The Greeley tribune., 1911-11-23

dress what the church is doing Tor
the young people. His address was
taken largely from the paper he
read before the Baptist state con-
vention at Colorado Springs recent
ly. 1t follows:
The Living Word has impressed
the children of men always The
family, the playground and the
tolkmoot. primal groups, have been
touched by the truth and influenced
by religion The church, the school
and the state, derived institutions.
bent on character and security for
the people. have sought, more or
less directly, the Eternal-his truth,
his justice and his mercy: seeking
''The Lord. if haply they might
feel after him and find him, though
he is not far from each one of us:
for in him we live and move and
have our being" AS society ma
lures, cultural interests develop.
And may we not hold that needs,
domestic and spiritual, practical and
literary, social and ethical, and all
the needs of a refined civilization.
can be met by the manifold minis
tries of the Living Word?
4. The Social Life of Our Young
People Has Been Enriched
CuIu SuOufu Uc WSii poiu
he should express his good breed
ing He is born to air and to food
and to friends: rob him of any of
his inherited trinity of birth rights
and he dies. Give him fair play
and we may really understand, in
part, what "Of such is the kingdom
of Heaven" means. The little one
is even now in our home, perhaps,
shall we save him and give him
Christian nurture? Within the
last decade there have come into |
the ken of all educators, who are
alive, eugenics and biotics, two new |
sciences-so new that they have not |
become static.
At times we may have been tact
less. irresolute, partisan, short
sighted, and stupid in our social ser
vice to young people. yet. in spite
of this humiliating confession, to
quote our own great theologian.
"The Christian People,. "The
Christian Doctrine, 1.-The Christian
Power" still persist: for. even
through our failures and antagon-
isms, the social life of all our young
people is in process of enrichment,
for the Father of Spirits breathes
upon His offspring of this age. feeds
our own children upon the bread Of
life and He would give them nur-
tnre. Over all the earth Gods chos-
ea have wrought, for the minds and
the Wills and the hearts of His peo-
PIE. at their best. have been ready {
for expressi. n, not in crude. foolish, |
Sangling fashion. but in His way. +.
~As the heavens are higher than the ,
earth, so are my ways higher than y
your ways" il
4. Through the Fine Arts t
D. Architecture. The most F
distinctive things in the architecture
Of the leading Christian people Of
the earth are the peace and the 1
beauty. the thoughtfulness and the :
dignity. the strength and the secur- 4
~ OF their homes-castles. indeed I
and the very house in which an q
&nglishman lives is redolent. sug- L
gestive to the eye and almost vocal. [
Of the home ideals of Jesus. 8
t2). Sculpture. The ancient \
classic sculptor set forth the hum a
N form divine. Later, as in Mi O
cAAel Angeles Moses. the mighty '
body, the terrible anger, the omni- e
Dotent will rugged and awful as G
Sinai. seem to proclaim LET all c
the earth keep silence" Today, on b
an American campus for women, ?
wrought, clear and simple and true,
glistens in the light of Immortality, T
already. and warns the coolest !.
heart; for, wise Christian woman, :
with love like a mothers, may point '
her young up the pathway of the :
shining stars safe home to God. -
Another bit of American statuary ],
turns prophet thus: "A little child :
shall lead them" So may a SER ,,
mon in stone be found.
(3. Painting. Holman Hunt ,
died less than two years ago. AS -
young man he had the brains and
the courage and the force of char
Acter to cut loose. professionally.
from the fixed and the dead.
Through struggle and tribulation he
eocame a new man. At twenty-seven
~ gave the public his first 1.-The
Light Of the World. That concep-
xaOn, which Hunt would have given
= all the people. freely. became the
seasation of England. the most not
Asle achievement in art for the
esutury-a masterpiece.
(D. Engraving. Durer was a
Deoneer engraver U474-1528). An
aeching, Christ Healing the Sick,
- Rembrandt himself t1606-1ess)
= said to have been sold for only
sae hundred guilders. At least, a |
TOW modern etchers have inspired a |
1ove for nature that Is wholesome, |
- in Seymour Haden's water |
Meadow. Alphonse Legros not
oaly shows the airy flights Of . re-
fined Imagination. but he also de-
Dicts terror and the pathos Of daily
life in LA Mort du Vagabond'',
and. in Communion dams FEglise
q. Medard" critics see "vigor, dig
atty and grave sympathy in the
treatment of an ecclesiastical theme.
We must not forget that J. ]. Tis-
cot. with his remarkable record of
conversion to Christianity through
the study Of the necessities in art,
has standing among the celebrated
men who have Welded the needle of