The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-02-24
Irom tie Elclz

By BILL cox.

win men and women to Christ. We
read of the men and religion move
ment and cities of any size are al
most constantly the center of evan
gelical effort; reports show that
multiplied thousands are annually
formally declaring that they have
enlisted as members of the church
militant. What the ultimate effect
of this seeming awakening of the
religious spirit in the world is can
only be estimated after we shall
have had time and opportunity to
observe the kind of characters de-
veloped in those who have profess
sedly become subjects of Prince
Emanuel 1t is easy for us to say 81
am of Christ but it is distressing
ly common to find those who are of
Cephas or of Paul. A profession of
faith without works is dead The
practical fundamental principle of
the spirit of Christ is human SYM
pathy.
A rational conception of God is
that He is all powerful, omniscient,
omni-present and that His loving
care for all creation prompted Him
to create worlds, carpet them with
vegetation, bring into existence ac-
tive, joyous animal life with man
as the earthly ruler The province
of all good rulers is to foster a
spirit of harmony throughout the
hnnn n rin nf thair rAnnh1ic ~ IN
dom or empire. God gave man do
minion ever the fowls of the air,
the creatures of the deep and the
beasts of the field with the provision
that In the exercise of his authority
he should strive to bring about and
maintain that same spirit of har-
mony which characterizes the move
ments of the heavenly bodies.
Volumes have been written and
millions of discourses have been
delivered on the one theme, the
worship of God, yet the common
conception as evidenced by what we
witness along this line would indi-
cate that mans mind has not passed
the childhood state of development.
In spirit we witness the sacred
graves of ancient times, long
prayers and impessioned psalms,
formal ceremonies are considered by
many true worship. Some seem to
think that the only true worship
consists in contributing their sub
stance in response to every call
without stopping to think whether
or not the cause is meritorious.
->--Tirerr can be no truer, more con-
secrated worship of God than u
modest. unobtrusive effort to estab-
lish among men complete cond1-
ton of harmony and that harmony
can only come as tho result of uni
versal human sympathy.
Sympathy is that attribute of our
nature which goes forth on its mis-
sion of mercy and compassion and
braces not only our neighbors across
the fence, but penetrates the most
obscure places of earth and with
extended arms gathers in every
tribe, kindred and nation. True
sympathy knows no color line, is
ignorant of the points of the COM
pass. ignores political affiliations,
leaps the boundless ocean, tears
down creeds, goes into the gutter
after the fallen one, passes between
the bars OF prisons administering
to prisoners, looks pityingly upon
the tenderloin district, lends help-
ing hand to the home of poverty,
and when the icy hand of the Hrch-
enemy to human life invades the
sacred precincts of happy homes, It
hovers with the tenderness or the
mother dove about the stricken
ones
Whatsoever ye would that men
should do unto you do ye even SO
unto them only means let your
neighbor's grief be your grief, let
his joys mako you joyful. A heart
of flesh instead of heart OF stone
means one that will palpitate in
deep sympathy with the joys ana
sorrows of others instead OF cola
indifference. Burned sacrifices Oh
bulIocks, doves, lambs and spices
the prophets told us were sechcn
in the nostrils of the Lord thou-
sands of years ago but there mas
vet to be recorded in history, sacred
or profnne, where the exercise Oh
human sympathy has faileo 10
elicit the applause of all beholder3.
Human sympathy is that invisfbie
chain which binds us together III
bonds of mutual good will IL II
like the wind that bloweth where II
listeth." We can hear the souna
thereof but can not tell from whence
II cometh or whittier 1t goeth.
Words are inadequate to give II eA-
preston 1t is more readily discern
able in a moistencd eye, tremor III
the voice or a gentleness of touch- 1t
ia not its commercial value we ap-
preciate but the realization that the
very soul of others is in harmony
with ours. Sympathy is harhohS
and when universal human sympa-