The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-02
REV. TYLER ON TIE
 HOMES INFLUENCE
Stirring Sermon at NorwoOd
 Church Yesterday
IS OF A DIVINE ORDER
Two Straight Lines Cannot Make iri- angle, and Triangular Figure Is Necessary for Making of
 Perfect Human Trinity

At the Norwood Methodist church yes- terday morning the pastor, the Rev. H.
 E. Tyler, again took up the subject
 The Human Trinity" from the text
 'Ts 1t well with thee, is 1t well with
 thy husband, is it well with the ehiia'
 and she answered, 'It is well" lll ki. 4:26).
 The sermon was the second of se-
 ries which Dr. Tyler will deliver pi-
 monthly on the home question, at the Norwood Methodist church. These ser.
 mons later will be revised and VIII form the basis of a book which this well known clergyman is to write. MT. Tyler is the author of that excellent
 book, Mexico. Past, Present and
 Future" and Is a well known writer on
 sociological themes. Yesterdays theme was Home, It's na-
 ture and influence" upon which Dr. Ty-
 Ter said in part:
 "Home. what is it? Nature and in fluence.'
 Home does not mean just house as the Latin domus, the Creek oikia, Spanish la casa, or words of other lang udReS WOulu SuS6Cst,
 "Home is a resort of love, Of 1oy' of peace and plenty where supporting
 and supported polished friends and dear
 relations mingle into bliss
 Home Is where your heart is. It
 Is your very soul. It Is almost inde- pendent of its environment but awakes
 to it's sublimest and divinest self con
 sciousness in the human trinity prop erly housed with plenty. Nature of Divine Order 'Its nature is that of the Divine or der. It Is natural necessity from the fact that the home sentiment Is the strongest passion of the human soul except that of religion. We predicate the existence of the Divine being on
 the fact of mans worshipful nature the universal crying out of the soul for the eternal. So the univrsal passion of
 the home sentiment perdicates home as the plan of the Divine father.
 The strength of this sentiment and instinct has built about every living creature a home. From the chuckle Of the thrush along the fence in the brush to the singing of the mocking bird In the tree top near it's young; from the English sparrow sitting out on the cor nice of the buildings in the late art ernoon like old people In their rock CTS on the front verandas of their homes to the little gray squirrel that at the first approach of danger quickly hnos Its much loved home in the hollow Of the tree where its young are reared from year to year and where 1t rests at night with undisturbed slumbers- all of these. and each alike loves its den, for it Is home. Everybody has some place called home. At evening you see the rich man climbing up his granite steps to his mansion; the tired laborer leaving his desk or shop and vending his way to his humble cottage, the idler, street bum or criminal at some hour of the day or night plodding his way to some dirty den in cellar or garret-these places they call home. And this place called home Is unlike any other place in all the world.
 sweet are the thoughts that savor oi content
 The ouiet mind is richer than crows Sweet are the nights in careless slum- Der spent.
 The pocr estats scorns fortunes an. gry frown;
 Such sweet content, such minds, sucf sleep such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft dc miss
 The homely house that harbors quie rest
 The cottage that affords no pride ol care,
 The mien that 'grees with countr, music best,
 The sweet consort of mirth ant music's fare. | Obscured life sets down type of bliss A mind content both crown and king dom is