The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-06-24
ALL IN THE LIFE OF 4 MAN.
The ln,croatiOnal Sunday SchOO Les
-On for June -. lis "A Review"

oVttt'tffIfFS " Vib'St L
grows reminiscent. and then we are as
sur.d Of interesting stories. TodayS
sunday School review has 10 DO with /
the life of a man, for " began and
ended with Jacob. and all its events
are in some way connected with MN
W hts
ONE hundred and forty-seven years
wa the span "f this patriarch $ HE;
yet the youngest reader of these lines
has lived through more noteworthy
events than Jacob or n other person
in history who has ben dead for a
score of years. II We except only those
who were contemporaneou5 with n
earthly life Of the Son Of God. The
past dozen years have e~ncOmpaSSed
more epochal events than any preced-
Ng century except the first. With ia
Cvbis permission, we will consider this
review in the light OF what n may
see, for we would invoke Jacobs aid
IT, help us to he alive to our Own
tlusss and their Significance.
Tn wonders of Egypt would seem
CON m00place to Jacob could he re-
tvvn now and realize that wthin q dec
nde the Wh0&e of Ire eArthS surface
he's bssn oiIasted the North POKE and
the South Pole have been d~iscovered;
ons heay bNy nsops OF he desert of
Arabia and of the heart Of Africa. Air
ships now range the upper ether, and
submarines p4Ow beneath the watFs.
The X-Fay has made a q sub
stances transparent. History is re-
corded net only with the pen, but also
with the biOgraph and phlonograph.
fsadium has revealed An uns0spect-
ED world of mystery and power. We
" broken up the atom, which ten
years ag0 was thought to be the irre-e
dcabte minimum OF matter, and now
cali the smallest particle AL electYoR.
Three British scientists. Ramsie, Col
he and Patterson. have eAInoUHcd the
q ChIvement OF thee tranSSn utation Of
matter. The wireleses telegraph binds
the whole world into once neighbOF-
hood, annihilating space.
Man has won a dominion over such
hurtfui bacteria as the yellow feveer
germ. the pkage germ, h typhoidefe-
yer germ, and is confident of early
and cancer In the realm OF politics
all &utocrats and abSOfutiSrn rave
been overthrown. and constitutional
government a. become universal
within a decade. whose is alive to
h world about him has seen crowded
progress than some past milleniums
knew.
The World In D Lifetime.
After all, so far as the individ ua1 il
concerned. it has ever been true tina
all Of history is COMPRESSED into one
lifetime. Each of VS. must master th4
world while he is alive, or not at all
We must see history through thes'
eyes, and hear it through these ears
We must speak our message through
these lips and lift our share Of bur
dens with these hands. We mus
think our thoughts with this brain
And fee life's throbs with this heart
Our present powers are all we pos
sess for the mastery and for the ser
vice OF the universe.
For all practical purposes histor
begins and n d with us. Our it'll
day must embrace all the cons O
time To muse upon life is to be stir
Ell to seriousness OF view. Each Of u
has q life story like unite Jacobs. va
ryins only in degree
Earfy Life Discovery.
Everybody is a Columbus. The Is
sential things must he discovered b
each for himself. as if they never be
fore existed. We cannot take lif
ready made Each new individua
character must GO ints own way G
gradual development. as il there ha
not been billions Of lives travelling tn
same. road before. Everybody mus
learn to think for himself. Just as
there had never been philosophers be
fore the time of JacOb and Abraham
The mysteries of existence are q
new today as they were when ,Jaco
slept out under thes tars of Bethe
Every one of MS must enter into h
own relationship with God. just as ia
cob had to make his own eovenan
and enter upon his own discovery. w
each OF us love and rejoice and Sorro
~ II We were the first and only pc
sonalities on earth.
SO il is. in wondrous wisdom, tn:
Cod keeps life from growing stale. W
DO not inherit existence as a caste
garment from our fathers.
Every day is q fresh b~esinniu
Every morn Is the world made new
.tacob underwent the universal exp
rieuce in his own character. SO mu
every one OF VA.
y PP0grana IN q Passion.
Most of his troubles came to Jaet
because he adopted a program il
stead Of yielding himself to a pa
stoa. He followed guile instead
~ goal. He was dominated by met
d instead OF by motives. He b
came a hunted, haunted trickster i
stead Of a victorious, serva
of Cod. He Travelled n sorry ~: