The daily sentinel., 1903-05-25

life of man. The greatest and earliest
forth by religion-The Vedas, the sa-
cred poems of the Hindoos-the Zend-
Avesta, the sacred writings of the
Persians. The great world epic of the
| Greeks begins ''A-i-e, Thea. de boula
Dios et-e-lei-e-to. Sing. o goddess,
the fulfillmert of the will of God
Phidias and Praxiteles produced their
masterpieces of sculpture to adorn the
temples of their gods and the finest
piece of statuary that has escaped the
wreck of time was mans attempt to
carve goddess out of marble.
| Dante and Milton, Raphael and
Michael Angelo, Handel and Beetho-
ven have laid their best. a tribute at
the masters feet Five of the seven
wonders of the ancient world had to
do with the religious life of the peo-
pie and eleven of the twelve great
paintings of the world present reli-
gious subjects. 1t has continually
called men from the low in life to
that which is high and noble.
Young people of the class of 1908,
Time has bequeathed you his richest
| legacy. The past has poured its treas
ure of experience at your feet. God
calls you to the fullest. largest, rich
est life. He who was and is 1.-The
| life and the truth and the way off
ers to be your guide to the more
abundant life. Your love of ease may
promise you heaven with your dolls
and marbles but tho condition of its
being heaven is that you remain for
ever at the doll and marble age.
Hunger may tempt you to barter your
hirthright for mess of pottage and
your stomach promise you a heaven
| in living but to eat, but If heaven
| is in eating it were far happier to
have been born hog, and thus avoid
dyspepsia. 1.-The wages of sin is
DEATH 1.-The soul that sinneth, it
shall surely die Sin dwarfs the
soul and bars us from the larger life.
The drunkard. who once found pleas
ure in wife and child and home, in
| books and music. dies to all these as
life is narrowed to one long debauch.
Death comes from decaying powers
can we also not say that death results
from failure to develop to the limit
all our possibilities.
Until Christ came men had exhaust
ed every known means of expanding
| life and found no satisfaction. Alex
ander sought it in conquest and wept
1 world hrnr1rI1t i'm,
no peace. Lucullus sought it in
feasting but the costliest dainties ever
placed ON banquet table brought no
satisfaction even to his stomach.
Croesus sought 1t in riches and piled
| them so high that from that day to
this the strongest smile that one can
use is "Rich as Croesus' IF | were
king" we say. Nero was king and
Caligula, the first was suicide, the
last went mad.-but the martyrs of
the arena shouted as their life went
out i'll torture. II have found it. -
| Christ stands today as in that olden
time to offer YOU this more abundant
life. My son. my daughter. he
says again. "Give me thy heart. -
''Where it is now contracted with
selfishness l will take make it large
with love" p" ''Where now thy life is
circumscribed with petty cares and oc-
cupied with trifies. it shall be busted
with the enduring things of God and
bounded in its sympathies but by
the largest circumference of human
ne ed. - ''Give me thy life. Thy
will, still tethered to things outgrown
and weakened by its wayward ances-
try would, by indulgence, mar its
usefulness. but guided by my word
thy lips may sing in truth.
Build thee more stately mansions.
o my soul
While swift the seasons roll
Let each new temple, nobler than the
| last
Shut thee from heaven with dome
more vast
Leaving the outgrown shell, by life's
unretisng sea. -
AS Abraham in days long gone was
called from the Ur of Kaldees to that