The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-17
LIGHT AND TRUTH
SOURCES OF LIFE.

| Light first. truth next. the two sources
Of alllife. What are they?
| "And God said. Let there be light,
| and there was light" Half the creative
| period had passed. day and night had
| come, dry land and sea were here, grass.
herb and fruit tree. .'whose seed is in
! ITSELF" fourished but as yet there was
no sun, nor moon nor stars ito rule over
the day and over the night, and to divide
the Eight from the Darkness
What is light?
"Pilate saith unto Jesus, What is
| truth?" No answer then, no answer
| since.
The eye does not see. 1t is the agent
| of the brain that sees. The ear does
not haar 1t is the servant of the brain.
| The five senses lie in the brain. Is the
sun light? The sun worshippers are
heathens who know not the true source
of light. Light cams first of things
| separated from darkness. The ball of
fire is most beautiful when sinking. The
Adamite came last, wonderfully and
| fearfully made to control all things Gre
ated, this fourteenth amendment to the
| contrary nevertheless. How great the
| things the world would have known
| had all that has been written by sue
cseding generations of themselves been
preserved rather than ruthlessly de-
stroyed. When the Emperor Constan-
tine called the church together at Nice,
he admitted only the priests and bishops
who agreed with his own theology. He
made a bonfire of thousands of man.
uscripts priests and bishops had brought
with them because he wished to per-
petuate his won doctrinaf prejudices.
When the Spaniards invaded Central
America they destroyed rich remains of
magnificent temples and libraries at
tending the ancient civilization and the
ancient religion of the occupants be-
cause they would have no remembrance
| Of any religion or any power save their
own. When Gsn. Grant took the unre-
s'sting city of Richmond, archives and
| files of newspapers We're burned which
| were essential to a true history of the
confederate government in it's relation
| to its worthless currency and its starry
| ing, bare-footed army.
| Jesus was brave enough to throw Pr
| late and all future enquirers upon con-
| science. If his life and conversation
did not define TRUTH" no scholastic dis.
| putation over the word would bring en-
lightment to it's meaning.
Light came before the fixing of the
great luminaries in the armament
Truth comes before the subject through
which it verifies itself.
Light is mind. Love the Lord with
all thy mind. This is the
first and great comma ndment."
Mind worship is true worship. The
machine which represents in its circles
and squares and angles and straight lev
ers power to dig and lift coal to the
surface is a communicate in its thought
with the Creator. Coal that put ablaze
generates the electricity which duplicates
the moon in the glass globes at every
corner is a sign of mind love of the Gre
ator. Thess conquests of mind make
the Sabbath of the Creator whose praises
resound from
THAT fame most catholic and solemn
Which God hath plann d.
Whose ouenchless lamps the sun and
Its choir the winds and waves, it's organ
thunder,
Its dome the sky.
If there was but the one educator of
our boys who go to college he ought to b.
a man of sufficient modesty to restrain
himself from the gainful employment of
his vacations in adverse criticisms and
offensive satire upon thu social life and
political habits of the fathers and grand
fathers of the boys. But the education
of our boys is not necessarily reduced
to depend nee upon one educator, That
matter being made secure it well be-
comes the patrons and governors of the
University of the South to reflect upon
the conduct of Prof. William P. Trent.
There Is not the most remote analogy
or room for comparison between the
opinions of the president of Brown uni
versity IN New England upon world
wide economic question, say silver free
coinage, and the unfriendly opinions of
a professor at Sewan=e upon the struc-
ture of society in the southern states for
two Centuries or better and the strug-
giles of those states in pace and in war
| to secure for their society the right to
sustain itself and to reform itself. Pres
| itent Brown. man of mature years
| and wide fame, has published an abstract
| opinion contendng for the perpetuation
of the practice of coinage of money
| metals that is as old as commerce itself.
a youthful and obscure professor at Sc
vance, Mr.. Trent, has published VOL
ume of his own public lectures, taking
| Washington, Jefferson, Calhoun, Stsph-
! ems, Toombs and Jefferson Davis as cen