The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-04

grand results. The correlation of forces
and the polarization of light have car
ried us to sublime OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
affected an imaginative race like poetic
inspirations. We have been taught to
tread Familiarity on giddy heights OF
thought. and to wont ourselves to daring
conjectures The narrow sectarian cannoi
read astronomy with impunity. The creed
of his church shrivel like dried leave
at the door of the observatory. and
new and healthful air regenerates TIN
human mind, and imparts a sympathetic
enlargement to its inventions and meth
cd That cosmical west wind which, me-
teorologists tell us, constitutes, by the
revolution of the globe, the upper current.
Is alone broad enough to carry to every
city and suburb TO the farmers house,
the miners shanty and the fishers boat.
the Inspirations of this new hope of man.
kind Now, If any one say we have had
enough of these boastful recitals, then
| say. happy is the land wherein benefits
like these have grown trlte and conn
monplace."
You cannot stop men from thinking
that way and feeling that way. and the
man who thinks that way and feels that
way will look up to the skies and say:
Up above It all Is God" and he will do
more than that when the preacher comes
to make the appeal, on the one Sabbath
that is set for foreign missions. as we
have It In this church today: It is no
longer possible for man to say he be-
lieyes In home missions and does not be-
lieve in foreign missions. for you will
strike him between the eyes with tho
words of Jesus when he said to the
Jew: you are no longer a Jew" when
he said to the Greek: you are no longer
a Creek" when he said to the barbarian:
You are no longer a barbarian" for of
one blood is the whole race, and all the
stars in heaven belong to each individual
child of the Father.
What ! am asking you now for In
bread. There are some black men in
Africa that are dying; there are some
brown men in India who are dying; there
are some white men in Russia and in the
| isles of the sea who are dying, and they
want bread. I am the bread" said
Jesus. whereof If man eat he shall
not hunger" You are living in the most
! prosperous time In the history OF the
world and what are you going TO do
about it?
Soul and Money.
Our problem many do not understands:
the problem of the twentieth century Is
to adjust the interests between the soul
and things; in other words 1t Is to put
money down beside a soul and weigh
| them. You see a fool die every day, and
YOU see bigger fools get up and spend
his money. What does It amount To?
| When YOU come to the last analysis, the
whole thing is the getting Of bread: that
I Is all the highest and the lowest can
! get out of life, what he can eat and
| what he can wear. What kind of bread
must the world have first? First the bread
| that Is natural. and then the bread that
| Is spiritual, whereof If man eat he
! shall not die" This Is why we have
| business, and this is why we have cities:
| In word. this Is why we live and work
| Ito get bread We have as many fine
men and women here as anywhere in
| the world, In proportion to our popula-
! ton. who understand well their relations
| ships. but let me ask, In all earnestness,
] do they understand their relationships
| beyondP Until they understand that II
is incumbent upon them to give the bread
| If life TO the world they do not under
| stand their relationship to the universe.
would like to recall again that picture.
| of which ] often speak from this pulpit,
| Morellfs Starving Boy" as French
| girl one day, in the Louvre. made me see
| It, After she pointed to the awful palor
| that belongs to starvation and showed
| the scraps and apple peallngs that could
not sustain life. then she said Look
into the starving eyes. and can't you hear
| human soul cry for breadT'
I appeal to you for the bread OF life
| for those who starve