The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-10

their toys, to hear his stories, to play
upon his fences and worship at his feet.
their love AFFAIRS and their life dreams.
Here boys and girls come to TAX OF
their love affairs and life duties.
Strong men and women come from
their strife to drink their NIL OF MS
soGl's springs and nestle under ms
restfuI shadow. The old come to live
over again the long ago and rekindls
the inner light that Is burning low.
He has given without price the strength
Of his manhood, and is now giving the
fruit of self -sacrifice to enrich the life
of the race. Alas! for the ingratitude
of a thought less world that he that
serves so nobly in the things that are
greatest, should be left to want tne
things that are least, that he VINO
halned to create the wealth of the ma
tion should be left to the distress OF
poverty, left without the comforts ana
at least without the necessities OF the
barest existence. But these things 40
not shake his faith or disturb his peace
for his motto has been not that the
world owes every man nVinS, out
that every man owes the world ire.
He has paid that debt and Knows MS
reward is sure.
Moving Preachers of Surprising Fewer.
In every sermon they had an object
as well as a sub jeet, and none was lert
to guess what that object was.
In going after that object they never
lost touch with their audience. There
was always a community OF spirit be-
fore the sermon had progressed far.
No better creators of an all-persuaslVe
atmosphere that none could fail TO reel
ever faced an audience. Whether the
mood was one of exuberant JOY or
helpless terror, 1t was produced with
such power as to carry all with IT,.
Every individual felt himself sought
out BENJAMIN Abbott once shouted:
"For all know there may be muir"
derer in this congregation. man
rose to leave the houseSand fell, crying
out that he had killed man hfteen
years before.
Their preaching was always vital
There was but little about Christ, about
religion; 1t was Christ, 1t was religion
| in its hearts core.
And the message had a man behind
1t, a tremendous personality transpar-
| emit to ALL They knew what was going
| on back of the guns. They could see
behind the breastworks, Nothing Is a
| sermon that docs not bring results
visible or invisible. and nothing deliv-
| cred in His name that does is less than
| a sermon. Measured b. this standard
| they were weIl-nigh without peers In
the annals of the church.
Their Influence ON the Nation.
The circuit rider created a noble
standard of family life by the emphasis
| he placed on religion. He helped to
put into the early traditions of America
the family altar as necessary feature
| of the ideal home and religion as an
| Indispensable element in the atmos-
phere of family life. And he vitalized
religion itself. taking It out of books
| ritual forms aud dogmas and making II
| a thing of conscious experience. Sc
that the churches all were quickened
and saved from decay. He did for re:
lIgion what Emerson did for letters
| issued new declaration of IN
! dependence. The shackles fell OF
| and the spirit was liberated. He
| was an educational force Of tire
mendous power. His coming mean
a new order of things for child
hood and youth. 1t meant that promis
ing boys were discovered to them
selves and their parents and sent of
to college to put their money into
brains. rather than their brains into
money. that schools were provided. tina
books and papers were circulated anc
read. that the children were laugh
ain every place" He knew long befor'
Judge Lindsey that the child Is tn