The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-04

eidental to conflicts with men and wo- men. too. of a different temperament than his own. his amiability and pa- tience have taken to themselves wings and he has degenerated into religious disturber. 4 spiritual unsayory fer mentation is proceeding in his religious makeup which can be seen and felt by thoughtfud observers. His life is not radiant with reflection from the Sun of Righteousness. He may excite or in- terest his hearers. but his message l lacks the edifying attractive power Of a well poised follower of the Master. The Methodist Episcopal church of the twentieth century is forceful illus tration of Wesley's conception of the power of the Christian church to pro mitigate the teachings of our blessed Lord.
 The tens of thousands of Methodist Episcopal churches are visible, signifi- cant monuments to the piety, wisdom and foresight of John Wesley. It would be unjust 70 the memory of the wonderful religious genius Of the eighteenth century if I did not state AiAcl JOAlh " SoACy HiONNos PANeASACAJ AAt ~ scriptural holiness.
 It would be profitable for every twen- tieth century professor of the doctrine of the second blessing ctifcation- perfect love-to study the life of John Wesley as an object lesson of lived ho- Illness. Would he not discover that real holiness is not always the profession of the ascension from the lower levels of l ordinary religious experience to the higher attitudes of spiritual delight, that 1t is not a beatific experience re sulting from the belief that the sin ba- cillI have been exterminated or that it does not manifest itself in a sudden dis turbing discharge of pent up religious steam or in vociferous, proftless, mean I, ingless exhortation or in the pessimis- tic whine os an impecunious conserva- tive. but in a life teening with graces sublime, forceftil even charity, benig- nifty, unselfishness, gratitude.
 Brother. sister, in the church. in the home, in the study, amidst the conflicts of commercial activity, the perplexities of the class room, the office or the fac tory, may holiness unto the Lord brighten, ennoble your life. May 1t be your key note of endeavor, your stay in the days of activity, your comfort amidst sorrow great or suffering severe, your security against the subtle infiu- ence of worldliness.
 When the look in your face, the ring of your voice, the snap of your words and the light in your eye betokens youth, vigor, life may holiness unto the Lord be by you loved. lived.
 When in the words of William Drum mond, of Hawthornden, you are com pelled to think on your home, my soul, and think aright, thy sun posts west ward, passed is thy morn. I pray that you may be comforted by the reflection that you have tried to live Holiness l unto the Lord.
 When you embark on an unknown sea. but blessed be God with a known pilot, may your departure be as peace ful as Hiawatha's.
 Tn the glories of the sunset. in the purple mists of evening" may you syl- lable a fond farewell to friends, lovers, all but immensely better may the con- sciousness of loved, felt, lived holiness unto the Lord be your passport -o the eternal shores, to the city the maker and builder of which is God.