The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-09-01

in which he sells the grapes to the house
wife. And the King begins to pay his
men in debased coin. and honesty and in
tegrity and justice are being eNtermlnat-
ed. and there is growing up peop.e w!th
lying King and lying merchants and faisc
words. The old prophet rises in his anger
and says: ga false measure is an aoon,-
nation unto the Lord Any fa'sehood IN
commerce at last poisons the very tonn-
dation OF civilization: The city and the
nation and the Individual man who have
forgotten God and His laws do not stand
for long time in the world of commerce:
h. The laws of wealth are the laws OF
Righteousness. If you would become rich:
If Won would attain prosperity. II YOU Wouid
multiply houses and lands and banks, If
YOU would make desert place, bloom as
the rose. let Christ ue your teacher. Seek
first the kingdom OF His righteousness and
all these things shall be added unto YOU.
What is Knowledge? low Go we gain
knowledge? There sits Thomas Carlyle.
the lonesomest man in England. and one
on French revolution. storm Of modern
ages. When he speaks we call hin, our
greatest prophet and scholar. And his
message IS: Il have found God reigning
among all peop,es.' He writes down for
us the laws of divine retribrt!on which
run through. the nation. Like. tine old
Scandinavian Titan that he Is. he drinks
the liquid fire OF divine wrath out OF the
skull of pcrished empire. Ana he smacNeo
his Puritan lips as though 1t was 'savory
wine. knowledge IS finding out divine
laws. There is Charles Dickens; ne ls
not satisfied to meet people on the strecG
as we do and shake hands with them ana
learn their names. But. looking into their
hearts and homes and haunts, and SINS
with sympathy, with pathos ard with rar-
est humor, he writes his books. These
books become a sort of Bible of the sub
merged tenth OF eociety, and in them we
find written down the grea: divine laws
which govern action and conduct ana cnar-
acter. He is the poor mans prophet, ne
cause he found on the heart of the poor
man the handwriting of God. All knoWi-
edge is revelation.
Seeking the way God made the stars 60.
kepler became an astronomer. Seeking the
wav the world was made. Wallace became
scientist. Seeking the mysteries and Sc
crets of the human soul and God dong
therein. Kant became a philosopher. Seek
ing TO find out how God wrought upon hu-
man nature, Shakespeare penetratcd INTO
the soul depths of Iago, Ham.et, Desde,
mona. Richard, Henry and Lear. and
transcribing into words what ne touno
written there, he has given us hls great
dramas. Lo! the dramas of Shakespeare
are almost another book OF God IN when
we find written the divine law of retr,bu'
ton and forgiveness and sacrifice and re-
dcnption. Augustine comes and his one
word is law. but it is the law OF Goo.
Browning comes and his one word IS IN
spiration. but it is the inspiration OF God;
And Beecher and Phillips Brooks come and
their one word is love, bat 1t IS the love
Of God. Save he bring us word OF ooo,
the wisdom of the scholar Is foollshness..
Have YOU ever seen the shlmmerlng or
a lake when the sun was playing IN lts
surface? Have you seen the CLEANS OF s''no
light dancing like angels on the water:
You know the glory was IN the sun, noe
in the water. The sun was the source; the
waters were clothed in borrowed glory.
II YOU have ever stood in great valley
surrounded bv mountains, and heard the
echoes repeated from mount to mount
some loud, some soft. some distant. some
near at hand, you know the voice was not
in the mountains. The mountains only
carried the voice. So great scholars are
only waters and mountain peak. 1t u
God Almighty who speaks: IT IS his glory
that shines. There is difference IN men. en-
The difference between great men ana nt'
tie men always consist in this--the greae
man is always listening for the voice OF
God. The little man is taken up Win the
sound of his earthly on-going. The jews
heard a sound and said: 1T thundered.
.Iesus standing with them knew lit was an
angel that had spoken unto Him WIS
dn1o is revelation. There is nc other way
il you would be scholar; II you Wonid
wear a scholars crown and have schol-
ar's power. YOU mus: seek and know face
to face and to find out His ways, winch
are above our ways, and His words. which
are above our words, Here IS :he Prescsip'
ton for all scholarship: seek hrst tne
Kingdom of God and His righteousness
and iii these thincs shall be added unto
YOU"
In every age men believe that fame ca. can
be bought for a price, and so they tear
So;rn their warehouses and build larger.
So thev multiply their fleets Until their
White sails cove. every sea; so'they get TOR
themselves houses and lands and STOCKS
and bonds. When they die the market
drops down for day or a week and tnen
the world goes on. You do not know the
names OF any rich men in Athens OF Rome
or Thebes or Babylon. You may, know the
name of some orator or sorle schoiar VINO
had wealth, but you do DO not kno" the
name of any man who he'd notn:ng pue
wealth. There was mar! VINO laid tne
tOunQaGlOn OIL Ills OlluAAS 49, >>
the Stuarts. He was a powder manu1ac;,
turcr. He drove his coach, aod tour ana
lived in a palace. He bu:it sliken nests
for his children. He had been an ardent
Rovalist, but when the Revolution. came,
he said: "There is tide in the affairs OF
men. which, ii taken in its flood. leads on
to fortune" And he cut off his powdered
curls and left of his ieweled sword. He
even sang psalms. He turned Puritan. ne
tr-.ed his back on the catheiIal and "e41
to worship, in a Puritan convsntlcie. ne
had his reward. He got the contract lo5
making powder for Cromwcls army ana
became multi-millionaire. And when tine
restoration came he grew again, his van
DYKE b.ard, he again wore bis velvet douo.
lei he ags.e went to church with prayer
hook and c:ucifx. He even stood by ana
annlauded when Cromve.tns bones were
hun~ W. t., dry on TyDarn Hill. he quick
" beams a cavalier and IL; had his re-
ward. For 10! Charles. made ham Nnlgnt
Of The Garter and he still Eal the contract
for maxim" powder for the Enghsh army
Wba* w-s. bis name? Ycu DO not know.
Nobody knows. You cannot find 1t WITT
ten iowa in any book. Bat IN that same
time there was a poor nan VINO was q
Puritan under the first S.uarts, WHO was
Puritan secretary OF ccElmonWea,th ui,