-operation of the at
one, it Is often necessary that
speak truth, unvarnished and
Jnad»rned, becoming a distasteful
|pr<*ph«sler of unpleasant things In
■flirted
Ader that he may break down n too easy
Iromrh'Mency and destroy a dangerous
gratefully welcomed the protection of
our cltfzen soldiery, but with even
greater Joy we have speeded the part
lug guest, rejoicing that It Is consld
cred that we have again become de
cent enough to be safely left to our
selves. From the debauch of riot we
have awakened with the customary
headache and surplus of good resolu-
nlng self-confidence and self- f lions of the usual “morning after." The
tlsfactlon In the one whose life he
jjfsicn* to save.
Justly proud metropolis of the
splendid “New* South" has awakened,
shudder from a horrible dream.
. discover with a sickening feel-
|ln* nf revutaton and distrust, that In-
|dfed It was not ajircam.
| Fnr several days the shadow of an-
larchv lias enst Its gloomy poll over a
I, -mmunlty hitherto far famed for the
| tenancy of law In the hearts of its
I citizens, fn the very heart of this
It'tautlful city, which proudly assumes
[the j* sltfon of the center of the prog-
and culture of one of the most
publt.* pulse beats normally, once more.
We are going about our regular rounds
of duty or Inclination, minding our
own and our neighbor's business very
much ns we were a week ago. It Is
well that we forget, so far ns possible,
the horror of yesterday In an eager
But what of tomorrow
It Is true enough, as was so well put
by the editor of The Georgian In an
excellent editorial, that no one of our
sister cities throughout the entire land
may in justice or fairness he the one
to “cast the first stone at us," for
nearly every city of any proportionate
size has at one time or another known
its own jorrow of ,a similar sort. The
foot must only make itself ridiculous
by an arraignment, of the hand because
of a violent eruption of the akin upon
the latter members The corruption^ Is
not In the hand but In the life fluid
which feeds both hsnd and foot, and
the 'oral eruption was due solely to
some local condition of weakness or
carelessness which invited the attack.
In every fiendish outbreak of unbridled
law 1 lessnens such as the one from whose
recen; memory %ye still shrink, the
offensi is local, put the sorrow and
shame are national and the funda
mental cause b also national. We
have been but the unhappy sufferers
from another grleycus outbreak, In a
local and intensified form, of the* na
tional disease of contemptuous disre
gard for Jaw. Ho jnust be indeed of a
provincial habit of theught who can
And In *»ur local disgrace anything,
either In cause or In Incentive, radical
ly different from, those In scores of
simitar occurrences In all parts of the
country, which h.*\ve smeared the es«
cutcheonr of their respective communi
ties.
The recent sporadic outbreak of the
unmentionable crime may suggest a
reasonable explanation for the terrific
local outbreak of the national disease,
but It offers no explanation whatever
for the disease Itself, and the man,
whoever he may be. who w*ould seek
by this moans to Justify either the dis
ease or Its humiliating Indication Is
either blinded by prejudice or poisoned
by the spirit of anarchy.
Como, let us rekson together. This
Is no time for the display of prejudice
or passion. Let all men. of whatever
political or religious affiliation, unite
In an earnest and persistent effort to
REV. E. D. ELLENWOOD.
discover and to eradicate the germ of
this mighty evil.
in the past twenty-five years over
four thousand persons have neen exe
cuted In this country, without due pro
cess of law*, the victims of mob vio
lence, In different parts of the country.
It Is absolutely certain that In an ap
palling percentage of these illegal exe
cutions, the victim was entirely Inno
cent of the crime with which he was j
charged, while the guilty party lived to
boast of his misdeeds, In contempt of
the law so flagrantly mishandled. But,
even If the guilt of the accused could
In every Instance be established, be
yond a doubt, no Justification may be
sustained In reaannable argument, for
the assumption by private Individuals
of the executive function of the law'. In
a civilized community. Better, a
thousand times, that a crime, however
revolting, should go forever unpunished
and unavenged, by human agency, than
that a hundred, or even a half dozen
men should become criminals by their
attempt to mete out tardy Justice. The
yielding to the demands of blood lust
may be excusable In ravages, where
punishment means revenge, and every
man Is a law unto himself, but, In a
civilized community, where certain
rules and regaintInns of conduct have
been determined upon for the Insur
ance of safety and progress, these rules
must be held to he Immutable and In
vlolable, or else they become at « noe
shorn of power and utterly valueless.
To attempt to excuse or Justify, by
any argument whatsoever, the opera
tions of a mob or vigilance committee
within the precincts of a civilized com
munity Is to make humiliating con
fession of the Inadequacy of our boast
ed twentieth century civilization and
to declare that the jungle Is preferable
to the commonwealth.
When, therefore, apparently "good
en and true" may he frequently heard
attempting to palliate mob outrage,
when. In fact, one overzealous soul mis
reading his Bible, essays by It to prove
what was already proven In his own
mind, the justification of lynch law,
may there not be reasonable basis for
apprehension In the minds of those
ho are convinced that only In the
strict observance and prompt and un
failing enforcement of law Is there
safety and progress? If Jt were true
that lynch law could by any correct
process of reasoning be Justified by the
Bible, then It were high time that It
should be discarded as a code of nior
als, and that we should await In pray
erful patience until 0*>d should give us
another Book, whose ethics should be
more In keeping with the spirit of
age.
The national disease of contemptu
ous disregard for the majesty of the
Our American civilization and our
American form of government are on
trial before the world. We face that
which history reveals as the menace of
every government similar to ours—that
very Insidious form of disease, the
very intoxication of liberty. So long
have we fed ourselves upon that de
lectable morsel which* we call the sov
ereignty of the American citizen that
we have become abnormally impatient
of restraint. A British general of
Revolutionary fame one* declared with
wondering admiration of the children
of the colonials that they “drew In lib
erty with the very air they breathed.”
Ilutely unable to successfully evade
them. In all walks of life do we find
these untouched lawbreakers from the
saloonkeeper to the minister of the
gospel, frdm the most Ignorant navvy
to the president of the largest public
service corporation. In many of the
leudlng monthly magazines may fre
quently be found the advertisement of
n skilful gambling device, a new style
slot machine, whose most prominent
recommendation to prospective pur
chasers Is that "It successfully evade*
the law everywhere." Our statute
bookH bulge with enactments whose In
tricacies are at once the Joy and the
despair of lawyers. We have a dis
tressing surplus both of laws and of
criminals. The Idea of Individual au
thority Is overgrown and dangerous.
Friends and brethren, let. us return
to the decalogue. We have had enough
of the preaching of pleasant platitudes
and sugar coated sophistries.
Let the eternal "Thou shalt not!" of
Sinai and the no less Imperative "Thou ,
shalt!" of Galilee take the place too
long usurped by the profitless discus
sions regarding the exact dimensions of
Into a grievous danger and the
children of the present generation seem
to draw In the spirit of rebellion
against natural authority, with their
native air. Whose is the fault? Sure
ly not the child's. ""•*» children of any
age are hut the faithful miniatures of
the generation from which they sprang.
It Is the spirit of the age. Entirely
too large a proportIqn of those who
call themselves loyal citizens of the
land of their nativity or eager adoption
hold Its laws as sacred and Inviolable
only when they And themselves abac-
chre. Let us become s law abld
and law loving people.
Let us demand of our executives that
Justice be administered with all possi
ble promptness and with absolute Im
partiality and that the laws shall be
enforced without fear or favor. Thus
shall we put the ax to the root of the
tree which bears unceasingly the dead
ly fruits of anarchy. Thus shall we
keep sacred not only the honor of our
women but the Integrity of our men,
and shall make It. possible for our na
tion to take with Justice her boasted
place In the leadership of the world's
thought and progress.
WHAT IS IT TO BE LOST
"For the Son of man haa coma to
aave that whlcMwaa loat."
—Matt. xvlllill.
By REV. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
T HOSE who have paid attention to
modern preaching have noted as
a fact that there Is much more
| regard for the feelings of unbelievers
than used to be. They are not ad-
j dressed as sinners quite so bluntly and
are not told that they are lost and
I ruined quite so sharply. This In part
Is the rebound from a hhrsh and love-
| less theology which was preached often
harsh and loveless spirit. There
grave error and a great danger
In that rebound. I hope that Beylis
will not succeed In forcing Christianity
Charybdla. I hope that when the
pendulum swings to the center we will
he able to use the word "sinner" as
Christ used It, without Insult, nnd to
tel! men they are lost without appear
ing to assume the role of a prosecutor.
Now, It Is a hard thing to say of a
man and to a man that he Is a lost
sinner. There are only two conditions
on which one man can afford to say
that of another man. The conditions
ire, lirst, that It Is the truth about
him. for then you can justify yourself;
second, that It. Is done for the purpose
manifest In your way of doing It. of
rendering to him the greatest service,
for then he will Justify you.
of a great salvation If these Are not
the actual facts to be which It Is ad
dressed. Christianity purports
nothing less than a marvelous interpo
sition of Almighty God In Jesus Christ
the purpose of saving men from a
condition of such an unspeakable moral
misery that to describe it i
evangelical enterprise lies right at this
place.
Ths Integrity of Christisnlty.
I* there such a spiritual status as
that described by the word "lost?" Is
there such a moral process os the
process of "being lost?" Is there a
final permanent situation of the soul
for which no hope can be assured?
In affirming that there Is such a
statUs, and that there Is such a pro
gressive process, and thnt there Is such
a hopeless ultimate, through the guilt,
the power and the persistence of sin.
I am In defense, It seems to me, of the
moral Integrity of Christianity as the
way of a great salvation. I can not
conceive that Christianity Is the way
requires lan
guage and symbols of thought almost
horrifying. At its outset, Christianity
Is a tremendous miracle—an Incarna
tion. “The word became flesh." At Its
center It unfolds a colossal tragedy—
the sacrifice of no less a Being than the
Son of God. At the point of its test
ing stands another wonder—tips marvel
of marvels—the resurrection. At the
secret of Its power stands the advent
of the Holy Ghost to administer Its
progress and final triumph. Now. these
are claims which stagger the human
mind. To say that this—all this was
launched, without a commensurate ne
cessity for It In the spiritual misery
of the human race, reduces Christian
ity to ridicule.
If men are not lost, there Is no rea
son for the Intervention of God; if men
are not lost, the Incarnation Is a trick
without a moral basis; If mei\, are not
lost, the cross of Jesus is an abhor-
ent monstrosity; If men are not lost,
the resurrection and the Holy Ghost
are but the Items of an Inexcusable
generosity, a ludicrous charity.
Lott.
The state of the carnal, natural man
Is a state of alienation from God. It Is
represented as a wandering and also
as a rebellion. The essential Idea Is
that of attitude nnd relation to God,
contrary to the soul’s right attitude and
relation and In wilful obedience to the
behest of evil. The basal fact Is that
sin has wrought perversity in the hu
man will and men have their hearts set
to disobedience. In that nttltude a
man Is guilty and his guilt accumu
lates with every act of disobedience.
This downward thrust has become the
characteristic of all the race. There
fore, condemnation Is passed upon all
men. The world is lost.
Now, when we test the Bible by con
sciousness we tind the facts in our
selves answering to the facts set forth
In the Bible statement of the case. Sys
tems of morality as well as systems of
religion are everywhere evidence to the
fact fhnf human nature •unconstrained
and uncorrected Inevitably tends
evil. They are but laws made to hinder
the tendency and reform the progress
away from God. They are the best that
men can do for themselves, and are not
utterly valueless, but they do not teach
the real problem of sin in the heart.
“The heart is deceitful above all things
and desperately wicked."
But is a man in this case a lost man?
Is It correct to speak of him as lost
since he is not yet come to a state of
entire hopelessness? Let there be no
dispute here. A man In the forest
with his face set toward the still deep
er maze and swinging along In un
concern or even casting frightened
looks about him. Is a lost man, though
he has not fallen oyer the precipice or
sunk In the quAgmlre. A workman
was seen to stagger, clutch and fall
from the top of a building. Hundreds
saw him. At the Instant his fall be
gan, while yst no bruise nor break
hns touched his body, the look upon a
hundred faces said, "He Is lost." There
was no other word that described his
situation. There are thousands who
are in a state of unreconclllatlon with
God, who still entertain lively expecta
tions and dream fond dreams that It
will all be right with them, but they are
lost. "This Is the condemnation that
men love darkness rather than light."
He that heareth my words and hellev-
eth on Him that sent me hath everlast
ing life and ahall not come Into con
demnation, but Is passed from death
unto life."
Being Lost.
But the situation of the unregenerate
man Is not a passive state of guilt and
condemnation merely; It Is a state of
progress in sin, and therefore his lost
condition deepens and widens ever. It
Is significant that In Luke’s account.nf
the parable of the lost sheep, fne
sheep Is reckoned as "lost," and in
Matthew’s account the sheep Is rerk-
REV. DR. JOHN A. WHITE.
oned as "being lost." .Christ probably
used the parable many times. As Mat
thew records It, the solemn and sor
rowful Idea is that sin Is progressive.
The sinner Is In the awful experience
of falling. The sheep Is not In some
sheltered nook passively lost and yet
not Immediately hopeless, but is Plung
ing further nnd further amid rocks and
briars, bruised pnd being bruised. We
draw back from the doctrine of man's
fall as an accomplished fact, but there
is no Horror In that like horror of what
Is going An with men now, the horror of
man still fulling. The profoundly sor
rowful question of Christianity Is not
how or why does a man become
sinner; but why will he eontlnuo In
sin? His helplessness Is not by flat,
but by fart. His greater tragedy is not
that his feet are In a dangerous path
that lends away from God and that he
has a mind to go in it, but that he Is
actually Journeying, nnd with Increas
ing swiftness. He Is being lost. It Is
n wandering that lessens hope with
every step. It seems to me thnt the
words of Christ reveal something In
addition to what the wanderer Is him
self losing. God is losing the wander-
HIs sheep Is going astray. The
grief Is present nnd pressing, both to
man and God. Sin presents a spectacle
of man not ns a innss of old ruins, but
a victim being flung In the grip
devastating storm, a city actually rock
ing and fall
ling In the dreadful horrors
of the enrthquake.
Writers and eyewitnesses have por
trayed the* desolations of Snn Fran
cisco, the ruined city, by pen nnd pho
tograph. Coolly they have surveyed
the ruins, calmly they have set up
their cameras, in the midst of Inert
masses of debris. We look upon these
descriptions with composure; but when
one who was there tells of the black
nlgljt, of the horror Itself, the strange
and'awful helplessness, the crashing of
alls nnd the cries that rent the air
we shudder. San Francisco being ruined
was unspeakably more terrible than
Can Francisco In her actual desolation.
Lost! Lost! Lost!
Sin. w*hen It Is finished, bringeth
forth death." But Is sin ever finished?
From the standpoint of earth and time
sin does finish In the decay of moral
death. But from the standpoint of Im
mortality and eternity sin is never fin
ished. Sin Is the»worm that dleth not,
the endless fire thnt Is never quenched,
jthe torment that Is eternal. The sin
ner who turns not from the error of,
his way goes on to guilty and guiltier
distances from the Father in heaven.
Death, which kills only the body. In
terposes no barrier In the fearful path
of the sinful, sinning and sin loving
soul. But is there no hoj>e; does the
lost condition persist; Is hell a perma
nency?
Frankly, I would like to say "no" to
these questions. Upon sentimental
grounds I would say "No." But sentl
ment Is a false light here. The Scrip
tures ut this point run violently Into
conflict with sentiment. The facts from
observation are also In contradiction
to sentiment. When I see a man who
has fallen Into the grip and power of
drink *my sentiment Impels me to hope
that he will reform and become a sober
man; that he will change from his
ruinous habit. But in experience we
find that his history Is Just the other
way. The man goes on down. Remove
the drunkard from all reforming en
vironment and put him under condi
tions that minister no Influence of so
briety, anti the permanency of his dis
position to drink becomes In the nat
ural operation of habit as fixed as
fate.
There Is one great assumption by
which we take our stand for all our
outlook upon the future—the Immortal
ity of the soul. Whatever will happen
to us hereafter the force that propels
us Into the experience of It is the
eternal persistence of the immortal
spirit.
I believe that the minute after death,
mind and disposition,
was the minute before death. Now, 1
know this very certainly, that if you
take an arrow and bend it to the left
and stretch the bow* and let fly, when
that arrow strikes the shield It will
of my 1 ...
of evil, I will glance to the left when
I strike the Infinite bosses of God’s
great buckler, and to the left I will
continue by all the power of my Im
mortality. People object to the doctrine
of eternal punishment and level all
their guns at a dogma. I believe In
the truth nnd fact of eternal sinning.
The objection to that Is In defiance of
the Iaws of human nature. Let no
man accuse God. He wllleth the death
of no man. but that all should turn
and live.
The laws of Georgia are the laws un
der which we live. You can go today
and write your will and dispose, If
you please, of all your property and
even of your body. That last will and
testament of yours becomes a law of
Georgia. The sheriff and the courts
will regard the sanctity of your will
and will execute It. >
Do Wot blame the state of Georgia
If you make a foolish disposition of
your property. When your will about
your soul Is registered firmly and final
ly. your will becomes the law of God.
Let no man accuse God. Let him
rather accuse himself.
Though Uod lx* good snd free be Hetren,
No force dlrfne can lore compel.
And though the songs of sin forgiven
May sound through lowest Hell.
left farther and farther as long
the power of propulsion from the bow
holds good.
I have tried that. I know that Is so.
When my> soul lets go, and I am very
sure it will let go this body of mine
some of these days, Its direction and
its dsstlny hang upon two questions—
what Is Its power of Immortality and
which way Is It bent, to the left or to
the right? If I have bent my mind and
No word of doom may shut thee out.
No wind of wrath may downward w
of fire keep rrstrb shout
. _ wind
No swords r
The open gntes of pearl.
Forever round the Mercy seat
The suldlng lights of Love shall burn:
But what of habit l>oiind. thy feet,
blinll each the will to turn?
What If thine ere refuse to see.
•»f Heaven’s free welcome fall.
Thine ear
And thou n willing enjitlv
Thyself tliliiv own ilnrk Jail?
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A SPECK IN SPACE
By REV. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
HEN Rev. Benjamin J. Klely term*. He was then appointed mlnle-
W fnow bishop of Savannah)
came to Atlanta In 1*86 I was
pastor of Trinity Church. Soon after
his arrival In the city, following the
cuatom of mlnlatera to call on new
preachera, I felt It my duty tn pay a
vlalt to the paator of the Church of
the Immaculate Conception. He waa
then Juat from Wilmington, Del., where
he labored from 1873 to 1816. Inatead
of paying him a ahort, formal visit, I
found him so Interesting that our con
versation must have laated two hours.
Upon leaving he presented me with
two old leather-covered volumes which
had been presented to him by a friend
who was a Methodist preacher. The
books were Massillon's sermons. My
first meeting with Father Klely marked
the beginning of a friendship that has
lasted to this day. Soon after going tn
St. Louis In 1893 the opportunity came
to me of a trip to Palestine and other
countries around the Mediterranean
sea. I had spoken to Father Klely of a
long cherished wish of visiting the
ter to Vienna, but the Austrian govern
rnenl also declared him to be persona
non grata, one reason being given, that
his Catholicism was not extreme
enough. The administration at Wash
ington so highly esteemed Mr. Klely
that Secretary Bayard Intimated to the
Austrian government that the appoint
ment would be allowed to stand even
though It resulted In a cessation of dip
lands of the Bible •'ome day. and lie
had remarked In i aponse: "If you
-ver go to Palestine I will give you a
• tier to my brother In Egypt, and he
will take pleasure In Introducing you
to Important personages there who will
he of advantage to you." As soon ns
the way Opened up for the Journey to
the Eaat I wrote Father Klely from St.
lends to send me the letter of In
troduction to his brother. In reply he
sent not only a letter to his brother,
hot also one to a friend In the Amert-
can catholic college In Rome.
Anthony Klely was the American
Judge In the Iniernatlonal court of ap-
* 'aIs of Cairo, Egypt. He had been
n ;,\„r of Richmond, Va., and district
‘"toiney of that city, and waa, I think,
during the first campaign of drover
’’h-cefand for president, the chairman
"f the Virginia Democratic organiza
tion. Mr. Cleveland had a very high
■Hnlon of him and afler his election
t" the presidency appointed him mlnls-
to Italy. But his a-'oolntmenl was
n t confirmed on account of the ob-
-• - lions of the Italian government
r.-wlng o U t , r the fact that Mr. Klely
'■ a, a < -athollc, while the church and
to,, state m Italy wera
lomalic relations between the United
States and Austria. That he might re
lieve Mr. Cleveland und his adminis
tration of any embarrassment. Mr.
Klely resigned. A while before this,
or about the same time, owing to In
side pressure from foreign properly
owners In Egypt, It was determined to
establish an International court com
posed of one judge from each of the
great powers. These Judges from the
great representative governments of
the world were to have jurisdiction
over all cases In which one or both of
the parties were not natives. The
Suez canal and the Influx of foreign
capital Into the country of the Nile,
had rendered property differences when
they arose, of such Importance, that
those concerned were not willing to
trust their settlement to native Egyp
tian Judges.
Mr. Cleveland recommended Anthony
M. Klely to be the Americnn Judge In
this court, and he was accepted by the
Egyptian government. It was, at the
time, the best foreign position held by
an American. The salary was paid by
the Egyptian government, and was
only 82,600 lesa than that received by
the minister to France. Whltelaw
Reid was appointed mlnlster’to France
In 1889. He received from his govern
ment 817,5011 salary and paid. It was
published. 825,800 for his house rent.
Judge Klely took his place on the In
ternational court about the beginning
of 1886. He had been educated at the
Methodist Randolph-Macon College In
Virginia. ....
I reached Cairo In the middle of
April. 1*91- The season for tourist*
was about over, and upon Inquiry I
learned that the International court
had adjourned and that Judge Kelly
had gone to England. So I had no
hance to deliver iny letter of Intro
duction. I was the hesil of an expedi
tion. the object of which was to visit
all place* In the Eaut connected with
the life of Christ and Hlz apostles.
where, according to tradition, Joseph!
and Mary und the Child Jesus spent 1
their sojourn after Herod’s cruel edict,
we proceeded through Palestine, Syria,
Asia-Minor. Greece and Italy. Final
ly on my w-ay back I reached Liver
pool. At the wharf, where It Is the,
custom to wait for the little tugboat
In which passengers are taken out to
the steamer, It occurred to me that I I
had no change to pay the cabman who
had brought me down from the sta-
tlin. No one around could change a
6-pound note, the smallest hill I had.
I saw a ftne-lonking man standing be
side a lot of hand baggage, who seem
ed to be wafting for th<
le steamer. lap.
preached him and asked: "Are you
going on the Majestic?"
"Yes." he said.
"1 am going on the same steamer,’
I remarked, "and will thank you very
much If you will let me have three
shillings till I can get my money
changed.”
WHh pleasure,” he responded, glv-
... and by the steamer was reached,
my money was changed nnd I went In
and to thank him for his goodness,
found him In the dining room, sitting
on one of the long-cushioned seats
that runs around the wall. By his side
I noticed a magazine with the name of
A. M. Kelly on It.
"Is your name Kelly?" said I.
"It Is,” said he
"Then,” said
a letter of Introduction to you from
Father Kelly. In Atlanta."
"Yes," said he; "I have a brother
In Atlanta, Father Kelly."
The Impression I had was the world
Is not large. W't crossed the ocean
together and had many Interesting
talks. He was a charming ronversa-
tlnnallst, nnd one of the most accom
plished men It ha* ever been my good
fortune to meet. I wrote Father Kelly
that I failed to find hi* brother in
Egvpt. hut being a little hard up In
Liverpool, I found him and borrowed
money from him. Judge Kelly resigned
from the Egyptian court In 1902. He
was run over and accidentally killed
on the Place de la Concorde, In Paris,
about two years ago.
liberty to uak him what he knew of
Georgia. He said that he waa a citi
zen of Auguzta, Ga. He was the
United States consul general at Bey-
rout. and had been the editor of The
Augusta Evening News. His name
was Thomas Gibson. When I told him
that I had once lived In Atlanta. Ga.,
but had moved to St. Louis, he asked
"What on earth could ever Induce a
man to leave Atlanta for Bt. Louis?”
I told him that I was a Methodist
preacher and thnt the bishop had sent
me to St. Louts.
Then he said, "You are Dr. J. W.
Lee." This was the beginning of a
most Interesting experience In > Bey-
i rout. Mr. Gibson came lo our hotel
! next morning with a carriage and two
; uniformed attendants furnished him by
the Turkish government, and showed
us all the interesting places und build
ings around the city,
i When we sailed away from Beyrout
the American flag was floating from
the top of United States Consulate
| building In our honor.
Mr. Gibson died In Syria a few years
i after nur visit with smallpox,
i Meeting him In Beyrout led me to
say the world Is not large after all.
REV. DR. JAME8 W. LEE.
Beyrout, 70 miles away, by omnibus.
In tlme>for 6 o’clock dinner. The
horses were changed every hour and
passed over much of the way In a
gallop. Arriving at nur hotel, we were
soon ushered In to dinner. There were
hut two parties besides my traveling
companion and myself at the table.
The gentlemen who had preceded u*
Into the dining room were engaged
In a somewhat animated conversation.
One of the parties was doing most of
the talking. He seemed to he nn Eng
lishman, and was abusing something or
somebody, about what I was unable to
And out. The party who waa saying
Just about enough to keep the talking
Leaving Damascus one morning be- j man encouraged, finally made a re- j
_ fore the railroad over the Lebanon mark. In which he referred to the state'
not on good Leaving Egypt after aeeln* the spot mountains was completed, I reached of Georgia. After awhile I took the
After leaving Beyrout we next arriv
ed at Athens, in Grece.
The officers al Plreus, which Is the
port »f Athens, refused to let our nine
lioxes of 9x10 dry plntes out of the cus
tom house. We were In Greece to take
pictures of places connected with the
travels of St. Paul. We were Inform
ed that ir we would get an order from
the American minister staling that wc
were not trying to smuggle Into the
country whisky, or tobacco we could
take our boxes to the hotel. It I* about
four miles from Plreus to the city
of Athens proper. So the first thing In
order nfter reaching the hotel was to
see the American minister. I called
promptly und sent lit my card. Ha ap
peared nnd greeted me by telling me
thnt he was delighted to see me. that
he had known me since the-appear
ance of a certain book I had written,
and that he would do everything In
his power to make my stay In Greece
pleasant. His name was Dr. Ehen Al
exander. He hnd been for many years
connected with the University of North
t’arollna at t’hapel Hill. He had been
sent by Mr. Cleveland as our American
minister to Greece. He Is a brother-
in-law of Judge \V. T. Newman, of At
lanta. Leaving hi* home that day after
the Interview the thought was upper
most In my mind thnt the world la not
large.
Instances -such as I have related
could be spun out at almost any
length bv every one who has traveled
a little.
At a time like this we are In danger
of magnifying our troubles. It wilt help
us to force ourselves to dwell for a lime
on the thought that our whole earth Is
but a mere speck In space.
This line of thinking may be regard
ed as a sort of shorter catechism for
the bljies, for worry and depression of
spirits. Suppose tonight If the sky Is
clear you lake a stand on your front
steps and put to yourself the following
questions:
"What ani I ?. One of a household of
seven. What la the household? One of
flfty which constitute this street. And
the street? One of a thousand which
build up this town. And the town? One
of meny towns and villages and quiet
places which go to the making of my
state. And the state? One of many
which go to the making of the Amer
ican union. And the United States?
Just a little aggregate of common
wealths which help to form the con
tinent of North America. And of North
America? A small continent among
many which form the dry land of the
globe. And ths dry land? Just about
on»-fli'th the volume of a little star
called earth. And the earth? One of
the most Insignificant members of the
solar system. And the solar system?
one of the Innumerable galaxies which
from all eternity have been sphering
thrnilffh t h A *tlwir BA-1 " 1/tar haue
through the ether sea.” After you have
asked and answered these questions to
yourself you will walk back from the
door step a wiser, n quieter and a Hap
pier man. You will begin to realize
that you do not count. Your city, or
even your planet ax far aa mere bulk
Is concerned. That your whole earth
Is a mere speck In space. The way of
relief will come by remembering that
In spirit you are made a little lower
than God. You will learn to 6acape
from your physical and earthly little
ness nn the wings of your spiritual
greatness.
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