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SATURDAY, JANT7AST 10. Mf.
•Islander the Greed sftjr Ms Invasion
,,f India declared It to be hi. purpose
L, ronatruct * new social order he
ieuld hare b*« t*fc*n tortouely. He
had been a pupil of Aristotle, tie had
hlmaelf master of every alius.
:,,n h« hsd demonetratad Ida power
i. make hie will supreme. The rulers
landers amons men acknowledge
hi. rapacity to achieve whatever he
under!»nk. He saw the mlllloha to he
Hired and conquered and reorganised
m the top—from ths standpoint of
-L^.ipk- Any Oriental Icing could un-
dtrai.nd the sent us that operated after
.1,1,1 fuahlon. But here comes one as If
In a glorious dream proposing to touch
anil make whole that mass of blind,
leprous. broken. Imprisoned mortals It
vs* the custom to regard as a huge
hun of animated refuse. The Idea of
using the diseased, bleeding, deaptaed
(nrmrside of humanity, and by aoma
unheard of proceaa transmuting It Into
,hr strength *nd hope and beauty of
rtern.l youth was an amasing one. The
men who had dreamed It. or had come
■Jo an understanding with Hlmaelf that
ur would In all the centuriaa be able
t „ „.,rk surh an Idea out Into hard
lid. would have been pronounced by
(hr roneensua of all the enlightenment
of the lime as an Impractical, amiable,
impossible. However sweet Hie die*
million, or kindly Hie alms, His plan
would lie smashed by ths world He
(.red The crosrd He had la mlad
from which to get for Himself a con-
itliuency would do Him more harm
-(tun good. If He succeeded la making
friends of ibom alL They had neither
m»'r. money nor culture. They were
l rest multitude of Impotent Incurs-
who wuuld bo toller off lucked
the sleep of death under the ground
than groaning In poverty and poln
shore It. An optimistic movement In
their behalf would bo a misfortune. It
would awoken hopes In their worthies,
•out. never to bo realised and leave
them 111 the end lower In the depths of
inlerry then over. But the highly col
ored hemes of this young preacher
w ould never lit Into the order of events.
Disillusion and disappointment await-
so Him. The deitructlva enginery of
lira untvarac waa not turning parallel
any such outline of mercy as He
T * le terrible forces with
out Him, Ha would learn, gave quar-
ler offly to the man panoplied In ateol
and nre. Bo Hie visionary Ideas would
begin and and with Himself, leaving
as aforetime, the blind In hie darkness,
lbs deaf In hie silence, the leper In hla
«j£» • a4 IH prisoner In hie ahac-
■oraa tlma attar the death of Jesus
Christ, ths moat learned und eloquent
man In the world, Saul of Tarat's, was
changed from an Inveterate enemy to
n devoted apostle. He became a mis
sionary and was joined by Alton. Bar-
nabae and John, Mark and Philip. They
praelaliiitd a new faith In Syria and
*•*» Hlivir, la Egypt and Cyrene. In
I ho Island of Cypreoa and In Spain, and
la the capital of the Roman empire It
self. Orest people ware converted to
the new doctrine. Certain of Caesar’s
household; Be-glue Paulue, the pro
consul of Cyprus; A polios, the scholar;
Dionysius, ths Athenian judge; Pom-
Poole Oraeclna. the wife of the Roman
conqueror of Britain: Flavius Clemens,
the Romen consul; deocondaita of Cic
ero. Attlcus and Beneea: the wife of
Commodue, the emperor; and the wife
and daughter of the Emperor Diocle
tian. Before one hundred yean aftar
the death of the Galilean He had live
hundred thousand disciples sod Hla re
ligion was the most Influential known
among civilised peoples.
It Is remarkable that as soon as the
early thinkers of the Christian church
began to seek a philosophic rational
basis for the religion of Christ, they
What la said by all ths gnat
of the church lives In Plato.
In a prayer of 8t. Augustins con
tained In hla Confessions, we may read
Plato transmuted Into the life and
thought of a saint. 'God pf poWar," he
•ays "comfort ua Show us Thy face
nod aava ua
‘Ths beauties uf nature cannot ex
ist save through thee.
These beauties ara born sad die
they begin, they Inn esse, they grow
until they rtacb their highest point;
Ibst attained, .they wither and fall.
Everything lends downward again, and
decays. When they spring up. tin",
strive to be: and ths more they labor
to ba. the more- they hasten not to br.
Such la their limitation. Thou bast
S ven these bounds, O Lord: they are
a successive phases of things which
are nover complete In every part at
any one time; but by their birth and
death they make op that universe «t
which they ara ths parte, Tber are
Ilka the words of a speech, which la
entire and finished when each word
having uttered all Its syllables, retires,
that another word may take Its place.
“Let my soul there Praia* Thee In
these beauties, o Ood, Creator of all;
but tot It never be fas ran ad unto these
things with the glua of love and the
senses of th* body! Tor they con
tinue to pass away, and caare to exist,
and they rend my soul a* they go; and
as for my soul It would fata exist. It
would fain ttngsr a lib that which U
love*. But how can «* linger with
that which to not lasting, with that
which la fugitive; how caa wo follow
those things with ths senses of the
flesh; bow can we over grasp them as
a whole whan thty pass away? The
sense of the flesh la alow and weak,
and. In Its turn. It has limits. It suf-
fleath unto Its end. but It sulHceth not
to stay things running their course
from their appointed starting place lo
their end. to map at once th* origin
aqd consummation. Thy dtvfaa Word
alone, which creates them, salth unto
them. ’Deport ond return.’ Theh be no
longer foolish. O ray soul; permit not
tumult Is doe* the oar of thlno
Ml. J, W. LIE.
Hearktti:
rthte also
rarwmtm
cries. Return to the place of everlast
ing rest, where love to not forsaken.
If itself foreaketh not. Do I ever de
part? aalth the.Word of God. Fix thy
dwelling la HhB. O my soul! Waariad
at tost of illusions, restore to Him what
waa decayed la the* shall Moom again,
what languished shall bo healed, what
wa* gcattsrea and dispersed shall bo
and reaowad. Thlaga ‘
■ bear thee away in their
He eea.our peaceful faiherfand from
the top of a mountain and from iho
bosom of a wild forest without th*
ability to And the road, and to took a
path of escape in vain amidst enemies
«1,0 surround and pursue ua ... It
to qu|ta another thing actually to
hasten over ths road that toads us
home. Flatontats. therefore, know aftl
er a certain fashion. Invisible, Immutal
hie. Immaterial nature; but tbe path
that leads to this supreme beatitude,
namely. Jesus Christ crucified, seems
to them contemptible; they refuse to
follow It, and thehreforth' can nover
reach the sanctuary which Is Its rest
ing place and end. although the light
that proceeds from It strikes IholrIn
telligence with a distant radiance.”
I Hi. John said the Wont was made
fleeh. The eternal mind Plato saw waa
smtodtort In Jaaua Christ. Halo aewi
the truth, Jesus Christ lived II. Pto-j
tonlsm.la right phlloaopnte thinking;
Christianity Iq right practice! living.
The one contemplates the truth (rent
a mountain top: the other follows the
truth aa a path leading home. Chris
tianity waa tbs translation of the di
vine thought Plato saw Into ths prac
tical life of humanity. Bad not hla
thought beta In conformity with the
laws of the universe. It could never
hare taken practical tom la Chris
tianity without failure. The general
principles underlying Plato's philoso
phy not only furnish Ihe Intellectual
I bails for Christianity, but ara the
principles which underlie ell progress.
Departure from them has alwaya result
ed In disaster and rallure, tn hla aa-
teem the nonmena. or thing In itxrif
of an object, waa ths mind In II, and
this conception has been the Inspira
tion of all successful thinking and of
came to thee from Him. Restore lu
Truth what Truth hath given thee, and
thou ahalt nevermore lose aught; what
In the standfast and abiding God.’’
It to not intended to reach, however,
that Christianity to a form of Platonism.
Hi. Augustine said of Plato that b*
saw only the Image of God; ho did not
find the way to attain tha sovereign
good; ha dealt With the etenul Images
of tha true, not with tha true Itself.
**It to one thing,’' aaya St.' Augustins
all holy living.
—Tha Sop!'
lllat tenant that man
measure of the universe, bat “they re
garded hla sensational nature aw hla
essential constitution, ahd this sense-
Uoaal nature they set op as the meas
ure of all things.”
Plato also taught that man to the
measure of Ihe universe, hut not la the
Sensational aspects of hi* variable and
particular animal nature but tn the
till and universal aspects of hla
Intellectual spiritual nature. Accord
ing to the Hophlate feeling waa the
measure of all things while, according
to Plato, thought eras the measure of
all things. Feeling measured things
off In particular*; thought measured
them off In universale. Feeling could
have no ’apprehension uf unlveraata and
thought could not deal with particu
lars as particulars. Tha mind could
not think a thing without classifying It.
arranging It under a general term
which represented all other things like
the one thought. Aa long aa a particu
lar thing *%s -manly felt tt wax net
thought at all; tha moment the mind
transferred It from the department of
sensation to that of
longer simply one Ihl
of a general sum i
which It waa referee
of being thought. 1
intnd to classify am
under general t-rms
and dlatlngatohlag f<
waa no
a part
agate
ary act
of tha
things
isvntlul
raising
things from particular sensations to
geqqrsl Idsax the mlad think* them.
But thing* could not ba thought .If
they were not related, sad tb*F OOBld
not be related except by th* creative,
directly* mind of tb* Author of All
Thing*. Bo In thinking things ona
gets th* Ideas from thorn put In them
by th* Intelligence of the creator. If
tbs unlvara* to an expression of thought
than It to Intelligible, and tb* author
of It to kaowsbto.
our modern nano for
tb* speculative thought Plato know as
tom. has bean the source of unto-
.... In all age*. It la theoretical at
Drat, and practical afterwards. It to
tha question as to whether there to
basic of all things Inecrutabto, uncon-
the universe
reason or by chance
than there to nothing good or bad In
Itaelf, nothing to tree or false in It
self. mulling la right or wrong In Itself.
Good mill truth and right are tsrros
manufactured by convention They
have no basis for sxtotano* In th* na
ture of things. -Aa Perrier says, "ett*ti
ever a man holds to be true to trwt
for him; whatever ba bolds to be right
and good la right and good for him!
whatever ha holds to b* beautiful I*
beautiful for lilm, and thus there Is o*
■baalnta or anhreranl efandngd kMBfc,
■ ,f truth „r morality or beauty. It tl
obvious that where this doctrine II
carried out In detail It mutt have thi
effect of exploding truth, virtue, sad
bounty, considered as realities. H de
stroys them aa objective essential
qualities It obliterate* their ahaoluu
and Immutable character, ft repre
sents them aa hinging on lha ene*-~
i. Mis ('institution of mankind, an*
shifting with thalr shifting senelblll-
Booh wa* tha poaltlon of sophists Is
Ihe fourth century H. C-. ond of Lu
cretius In the tint century U. C- ah*
Roscelllnus tn the eleventh century A
D, Md of Hume In the eighteenth, an*
of Herbert Sptnctr In the nlueteontk
century.
But agnosticism cannot bo tranae
lettd tuto P—e*teol was q*»set.*|M
Tb* anpanxnent his been mad* I*
every century stne* Plato and ahrny*
with disastrous'reamta. it to not act-
eatlfln It cannot objectify Itself with
out ruin.
Pried rich Nietzsche, n product of th*
nineteenth century agnosticism, *****
In an acilaey of dahght In M* "Bar-
athrusea." over hla aoMivsaaiat in go-
away with reason and will In tb*
log away
universe.
This freedom and heersfilr I
ty I set ilka an turam boll over
things, whan 1 taught that nv*r t
and In th*m there to no •**<wa*l
that wffl* .... whan I
that ooa thing at least to i
rationality . . . This btoa _
1 found tn alt thfofi, thtt ttrar 4
Inclined to danc* on the feat of <
O, heaven over me, pure and. M
that to now to m* they purity,
there to no eternal reason-spider
spider's net, that thou art a dint
floor for dlvlo* chance*, that than art!
table of th* gods for godllk* die* i
dance ra!”
GYPSY SMITH
“And Philip want down to Barnards
and preached Chrlet unto them."—Act*
:rr—r
By REV. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
MOO WWUi IWUnEji-HII—
i of March during th* T*h*rnaoto
enee that question, "Have you
Gypsy?” will bo all over the
T HE boat thing In tbe Chlcagu
theaters offered last week while
1 wit* there waa in Ihe Groat
Northern theater at Ihe comer of
js. kir n and Dearborn streets It
audiences lone three time* bigger than
muid gel Beale, avery day at noon. It
was Gypsy Smith In hie marvelous
fri-entallon of the Gospel.
I waa anting In the office of a mil
lionaire tltlztn of Chicago when
hu.-iilnx buelneaa man ended hto busi
ng. confereM* U* he turned to go with
-Hue «meat ion, "Say. have you board
gypsy y The gentleman apoka back,
• No. but I am going to. They tell me
il'.xn here that ha to tb* real thing.”
Thai I- just it. H* to th* real thing.
That ie the secret of tb* remarkable
ki—i. this- new man ha* gotten on
the > ml Uf* at th* central citadels ef
four r.inilnenta, Enropa. Africa. Aug
• fratw «nd mutt - America -tor-
mnmh
hftml Gypsy?* — —
• envoi* of Atlanta Bo men epeak al-
ni-'at Instinctively of Gypey Smith. In
an nffectlnftat* personal manner
w h-rover ho goes. Th* British Weekly
oiio ihat ho is th* beat loved man In
Knxlund. Who la ha? He to an evan
gelist. I know, I think, now what Paul
hinted when he wrote to hla friends In
th. vHy „f Ephesus that “God gave
lime tn be evangelists” “Boma, not,
many. A few here and there, just oe-
raainnnlly. An evangellat a true
roin i-mentatlv* of that order of th*
Chtiatlan pvpnaxanda which Paul aet
In :i anltiudo half way batwaen tha
crouiw uf apostle* and prophets on one
Mil- and pastors and teaettnrs on tha
ether, (ilia an extraordinary place tn
lie rhrlailnn ministry, It l« no credit
e >nur aonse If you cannot dlecrlml-
ii ue juetly between the preacher who
i ikea to th* road because ha has noth-
mi eiao to taka to or who ante** htm-
»lf as an avangeltot because n« has
■t-veioped a paying tatont for rallgtoua
' .uhicviito. and the rant tru* bon* ltd*
Orttnueiiat. The word tttokn* Itterally
• n-angellag"—on atl«*l With good
h "s Bo that* are two things right
•liitnltely drmandad of tb# man who to
an eiangoHat In that old atriet Intent
the New Testament. H* must hay*
th- angelic quality and what he
prearhe* must bo good n***—the good
ill'll - ur gospel that "God waa In Chrlet
r*t onciitng th* world unto Hlmaelf'
I am well convinced that If aoma broth
er tn Paul's day had gon# out among
ih- rhurchta he had planted, reaping,
bullying and blacjguarolng tb* paopla.
th* great apostle to the OentUaa would
never hav* allowed him In the category
of evangelists.
Philip was an avangeltot. He “went
down to BamnrU and preached Christ
unto them." Gypsy Smith to an avan
geltot. He went over to Boston and
preached Christ unto them, and melted
|c* crystals of culture and reserve,
which Ralph Waldo Emerson froao a
half century ago. That to wbM he to
doing tn Chicago. Nothing lean, noth'
In* more. That to what ho will do In
Atlanta. Hd Is not going to any, "Get
out your Bibles and let ue expound."
Ue I* going to say. “Behold th* Lamb
of God that taketh away Ihe. etn of
th* world." Ho la not on apoatl* or
prophet or pastor or teachsr. Ho to an
evangelist, the greatest modern recov
ery I believe of that rare first century
order tn the providence of Ood for
paopla who are waiting fur n voice to
call them Uka lost ebeep. .When you
hav* heard him apeak th* wort "Jwra*
you will underetsnd .whnt I mean-
Hnw l Wmrt ttonmn . ;
Have you heart Gypsy? Tea, I hav*
heard him for several day* and I am
giving you the story Just a* It to In me.
Chicago la not suggestive to a visitor
of tha Holy City John eaw in hto vis
ion. It to In mere onlward euggestlve.
ness more like the city Dante has mad*
famous. It to black, gloomy, amor
phous. I have scan London, Parts, New
York and Boston, but Chicago for black
bigness, tor gross grandeur of effect
surpasses them all. .1 waa constantly
thinking of plies of mountains thick
act and wrapped In togs of ebony
cloud, for so th* huge building* appear
with people rushing beck end forth
In the ehndowod valley*.
It was predicted tbat although ho
had mailed Ire a hundred yearn old In
Beaton, Oypay Bmlth would go up
against It tn Chicago. I should hav*
■aid lust on what I anw, that Chicago
would prove n lonesome place for an
evangellat. I alerted out to hear him
In his first appearance Sunday after
noon. I calculated to hav* n good easy
roomy time of II In ths grant audi
torium which gala tilled, they eey,
about one* a century. In th* hand* of
two university men I went leisurely
down to take Gypsy’s measure I*, a
place seating elx thousand. It was n
half hour ahead of tlma anyway. "You
will see whom Rev. Frank Gunaaulus
ireaches every Sunday morning." my
rlenda eald. "He to Ihe greatest man
m Chicago." I quit* bvHeved • It. and
i leiieve it yat. tor that matter, but I
forgot It before I got a chance to eoo
anything. "Oo up atalra. Up atalra!
Up atalra!" About flva policemen
barred the way to th* main floor. Wo
climbed up In a mob of climber*.
Again we met It; "Go up stairs." Bo
up wd tugged again. "Get on up etalr*,'
the surging maaa waa n third ttma or
dered. By now nearly all my “go" waa
gone But I was In th* scrimmage all
over and I went, and by forgetting that
I was n Southern gentleman I managed
lo aqueoaq In a front seat. Than I felt
like a man feels In a balloon. Th*
sheer descent to th* pit looked like a
quarter of a mile. "But I waa bound
to hoar Gypey out or die." And I heard
him; every word of him. And oh! It
wa* grant music- 1 knew th* worts
hi* song very wall. It was an old story
But It was anaw song juat the same,
•un* aa they say Schuman Hr Ink
sang her lullaby an tha night before she
wax going to sail aero** to m h*r
seven babies tn Germany.
The Gypsy's Wooiaq.
Now. I hav* listened to a tow
are to aaa Man but-
tb* rerapb of them all. H* Is a Gyp*
—black tanned face and hair like
raven's plum*. With ear-rings and n
pony he'd pass th* "Romany Ryo"
laol aura enough. Tha h Uteri an Kcor
ner describes tb* Gypalaa aa "Oriental
vagabonds, who cam* Into Garraany In
1417, who said that the cause of their
waa derings and pilgrimage was a pan
anc* which God had put upon thorn,
because, after having been converted
to Christianity they relapsed Into pa
ganism. and that they base a decree
authorising them to rob gad (teal
without being amenable Is Justice."
From n child ! waa. with other chil
dren. afraid of th* Gypolea. but last
Sunday afternoon ! was too high up
and far off to remember it aa that
Gypsy began to snook; before ho flnr
tohed I w*g right down there with Mm
at th* feet of Jeaue with a heart thrilled
with joy.
Now, I heart him more than one*
and in tha Great Northern thaatar aat
close at him. My opinion of him to not
worth mentioning. 1 haven’t much
opinion of him. Re gave me little
chance to have. But I want to aay
thta; 1 am ready tn sign n contract
never to criticise another preacher aa
long aa I live If they will all gat Gypsy
Smith's secret of alnoarlty. He to as
sincere as the sunshine. Sincerity
means “without wax." It'* the wax lu
ua preacher* that gala crittclaad- tho
plain, unmistakable wax of self-aasar-
lon. self-glory, aelf-eeeklng. that the
clear-eyed man' aaea In ua Id spit* of
DR. JOHN E. WHITE.
all our aelf-dosplalng protest Now,
Oypay Bmlth npok* of hlmaelf; more
than ones ha relacred to hla Oypay
tent, and tn hlmaelf as n Gypay boy.
"Look al thl* picture." he said, “a
Gypsy lent; there Is a father and live
little motherless children without n Bi
ble, without school, not on* of them
able to writs their names. Nobody
wanted them—who does wont a Oypay?
Nobody, outsider, ostracised, despised
and rejected. But God looked on that
poor father sad those live motherless
little thing* and saw them In their Ig
norance and heathenism hungry for
Jesus. And He looked again and He
said: There are six preacher* In lhat
lent.* And Ha put those arm* that
were nailed In th* tree around th* fa
ther and the children and saved them
*11. and I am on* of them." Yao, he
talked about hlmsolf! an did Paul; so
did Chrlet before him. But there wns
not a trace of aught save n ravishing i
love of another In hla personal pro
nouns.
Of oourat there ara other and well-
commanded charms about Gypsy
Bmlth'a preaching, lhat one thinks attar
a white..
For Instance, hto vole*. It to a vole*
of veriest music. It to just eulted to
hie gospel. Probably no great voice
for a discourse on municipal owner
ship, but a vole* to pour love and joy
out on. n vole* to plead with, to woo
with, a votes lhat can ear. "Jeans!
Jaaua! Jesua!” with n personal teader-
neea that goen a long way further in
ward making Christ real and cloa* by
than any logte could.
Do not get the idea that Gypsy Smith
to a preacher of th* soft and slender
5 Tn. worts snap loud. Thor* are
thing* he doesn't Ilk* *od hto speech
about toem to plain enough. Ratten
■ f speaking of Christ's manner
M iaji: -cansuiancyrhaaor.
ahiigod Jesus to da and aay
which unavoidably eras I '
Truth and rlsht mat (al
and wrong. Between these to ettrnnl
war. Over tbe tumult of lb* war.
however, thoe# who tied ears' could
alwaya hear HI* sweat vole* calling.”
That sentence cam* to my mind
while Gypsy waa going severely
through soma of th* humiliating hypoc
risies of Christiana. I felt that b* waa
■peaking of tbean things aa Christ
would have done with the Indignation
of n tine soul, but mere In sorrow than
tn wrath. This not* of lava pervaded
every sentence from tha first word to
tha last of every eermoa I heard. That
to why I call him an evangelist. He la
an angel with a message of good will
to men, not good will at th* last of th*
sermon to remind Ihe people of the
gospel, but good will and kindness In
every lone and syllable.
Th* Preaahoe and th* Ps*L
Does someone question If all this
fervor to not simply what we are fa
miliar with In the usual ardent emo
tion* of an avangellato service? Akin
doubtless In whatever la genuine In
thnt, hut very unlike It ' In -Gypey
Binlih'* remarkabl* freedom from all
that Is artificial told unnatural. *
I challenge th* cultured. Intellectual
man who I* religiously state and sap
less to go lo hoar him whon he cornea
t.i Atlanta. He will agree wllh my
Judgment then Ihsl Tennyson, Ihe poet,
wuuld have rejoiced In Oypay Bmlth,
the preacher. There la an art deeper
then art, an egereiar of man's mind
liner and nobler then IntellectuaUem.
Oypay Bmlth has tbat art and ha etlm
ulatea that menial exercise. Tha In
trinsic quality to genuineness or wbat
may bo baiter phrased a* vital truth
fulness. In the moat accurate same he
to a poet—a aoul an term* or real
brotharllnesa with tha elemental things
In nature and human noture. He Is s
child of grace, but grace found Mm In
th* badges hard tor Epplng roreet In
lilt, aa It found Paul tn hla mother 1 *
womb, and grace appointed that ho
should also ba a child of nature—that
ha should never be educated away from
hto birthright. Ha to atllL I am told, to
cine eat touch with tho Gypay people.
Mn 'Em , . , _
"Great Preacher." That would not bo
true If h* waa not aa ha la an un
spoiled eon of ih* fluid-end forest'and
Iho iialtuptod tttmi ’ WlnntlwrSSI
something, but not too much. «■ educa
tion sometimes does. It give him wort*
and menial reach. Tbia and thnt other
ay's wooing;” another re portae aaltod
It "th* gypsy's warning.” Both wart
right and both were apt. Th* theme
waa "Tha Lost Christ." Ton renum
ber tha Inc) 0«M of Chriifa boyhood .
when Mary and Joseph lost Him, "sup
posing Him to be In th* company." 3
do not know what th* professor ol
homiletics would aay to It. but Gypay
Smith made It a very real and a very
sorrowful thing for s man to lore
Christ. Every other gain won small;
every other possession unworthy; every
other loee Insixnmrant bselrte Hurt. Fm
wbat waa health without Jeaue? Whet
was wealth and fame? What waa
homo? What waa n church? Wbat
waa civilisation without Him?
“BL Paula,” h* cried, "to dear to al.’
Englishmen; Its ashes and urns and no-
hi* flgttrea, laid In marble from Ihg.i
heert end hrind of genlue, ere t prldt
and an Inspiration, but If It to Bt. Pauly
without Jaeue, than, dear Ood. sir* me
mr gyp*y t*n( wHhTnm, and my t
Ops of tb* great London dallies said
of Gypay Smith not tong aloe* thnt hto
speech was on* of th* .flneat exposi
tions of the possibilities of Anglo-Sax
on extant sine* John Bright c*aeed to
eponk. Ha to th* only evangelist Dr.
Alexander McLaren aver allow ed In bla
pulpit at Manchester. A poet. I said.
Horn* of hto sentence* smsll Ilka
ara. I heard him for several days and
thto to tha way It happen*! You will
bo going along with him In n plain path
whrn auddenly ha will dart aelde and
aa you catch up h* la waving a flower
above hla head, xensrally a Ittll* Iqnaly
"we crapplt" thing, a heather trill or i
violet. You am reminded at one* ol
Robert Barns' tenderness with th* Held
mouse or Sydney 1*0111*1"* Intimate
word* with the Bomb Oeorgla violet
that tickled W» cheek, or belter still if
Jesus and tbe sparrow and tb* lilies.
That which makes your ntrvas finals
deliriously la tha unpramadliatlon of it
all. Another time the flight to furthar,
toward Ihe bhi* and -lha vast, where
he eelsea Ihe hem of th* heaven* and
spreads apace down before the throne
of Ood and kneels at hla Father's feat
as a child toying evening prayere. I
recall the thrill of th* thought he gave
to my mind, that a Christian would
not he lonely even In the Infinity of
■par*, though * universe hid him from
•very other human.
The Gypsy's Warning.
One Chicago reporter ipoke of tha
sermon In ih* auditorium aa 'Th* gyp-
gloom of Chicago waa upon l
Within, n allenco and a waiting,
queatlon had keen the last wort.
way of the scene. This waa tha true
stole Of things at that moment, which
was Indeed more than a minute. Big
thousand esula, aoulg I sap. for ~ '
bodies of men were not countti
•outo, elx thousand of them, were I
Ing out of dome and gallery
and up from pit and floor tow
luestlon: "Will you pot com*
eaua whom you hav* lost?" I
no one was thlaklng of the
had asked It at all Th* qw
self waa palpitant; eager, * ltv
than to ua alL
I waa not start lad whan tb*
theological student at the great untv-
•Ity leaped to hto feet. He wn* rigto tta
my aide. Gypsy Smith did aat art Mb
Ho did not try to mah*
him. That wa* not th*
when w* went out with
stream of people sag „
nggtd I know that hi* aotrlt
at th* cross of Christ nan tbi
not the asms he was. 80 It
of hundreds around ua.
As for myaelf—why- am I toOng
this bare except to oonfsa* that I1
to find Christ at tha call at tb*
ton, and my heart wu brakes tad 1
“THE COST OF SAVING A SOUL”
By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD,
PASTOR UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
1ST about every *0 often we ere
due to euffer at tho hand* of th*
enterprising hut misguided pen
er with * superabundance of time
a paucity of Ideas, whose frantic
t to furnish to the world hto full
a of the unusual and tbe sen-
n«l Inflicts upon th* long auffer-
reading pubUe th* carefully pre-
1 statistics and computation*
•* purport I* to make us acquaint
>iih th* relative coat of saving
' in different localities and com
ities.
ken seriously, such * e°ltoe<[on
computation of figures would ap-
ch *0 near to **crileg* In »h* *b
• commercialising' of religion as
iu.a only Indignation In «b. heart
e man accustomed by Instinct and
rootle* to regard with sacred rev
's the relation of »h* soul to ll*
1 but, fortnaatalv. th* *•*'?*
' of humor with which tha avev-
man to endowed toablee, him to
1 such n
alive geographical coat of salvation to
about a* follow*: Th* gross expense
of Ihe periodical attacks of theological
frenzy and emotional excitement which
visit even Ihe most orderly and well
regulated •■oinmunlllaa under the epe-
clfle nem* of religious revivals, to di
vided by Ihe groee number of Ihe per
•use professing conversion or rhenge
of heert as a result of thto new **•
patience or diversion. Th* result deter
mine* definitely whether It cost*, more
ner head to save aoula In Bkaffltetalea
than It does In Bplkatown and whether
Roaring Gulch to a cheaper eccl*» -
■attest proposition than Diamond Vol
ley. By carefully preserving the*# ac
cural* slttlitlcal report* so kind y ta-
•ued from time to time It would b.'
null* possible to compile a rating booh
which would undoubtedly tri vn uable
In th# systematic study of religious
^ C jJ) > on |ntenllon exists here to speak
flippantly of th* ordinary religious re-
"riff nor to underestimate Its power.
To th* spiritual nature which has ae-
cuatomed Itealf to reaulre regular po-
rtndlral revival* of religious TIT* and
fervor such * revival to abjnlulaly Im-
rlratlve and to therefore cheap at any
^ Religious revivals are undoubtedly
Su m bf Sireeaary by there Individ-
5*1. and Institution* who provide for
their organlutlon *nd continuance,
and. wherever a need to tho# felt to
Mist It certainly dote extol. He most
E tedeed . .Slfl.h end churltxh xoul
lA A..u In HI* hl.ilh.r Mttvhf
. “oSy* Er Sblimlty of the
writer of there articles designed
>rm tb* public, mind
point to not wually one nonil
■ spiritual endowment and «•
* to give any rellabto
tarttng the actual coal
What ha really ttlli y° u '*
In* quit* different. o?*i*wc#.‘eren“though" h* himrelf ifnd foumf again. k fact, th* natural da-
method usually employe? •>? or peace. sk <l ducUon from th* aprech otao many <4
raqutut autlitlcun* la ih* rel- no
who'wouid deny to hto brother aught
that brings tohlm comfort or at
But It la perfectly tagttlmat* 10 pro
test against th* frequent confusion of
term* and of the Ideas which they con
vey. To divide Ihe fbtal coat of • re
vival of religion by the number of those
professing conversion and state the re.
suit la a very Interesting and lllumlnat.
Ing occupation. To apeak of th* coat
of saving * aoul to quite another, and.
very generally, n distinctly different
thing.
The cost of saving a soul may no
more be truly estimated In dollar* and
cent* than may Ih* worth and powtr
of any retlgloua organisation bo deter
mined by enumerating Ua members
who ara Inmate* of various penal Insti
tution*.
Too many men and women aeem to
Indulge In loort and careless habits of
thought, and. consequently, loose and
careltaa habits pf speech. They talk as
though they bellsved tied to b* absent-
minded and In th* habit of misplacing
occasionally hla various possessions,
and then calling upon ua to hurry
around and help Him And them and get
them safely into their place* again.
They prate about lost aoul* very much
•a you and I would talk about a mis-
placed collar-button or * thimble. In
ona breath they give thanks fur th#
mtmlpottnre a|td th* omniscience of
Ood and In the next they bitterly la
ment the fart that In soma way or an
other He allowed Ih* Vast majority of
Ihe soul* Ue hsd brought Into being to
become lost so completely and disas
trously lhat only by the moat tremen
dous effort may even * few of them be
REV. E. D. ELLENWOOD.
that ihe natural or normal condition of
Ihe aoul la to be jnat. and that It la
only when It has undent one seine new
and unusual, and. therefore, unnatural.
f irtonre lhat It to found again,
at no word In all tbe dictionary of
rrllgloui thought and experience to to
simtI and eo precious to the normal
child of God aa relvailon. Il la Inlet-
uoven Into all of our theologies. The
slate of blessedness and peace which II
repreeenta to our longlnn Imagination
Is the goal of nil uur conscious effort
slid the answer lo all our prayers.
Hines mnn become a reasoning and re
ligious being It has been Ihe central
tln-me of all his spiritual conversation.
For Ibis reason Jesus so frequently
used this term In His addresses to
those whom lie sought to restore to
physical and to spiritual health and
happiness. Hr undoubtedly desired
above alt eta* lo be dully understood
by those to whom lie apoke. Yet.
becauae He declared that lie had come
lo a**k and to sax* the lost. It does
not therefore follow lhai the mnn who
makes rsrefii! study of the life and the
words of this Ureal Teacher must con.
elude Hint He believed that any of
thro* lost ones had strayed away en
tirely beconil the knowledge and reach
of their Heavenly Father. Nor does a
careful und unbiased study nt lha
words of ibis Great Teacher and,
matchless master of Ufe reveal thnt
He ever held out lo Ihoae whom He
sought in save any premia* of Ihe re-
mission of the Inevitable penalty for
wrong doing. Th* wilful, straylng.lamb
for whoa* salvation Ihe ahephrrd
■ought *0 patiently, so lovingly, so per
sistently. bore uunn hto body the
bruises sail lacerations of ihe cruel
rocks and Ihoms as ihe natural reward
of lu transgression, and. though llm*
and th* shepherd's constant ministra
tions would removo their sting, yat th*
scar must forever remain lo be to him
at once a proof of hla aln and of hto
salvation.
The promise made to the wondering
mother nf Jesus wns not that He should
save his people from Ih* punishment
for thalr sins, bul that "II* shall save
Hla iwople from their elns."
Th* moat truly sav*d man la not th*
on* who to cured of Sinful desires. He
Is Hie on* tn whose breast sinful de
sires anil Impulses have been forever
prevented from taking root. And this
Is accomplished not by any process of
vicarious spiritual vaccination, but by
unremitting spiritual health culture, by
living so perelslenlly tn tha spirit of
Jesua ('hrial lhat Ihe enticements of sin
may gain no hold upon the aoul.
Prevention to Inltnltely belter than
cure In spiritual aa wall as In physical
medicine. Hut not to the spiritually
Bound ahme, but also to th* spiritually
sick and decrepit does Jesua come aa a
savior and heallh-brtnger. Not by
giving 10 ua Mia own purity does lie
restore ue to soundness of spiritual
life. That were Impossible. Right
eousness to not transferrable. Rut with
the Strogg glut eMItwpggkto live does
He Uphold hnd sustain us. while th*
lingering spark of righteousness, Ihe
original endowment from th* Heavenly
Father, struggles once more against
Ihe foul spirit of sin or spiritual dla-
Tho lost aoul la not th* one whom
Ood has fm gotten nr dwelled. That
were Impossible so long aa God la God.
Tha lost aoul la th* ona who has for
gotten about God. Tb* offleo of tho
Havlor to to show to lost men one*
more th* Father and to help them t*
find their way buck to Him.
Bnlvaflon la character. Character to
the only cure for th* xln-*tricb*n-Hte.
and It to also the only tar* preven
tive of aln. Character may not to hs-
stowed or assumed. Neither may It bo
purchased, even with Ml Ihe motor so
Invlahly poured out for the promotion
end perpetuation of reunions revival*
Let there be here no further confusion
of term* and Ideas. Balvatton ie oat
achieved through character or by chare
actor, but salvation la character. There
fore the cost of saving a aoul has real
ly very little to do with the cost of a
revival of religion. They may or may
not l>e related. Th* cost of saving a
soul la Ih* coat of developing a charm?-/ j
ter, and that means Oelhsemaae to
Calvary. It means sacrifice and
abnegation not lor the Savior
but for him who would purchase _
lion. In theology w-r may perhaps
put* to ourselves tho rightaousnai
Christ, but In actual life we An*
lo be Impossible. You may barter
your character If you wll£
who pays you ymir price twi
mailo richer thereby. Th* cl
ration Is measured In tear*
In service and sacrifice; In
dlcnce lo the higher rail
And Ihe period of pay
throughout all of this 1
nlty which we call Ilf*,
endless yean which
knowledgo or GmL
pay th* priceT . I