The daily sentinel., 1908-02-06
MANY Good Men
Outside the Church
Simple Yet Wonderful Address, Filled With Practical
Thoughts and Indisputable Facts, Delivered in a
Beautiful, Interesting Way by Distinguished
ayman-Has Attracted Attention
Throughout the Country.

SenQ 10 minister TO tne neaInen, L
should advocate the sending of Chris
the heather might have the silent,
convincing testimony of the Christian
life.
Il do not know much about creeds.
I Joined the church when l was too
young to know much about what it
meant. Since then l have meant to
take time to study them up, but 1
have never had n chance; and now 1t
looks as IL / should still have to post
pone 1t for some time. / have so
many other things to do which 1 con-
slider more important. But to me 1t
has always seemed very natural
thing that Christ should build His
religion on love. l dropped into
church awhile ago and heard DR..
Parkhurst comparing the power of
force with the power of love. And
he said that force was like hammer
with which one could strike a piece
of ice and it would break into many
pieces, but they would still be ice;
but that love is like the soft rays of
the sun, which work silently but
surely until soon the ice has entirely
disappeared.
There are only few ways In
which men have sought to spread the
knowledge of religions in the world.
l have been interested enough in the
matter to make a study of them and
i have found that there are only two
love and force-and the most fire.
quently employed has been force. A
man gets a new idea and 1t seems to
him such good idea that he wonders
how it is that his neighbor could
have got along SO long without it.
And then he takes down his club
and starts over to force his neighbor
to share 1t with him, but the trouble
Is that about halfway he meets his
neighbor coming, and he. too. has an
/ idea and club. Then there Is strife.
This was the method of Mohammed-
| anism. 1t was the method of all re-
ligions until Christ came.
"Confucius. who lived some thou
sands OF years ago and has given law
| to some hundreds of millions of peo-
| pie, was asked whether one should
refard evil with good. He responded,
reward evil with good. He responded
with good, with what will you reward
good? Rather. reward evil with JUS
tice." With justice. yes, but how are
you going to know what is justice
when your heart Is filled with hate
and your spirit Is crying for revenge?
love that we can be sure that We are
attaining Justice at all. Hence. Christ
said. Love your enemies, do good
to them that hate you" And when
Confuclus was asked II there were
not some word which comprehended
and included the sum of all his teach
ing, he responded, "Is not reciprocity
such word?" Reciprocity, why that
is the mere balancing of benefits.
The world will never be won by reci-
procity. 1t is too cold and calculat-
Ing. The man who buys a book in
which to keep track of his good deeds
that he may do to each man good in
the proportion which he has received
will never do enough good to pay for
buying the book. Christ recognized
in love the one great force which can
never be broken. His divinity Is
proved by the choice he made of the
cornerstone on which he would build
his religion.
"And there is that great principle
which He gave the world that 1t is
better to give than to receive. What
a strange principle that seems. Does
1t seem possible that man can at
tain success II the sum of the gifts
which he makes to the world Is great
err than the sum of the things he re-
ceives from the world? 1t Is the
only formula for success. Go into a
graveyard and read the inscriptions
of the great; sec what the things are
for which men are remembered. 1t
Is the record of their gifts.
81 was at Monticello this past year
and visited the tomb of Jefferson.
There. on a simple shaft is engraved
the inscription which he himself de-
signed--a record of the things for
which he wished to be remembered.
He was a man to whom the world
Ind given much. He had twice been
president of the United States; he
had been vice-president, secretary of
state, governor of Virginia, minister
to France. Few men have received
more. But it was not these things
for which he wished to be remem-
bered. His shaft bears the simple
inscription, Here Lies Thomas JEFF
ferson, Author of the Declaration of
independence. Author of the Statute
of Religious Freedom for Virginia,
and Founder of the University of Vir-
ginia." There Is no mention of what
he had received; 1t Is the list of the
/ thin uc whicb n had pivan yVa