The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-04
SATURDAY NIGHT
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THE MYSTERY OF POWER.

nave uOIIlllllOn, Salu the voice OF MS
omnipotent Creator. Then man went
forth to be a growing and exhaustless
power. All life is a search after pow
or. Any acquired thing is of value
only as 1t gives power. Work is power
applied. Wealth is its reward. A mil
honaire has power, a multimillionaire
more power. Progress is power NOV
Ing toward goal. Happiness is power
being enjoyed Science, art, literature,
human institutions, represent degrees
and forms of power. a universe filed
with marvellous something waiting to
be released and used. Man himself
without it not much better than a mass
of soil clay out in the tield-so much
phosphate and carbonate of lime, sugar,
potassium, soda, phosphorus, calcium,
magnesium, hydrogen, oxygen, nitro
gen-but with this power he is man
plus the possibilities of an omnipotent
God! Gods call to his child is to eX-
ercise power and become not "a little
lower than the angels" but, as the re-
vised version puts it, little lower
than God"
Dynamic Power.
Dynamics, science of physical power,
Is mighty fascinating On night of
Feb. Is, 1898, mammoth battleship,
31S feet long, 6,6S2 tons displacement,
twenty-five huge guns, twelve inch ar
NOR plate, engines, coal, ammunition,
stores, a total weight beyond safe con-
lecture, lay In the harbor of Havana.
Suddenly that $2,50O,000 worth of
metal, that floating fortress, that NOV
able citadel, was lifted out of water
and dropped back into the muddy har-
Dor, total wreck, with 26O mangled
human bodies. The power" that did
1t? oh, few bushel baskets would
have held 1t all! Man harnesses a
Niagara to furnish traction power and
light cities twenty miles away. He
catches wind and lightning, sends his
on quivering ether, photo
graphs through solids with X rays,
carries in his vest pocket a tiny speck,
a milligram of radium, which for its
lifetime will do work Of 10000 foot
pounds. These are mere toys, SYM
bols only Of the power this Almighty
One commands him to use. The suns
heat, the oceans lift, the winds force,
the ether's electricity, are yet untouch-
ed. The everlasting, omnipotent God,
Creator of the ends of the earth and
the confines of the universe, bids him
faint not nor be weary.
Mental Power.
Back of human developed power tax
en- from things stands human thought.
Before things has come thought. The
house exists in the mind of the builder
before brick is laid or timber is joined.
Indeed, the conception of a thing is the
FIRST and largest part. Mentality Is
power. SchoOlhOuses are power houses.
Schoolless nations are powerless ma.
lions. Thoughts live; things die. 4
couple poems, code Of morals, sys-
tenn of legislation or Jurisprudence,
few forms of architecture, some bit;
Of music and a few great inventions
stand like milestones along the path
Of human history. They represent pow
err of the intellect. Formerly body
swayed mind; appetite and desire rub
ed. Now mind sits ON its throne of
power and controls the body, tells how
and what it may or may not eat, by
efforts heals its own dis
Eases, rebuilds. Many thinkers boldly
1eclare man is mind only. True OF
untrue, the master mind of the uni.
verse still bids man have mental do.
niniOn. And his word gravely assures
lim that las he thinketh In his heart
20 is he''
Spiritual Power.
Through three points not in straight
Inc one circumference, and one only,
nay be drawn" geometry teaches Us.
Dynamic, mental and spiritual power
Ire three points through which the
Great Designer would draw his human
'ircle. "Ye shall receive powerr Who
hall? The sons of God. Who are the
IONS of God? They that have the
'pirit of God. How shall they receive
t? Out on Atlantic float a thousand |
hips. Secret message comes flashing |
rom Washington. Which ship will |
ret It? That one at whose masthead |
S receiver tuned to executive sender |
n Capital City. Christianity is Ye- |
igion of power. The power isn't tenn
'oral, although it gains it; not in
elect, though it claims it. 1t "a spirit
lal. The need of church today is not |
wealth, culture or numbers: it is pow
r! Every church should be spirit
Ial power house, every member a
onducting wire. The word is "duna-
MIS-" from which our dynamite"
Dynamite is % per cent calcined. sift-
d, infusorial earth and IS per cent
Earth is powerless until
headed with nitroglycerin. Man is
lay till Holy Spirit comes; then he
ecomes spiritual dynamite. He is not
My saved, but savior. Peter was an
nlearned, ignorant fisherman, cow
rdly, vacillating, but on day of Pen
ecost "adamant and omnipotence.
lis words were dynamite. The place
'as spiritual dynamite When
be dust had cleared away 5000 souls
'ere added to the church. The church