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brought the most priceless thing on
earth in the sight Of God-it Is q
penitential tear.
Penitent Tears Are Precious.
II there is in your heart the least
! sigh of regret for the way you have
7 lived and your indifference. II Is
worth more yonder IN heaven than
all the gold of earth-don't stifle 1t.
let more of them come.
'The people had a mind to work.
] Do you know the password?
Here comes a crowd and they say.
Let me in. was very useful on
earth, I built churches; endowed
colleges; l was famous for my char
ities-oh. did wonderful things. Now
I have come for my reward"
And the voice behind the gate says.
II never knew you"
Another great crowd comes up ana
they say, 1--WE were highly respected
on earth and honored. The world
bowed very low at our shrines. We
were honored on earth. Now We have
come for our honors in heaven
And the voice says, II know you
J not"
/ And another crowd advances and
says. I'VE were very moral on earth.
We never lied. never got drunk, we
never committed adultery; We have
come for our reward
:; But the angel replies. Il know you
not" s.
/ Another great throng approaches
and the leader cries out. I'VE were
wanderers from God; We deserve to
/ die: we deserve hell. We have not
come because We deserve heaven but
/ because We have heard that there
was cleansing in the power of the
Blood
And they all cry. Jesus, Jesus,
Jesus"' and the gate swings open.
, That's the password that will let
| you through glory, not your money.
not your culture; nothing but faith
1 in the shed blood OF Jesus Christ. the
/ Son Of God, will ever get you in. oh,
We have come tonight, my friends, TO
work in the advancement of civiliza-
tion. The rude tribes of primeval
days. they built underground caves,
when finally IL dawned upon their in
tellect that two flat stones would lie
on top of each other. aided by a little
mud-Sir Isaac Newton's law Of gravi-
! tation. Thus came the idea OF our
/ homes which have evolved to their
3 RANSChN STATUS.
| John Howard Payne has immortal
lied them with his famous song, BE
it ever so humble. there's no place
like home
The antediluvians used to plow with
a forked stick-it made no difference
whether you hitched the old OK to the
plow or on the beam-they both work.
ed just the same and the man out
West thought and thought until out
! from his brain came the Oliver Chilled
Plow that cuts its way through the
soil like a hot knife through a cake
of butter.
| A dreamer. imprisoned. saw In his
vision the locomotive, and 1t came
putting out OF his mind and now we
have the engine. beautiful as dream
of Pericles; and the great fiery horses
as they snort and puff over the steel
! bound rails of 10000 miles beneath the
Stars and the Stripes.
Age of Inventions.
4 man carried in his brain the le-
viathan of the deep, but 1t didn't
get out until Robert Fulton built his
! steamboat and she went putting up
now we've got the magnificent ships
! lDhL piO" "dy AAO
waters.
Six hundred years before Jesus
| Christ, an old Greek discovered elec-
tricity by rubbing two pieces of am
/ ber together. He was not able to
solve the mystery. so he labeled IT,
sold" and put it in the pigeonhole
of his mind. There it slept for two
! thousand years until 1t awakened in
/ the brain of Galvani, and of Edison.
and Franklin 1t was Frankin's hand
that caught the horse; it was har-
messed by Prof. Morse and on the
morning Of the nineteenth century that
! illustrious American saw little steel
I threads span our continent, cables
! lying on the bottom of the seas, until
/ tonight you can sit at a little instru-
ment and tick. tick. tick, they will
! give you an answer from the re-
\ motest corners of the world at your
| breakfast table in the newspapers to-
morrow morning.
| All that came from work! Work!
I Work. Work. Work! 1t did not
evolutel 1t helped them but they had
to get a move on themselves for it.
l would not be surprised to get up,
some morning and read that some fell
low had invented an electrohuggo-
graphosqueezeophon before which a
fellow can stand in New York and kiss
and hug his sweetheart in Chicago
with all the delightful sensations. L
! would not be surprised IL some fellow
would Invent a sort of a cigar-shaped
lelcctro-gyroscope | in which a fellow
J can crawl, lock a door, push a button
and get to San Francisco two hours
before you start. 1 would not be sur
. 10 nd hear hoF
/ fellow has perfected the power OF
condensation until he has put Armour.
Swift, Cudahy. Nelson Morris. and
! Wilson out of business.
| And the dude-the missing link be-
/ tween monkey and man. who sputters
and spIurges. spends daddy's fortune,
| spends IL on champagne. wine and
fast women, engages in four hours
| conversation and never uses a sensi-
BILE sentence while he Is on the job.
! | wouldn't be surprised IL some fell
\ low would perfect a flying machine
| which would put Ben Curtiss out of
| business and take the society belle
away up where she would kiss and
4 hug and bill and COO and make love
| to the man in the moon.
1 don't know what's going to happen
! in the world-I don't know what's
/ going to happen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said: Man
is like a seventy-year clock that God
winds up. then gives the key to the
| resurrecting angel"
Ny friend, the late Bob Taylor,
United States Senator from Tennessee,
said he tried to imagine what would
happen on that resurrection morning
when all those clocks, that had been
silent for centuries, get out He saw
the Episcopalian and the Catholic