The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-05

home was to repeat the poem to his father
and to ask him II Edgar Allen Poe had
written anything else. ON receiving an az
frmative reply he gave his father no peace
until all his poetic works had been OBJ
tanned. He committed them all TO memory
and became WILLING captive to the charm
OF their beauty and power An Illustration
OF the power OF genius to generate In the
minds OF men an uncontrollable cnthus-
iasm. The mind OF Jesus after fentecor'
produced similar effect. but In higher
sphere. on the minds OF those who possessed
1t, ON that day and in every generation
since. men have been surprised by the tran
sccndant beauties OF Christianity. into
love for Its glorious founder. and this new
passion for souls has gone into their re-
veriee. and dreams. and longings, and plans.
and they have had their poor hearts
touched by strange transforming fingers
that left rare. rich beauty on
every linoament OF character: aud they
have begun to sec visions, such as fol' IN
Bedford iail on lonely Bunyan's ano,nted
eyes. and they have begun to talk In IAN
guago broad and deep like that the rap,urcd
Hebrew prophets sppkc, and they nave
risen along tho upsloping sides OF argu'
mcnts that touched the heights OF tho I'M
mortality OF the soul. such as the copp'er,
Samuel Drew, assembled. and they nave
formed plans wide as the world OF igno-
rance and sin. like those which made Henry
Martyn's name immortal; aud they have
gone into the battle Of the right with a
bcroism that made their lives sublime, and
wrauped their dead bodies In folds of glory
and gave them entry to the company OF
immortals. like Havclock, They have CIR
died the earth in a zone OF celestial IRE
that burned In the hearts Of Wesley aud
Whitfield Carey and Mofictt, Livingstone
and Patterson. and the self denying mis-
sionaries who have carried the banner NJ
tho cross to lands Of darkness aud death,
This Is the passion for souls. tho onthus-
iasm OF humanity. inspired by the Holy
Snirlt In the hearts OF men
t3l The Holy Spirit for power. power for
service service In witnessing for Christ
He who has the Spirit has power. he who
has power ia effective In service he who
serves effectively Is witness for Christ
md the church. II is In tho sphere Of
testimony for God and righteousness that
The Christian Endeavor society is proving
| itself to he tho greatest spiritual orraniza-
| tton OF modern timee,
I Tho Spirit filled. power endowed En-
| dcavcrcr insists on higher social ideals and
| n better roucepton Of life lie is not sat
| ,sficd with n low ideal nor the laggard pur-
| suit Of high one. He comes 20 Christian
| youth with the message Of Carlyle Love
| not pleasure. love Cod" This Is the ever
lasting yea. wherein all contradiction tx
| solved wherein whose wall's and works, "
| is well with him Strip lifc of It's moral
| hiHls anu eplil'h"l AuN",h "A'
| mere animal existence of eat, drink and be
| merry. and this has becn the crime of the
worlds society from the beginning uptll
now. Pleasure is the chief good' ihere "
| nothing better for man than to dance anu
| frolic, and reNel and play, nave Io,s VI
| FUN" and make the game Of life 'awtul'y'
Density Jolly" ms tho English express H.
Dress fashion social amuscmonts, an
incossant wh,rl OF fast times and gayet'es,
constitute the hoau ideal Of the social pa
gan. Greed Of gain was mover more ram,
pant and voracious than " ~ To-Day nor
that men love gain Tor inc fhke ot Ha'h'
hut for the sake OF pleasure and power
and luxury that gain viii purchase. Ages
ot wealth and losuro become matcrinietto
and morally decadcnt. ana this means the
dcgencracv and cIcminacy of nation
manhood that hctoEen tho near approacn
OF It's drsnlutipn. From time 10 time we
are reminded Of the hidorus vileness TO
which the pagan pursuit OF pleasure leads
Tragedies of sin and shame mark the track
Of culture which has no riac" Tor hou
! Wrock and ruin attest the ghhslly hollow
mesa OF the pagan crocd-"This world is my
| paradise and IN II I Will revcl and rot
| The God fillcd power possessed Christian.
must stand like wall Of Unt against
! the ucssimistc wall NJ modern fiction that
! life is disappointment ard failure. the
| hcdonc view OF the French mover mat NC
| is pleasure; the puritnnic view OF we olH
| theology that mo IL uisclpIihe hIl" i'ihi''
| ton. and like the flaming angel at the gar.
| Of Paradise must he stand to protect aiu
| demonstrate the Chrlstion view, mat nc
| Is ondcaNor that NE " opportunity, opp,
tunity 10 acquire KNOWLEDGE opportunity =.
develop character. opportunity 70 serve wa
by doing good TO men rms Wow mus
prevail In society II the WoIlo ~ ~ w w.
| deemed. .,,-
.. Another sphere IN when INC n nuenFpl
movement ls bearing onectiye les'inVhy
| the sphere OF cit'Stn5nlp ipe hi'' ~ .,'
| sade against civic corruption, and rotten.
| ness in politics. aud the new caupals" w
| nsstcnco that Christianity shall nor Nv
divorced from lifo or any pHrt Oh ne "
sign of tho times that gives hope OF
better day In American CIVILIZATION INV
separaton OF church and S'aio we nav
INTERPRETED to mean the separation oil "od
truth from the nations NE, the severance
Of conscience from civil government me
American citizen OF male eSt'aehtlon car
rlos his conscience In his sunday c'o'hos.
bIs politics he regards lusepnrably part
OF himself TO have and to hold Tor peter