The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-01-03

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Some people remind me Of an iron
man I have seen used to collect pen
MES. He would hold out his hand and
lift his cap to receive the coins and
drop them easily into a slot, but it
took a monkey wrench to get them
Quit
There seems to be too much grudg-
ing giving, and we fail to get the
sweetness out of it as a Part of sacred
worship.
Liberal Policy.
1t takes a liberal policy to conduct
a successful church. People who are
close in their private affairs do not
always make good leaders for public
institutions. There is a difference be-
tween a private estate and church.
A private estate, at the death Of the
owner, is wound up and that is the
end Of it. A church belongs to all the
future, is never wound up, but shall
outlast the very stars.
You should, in my opinion, press
forward towards new and modern
plant. 1t is an age of progress and
church building. You cannot afford TO
fall behind. The greater Pensacola
will demand greater building Of you.
1t Is our duty to plan for the future.
Lengthen your cords and strengthen
your stakes. 1t is easier to succeed in
big undertakings for God than in little
ones. Undertake great things.
Lay out your plan and then lay your
self out on your plan.
Learn from the world. What church
sits up at nights planning like the
Blount Club? Or the Board of Trade :?
The church needs solid organization.
The bank has its system, the railroad
has its own, the postofice has a sys-
TEN, and the church OF today must
take to itself some of these intelligent
methods.
Press forward to a better city, a
city without barroms or brothels,
without boodlers or buns, whose citi-
zens are God fearing, whose aims are
high, and whose eyes are lifted up to
the hills of the New Jerusalem.
read a German story of certain poor
man who always used to go about his
work in such spirit of joy and con-
tentment with such beautiful visions
shining ia his eyes, that he was called
the dreamer. When he married, his
home seemed to be full of the ideal
peace and gladness- His wife and
children were visited by the same
visions. When a friend asked how it
came to pass, the man confessed that
hG carried about with him all the
time the dream that he was a king,
and that his wife was the queen, and
that his children were princes and
prlncesses. They all shared the dream
and lived it out pleasantly together.
so that every pleasure was royal
entertainment and every meal 2 royal
feast. Thus their common life was
lifted up and beautifed.
Everyone Vision.
So everyone may have a vision, and
not only dream noble things but do
them and make life, death and the
vast forever one grand, sweet sons.
Among my Christmas cards was this
handed me by Editor Mayes, of your
city, and written by Walt Mason:
"A little work, a little sweating, a
few brief, flying years; little joy, a
little fretting, some smiles and then
some tears; a little resting III the
shadow, struggle to the height, q
futile search for FL Dorado, and then
we say Good Night. Some toiIing in
the strife and clangor, some years of
doubt and debt, some words We spoke
in foolish anger that we would fain
forget; some CHEEKY words We said
unthinking, that made a sad heart
light; the banquet with its feast and
drllking-and then We say Good
Night.
Some questioning of creeds and
theories, and Judgment Of the dead,
while God, who never sleeps, is watch
ing overhead; some little laughing and
some signing some sorrow. some de-
light; a little music for the dying, and