The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-13

forgotten, but the student that for several years lives under the shadow of such a soul will ever after, when hard pressed. crawl back and nestle there, and that soul will be to him as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place; as the shadow of q great rock in a weary land.' "Second--Keep the atmosphere of the school warm with religious aspira- ti6n and devotion. We are all largely
 social outcomes--creatures of sugges- tion. The mind always tends to act out the~impulses that come from the atmosphere in which we live. It is hard to be heroic except among he- roes.' Any amount of right teaching | can be enumerated by influences that none can exactly locate, though every body feels them. Even education by Christian men may not be Christian | edueation.
 "Third-Provide for non-seetarian l non-dogmatic religious instruction. And above all preach religion. Deer
 beneath all the other hungers in ths | hearts you touch is an abiding yearn- | ing for knowledge of God, for the com. | munion with Him which alone car quiet the restless spirit, quench the deepest thirst and bring peace at even tide.
 | "Creeds change: | All outward forms | Recast themselves. l Sacred groves. temples and churches Rise and rot and fall. l Races and nations And the various tongues of men Come and so and are Recorded. numbered, l And forgotten in the repetition And the drift
 Of many ages. "f--- All outward circumstances May be different, But there lives no man Nor ever lived one Who in the silence of his heart Feeling his need Has not cried out Shaping some prayer To the unchanging God" These souls would rather hear Ills voice in yours, see Him in your faces and feel the thrills of his spirit in your spirits than to get anything else you have. But you cannot carry this
 to them unless you have it in your in-
 nermost life. Your spirit is your in-
 visible sample case where you carry
 the things you think most worthwhile
 and wherever you go these sample | dTO uHCoHSCAOusAS SApWh SS0h AStAo" | men.
 | VIII they find these samples satisfy ing. Do you ask what samples a man
 ought to carry in this inner case? They
 can be summed up in two words-com- munion, and character; communion with God and character growing out of
 this and worthy of it. These samples
 will not only feed soul hungers, but
 will create new and deeper hungers You are in short. travelling for another
 house If you are worthy drummers. a
 house not made with hands, eternal in
 the heavens.
 | 'Tf you have the samples of this | house, and handle them well. when all
 the other goods you sell have perished
 there will be an ever increasing number of glad and grateful hearts whom you have introduced to there unfailing riches.
 Gentlemen you are homeless wan derers over the face of the earth, gem erally strangers in a strange land, far | from those you love, sometimes out of | reach, called back only to stand with | quivering hearts over the fresh made grave. But remember. will you? that 1 you can never wander beyond the reach of the Fathers changeless love, saving forever. and abiding presence. and when at last your season is over and you pack your sample case and
 start on the lone journey on. which no foot turns back may you be greeted
 at the end by randsomed thousands to
 whom you preached as you went"