Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-25

olden times the warrior believed that
Istraining his sword gave strength to the
blade and knights bent .he.r trusty steel
across their knees. We should never
land in triumph at the haven of rest If
we were not tossed upon a sea of trou-
lie. If Joseph had not been Egypt's
slave he would not have been Egypt's
ruler. Christ, With his cross, is incon-
|ceivably better than Dives with his
Gainties. The aolian harp sends forth
its sweetest music when ,ouched by the
fiercest gale No man really knows
rents of life are favorable; When com
PEELED to row up stream, then he knows
his mette.
1.-The kingdom Of heaven is like leav-
en- which woman took and hid in three
measures of meal till The whole was
leavened.' The introduction of some
thing from without prepared the meal
for the oven and then for family use.
Whatever may be your moral growth
and intellectual reach the will needs
undergirding and the judgment en-
lightenment All that a man may make
Of himself is still defective if he neg
lect Jesus, the Master. The young ruler
coming to Jesus had wrought out an
admirable character TIE master loved
him; loved him for his sincerity, frank
ness and aspiration. But he would not
receive from the master what he lacked.
and went away sorrowful. To obey the
master is the root of all true nobility of
mind and practice. Availability and pure
morals are. of course, Sc much religion
themselves. but without frank loyalty
to God in addition they are only the
virtues of heathenism, and not of Chris
tianity.
The master appropriated will direct
social drift. Such as do not contribute
to ones moral advance will be passed,
truly estimated for their worth, but not
loved.
LAS a force that makes for righteous
ness nothing is comparable to the mas
tcr's own personality. He declared that
Il lifted up he would draw all men unto
him. A missionary says that in his
church in New Guinea some of his SEN
ior deacons We're erstwhile cannibals.
You could find similar trophies in the
New Hebrides. Think wkat that state
ment means--former cannibals now So
Der, reverent, dignified servants of God.
What made them SUCH Their own
Will?
.Do you remember the story of Dan
ties portrait which is painted upon the
walls of a building in Florence? When
Dante was driven forth by this most
unloving mother, whose breasts were
granite and whose kiss was frost, the
covered the portrait with
whitewash. and in the following years
the building was turned to other uses
AS men came and went the picture
PASSED from their memory only to be
by few who had heard older
men speak of it. But presently came
the artist, bent on searching until the
portrait was found. He went to the
building where some thought II was,
and the room was used for the stor-
age of lumber and straw. The walls
were covered with a grlny whitewash
He had the rubbish carried away and
began the removal of the whitwash.
Lines and colos long hidden began to
reappear; and soon the gave. lofty, no.
bile face of the great poet looked out
once more upon men. Wonderful tho
the rediscovery of this Portrait may be-
it is surpassed by the work Christ came
to do for every youth listening TO me
tonight He knows the image is there
and seeks it as the shepherd sought his
lost sheep, as the woman her lost coin.
Found of him, the youth has not only
his Savior but his Master. for no statue
ever carved. no picture ever painted is I!
1T all comparable in beauty with the
Christ made man."