The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-04-24
OF Galilee.


But al its store it keeps. nor gives
70 shore nor sea besides.
What gains its grasping greed! Be
hold
baroness round its shore;
It's fruits of lust but apples of dust.
Rotten from rind to core.
Its Jordan waters turned to brine,
Lie heavy as molten lead,
And its awful name doth ever pro-
claim
That sea is Dead"
And thus il will ever be that he that
gives most lives best The great and
honored of God are not those whose
names appear oftenest in the public
print. No those who have descended
from kings. Not those who by good
fortune have amased great wealth.
Not even those who have had most
TO say Those are great who have
suffered hardShips. poverty. Islander.
persecution, neglect and death itself.
When the Spirit of Christ which is
the spirit OF selflessness takes hold
upon us we then serve. not from com
pulsion, but from love. and our is rem
dered with the ease of running
stream.
T. In Queen Esthers time there had
been established certain impossible
boundary lines between nation and
nation. and between man and man.
h'se lines OF separation were close.
" drawn and woe to the man that
would dare to cross them. Persian
ana jew We're not of the same com
mon clay according to the standards
OF that age. Since that day it has
been the chief aim of multitudes to
raise new boundary lines that shall
separate man from man. There is
the boundary line of nationality that
! separates the interests and ideals and
purposes of the millions OF earth. In
/ the providence of God these lines
nave been used for his glory, and on
the other hand such lines have been
the cause of the useless spilling of
human blood in mortal combat. There
Is the boundary line race that pre-
vents every man from seeing that the
interests of one race are the INFER.
ests of all. And alas, there is n
boundary line of riches and poverty
of education and ignorance. whereby
men willfully set themselves apart
from their fellows But with the on
ward march of civilization under pos
tive Christian influences many of
these age old barres are being torn
down, and men are beginning, very
family but surely, to realize that
there should G no boundary lines ex-
cept between good and evil. The
world is learning about its neighbors
and finding out that others are not so
wicked as they may have been paint.
ed We may well thank God that we
J live in time plainly tells us. through
the darkness yet, but certainly, of the
, coming of new day. Science has
|, long ago discovered that there are no
, boundary lines in her domain. Laws
! of nature blend the one to the other
so delicately that the line of distinc
, ton can scarcely be discovered The
j.. beauty of musical tones. varying In
. their qualities, blend imperceptibly In
/ making one harmonious sound, the
, colors of the rainbow deliactely ally
themselves in displaying its beautiful
, tints, and to try to point out the sep
/ arate lines of light and shadow would
, destroy the harmony OF impression
, Even in the physical and spiritual life
, of man the relation is so intimate as
10 defy analysis. Have we not rea
, son also to hope for the removal oil
boundary lines as between man and
, man Poets and prophets have
/ dreamed of a time when there shall
I he federation of the world. parlia
t ment of man. We believe in the pos
> sibility of of such happy consumma
3 ton But the true brotherhood o.
!. man with man will and can only b.
8 realized and established when maj
; finds his right relations with God. Thu
= world will have to learn that in Coo
1 alone is salvation. and that faith il
]. Him as Lord and Saviour makes thu
4 whole world kin. Then will come t
9 passa changes in the world of wealth
and poverty when a man shall be re
|. garded as man for all that. Thel
r when the worlds people are Cod
8 people every man will rejoice to cast
= the hand of his fellow and call hin
J. brother. For then the things that ar
/ invisible and eternal will begin Il