The Progress., 1893-02-25

man of power, an epoch shaping man, a
man who made and unmade theolOgies
because of that divine spark of charac-
ter. Earnest men in politics, in religion
in history, are the men who make his
tory In man like Blaine, who could
impress himself upon his generation and
have 80 enthusiastic following through
the years, there slumbered the inherent
powers of a great personal earnestness
and enthusiasm.
Fifth-Phillips Brooks success, too
rested on another thing-namely, that
he had faith in and love for mis- fellow
man.
THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN.
He loved his fellow man, and any man
that loves his fellow man is going to
make enemies. There never was a sweet
er soul than Brooks'-tender, earnest,
kind, loving. Yet how many little &c
ciesiastics in all this big world hated the
sound of his name and would go posi-
lively into ecclesiastical jimjams when
his name was mentioned! He really
so intensely loved his fellow man
that, whethr- it clashed with ecclesiasti-
cism or noe, he spoke out of the great
love of his heart what God had put
there. Think Of man of that charac-
ter, that temper, being bounded by here
sy hunters! Yet it is true. For years
before he died the ecclesiastics even
within his liberal" church had out their
sleuthhounds hunting through every
forest-hunting through his great ser
mons-nOsing here. there, yonder, get
ting together everything that might pos
sibly bear on the question as to whether
or not he were walking along the way
that their fathers walked in the past.
He not only loved his fellow man, but
he believed in man. made in the image
of God. That was one of the cardinal
| principles of his life. In the lowest man
the beggar in rags, the prisoner in stripes.
he saw the image of his Master; he saw
| child from his Fathers house.
| Sixth-AnOther reason why his success
and power were so great was that he had
a vital grasp of spiritual truth. With
him God is spirit"
That was the theme that he voiced,
and therefore he found the inmost depth
of mans soul The peculiarly of his
preaching was that he seemed TO tell you
with spiritual intuition the things you
had been thinking about He believed
in the world of spirit as against the mat
ter. which is its mere shadow.
He was a conductor of the divine spirit
on high to men. Tyndall 10 authority
for the statement that they have discov-
cred a remarkable fact in the transmits
sion of music. There was piano on the |
first floor of a building devoted to the |
instruction of music and a hall on the |
third floor, and the experimenter thought |
it might be possible to transmit the |
music from that piano into the hall, that |
the audience might hear it. So he opened |
hole through each Of the floors and |
took a wooden rod and connected il |
from the sounding board of the piano to
the rostrum in the hall above, and then |
there was given a magnificent piece of |
music on the piano below. The director
above could hear the music transmitted
by that piece of wood But the audience
could not hear it. Then they placed a
violin on top of that piece of wood, and
instantly that body caught the melody
Of the piano below and reproduced it
perfectly. SO that the great crowd heard
every note. They also used a harp with
the same results.
There are great souls whose PERSONAL
ty seems to have the power to transmit
the very throb of Gods heart unto men
AS you heard that man speak you felt
that God himself was striking the keys.
and that along every scale of his life
there was coming forth the music of the
spirit worldl
Therefore faith to him was mighty
theme-because he believed in spiritual
realities. ''All things are possible to him
that believeth"-w what sweep that Sen
tence from his lips opened to Inc when !
first caught It'll How vast the horizon
opened before him when he gave that
sentence! No imitations-'a things
possible to him that believeth." No great
preacher, no man who thus speaks from
the heart of God can speak without be
lieving great things-that it is possible
for man to do all things. because the
spirit is the real thing. and matter but
the shadow
FAITH WORKS WONDERS
A vessel was going along the seas on
the 9th of last December She had en-
countered fearful gales, had hailed from
Jamaica, bound for Providence. and
was loaded with logwood. In ter
rible storm the ship sprung her timbers
and began to leak. The captain tried to
relieve her by working his pumps, but
at last began to despair. He sighted IN
American steamer approaching and gave
81 gnals Of distress. Iao steamer came ,
and the captain and his crew
abandoned the ship The first mate of
this steamer, looking on the abandoned
vessel. said % the captain, 81 believe that ,
ship can be saved and carried into har- ;
Dor" and he asked permission of his cap
tain to go aboard of her and take two j
men. Both captains tried to dissuade ,
him, but the prize was great. and he be- :