Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-08
SPIRES OF The SPIRIT
To the End
BY DIR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
Chaplain Of the United states Senate

One of the great American
statesmen Of the kingdom of
God is a Methodist leader.
Bishop Herbert WEIGH, who
has reached his 95th birth
day. He is as alive and alert
as he was a half century ago.
Such a towering character
belongs to all the churches.
In what he has seen and felt
across these stupendous dec
AIDES he has really lived a
thousand years. In posts of
strategic leadership at home
and half a world away, by
his faith and hope and love
he has never faltered nor
halted; he has pushed on
and on. He is the incarna-
ton Of a modern Pilgrims
progress. His life and service
illustrate with a shining radi-
ance the well-known hymn.
20 Jesus, I have promised to
serve Thee to the end"
In the spirit of that hymn
this loved bishop in a recent
message said, "At 95,. I give
you my working creed" He
says in words that are more
golden than gold: THE world
is not meant as q nursery
for the coddling of perpetual
infants, not fitted just for
ease and comfort and secu-
rity, but for watchfulness,
work, struggle, hardship,
and for suffering as a normal
part Of q full life. Looking
back over so many years !
am impressed by the fact
that change and progress
come slowly. We like things
to happen fast. We would
hurry God. We would wipe
out the force of evil and
bring peace to our time now"
And then this veteran
prophet puts this reminder in
italics: But God answers by
Titles" All, there is a spa
cious conception which has
come in the ripening expert
enceS of acknowledgements
minus five-"God answers by
Titles"
That truth comprehended
and needed is the antidote
for impotence, discourage
ment and establishment. 1t
will save one from being a
gutter. 1t is the fundamental
realization which writes even
across a dark sky, HE that
endureth to the end shall be
saved"
1t was in the blaze of that
revelation that John Henry
Newman, cropping amid the
encircling gloom, wrote that
deathless line, "One step
enough for mel" That prayer
for guidance suggests that
God answers by Titles. 1t is
only by being faithful in the
Titles" going forward a day
at a time, that one can eS-
cape the supreme catastrophe
of giving up the fight.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger,
publisher of one Of the great
est of newspapers, the New
York Times, tells of the ter
rible impact upon his own
thinking and feeling when
World War II broke over the
world. He became so wrought
up about the present and the
future that at night he
tossed without sleep. Often
he would rise in the night
when slumber refused its
balm, and try to paint. He
was no painter. He was seek
ing some way to forget his
worries. But Mr.. Sulzbergel
relates that he was never
able to find any peace ano
the power for going on in SC
bewildering a world until, as
he puts it, he adopted as his
motto five words from q
Christian hymn--the five
words, "One step enough fol-
met"
A good preacher friend oil
mine, the minister Of a great
church, who by his kindline
messages and personal coun-
selling has helped many to
endure, to press on when they
were about to join the igno-
bic army of cutters, declares
This is Gods plan for you
and me. We can fulfill what
ever work is ours to do if we
will live by the Gospel of the
One Step"
The chief thing each of us
needs to be concerned about
is what DR.. Harry Fosdick
in a striking phrase calico
THE power to see it through.
Demas, that haunting char
acter in the New Testament
the man who did not see il
through, has always fasci.
mated me. At one time under
the impetus of Paul's in
fluence he put his hand to
the Gospel pillow. The great
apostle called him his fellow
worker. But, in writing from
his prison cell to Timothy
Paul records sadly-"We'vt
lost DemaS-He hath for