The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-02-23
ASATURDAY
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I SERMONS
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THE CALL or THE HEART

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The Chinese say the scat of ones
emotions is I'm the stomach. the an
Client Hebrew said in the heart. Roth
| speak tiguratively. We mean TO dis
tinguish the affections and passions
| from intellect and will The latter We
| call the head, the former the heart
Ills heart is better than his head
| And with this figure our whole Ian
guage is filed. In trouble we speak
OF heartachc. heart break, heart sick,
heart sore; In Joy, light heart, glad
heart: in love, true heart, dear heart
or a girl who shows her affections
| easily we say. "She wears her heart
on her sleeve" We call tho kind and
merciful tender hearted great heart
| ed-"He is all heart" Contrary. we
say bad hearted. hard hcartcd-"He
has n stony heart" or manner, "IIe
has lost heart" or with all his heart"
| Take my child TO your heart" says
the dying mother to a kinsman The
| Bible is full OF heart. Brain does not
seem TO be mentioned. God says
| "Give me thy heart
| Fact and Figure.
Keep thy heart with all diligence
| for out Of II are the issues OF ne
says the text. what is the fact ana
figure? Oh that this little organ, big
as your closed fist. weighing about
ten ounces. contracts 1000 times an
hour. pulsntes 3G,O00,OOO times year
| pumping the eighteen pounds of blood
in your body, eXerting n force that
would lift It's own weight 1900 feet
every hour. carrying life to every part
Of the body. When it stops, life is
done. You watch your boy tying string
tight about his finger 1t gets dark
red. II he let 1t stay 1t would get
purple. then die, Gangrene sets in, am
putation must follow; no blood, sup.
PHYS cut off Shut off the blood from
your finger. arm. leg, eye, any part,
that member will die. That's the fact.
the Bible and all literature speaks is
the center OF our spiritual selves. II
comes from God
| When n man lies he shuts off part
OF his spiritual life from God When
he steals, wrongs his neighbor. acts
selishly. he's shut off that part of his
spiritual nature, it becomes deadened,
and if he persists the spiritual body
will die. Heart failure" writes the
young physician in the death certiti
cate. His older frater doctors smile
indulgently at the verdict As the
heart always fails in dissolution. that
term is as good as another. But here
is one of my church members. He's
broken down spiritually, no longer at
communion. no longer supports the
gospel. no Bible reading, no prayer.
He seems bcnumbed. paralyzed, in
his spiritual faculties. You appeal to
him. but he seems to have slipped out
OF the ranks OF the living. You are
talking to the dead heart failure
The Call Of tho Heart.
i The culture OF the heart counts.
More people miss heaven from lack
of heart than lack of head. know
that brain wins more applause and
earns bigger money. | know that the
! worlds premium is on head rather
| than heart. But | am not living for
the present threeScore years aud ten
entirely. I'm after larger game. The
call of the heart is the call of eternity.
Many a fellow with poor head, but
| good heart. has come down to hon
Ored grave, while his neighbor. with
| good head and bad heart. closed his
days in disgrace. The education of
the world is the education Of the
head. We call the man with no head
| equipment fool. What shall we call
| the man with no heart equipmentt
\ machine? It's sad to see the fool
with the dead head. but it's tragedy
| to see the fool with the dead heart
After all. the need of the world today
is more heart. and Il warm heart at
that. It's the heart rather than the
| head that carries all before il. Ire
mcndous might of enthusiasm in any
cause is due to the all cOnquerlnS
| power of warm hearts. Even those
who have cool heads ordinarily are
carried away before the flood Of warm
hearts. The world calls the man with
wrong head fool God says to the
man with wrong heart, Thou fool
: prefer TO range myself on the side
of the Almighty!
The Great Trust.
"Out of it''-it-not out of your bank
book. not business success, not politi-
cal influence nor professional glory, not
even out of good family or favorable
environments, but out of it are the
issues of life. Our hearts make our
worlds for us. Our external circum
stances are the shadows cast by our
inner experience. Outer sounds are
echoes of inner harmony or discord
The pictures in the heart as well as in
the landscape. The hearts the treas
ury where your gold is held. the foun.
tain OF the stream Of your conduct, the
store from which you draw conversa.
ton and deeds, the garden where grow
flowers Of beauty. the prison where are
locked your dangerous passions. the
! fortress where your souls garrison
keeps watch. the castle in which you
live. whose turrets reach the portals
Of heaven. its dungeons the gates OF
| hell Your outward enemies arc MANY