Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-08-21
SAYS MANLY BEAUTY REQUIRED BY. GOD Washington Better Example Than Napoleon Says Dr..
 J. I. Norris.
COMPARES GREAT MEN
Pays Tribute To Qualities of Abe Lincoln and Says General Lee
 Was Greatest Soldier.

ris of Pine Bluff, Ark, in a sermon in Grand Avenue Presbyterian church Sunday morning, the theme of which was that beauty in character should be added to the pillars" of strength and stability, says the St. Louis Globe Democrat The text was taken from passage in the descrip- tion of Solomon's temple, Kings VII, P. And upon the top of the pillars was lilywork."
 The speaker told of the two pillars, "Jakin" and "Boaz" which guarded Solomon's own entrance to the won derful temple, whose symphony" of architectural beauty was eloquently described. Dr. Norris dwelt on the fact that the Israelites had their own art, little influenced by the models of Egypt to which as slaves, they were forced in their bondage to contribute. He told of the tent in the wilderness which they erected, most beautiful ot it's kind, and finally, Solomons tenn pie, which, it is told in the Scriptures, was directly inspired of God as to it's site, it's dimensions and all it's de- tails.
 "One of these pillars" said ~- the preacher, referring to the text, means strength; the other means stability. And they are ornamented with lilywork.
 Climax for Queen of Sheba.
 ''The queen of Sheba marveled at Solomon's glory. We are told that she saw him at a banquet, saw the service and the meat they served him, and she marveled. She saw him iia the court when he judged the peopN, and she marveled. And she saw him with his troops of young men, his es- cort going to his summer garden, and she marveled. She saw him seated on the throne of ivory and marble and gold. But the record says that when she saw the ascent by which he went into the house of God her heart was melted ill her, and she said, "The half has never been told
 Here is the lesson of those pillars. Strength and stability. ornamented by beauty. Sometimes men forget that it is required of them to be beautiful. Now not many of us have any hope of ever appearing beautiful in a physi- cal way. And yet we are very clearly taught that it is required of us to be beautiful. Most men agree that it is demanded of them to be strong and stable, and some men, because they are strong and stable, think that it is their province to be surly and mean and cranky and intolerable. Some think that the only evidence they can give to the genuineness of their strength is to be insufferable boors.
 Two Great Men Compared.
 Some time ago there lived about the same time, these two men, George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte. No one doubts the strength and stabil- ity of either man. l do not know that one was stronger than the other, be- cause both were masterful men. The longer I live the more 1 am inclined to believe that we furnish the world great example of man in our father, George Washington. The longer 1 live, the more l think of him. the man, unselfish. gentle, tender, sympathetic, strong. invincible. Napoleon, a god of war, was selfish, utterly unsympa- thetic, anything but tender.
 "As we look into the face of Abra- ham Lincoln, certainly we would not be inclined to call him beautiful, and yet there is d benignity in the strong features of that great man that is very evident A great man, strong man, a stable man and tender heart We have had no soldier greater than Robert E. Lee, no master of men great CT than he; no marshal of war greater than he; and we have had in our his tory no more tender man, more kind, sweeter in temper and in heart
 But the Lord Jesus Christ is the perfection of this picture 1 am sure that these two pillars were set up there, one meaning strength and the other stability ornamented with their chaplet of lilywork, to prefigure the | coming of Christ.
 q do, not like any artist to. draw our sayior. for { if they ] put into that face all thestenderiiissss that be- longs to it, so circumscribed are we that they will make it weak. and if they put into that face all the ma-