The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-09-29

big, outstanding lawyers and citizens.
II is not for me. TO say how much
Luther owes to his noble wife, but I
fancy that he would say: Everything
that's good" Do you wonder that l
am happy to have such homefolk near
Thy?
And now. truly, was not the home
coming greatly worth, while? What
friendships were refreshed What
acquaintance renewed! What elo-
quent bygones recalled! What mem
cries TRANSPORTED and reyerently deep
ened! What vanished faces G kept
coming tenderly near! What defeats
forgotten what victories glorified
These were among the thoughts that
continued winging and singing in the
soul of one who was far away and yet
constantly near during Old Home
Week. | measure my words when /
say that such a feeling and atmosphere
as were there generated and mani
tested Is one of the supremely deep
needs of the whole world. Suppose
such feeling OF fellowship and friend
liness should descend like an atmos-
phere upon our own and other nations.
tell you 1t would do more toward
solving mankind's tremendous prob
lens than all the patched-up social
quackeries, national cunning and po-
litical cleverness can ever hope TO
accomplish. Every movement worth
while must be fed upon the vitaIfties
II good will. Interest" said Wood
row Wilson, in his great Manchester
speech, does not. bind men together;
interest separates mon. There is only
one thing that can bind people and
that Is a common devotion to right"
And how can this common devotion
o right be exalted, lifted up TO great
heights OF highmindedness and I'M
selfish beauty, save in the sweet clear,
sunny atmosphere of the souls home
comings and felowships?
The Only Solution.
Therefore, more and more as the
years run swiftly away, one LOuisaian
: highly resolved to tell men and
women Of every creed, color, nation,
md politics, that the only solution of
right living and happiness in this or
any other world is that given by our
Lord and Master. II is close at hand,
eager TO be tried, and as sure TO win
is the tides run in and out at the
moons mysterious call. When states
men learn that the Kingdom of God
is bigger and more important than
nationality and the sole secret of all
rue nationality: that fraternity is
:airer and more efficient than blind
partisanship: that right doing is more
% be desired than getting back TO the
tate houses of London, Washing IN,
Paris, or Berlin; that, in the long III,
/ is the highest wisdom to practice
righteousness and turn away from
iniqulty--why, the world itself shall
then feel the thrill OF such a fellowship
as throbbed through Louisa's home
coming week. But let us not forget
that the vast majority of our leaders
are precisely what we want them to
be. Now and then there are sublime
eXceptions--a Washington. a Lincoln.
and "A Wilson point us TO the upiands
Thether we follow them or not. But
in these white-hot modern years, when
history Is being made so fast that it
cannot be written, mankind cannot
subsist upon its unique exceptions.
How imperative therefore, that the
vision of the average man and woman
@hould be cleanly Christian. For If
'hl tIAl1tllSlilp ptfblltS I III lSlldH, IL
win drive from public. life. with a whip
II cords knit OF righteous thongs
very time serving politician who
iares defy its commands and better
lstincts. What a mountain high re-
sponsibility rests upon the citizens of
america this very hour, when war
LIQUIDS again blacken the horizon of
he world! If. after ALL they should
be woven out of the treacherOus shreds
OF our international phariseeism, the
Lord have mercy upon us! We may
nOnchalantly say that 1t is none of our
'usiness. Nevertheless, Righteousness,
Judgment and doom do not pause to
barley with our SNUG and ignorant
self satisfactions. Once the condi-
tions of the law of the sudden leap"
ave been fulfilled. they descend as
swift as lightning and as irrevocable
as death; and in their wake there is
he desolating evidence of ruined cities
and mounded wheatfields. And all be
cause Jerusalem knew not the day of
her visitation! 3d.: .r..s 49,"
The Inevitable Harvest.
If these more sober reflections are
part of my expression of gratitude
''hN htNpNI'tl ~ Nllt NoNn VI my Iullh-
rood and youth. it is because l there
learned that whatsoever man sow
eth. that shall he also reap" The
ears have taught me that this I'M
Nendable law is not merely Individual,
but social, industrial, political. nation
4, and international as we'll That is
Why ! pray the spirit of homecoming
may come sweetly home to every neart
in the wide. wide world. Therein is
hope for despair forgiveness for
haired: love for misunderstanding
peace for storm and fury. 1t IS Gods
way of bringing Heaven to aartn and
of lifting earth up to Heaven. There
Is no other. Then why should we not
begin again, and right where we ave?
Tell me, all we who have been part
of these hundred years some of whom
have increased in goods and attained
what we call worldly success,-tell me
IT, in journeying about the world, you
have come upon any words so big with
hope and wonder and fruition as these:
Verify, / say unto you, Except Je
turn. and become as little children, ye
shall in no wise enter into the King
dom OF Heaven" Consider that here
is the secret of all true genius: 1t is
just the art of carrying the spirit of
childhood, with its simplicity. its
freshness, its trustfulness, its forgive