The Republican journal., 1913-10-30

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confidence men. He went clear to St.
Louis once because he had been selected
by friend of his fathers people to in.
vest some money where he could get one
thousand per cent on the investment.
He never could stick on The ground floor
but always had to go to the top and fall
off. He never could profit by his coffee
pvt experience and let it al ne until he
! got big enough tn handle it. A;y man
est is no friend of our folks. When we
/ learn the fundamentals so slowly, do you
see the necessity of an eternity in which
| to grow? The speaker once tried to
preach. He searched the library through,
collected all the figures OF speech and
the very cream of all literature When
the services were through he got out Of
the house as quickly as possible, but they
all but one beat him out and that was
the man who stopped to lock the door
The old man said: "Y GU are all right,
my boy, but you don't know anything"
He meant they were other peoples
thoughts which had not been vitalized by
experience. Such is rough sketch of
the beautiful terraces which this first
lecturer of the season laid all the way
from earth to heaven, more by his GEES
lures than by his words.
When one is looking about to learn
how to manage a school in locality
where corporal punishment is condemned,
it is something of a surprise to hear an
instructor tell class of twenty young
men that if he sees anything approach
ing what he saw last year he will leave
the room with tufts of hair under his
nails. Such an instructor evidently be-
lieves that the cannon should still pro-
tect the missionary. l have heard a
mother get up in public and say that she
loved her child just as much when dis
obedient as when he is obedient. Among
such tender hearted parents, if the chill
d-en want to throw spit balls or rattle
the cover of the ink-well for amusement
in school, no one has any right to inter
fere with their right to amuse themsel-
yes further than to tell them that it is
ungentlemanly or something of that sort
There is tendency in some localities
to contend for individual rights. They
have not yet learned 70 concede their in
dividual rights for the general good
These influences not only permeate the
school but the home and the church. l
have just as much right to have the Sum
day school conducted my way as you
have to nave it conducted your way. l
have just as much right to nave the
window down as you have to have it up
We witness many experiences through
life. To fall from loaded wagon with
ones head directly in front of rolling
wheel is an experience to be remember
ed, if one Is fortunate enough to throw
his head to one side and allow the wheel
to pass. Persons have known their
heart to stop beating and as pure spirit
have watched the effort of friends to re-
vivify the body. These are but trivial
affairs compared with some of the great
er movements in human society. Many
man and woman has gone through
Gethsemane as truly as ever Jesus did.
His experience was just the common lot
of man. always enjoy hearing speak
ers teach Jesus as the center of the uni
verse. They have got long distance
from the position occupied by Adam and
Moses and Martin Luther But | hope
some day they get courage to lift anchor,
allow themselves to be waited little
beyond the seas where their forefathers
sailed so grandly.
If people would follow Jesus more and
their own traditions less they might
make new discovery now and then.
They might possibly discover that Jesus
is but an outward manifestation of some
thing more incomprehensible. Jesus
stands in much the same relation to the
civilized world that the idol does to its