The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-14
SOME WORDS OF
 NAMELESS SPEAKERS The Important Part Played By Them in
 History. THE SAYINGS OF POWER Interesting Selections From the Anonymous
 Voices.
THE SAYINGS OF POWER

Tn the course of reading one Is often struck by the important part played by anonymous voices throughout his- tory. The scriptures are full of in stances in which the words of name less speakers have become historic. "Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thous killedst the Egyptian ?"-words few, and their speaker unknown; but they drove Moses into the desert, an exile for 40 years. Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thous- ands," sang the Hebrew maidens in their rejoicing over the death of Coli ath, and we know what fateful words they proved to the hero they were meant to honor. we remember the breathless arrival of Jobs servants in sad fourfold succession, each with his tale of woe no sooner delivered than 0utdone by that of the next conner, and how each ended with the piercing re- frain: And I only am escaped alone to tell thee" Jobs wife, that eastern Lady Macbeth, misses out her diabolical in stigation: PDost thou still retain thine integrity? Curse God, and die" Ger tain Chaldeans pillory themselves and glorify three Jews for all time by their sycophantic tale-telling: "These men, king, have not regarded thee; they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up" And others perform the same office for "that Daniel' which was "of the chill dren of the captivity of Judah" to his great honor and their own undoing.
 Returning with slow steps and with awed and wondering looks, come the men set to catch Jesus in his words, framing as they pass their more than sufficient excuse: Never man spake like this man." The "young ruler" runs with his eager inquiry to the Master, and goes away sorrowful, making the great refusal. The woman of Samaria, with her keen questioning, draws from Christ the glorious truth that God is Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth" As speaker of an all too mernor- able sentence, there is the pert servant maid who with a word cowed Peter and made him sin the sin of his life. The Roman centurion and the repent ant dying thief soften the horror of the crictfixion by their words of compass sion verging to adoration; and the two that journeyed to Emmaus touch us strangely as they say to their new conpanion: Abide with us; for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent; and again, later, with their wistful "Did not our heart burn with in US. while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?' Coming down the line of church history we catch the cry from the crowded amphitneaters, "The Christians to the lions!" Or if it is the gladiatorial combats, all eyes watch and ears listen as the gladiators enter the arena, take their stand before the em- peror's chair, and cry: Hail! Caesar. We about to die salute thee!" tAnd we need no further comment on the pitt less spirit of old Rome.
 But the change came; and perhaps there is no more characteristic scene to be found in the newer age than that of Augustine cast down in the bitter ness of his repentance under a certain fig tree in his garden at Milan, and crying ''How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry, for ever?" And To! from neighboring house there comes a voice as of boy or girl singing and oft re-