Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-12

of Ours.)
HE reads much:
He is a great observer. anG he looks
Quite through the deeds of men,
Julius Caesar
Piercing through to the dividing asun-
der OF soul and spirit, bone and mar
row.'-St. Paul.
The unwritten history of men is the
great works that are found on the face
of the earth: The Pyramids of Egypt, the
ruins Of Thebes and Palmyra; the build
ings, the bridges, the viaducts, and roads;
the statues, the paintings, the noun
ments-later on, the monasteries and ca
thedrals. These tell of the minds and
hearts, Of the souls of the men who con-
ceived and accomplished them; and of
those for whose qualification they were
made. They are, on a large scale, foot
steps on the sands Of time, grand records
OF passing conditions. They indicate
forms of civilzatio arising and making
the way for those still higher
Our age is full Of the great factors and
testimonies Of rising humanity; of en-
larging human light and energy and
power, and of religious life. But in place
OF great piles and great works of art
OF Nature-new forces, new power, new
knowledge of the ways Of the Almighty;
new possibilities of man. new light, and
higher levels and conditions of life. The
likeness and sonship of man to the Great
Original is being made manifest.
Roentgen rays are style of penetrating
and irresistible light for the physical and
outside world, a counterpart, a collateral,
mirror of the workings and conditions
of the inner man, the heart and mind
which make the soul Of man.
Inc diffusion OF the Holy Scriptures
was discovery and scattering of light
over all mankind. Heathenis.n was large
ly mere physical man. Old philosophers
and moralists showed mankind in the
rough, with indications of the divine
made for divineness, but without it. So
great men among them could deal WITH
infants and women and old people as
they would deal with beasts. The light
OF heathenism was brutal darkness.
The present Messiah the Son of Right
eousness. with healing in His wings dis
played q new era. It's Roentgen rays
have explored and exposed the deepest
mysteries of our nature and found and
brought to light the immediate
jewels of the soul, its divine possibilities.
Roentgen rays tell of the piercing and ir-
resstible light OF Christianity; of wisdom
as told of in the book of Job. and in the
proverbs of Solomon. And these same rays
tell of the general light and knowledge
that chara cterizes the age we live in. The
printing press, through books, and maya
zines, and daily papers exposes the
thoughts and intents of the heart. The |
newsboys, and carlcaturists, and ko--i
daks leave nothing hidden. The age al
lows no concaalments. There is nothing
hid that does not quickly come to the
light to be made manifest. A thousand
instrumentalities hold q thousand mir
rors up to nature to show the world and |
ourselves what we are and what we are |
doing and what we are after.
A fairly sensible and cultivated person
does not gaze idly and like an idiot at |
men and things, but he looks inteiigently |
and sensibly, and will put things together. |
He wants to know the significance of |
things: what is meant by the presence
and the acts and the clothing and the
words Of people Common sense tears OF
aasks and cloaks, and insists upon seeing
things as they are, and measuring by |
rue and honest standars OF value.
Roentgen rays and live wires are the
taniliars Of our day and parts of our
life.
The divineness of the light OF our day
s the manifestation and establishment I
If true standards of value in everything
n material things, in character, IN hui
nan happiness and life.