The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10

home For thirty years you have con-
secrated your life to money making. At
first you said you had to do it to make
a living. Now you do 1t because your mer-
cenary habits have the mastery of you.
You save every penny you can. You are
a mlser. Your face shows it. Your mind,
your body, your whole face is warped.
You cannot enjoy picture gallery. Music
is to you a perfect bore. The only col
umns you love to read are the stock
market columns. You are a mere money
making machine. Now. compare your de-
veloped life to that of a man like Dwight
L. Moody. He had all the capabilities of
financial success. He had them in greater
measure than you had. But one day he
turned his back upon the store and went
and knelt in his bedroom and said: Lord,
I give my life up to Thee. / shall follow
Thee and Thee alone. Thy will is to be
my will" Was he not developed? Was
he not developed in better way than by
crlnging before the shrines of Midas gold
image?
True Development.
Twist the kaleidoscope little You are
woman a society queen. You have tray
eled abroad. The finest books of the day
are on your library shelf. You feel you
can converse with any man or woman
alive and not be ashamed of yourself. But
tell me, with all your education. have you
the true development your sainted mother
had, who years ago surrendered her life
and all into the hands of the Master?
Place your photograph alongside of her
old-fashioned daguerreotype. Compare the
two faces. Your mother was no igno-
ramus. Her eyes show it; her lips show
1t. But behind that noble. sweet face
there Is something which your face lacks.
The beauty Of a true soul is there. 1t
is not in your face. You are not well de-
Veoped: you are not spiritually developed.
You cannot come to your true spiritual
development and best moral and mental
development until you first seek Christ
and his Righteousness. and then all these
things-yea, all--will be added unto you.
Lastly, tho struggle for the necessities
of life represents for some of us the great
barriers between us and the sweet scent
ed gardens of happiness 1t is nearly al
ways represented with the workingmans
overalls cast aside Inevitably we picture
that time in the dim future when we have
aInassed enough money to retire from bus
mess. Then we will buy a home in some
suburban town; then we will have this
large home always opened to our friends
and our dear ones; then we will expect
the children and the grandchildren to
come and VISIT us and stay as long as they
can. Oh, yes: food and clothes and a
free homestead represent not only a
peaceful old age, but happy youth,
happy manhood. And why should not this
be SO? Can you find any life happier than
the Christian life? Can you find any ex-
hilaration and JOY more glorious and
transcendent than that of serving Christ?
If you and l want true happiness we do
not have to seek 1t in a suburban villa.
We truly can find 1t in Jesus. Seek
We first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness. and all this happiness will
be added unto you"
Bishop ken's Courage.
We should be ready to seek this d.
vine happiness at any cost. as was Dr.
Ken, who afterward became the Bishop
of Bath and Wells. DR.. Ken at the time
was living in Winchester. To that town
came the licentious Charles II. of Eng
land, with his sinful court. In this court
he brought along the notorious and yet
beautiful Rahab, Nell Gwyn. The King
bade her occupy the village rectory while
he was there. In reply DR.. Ken said:
Never shall a person of the character
of Nell Gwyn lodge under my roof The
court was Mortified. The church leaders
declared that this Episcopalian priest
had signed his ecclesiastical death war
rant But a short time after the bish-
opric of Bath and Wells became vacant
The English premier had a long list of
prominent c1ergymen which he presented
to the King for the appointment. Charles
4 brushed DneSo ndIneS dSlue as lie bttlu
mo, none of them shall have 1t. What
is the name of that little man at Win
chester who would not let Nell Gwyn
lodge in his house? Well. DIR. Ken shall
have It. I have resolved that any man
who could be as true to God as he should
have the next bishopric which fell va
cant II It had been Canterbury itself"
So as DIT. Ken won his promotion by his
willingness to commit ecclesiastical sui
eide for rights sake God promotes us
when we are willing to surrender all for
him.
II we will first seek him and his right
eousness he promises all things. Yea, all
good things will be added unto US. Then
we shall have the temporal necessities
supplied. Then we shall have the Holy
Spirits power Then we shall have true
mental, physical, moral and spiritual de-
velopment. Then We shall have the peace
which passeth all understanding. Then we
shall have heaven this side of the grave
and heaven beyond. Anxious men and
women, will you seek Christ and his
righteousness and have all these things
added unto you?
Copyright. 1906. by Louis Klopsch.)
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