The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-11-08
THELORD OFNATUBE
Rev. Or. Talmage's Ideas About
a Familiar Text.
g., Peser's Injunction 20 "h'nor an
Menv--What Il Means and no"
the Prino pies involved May
Be Applied.

sermon Alll az f...
may rise 10 the highest spiritual "'-
n,-v and universal honor 10y living 'l
harmony with the divine VIII ana 10y f
Glowing love aud kindness toward DIS
follow men. The test is Peter do 3D.
~lIonor an men,
There are three great sources %.
p ,wledce. Though The intellectual
~ .errolrs may De Wide and deep get
f.- the most part they are fed from 'a'
waters Of three streams which. "N'
NM, sparkling fountains buDp.ias ou'
of no mountains Of perpetual yo'''
ner,r seem TO lose their strength OF
% exhaust their source. THE his'
stream of education IS that which we
receive from the old homestead.
Though we may i've ou to onr three
score sears and ten and our l'ii ''
come white as snow, yet what our
mothers and fathers taught us coni'n.
uailv recurs to the mind with me-" sig
ndcance.
Tho second stream of knowledge
comes from books. By chat do not
mean simply what we learned when
~. ,eero et school. The teachers of
our youth impaired comparatively ",
t. tnov.fef.e TO us. Their chief worA
vos TO teacr us how to study. They
lowered tAe bars so that we could en-
fir tbe fields Of truth oul browse I'D
them. az cattle step over tle lo"eie'
f.rs 10 Get their il of the rich sweet
clover. And I believe that most col
logo men WI, agree with me when j
eav that the chief education rom
looks came % them after they leli
thoir alma mater. The third great
e.nrco of Information comes 90 us NOT
from the home or lrom books, but from
revealing lo hauuts Of nature ANA I'D
tbo busy rarts of the world, studying
tbo endless procession of muiuudes OF
men. oh. how many men there aIe
ana how many the different lessons
which they teachl
When some one once asked u'ni.
Ward Beeche7 how be knew so mAe-
ohout the human heart te replied 90 JOY
smdving men. am indebted much u
hooks for I have always been o. great
render. But am most indebted Z.
the speaking lips of men. / never rll'
rpon a street car but ] try TO talk |lt.
the driver I rarely talk % dri'e
but be tells me something do DO
know. I never cross The Brooklyn Cor
~ but I try % ming'e with the othe
MESSENGERS and have them tell m'
about themselves Books lave par
in the great intellectual uplifting o.
mankind. but no iruo public teacne
can do his fun duty unless for o tm
~ least ne takes on DIS prlestly robe
and minglcs with men,
one Of the reasons why The oniho
Of my text takes such O deep hoN
r1on an our human sympatl.es IS Doe
Cause be gathers most Of bis informa
ton from living men You canno
iraclno Peter as q b0okworm. 1o
mot think OF him as O gowned on
red graduate Of some classical un
sity. You cannot think of him o.
hermit or a clustered rccluse- fe
was essentially q man of Affairs,
Ia among men. When DE came TO
vn or village I 90 not believe h
right the retirement of DIS room
iere be could read aud rest, but w.t
q intense energy of BIS DE used
g to the place where The people wer
.hered. There he would talk ou
G. wv them out. After awhile De won.
them telling him the innerm9st 50
C. IS Of their hearts Then when D
VS. thrown among the wealtl.er class
O.. as he surely must have been
tin IS. he dropped the fathom line INT
the Depths Of their hearts as well An
A. were TO send O warning TO m
brother ministers I would make tl
blum statement: II the Christian pn
hit is making any mistake today t
that some Of the ministers are becou
ing so dignifed that they are not W..
ing 10 take of their black clothes an
don tweed suits and wander about
their vacations .nc0cnito among o.
classes Of people. The true prcacho
must get acquainted WITH living me
or else he cannot De o helpful messc'
ger Of Christ
Now. after Peter. the rough. uncr
diamond among the apostles. bad spei
so much OF nis life among an class'
Of people be sums mp bis experience
one general law He says. "Ionor 81
men" lie declares that one of o..
chief duties OF the true Christian is
learn 10 respect man. no matter whel
he may be found As there are
many people tho in the social as $3.50
as the theological sense are iast
about the "tofei depravity" OF man.
am today going 10 speak about ma
rs the noh'est creature God has eve
produced Thus I shall try 90 poll
out four o~ five great reasons why v
should have universal respect ID
the human race.
First ] bil you honor mans inf'
lcctual supremacy over the beasts
the field. The birds of the afr. the 81
Of the sea and the mineral and veg
table worlds If there as omphadca.
one animal 90 whom God bias CIV.
the right 10 rule over oh other livh
animals mud over The elements Oh
creature IS man. Though man e..
APPLY be- nkened 10 q farmer With
large landed estate which De has %
an under cultivation yet more 90
more. ike Joshua with the lind
Canaan. he is going up to possess
He Is reaching ont and continuing
reach farther ont and is making &
wealth Of the land and OF the sen az
Of the afr tributary 20 bis wealth an
10 his power.
Man looks upon the mighty mou
talns and says: IL must have gold Il
tho basis Of my monetary system.