The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-03
BISHOP MORRISON OH MAN IN THE MAN The Great Thing is to Seek
 Character RELIGION AND MORALITY Morality Will Not Save a Man With out Religion, and Religion Will Not Save a Man Without
 Morals.
RELIGION AND MORALITY

 ing at II o'clock, the occasion being the commencement sermon of Birmingham college. Despite the threatening weather, the church was entirely filled, and num- bers were obliged to stand The music was furnished by a choir of selected male voices.
 Bishop Morrison delivered the com mencement sermon to the students of the college, his subject being "The Man in the Man." His text was from the twen- ty-second verse of the seventh chapter of First Kings, and the twelfth verse of the third chapter of Revelations: And upon the top of the pillars was lily work; so was the work of the pillars fnished-Hlm that overcometh will I make pillar in the temple of God"
 Bishop Morrison spoke in part as fol- lows:
 The pillars of the temple were built by Hiram of Tyre with divine direction. They were of brass and were fine works of art The principle in art is to pro- duce the effect of combining the ele- ments which are unlike; and so with these pillars. Their strength beauty and grand character are symbolic.
 Now, the symbolic idea that we de- rive from the subject this morning In the first place perfection is and has al- ways been the destiny in Gods design God never designed anything less than perfect and man is no exception.
 Mans Perfection.
 We speak of perfect man. The high est physical manhood is that which comes in contact with and overeomes the elements-the mornings frost and the monday sun. This is admirable, but it is also the divine design that man should possess the gentleness which also de- velops him. And so, God designs that we shall be men and not brutes. Modern facts, however, do not have. the sanction of civilization In our physical man hood, God never placed his seal of the slugging matches we have between the prize fighters; or the knockouts. They do not bear his seal. It Is royal sight to see about twenty-one of the best de- veloped men in our colleges, with wool about eight inches long on their heads l think that is about the regulation length-come together in a scientific col lsion on the football field. But l am pleas ad to see that the educational au- thorites are beginning to wage war against this brutal, limb-breaking form of sport.
 We need today the faculties for phy- sical development; they are very essen- tial. But look back. In the earlier pe- riods all life was in a sense gymnastic. Our grandfathers preserved and devel- v,lx ing or the forest. the clearing of the lands and the tearing out of the stumps and roots after the land had been clear ed and not on the football and baseball fields. Through this kind of exercise they made themselves strong, and be- queathed to us our physical manhood Our grandmothers had rosy cheeks, but they did not make them rosy by the present method. They made the spin ming wheel hum, and attended their oth- CT household duties to preserve their l physical perfection. But that period has | passed, and we are in another. Like that old period, however, we should have those exercises which are consistent with the view of true manhood.
 Intellectual Development.
 "The more important factor, and. above all, is the development of the intellect ual powers. Thought rules today and is changing all things. The hero today | is the intellectual hero, And one of the most important things is self knowledge; 1 in fact. it Is one of the necessities to come to manhood. Many are wise In va rious directions, but are ignorant of themselves. Mems thoughts are out 1 ward, that is, many fall to study them selves, and yet that is the true field. Within we find the factory that is throw ing off bale and bolt of impershable thought. The thought colors the life Just as the light colors the flower When you enter the inner soul and study the | inner man then you get the knowledge which is essential.
 This Is essential to character. We must | know men to deal successfully with them But self-love may get in the way of self knowledge. We have the various chairs in our colleges, but I have never heard of a college which had a chair on the science of self and even if they did they | would do no good, because they would not tell us what we are, and even if they did we would not believe them. We have to have strength, and be our own teach | CTS.
 l How many of us have the habit of | watching the outward influences in the | self? Are we accustomed to that kind of thinking? Is my conscience sensitive to wrong as it should be? In other words have found my weakness?
 What Is Gods plan in you? God has plan fin every life, and that man is for tunate when he finds Gods plan in him. God never made a man to come to success l by going against His natural trend. A life Is wasted in trying to be what God never intended it to be. The key to suc- cess Is to find the way God has laid out for us and then follow that way. We l talk of genius; 1t is nothing more nor less than the soul going the way that God | made for it to go. If the real inborn fire, put there by God, Is there he will | find success.
 Harmony With God.
 Another thought. Come into harmony | with God. God cannot carry out his plans in us unless we come into harmony with Him. God is seeking to make capa- city in us for Himself. Vast tides are l sweeping the world today which effect 1 empires. and these things tell us which I