The Cairo bulletin., 1907-10-21

!: ECHOES FROM CAIRO PULPITS /:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

livery real and everywhere in evidence.
To hate evil and love the good and
true, il is only necessary that they b.
compared contrasted The one, com.
lmercially speaking, is away below par
God calls us, from the evil into the
good Where the spirit Of the Lcr,i
is, there is liberty" freedom from sin
The baneful results of sin are visible
without ones dipping into that som
Der flood.
Anttheses in the Life of Jesus.
The skies Of the Nazarene, the one
perfect example Of manhood, We're |
often dark Exalted to, Heaven ana !
brought low almost to hell he |
pressed onward. doing his fathers
work. Happy on the Jordan's brink /
when the voice said, This is my be
loved SON. and then, in the gloom
Of the wilderness, tempted of the
devil" TRANSPORTED on an exceed
ing high mountain, Moses and Elias,
celebrities OF a former age, now ex
carnate, with him Joy unspeakable,
Again on an emipence overlooking
-he holy city. pride and boast of cen
.uries, in tears, foretelling that fear. J
ul doom that came when Roman arms
lnder Titus RACED the temple. The II
oud hosannas OF Palm Sunday were {
larbingers of Gethsemane, Pilates 4
Judgment hall the purple robe and :
rown OF thorns,' the sad march to Q
'alyary and the ignomiuious death on G
he cross.
Should it then be strange, when this 9
'erfect life experienced alternate 7
torn and calm that we suffer and =
a Il our trials and storms.
Calm always follows storm, light
reaks after the shadows Of the long
light have reigned, pleasure follow "
ain, and life eternal, on the fair v
Iains Of Immortality. is ever the &C
male" of death-the supreme
ladow of all LIES gloom. -
Negative and Positive in Souls.
The Divine within is attracted by
q Divine without. while our basar p
If, drawn by the carnal, seeks its ST.
vel, the flesh warning against the d
irit." If the souls carnal pole. ever dr
gatiye, prove the more sensitive, ca
il win surely allure and eventually
ntrol Like attracts like, seemingly
paradox, but true in moral-splrit- Ian
| planes. To "the pure in heart all of
ngs are pure" therefore in pro
rtion as the spiritual part, always n
sitiye. insensitiye. the soul viii be Il
-racted by good, repealed by evil
the spiritual awakes, puts on
'ength and asserts its potency, ques- Ex
nable pleasures and appetites fail
attract. AS the darkness of the
sht fades before the genial rays of
: morning sun, the lower forms Of
ltrast-of comparison are discard
: they have done their work. have an'
swn into the realm Of higher laws, 'is
/ We need them no longer; by de y
.es. our finer and better powers are -
led forth, and spirituality rules, at "
citing to still higher attitudes Of MI
gious experience and effort. ~
IS the soul strives for light, right,
4 and truth, old things pass :.
ay' and the new" become mani 49,
Still onward passes the endless
avian of pilgrims, towards the por- ~.
! fair OF an endless hereafter,
ere the old grow young once more, -
the foot falls of Father Time /,
Ike no echoes. AS the eagle learns -,
use his wings only after repeated ~
Is but at last is able to laugh ut ,,ve
ms and safely pass through them No.
shall manly degrees, through tba
tie laws OF Contrast to be merged trim
last into the supreme law OF uni ootr
sal Harmony-gai the goal long If /
led for; life after death, peace how
ond the gates OF paradise There corr
;, heed Gods call from Egypt: ipte
a Indifference to the spiritual. the
ningly delusive but real; Gods that
from sin March in the van. not lion
rear, OF that army destined to win to I
Dry everlasting. give
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