The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-26

lives, they are nevertheless celebart
ing the worlds great Savior from sin,
and as they remember the homes of
the long ago. Oh so long ago. they,
too, feel some of the Christmas glow,
and perhaps slip in and buy some lit
tie token for the old mother and faith
er in some PARKWAY country home.
The semi pagan phases of Christmas
| instead of growing more pronounced,
are. !, think, diminishing; but have
not disappeared. People can be re-
| spectacle today, and pray, and be
damned The devil is clother like an
angel of light, and does his best work,
not Summing, but making people for
get others in their own self-pleasing.
| There is fine passage in one of
| Tolstoi's books which illustrates the
point. The hero is striving to ac-
cruelty to Russian prisoners and says:
TT all lies in the fact that men
think there are circumstances when
| one may deal with human beings
| without love; and there are no such
circumstances. One may deal with
down trees, make bricks hammer
| iron, without love; but you cannot
deal with men without it, just as one
| cannot deal with bees without being
| careful. If you deal carelessly with
| bees, you will injure them, and will
yourself be injured. And so with
men,
The Christ spirit has at least won a.
place in the worlds pantheon Of
| ideals.
Thousands who do not adopt the
cross as the symbol of their lives
| nevertheless admire it in the lives Of
| others. Christ has been admitted to
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! world heroes in a world not quite will
| ing yet to worship him as a god, but
| nevertheless proud of him as a Great
High Priest of the race. If his sceptre
| has not won the right Of empire over
| all human hearts, it has won at least
| an invincible kingdom in the world
| against which the gates of hell shall
| not prevail. The great minds of this
| age have been moulded, not by the
ideals of a Caesar. but by the life of
| the lowly Nazarene. Gladstone said:
! More than influence of my father or
mother. more than the social posi-
| ton in which 7 was born, more than
than all of these together. and all
other influences. my life has been
| moulded by the influence of Jesus Of
| Nazareth"
By the divine spirit of the suffering
servant the patriarchs were shaped
| into cody patters even before his
| Incarna tion. I call to your recollection
| Jacob, a mean, bargaining Jew, cheat
| ing his old blind father, and robbing
| his weak, hungry brother of his birth
right. transformed into nature so
regal that when he stood in the grand
| est courts of ancient times in peasant
| dress, it was the Jew who blessed the
monarch, and not the monarch who
| blessed the Jew
| And Moses, so quick and impetuous
as to strike dead an Egyptian with a
| blow transformed before the pillar of
| cloud and fire into the meekest man
| of history
Oh. John, an Office seeker with a
| nature so passionate that he wanted
| to call down fire upon Samaritan
| village, transformed into a model so
spirftal and gentle as to be known as
| the beloved disciple
| Or, Livingston, a Scotchnan with
worldly honors becoming him, trans
! formed into the apostle to Africa, en-
during terrible fevers scores of times,
and finally yielding his life while on
his knees in his tent, in order to
| open up the dark continent for his
master
| Or Benjamin Franklin, with all the
hcnors and emoluments of a new
world awaiting his genius, devoting
| himself to quiet and unselfish efforts
! 10 help his fellows: who when strand
| gu once UPON h udIlS0EOuS COdSJ VI
England, in commenoration of his es
| cape, tho advised to build a shrine
| showed the spirit of a servant by
building d lighthouse on Bishop Rock
Or, Roger Williams, who sunk him
self and risked his life in order to
/ apostle of religion freedom in Ameri
ca! This is an age of splendid Civ
ing Nothing like 1t before ! Men are
doing things for Christ on a truly
princely scale.
Time would fail me to mention the
great host. the Offenders. the Shaftes-
burys. and others The Salvation Army
has this spirit. The Daughters Of Is
abella have this spirit. and many
others who are today making glad
thousands Of human hearts.
In proportion as once exhibits this
Christ spirit he will be agtonished to
find himself crowned among the
great
Christ undertook to restore the
shattered divine image Slowly but
surely that image has been raised in
the earth until his prophecy is nearer
fulfllment than We suppose, And I.
IL I be lifted up, will draw all men
unto myself"
| If one wants to feel the thrill of
true greatness let him do noble deeds.
Not even the cup OF cold water given
shall be without its reward. 1t is
! Sa1O IHGI the IT1NSieIf HOIlC0S on the
shores of blue Galilee, the most beau
tiful flowers in all that land of flowers
but strangely enough. as he proceeds
down the Jordan river and approaches
the Dead sea the flowers begin to dis
appear and on the shores of that lake
of salt no flowers appear at all. The
: sea of Galilee gives away all its
; waters, and in consequence flowers
: bloom and flourish The Dead sea
: keeps all that is poured into it. its
waters are dead and no flowers bloom
} upon it's stasnant shores! This is
: characteristic Of the unselfish and the
| selfish lives.
9 joaquin Miller. writing on the death
, of Peter Cooper, a good and great
r American Philanthropist, who after
many generous enterprises, left $780,
> 900 to establish Cooper Union in New
5 York. practical institution for edu-
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