The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-05-17
REALITIES OF | f
Sermon of Rev. Frank Crane, of the
Peoples Church, Chicago.
He Says Ia City 10 Composed of
Ghosts-TelIs What Constitutes
the Real Things-Au Visible
Things Are hut Signs.

tues he took for his text the fol-
lowing:
For we look not at the things which are
seen, but at the things which are not seen;
Tor the things which are seen are temporal
out the things which are not seen are eter-
nall. Cor. AIS.
Have you ever seen a city? Have you
ever seen the great city of ChicagoP
As you enter it upon the railway train
you behold miles and miles of cars
standing upon interminable tracks
that cover the earth like strands of a
gigantic cobweb; you behold huge
grain elevators, modern pyramids to
the glory of commerce.; factories,
whose myriad windows make them
looklike thousand-eyed monsters. You
walk the streets and gaze up at great
Office buildings, each containing a
restless cityful of people. You listen
to the din in the streets, the rush OF
elevated trains, the clang of cable cars,
the rattle of wagons, the inchoate cry
of newsboys and vendors, all melting
into a mighty roar as of a huge cata-
ract But-have you seen the city?
No! for the city is composed essen
TALLY of ghosts, invisible, intangible,
soundless. The city is the wrestling
place of souls. If you could see them!
They r hoping, fearing. praying;
some are drowning their tattered SEN
sibilities in wine; some are growing
straight, sweet, fragrant as a lily;
some of them have faces like horrid
devilfish, movingin fierce ugliness; they
are despgiring. rejoicing. If you could
see these invisible flames Ve call souls
goT would perceive them running to-
gethor sometimes in strange mixture
of fires making c0nlagrations We call
a panic. q strike, q revival Of religion.
You read in this Bible that no man
hath seen God at any time: ! say unto
you that no man hath seer a city at
any time. For the reality is always in
visible, silent.
Have You ever seen a home? Yonder
is a house that is called a home. Its
walls are of granite, there are French
windows. Persian rugs, lace curtains,
food imported from every cline, beds
OF carved mahogany, draped with silk
and spread with fine linen. Do these
things constitute a home? No; for /
have been in the parlor and found it a
human cold storage vault; in the din
sng-room the inmates poison them
selves day after day upon suspicion and
estrangement; in the beautiful beds
all night long there toss w~retched
creatures who look now at the ghost
of dead desire grinning at the head Of
the bed, and now look and listen at the
raven of despoiled love that sits and
croaks at the foot Of the bed.
Where is the real home? II is where
hearts ease is. 1t is not where we Law
off our clothes, but where we Law of
sur cares. The walls of realbome are
not built of granite hrt Of +rutb md
loyalty. UNPLEASANT sounds tbe fric-
ZION Of living, are not deadened bv rpos
laid on Dolisbed floors Int nv forbear.
snce. by p~atience. The curtains that
screen the sacred household rods from
the eyes of the curious are not of lace
they are woven OF discretion The
food in the real home is not meat and
drink, but unselfshness and thought
~fulness; these sustain love. The bed is
not prepared with down and damask.
but with "a conscience void of offense
toward God and toward man" The
light of the real home is not the sun
by day nor the electric globe by night.
but it is love. shining always in dear
eyes burning always in true hearts.
clear and lambent. unextinpuisbed bv
any gusts Of passion or misfortune.
Peace and security are not there he
cause of an insurance policy. but be-
aus Of 4 simple faith in the rood God
who watches over Israel and neither
slumbers nor sleeps. You cannot see
this kind Of a home unless YOU look
at the things which are not seen and
are eternal.
Did you ever see a man? MANY n
specimen Of the genus homo. Carlvle's
forked radish. walks about who is not
a a IT takes more than whiskers
and clothes to make a man. If YOU
would make a man upon Gods plan
you must first take, as the fundament-
al ingredient. courage: courage to do
his work faithfully. through all dis