The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-01-04

go, show yourselves unto the priests.
and 1t came to pass as they went they
were cleansed." The same Saviour, by a
few words, cleanses the two helpless wo-
men in the same way as John Bunyan de-
picted him as saving Christian at the
cross, when he wrote: so l saw in my
dream that just as Christian came up
with the cross his burden loosed from off
his shoulders and fell from off his back
and began to tumble, and so continued to
do until it came to the mouth of the
sepulcher, where 1t fell in, and l saw it
no more. Then was Christian glad and
lithesome and said with a merry heart,
He hath given me rest by his sorrow
and life by his DEATH" We can be
saved in the story of life as David was
saved when he cried out in rapture,
God is our refuge and strength, very
present help in trouble" Thus 1t remains
with us, and with us alone, whether or no
in our story of life we will take Jesus
Christ to be our Saviour our Redeemer,
our Divine Rescuer. 1t rests with us
whether the dying year of 1902 shall be a
mournful guide to lead us into Dante s
Inferno or a Gods messenger to lead
us into a Millions Paradise Regained"
Always a Finished Tale.
tale. In the British national gallery are a
few of the unfinished pictures of Turner,
the famous English landscape painter.
While the great artist, whom John Rusk-
In admired so much. was working upon
those canvases the death angel entered
his studio and called him away. In the
world of story telling we find many I'M
finished tales. Charles Dickens fingers
began to stiffen in death when he was In
the midst of writing his novel Edwin
Brood Another author has tried TO
finish the great masters work. but has
not been able to make success of It,.
Sometimes the authors purposely leave
their stories unfinished A new school of
writers has lately sprung up who have
tried to initiate Frank Stockton In ''Ihe
Lady or the Tiger" These authors or
story tellers work their readers up to an
intense pitch of excitement. Then they
suddenly close their stories. They leave
their readers to work out the solution as
they please. Frank Stockton declared
that for years he received hundreds of
letters asking him to solve the problem
of that story But" said he, II am just
as much in doubt how that book should
end.las any of my readers 1t was be-
cause / could not decide whether the
young girl was willing to destroy or save
her lover tnaL cedStu WlltiHb'
Fictitious stories are often unfinished,
but the human tales about which the
psalmist wrote are always ultimately fin
ished tales These biographies may lead
many of us through the school room to
the marriage altar. They may lead us
to great honors in life, but they will al
ways lead every one of us to the grave
When the epitaphs have been inscribed
upon our tombstones. what has been
done will be done forever, what has
been left undone will be left undone for
ever. The story of mortal life will then
be ended The earthly covers of the
volume will be forever closed. We have
often heard of aged authors recasting
and rewriting the stories they had writ
ten In their youth The publishers of the
"Reveries of a Bachelor asked Ats au-
thor to rewrite his most famous book
They asked him to rewrite 1t long after
Tx Marvel had ceased to be a bachelor
and when he had wife and a crowded
nursery of his own. But the tale of hui
man life after 1t has once been finished
can never be recast We have heard how
one of the sweetest and purest poets of
the west at great expense gathered up
some vicious and impure stories which
he had written when he was a college
boy. He gathered them up to destroy
them But when the human tale of life
has been once told 1t can never be ST.
fenced. 1t shall be told and retold again