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THE AX AT THE ROOT OF THE TREE
IIMMIMIMNM
By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD, ]
PASTOR UNIVERSAL1ST CHURCH
W HEN the sharp, agonizing par
oxysm of pain has yielded to
m jy, the skilfully administered an
odyne and the torture racked sufferer
knowx again ease and comfort and the
indications of comparative health, the
Physician who is really worthy his pro-
/cssion does not for a single moment
think of relaxing Ills vigilance. He Is
n..t content with having temporarily
removed the immediate and grievous
effect. His business. If Indeed he be
a healer of men's Infirmities, is to
s* -U out. and, if possible, destroy the
'•rgmic malady constantly menacing
tin life and happiness of his patient,
obscure and insit ious in Its progress,
and »nly manifesting Itself by these
occasional throbbing outbursts of the
outraged nerve sentinels. And, in or
der that he shall have the absolutely
indispensable co-operation of the af
flicted one, it la often necessary that
he shall speak truth, unvarnished and
unadorned, becoming a distasteful
^Jjraphesier of unpleasant things In or
der that he may break down a too easy
? enmplur ency and destroy a dangerous
«>v**r- veenlng self-confidence and self-
satisfaction in the one whose life he
designs to save.
The Justly proud metropolis of the
'id "New South" has awakened,
with a shudder from a horrible dream,
only 10 discover with a sickening feel-
Ir.* ><( revulsion and distrust, that In-
it was not a dream.
T k<ir several days the shadow of an-
diy has cast Its gloomy pail over a
Jimunity hitherto far famed for the
tenancy of law In the hearts of its
(Wizens. In the very heart of this
beautiful city, which proudly assumes
the position of the center of the prog-
r* ss and culture of one of the most
important sections of our mighty re
public, scenes have been enacted, re
quiring 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 contempt ant] persecution, when
Justice was but a name, and when the
strongest 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 anodyne.
To those who manipulate and to those
who constitute the local machinery of
law and order, the community cer
tainly owes a hearty vote of thanks
and unqualifled commendation. We
gratefully welcomed the protection of
our citizen soldiery, but with even
greater Joy we have speeded the part
ing guest, rejoicing that It Is consid
ered 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
tions of the usual "morning after." The
public 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 as we were a week ago. It is
well that we forget, so far as possible,
the horror of yesterday in an eager
occupation of the possibilities of today.
But what of tomorrow?
It Is true enough, a* 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 be the one
to ‘"cast the first stone at us," for
near!/ every city of any proportionate
size has at one time or another known
Its own sorrow of a similar sort. The
foot must only make Itself ridiculous
by an arraignment of the hand because
of a violent eruption of the skin upon
the latter member. The-corruption is
not in the hand bdt In the life fluid
which feeds both hand and foot, and
the 'oral eruption was due solely to
some Jocal condition of weakness or
carelessness which invited the attack.
In every fiendish outbreak of unbridled
lawlessness such as the one from whose
recen; memory we still shrink, the
ofTenst is local, but the sorrow and
shame are national and the funda
mental cause Is also national. VVe
have been but the unhappy sufferers
from another grieve us outbreak. In a
local and Intensified form, of the na
tional disease of contemptuous disre
gard /or law. Ho must bo indeed of a
provincial habit of ; thought who can
find In our local tilsgrace anything,
either In cause or In incentive, radical
ly different from those In scores of
similar occurrences in all parts of the
country, which have 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 would seek
by this means to Justify either the dis
ease or Its humiliating indication Is
either blinded by prejudice or poisoned
by the spirit of anarchy.
Come, let us reason 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-flve years over
four thousand persons have been 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
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 nmy be
sustained irt reasonable 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 savages, where
punishment means revenge, and every
man Is a law unto himself, but, in a
civilized community, where certain
rules and regulations of conduct have
been determined upon for the insur
ance of safety and progress, these rules
must be held to be immutable and In
violable, or else they become at once
shorn of power anti 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
men and true" may be frequently heard
attempting to palliate mob outrage,
when, in fart, 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
who are convinced that only in the
strict observance and prompt and un
failing enforcement of law Is there
safety and progress? If it were true
that lyncli 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 mor
als, and that we should await in pray
erful patience until God should give us
another Book, whose ethic* should be
more In keeping with the spirit of our
age. #
The national disease of contemptu
ous disregard for the majesty of the
law spreads with alarming rapidity.
Our American civilization ana 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 once declared with
wondering admiration of the children
of the colonials that they "drew In lib
erty with the very air they breathed."
That splendid spirit has become exag
gerated into it 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
ago are but the faithful miniatures of
the generation fmm which they sprang.
It Is the spirit of the age. Entirely
too large a proportion 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 abso
lutely unable to successfully evade
them. In all walks of life do we And
these untouched lawbreakers from the
saloonkeeper to the lninister of the
gospel, from the most Ignorant navvy
to the president of the largest public
servlco corporation. In many of the
leading monthly magazines may fre
quently be found the advertisement of
a skilful gambling device, a new style
slot machine, whose most prominent
recommendation to prospective pur
chasers is that "it successfully evades
the law everywhere." Our statute
books bulge >vlth 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 pleosAnt 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-
ilonH regarding the exact dimensions of
hades or the location of the holy sepul
chre. Let us become a law abiding
and law loving people.
Let uh 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. Thua 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 toko with justice her boasted
place In the leadership of the world’s
thought and progress.
WHAT IS IT TO BE LOST
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"For the Son of man haa coma to
save that which wai lost."
—Matt. xvllCII.
By REV. JOHN, E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
J ! who have paid attention to
ern preaching have noted as
.ct that- there Is much more
. the feelings of unbelievers
to be. They are not ad-
slnners quite so bluntly and
are not told that they are lost and
ruined quite so sharply. This In part
Is the rebound from a harsh and love
less theology which was preached often
In a harsh and loveless spirit. There
Is a grave error and a great danger
In that rebound. I hope that Scylla
will not succeed In forcing Christianity
on Charybdls. I hope that when the
pendulum swings to the center we will
be able to use the word "sinner" as
Christ used It, without Insult, and to
tell 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
art, .flrat. 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.
The point of departure for the whole
evangelical enterprise lies right at this
place..
The Integrity of Christianity.
Is there such a spiritual status as
that described by the word “lost ?" Is
there such a moral process as the
process of "being lost 7" 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 la such a pro
gressive process, and that there It such
n 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
of a great salvation If these are not
the actual facts to be which It fs ad
dressed. Christianity purports to
nothing less than a marvelous Interpo
sition of Almighty God In Jesus Christ
for the purpose of saving men from a
condition of such an unspeakable moral
misery that to describe It 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—tlf) 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 arc 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 men 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.
Lost.
The state of the carnal, natural man
Is a state of alienation from God. It Is
represented as a wandering and also
os a rebellion. The essential idea Is
that of attitude and 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 nnd men have their hearts set
to disobedience. In that attitude 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 tlnd the facts In our
selves answeftng to the facts set forth
In the Bible statement of the ense. Sys
tems of morality as well as systems of
religion are everywhere evidence to the
fact that human nature unconstrained
and uncorrected Inevitably tends to
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 nil 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 confe 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 over the precipice or
sunk In the quagmire. A workman
was seen to stagger, clutch and (all
from the top of a building. Hundreds
saw him. At the Instant his fall be
gan. while yet no bruise nor break
hns touched his body, the look-upon a
hundred faces said, "Ho Is loot." 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 nil 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 bellev-
eth on Him that sent me hath everlast
ing life and shall not come Into con
demnation, but Is passed from death
unto life.”
Being Lott.
But the situation of the unregenerate
man Is not a passive state of guilt nnd
condemnation merely; It Is a stato of
progress In sin, and therefore his lost
condition deepens and widens ever. It
Is significant that In Luke's account of
the parable of the lost sheep, the
sheep Is reckoned as "lost," and In
Matthew's account the sheep Is reck-
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 nnd yet
not Immediately hopeless, hut Is plung
ing further and further amid rocks and
briars, bruised nnd being bruised. We
draw back from the doctrine of man's
fall at an accomplished fact, but there
[ Is no horror In that like horror of what
Is going on with men now, the horror of
man still falling. ' The profoundly sor
rowful question of Christianity Is not
how or why does a man become a
sinner, but why will he continue In
'Sin? His helplessness Is not by flat,
but by .fact. Ills greater tragedy Is not
that his feet nre In a dangerous path
that lends nway from God nnd that he
lias a mind to go In It, hut that he Is
actually Journeying, nnd. with Increas
ing swiftness. He is being Inst. It Is
n wondering that lessenn hope with
every step. It seems to me that the
words of Christ reveal something In
addition to what the wanderer Is him
self losing. God Is losing the wander
er. His sheep Is going astray. The
grief Is present and pressing, both to
man and God. Bln presents a spectacle
of man not at a mass of old ruins, but
a victim being dung In the grip of a
devastating storm, a city actually rock
ing and falling In the dreadful horrors
of the earthquake.
Writers nnd eyewitnesses have por
trayed the desolations of San Fran
cisco, the ruined city, hy pen and pho
tograph. Coolly they have surveyed
the ruins, celmly they have set up
their ramerns. In the midst of Inert
masses of debris. We look upon these
descriptions with composure; but when
one who was there tells of ths black
night, of the horror Itself, the strange
and nwful helplessness, ths crashing of
walls and the cries that rent the nlr
we shudder. San Francisco being ruined
was unspeakably more terrible than
San Francisco in her actual desolation.
Lost! Lostl Lostl
"Sin, when It la llnlshed, brlngeth
forth death." But Is sin ever finished?
From the 'standpoint of sarth and time
sin does flnlsh In the decay of moral
death. But from the standpoint of im
mortality and eternity sin Is nsver fin
ished. Sin Is the worm that dleth not,
the endless fire thlit Is never quenched,
the 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 henven.
Death, which kills only the body, In
terposes no barrier In the fearful path
of the sinful, sinning nnd sin loving
soul. But Is there no hope; does the
lost condition persist; la hell n perma
nency?
Frankly. I would like to say "no" to
these questions. Upon sentimental
grounds I would tay "No." But senfl
ment Is n falsa light here. The Scrip
lures at 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 lie will reform and become a sober
man; that he will change from his
ruinous habit. But In experience we
find that his history It Just the other
way. The man goes on down. Removs
the drunkard from all reforming en
vironment and put him under condi
tions that minister no Influence of so
briety, and the permanency of his dis
position to drink becomes In the nat
ural operation of habit as fixed as
fate.
There Is ont great assumption by
which we take our stand for all our
outlook upon the future—ths 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,
In nil thb depth of my moral nature,
mind nnd disposition, I will be what I
was ths mlnuts before death. Now. 1
know this vary 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
glance to the left and continue to the
left farther and farther as long as
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 mins
some of these duys. Its direction and
Its destiny 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
heart against God and turned the point
of my life to the choice and the pursuit
of evil, I will glance to the left when
I strike the Infinite bosses of God’s
great buckler, and to the left 1 will
continue by alt the power of my Im
mortality. People object to the doctrine
of eternal punishment nnd level all
their guns at a dogma. I believe In
the truth and fact of eternal slnntng.
The objection to that Is In defiance of
the laws 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 disposed It
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 not blams 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.
Thniiah Ood lie good sad free he Horen,
The sweet nersnnslnn of His voice
lies nests thy sanctity of wlllt
day; thou hnst thy choice
Hkjl »!•«»« IMHI I IIJ
To walk In darkness a till.
No word of doom may shat thee ont,
No wind of wrath may downward whirl,
No aworda of Are keep watch ahont
Forever round the Mercy seat
The guiding llxhta of Cove shall burn)
Bat what of Mbit hound, thy feet,
Khali each the will to turn?
What If thine eye refute to tee.
Thine oar of lieeven'a freo welcome fall,
And thou a willing enptlvo lie.
Thyself thin* owu dark Jail?
A SPECK IN SPACE
By REV. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
HEN Rev. Benjamin J. Kiely terms. He was then appointed minis-
W (now bishop of Savannah)
came to Atlanta in 1886 I was
pastor of Trinity Church. Soon after
his arrival ln fc the city, following the
custom of ministers to call on new
preachers, I felt It my duty to pay
visi$. to the pastor of the Church of
the Ipimaculatc Conception. He was
thentfust from Wilmington, Del., where
he labored from 1173 to 1886. Instead
of paying him a short, formal visit, I
found him so Interesting that our con
versation must have lasted two hours.
I Upon leaving he presented me with
[ two old Ieather^rovered volumes which
"had been presented to him by a friend
| who was a Methodist preacher. The
books were Massillon’s sermons. My
L first meeting with Father Kiely marked
the beginning of a friendship that has
lasted to this day. Boon after going to
8t. 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 Kiely of a
long cherished wish of visiting the
ti'Is of the Bible some day, and he
«1 remarked In response: "If you
ever go to Palestine 1 will give you a
rtter to my brother In Egypt, and he
ill’ take pleasure. In Introducing you
* Important pergpnages there who will
y» of advantage to you." As soon n.s
he way opened up for the Journey to
he East I wrote Father Kiely from St.
. .tils to send me the letter of in-
r auction to his brother. In reply he
tent not only a letter to his brother,
mt also one to a friend in the Ameri
can Catholic college in Rome.
Anthony Kiely was the American
judge In the International court of ap
peals of Cairo, Egypt. He had been
mayor of Richmond, Va., and district
attorney of that city, and was, I think,
during the first campaign of Grover
Cleveland for president, the chairman
of the Virginia Democratic organiza
tion. Mr. Cleveland had a very high
opinion of hint and after his election
to the presidency appointed him minis
ter to Italy. But his appointment was
not confirmed on account of the ob
jections of the Italian government
growing out of the fact that Mr. Kiely
“ a Catholic, while the church and
ter to Vienna, but the Austrian govern
ment 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. Kiely
that Secretary Bayard intimated to the
Austriun government that the appoint
ment would he allowed to stand even
though it resulted In a cessation of dip
lomatic relations between the United
States and Austria. That he might re
lieve Mr. Cleveland and his adminis
tration of any embarrassment, Mr.
Kiely resigned. A while before this,
or about the same time, owing to In
side pressure from foreign property
owners In Egypt, It was determined to
establish an international court com
posed of one judge fmm 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. Kiely to be the American 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 $2,500 less than that received by
the minister to France. WhitelAw
Reid was appointed minister to France
In 1880. He received from his govern
ment 917*500 salary, and paid, it was
published, $25,000 for his house rent.
Judge Kiely 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.
J reached Cairo in the middle of
April. 1894. The season for tourists
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
chance to deliver my letter of intro
duction. I was the head ot an expedi
tion, the object of which was to visit
all places in the East connected with
the life of Christ and His apostles.
where, according to tradition, Joseph J
and Mary and the Child Jesus spent !
their sojourn after Herod’s cruel edict, I
we proceeded through Palestine, Syria, ;
Asia-Minor, Greece nnd Italy. Final
ly on my way back I reached Liver- !
pool. At the wharf, where It Is the j
custom to wait for the little tugboat
in which passengers nre taken out to ;
the steamer, It occurred to me that I
had no change to pay the cabman who
had brought me down from the sta
tion. No one around could change a
5-pound note, the smallest hill I had.
I saw a fine-looking man'standing be
side a lot of hand baggage, who seem
ed to be waiting for the steamer. I ap
proached him and asked: "Are you
going on the MaJesUc?"
"Yes," he said.
"I 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."
"With pleasure," he responded, giv
ing me the money.
By and by the steamer was reached,
my money was changed and I went in
search of the kind stranger to pay him
and to thank him for his goodness. I
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.
"Are you from Egypt?" I Inquired.
"I am," he responded.
"Then," said I, "I suppose I have
a letter of introduction to you from
Father Kelly. In Atlanta."
"Yes," satd he; "I have a brother
In Atlanta, Father Kelly."
The Impression I had was the world
Is not large. We crossed the ocean
together and had many Interesting
talks. He was a charming conversa
tionalist, and one of the most accom
plished men it has ever been my good
*fortune to meet. I wrote Father Kelly
that I failed to And his brother in
Egypt, but 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.
Leaving Damascus one morning be
fore the railroad over the Lebanon
t, stale in Italy were not on good leaving Egypt after seeing the spot mountains was completed, I reached
REV. DR. JAMES W. LEE.
Beyrout, 70 miles away, by omnibus.
In time for 6 o’clock dinner. The
horses were changed every hour and
passed over much of the way In a
gallop. Arriving at our hotel, we were
soon ushered In to dinner. There were
but two parties besides my traveling
companion nnd myself at the table.
The gentlemen who had preceded us
Into the dining room were engaged
In a somewhat animated conversation.
One of the parties was doing most of
the tAlklng. He seemed to be an Eng
lishman. nnd was abusing something or
somebody, about what I was unable to (
And out. The party w ho was saying j
Just about enough to keep the talking
man encouraged. Anally made a re-1
mark. In which he referred to the stata •
of Georgia. After awhile I took the
liberty to nsk him whnt he knew of
Georgia. He said that he was a citi
zen of Augusts, On. 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 1 had once lived in Atlanta, Ga..
but had moved to St. Louts, he asked
"What on earth could over induce a
man to leave Atlanta for St. Louis?"
. I told him that I was a Methodist
' preacher and that the bishop had sent
me to St. Louis.
Then he said, "You are Dr. J. W.
Lee." This was the beginning of a
most Interesting experience in Bey
rout. Mr. Gibson came to our hotel
next morning with a carriage and tw'o
uniformed attendants furnished him by
the Turkish government, and showed
! us a!J the interesting places and build
ings around the city.
When we sailed away from Beyrout
i the American flag was floating from
, the top of United States Consulate
! building In our honor.
, Mr. Gibson died In Syria a few years
after our visit with smallpox.
Meeting him In Beyrout led me to
Isay the world fs not large after all.
■ After leaving Beyrout we next srrlv
• ed at Athens, In Grece.
! The officers at Plreus, which Is the
port of Athens, refused to let our nine
boxes of 9xlrt dry plates 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 If we would get an order from
the American minister stating that we
were not trying to smuggle into the
country whisky or tobacco we could
take our boxes to the hotel. It Is about
four miles from Plreus to the city
of Athens proper. 8o the first thing In
order after reaching the hotel wan to
see the American minister. 1 called
promptly and sent In my card. He ap
peared and greeted me by telling me
that he was delighted to see me, that
he had known me since the appear~
nnce 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. Eben Al
exander. He had been for many years
connected with the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. He had been
sent by Mr. Cleveland as our American
minister to Greece. He Is a brother-
in-law of Judge W. T. Newman, of At
lanta. Leaving his home that day after
the interview the thought was upper
most In my mind that the world la not
large.
Instances such as I have related
could be spun out at almost any
length by every one who has traveled
a little.
At a time like this we are In danger
of magnifying our troubles, it will help
us to force ourselves to dwell for a tlmo
on the thought that our whole earth is
but a mere speck In space.
This line or thinking may be regard
ed as a* sort of shorter catechism for
the blues, for worry and depression of
spirits. Suppose tonight if the sky Is
clear you take a stand on your front
steps and put to yourself ths following
questions:
"What am I? One of a household of
seven. What Is the household? One of
fifty which constitute this street. And
the street? One of a thousand which
build up this town. And the town? One
of ninny 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-
lean union. And the United State.?
(Ml ■ little aggregate of common
wealth* which help to form the con
tinent of North America. And of North
AmerlcaT A tmall continent among
many which form th* dry land of tht
globe. And the dry land? Ju.t about
on»-flt'th the vnlumo of a little .tar
called earth. And the earth? One of
the moat In.lgnlflcatu member* of the
solar sy.tem. And th* .alar ayatem?
One or the Innumerable galaxies which
from all eternity have been apberlng
through the ether sea." After you have
asked and anawered theae question, to
youreeir you will walk back from the
door atep a wiser, a quieter and a nap-
B ier man. You will begin to realise
tat you do not count. Your city, or
even your planet as far a* mere bulk
la concerned. That your whole earth
la a mere speck In apace. The way of
relief will como by remembering that
In aplrlt you are made a little lower
than Ood. You will learn to eacape
from your physical and earthly llttte-
naas on the wlnga of your aplrltual
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