The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-14
BISHOP GALLOWAY
 TO THE GRADUATES
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fcient work done in the school room and the parents never know it.
 And the school is no place to pension in- competent people. Children in their char acters and destines are too priceless for you to throw away their childhod. I am glad, therefore. to say this and put honor upon the work that Is being done here in your school. Our Lord, l say, succeeded in this by the illustrativeness of His meth od He made everything talk. He gave an eloquent voice to everything in na- ture. He illustrated il so clearly that any brain could grasp it. You cannot look up al the stars al night without thinking of Him who is the star of Bethlehem. You cannot look at lily, gorgeously and glorously painted. without thinking of that lesson the Great Teacher made the lily teach. You cannot look at fig tree, blasted or not. without thinking of that lesson He made the fig tree teach. You cannot see a falling sparrow without thinking of that lesson ot providence He made the sparrow teach. You cannot stand on the shore or bank of any stream and listen to the ringing of It's liquid bells as it moves on to the river. and the river to- the sea, without thinking of what He said about the river of the water of life that flows for all so freely. He made everything talk. and gave 1t a voice more eloquent than that of any arohangle of heaven.
 The Wonderful Parables.
 Then the wonderful parables; great and marvellous pictures of real life. set before us SD Vividly and so luminously that we cannot fail to grasp their divine meaning Think of that parable of the prodigal son. Who has not wandered with that boy away from home and out into the wide world. and into the paths of sin and down 10 the depths into which he had gone, and has not heard his sad and bitter wall, and has not seen the tears flow down his cheeks and witnessed his confess sion and seen his homecoming? Why, the mistake it. 1 heard once of a young man who had become sceptical. He said he had gotten to point when he had an swered all the arguments in favor or Christanity had come to the point where he almost doubted the existence of God. He declared In his sceptical hour that he could write just as good a parable as the ones In the Bible. He was challenged, and accepted. and when he began to an- alyze the parable of the prodigal son he came to the conclusion that as work il was absolutely perfect and that no unin- spired brain could have produced it, and it led to lis profound conviction of the divinity of our Lord.
 haven't time today, of course, to take up the great doctrines He taught but will say that he was distinguished by the originality of his teachings, and he revealed to the world more clearly and luminously than ever before that great doctrine that distinguishes Christianity from al lthe religions of the world. the doctrine of the Fatherhood of God. Now my young friends 1t has been my privi- 1ege in the discharge of my official duties to see many of the countries of the world l have been in heather lands three or l China and Japan lowing down before the gods of their own making. l visited their heathen temples. Their religions know something about rules of living, about rewards and punishments, about author ity. about rulershlp, but no heather faith has any suggestion of the idea of Father hood that belongs to our Christian re- ligion; that our God who made us. Is our Lord wno redeems us. and our God who susiains us is our infinite. loving Father whose eye never slumbers or sleeps ir His Fatherly care over us. No other re- lgion has any such suggestion as that
 The great doctrine of faith is grounded upon the idea of omnipotence. Hence He reveals unto us the fact that the God We are to worship and trust has all power in His strong right arm; that He uttered His voice and the sun. moon and stars walked out on the plains of light; that He spoke and light itself sprang out of the bosom of eternal night: that the arm Of Christ was not palsied on the cross, but He goes further and teaches that not only has this mighty God all power, but He is also our Father.
 Power and Love.
 Now, while you cannot worship any thing less than all power you cannot worship power alone. 1t takes love- it takes sympathy. it takes the heart of Fatherhood. to command the real hom- age of the soul. and so he unveils his face n ns 1hnse great doct rinas