Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-01


Students Of George Washington University
Yesterday
which wise men have succeeded in making
with forces and energies of which God
Is the author and owner. Man allies HIM
self with the sun, the greatest Of the
stars, and that mighty mass of light and
heat fights for him in his gardens, in his
Conservatives. in his vineyards and fields.
Man allies himself with steam, about
which he thinks he understands much.
and his ally conauers space and storms
lossal structures that surpass kings PAL
aces In magnifcence. He sweeps over the
earth with bewildering rapidity: while his
tireless ally works. he rests. Man allies
himself with electricity. about which he
auers both distance and darkness. He
communicates almost instan. aneousy
with every continent in the world. He
converses with cities thousand miles
away as easily rs with friend in the
next room. He sends his thoughts untram-
meled circling through the air. over
plains. mountains and oceans. What this
ally may yet do for him. when man learns
no one as yet has been bold enough to i'm
agine. Man allies himself with gases and
gauzelike substances and conQuers gravi-
tation. and the hitherto resistless cur
rents of the air. He rises from the earth
in winged ships and sails toward any
point of the compass. 1t may be we'll
that In one OF these monstrous gigantic
machines he will some day hover over the
north pole. Man al''e@ himself with
sound by subtle comDil. atoms and con-
trivances of pipes and pedals and bellows
and keys. until the soul is thrilled by such
music as can be surpassed only in heaven.
Slave Among Free Men.
The man who refuses to enter into
these universally available and constantly
III. ;,,Hz
very little world with a narrow hor.-
ION. He is a slave among free men. a
dwarf among giants. But even the man
who has most eagerly accepted such al
lances has been haunted by the feeling
that behind all these .orces. using them
in ways he himself cannot, there is Some
thing or Some One. What il 1t were pos :
:ibe to break down the separating wall
and to enter fully into the world of reali-
ty. and to see that God Is the source of
all energy? What II 1t were possible to
make as actual an alliance with God the
.armer does with the sun. the mechanic
with steam and electricity, the artist with
color and the musician with sound? If so
much can be done through alliances with
the servants. what might not be done
through alliance with the Master.
Such was the hope that slowly ros e
like a great sun i'm the life of the most
remarkable man who has thus far APP
peared In human history. Whenever for
moment he faltered in that superhuman
task which had been committed to his
hands he .elt that nothing was needed for
his announcement and inspiration but q
clearer vision OF his ally. Centuries aft
erWard, when sympathetic and admiring
the secret OF his splendid achievements,
they found 1t in his alliance with God.
he endured. they said. as seeing his ally
lace to face. though no form was visible
to his eye.
Have Done Most for Humanity.
by his alliance with God Moses was
delivered from fear Of Pharoah and OF the
wilderness. He was delivered, too, from
the fear of the Hebrew mob often ready
10 stone him, and rom fear of the in
trlgues of his own household. and even
from the fear of Nebo the mountain of
seeming failure. There on the borders o.
Wis Die success he was to lay down his
mes work be ore its contamination.
ne men who have done most for hui
manity, Abraham. Moses David. Isaiah.
Judas. Maccabeus. Paul, Chrysostum.
Luther. Lincoln. have all died on Nebo.
They have looked over the land which
they could not enter. They all worked on
the plan OF their ally. and In its advance
ment they found their reward. Their true
llVes were lived with the cause and be-
ionged to the eternal. Not in any other
ore life nor in all other lives combined
IS the true significance of what alliance
WIN God may mean for man made SO
evident as In the life Of Christ. While
seemingly Christ's work ended at the
cruclhNion in irremediable failure he saw
INA. an the dement's of completeness were
heid IN the bosom of that apparent defeat
Unity and Simplicity.
Members OF the graduating class. this
impression OF the unity and simplicity OF
life which have tried to make upon you
Is in all probability in striking contrast
with the appearance Of disconnectedness
and inexDlica bleness of most Of the lives
that We see around Us. These lives seem
10 us like the mad dance of atoms In the
Wild gust of summers storm. Iney
sweep on US II eager for goal In sght.
only to sweep back az swiftly toward an
opposite goal Most men few decades
AFTER their graduation are perp.exed anu
neWildered. and many are altogether ais
illusioned
Such black despair is the inevitable re-