The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-28

are picturesauely entrusted. The text is John viii, 32, "The truth shall make you free.'
 The word freedom has a charming sound Like unto an xylophone, each one of it's letters seems to be a golden bar. Like unto a silver throated trum- pet, it's voice sounds just as enchant- ing in the rich mans palace as in the peasants hut. Like unto the pheasant's call for it's mate it seems to recognize no government save the seepter of love. Like unto the aeolian harp, which emits its most thrilling notes when the wintry storms throb through it's strings, this word freedom never has a more plaintive melody than when 1t is uttered by be- ings who pine for it while they cringe under the lash of the taskmaster and spend their lives in the bondage of ty- rants at whose word they may have to die
 There have been orators whose tones were so penetrating and impressive that the words they uttered took a new and deeper meaning. It was said of George Whitefield the famous evangelist, that
 
 os that he could melt an audience into tears by the intonation he could throw into the word Mesopotamia. But 1t IS not by melodious tones that the word freedom reaches the heart most power fully, but by the heroic deeds of men who have suffered and died to win the blessing for thelr people It was thus ut tered by Spartacus. the Roman slave ana gladiator, when he led the insurrection fpc4 fba of fha CaERarS. and offered as a libation for that word his own blood, which was shed upon the battlefield of Silarius in Il B. C. We can hear it thus spoken in the clarion calls of a Bernardo O'Higgins, the great liberator of Chile, or of a Toussaint IL Ouverture fighting for the liberty of llai- ii, or of Maceo dying for Cuba, or or a Garibald struggling for the liberation of his beloved Italy.
 o freedom, thou art more than mere word Thou art a strong armed angel of light, breaking the shackles of the slave, unmuzzling the lips of the patriot lifting the shadow from the home. Un- der this benignant rule every mans abode | is his castle, surrounded, like the an cient fortresses of the old world, with the moat whose waters were impossible to the minions of a king. Thou art the
 messenger of God, who would place the coronation robes around every human shoulder Thou wouldst put the crown of gold upon every manly or womanly brow as thou dost say: Man, lift High thy forhead for thou art a king! Woman, God has made thy head resting place for a diadem which Is the equal ot the crown that l have placed upon thy nus bands brow" Yes, yes; no word in all the English language has more potent sound than that of freedom, for, as God gave to King Solomon, everything a prince could want because the young king had asked of him "wisdom' so ev- cry good thing in life is accessible to the earnest aspiring soul when freedom removes the barriers to it's flight
 What is Freedom?
 But as I began to study my text ask ed myself this important question: What is freedom?" Is 1t unbridled license? Does 1t practically say: Man, you are free; therefore you can do as you will, no matter what your desire may beY' Does 1t mean an emancipation proclama- ton which liberates from obedience to all law? When on Jan. 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln in the White House signed his name to the famous state paper which declared that all black men and black women under the stars and stripes are are and henceforth shall be free' 1t did not mean that the negro was set free to follow his own unbridled inclinations, but that he passed from under the con trol of his owner to be under the control of the same law that his owner himself has to obey.
 Freedom has it's limitations. We find those limitations In the physical the mental and the social as well as in the spiritual world. Biologists find them in the dumb brutes and in the vegetable and mineral kingdoms as well as in hu- man society. Thus my subject today, '''The limitations of liberty" offers wide scope for natural and spiritual investl- gation, and I shall endeavor to show that the only true freedom that the spir- itual man can enjoy is In the surrender of himself to the service of Christ. In becoming a servant of Christ. In taking his will as the law of our lives, we are set free from the dominion of sin and enjoy the glorious liberty of the children of God.
 The physical man is surrounded by lim- itatons which like impossible bars, re- strict him to a certain kind of life. If he tries to break out of the inclosure he bruises and batters his body against those bars am not now alluding to the penalties suffered by the glutton and the drunkard which are only too ob- vious There are penalties against over indulgence in legitimate courses. A man may so devote himself to his business or profession as to neglect the proper care of his body. He has to pay the penalty of overwork in premature ex- haustion and decreptude. A conspicuous illustration of the fact was in the con- cession which the great and brilliant Dr. Golding Bird made when he died from overwork at forty when he should have lived out his threescore years and ten. few months before his death he said to the famous surgeon Dr. Routine: ''Yes, you see me at a little over forty having a fine practice, making my sey- eral thousand pounds a year, but l am today d physical wreck. l have a fatal disease of the heart, the result of over work l cannot live many months, and my parting advice to you is this. Never mind at what loss take your annual six weeks holiday. It may delay your suc- cess but it will insure your development. Otherwise you may find yourself at my age a prosperous practitioner, but dy- ing old man..
 l am not here going into the details of the errors and the reasons why man should not abuse his physical organism. But I am here to state that as God limits the natural realms in which the fish can live, and the plants can live, and the creeping things, like the worms and the snakes can live, so God gives to man physical realm, and in that realm he must live. If he persists in going out of the realm he must die.
 An Airship Tour.
 step into the airship or Santos Du- mont that wonderful wizard of the air, The Brazilian aeronaut says: Where would you like to go? Would you like a sail over the waters of the Mediterra- mean? Would you like to view Paris | t.t fl1ot