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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