Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-26

S*A QlSSlpdl6 II. III
only one way
49, $3.50 So could this be
done-he must
displace it by something else.
Never in all the history of the race
were the appliances for physical we'll
being so numerous and we'll adapted
to the end sought as today. Home
making, Notwithstanding the passing
of the single dwelling as home, was
never so perfect; sanitation is far
and away superior to any period OF
the past; medical and surgical skill
defy many diseases that were former
ly fatal; institutions for the care and
cure of defections of various kinds
/ are found even in small places; pro-
vision is lavishly made for the educa-
ton of the young in literature, sci
ence, and art as never before; and
millions of money are being poured
out, and great conferences are being
held in advancement of universal
peace-but the cry is yet heard,
/
Rest for the weary soul"
We may ask. Why is this, when the
things Just enumerated are undenied
facts? We may have partial answer
in the consideration of the things that
stand out as an offset to these things
facts as undeniable as they. If we
consider the conditions which charac.
| terize all activities we are given
pause If we look at men in business
life, whether in commerce, finance
manufacturing or even agriculture
the elements of competition and
chance keep the nerves stretched; il
we consider the professions, law, med
icine, or theology, the rivalry, how
ever inexcusable, proves a nerve
racking experience; and it we enter
the spheres of politics, the game al
first pleasant, at last comes to effort
to overcome opponents sometimes by
chicanery or even the use OF corrupt
practices. To such men the modern
conveniences and appliances bring lit
tie relief. Even that which was pos
|
yond the reach of the mails or the
telegraph by an ocean voyage, is nc
longer possible. And so it is that
men are crying for the lodge in the
wilderness, the man Of sixty seeks his
chicken farm, in few years to find
disappointment
Is the Case Hopeless?
Just at this point the Christian re
ligion, by it's head, Jesus Christ, ap
pears with a solution of this problem
He says: peace, I give unto you,
and all that man needs, Of rest, quiet
contentment and more, is offered
Loyalty to what Jesus meant. com
pels US to say that the peace here
offered rests on another peace. This
peace belongs to experience, the
thing men and women are crying for
That peace refers to the right rela
tionship with God, the lack of which
is the true explanation of the unrest
from which we would escape. That
peace is a status or condition secured
by trusting or resting on Jesus
| Christ, the Son of God, the only me.
diator between God and man. We
| have peace with God through faith
and are placed in position where we
can have the peace of God, that Jesus
speaks of in the text. In no case can
a man have the peace of God without
the pence with God. emphasis being
CH the propositions.
The world gives to the babest part
of our being, to the part that relates
us to the brute creation, and only in
exceptional cases to the intellectual,
If so how ephemeral is its Offering
for today with no promise Of tomor'
dow!
Jesus Parallels This Giving.
He gives to the highest part of our
being, the spirit. His invitation to
men as followers is not to Moham-
medan heaven, or a modern club
house, but to physical hardship and
suffering-but it is to the spirit,
which is to live forever and whose
requirements are lasting. He gives
really, and the man or woman who by
any chance seeks the peace because
of conscious worth is doomed to dis.
appointment. What he gives satisfies
1t is deep, quiet, strong It took
away the fears of the early martyrs,
it enabled a Mckinley to die calmly
and gladly and to sing Nearer, My
God, to Thee" and today enables Chi
nese and other Christian martyrs to
face death without fear.
This peace was tested by Jesus
himself and sustained him all the
way to the cross, and it is the peace
of him who was God and who said to
the waves On Galilee, Peace, be
still" What guaranty, MY peace"
Anrknl j.