The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-19
VALUE OF THE INDIVIDUAL
EEATURES OF 4 DISCOURSE THE
 RET. DIR. ". ". LEETE.

and Every OMe-Our Brave Men in the
 PhiIippines-God's MeasureIess Care
 for Humanity.
 Rev. w. w. Leete, D. D., pastor of
 the Dwight Place church, preached to
 large audiences both morning and even-
 ing yesterday. At the morning service
 his theme was "The Value of the Ind-
 vidual."
 His text was from Isaiah xl, 26: "He
 calleth them all by name" The ser
 mon was a most eloquent presentation
 of the love of God for individual man,
 and was well calculated to comfort and
 encourage every believer, It was in
 part as follows:
 Tn the early history of the world the
 multitude was lost sight of in some few
 individuals. Homer had much to say of
 Ajax Agamemnon and Ulysses but
 very little of the Grecian Hoplyte. The
 ancient world may be said to have en-
 phasized some individuals, but they
 must be peculiar kind of an individ-
 ual The individual had to be above
 the common man, to be cared for by the
 old world There is always danger that
 we will forget the one man and call him
 by name for after all our best thinking
 we may come to the same conclusion
 as the thoughtless barbarian. Material ism fails to think of the one man while thinking of the multitude of men. Man
 is produced out Of dust and returns to dust He is but little atom of the
 whole mechanism. His good seems to bring on a better day for some one in
 the future years. In politics we are in
 danger of forgetting the one man. The politician does not forget him. He knows
 the characteristic of each voter that he approaches But most of us count men
 in blocks and words and cities.
 "We want good to come to those dark races on the other side of the
 world, but we are sorry when we stop to think of it, of the mutitudes that are falling in the swamps, in the jungles, and in the fields of those islands We want the flag of this great republic to wave, not only over our own land, but to be recognized around the whole world But do we not forget these men who are every day falling down and dying in the midst of a heathen peo- pie? We forget that the man who is lying on the outpost fighting against these insurgents or rebels has a moth CT living in Nebraska, Minnesota, Mon tanna, Washington, or California, and that the boys life is very dear to that mother; We think of the country and forget these previous lives. We are deal- ing with the trusts; we are dealing with the corporations, but we are forgetting the one man. It is the individual man that is often forgotten. A senator was approached by Miss Julia Ward Howe about man and he said. 'I have so many engagements with the interests of the peoplevhat I can't stop to think of this one individual. The lady made this memorandum of the interview, when last heard from, the Almighty | had not reached this high altitude We | are in danger of forgetting the man.
 Tt is so in religion. We group men in religious statistics. We think of a church having so many members, as I | talked to you about before about so many members and so many families in | the Dwight Place church We are made ! glad as we have the best meetings and great revivals The masses of the peo- pie are considered but we read in the Scriptures There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth.' We have to see to it lest in our modern life we do not follow after the old world in for getting the individual.
 "There are so many people in the world that we think it cannot be true that God calls us all by name. There is very much to lead us to think that we are only little atoms in the great universe. Natural science opens up ev- cry bud and every leaf. God would not create all these things and yet not care for them This is the declaration of the Scriptures; this is the declaration of the Old Testiment; this the declaration of the New Testament, and I want you to stop this morning and try to realize it if you can, Comfort ye my people, saith your God. Just think for a mo- ment of what this Knowledge means as 1t is pictured here He calleth all of them by name This knowIedge we may apply to everything and to every person. You will notice how much diff serent this is from the knowledge man 1as. It is impossible for a man to Snow and name all things Man aids lis mind by knowing things by compar- son and by records. We group things ogether in order to know them Now, while it shows power of mind to do hese things, it also shows a weakness # man, for the Almighty as a perfect, complete mind does not thus need to group things in order to name them. n natural science we have our groups ut according to the absolutely perfect [ hind there is no need of grouping. We ake all of the flowers and put them l nto their places by the use of botany. We take butterfly and treat it in the anne way and we can by comparison ame this particular butterfly. If man z vas absolutely perfect, he would need 10 such classification. He calls them Il by name The stars as well as the title spider that weaves it's tiny web n our rooms. / T want you to think for a moment he way that Christ treated men. how ew were the multitudes that He smoke ); how few great crowds He taught. oW few great discourses He gave. But I te did go and talk to Nicodemus and le woman at the well; He did call Ma laniel; He did call Peter and He did Ill the disciples. Jesus worked for in I ividual men, He was here healing d lany diseases He did not heal a mass V