The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-01

- JezebeI fell from her window even as she looked. for new triumpfs. FAC cording to the word of the Lord" Saul was mighty thrower of the taveiin, yet he threw many times al. David. and missed. It is said that In the French and Indian war. savage warriors were deputed to pick off certain young of- ficer, but failed repeatedly. saying nc bore a charmed life. God was holding work was done. ska
 Moses died unsatisfied He had many tasks to perform. Jordan was uncrossed, the Promised Land not at tained. God had other plans. That voice never sounds too soon, never sounds too late. He knows. Moses died without attaining his ideal. So do we all We look into the Promised Land. but the voice says Thou must not go in O land of promise. that we may only look into. He died with it's unattained. and so must we all.
 "The painter puts upon iiis canvas the softest colors he can mix, but the picture seen only by himself. Is finer far. The sculptor carves the loxeliest form, but the Venus in the Louvre is only a shadow of his dream. dream ed one night that I preached. I cannot say 1t oftenv but that night I preached. It seemed to me that a mighty con: course of people were swept as autumn leaves before the wind in the breath of my mighty plea for God. I woke, and hastened to my desk, but thought and burning words alike had vanished l have sought in the Bible for my text, for that vanished train of thought--l have always hoped that 1t would return to me, but 1t never has. It Is an ideal sermon Do you see. how close Moses came to attaining his ideaI2 "
 "A soldier was brought in from Lookout Mountain after that great bat tie, sorely wounded. and muttering in delirium. When they tried to learn from him his name, his home (for he could not livel, he muttered, Almost at the topi Almost and so went home. Only in Christ can we ever get to the top of the mountain Of Ideals. There Is no sorrow like this sorrow, to feel the man we hope to be in eternal conflict with the man we are. But the conflict must go on. love to see a man strive to do the impossible. ana God has accomplished the impossible for us.
 "If the Bible ended with Deuterono- my, I should be through, but there are all these pages of blessing beyond Where do we next see Moses over here in Matthew talking to Christ, in the Promised Land, his Ideals attained at last by the way of Heaven! In this life the scaffolding is never taken down. If you had seen the chapel which Michael Angelo decorated on the would you have seen? Heaps of brick and mortar. piles of boards, lime and scaffoldinE in ugly confusion.
 But the next day 1t would have looked like God had opened the gates of Heaven. and showed you the glories of His Kingdom.
 There was a peaceful convent in France, where for generations the nuns | had gone about their gentle work But war swept the land with carnage, and battle was fought at the convent gates. Afterwards the wounded, men were carried in to be cared for, and one was given to a certain nun. and nursed back to, life and health. For getting all he owed her, he tempted her, and when he went, she followed | him. After long years broken and for saken In distant land. she turned her face again to her convent home and crept back to die. Before she could lift her shamed face to beg for .admittance. the door was opened by her Ideal self. what she would have been if she had stayed and done her duty. This ideal | took her to her cell. nursed her to health, and no one in the convent knew that she had been away | "The Lord is keeping our ideals for us at the gate of Heaven; when we die and go up wonder. they will come to meet us. and not an angel in all Gods Heaven will know that we have ever fallen from them" Program for Today.
 The Commencement program for to. morrow is full Of doings of various kinds At 10:30 o'clock a. m, the Jun. for orations will take place. The speak CTS for this occasion are: Henry J. Cha-terton.. of Limestone County; An drew J. Rody. of Jefferson County; Granville A. Young. of Montgomery | County: Walter S. Childs. of Georgia | William W. Garrett. of Jefferson Coun. tv: Schuyler H. Richardson, of Lims- stone County. and William I. Pittman
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 The college cadet band will give an open-air concert on the campus from
 to o'clock Monday afternoon. The
 band music Is one of the Sources oi | pride with the men of this college thi: | year. The organization has been the
 largest in the history of the institu. tion and such industry and talent have