The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-08-12

-6SsxTaS after the waterbrook," as
heart of man for the Spirit
of God.
This was the experience of Frank
| lin, "one 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 Endeayor. 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:
Il have lived a long time eighty
one years., and the longer live the
more convincing proof | see of this
truth that God governs the affairs of
men. And if sparrow cannot fall to
the ground without his notice, Is it
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 eoncurring aid We shall
| proceed in the political building no
better than the builder of Babel, and
we shall become a reproach and by
word to all future ages. And what Is
worse, mankind may, hereafter, from
this unfortunate instance, despair of
- Itch Inc nv human
wisdom, and leave 1t 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 Uhe
convention of 1889 every morning be
| fore we proceed to business"
Franklin'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 l think Jesus is the
| greatest man that ever lived, | some
how cannot feel he is the Son of God"
Still there was something Juggling 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 creep up, and be
| like a we'll of water-that is, the well
of life To show that all this was
not a 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 it 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 a.
II. s." were that they saw everywhere.
After long discussion, In their humble
reasoning, they came to the conclusion
that they stood for Il Have Sinned."
TO settle the matter to their satisfac-
ton, 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 II 1t
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, II 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 will ever love to sing:
In the cross of Christ I glory,
Towering Ger the wrecks OF time
All the light OF sacred story
Gathers round its head sublime.