The Neshoba Democrat., 1913-01-02


stead MI dimension. AS far
priationRech do riato day the idea was sug-
ine mes ye'eu' anu recently tWelve-year-old
nrespnboy attempted mathematically to
.at tb,temonstrate it before the professors
noa auM Harvard university
sooo * @When, however, we pass from the
~. VIVID .ealm Of the physical to the spiritual,
,,o uoIm find this idea clearly expressed in
w. IN hJnr text. The humble bowling of the
kposues knees at the beginning of
,+;ors nls matchless prayer, and the limtless
~ ~ lights of glory" transcend our hu.
r,h,n lan capacity of comprehension. In
e center of this stands the text, as
M0ugh Paul, pausing at some vantage
Nv r oint. would look to the right and the
Inv rhrMt backward and upward and ex-
'"' a1m, "Oh, that you might compre.
md the breadth. the length, the
uou spth and height of the love of
'o'" mlst.' Let us apply these four meas
Mments to our lives
i'uns 'I Breadth. We pride ourselves upon
saking from provincialism and mar
i'''e' NWnesS and that the world is laid
s'0' a'''1on our breakfast table each morn
but unless our activities are also
h' ''"'Hckened of what benefit is our
,Mld-W1de vision? Our big cities are
as Pie"pSlnc1al. Many New Yorker thinks
anu - world begins at the Battery and
over '"' N6 at 4onkers. There are scores in
Mcago as absolutely ignorant Of the
'o en' "sources, need or people of China
.hpeti ''" pan or even Europe as they are of
athel Vi u planet Mars. yet they say take
Prflow Pate of the home field before you do
spring Tthing for foreign missions" We
nnusua "a not only world vision, but more
injury @Sadth of vision of the problems of
or social and civic life.
however, wv Length. Persistence, stick-to-it-
is pronhess. A gentleman was asked why
on the N1eW great cergymen in America,
planted his reply was, America is in too
ing the hurry OF course perspective
% to wrong estimate of great
but certainly we need more min
PAYS. Ts who are "forth-tellers" of Gods
ssage to lost men. When clergy
fitably Wqiaity learn to think through to
BIS. ciusion these questions of ethics,
OF Carriererm, world needs and, most impor-
ounty line Wof all. the needs of the human
| htes for NJ and will apply themselves to
nd district, N problems with persistence and
received hen1on, we shall have clergy and
Neil agri,nlf whose leadership will never be
u in question.
tate departns Depth. Americans are fond of
Smith has N 'front.' but have we correspond
,t been waNepth? Study our cheap front ar
truck grossture, music. business and waste.
,dities has Ne right on fundamentals? Our
bushels Of sktng must stand upon a better
hose he hMdaton than the shifting sands of
bushel +. 0. Mophy. Our statements of life
.h;,ned outR Rsed upon more enduring ground
cited nearly. tl'e neoulous unstable assertions
lae science Our commercial fab
1ust be built upon a more stable
n,,erpIES. than that Of expediency. Our
Ecode must be less concerned
,u ForusDleasure seeking externals and
more of rectified, purified, re-
,..,. ed lives Of honesty and integrity,
colPo' o'"' I'M Put Paul had a fourth dmen-
pPi anu ~. aor S'the heights of glory"-the God
RS 10 '"' 81 life. We all respond to the
~, Nstion of world vision because
\ Maen'. .t,p business relations. We spell
nty' raP - ~ with dollar mark Material
W. H. iH does demand world vision
augmentation that is sapping
COMPANY, Nxor OF our manhood. But we
.capita.i~'u upon all to measure his life
orris fef"' sfourth dimension, the love of
T.. tnat passeth knowledge. Who
& Trust ovpan the extent of breadth? Who
", cap III llie ultimate end Of length or
IL, J. Z. Dup the lowest bottom of all depth
rs. @sure the uttermost limits of the
Company ,M8of Gods love for us in Christ
yunty, eap',rTW A love that was willing to
eel, George iehimself and to become obedient
death, even the death of the
ko. survey the wondrous Cross
49, r,ost eNHn the Prince of glory died:
in KosciuSf contemn o"'', on 81, 9u. ~ Joss. ns,
members Of Yds lift our eyes from the the ma.
older memoe''&0 the spiritual. This vision is
- Ansforming vision that led forth
ulosis victinophets Of old and that moved
cnry Boswell Luther ha. and every other great
,.a of heatar This vision was the power
0o''' { odussylsion of Dwight L. Moody,
pa'sh % fdM Willard and all Of the rest.
S,ene' .ps III the peace giving, healing
the u'se tbg8f Florence Nightingale and
n warning 10. ~ comforted the hearts of the
lth Tor '.t IN H. roughout the ages amidst all
fflicted WIN p,.I STUDIES of life.
ulosis, d. Re your life by this and you
ern Texas lsH1od," N'' '''' 'N'
be benefitedsE