The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-11-16
THREE GREAT Lines
TRIPLE CURRENTS THAT CALL
FOR ALL ACTIVITIES OF
PERFECT MAN.
The Masterpiece of the Ases-Specia'
Object of Divine Care and
Love.

Rev Wilmot Whitfield, pastor of the
First Methodist Episcopal church de-
livered a very able sermon at his
church Sunday in the presence of a
large congregation. He chose as his
text, What is Man," In part the
reverend gentleman said:
Some one has said the proper study
of mankind is man" He might have
added that to properly study man IS
to study all things, for all things con-
verge in man.
There are three great lines of activ-
ity in the world The first is the Sc
curing of food. A vast army of men
till the soil, and another, explores the
seas, lakes and rivers. and a third
tramps through forests and across
prairies, in search of food. To pre-
pare the way for them, man must go
to the mines and delve for ore, to be
carried to the smelteS and the furnaces
and workshops, to be converted into
implements with which to fell the for
eSts to Overturn the soil and to ScOur
the seas. And then to transport food,
ships must be built and railroads and
trains constructed, warehouses and de-
pots erected, and these call for lumber
from the forests and iron from the
mines and men from the fields. Ships
are floating, cars are rolling and carts
l. ~
to meet the great demand for food.
Millions of vegetables, millions of
fruit, millions of fish, birds and beasts
are constantly passing down the great
red pathway, to satisfy the hunger
cry. AS the mob crowded around the
palace of the French king and cried,
Bread. Bread, Breadth" so the
great crowd, mankind encircles the
earth and crys, Food. Food!." And
why this great call for "food?" Is it
simply that the taste may be pleased
and appetite satisfied? No, It is that
this food may be converted into a
great red fluid which we call blood. to
be used in building up and repairing
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in other words to keep the body of
man in working tune so that the
nerves may evolve ideas and thoughts
and that the muscles may crystalize
these ideas and thoughts into things
of beauty, grandeur and power.
The second line of human activity
builds schools, colleges and UNIVERSE
ties, and sets pencils and brushes a
moving, pens flying and printing
presses a rolling, and factories buzz
zing. Add to this thought of the
workmen with hammer, saw and
troWel, a great multitude, and labor
with pick-axe, and shovel another
crowd, and teamsters with horse and
mule, not few. And then think of
the great army of teachers, artists,
artisans, writer's, authors. printers,
binders, etc; and see how large is this
field of operation And what is it all
for? Just to furnish amusement or
something to do? No. But it is to
produce another great life-current es-
sential to the we'll being of man.
called thought. The thought current
may be called grey, for it originates in
the grey cells of the brain and flows on
in the twilight of the soul.
The third line of activity finds its
representative in chapeIs, churches
and cathedrals with their mosatcs.
sculpture and domes And the vast
army of priests. preachers. and pastors
who serve at the affairs. Enlarge the
thought by including all that is trib-
utary to this work and you have an
ever widening stream of affairs. And
what is all this for? Is it simply for
pastime? No, \ thousand times no,
This is to pander to the third great
current essential to mans elevation
and Well-being. The white current of
purity through which or along which
man sees God and becomes allied with
the eternal, Blessed are the pure in
heart for they shall see God says Je-
sus This is spiritual life.
These three currents. the red. grey,
and white, call for all the activities of
man and they all eliminate in max
ing the perfect man. The man who is
the son of God. What is
man, then? We assume man is a
three-fold being composed of body.
soul, spirit. When all three of these
are developed to their highest possible
attachments we have a perfect man
and a perfect man is the greatest work
of God The masterpiece of the ages.
The special object of the divine care
and love. The work of Christ in the
world is to break away letters that
hampers man. and to lead him on to
sonship to God.
Whatever is, is right" says Pope.
So a woman must be right when she