Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-08-11

WY vary. "as the hart panteth
49, after the waterbrook," as
heart of man for the Spirit
of God.
This was the experience Of Frank
lin, zone of the rarest men of all his
tor" He was always a man who loved
his fellow.men. He could not help
but believe that there was a God. He
believed to the depth of his being that
this God the Father was ever guiding
and directing the destinies of men,
writes Rev. Frank N. Riale, D. D.. in
Christian Work and Endeavor. AS his
years ripened he found himself turn
ing TO heaven for constant guidance,
for man is soon without hope when he
is without prayer. Here are his words,
summing up all:
II have lived a long time eighty
one yeRrs), and the longer live the
more convincing proof l see Of this
truth, that God governs the affairs OF
men. And If q sparrow cannot fall to
the ground without his notice, is 1t
probable that an empire can rise with
out his aid? Except the Lord build
the house, we labor IN vain. / firm
ly believe this, and also believe that
without his concurring aid we shall
proceed in the political building no
better than the builder OF Babel, and
we shall become reproach and by"
word to all future ages. And what IL
worse, mankind may, hereafter, from
this unfortunate instance, despair Of
establishing government by human
wisdom, and leave It to chance and
war and conquest. ! therefore beg
leave to move that, henceforth, pray
ers, imploring the assistance Of
heaven and its blessing on our delib-
erations be held in this assembly (the
convention of 1881 every morning be-
fore we proceed to business"
FrankIIn's Last Moments.
Large as the vision Of this great
man was, it seemingly was not large
enough to catch the glorious vision Of
the divinity of our Lord. once he
said: Although 1 think Jesus is the
greatest man that ever lived, some
how cannot feel he is the Son Of God"
Still there was something tugging at
his heart that made him feel these
very words may have framed out Of
his life far more than they framed in,
for during his last earth moments
there is recorded of him some most
significant words:
The experience of George Eliot, as
all know, was almost counterpart, a
parallel, of this rift of soul. When
she wrote the book that took men
nearest into the heavenly places, in
that beautiful character OF Dina Nor
ris, constantly did she have before her
on her desk, as she wrote, the crucifix.
Bigger than the mind. ever is the
heart. However much Calvary is
crowded down it will creepup, and be
like well of water-that is, the well
of life. To show that all this was
not fetish, so much as a most vital
fact, this genius of Romola said, that
of all the books in the world nothing
was to be compared to Thomas a
Kempis' limitations Of Jesus" This
was her constant companion which
she pored over and formed as the
mama OF heaven to her heart.
The great UNEMPLOYED remainder"
the great unconscious plus" of life, is
only brought to light by Calvary and
the cross.
What Makes Calvary Sublime.
Just what 1t all means can perhaps
be no better expressed than in little
homely incident of long years back.
Two of the simplest men of toll were
passing along the highway past a
Catholic burying ground. They both
began to wonder what the letters II.
H. s." we're that they saw everywhere.
After long discussion, in their humble
reasoning, they came to the conclusion
that they stood for II Have Sinned."
TO settle the matter to their satisfac-
tfon, they came to my dear old father,
the minister of the little parish. They
told him what they had concluded the
letters stood for, and asked him If It
was not so. My father smiled, and
then told them, Of course, that they
were the first letters of the Latin
words, which meant Jesus the Savior
Of Men" After a little, yet most
thoughtful pause, one of the men an
swered: But, Mr.. Minister, It is
only because have sinned that Jesus
came as the Savior Of the world" Ny
father said that then and there he
realized the whole story of redemp-
ton as never before-that because
there was the universal sense Of sin
Calvary came to meet this universal |
need. That is what makes Calvary |
sublime" That is why the whole
world win ever love to sing:
II the cross OF Christ glory.
Towering DER the wrecks OF TINA |
All the light OF sacred story
Gathers round it's head sublime.