The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-29

est. Tho Three arc one indeed:

rest. The Three nre One Indeed.
The end OF human salvation Is nc
cess to the Father" This Is the first
truth OF religion. However men may
differ in definitions or belief of the Deity
of tho Son, and of the Holy Ghost, we
are all one about tho Deity of the
Father, God is Divine. God is God We
come from God and We go to God.
But4llow7 Man Is separated from God.
Thatfact Is made manifest In many sad
ways, and 1t stands written in the whole
history OF our race Where there was
mono to make intercession, the Son came
to tell OF His Fathers love, to live with
us, to die for us, SO that through Him we
have access to the Father"
AS the end was divine, 80 the method
is divine. AS It Is to God thai we come,
SO 1t Is God who brings us there. 1t can
be nothing else without dishonoring the
3tireless, duenchless love of God.
The soul Is a live thing. Everything
that Is doNe with it must be done In and
through~-lts own essential life. and the
whole capacity Of life Is there and the
power Of llfo enters in and uses 1t.
God Is the Divine Fatherland OF the
human soul, Christ Is like the embassy
(pnrt and parcel OF that Fatherland)
which comes out to win the colony back
from Its rebellion. and the Holy Spirit Is
the Fatherland awakened In the Maynard
colony's own soul. His Is the Spirit Of
newly living loyalty. When the colony
comes back, the power that brings 1t Is
the Fatherland in It, seeking Its own.
SO when the soul comes back to God.
It Is God in the soul that brings It. Wo
thus believe in the Divine power. One
with the Divine method and the Divine
end, in God the Spirit. one with the
Father and the Son.
Jehovah. Father, Spirit. Son!
mysterious God-head Three in One?
Before Thy throne we sinners bend.
Grade, pardon, life, to US extend"
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Yesterday we reproduced a paragraph
from the Petersburg Index-Appeal in crit
icism Of the declaration of Editor Henry
Watterson that 1.-The pert paragraph"
should be abolished. and recalling that
George d. Prentice, the editor under
whom Mr.. Watterson trained, was prob
ably the best paragraphist, as he was GER
tainly one OF the greatest editors, this
country has produced. Prentice was a
paragra phist both great and bold, and
some of his bright sayings were noto.
riously broad. He was also Il brilliant
punster, and one Of his famous puns, as
we'll as we can recall it, was as follows:
1.-The identity of the bold bandit who
recently robbed a man named Hood in
this community has not yet been estab-
lished, but there seems to be no doubt
that he was Robin Hood"
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In 1896 the Republicans selected st.
Louis as the city In which the National
Convention of the party should he held.
On May eth Of that year, a short time
before the convention met. St. Louis
was visited by one of the most disastrous
storms in our history. The cyclone swept
through portion of the city. destroy
Ing almost everything intits track and
causing the death Of something ike five
hundred people. The disaster was so ter
rifle that there was some talk OF
changing the meeting place of tho Re-
publicans. but the people of ST. Louis
and with their usual enterprise
made ready ana entertained tho conven-
ton as though nothing had happened.
THIS year the Democrats will hold their
In st. Louis. and there Is
now reason to believe that at that meet
ny n Democratic storm will lgather
which will sweep the Republican party
tut OF office.