Evening journal., 1916-01-03


Gold is the god of more people than
is Jesus. The golden rule has too Of
ten given way TO the rule Of gold. AS
far back as the beginning Of our own
civil war. when our nation needed
soldiers, the government drafted men
into the service. Did they GRAFT
money. too? Oh, no. They went
down to the money kings of the east
and said, please give us funds to carry
on the war. We will pay you any
rate of interest you name. they
drafted men, but they begged money.
Prophecy tells us the time will come
when a man will be regarded of more
value than much fine gold, but we
have not yet reached that period. We
are caring more for money than for
manhood, more for coin than for
character. more for dollars than for
duty. Many more people are inter-
ested in making a living than they
are in making a life.
Raps Rum Drinkers.
Furthermore, man has subjected
the value Of a soul to appetite and
physical qualification. l ask, Why do
YOU indulge in that filthy habit? Does
a It make a better man Of you? Give
YOU higher ideals or strength Of char
acter? No, you say, it is merely be-
cause like 10 do It. Sometimes
when they wish to be especially harsh
they call some men hogs This is an
insult-to the hogs. Lots of men
will do things that hogs would not
think OF doing. You wouldn't get a
| four-footed hog T. put his hat on the
side of his head and stick a cigarette
between his teeth. You couldn't get
a thoroughbred swine to swill down
the booze that human hogs are doing
here in your city every day. A man
and a dog will go into a booze joint
and after a half hour the man will
come out reeling and staggering but
the dog will come out sober and walk
. of like a gentleman. Many young
man will stain and soil and scar his
eternal soul merely for the gratifca-
ton of appetite and nights in
diligence.
/ In contrast with mans depre -iation
Of the human soul mark Gods APP
probation All during the centuries
our heavenly Father has been endeav-
oring TO impress upon mankind how
great value he sets upon a human
life. He has shown this by the en-
vironment with which he has sur
rounded his creation. Why he form
ed the star and the stone, the fruit
and the flower. the planet and the
plant? None Of these things were
created for themselves. Why has He
given US the mountains big with their
treasures of silver and gold? Why
have we the lakes and the seas, bear
ling on their broad bosoms the white
Z sails Of commerce? Why have we
the hills and valleys wavins IN the
summer with their rich harvest OF
golden grain? None of these things
exist for themselves. In the last
5 analysis we find but one object. and
that is for the benefit of humanity.
II the environment Of man is great,
how much greater is his endowment?
Y II an artist would spend a fabulous
= sum upon a frame for . painting,
T. would you not reasonably expect that
the picture within the frame would
!. be of greater value? Marvellous In
deed is the physical endowment OF
|, man. Take the human eye, for ex-
q ample. Did you ever think what a
v problem God had to solve in bringing
a the outer the material universe, into
r. relationship with the inner, the i'm
v material the spiritual universal Sci
n enlist tell us that the difference III
IT colors is due TO the difference in the
Vibrations of the waves of ether
From the color red, at one end of
i the spectrum, produced by the vibra-
= tions of ether waves at the rate OF
3 46O million millions a second, up to
Il the color violet, at the other end Of
l. the spectrum, produced at the rate Of
Il 720 million million vibrations sec
e ond Not only can the human eye
o distinguish red from violet. that is il
can note the difference between ether
II waves at the rate Of 46O million mill
II lion vibrations a second and 72O mill
- lion million vibrations a second. but
20 also can distinguish all the interven-
ing colors and all OF the shades OF
~ these colors, and the eye is but one
- Of the marvellous mechanisms of the
a human body where each part so
% nicely performs its function and in
harmony with every other part.
If the body is great how much
greater is the mind. No mind was
ever developed to its fullest power.
Milton said: II know / have inn
mortality for / feel within me the
- STRINGS of a score Of talents yet in
embryo that have not been begun to
be developed in my three score years
and ten" IL will take all eternity IL
develop your lllluu 10 llS run capacity
L. God wants to treat you througout the
st ages to constant series of glad sur
Id prises as you find your~clf possessed
d. of this talent and the other which
IN you never dreamed you had. As
~ God looks down from Heaven tonight
IS he sees stamped upon every brow here
ID the star Of immortality. Well can We
es eXclaim with Shakespeare,
rn what a piece of work is man!
5h How Noble in reason
al How infinite in faculty,
IN In form of moving how express and
ls admirablel
So In action how like an angell
ne In apprehension how like a God.
10 But first Of all, God has shown tn,
VI great worth he set upon human life
VII by the gift of his own Son. First by
~ the incarnation OF Jesus. When Goo
~ for a time designed to occupy a hu
I, ~ man life. He forever set the stamI
a. and seal upon the greatness Of tina
-, life. Also by the works Of Christ HI
-. revealed his conception of human
or worth. There was no life he did no
deem Of great value. He delighted q
he go out before the dawn Of the morn
nR ing to heal the blind, the lame an,
We the leper. He put his strong, ever
to lasting arms down beneath the low
a est stratum of society and thus lifte,
Of up the entire structure
lg 'AIichel-angelo one day stood on thl
tn street Of Florence and gazed at a piec