The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-22
THE RICHMOND SUNDAY % 1905


visible spirit, there to repeat Its silent
or tumultuous miracle.
Look closer Mt the Individual life MARX
1 ia feeble beginnings; note It's RISE pro-
rress, action, influence, destiny. See how
ambition is foed how the victories over
thrown, how evil purposes come to a
cven degree, and Just when they are
about to assume all the honor and pride
Of conquest, they are turned bnck ana
overwhelmed in confusion.
See how the plans we thought the
wisest have been scattered and how
things we were least certain about have
| become the most energetic factors IN our
| lives. See what uses have been made OF
| little things, uninportant or unrccog-
nized tritles. Take all these facts into
your mind, and then let any man TRUTH
! fully say whether the whole is not guided
bv a wise mind, moulding, sustaining
| Hand.
| It IS not necessary to be able to answer
every question which may DO propounded,
| either In Ignorance or pride. Here, indeed,
4 Is great scope for what is called, WIN
! r. /.
proved modcsty, agnosticism. The humble
Christian does not care so much to know
| intellectually as to feel morally, lovingly,
! compnssionntely, or, In other words, TO
enjoy profound and frequently silent COM
munion with his God.
Great and many are the temptations
which lie along the purely intellectual
| lct1 n
their own conccit and arrogant or tlelr
power Yet in Gods sight mnd set pY
Hin above nll rulcrs) Is the broken ana
contritc heart tho meek and lowly spirit,
the doclle and modest mind. Nowhere IN
all the Bible is mere genius praised. God
| is not attracted by great intellectual
power or dazzling mental attninments.
| But again and again ESQ to speak) He
turns aside to linger with the contritc
in spirit, and to hold sweet fellowship
| with the broken in heart.
From eternity He bends down to hear
the prayer Of tho humble in spirit. and
has pledged Himself to hear their petition
Abide then, In tho station appointed
to you by God, and though It be not on
tho highest hill, nor in the full glare Of
public life, yet rest assured God will not
leave you without visitation and succor
and comfort.
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Another interesting point that Mr.
| Shaw made in that Charlottesville ha-
rangue was that success meant getting on
| iE the world and having a surplus to
show. Coming from the Secretary Of the
IfU. 8. Deficit this declaration was mag
unanimous indeed.
Mr.. Shaw's own Surplus Is all then,
but is entered in the wrong side OF the
ledger.
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! The Times-Register and Sentinel came
out last week In sixteen pages 10 the,
! paper. in order to tell the public about
the progress and prosperity of Salem.
The Creator has been very generous to
Salem and the people Of that community
arc not neglec,ng their opportunities.
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Judgment ought to be suspended on
Edward #Cunl,lfe until the full facts
are learned. It is highly likely that he
wanted to qualify himself for life
insurance presidency and merely took
that hundred thousand for the practice.
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The President, no doubt, felt amply
repaid for all the trouble and expense
of his Southern trip when lie sat and
heard himself personally addressed by
J John Temple Graves, the sllver-tongued
spokesman for Peachtree Street
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What q Conferedatc Roosevelt would
have made! And my! my! what man
he would have been If his father as we'll
as his mother, had been a southerner,
and he had been raised in the atnos-
phere OF Southern chlvalry.
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Secretary Shaw says that money
| grabbing Is not the whole show, thus
falling in line will, the we'll known
convictions OF John OF stand Hard OIL
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People affected with suicidal mean-
choly have given up buying arsenic and
Paris green, now that they have learned
| that football is both quicker and surcr.
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1 In Maine and the Adirondacks the
| open season for amateur deer hunters Is
now on. Every now and then a deer is
i shot, too.
l s9.tl#tksa+s ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS s#A
/ That rosy hue that pinks all Atlanta
this morning is merely Joel Chandler
Harris wearing the blush that won't
come off.
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i Virginia now holds the worlds record
for the equine high jump. That cold
snap proved a real weather boon to
| Hcatherbloom
1 The corporations want regulating, said
/ the President In Georgia. Nc will be-
lievc this statement when We see them
X come out and beg for 1t.
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