The Detroit times., 1914-07-20
NURTURE BETTER
SIDE OF LIVES,
PASTOR URGES
Inner Self Entrusted to All of
Us, Rev. Gaius Glenn Atkins
Declares
DEVELOPMENT BETTER
THAN MAKING MONEY
Famous Providence Divine De
liyers Mastery Sermon TO
Former Congregation

A large congregation greeted the
Rev. Gaius Glenn Atkins, Of ProTi-
dence, r. J., who filed the pulpit OF
the First Congregational church, sun
day. Those present We're treated 10
one Of the most mastery sermons ever
delivered from a local pulpit. DIT.
Atkins took for his text the story or
the struggle between Ahab and Ben
Hadad, In which encounter a prophet
tells Ahab that a man was entrusted
10 BIN and in the midst Of battle, he
disappeared "As thy soldier was busy
here and there, ne was gone
DR. Atkins treated the man entrust-
cd 10 all OF us as the inner self, the
better side Of our lives He said:
In the conflict Of life we are given
manhood 10 keep, prophetic person
atty 10 be revealed In the years 10
ocme, a manhood more perfect than
we now possess. II we are not true TO
this manhood and il life is not per,
lection OF II, the day has gone against
rrs, no matter how many or how great
the spoils we bring in
There are many examples OF noble
souls. who have kept their high fidel-
ties. and chief among these are the
thought only Of their children and
have suffered and endured for them.
But there are many more who have
fallen short, with them their larger
opportunity, either died before they
were born, because OF the poverty and
privation into which they came; or
they lost their better selves by failing
to become interested IN the. deeper
things OF life, or in dissipatng their
interests among too many things in
stead Of mastering one
Or. Atkins went on h state that the
Business man or professional man
who did not work al the thing for
which he was fitted, but scattered his
energies. built his house upon the
sands OF doing too much and Il would
rot stand The education Of the high
school and college students is scatter
ed over too large an area, and they
know very little about the many
things they know about. The maya
zines and books keep US from becom-
ing friends with great poets and his
torians, the speaker said.
1--WE have MANY acquaintances but
the deep friendships which ripen IN
intimacy are few" said DR. Atkins.
"we do not cultivate the deathless
kind OF friends, who, IL they should
come to you and walk beside you
along streets they trod no more, would
cause you nc surprise. While was
busy here and there my true friend
ere aped me.
Fathers are too busy gathering the
estate their boys are to inherit. 70
pay much attention 10 their sons.
They arc robbing their sons Of the bet
tie that made them the men they are,
when they send him out into life with
full instead of empty hands. While
was busy with my work. my boy es-
capped me.
at Is not the ordinary tones in
singers voice that make his voice so
pleasing. There is something in some
voices that Will leave a man cold,
where other voices will move him 10
tears. IL Is not the ordinary. but II is
the oveF-tones that move men and wo-
men. Il IS the over-tone in life that
makes life worth while This over
tone is the needing and caring for the
finer things. 10 II devotion 20 fine
things. II is love and patience II IS
comradship with Christ
go Master. the fight is hard, and we
are beset with many weapons but We
will be true 10 Thee. o Friend Yes.
o Master the day IS long and the wav
is weary, but we viii be firm md
strong. What was that II Is the
sounding trumpet OF victory; We have
won our fight, we have kept our faith
and the man we keep is our eternal,
our Christllke self"