The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-03-02

ance, is the true index TO man ma
ture," said Sam c. Gilman, at the
Presbyterian church, on Sunday
evening a man may have hand
some, prepossessing countenance; he
may he the possessor of saint like
features, and at the same time may
prove a villain; but when man has
kind heart, generous heart, no.
BILE heart-and may ] therefore not
say beautiful heart-his life will
be beautiful. his character will be
| beautiful; there will he no mistake
as To the sort of man he is. The
face we may look upon, and be de-
ceived The heart we can not see,
but We know of a certainty the sort
of heart that beats within the breast
of a man by the life that he leads;
by his deeds. There are some men
with a heart as big as that of an OK;
| their lives are an inspiration, help
to other men--they are fountains of
love and encouragement; of SYM
patty and helpfulness. There are
other men possessing a heart about
as big. as an old lady friend of mine
used 10 say, as the little end of moth
x.
devoid of feeling, and without prin-
ciple. Some of them would steal the
pennies from a dead mans eyes If
they had a chance.
There are good many men, with
big brain, and a big intellect, but
they've got a mighty small heart,
and there are a good many men with
a big heart but they don't know
much about things profoundly intel
lectual. It's the heart. and not the
brain. that makes the real man. and
yet, do you know, We have been
thinking all along that it's the brain
and the intellect that makes the 4nan;
we've been building schools and col
leges and universities and sending
our young men and young women
there, and we've been filing the
world with walking encyclopedias,
and all the while we haven't paid
any attention TO the heart. We've
devoted years and years to brain
culture, and we haven't paid any at
tention to heart culture. Isn't IL
funny. when all the time it's the
heart and not the brain that makes
the real man, Out of the heart are
eth in his heart, so is he The heart /
is the seat of thought, of love, of all |
the lofty sentiments, of all the soul
attributes, the abiding place of Gods /
Holy Spirit; the brain and the tongue
are but the vehicles used to convey
these attributes from one soul to an
other
Il want to try and show the diff
ference tonight between religion and
theology. Theology has to do with
the brain-the intellect: religion is
the very offspring of the heart
Theology simply defines the plan of
religion; religion is the very thing
itself. 1t is theology put into prac-
tical operation. A man may have a
whole lot of theology, in that he pos
sesses a perfect theoretical knowledge
OF religion, but he may possess very
little religion itself. He may be well
versed in treatsies and commentor-
les; he may be familiar with the BIZ
BILE from Genesis to Revelation: he
may be adert in sermonizing; his
exegesis may be. perfect: he max be
eloquent, and able TO thrill his listen
ers. but if his heart. Is not right In
the sight of God. what. does IL mat
ter? Though | speak with the
tongues of men and of angels, and
have not love. it profiteth NE moth
ing III a man has a heart fiji OF
divine love; of zeal toward God, ehe-
ology will follow. 1t may not ba
studied out in the seminaries, but 1t
will he learned i'm the school of life
in the theological departments of
the world s experience presided over
by the greatest theologian that ever
came into this world-God's Holy
Spirit Some of the worlds great
est preachers and evangelists never
sat at the feet of the college pro-
fessors, but they have sat at the feet
of the Holy Spirit. the greatest of
theologians. who has got the pro-
fessors of Greek. and the professors
of Hebrew and all the professors of
homiletics beat to a finish. The
greatest evangelist of modern times
was Dwight l.. Moody. And Moody
made so many blunders when he
first started out, he was such a
nuisance. they wanted to put him
out of the church. One of the most
remarkable preachers of today is
Gypsy Smith, man with absolutely
no education whatever, a boy raised
among the Gypsies. nomadic. Hitter
ate. but whose heart has been touch
ed by the finger of God. have
heard him tell the story of his life
how his mother died when he
was "A mere boy. out there in the
Gypsy wagon of his people, how,
heart broken. he wandered off to
London; how he crept into a mission
hall one day and hid behind a door
and fell asleep, and awoke that night,
when a meeting was in progress, and
heard for the first time the words Of
! life; how he became converted, and
felt that he had the call to preach
and when he first began, and stood
up before the people, and endeavored
to give an exposition from a chapter