Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-21
Z he Couqh OF
THE HIGHER LIFE
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Relieving Human suffering.


Any man who is Indifferent to hui
man suffering thereby declares HIM
self alien to the spirit OF Jesus. The
tender eartedness OF Christendom
is evidence that there resides within
it the spirit of Him who went about
doing good . San Francisco's ca
lamity quickly moved the nation to
deeds OF bounty. The heart of Chris
tian America was touched. and IL
proved its religion by its instant
philanthropy. The inwrought teach-
Ing of Jesus, and his unforgettable
example. bore fruit in a lavishness
Of giving and of sympathy that
makes us love our race
How We Progress.
We are surely progressing, some
will say, and the measure of our
progress is greater every year. We
are advancing onward with an en-
ergy ever becoming more intensified.
knowledge increases; science broad
ems and deepens our view; our faith
in humanity grows stronger. and all
creation moves onward and upward
with a restless, nervous force.
Through rift OF cloud and roll Of
waters, through fash OF lightning
and sweep of changes humanity ever
moves onward to the reckoning fu-
ture, each year holding out strong
er lights to follow and higher planes
to attain.-Rev. Thomas Dixon.
Episcopal
Helping the Negro.
There is the great American prob
lem of the negro and what to do for
him! Surely the past few years have
given most conducive evidence OF
the honor of our citizenship when the
finest minds have given themselves
unstintedly to the problem of his
education, and the brayest souls by
thousands have offered themselves
to do the work. Underneath it all is
this Christian sense of honor, regard
for the worth of being. which is not
to be dishonored by the insolence OF
pride or the cruelty of selfishness,
but which will not rest till it has ta-
ken the best we have and offered it
to the negro. REV. Thomas Ander-
son, Baptist.
Need OF Abiding Faith.
Faith is the working principal of
life and manifests itself in every life
relation. Tennyson has it right, when
he says, Its seeing the best, glim-
mering through the worst the
summer in the winters bud-it
hears the wisdom of the sage in the
prattle OF the child, and tastes the
fruit before the fall of the blossom"
Paul says, by faith we walk" So,
too, we liye-we ride-we transact
By it we go to the marriage altar,
trusting all the coming years to the
honor and continued love of an
other. Cut the cord, and you destroy
the family, commerce, government
and religion. Society would fall to
pieces, homes would become hells.
perils would result, panic reign and
crime sweep over the earth.-Rev.
Thomas Dixon, Episcopal.
Developing the Character.
There is never a day, when we are
HOI EdliCQ upOA W " WotNA
and to wait, and thus it happens that
some of our best qualities of nature,
called forth and developed. 1t is the
man who has been obliged to stand.
watch and wait for the vision who
knows the meaning and the value of
patience, faith and hope. There Is
no power like self-restraint. The
moral power to hold ones self back,
the God-given ability to exercise au-
thority over ones desires, that
strange force within which demands
and compels obedience, this is the
most marvellous phenomenon of all.
We all possess this quality, and can
any one then say that he is without
responsibility to himself, to his fell
lows with like endowments, and to
his God, from whom the endowment
comes REV. DR.. Dixon, Episcopal.
Looking to Christ.
1t is important that we have
proper conception of the Christ we
serve. have no objection to the
cross as a symbol, but have no use
for the crucifx My Lord triumphed
over death, and l do not care to be-
hold continually a human body on
the cross. We worship a living, ris-
en-, reigning Lord, to whom angels
and archangels, saints and martyrs
cry Worthy is the Lamb that was
slain to receive power and riches
and wisdom and strength and honor
and glory and blessings" The con-
tinual looking at ourselves and at
each other is prolific source of
weakness. Our own weakness and
sins, and those of our brethren,
cause perpetual disbursement and
worse. Our hope is not in what we
are or in what we can do. Look up
and sing.-Rev. Thomas Peters,
Methodist.
Serving Our FeIlowmen. -
one thing is the clearer because
Jesus uttered this beautitude. and
that is, we cannot yield the human
family to the wanton tricks Of vio-
lence and greed. Do emperors who
misrule and statesmen who betray
the people, and churchmen who
neglect the vital forces OF tomorrow
In their excessive care for day that
IS dead: do these men inherit
the earth? No, said the Blessed
Master, In effect, they cannot, for
the spiritual laws of my kingdom
s{Sn1aco fharn make Them fnaDoSsfble