The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
DR, JACOBS BREACHES TWO SERMONS AT SOUTH HIGHLANDS Houston Pastor Sustains Reputation as Pulpit Ora
 tor at Presbyterian AS SPEAKER TEXAS
 DIVINE IS FORCEFUL Local Committee Will Most Likely Extend Call to Visiting Minister.
 Who Made Such Splen-
 did Impression

Coming to Birmingham to fill the va cancy in the South Highlands Presby terian church pulpit for a day, at the invitation of the church, William States Jacobs. D. D., of Houston, Tex. preached two sermons yesterday that deeply mn pressed the congregations that heard him. Of commanding presence, magnetic personality and & delivery that is both attractive and forcefui, he more than sustained the reputation as pulpit ora tor that had preceded him.
 At the morning services he used as his text Psalms 37:11,s and St. Matthew o'9' which read, respectively: But the hum ble shall inherit the land. and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace" and Happy are the meek; TOT they shall inherit the earth.
 Dr. Jacobs said that ordinarily ons text would be sufficient, but he haa selected a twofold text because ot us
 peculiar appropriateness at this tiIhe' when the world is torn with strife oe- tween the forces of autocracy ana rree- dom. Declaring that God is not extem- noraneous. but immutable, unchangeable; that the things that are happening now were in His mind and in His heart before the ages were born, he sald the world was approaching the miiienium of. peace on earth.
 . Ha attributed the present world-waf to the eternal struggle between opposihs forces that are trying to control the world; that it was an lnevitaole out growth of that struggle, and predictea that i. would end only when freedom and liberty and Christianity prevail when man is brought to realize that the
 things he possesses are not to De useo
 for selfish purposes, but for the soou of his fellow man.
 JOBS PATIENTS CITED
 When Job lost his flocks, his herds ana his sons. and his wife begged him 70
 curse God and die, he did not curse God. said pr. Jacobs, but replied that
 though God took all he had and de-
 stroyed him, he still had trust in linn. He said the same spirit moved the
 autocrat and the anarchist. The one
 had property and power; the other haa nothing. but wanted it. The Chrlstlah comes between. these. He wants things only for the good he may do With theni' The anarchist would gladly exchange places with the autocrat lhes Sh..s tian wants neither the property nor the nower of the autocrat nor does he wan' sastrov that which he has not He . ao,,,iras nroperty and power because
 r,;th them he can be helpful to the world. Potsdam is trying to fix its tyfan, nical rule upon the world, ne sald' anu France and Belgium suHered pgc@ us' If this lust for power. when the Iionen zollerns. the Hapsburgs ana tne I.o- manoffs are driven from power the peo- nia who have been shackled ana en- ,a,ad and tyranized return to their hnmas reioising in new freedom, freedom that the liberty loving. Cnris- t;an neoples of the earth shall nave brought to them.
 SPIRIT OF CHRISTIANITY
 '. the spirit of freedom. of |e.hristianity. that enabled John Knox to shake his bony finger in the race Of the Queen and warn against her tyranny. In that little community was hcrn the spirit of freedom that was hrought to the wilderness or America and which Americans have now takeh back to Europe, and which Will urivo autocracy from power. Dr Jacobs declared that autocracy laatermination to fix it's tyrannical rule mon the whole world had brousnt on the present conflict; that there had been ouarrels between nations, put tne eternal struggle between autocracy ana democracy was responsible for the War He said that at first we looked on thinking we had no part m It, put 'ne time came when we needed the call to save the liberty and freedom or the world. and as our soldiers crossed over Into France freedoms forces bathing there cried out. "the AmericanSs are coming. General Pershing said, We must have guns. yes: we must have muni- ltions. yes: we must have supplies, yes' we must have ships, yes; but above all, give us Bibles: they strengthen the morale of the men," said pr. Jacobs aand so the coming of the Americans gave morale to the soldiers who nao grown weary fighting freedoms pat tle." "The world does not want to be ruled l bv autocracy," he said" 1t wants free- I dom. liberty, equality.
 MASONIC NOTICE
 l M~r,bers of Wauhoma Lodge No. s6ss A. N. and A. M., are requested to meet
 .t inc hall. 65IO1s First avenue. this afternoon at o'clock for the purpose 1