The Penn's Grove record., 1904-08-19

hHhfaEfH IEf"NE HAfA a0ANHt MNN NHttfNrH ~
you would make q desert place bloom AZ
the rose, let Christ be Your teacher. Seek
FIRST the kingdom Of His righteousness aud
all these things shall be added unto VOC"
knowledge is power, A man may live
in a clod aud dream of paradise. or live
in paradise and dream Of a clod-wisdom
is the principal thing Many a slave un.
taught and u%nthinking has lived and died
IN the sight of the Pafthenon. knowledge
is greatness. knowledge always makes
the difference between Epictetus aud biz
lowly brother. knowledge Is power.
What IL knowledge How do we gain
knowledgei There sits Thomas Carlyle.
the lonesomest man In England. and one
of the poorest, feeding his shaggy intellect
on French revolution, storm of modern
ages. When he speaks we call him our
greatest prophet and scholar. And his
message is. II have found God ~reigning
among all peoples" He writes down for
us the laws of divine retribution which
run through the nation. Like the old
Scandinavian Titan that he is. he drinks
the liquid fire of divine wrath out of the
skull of persisted empire. And he smacked
his Puritan lips as though it was savory
wine. knowledge is finding out divine
laws. There is Charles Dickens. He is
not satisfied to meet people on the street
as we do and shake hands with them and
learn their names. But, looking into their
hearts and homes and haunts and sins
with sympathy, with pathos and with rar-
est humor, he writes his books. These
books become a sort of Bible Of the sub
merged tenth Of society, and in them we
find written down the great divine laws
which govern action and conduct and char
acter. He IS the poor mans prophet, be-
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 go,
Kepler became an astronomer. Seeking the
way the world was made. Wallace became
a scientist. Seeking the mysteries and Sc
crets of the human soul and Gods doing
therein. Kant became a philosopher. Seek
ing to find out how God wrought upon bu-
man nature, Shakespeare penetrated into
the soul depths of Iago, Hamlet. BESIDE
mona, Richard, Henry and Lear. and
transcribing into words what he found
written there, he has given us his great
dramas. Loi the dramas Of Shakespeare
are almost another book Of God in which
we find written the divine law of retribu
ton and forgiveness and sacrifice and re-
demption. Augustine comes and his one
word is law. but il Is the law of God.
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, but it is the love
of God. Save he bring us 4 word Of God,
the wisdom of the scholar ID foolishness.
Have you ever seen the shimmering Of
a lake when the sun was playing in its
surface? Have YOU seen the CLEANS OF sun.
light dancing like angels on the water!
You know the glory was IN the sun, not
in the water. The sun was the source; the
waters were clothed in a borrowed glory.
If you nave ever stood in a great valley
surrounded by 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 IS
God Almighty who speaks. 1t IS his glory
hat shines. There is a difference in men.
The difference between great men and lit
tie men always consist IN thls-the great
man is always listening for the voice Of
God. The little man is taken up with the
sound of his earthly on-going. The jews
heard a sound and said: ct Numbered"
Jesus standing with them knew 1T was an
angel that had spoken unto Hin" Wis
dom is revelation. There is no other way
if you would be a scholar, if you would
wear a scholars crown and have a schol'
ar's power, you must seek and know face
to face and to find out His ways, which
are above our ways, and His words. which
are above our words. Here is the prescrip-
ton for all scholarship: Seek first the
Kingdom of God and His righteousness
and all these things shall be added unto
YOU"
In every age men believe that fame can
be bought for a price, and so they tear
down their warehouses and build larger
So they multiply their fleets until theiI
white sails cover every sea; so they get FOL
themselves houses and lands and stocks
and bonds. When they die the market
drops down for a day or a week and then
the world goes on. You do not know the
names of any rich men in Athens or Rome
or Thebes or Babylon. You may know the
name of some orator or some scholar who
had wealth, but you do do not know the
name of any man who had nothing Dui
wealth. There was a man who laid the
foundation of his fortune in the days Of
the Stuarts. He was a powder manutac.
turer. He drove his coach and four and
lived in a palace. He built silken nests
for his children. He had been al ardent
Royalist, but when the Revolution came,
he said: There Is a tide in the affairs o.
men, which, if taken in its Hood, leads on
to fortune" And he cut off his powdered
| curls and left off his jeweled sword. De
even a psalms. He turned Puritan. he
| turned his back on the cathedral and went
| to worship In a Puritan conventlcle. He
had his reward. Ee got the contract fol
| making powder for Cromwells army anc
| became a multi-millionaire. And when the
restoration came he grew again, MS var
| Dyke beard, he again wore his velvet douo
| let, he again went to church with prayer
| book and crueifx. He even stood by and
aDplauded when CromwelPs bones were
hung up to dry on Tyburn Hill. He quick
w became a cavalier and he had his re.
ward. For lol Charles made him a Knight
of the Garter and he still had the contract
for making powder for the English Army
What was his name? You do not know.
Nobody knows. You cannot md It Writ
ten down in any book. But IN that same
time there was a poor man who was Q
puritan under the first Stuarts, who was a
| Puritan secretary of commonwealth un
der Cromwell, and who was a Puritan
hlind and moor. an exile threatened WIFI
his life under the returned Stuarts. he
had the men of a ready writer and the Stu
arts offered him gold to make the worse
/ appear the better side. He SAID: Nay
nav. | will live in hunger and VIII heaI
my children cry for bread, but 1 VIII MOI
sell my honor. | care not Tor parties. !
| strive only for the truth of the Kingdom
of God" And everything he ever sad IN
prose or in poetry Is still remembered. ms
name was John Milton, and every sehoo.
boy knows it by heart. Seek ilrst tAe
Kingdom of God and fame Will ind you
out. Always the pathway to greatness y
along the line of loyalty to the Kingdom
Seek the Kingdom of God, that is the
great thing. Any man who seeks wealth
for wealth's sake will always re poor,
though he be clad in purple; Any man
who seeks first and always the kingdom
Of God will be rich, whether he hive IN 2
garrett or a kings palace. It IS the law o.
the universe. They who love truth and
serve her, receive a true mans rewars3
houses and lands in the present time. ana
in the time to come, life eternal. Chang'
ing an old poem a little;
Then to side with truth is noble.
Though we share her wretched crust,
For her cause brings fame and profit,
And It's prosperous to be just.
Right Belief Necessary to Correct Action.
The philosophy that it does not matter
much what a man believes # he Is honest
in II fs q cpara and a deluSiOD Honesty