The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-10-26

you feel at once as If my work, my
pleasant task, was we'll begun.
lie has called up some very sweet
rccotlcctions indeed Of those early
days, and l thank God for the PRIV
ilegc OF grasping his hand and hear
Ing OF his good work, as we go along
ooWn the valley with our faces
toward the setting Of the sun.
Long may he live.
saw, tho other day, where it
was stated that man was at his
best at sixty-1ive. Well, DR.. Roller
and have a long way to go yet be-
fore we get there
DR.. Osler, Of Baltimore few
years ago stated that when a man
was sixty he ought to be chloroform-
ed lie is now past sixty, and has
changed his mind and says a man
ought to live to be a hundred and
twenty. One Of my grandmothers
hVcd to Ce one hundred and two,
anu l can say what q very few men
can say and that is | have heard my
grandmother tell of the Revolution
airy War. She died at one hundred
ten, and many time have | sat at
her feet and heard her tell Of the
soldiers in red coats. My grand
father fought in the Revolutionary
War
1t is a great pleasure indeed to
gPeet you here this beautiful after
noon, and l assure you gentlemen,
II | may be OF any service or help
fulness to YOU | shall feel that God
has blessed me and as I trust made
de blessing to you
The subject 1 have chosen for the
afternoon is:
Death At Frolic.
According to history, both secular
and sacred, perhaps the greatest
city in the world was the City, of
Babylon. We may get some idea of
It's wonderful proportions when we
recall that in the description Of it
is stated that a wall surrounded the
city fifteen miles each way,-ffteen
miles on each Of the four sides-that
TINS wall was three hundred and
hfty feet high and eighty fee,
thick. That the people could go up
on the inside on an incline road to
the top Of this wall, and that
charlots might be driven abreast on
the top Of that wall The River
Euphrates flowed under one wall,
passed through the city and flowed
out under another wall.
Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans
made his headquarters in this Won
rerful city Of Babylon. He had
every luxury that the ingenuity CT
man had Invented, and there was no
dynamite, no machine, no gun in
those times that could batter down
Wa like that
They were NEST wonderful build
rrs the world ever has known, In
the ruins of the Temple of the San
ct i~'tcc ! have seen walls not less
'EfU twenty feet from the ground in
t2"se walls hewn stone larger ana
lonHer than any palace Pullman car
aiIng your railroad. = helped to
measure some eighty-fiye feet long,
I'tteen feet one way and fourteen
2Eothe;. No machinery in existence
low could put them there. No ma
Ni1' 10y ho" III ShlSlellce could take
th&fn away from there 1t simply
SHOWS what wonderful builders these
PeoP-e were. And the thought is
suggested to me here that, you have
been building in this city more
wonderful than the walls Of Babylon
or >he Temple of the Sun at Balbec.
rot in Acre stone and mortar, ana
great, immense buildings, but build
ing for that which is better-build-
Ing Tor men. | have examined the
beautiful building Of the Younh
: Men Christian Association, ana
moro than any other building on
earth, perhaps, these buildings are
designed for the whole man. We.
pastors of churches, are trying to
look after the spiritual, and mucn
OF the temporal welfare Of our hocks,
but the Young Mems Christian Asso.
cation looks after the SPIRITUAL
mental and physical-the whole
man, and it seeks to build and round
out the whole man,
Ana so 1T is a great compliment
indeed to the citizeAs Of Charleston
and Of Charleston herself, that Won
have spent the money you have to-
day to have put up the building
that you have, which is a monument
TO the good sense and religious and
generosity Of the citizens Of this
city.
BelShaZzar, when he was in this
wonderful city Of Babylon, defed the
world. 1t is true that the Syrian
army was besieging the city. They
mad been 'outside for months and
months, but what did he care
There was no power could beat down
those walls. He laughed IN the
face OF the besieging army.
One day he determined 10 hauo :,