The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-02

saying, "She is great church woman. She finds comfort in it, and I don't object" A lawyer said to me, when 1 Sunday morning came, Out of defer
 ence to my wife I suppose I ought to
 go to service" A New York business man said, Although l don't believe in religion myself there is something very 1 beautiful to me in the life of those who
 go about the hospitals and jails visit
 ing the sick and depraved." Of course you catch the drift of all these remarks. | The idea is that religion is all very well for women and children and crip- | ples and thieves, but that great strong | men, in the full possession of their senses, whose lives are free from gross | immoralities, ought to stand on their
 own feet, without the aid of cane or crutch. Let us see if this is true! The great dreamer in the book of Revela-
 tions, tells us that in heaven they all
 cast their crowns down at the feet of the Lamb. Is 1t not significant fact
 that of all those who did homage to the Lamb not one was without a crown? Show me man who is king
 among men, and I will show you one
 who kneels before the King of Kings
 It is the attitude of reverence that dis
 tinguishes the great man from the lit-
 tie man always and everywhere. Here
 Is young man studying medicine. Is
 he fllppant and conceted? Does he
 think of his profession as an opportu-
 nifty to display his talents? He will
 never be anything but a blunderer or
 quack. If he ever becomes a really
 great physician it will be when he
 stands in awe before all the mysteries
 of the human frame, and lays the
 crown of his genius down at the feet
 of his calling. Here is man elected
 to an office What will determine
 whether he become a politician or a
 statesman? If he thinks his country
 was made for him, he has started on
 the narrow path of the politician. If
 he thinks he was made for his country,
 he has entered the broad highway of
 the statesman All men are bondsar-
 wants. The difference between the slave and the prophet is simply this
 that one is the bondservant of man, and the other the bondservant of God
 One hastens his footsteps only when he hears the crack of the lash of the overseer; the other is up and on his journey at the slightest whispering of the voice of inspiration. One is chased through life by the lowest of all hu- man necessities--the wolf of hunger; the other is drawn through life by the highest of all human spirations-the power of faith. Between these two ex- tremes I grant you there is many a mean There Is the bondservant of | beauty, who gives his life to the l study of art There is the bondser- want of knowledge. who wears out his | strength In the cause of science. There is the bondservant of gold, who counts no sacrifice too great if 1t brings him | wealth, There is the bondservant of | fame, who longs to, have his name on | the lips of his fellow men But of all | this bundle of eager necessities and urgent desires which we call the Thu | man soul" there is no faculty greater | than the prophetic power of worship, | no desire lower than the brute longing | of appetite. All men are bondservants In the life of Abraham Lincoln there Is | no greater day than that in which he | stood on the battlefield of Gettysburg, and said, "We cannot dedicate, we can not consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have conse- ,rated it far beyond our power to add | or detract. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the un- finished work that they have thus far 10 nobly carried on" And there can De no nobler in the life of any man han that in which he comes into the ,hurch of Jesus Christ, saying T can lot consecrate, I cannot hallow, I can not patronize this place, The apostles ,f righteousness, the martyrs of truth,
 he cross-crowned hill of Cavalry have it far beyond my power to 'dd or to detract. It is for men to myself to the unfinished york which the Master has left for us lis servants to do'