The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-10

synagogue" Look here. by Gennesaret's
enbayed shore, her pearl white strand, 1
stumble across cornices deliberately carved.
capitals wrought wondrously, inches AMI
shattered arch-ruins Of the house of Cod
this Roman captain built back yonder we'll
nigh nineteen centuries. All, me. And
Jesus preached therein! Hail, all hail.
10000 benevolences gathered in one patriot
ism climaxed epitomized!
TRUE PHILANTHROPY.
Who proceeds more philanthropically
than the church builder, Sabbath school
planter, Sabbath service supporter? Did
not Napoleon foresee no government could
endure without its citizenship betimes at
worship? Napoleonic religious Institutions
reared accordingly. Mention any financial
investment that viewed from beyond the
veil, will crafty you ceaselessly as dollars
in hospital walls and cots, dollars in Bibles
and Christly literature, strewn among mis-
sion stations. dollars in sanctuaries speak
ing Gods loving kindness unto mankind
after your voice is silent and your money
grasping hand in ashes How much sub
Inner that Capernaum synagogue looms up
when you realize the donors modesty! APP
himself-so signifies his Greek word hi
kanos; unfit he deemed himself in deepest
soul-so signifies his Greek word exiosa.
Sincere-no bid for halo.
Directly people observe you boasting,
like Nebuchadnezzar Wanting, 'Is not this
great Babylon that have built?" they are
quite willing to let you also go to grass.
Criterion of honest, self-examination, evil
rounds US, it is as if we be smitten with
self-disapproval. Job-like, moaning eye
seeth thee.
Enter dark room! air apparently clean.
Turn shutter slat-through sunshine's path
innumerable infinitesimal notes are wrest-
ling. Once st. Paul shook hands with him
self, remarking, Il suppose | was not one
whit behind the very chiefest apostles"
God turned his window Stat, sent trials, vic
tories. mightier baptism; then Paul wrote:
Unto me who am less than the least Of all
saints" Graduate him into sainthood and
on edge of paradise he subscribes himself.
Sinners Of whom l am chief
Follow Caesars march over western Eu-
| rope, Pompey's around Mediterranean,
Crassus's into Parthia, by desolation in
| hicted. Follow texts soldier sand
may yours thus be traced-by the mercies
| he bestowed. the flowers he set abloom-
Ing, the good he sOwed unto a harvest
where the field is human lives, the seed
| is words and deeds, the garnering our
! epochs end, the reapers angels. Descend
pit mile of depth, next crawl a crevice
| hours below that, afterWard claVe a
| crater of subterranean volcano and be-
| meath that inferno bury the Satanic sug-
gestion that magnificent opportunities to
serve fellow-mankind are past, none left
for you in your humdrum existence, over
weighted with disadvantages.
| Genius to love and look for humanitarian
roads eternity-long can blaze. Your
chance" golden on doors all over our cities
and country. Before you die and die. for
| Gods sake, for mans sake, let's do some
| thing to diminish our shame when we greet
unknown captain from Galilee, greet Sa-
vonarola, Florentine cOmmunitys benefac-
| tor, who wore the red hat of martyrdom in
| TO the celestial glory; Columbia, rescuer OF
| Scots and Picts and Irish; Anschar, deliv-
| erer of Sweden from barbaric bondage; Luz
| Their and Lincoln, Whittier, the poet eman-
! cipator; Garrison, the journalist emancipa-
tor; Wendell Phillips, the orator emancipa-
tor; John Brown, the emancipation forcing
the issue to crisis; Howard, prison puri-
| her; Nightingale, sweet angel of the hos
| pitals; Grace Darling, inspiration of life
savers; Horace Mann, benediction of the
schools; Cough and Frances Willard,
knightly defenders of our fresides against
alcoholism's assaults.
POWER OF FAITH.
Shall you be peoples favorite ?-Verily,
4 ariIx xuritn hair
their highest interests and appropriating
the Christ. Remember you Christ's pin
nacling faith with this captain ?-'I have
not found so great faith; no, not in Israel
AS the Magians ever studying stars
tracked the meteor to Bethlehem; as the
shepherds saw the bediamonded finger of
the sky point down at Jesus Manager era
die; Galilean fisher-folk met the Master
via boats and nets, each finding Him along
His line of work; thus the captain, accus-
toned TO camp and commands and absolute
obedience, conceived of Jesus generalissimo
| above the universe and disease and health
and mortal-kind all subject to His word, Il
also am a man set under authority having
under me soldiers, and l say unto one Go,
and he goeth, and to another, Come, and
| he cometh." Say in a word, and my ser
want shall be healed.
| Excellenty remarked a little nephew,
Praying is like swinging-you must help
| it along yourself" Do everything you can
and keep believing God and you are saved
| Most popular with the Almighty was that
centurion Welcome, yes, delicious would
be mems hatred if we had herewith God s
unfailing friendship. Be somebody Be a
| success. Trust. Try. God wants to do a big
thing by you.
No matter who, or where, or what you
| are, something akin TO God still stays and
signs for Him. Uncanny and yet enticing,
! sounds the sailors legend. telling how off
| Brittany's coast underneath the waves, an
ancient village lies overwhelmed, its church
| spires standing and ever and anon the mar
liner may hear bells ringing far down the
| water abyss. On to strike a bel-peal in
| your beings depths. the long-hidden sane
tuary within calling you to better self, to
| best self's God.
| Ring out the Old ring in the new,
| Ring out the false, ring In the true,
| Ring in the valiant man and free
| Ring in the Christ that is to be ="