The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-12
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I SERMONS
BY
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TEE uNHASTINC, UNrEvERISH COZ


down"-John vi. 10
God cares for calendars No use ris
ing Mt . a. III. TO find fault with dark
ness and ask why the sun has not
risen. 1t IL not time. Though all men
should clamor and complain, the sun
will not rise until the appointed time
There's an exact second for thar
event. Astronomers may calculate "
that way. The Almighty timed hour,
minute and second when the star
should nash TO the wise men and the
angels sing to the shepherds. When
his Son came there was divine ordcr
mine hour is not yet come" he said
again and again When the work was
done he said. "The hour IL at haul
The calendaring was complete.
One April afternoon In Gnlilec iii
yinity and humanity stood face To
face. A mighty miracle was near.
Five thousand people were going tn be
fed from a lads lunch basket. THERE'S
great confusion. danger OF an nwru;
sian peasants at the cars celebration,
yet 200 were trampled to death. RNt-
fish bayonets pierced famine crnzed srt.
ferers in India before relief corn could
he distributed. Christ calls hat.
No tumult. with the throng trampiInE
down the weak. make the men Stt
down" There's no hurry, no fussiuG,
No nf I'D
Tho American Disease.
Hurry, justly or unjusty, is called
| "amerlcanitis," the American disease
Our climate, dry and overplus with or
ygen; competitive system. honor and
opportunity reckoning at every street
corner the very American "attn0s-
phere," breed nervousness, ovcrsoIiC!-
tude, dyspepsia. premature death. The
| Frenchman shrugs his shoulders, laughs
| pins flower on his coat, IS off To tho
play. The German after dinner slowly
| lights his pipe Frau says, "A GUS
toner is in the shop" Zach, himmri
let him watt" John Bull is rosy cheek
ed, red bloodcd; Brother jonathan thin,
wiry, cadavcrous. He must git there
| or bust" "Lawd. purr-vuSS,' drawicd
my English friend as | dragged hun
| through q fierce jam down the steps %
the subway and the car door was snap
ped in our faces, "is this the law9t
train today?" NO" clicked; "thcre'Ii
! be another in minute" | can heir
his big hearty British laugh yet. who
| is setting this pace? Some Invisible
| malevOlcnt national spirit driving ~
| on The whole structure OF Amer
! lean society is race for the prize.
I I've seen the rauChmcn on the pla ~
| take blazing branding irons and burn
! the mark of ownership on horse and
steer. Hurry is taking fiery brand
and putting its mark on the America"
! face.
Mans Mania For Speed.
There's something In our climate dry
, and electrical that brings necrosis -
. activity. We are SO,OOO.0O0 charged
| galvanic batteries. Attach one Of MS
! to n desk, pulpit, pen, and we
flash on till the current is exhausted
If there are thirty porches in a row
, there will be at least ninety rocking
chairs, all going furiOusly, while the
occupants tell eXcitedly, possibly
ShriIlv, of an entertainment whore they
nearly died" laughing. On the way
home the darkness was "Egyptian,' it
raned "pitchforkS," and the mud was
knee deep" Stand at the ferry, he
railroad station, the trolley terminus.
See the crowd surge on or dash IT.
fighting going mp stairs or down,
SQuirming and elbowing to get through
the gateway, What's the hurry? No
one knows. The Niagara gorge is a
| swift stream. but it bears no vessels
of commerce. The autoiSt gocH a. a
frightful clip in the hope OF getting
somewhere he doesn't need TO 90 in as
small Il fragment Of time as the speed
J laws will allow He has II dread NJ
being considered "slow." To he q has
been is disgrace. "Old 800 once
the pride of the New York Central.
holder OF all express records. now
draws n milk train along the Hudson
From Empire State express to milk
/ train! Degradation! That's the specter
that haunts our national American
, life. Yet our mental picture OF the
Father Of His Country is loftily calm
No book or Grafton on Lincoln would
, be complete with the adjective
"patient" Our mightest general was
! the silent man OF Galena." With OUr
| twentieth century eighteen hours 10
, Chicago speed are we any better than
when Samuel Adams drove from RoS.
ton to Philadelphia in an old chai,.
that squeaked with patriotism?
1.-THE ROYAL Road To-
It's an age Of electricity swapping
and cracking. Electricity seeks short
circuits. It's the day Of short story
/ Dickens, Eliot and Hawthorne are for.
gotten. Magazines are even abandon.
ing the serial story. Sermons Spoken
must be twenty minutes those printed
must be tabloid. It's the bark Of ~"
five inch rapid fire gun rather than tHn
boom of the thirteen inch ordnance Ed
ucation IS rushed. Degrees are con
fcrred instead OF Spanish at
Glance" business Taught In Ten
Lessons" Colleges offer cross cuts to
diplomas. One correspondence school