The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-28
TWO NEW THEATRES
 TO WELLS CIRCUIT
JAKE WELLS PURCHASES HOUSES IN NEW ORLEANS AND NASH WILLIE, AND WILL PROBABLY GET ONE IN MEMPHIS.

Jake Wells has just added two theatres in other cities to his circuit They are New Orleans and Nashville, In both places the company of which he Is the head has bought locations and the work of rebuilding and fitting up for next sea son has commenced.
 Mir Wells Is in the city now making some arrangements about his houses next year He stated yesterday that he had bought the Wagner property in New Or leans situated at the corner of Iberville and Burgundy streets, and that s4OOOO would be spent on the place at once.
 In Nashville MT. Wells has purchased the old Grand opera house site which is located near the street car transfer sta tion and this Is being rebuilt. Both houses will be opened soon and will bo in- cluded in the Wells circuit.
 Mir Wells is also going to enter Mem phis, but he will not give out any state. ments as to his plans there. It IS said that he has purchased a slts and will have a modern and up-to-date theatre. -----~~-@------->---->-- -~----------~-------~---- been stressed, that if God make known His being and perfections it must be through the known term of human nature.
 lden Pointed to God.
 Men from the beginning had pointed their fellowmen to God; some had re- fiected, in their poor way, some phase of the divine nature; but never until the per feet man, Christ Jesus lived out his i'm maculate life, could one point to himself and say. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father Every man before Him was but the fraction of a man. The infinite perfections of the Godhead could be re- vealed only through perfect human na- ture. But that medium the world lacked and could never supply. By divine pro- nouncement there was none good no not one
 "The Incarnation required the concep- tion by the Holy Ghost of one who should realize the ideal perfection of human na- ture. in order that he might show men the Father In all the range and fullness of the divine perfection.
 Was and Is God.
 "He who thus took our human nature was and is the very God Tn the begin ming was the Word. and the Word was with God and the Word was God It is
 
 on anl other hypothesis than that He being a perfect man. was yet more than a man. In Him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. When I accept the supernatural person of Christ, his miracles I take as a matter of course.
 "The Incarnation not only shows us the Father-it shows us. too, the glorious possibilities of our human nature. Our Lord not only came down into the lowly uua Ire of ffo t.ba ha made flesh, but when He ascended, He took our poor, human nature up into the midst of the ineffable glory. What a marvellous transfguring and glorlfying power has the touch of life! The lowest order of life, in the plant. reaches down and touches the elements of the inorganic kingdom and lol mineral and chemical leap transhgured into the stately beauty of the lily. Animal life stoops and touches these same dead materials, and forthwith they flash in the irridescent splendor of the butterfy's wing and flame in the gold and scarlet of the birds plumage. The higher life of the intellect stoops to join itself with the gross material of it's earth ly tabernacle. and matter beams with inc glory of the human face divine If these lower levels of life have such mar ve1ous trans1gurng and glorifying power over the base earthly clements. what must await our human nature when touched by the quckening energzing. transforming life of Godl Everything lovely in this life Is in response to the love of God in Christ. Up from weak ness. degradation and sin. that divine power is ever lifting men and women into the beauty of saintliness. With all this, it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him. for we shall see Him as He is Our own hu- manity shall come to the mount of it's transiiguration
 Echo ding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, we are changed into the same image. from glory to glory. even as by the Spirit of the Lord The divine Spirit works in us. conforming us to the Christ mind and fashionlng us after the image of our one Exemnlar. One day we shall awake in His likeness and shall be sat- iqned