The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-31

ing in the worshipfui atmosphere of the evening. felt The hand that still impelied him. at
 once supported, suppressed
 | All the tunult and duenched 1t with quiet, and holy behest.
 Till the rapture was shut in itself, and the earth sank to rest
 l You need not be told that the first was an artisan, the second 6 florist, the third a scientist. while the rest were painter. poet, musician. philosopher, and saint, respectively. Each was walking in the world of his supreme interest.
 | Thoughts and Charity.
 "our thought world determines our character. No man can haDitually think bad thoughts and be a good man; no man can habituaIly think good 1 thoughts and be bad man. The mind | acts out the images that are before it, that are within 1t. The whole life re- spends to the idea that gets posses sion of us. --Bicycle novices Sknow that the fear of hitting a certain tree will carry then to It's center with in- finite precision. Golfers know that they must concentrate the mind on the | ball, the distance and direction 1t fs to go, or none can guess where 1t will | land What has the ball to do with my thoughts? What does 1t know of my i inward misgivings or mental iassl- tude? And yet 1t often responds. often with disappointing exactness, even to my unconscious movements. Scientific advertisers know the power of sugges- ton. If they describe foods, they seek so to suggest their deliciousness as to make us hunger for them.
 Lesson of . Statue.
 nf a GY a EFa girl once stood in the market place of an Italian city. It represented the slave as tidy, we'll dressed and hand some. A ragged, unkempt, forlorn street child. coming across the statue in her play, stopped and gagged at 1t in admiration. She was captivated by 1t. She gazed long and admiringly, 'till, moved by a sudden impulse. she went home and washed her face and combed her hair. The next day she stopped again and admired 1t and went home and mended her tattered clothes. Each day she found something new in it till her whole life was transformed by 1t. The great stone aceptransformed the lowly villager into its own beautiful | Image. Hence the vital Importance of living with our minds
 "If we are transformed into the likeness of the things we think about, the whole secret of saintliness lies in
 
 emptorily for mental housekeeping every day. Take down the pictures that have been turing you into sin and send them to the ash-heap. Sweep out the rubbish. dust, and dirt, the foul ness and filth. left by the feet of aliens you have been sheltering. Clease out the deadly germs you have so Ieis- griefs and fears, the old sorrow and | pain, that have been hiding in the dark corners. S
 "open the sky-lights. Open the doors to heavenly guests and hold fel- lowship with them alone. The light for character which Is so tense and at times so exhausting. is primarily a mental fight. There are no accidents in morals. The sin that so easily be- sets us is the one on friendly terms with our minds.
 Only infinite patience and tire. less persistence can hold us to the highest thought levels by which alone the richest selfhood is possible.
 Sitting on the slopes of Olivet op Thursday evening before His arrest. the Savior drew a picture of two wv. men grinding at the mill, when the end should come the one was taken and the other left. Measured with the tape line of the outer world the distance between them was the diameter of the millstone: measured with the tape line of the inner world the distance be- tween them was the distance from heaven to hell.
 That is a parable of everyday trag- edy. The majority of mankind are grinding at the mill. Grinding in the gray dawn of the morning, grinding in the golden glow of the noontide. grind ing in the gloaming. in the deepening darkness. grinding with waning strength, far past the souls midnight still grinding at the mill. Is that all life has for us? A thousand times no The soul that grlnds at the mill may feed upon the grist and grow while Il grinds. It may make every sweep of the millstone cut a larger area for it, self; tomorrow sweeping outside of to. day, next year outside of this year, the next decade outside this, till the last sweep of the millstone, circumscribe. the outmost interest of the human heart, the splendor long imprisoned within escapes and we are at home with God on the circle of the heavens This Ascended Life, which begins fl resurrection, achieves the Iofties l ideals, and creates a heavenly though
 world, belongs not to the things tha
 are seen but to the invisible order, an,
 is there centered with Christ in God It would seem from our passionate de votlon to the things that make up tn, . outer life that this were all Gu western civilization has developed vast machinery that to the casual ob server might seem toab be all there | |, of 1t. Every crime in the whole cata , logue Is committed to further bust 7 ness. Souls and bodies are ground u . in our mills and burnt up In our fur
 naces, and cut to pieces In and owe ! ! our counters till one might conclud
 that business is everything, the maj
 nothing. Here is the difficulty In tn
 way of the East Interpreting the west
 They can see the machinery of our civ
 llization but may miss It's spirit. 1 "The glare and glitter. the glow an f splendor. the comfort and joy of gor geous homes, luxurious equipage, splen [ did automobiles, modern cottages b n the sea and in the mountains, the purs . that Is large enough to open the pleas