The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-13

intellectual and spiritual being. They
have made us what we are. according
as we have dealt with them, THAT
which hath been. IL now
Recall Just here, for purpose Of IL
Illustration. an interesting fact about
glaciers which geoiogists tell us. There
are deep ravines. dotted here and there
found In some regions Of the earth,
but deep into the walls OF the ravines
are fndelible marks, huge scratches,
caused by glacier having passed
slowly along there. millions OF years
ago. II may be. As II moved, IL carved
first, the record of It's course. Next,
II melted leaving q great heap Of
OF miles away. SO II is with our char
acters Past events have left their
traces upon us and within us. It has
been well said. I'VE are like self regis
terfng thermometers. On our turning
a disk. the temperature Of every min.
ute Of the day is exactly marked. The
moods and tempers of our days find
record In US. The fact IL terrible one.
Were We gifted enough we could read
ope anothers personal history In our
speech and acts" Sometimes the
coarseness Of a life tells the tale. We
need not special powers Of insight to
see In an impure man the evidence OF
past years OF unchaste thxfking. filthy
reading, foul associations and Iewd liv-
Ing. Equally plain would refined sin
appear were we keen enough to see It.
Again. many people, you know, real
iy believe there IL Recording Angel
whose duty II Is to keep an account
of our actions. The idea originated.
doubtless. from st. Johns statement In
Revelation about the angel and the
book. Certainly. however, none Of us
Is so simple as to fancy the angel
writes with a material pen and Ink
upon a material page. and 80 Ans vol.
ume after volume until a library i is
made Of each ones personal history.
1t In not necessary to believe that for
che evident reason each one of us js
his own recording angel. fnasmuch as
everything IL written in what we are.
At the day Of Judgment, when the se-
crets OF all hearts shall be revealed,
the truth win be seen ..that which hath
been. IL now" The preacher Of ages
ago. and the scientist Of today agree
In teaching that each one of us shall
bear In himsel-the one from the ma
terial and the other from the spiritual
side-ths whole history Of his life.
Reasoning from effect to cause. win
lav bare our secret personal history.
Our condition at that time will reveal
our past The record OF our lives God
will see. Instantly, In our characters
In word, the results Of the law of
continuity In spiritual life will mani
fest themselves as In letters of FIRE.
But this Is not all. by any means.
for the preacher gives us another
truth--or perhaps should say anoth-
err phase Of the same truth-equaiiy as
solemn. equally as profound. equally as
far reaching when he says, 'srhat
which is to be. hath already been"
What does he mean? Why Of course he
| means. what will be. has been. In 9TH
er words. Is now, or, to put It differ
emily the future Is bound up in the
present Just as the present Is the
result of the past. Just as our 'todays"
reveal our Yesterdays" so. too. our
"todays" foretell our "tomorrows." In
| the one case we work from today
backward-from the present to the
| past. In the other. we work from to-
day forward-from the present to the
future. And this Is so because life is
unbroken. Moreover. 1t IL unbreakable
unless we receive into our life higher
power, divine force. Present pur-
poses. present habits. will almost sure