The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22


 To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way, And the High Soul climbs the High i Way.
 And the Low Soul gropes the Low, And in between the misty flats The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth High Way and Low, And every man decideth The way his soul shall go." The great High Way, as the one of two paths that John Oppenheim's poem leaves open to every life. is the one way that the gifted Bible teacher Miss Angie Manning Taylor, points out in its beauty to every wayfarer who is fortunate enough to hear her clear,
 quiet. eloquent messages on Gods Plan for the Ages"
 Miss Taylor has been in Birmingham since Tuesday conducting a series of Riblc studies on this subject, which will be continued this week at II o'clock each morning in the auditorium of Highlands Methodist Church. She l is here in the interest of no one de- nomination, but in response to the in- vitation extended to her by the Chris 1 tian women of this city.
 | Like the former messages that Miss 1 Taylor left four years and five years ago 1 in the lives of so many Birmingham peo- ! pie, her teachings are positive. She be- | lieves in filling the life with so much
 that is good and beautiful that no room | is left for evil to find an abiding place. She never faces an audience with a nega- | tive gospel.
 Quoting the military phraseology of an- other, in speaking of the value of Bible study. Miss Taylor said to me: We must get back to the trenches back to | the Word of God, back to prayer, back l to the cultivation of the inner life. For what is wanted today is more reality.
 more of the hidden work of grace that we may prove of worth in the field of active and practical service TO MAKE UNSEEN REAL l To make the unseen and the eternal real, is the mission of Miss Taylor's mes sages this week. She believes that men
 and women were created for time and eternity and her theme is ever this-to I-so real that the things of time
 will not control one by h e r ] hold upon life. Like the people of Flor ence, who cried to Savonarola. How can this be done?" Miss Taylor says the peo- l pie of this age asking the same queS- l tion.
 ! DO we not find ourselves asking the | our lives, as we think of the demands made upon us and the responsibilities we carry, of the pleasures, the cares, the changes, and the sorrows that come to lmale our lives what they are? inquired
 Miss Taylor. She answered her own in-
 lquiry in behalf of al peeoccupied people
 lwhen she quoted, "Acquaint now myself
 with God and be at peace" To the in
 qury in behalf of all preoccupied people
 txxrith with God 2'--MiSS
 Taylor brings answer from the Word of
 God. She presents the truths of the Bl-
 ble with such simplicity and quiet faith
 that those who listen seem to become
 Acquainted with the Creator of the uni
 verse in an. old, yet new, and beautiful
 irelationship2as friend,
 1 HERE TEN YEARS AGO
 Miss Taylors teaching is a quiet. per
 suasive, gentle influence. as compeh'it=
 and clear as the "call of still snal
 voice." to the reason, the conscience, and
 the heart of her audience. Ten years
 lago she came to Birmingham first. un-
 der the auspices of the Moody Bible In
 stitute, when her lessons were based or
 ,the book of John. Four years ago hel
 appeals were based on various portions
 of the Bible under the topic "Funda mentals' The subject this week, 'Got : Plan for the Ages" necessarily includes the time covered by the books of the Bi ble Its value is in the intellectual. hls toric background of the past. it's teach ing bearing on history in the making to : day as fulfillment of prophecy, and it.
 thought of the future based on the pro
 jphetic word which will eventually becon
 history.
 . This evening at Highlands Methods Church Miss Taylor will speak on ''Th , Educational and Spiritual Value of Riol 5 Study" and at the Y, W. c. A. one eve ming this week she win address the younl xs.ol,aen on s.rThe Poem of IehONah. -