Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-18
SATURDAY NIGHT
&2S SERMONS
.W-A@ By
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THE MYSTERY OF POWER.

! Text, Eye shall receive power after that
the Holy Ghost is come upon you.'-Acts
is.
Man was created creature Of power.
| "Have dominion" said the voice Of his
omnipotent Creator. Then man went
forth to be a growing and exhaustless
power. All life Is search after pow
er. Any acquired thing is Of value
only as 1t gives power. Work is power
applied. Wealth is Its reward. A mil
lionaire has power, Il 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 filled
with marvellous something waiting to
be released and used! Man himself
without it not much better than mass
Of soil clay. out In the f1eld-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, G,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 $2,5OO,O00 worth OF
metal, that floating fortress, that NOV
able citadel, was lifted out Of water
and dropped back into the muddy har-
Dor, a total wreck, with 260 mangled
human bodies. The ''power' that did
it7 Oh, few bushel baskets would
have held it all! Man harnesses
Niagara to furnish traction power and
light cities twenty miles away. he
catches wind and lightning, sends bis
message on quivering ether, photo
graphs through solids with < rays.
carries In his vest pocket 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 SUMS
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. Tho
house exists in the mind Of the builder
before brick is laid or timber Is Joined.
Indeed, the conception Of thing Is the
first and largest part. Mentality Is
power. Scho0lhouses are power houses.
SchoOlless nations are powerless ma
tons. Thoughts live; things die. A
couple poems, q code Of morals, sys-
tenn Of legislation or Jurisprudence,
few forms Of architecture, some bits
Of music and a few great inventions
stand like milestones along the path
Of human history. They represent pow
er Of the intellect. Formerly body
swayed mind; appetite and desire rul-
ed. Now mind sits on its throne Of
power and controls the body, tells how
and what it may or may not eat, by
conscious efforts heals its own dis
eases, rebuilds. Many thinkers boldly
declare man Is mind only. True or
untrue, the master mind Of the uni
verse still bids man have mental do
minion. And his word gravely assures
him that "as he thinksth in his heart
@ Is be-"
Spiritual Power.
'"Through three points not In straight
line one circumference, and one only,
may be drawn" geometry teaches us.
Dynamic, mental and spiritual power
are three points through which the
Great Designer would draw his human
circle. Eye shall receive power" Who
shall? The sons Of God. Who are the
sons Of God? They that have the
spirit Of (}od. How shall they receive
It? Out on Atlantic doat thousand
ships. Secret message comes flashing
from Washington. Which ship Will
ret it? That one at whose masthead
IL receiver tuned to executive sender
in Capital City. Christianity Is re-
ligion Of power. The power isn't tenn
poral, although 1t gains 1t; not IN
tellect, though it claims 1t. 1t Is spirit"
nal. The need Of church today IL not
wealth, culture or numbers; it Is pow
er! Every church should be 4 spirit
nal power house, every member
conducting wire. The word II "duna'
mis-" from which our dynamite"
Dynamite Is Is per cent calcined, sift-