The herald., 1898-12-19

source of tremendous waste to the phys
ical and mental forces CT many men and
women who make sort of business of So
cial functions. There are men and women
whose lives seem to utterly fail of any high
mission or great work, and yet to all appear
ances they are emnently qualified for large
achievements.
"Not by the noise we make in the world !;
not by the fame men accord us, are we to be
judged. Our lives take on value as they
are governed by motives of the highest in
tention. What men secretly love and do
makes the value of their lives. Such lives
are never wasted. They are the salt of the
communities in which they live. They kee
up the faith in manhood and womanhood,
in goodness and love and all moral whole
someness. There is too much gross mater.
ahsm in the popular ideas and speech of our
day. Life is to be measured by its moral
worth and blessing.
Gould the secrets of hearts and thoughts
all around us be revealed it would be found
that the world is filled with moral heroism.
with courage and patience, with sweetness
and light. So, what seems waste is life in
process of development, is life undergoing
refinement, is life pouring out itself upon
Others"
"Inspiration" was the subject of Rev.
Burt Estes Howard's discourse to the
congregation of the
Inspiration Church OF the Cove
nant. Science is a
sad iconoclast. The grim hammer of in
vestigaton breaks many statue of the
gods we cherish in our pantheon. Podding
hack fbrouUb n II a nd Il aipis t,l- : bo
centuries one by one, research finds that
the golden age, like the rainbow's foot, re-
oedes as we approach if, and finally van
ishcs into thin air. The road that led, we
supposed, into royal highway, sweeping
past the lofty dwelling OF some high-souled
patriarch, dwindles at last into a tortuous
cow-path that twists its way across the
hills to the dusty tents of Bcdouin shelk,
whose morals are as doubtful as the tradi-
tions that have gathered him in.
Inspiration is not the peculium of
mysterious few, exalted above their fellows
and chosen to be the vehicle OF particular
revelation; it is the moral state of full
grown spiritual manhood. 1t is the awak-
ening of the divinity that slumbers in us ALL
Inspiration is not the coming of a new spirit
into The affairs of men; it is just the percep-
ton of the eternal spirit of truth which has
been in the world from the beginning. 1t
is thing of spiritual and intellectual in
sight. 1t is having eyes TO see and ears to
hear what is going on in Gods world. The
inspired man is the man with mind and soul
great enough and crystalclear enough to
see beyond the little catch penny world we
create out of our own sel6shness and ma
terialism into the awful truth of things. 1t
is of small moment what kind of truth he
sees. 1t is all Gods truth, and the man
who finds a bit OF it somewhere and opens
his life to il and tries to touch his brethren
with it is one of the inspired prophets of the
Almighty.
The inspired man is the man who lets the
highest truth he secs have its own way in
his life. He is the man who is obedient to
the laws of God in the world, just as the
light flashes and flames its bene6cent glory
into the night heaven. The wire has given
itself mp to the law of electricity. SO the
man in the heart of life who finds some
truth and gives himself up to it because all
aquiver with the energy of that work be-
comes its manifested point, is filed with its
power and energy. Inspiration is not to
be rejected because of the medium through
which it comes. TO reject it is to quench
the spirit. We must not say THE truth
must come through this or that channel, or
will not believe it." We must be intel
ectually honest. Ii any man has ascended
the mount and talked with the infinite, or
has met the Almighty walking amidst the
pettiness OF our little common
)lace affairs, who are we to lay our profane
lands upon his lips and bid him be silent?
Nay, let us rather fall on our faces and
pray God for hearts pure enough to receive
his message.
There is an old writing in sacred book
that says that the spirit Of man is the
candle of the Lord that the very soul OF a
man was organized for the touch of the
divine fire upon it, that it might glow when
in the worlds darkness. 1t declares that
nan comes to be best only as he becomes
point Of goodness, and truth, |
and justice and love in the world. 1t
means that through all OF a mans affairs he
is to flame forth a divine glory, that a
mans business, and pleasure, and home,
md all the multiform and multiplex life of
him are to be lighted up with the mans
own radiant SOUL like beacors on the noun
ain tops to guide the world to the shining
ouch of God that is not the special privilege
of a aoly few, but the very heritage of all
men, because of their divine manhood. The
;pirit of any man is the candle OF the Lord.
At Simpson Tabernacle on Sunday even
n the pastor, Rev. f. A. Healy, preached
on forgiveness, from
Foroiveness Acts l0-43. He said
in part Peter was
wonderful preacher. Though in his i'm
,etuosty ne declared he would be more
oyal to his Master than all others, yet in
he hour of severe trial he denied him
,hrice. Peter was an example of the
of grace. To Cornelius, the Roman
Peter preached with just the
,amc fervor as he did to the crowd on the
lay of Pcntecost. Forgiveness implies the
presence OF sin and the need of pardon
God is our Father above all and he sees
what is for our good, and has laid down his
avs for us to obey, and rules of justice to
govern and guide, as they are in the dec
llogue.
The law has been broken, but it has never
ocen repealed, or the penalty revoked.
TIN ough his name he that seeketh him
hall receive forgiveness OF his sins; divine
forgiveness is full and complete, Tor the
Savior said, Not seven, but seventy times
even, shall ye forgive. Ye shall call his
lame Jesus, because he shall save his peo-
lie from their sins. To believe i'll Jesus is
% imbibe his spirit. No man can be for
yiven until he wants forgiveness. Jesus,