Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-23

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Despite the bad weather the large
| auditorium of the Methodist churcn
was well filled on Sunday night when
the pastor, Rev o. B. Chester, dis
cussed the loss of the Titantic and the
lessons that might be drawn from the
tragic event and some of the inspir-
ing pictures of heroism and seif-sac-
ritice that it presented, taking as his
text the expression of the apostles on
the sea of Galilee, when, in the midst
of the storm, their boat filling with
water and tossed at the mercy of the
wind and waves, they called to Christ,
Master carest thou not that we per-
ish?"
The contrast between the little cookie
shell on the little Sea of Galilee and
the greatest marine construction of
the twentieth century, embodying all
the art and success and skill of pro.
gressive man, was forcefully present
ed A graphic picture was drawn OF
the magnifcence and grandeur of the
Titanic, her disdain of the sea, the
absolute confidence of captain AMI
crew and passengers, in her unsink-
able qualities Years had been devol-
ed to her building, millions of money
unstintedly expended, and as she
swept through the waters, propelled
by the most powerful engines of mod
ern times, she was the pride of the
world, the last and final expression of
mans triumph over old ocean. And
vet, on a calm sea, with no storm
believing, sweeping majestically
through the waters, the hidden danger
met her and the world sorrows over
the fate of vessel, crew and passeng-
ers. Sea monsters and Shiny things
have taken possession of her hand
somely furnished state rooms and sa-
looms The ice-bergs float above the
great grave of her 1900 dead, the
eternal monuments to their heroic
md
While we are made solemn and
thoughtful by the tragedy of the sea,
transcending in its dramatic features
any that are chronicled in recent his
tory. there are some things about il,
said DR.. Chester, to make us proud Of
human nature So in all catastrophes
there is the bright side, that in whicn
men show their better nature, in
which they loom grander and nobler
than we expected. 1t is inspiring and
ennobling to us all to feel that the
heroic strain has not died out, that
good survives in humanity and rises
to the surface in the face of danger
and death, driving out the ignoble AMI
base. All through the sad story of the
Titanic runs this superb strain of the
treadng of self under foot, the an
Inhalation Of fear the mastering of the
instinct of self-preservation and the
substitution for it of the salvation of
others Capt Smith, man of cool cour-
age. saved a babe and sank beside his
ship; the brave crew, whose names
are unheralded. humble, hard workers
cheerfully resigned themselves to their
fate They could have overpoweret
the others and seized the boats. This
clarion call of the captain to the high.
est sense of duty, "Be British, M.
Men," neryed them, like that call o
Nelson century ago. to valorou
end And our blood thrills as we fea
that from the same common stock W
and our forefathers came. From tn
band came sweet strains of comfor
soothing and sustaining, and bringin
to those at the gates of death
glimpse of the glories beyond. Acros
the cold waters, reverberating from tn
crags of icebergs, the sweet music,
dear to the Christian soul, so comfort