The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-18
A DAY AT EMORY AND HENRY.

of the Great Southern Methodist Col
lege, at 1870. The location of this
school is one of the finest in the South
being situated in a beautiful and pict-
uresque valley, 2IOO feet above the
level of the sea, surrounded by noun
tains with the best of water flowing
through the grounds and with eli
mate unparalleled in the section of the
country.
The school is free from many temp
tations which many other schools can
not boast of-freedom from whiskey
and questionable character. The col
lege owns the land for nearly mile
around it, and no one is allowed to
come or go upon the grounds unless
adjudged suitable by the faculty.
Most all the buildings are new and
handsome and the college as whole
presents a magnificent view as one
runs in on the Norfolk & Western.
For some hours crowds of people
focked to the Sam Small gymnasium,
the building in which the morning ser
vices were to be held.
AT IL a. m, the services were open
ed by an anthem by the choir after
which the assembly was led in prayer
by DIR. Jas. d. Kennedy, of Marion.
The morning lesson was read from
Job, 28th chapter. Dr. Atkins, Pres
ident of the college, introduced L. M.
Buckley, DID,, LID, editor of the
New York Christian Advocate. The
speaker took for his text part OF the
twelfth verse of the fourth chapter of
Janaes, Hthere is one law giver."
For one hour and half the audi
ence drank down the good thing that
fell from the Doctors lips.
First looking upon nature the obser-
yer beholds one condition of things
following another, these are antece-
tdent and consequent.
The former are called causes, the
latter effect is itself cause This .is
observed in the Heavens above and
the earth beneath. Nature is the
Visible universe, and law is method
by which things are observed in nature.
The speaker dwelt at length upon
the recognition of the child and the
American Indian of the supernatural
power in nature the cause of certain
effects not being understood by them
2. Man law giver. Man can cause
nature to do that which it could never
do without man. Nature never made
a microscope, never made an engine
yet man can generate a force more
powerful than the mighty storm.
Yet with all the wonders
of invention before us man has never
developed particle of force-he only
utilities force in nature. Man finds his
most ingenious invention reduced to
its original form. As man stands in
his strength and power, defying nature
he must be mindful of the decree, that
he must return to his original state
to the dust from whence he came
that the condition of things is govern
ed by the one law-giver, "God of Heav-
en-"
8. No moral element in all the laws
of nature. Should the mother admins
ter poison to the child, nature can no
save it.
4. There is no justice in nature. Oh
two men who have become dissipated
one lives fifty years, the other lives
} only short time. So much strength
against so much weakness. Mention
, was made OF the preservation of wickec
cities in bible times, but the vindiea
ton of God require personal beheS
or Divine prohibition. He impressed
}. his hearers with the root idea of tn
ltext-"One Universe,-one complet
whole; controlled by one Being
6. Human society makes no laws t
govern the heart.
The laws of society are for the pro
lection of society. Gods law begin
, with the heart. Law, civil, has to d.
with the overt act. The man VIII
4 blasphemes a thousand times is n
worse than he who blasphemes one
and repents not We require a pei
sonal revelation from God to assist Il
understanding the law of God VII
obey civil IawH God directs that ma
shall he subject to the civil law mad
by man or subject to human govern
ment. Render therefore unto them a
their dues and unto God his.
Law is nothing but mere recon
mendation without a penalty. La
y piyers must be able to protect when "
obey.
The speaker referred to the occaslo
as a pleasant one, bringing before 2
n vision similar events which have o
CURED in the past
His charge to the graduating cla'
was- that to attain the highest dlgnl'
an alliance with the one law glV'
mnst be entered into; that the youn
- mon going out into life should shu