The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-05

l To the Editor of the Age Herald:
 The generosity with which you have opened the columns of your valuable Journal to the expression by the citizens l of their views on the subject of the l resurrection and other conceits, tenets,
 creeds and dogmas, is certainly most commendable, and the contributions which have appeared have been most en- l tertaining, instructive and refreshing, for the presentation of such subjects in de- 1 nominational journals may rather be lik- ened to the songs of birds which are in | deed sweet to themselves, and for their | own sweet sakes, but they are of but ] small value to the other birds which do not frequent their choirs, or do not un- derstand the language of the singer, ex- cept, of course, in so far forth the song without words may be pleasing
 | Again. for figures, like songs without l words give pleasurc; like some great public fountain piece which pours forth it's bounty to the just and the unjust | alike, and with the same sphinX-like fix edness of features whether it's gratuites | be intended by the recipients for sacrifi- 1 clal or culinary purposes, or for lavatory l or bibulous uses, The Age-Herald, taking l no part therein, has given vent to the | contributions of all, and to all appear
 
 l whether this generous flood would fall upon barren or fruitful soil. You will, l therefore, pardon the intrusion upon you 1 of what would seem to be a last drop l of the flow, a contribution upon the sub- 1 ject of the resurrection from the view l point of perfectly natural human senti- I ment which, when it voices the concerted l energy of the souls of many according l to right and justice, is in very truth the
 voice of God.
 l Except in those things which are dem 1 onstrable and which, therefore, depend 1 for their establishment upon the degree 1! of training to which the wind appealed to
 has attained, this factor of human senti- ment emotion if you please, must at all 1 times be rec6oned with in considering a l matter not resting in demonstration, and | which seems to have sprung up spontan- 1 eously in the hearts and minds of men. l The writer speaks not in this contri- l button of the historical or legendary or l mythical resurrection of Jesus, for to his mind the teachings of Jesus need no l such support, and in the struggle for belief in, or reconciliation to the idea of | His bodily resurrection, His teachings
 have suffered sufficiently already; but of | the resurrection, on the last day, if you l will. of these earthly habiliments of the l divine spirit which actuates them, of 1 this frail bark of the flesh in which the 1 human soul is launched upon the ebbs and | the floods of the tides of life and in which it buffets the storms and currents and l counter currents of human experience. No man can place his finger upon the origin of this conceit of the bodily resur- 1 rection, yet through the long-drawn l alses, the fretted vaults the silent l chambers of the past can we by giving 1 ear thereto, bear such echoes thereof as | that: After my skin, even this body is destroyed, yet from my flesh shall 1 " mn from an afflicted soul, let us not tear out 1 each the others eyes touching our re- l spective commissions from heaven or else where to interpret; for, as stated herein | above, we propose herein consideration | of this most consoing conceit from the | standpoint of an expression of the con- 1 certed energy of the souls of many ac- cording to right and justice. What the | learned or critical may draw from the 1 above expression of a soul distressed or whether they deem this energy of the soul msdirected energy, is not of the l least concern to the writer; for he is con- cerned solely with the vibrations and ! reverberations of that sweet soul melody | in the hearts of men, and with the many l thousand fold accompaniments and rich symphonies of the sympathetic chords which have made their responses there | mouth of the afflicted Job. What poss- | to since the day it proceeded from the | ble appeal can the corporal consultations | of those saturated in and satiated with | the good things of this life make to the l lean and famished soul? "Go in peace, | be ye warmed and filed" unless this grandiloquent dismissal be accompanied l by the things that warm and fill, were a mere rhapsody of words when falling from human lips. for they will neither warm nor fill. Think you the man laid at the gate, full of sores, whose only min isters were the dogs of the streets that | came and licked him in derision of his -------~~-~--- ----~~~-------------- ~ Tague of Massachusetts has asked that l the Boston yard be similarly equipped. MT Tavenner, bitter antagonist of the preparedness programme has bills appro- priating millions for the construction of
 armor plate plants and gun forging plants near the Rock Island arsenal.
 Others who have asked in the name of | their districts for armor plate plants at an estimated cost of $5,000000 are Taylor of Colorado. Cullop of Indiana, Summers of Texas, Bruckner of New York, Bark ley of Kentucky. Carlin of Virginia, Lieb of Indiana, Nicely of West Virginia, Ko-
 mop of Wisconsin, Cary of Wisconsin and Wheeler of Massachusetts.
 FOR PROJECTILE PLANTS MT. O'Shaunnessey of Rhode Island WantS a $1,VO,VO prOJectle pldnt on the shores of Narragansett bay, and MT. Sul- loway of New Hampshire wants dry dock, to cost s2.0OO0O0, located at the Portsmouth navy yard.
 MT. Capstick of New Jersey knows no state lines. He has capped the climax by asking for an appropriation of $50,00O,- 0O1 with which to organize mobile coast artillery. 16-inch guns mounted on rail- road cars, capable of sweeping the entire Atlantic front.
 CONFER MAY AID SCREWS Washington, February 2.-(Special.)
 Tending in part to confirm The Age-
 Herald's Monday morning story published