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] THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN SATURDAY. SErTEMBKIt 29, 1WW I 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? lltHHMHHHMMHIHKIHHMK • ••••••••••••••••I !••••»••••••••••••••••••••• IHMHMMIX 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. 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