The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-17
GR|GGS LECTURES WILL END TONIGHT Lyceum Tickets Good tor 1o-
 nights Lecture TALKS ON USE OF MARGIN Last Nights Lecture Was Full of In- spiration and Enthusiasm and
 Keen Analysis of the
 Phases of Life.
TALKS ON USE OF MARGIN

Dr. Edward Howard Griggs gave two lectures of his series yesterday at the High school auditorium. and the two lec- lures today will conclude the series. Dr. J. H. Phillips announces that tonight's lec- ture on '~rhe Modern Religious Problem" will be the last of the lyceum course, and that the regular lyceum course tickets will be good for admission, as well as the tick cts sold especially for the Griggs series.
 The afternoon lecture had for It's sub ject "The Two Types of Paradise of Dante's Divine Comedy" and the dis cussion for the night was on "The Use of the Margin under the general head of ''The Ethics of Personal Life" The evening lecture was full of inspiration and enthusiasm, and surprised the aud fence by it's minute analysis of certain phases of life. Dr. Griggs has, besides the qualities of being graceful and eloquent, the peculiar faetllty of speaking straight to the point.
 Some people," said Dr. Griggs, ''have so much insight of human life that we wonder whether they lived 1000 years be- fore they were born. while other people don't seem to have been born at all. Yet, these same persons may have had the same opportunities. Opportunity is not everything in the making of man. All of us start with certain capital of physical and mental energy, and we can only ad- vance by adding to this capital.
 We Americans are practical people, but we're not as practical as we think we are. Our first question usually is, Does it pay?' This Is a perfectly sound question provided it is applied on high plane, but usually we don't do this
 Every one has some spare margin of opportunity and the more we invest in this margin the. more we'll draw out. The margins count a great deal, for $5 over expenses is profit, while $5 less expenses means loss and poverty. Your use of the margins of life will show what you are, for the things that you do because you like to do them will bring out your real character
 Life cannot be estimated in quantity, but on quality. It is better to live one year active than to lie dormant for cen tury. Therefore, if you have any spare time you must put it to the best use
 Play is the enjoyment and appreciation of the beauty of life True social inter course Is spontaneous conversation, but we are losing this admirable art, and have substituted such artificial methods as whist This is an admirable device for enabling those who have nothing to say to say it.
 "The greatest open secrets in the ac- complishment of work are: First, the secret of concentration; second, tho secret of turning from one action to another without friction. These are the great se- crets that make man count in the world.
 'Thus we see that the use of the mar gin can be made to serve not only the art of play, but also the art of work"
 The afternoon lecture on "The Two Types of Paradise was pronounced a masterpiece of it's kind The audience was especially pleased with the beautiful word painting.
 "No one who ever attempted to portray in any form the celestial has ever suc- ceeded," said Dr. Griggs 'Dante himself made failure at this. and yet his fail- ure was orie of the greatest productions of art.
 "In the terrestrial paradise his descrip- tions are natural and can be imagined to exist, hence it's beauty
 ''The one form of art that most permits a portrayal of the divine is music, due to the fact that its imagery is not fixed but unlimited"
 Dr. Griggs' subjects for today are: Aft ernoon, sDante: The Paradise and the Beatif1ce Vision;" evening, "The Ethics of Personal Life: The Modern Religious prohlem !,