The Yale expositor., 1901-11-01

what wide, far-reaching influence for
good or evil we have all exerted. / am
speaking of ourselves, who are only
ordinary people. But who can fully
appreciate the far-reaching good done
by men of wealth in Great Britain for
the working classes-Mr. Lister OF
Bradford, Edward Akroyd of Halifax,
Thomas Skies of Huddersfield, Joseph
Wentworth and Josiah Mason and Sir
Titus Salt? This last great soul, with
his vast wealth, provided 1855 houses
at cheap rent for 5000 working people
and chapel and cricket ground and
croquet lawn and concert hall and
savings bank where they might depos-
it some of their earnings and life in
surance for those who looked further
ahead and bathing houses and parks
and museums and lecture halls with
philosophical apparatus, the generous
example of those men of a previous
generation being copied in many
places in Canada and the United
States, making life, which would
otherwise be prolonged drudgery, an
inspiration and a joy.
At Dunfermline, Scotland, is a
stone house, the room on the second
floor twelve feet by fourteen in size.
The annual rent of this room years
ago was $780, That was the one room
in which the father and mother of
Andrew Carnegie lived with the whole
family. Influences were started there
which made Andrew Carnegie the
most distinguished philanthropist Of
all time, and what his gifts of great
libraries on both sides the sea will do
for the coming generations l do not
think any angel of God would have
enough capacity to calculate Who
could bind the sweet influences of that
Pleiades?
Influence of other Worlds.
Notice also in my text the influence
of other worlds upon this world. We
all regard the effect which our CONT
nent has upon other continents or one
hemisphere upon the other hemi-
sphere. Great harvest or drought on
one side of our world affects the other
side of our world. A panic in
Wall street, New York, has its echo
in Lombard street and the bourse.
The nations of the earth cable
] grammed together all feel the same
! thrill of delight or shock of woe. But
we do not appreciate the influence OF
other worlds upon our world. The
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consideration. 1t takes all the worlds
of known and unknown astronomy tC
keep our world in its orbit, every
world dependent on other worlds The
stellar existence is felt all through the
/ heavens. Every constellation is sis
terhood. Our planet feels the bene'
diction of Alcyone and all the Other
stars of the Pleiades. Yea, there are
two other worlds that decide the fate
Of our world, its redemption or its de-
molition. These two worlds are the
headquarters of angelology and dem
| onology. From the one world came
| Christ, come ministering spirits, come
all gracious influences. From thu
other world rise all satanic and dia
bolic influence. From that world o
moral night rose the power tina
wrecked our poor world 5000 years
ago, and all the good work done since
then has not been able to get ou
world out of the breakers. But thu
signals of distress have been holsteC
and the life lines are out, and ou
worlds release is certain. The gooC
influences of the consecrated people il
our world will be centupled by tn
help from the heavenly world, and tn
divine power will overcome the de
moniac. o man, o woman, expan'
your idea and know the magnitude o
contest in which three worlds ar
specially interested. From all tn
seven worlds which my text calls tn
Pleiades there come no such powerful
influences as from the two world
that l am now mentioning. My onl
hope for this world is in the re
enforcement that is to come from an
other world. But that is promised
and so I feel as sure of the ratification
of all evil as though looking out c
my window today l saw the parks an
the gardens Towering into anothe
paradise and the apocalyptic angt
flying through the mist of heave
with the news that the kingdoms c
this world have become the kingdom
of our Lord.
The wife's Influence.
Not sufficiently do we recognize til
! sweet influence of the wife. We me
are of rougher mold, and our voice
loud, and our manners need to
tanned, and gentleness is not as muc
of a characteristic as it ought to b
and we often say things we ought
e take back II is to change this tia
r the good wife comes in. The interes
d of the twain are identical. That whic
e from outsiders would be. considers
n criticism and to be resented sbecom'
Y kindly suggestion, sweet influence
J, that make us better men than
t otherwise would have been or cou