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. HOUSTON DAILY POST: MONDAY MORNING. JANUARY 10. 1910.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE, OR
_ THE GOLDEN LAW OF UFE
Sermon by Dr. W. Fisk Packard at First Methodist Church at the
Sunday Morning Service.
Text: An] wltii what measure ye mote
uliall be measured to 3 011 a sain.—.Matt..
IX
I bring you a message this morning
from a young man; a man who is tlio
sovereign aiul central personality of the
agca. j|i> had spent tlie whole night In
prayer; and now. as the feather-surpllced
choirs from the leafy lofts of ancient ol-
Ivo trees were Hinging their matin songs.
Ho ranic forth to sing. In octaves of ce-
lestial beatitudes, the great lyric of love
whose music Is the gladness of the world!
Ills eyes were as blue as the Syrian sky;
his voice as sweet as Apollo's lute, lie
walked with Inward glory crowned; His
nature was balanced like a star; and
"with kingly pump his uumbers ran" as
JIo showed, that, thoiiKh limited by the
parenthesis of time and space, ho had
contact and klnsl fp willi the eternal; was
embosomed 011 God!
As tin multitudes drew nigh to Hint,
JIw withdrew up Into a mountain; and,
seated upon a bald boulder between the
horns of Hattim. God's glory smote Hlri
on the face, and He opened His month
aiul preached In pregnant period.! the
greatest sermon ►•ver uttered by human
lips.
glooms and stood -tuning
ips. Khi-Ii period pierced the ancient
jflooms and stood shining forever like a
star In the firmament of human life.
Among I he thlni-s Which He said none
Is richer in tiie depth of its significance
and in the range of Its anoli- atlon, tlian
the words which I have chosen as a text:
"And with what measure ye mete it
shall be mens 11 red unto ,vou again." This
text Is not a threat, as It at first would
seem, but It Is a statement of a great
and universal law. a law wlich I shall call
tiie Ooi If, I v.- ,,f I iff It is tile state-
ment of Newton's "third law of motion.
In terms of life—t lint "action and re-
liction are equal to each other, and In
opposite directions." It as the assertion
that cve^y c reated thing In the wide uni-
verse in a related tiling, and stands In
reciprocal relation with every other thins:
system with system, sun with sun, world
with world, star with star, atom with
atom, man with m: n ami life with life.
Nothing exists unrelated and alone. Such
a star would "sho >? from its sphere to
darH« in the trackless void." And such
a life. If psyschologlsts tell the truth,
would never have come to consciousness,
mirelatiO and alom For consciousness
Is that flame of personality which bursts
Into being by the Impact of the ego upon
the tion-c'-o th self on the no-self! And
man stands highest of nil God's creatures
because he h:>s a personality enlarged bv
wl'lt r relations and richer correlations
than aught else batten th the sun.
This great universal law of reciprocity
finds many scrip nral expressions: "What-
soever a man s weth. that shall he also
reap;" "Olve and It shall he given you:"
"Truth shall spring out of the earth,
and righteousness shall look down from
heaven:" "The stone cries out of tIn? wall,
and the beam out of the timber doth
answer It;" "Whntsoevci ye would that
men mete out to voir, mete ye also unto
them." Thus, throughout holy writ Is
the law declared.
The universe, ef which man Is a part,
then. Is not 1 i-zid and unresponsive, but
gives back a different response to every
varying cull, and n different reaction to
every separate touch. And what a man
Kets out of this world, or out of life, de-
pends upon the quality and force of the
life he outs Into it: for he is but the
embodied rebound of his own Impact on
his environment. M'■ >1 re the Incarnate «
fraction of what we mete out to the
world, nnd to men. \nd the truth of my
text finds Illustration on every plane of
helm-—the plivsl .il, the mental, the social
and the spiritual.
NATURE. AN EVP'TSSION OF COP'?
WILL.
First. If we test tills universal law on
the lowest plane of all. the physical, we
find It true. The earth has Its various
reactions. Matter Is not so cold, dead,
Inert and unresponsive as we have some-
times thought. And why should It be
If Cod Is In It? Is not -ravitatlon itself
His jrreat crip of coherence? And evolu-
tion His Inner push and pull to higher,
completer forms? Poes not He meditate
in beauty and speak I11 law? Yes; He
geometrlzes In the crystals, and through
the Instinct of the bee as it makes Its j
cell; and He .'miles In our yellow har- I
vests. Our sciences are but the maps of j
it Is movements, and the laws of nature |
the energizing of Ills omnipresent will; )
and their constancy nnd regularity but j
the expression of Cod's faithfulness!
Our glorious civilizations with their
great achievements in matter are only*
nature's response and reply to the touch
of growlnc Intelligence! And if the fu-
ture shall throw Into the shade all that
we have done In the past. It will be only
because nature shall have made a richer
and fuller response to the impact upon
lier of u greater and more intelligent per-
sonality. "The whole creation" has ever
"groaned." "waiting for the manifesta-
tion of the sons of God"; nnd, as hu-
manity recelvt s a larger and deeper in-
fusion of divinity, nature will rise, as
she has ever done In the past. In all her
forces, minerals, fauna and flora!
We know this Is true: for when the
Muii of Oalllee. tiie perfect Personality*,
lump, and sojourned for awhile, every
department of nature responded to His
touch and was obsequious to Ills com-
mand. Everything In nature leaped to
disclose Its riches, like varicolored Jew-
els responding to the Impinging sunbeam!
At Ills look matter reddened into wine.
At His touch health leaped to heal the
leper, ulul light rose radiant on the dark-
ened retina, and life leuped out of the
rock tontb.
And when He meted out His thought to
nature she blossomed Into the fadeless
flowers of parables which are matchless
word-miracles of truth and wisdom. Ah,
yes the whole round world became vi-
brant. palpitant and responsive to Ills
approach and touch! And this Is a
prophecy of what a future nature holds
for us when we sbull become Indeed fullv
conformed, as a people, to the mind that
was In Jesus the Christ!
Hccond. on the mental plane, too, this
law of tnensuie for measure, holds good.
Every virile, full mind, with Its high-
est culture, is at best, the result and
reaction of its own forthputting, ener-
giztiigs and grappllngs with the facts,
truths and problems of its environment.
Like the bull of snow. It enlarges only
as It rolls farther and farther Into fields
of Inquiry. All the phenomena of the
universe are Intelligible, and hence came
out of Intelligent Mind; and only the
measured Impact of Intelligent mind on
them will evoke and register their riches
for us! All knowledge Is but discovery:
Is but the disclosures given In response
to the long quest meted out bv mind in
earnest, persistent, patient application.
>nly thus does knowledge come. We can
' nothing out of a discourse, or a
or out of a college or a university,
jut of a library unless we put our
ital selves Into It.
lanv are mentally poor, liniorurit, not
cause they have no mind-force, but
hum they have not meted out their
night towards the great truths and
cts around them. Truth becomes
ntwledge, and facts, sciences and phil-
"ophles. on'y In response to tiie energy,
'ilrva<:h and Impact of mind.
3. You may te»t this law on the social
plane of life. Is it not true that the
world of men, like the world of matter,
and the world of mind, will be to us
largely what we are to It? "If a man
would have friends, he must show him-
self friendly." If he would have love
he must show himself loving. The man
who says. "I have 110 friends, or no one
lo\es me!" thereby pronounces Judgment
against himself. Truly the kind of so-
ciety we get out of this world of ours,
this world of men and women. Is deter-
mined by the kind of social life we carry
Into It. A bad man will have bad nelgh-
l»ors, and a good man will have good
iielgnixrf-s. "He noble, and tiie nobility
which sleeps In other men, but is not
dead, will surely rise up to meet thine
own." Every child should learn the les-
son of the echo.
If one gives to others suspicion, de-
traction and evil, he will surely reap the
same In kind.
A woman searched lier husband's pock-
ets every night when he was asleep, for
ton years, looking to se If she could find
anything which would prove him untrue.
At last she found what she was looking
for. and no wonder! Such suspicion would
put the devil Into a good man.
Re Ignoble, cold and suspicious arid the
world will seem hard and cold and cruel
to you. It Is even said of God in Holy
"Writ, "To the froward he will show him-
self froward, and to tiie pure he will
show himself pure!"
He and do what you would have others
be and do to you, nnd you will be sur-
prised how responsive to yciur best the
world will be. This was the way of
Jesus Christ, and though the world cruci-
fied Him, the reaction came, and the
whole world is being saved!
4. And pre-eminently, is the great law
of which I have been speaking true on
the spiritual plane of life. Here, too,
with what measure ye mete shall be
measured to you again. The reason so
little Is received of God's spirit by us, is,
that we give so little of ourselves to God.
"Leave the door open, d.vtor, and give,
tlie patient more air!" "No. 110," said
the dot tor, "she has plenty of air, stie
needs more lungs!" Just so! When I
bear people praying, vociferously plead-
ing with God for more of the Holy Spirit.
I wonder if their trouble is not that the
Holy Spirit needs more of them! Just in
so far as they have given themselves
to God will He fill thein wi'th His spirit!
We often give Jesus only one little
string of the harp of our life and ex-
pect Him to pour out to us the riches
and harmonies of His being; expect Him
to make for us that music whose har-
mony is happiness! But when one metes
cm ft his whole self to Jesus IHirlst. then
the Christ who gives all of himself to us
can fill us witli all the fulness of God.
Ah! If we only knew the fulness of God.
and how it waits to be ours if we will
only mete out to Him our whole self with
all our need*! "
Now Christ is God's gift to us; He Is
our possession; but we will never "pos-
sess our possession" until we give our-
selves to Christ, that He may fill us with
the riches of His saving grace! The ar-
ticles of our crced about Jesu« Christ, can
be made into elements of consciousness,
and must be, if we are ever to come into
our own.
When T wa« a boy, on the farm. I used
to take the pith out of a dry corn stalk,
stretch some silken threads from end to
end of a Joint of it, and raising the win-
dow sash, set It where the autumn winds
could breathe upon It. And, oh! how-
sweet did this crude aeollan harp, with
its soft murmurs, fill the room with Its
music! Then, can not we all bare our
souls—these "harps of a thousind
strings"—to brenthe the breath of God.
until they sing to the march of time tha*.
melody whose music is the gladness of
the world?
Has not .Trsus Christ made up His mind
to be all in all to us when we consent
to withhold nothing from Him?
THE SHADOW OF
THE ALMJGHTY
Sermon by Rev. J. W. Johnson
at Calvary Baptist Church.
In the absence of Dr. Tynes of Calvary
Baptist church, who is ill at hfe home,
Rev. J. William -Johnson of the Star of
Hope mlrsion conducted the services yes-
terday morning. Rev. Mr. Johnson was
born in London and was brought up in
Spurgeon's tabernacle. He Is in Amer-
ica as a gospel singer and minister.
Text," Psalm 91, verse 1: "He that dwell-
etii in the secret place of the Most High
shall abide under the shadow of the Al-
mighty."
He said in part:
To me -his is one of the sweetest por-
tions of God's word, because it is poetic,
but far more than that for the reason
that It holds up before us one of the
gi eatest privileges that can come to
the children of God.
It Is very true that all Christians do
not occupy the same position in this
world. All are saved by the same "pre-
cious blood of Christ." But there is so
much more to the Christian life than
simply being saved; that is only a be-
ginning. The blessings offered are given
to every one. God is no respecter of
persons, and it is as if He had said anv
cue who will fulfill tiie condition! mav
Ha.e the blessing; and there is only* tne
one condition, namely, that we dwell in
the secret place of the Most High"; the
blessings here promised are not for all
believers, but only for those who live in
close fellowship with God. Every child
looks toward the Inner sanctuary and
the mercy seat, but all do not dwell there.
1 hey run to it at times, enjoy occasional
glimpses of the face of Him who is there
to be seen, but they do not continually
anide in the mysterious presence, anil
yet it Is possible for every one.
There Is one beautiful thought about a
shadow that always interests, for the
nearest thing to me as I walk in the sun-
rhine is my shadow and he who walks
In my shadow Is very near to me, and
tie who is in the shadow of the Almighty
must be very near to Him. Again, there
never is a shadow without a light, thus
the secret place is a place of bright-
ness. It is a place where God is.
in the 119th Psalm the psalmist seems
to be beating out the ore of thought
through successive paragraphs of power
and beauty, when suddenly In the fifty-
first verse he seems to have become con-
scious that He of whom he had been
speaking had drawn near, for with up-
lifted face of reverence and ecstasy he
cried, "Thou art near, O Lord!" If we
could only attain unto this, how strong,
how happy, how useful we should be.
The typical reference must be the holy
place of the tabernacle in the wilderness";
outside the tabernacle was covered with
badger skins, but inside just beyond tho
veil was glory and magnificence wrought
In gold, silver, purple and line linen.
Thus It is with the "secret place of the
Most High."
In the fourth verse of the Psalm it
says, "He shall cover thee with His
feathers." What place so warm as the
covered nest the tiny birds there kept
from harm by the mother bird? But
listen to this, if you will only dwell in
the "secret place" you shall abide under
the shadow of the Almighty, and as if
that would not be tender enough to woo
us, we are told again, "lie shall cover
thee with His feathers and under His
wings thou shalt trust."
If we had been with Jacob when he
had his dream we would have seen only
Jacob asleep with a stone for his pillow.
We would only have seen Paul In his
tent, but he was up in the third heaven
and he heard things he could not tell.
"In the secret place there is peace;
1(1 the world we shall have tribulation,
but in Me ye shall have peace."
In the secret place there Is purity. The
unholy man could not see God if he
were set down In the midst of heaven,
but men and women whose hearts are
pure see Him in the very commonest
things of life.
In the secret place there is power. If
we will dwell there we shall have power
to live Christ before the world. In no
place do we read of power of intellect or
of human might but there is a promise
that we shall have power after the Holy
Spirit shall come upon us.
How may I enter the secret place?
Jesus said, "I am the door; by Me, if any
man will, he shall enter in."
It Is lust what Paul meant when he
said: "But now In Christ Jesus ye who
sometimes were afar off are made nigh
by 'he blood of Chri'it."
Did you ever talk aloud to God? Try
It when you are alone. Then listen to
Him. He will tell you things It will
not lie lawful to tell, and will give you
the Joy that will help you tell to others
what He has done for you.
After the Lord had entered Into the
heart of an Indian princess she was so
transformed by His presence that out
of the fullness of her love to Him she
penned a verse for which I shall ever
thank God. Will you go with me and
with her into the secret pl*-'c" of '"ip
Most High that we may abide under
the shadow of the Almighty?
At the close of the sermon Rev. Mr.
Johnson read "In the secret of His
presence how my soul delights to hjde."
Large Congregation at McKee Street
Rev. S. II. Brown preached yesterday
morning to an unusually large congre-
gation at McKee Street Methodist church.
The communion service was held. Rev.
Mr. lirown is a local elder.
"They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount lion, which can not be removed, but
abideth forever. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round ab out His
people from henceforth, even forever."—Psalm 125.
THE CENTURY OF THE CHILD
It Is largely Due to the Motherly and Humanitarian Instincts of
Woman That This Century Is Concerned About the Child, Says
Rabbi Barnstein.
The lollowing lecture was delivered by
Rabbi Ilcnry Barnstein at Temple Beth
Israel Friday night:
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down villi the
kid and the calf, and tin* young lion and
the falling together and a little child
shall lead them.—Isaiah 11:6.
Tne eleventh chapter of Isaiah lias on'y
too frequently been misconstrued and
misinterpreted, but whether it refers to
some definite personal Messiah who w 11
redeem the world, or whether it points to
a Messianic age, when strife and blood-
shed will forever disappear from off the
face of the tar^ii, is for our present pur-
pone immaterial? What is of importance
to us this evening is the prominence given
In our text to the child. The lioa and
the leopard and the wolf will lie down
in peace with the calf and the lamb ar.d
the kid, and all of them will quietly fol-
low the lead of a little child And this
verse strikes the keynote of the Jewish
attitude toward the child throughout th3
ages. The child was always regarded
as the corner stone of the Jewish horns.
"What willst thou give nie," despair.ugly
cries Father Abraham, "seeing that I go
childless." "Give me children," says
Rachel to her husband, Jacob, "or my
life is valueless." Whilst Hannah in her
pathetic prayer for a son says: "If thou
wilt but. give me a son I will give him
unto the Lord all the days of his life. "
And then, as Judaism broadened and be-
came more ii-tense, the Jewish child was
tenderly guarded ar.d cherished and the
greatest sacrifices were, and are still,
made by their parents for their eaucaticu
and future happiness, the children in
their turn reciprocating the parents' de-
votion by assisting ir. the family's upkeep
as soon as they became of wage-earning
age.
It is this traditional love which Jewish
parents bear toward their children which
should make the work of - the National
Child Labor Committee especially interest-
ing and valuable to them. The commit-
tee strives to lessen the hours of labor
of the little slaves who are employed in
various capacities all over the continent,
it seeks to compel employers to provide
decent housing conditions for their young
charges; to teach parents t'neir duty by
making the education of the child com-
pulsory and to provide the United States
with a strong and vigorous young gen-
eration by keeping a watchful eye over
the growth and development of the Am-
erican child. It is a noble work and there
are noble men and women of all creeds
who are engineering this vital matter and
It behooves every citizen to help them by
every means in his power. Amon; the
ancients and right through the middle
ages the child was all but ignored. These
were essentially the centuries of the man.
We constantly hear the Greeks held up
as the type of culture and yet consider
for a moment their attitude toward the
child. According to the Greeks, the pur-
pose of marriage was simply the raising
of children for the state; if a child was
delicate or ugly, he was exposed and
quietly done away with. With the
Athenian family wife and children were
merely abstract conceptions. The state
was paramount, so after a man had ful-
filled his duties as a citizen he was at
liberty to devote himself to unbridled
pleasure, whilst his wife, children and
nome might shift for themselves as best
they could. "By children." savs Socrates,
"man obtains a prop for his old age." He
Ignored completely the claim which chil-
dren have upon parents, but went out
of his way to emphasize the obligation
which children have toward their par-
ents. The fact Is that Greek law permit-
ted parents to dispose of their children
as part of their personal effects, and the
public exposure of Infants; especially of
little girls, was constantlv carried into
effect, mainly to spare the expense of
rearing. So much for the domestic value
of Greek culture!
WOMAN'S INFLUENCE.
In the Middle Ages, too, man was para-
mount. Knights entered the lists for a
fair lady's smile. He did the work, he
fought the foe and she gave the award.
Children might be admjre.d, but their na-
ture was misunderstood. It was not until
the Nineteenth century that woman com-
menced to take a leading part in the
artistic, intellectual and philanthropic
life of the community and it is very
largely due to her motherly and humani-
tarian instincts that this young Twen-
tieth cen'ury is concerning itself verv
seriously with the physical and moral
status of the child. It would not be
wrong to say that the Nineteenth cen-
tury was that of the woman, whilst the
.Twentieth will go down to history as
that of the child, for the problem of the
w*B,e earning child is one of the most
vital which is today claiming the at-
tention of the citizGns of this great re-
public. Ellen Key has called her com-
prehensive study of child life "The Cen-
tury of the Child," and she takes her
title from a sentence in the drama "The
Lion's Whelp." wherein one of the' char-
acters speaking: near the end of the last
century says "The next century will be
the century of the child. Just as this
century has been the woman's century.
When the child gets his rights, morality
will be perfected." It was in industrial
i.^iigland that children were most cruel-
ly exploited, but just as Tom Hood's
Song of the Shirt" aroused the con-
science of the nation to the infamy of the
sweated woman so did Mrs. Browning's
"Cry of the Children" work wonders for
the child slave, so that today England
stands In the forefront in her humanita-
rian child legislation. Nor has this re-
strictive legislation had an adverse ef-
fect economically, for England Is strong-
er today now that she has prohibited
child labor than she was in the days
when her factories were full with chil-
dren.
But there are places in Europe where
child labor Is still as shockiner ns it n-ns
In the England of 1848. In the Rus-
sian weaving industry, children un-
der 10 and as young as 3 and 4
have been found worlcing eighteen hours
a day. In Germany the toy industry
has been a Moloch of destruction to
thousands of hapless Innocents. In the
sulphur districts of Sicilv, in the magne-
sium mines of Spain, tender children have
been used as beasts of burden and pre-
maturely crippled for life or their con-
stitutions have been permanently under-
mined by the exactions of cruel taskmas-
ters or by the exigencies of modern in-
dustrial conditions. You may, perhaps,
thinks that such Infamies are impossible
in free America, but affer reading even
a small portion of the immense amount,
of literature upon tills subject, vou will
be astonished and perhaps horrified to
know that not only do thev exist, but
that the United States, compared with
the most advanced European nations, is
defective In protective legislation. This
is partly due to the exaggerated Impor-
tance we place upon States rights. ren-
dering it next to impossible to frame any
law ivhlcli shall be National in its scope,
and partly to the inherited belief in
America that government is of necessity
oppressive and its functions not to be
lightly extended. What this typical Amer-
ican attitude has brought us to we shall
see in a few moments.
ILLITERATE <—HfLOREN IN SOUTH.
There are 580,000 Illiterate children in
the United States, of whom all but 10,000
are to be found in the Southern States.
There are 2,000,000 children under the age
of 16 years In tho United States who are
earning their own living. These figures
seem to be almost Incredible, but I quote
them in the name of one of the great-
est and most trustworthy authorities to
he found anywhere—Miss Jane Addams of
Chicago. Mr. Beveridge puts the matter
before us even more plainly when he
tells us that an army of American chil-
dren, greater In numbers than the army
of soldiers with which either Russia or
Japan flooded Manchuria, are daily
marched to the mills, factories and sweat
shops here in America and either killed
outright or forever ruined. The combined
losses of Japan and Wussia in all *he
battles of the Russo-Japanese war were
tiot so great as the number of Ameri-
ran children who are worked to death
or made degenerates every year In the
LAYMEN AT GALVESTON.
Houston Laymen Spoke in Interest
of Laymen's Missionary Move.
A number of prominent Houston lay-
men went to Galveston yesterday to
speak in the churches and at a mass
meeting in the interest of the convention
of the laymen's missionary jnovement.
Following are the assignments of the
various speakers:
First Methodist Church, 11 a. m.—Judge
Kennerly.
Grace Episcopal Church, 11 a. m.— J.
E. McAshan.
Fourth Presbyterian Church, 11 a. m.—
M. D. Fields.
First Christian Church, 7:30 p. m— J.
L. McAshan.
First Presbyterian Church, 7:30 p. m.—
Judge Garrett.
Evangelical Association, 7:30 p. :n.—M.
I>. Fields.
Wfest End Methodist Church, 7:30 p. m.—
Judge Kennerly.
Vfiung Men's Christian Association, *
p. *■
RIGHTEOUSNESS
OF CHRIST
Dr. It. E. L. Craig Delivered a
Splendid Sermon- at Trinity
Episcopal Church.
. **#£} v
Br. Henry Barnstein.
mills, mines and sweatshops of our own
j country! He goes on to point out that
the effect of this premature labor :s
] stunting the body, mind and soul of these
I children; that the yearly toll of such
degenerates amounts to upward of 250,-
i 000, who hate the society which has
j wronged them and have ballots in their
I hands; th;»t this child labor drags down
j the wages of a full grown man to a
! child's standard; that it makes parents
dependent upon their children, thus re-
versing nature's rule and, above all that,
it is economically ruinous, physically su-
icidal and moral y unspeakable.
What is my object in drawing these
appalling facts to your notice? I wish
to a:louse the conscience of the men of
my community to the cry of the little
children which is ascending to heaven
from this huge wealthy continent. Ot-r
congressmen and senators must be
aroused and Texas must not lag behind
her sister States. We mav be proud of
our State's rights, but think of the con-
i fusion revealed by the following facts:
! Kentucky has today the best child la-
bor law of any Southern State, with an
age limit of 14 and a fair system of fac-
tory inspection. Tennessee comes next.
With the incoming of 1910, Virginia has
also fal en into line with a 14-year ago
limit. North Carolina's age limit is 13,
but its factory inspection is a farce.
South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Ala-
bama, Mississippi and Louisiana lag he-
hind, although the city of New Orleans
has provided for factory inspection.
Texas has a minimum age limit of 12
I for factories and 16 for mines. But there
is no factory inspection either in Texas
or Arkansas.
It can be seen at a glance what all
this leads to. As soon as a State passes
a competent child labor law, the factory
is simply moved to another State where
the law is less restrictive.
REFORMS NEEDED.
The fact is that nothing but a National
law can save the little children. People
say we must leave every State to work
out its own salvation. They said the
same thing about lottery ticketc, obscene
literature, poisoned foods and diseased
meats. But the nation took up these in-
famies and now, thank God. they are
things of the past. And the nation will
have to adopt the same procedure with
regard to child labor If one State has a
good law and another a bad one, the
manufacturers will simply move their
factories to the backward State. This is
exactly what happened when Tennessee
passed a good child labor law and en-
forced it. Then was it that the Rev. Mr.
McKelway saw shipments of children
being made under a boss from Tennessee
to South Carolina. Think of the villainy
of that shipment and ask yourself if wre
are to tolerate such conditions?
Senator Beveridge has suggested the
form in which such a National child la-
bor law should be cast. He would make
it a crime punishable by fine and im-
prisonment for any manufacturer that
employs child labor to ship his products
over the railroads or for the
railroads to carry such prod-
ucts. This would end child labor once
and for all. and it is for this reason that
the bill is being so bitterly fought by the
cotton mills, glass factories, mining com-
panies and sweat shops who are employ-
ing child labor and by the railroads that
carry their products.
It is a hard and stubborn fight, this
conflict between the rich capitalist and
the social reformers for the soul of the
little child and God knows w*ho will
eventually claim the victory. On the one
side there stand unlimited capital and
legal quibbles, on the other hard work
and sympathetic earnestness. It is the
old struggle between might and right, and
I am sufficiently optimistic to believe
that right will eventually prevail. It is
a matter which vitally concerns not only
every parent, but every one to whom
childhood is dear and precious and
whose heart beats warmly for the Amer-
ica of the future.
Let us make the Twentieth century the
century of the child. Let the child leact.
Let our statesmen make the welfare o£
the child the paramount issue in Nation-
al politics. Let them see that the period
of adolescence is prolonged as far as
possible, that education is compulsory alt
over the continent—today Maryland and
Kentucky are the only Southern States
In which this is the case—that juvenile
courts are established in all large centers
of population; that playgrounds are pro-
vided for our youth to work off its super-
fluous energy and, above all, that if chil-
dren must work they shall do so at an
age which is reasonable and under con-
ditions which are conducive to their phy-
sical, mental and moral well-being.
Then indeed will the wolf lie down with
the lamb, _ the wealthy capitalist
and the social reformer will stand upon
common ground, for they will all think
about their own children and will realize
that one God has created all children,
and the time is not so far distant either,
for even amidst present chaotic condi-
tions Nevada is todav the onlv State
which has not some sort of child labor
law. But not until this humanitarian
legislation shall become National in scopa
will we be able to truthfully say "And a
little child will lead them."
A congregation that filled the house to
overflowing greeted Dr. Robert E. Lee
Craig of Jackson, Miss., yesterday morn-
ing at the service at Trinity Episcopal
church at the corner of Louisiana and
Drew streets. Dr. Craig selected for the
text of his sermon the words of Christ
as recorded by St. Matthew in the seven-
teenth verse of the fifth chapter, "Think
not I am come to destroy the law, or
the prophets; I am not come to destroy,
but to fulfill,"
Dr. Craig said, in part: The Jews in
their zeal and interest for tne law and
their reverence for the prophets often
forgot the real purpose of these agencies,
and regarded them as ends rather than
f-s a means for good. They failed ,o real-
ize that the purpose was to convince and
convict men of sin, and to cause them
to believe in a redeemer.
There was not one righteous man in all
the ages before the coming of Christ,
rhey were all bad. Moses displeased God
and angered Him. Solomon wit i all of
his wisdom was not righteous, and fell
far short of the glory of the Lord. Yet
the taw was unbending and uncompro-
mising in its demands for obedience.
Above all things else it called for obed-
ience. The system of the Jewish sacrifice
repeatedly offered up to the Lord was
an acknowledgment of their sins and tho
broken law*. The high priest did not
dare to enter into the presence of the ark
of the covenant, that mysterious mani-
festation of the presence of God, with-
out a sacrifice of blood offered for his
own sins.
The Jews feared that Christ had coino
to annul the prophets, but He said: "I
am come not to destroy, but to fulfill.
For verily, I say unto you, till leavei
and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall
in nowise pass from the law, cill all be.
fulfilled." He fulfilled the law in all
cf its requirements. That is the reason
He became the victor and Lord of Life.
If it were possible for any soul to keep
the law—which means the ten command-
ments—absolutely, I speak it reverently,
such an individual could walk up to the
gate of heaven an:t demand admission
upon the declarations God Himself laid
down, that he who should fulfill the law
should live by the law.
Christ was the Lord of I.ife, because Ha
kept the law. He could walk through
what men call death because He kept tho
law. His whole life was a fulfillment
of the law. Against him were gathered
all the powers of the dark and evil worid.
We are not to think of Chiist's great
temptation as a theological dogma, for
it was real, one of th^ severest and stern-
est temptations ever experienced by man.
The church has not forgotten it, and
every year for forty days the church
keeps it He was scourged and spit upon
and bruised, and finally crucified, but
Ht was always obedient. The law meant
Christ.
The law demanded righteousness. Tho
righteous man is the right man, who
fulfills all his obligations. There are
only two relationships. All others come
under one of these two. The fii st is
the relationship with God; the other rela-
tionship is the relationship with mail.
"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy-
self." The two form a cross, and a croa^
means sacrifice. Sacrifice means service
and the giving of self. "Greater love than
this has no man, that he lay down his
life for his friend." Christ fulfilled the
law. Ask any lawyer if the supreme
thing which the law demands is not obed-
ience, yet men are suffering, and going
down to death because they disobey the
law of God. Christ's death was offering
up Himself as a sacrifice, as a lamb with-
out spot or blemish, for the sins of His
brethren.
FULFILLMENT OF HISTORY.
Not only was Christ the fulfillment of
the. law, but he was the fulfillment of
the history of the world. A careful
reading of the pages of history will dis-
close that He is the fulfillment of the
purpose cf it all. Take Christ out of the
thirty-nine books of the Old Testament,
and what a checkered puzzle that book
would be to us. It .vas the purpose of
the Greek language to spread the gospel.
The Roman empire broke down the walls
of tlie individual' nations, so that all
roads led to Rome and the messengers
of Christ could go through the world
preaching. When tho apostle was hard
pressed by persecution, he could stand
up in his majesty as a Roman citizen
and appeal to Caesar. It has all cen-
tered in him and flowed from him. No
man could write a history of the world
for the past nineteen centuries and leave
cut Christ and His influence. For one
to undertake to write a history and de-
liberately leave out Him would be as
foolish as to draw a map of Switzerland
and leave out of it the Alps. Take Christ
out of history and the blood of the
martyr is lost; take Him out of poetry
and you rob human speech of the sub-
limest rythm of which it is capable. Sup-
pose Christ were taken out of the archi-
tecture of the world. Throw* down the
stones of the magnificent cathedrals and
churches, now existing, or tear down the
long list of majestic cathedrr-.ls from tiia
first one built by a Roman emperor down
to the great St. John's church w*hich tho
Episcopal denomination is now building
in New York, and which when completed
will be the most magnificent church in
America. Tear down the arches, colossal
towers and tapering spires of the build-
ings erected for the glory of Christ and
the world's bast architecture is gone. Sup-
pose all that His personality has inspired
were taken out of the world's painting,
and you would destroy the divinest crea-
tion of the imagination of men. Sup-
pose He were taker, out of the music of
the world. They talk of grand operas
and the modern music, but the sweetest
strains that ever thrilled a human soui
are the old liymns written by the men
of the church under the inspiration of
God. He can not be taken out of human
achievement, because He came to fulfill
and not to destroy.
More than ail this. He is the fulfillment
and realization of the highest and noblest
aspirations of the human soul. Nono
of us are what we ought to be, and we
all admit this. Our conscience condemns
ns, and we are honest and dare not lie.
The great philosopher, Immanual Kant,
said that the thing that most filled him
with awe was the contemplation of the
starry heavens, realizing the infinite 1
stretch of th=) infinite. Man can't be sat-
isfied with merely bfeing good, or with
keeping the commandments. They are
simply an outline, an alphabet of con-
duct, and man is not contented with
being respectably good. We are under
obligations to be infinitely good. We
must answer the call calling us up and
out to an infinite life, to obey the in-
finite 'aw and reach the perfect light.
Christ said. "Be ye perfect, as the F ther
is perfect." I am preaching an infinite
righteousness, such as was Christ's, and
yet some skeptics will stand up and say
that Christ was a mere man.
Christ came to do and be all the law
required, to clothe the sons of men with
the eternal righteousness of God; tlie
man's life that is without God is as a
casket without the jewel. Take Him. I
do not mean to take His teachings mere-
ly, or to read theology and His life in
musty records, but come into communion
and fellow*sliip with Him as the Savior.
REMEMBER JESUS CHRIST IN
BUSINESS AND IN SORROW
Stirring Address Belivered by Dr. French E. Oliver, Noted Evan-
gelist of Kansas City, at First Presbyterian Church.
Dr. French E. Oliver, evangelist of
Kansas City, Mo., dealt with home,
church, business house, political Issues
and "Cliristless presidents" in his ser-
mon at the First Presbyterian church
Sunday morning. Ilis text was taken
from Second Timothy 2:8, revised version,
and only three words of the text were
used, namely, "Remember Jesus Christ."
He said, among other things, "All ad-
mit the fact that Jesus Christ is being
forgotten In the business life of the 'na-
tion, and, let me say here, that if you
are a church member and the principles
of the New Testament do not form the
basis of your business life and dealings,
you are a charlatan and riot a Christian.
Men talk to me about tricks in trade.
The only trick Jesus Christ ever gave
for business men is the Golden Rule. A
Jeweler asked a captain to iigure the per
cent of profit on a bit of repair work
some time ago. He said:* 'Captain, I am
out 10 cents for the job, but I will re-
ceive $6 for the work. I have figured up
to 900 per cent, but have not reached $6
yet.' The captain said: 'You have long
since passed out of percentage into what
is known as larceny; that is the reason
you can't solve this problem on the
percentage basis.'
"Remember Jesus Christ in politics. It
is a National disgrace that Jesus Christ
was crucified at the polls last November.
I am disgusted when I consider the fact
that Theodore Roosevelt palmed off a
Godless coin and a Cliristless president
on the American republic.
"Here in Texas you are hearing the
last of the ward-heeler and the saloon
politician. May God give the men of
Texas manhood enough to vote these
dens of damnation out of the State.
SYMPATHY OF JESUS.
In disappointment remember Jesus
Christ. There are thousands of broken
hearts in the world today. Mothers and
wives with tear-stained faces form a sad
procession as they march past the burned
out ashes of their hopes. Jesus knows,
and cares, remember Him in your hour
of heart-anguish./ Since "all things work
together for good to them that love God"
He may permit you to suffer as a chast-
ening in order that you may be taught
to trust Him, and learn your dependence
upon Him. Disappointment to the Chris-
tian simply means His appointment.
Only one letter is changed, but its mean-
ing is real to the child of God.
In sorrow, remember Jesus Christ. Sor-
row* is universal. You have felt its blight
in your home. Your arm was not strong
enough to bar the door w*hen the heart-
less King of Terrors came to take your
sweet loved one away. Your tears could
not touch sensibility that does not exist.
When your home was made desolate—
when mother was taken away—Jesus was
the only source of comfort. When sorrow
comes where it has not reached its caus-
tic chirurgery, remember Jesus Christ. If
you have done your duty and led your
lov*ed ones to Jesus there will be a re-
union beyond the sunset's radiant glow,
and all tears will be wiped away from
your eyes.
Dr. Bond of Kansas describes Dr. Oliver
as follows:
Dr. Oliver is a man of most striking
personality—towering like a giant, head
and shoulders, above the average man,
standing six feet four inches in height,
with broad shoulders, as straight as an
Indian; his body well knit and full of
muscles, nerves and virility, a classical
face, firm jaws, lips that close like a
vise, a chin that denotes strength of will
and firmness of character; a head that
would answer for a Grecian model and
eyes that are steel gray—the truest of all
colors, so the sages say—piercing and
searching the souls of his listeners
through and through. Dr. Oliver's great-
er strength lies in the quality of his
mind and soul—God has been very gen-
erous to him in giving him a supero
mental power house, and the mental ma-
chinery has so well put together and is
controlled with such consummate skill
that he opens to his hearers the litera-
ture, history, science, biography, philos-
ophy, theology, poetry and art of ail
lands with ease of the great master that
he is. As a lecturer, Dr. Oliver lias few
peers and no superior on the American
platform today. It has been my privilege
to listen to some of the greatest preach-
ers and lecturers of our times, and as a
teacher of oratory I know something ot
oratory and dramatic art, I therefore
think he takes rank easily with any and
all of the great pulpit or platform orators
of the country. He is a complete master
of the English language, possessing a
vocabulary that Is Shakespearean in its
scope—but his messages do not run all
to words, as is the case with so many
pulpit and platform celebrities, they are
replete with thought and are delivered
with a power and energy and force or
will that carries conviction to the most
obstinate mind. His style is at once
catchy, original and pleasing. He is
blessed with a voice that can be heard
in the largest auditoriums; a voice that
has the general's command in it; a voice
that appeals to you and wins you; a voice
that often has tears in it; a voice that
plays on the heartstrings of his auditors;
a voice that sometimes crashes like
mighty artillery as he hurls his crashing
thunderbolts of truth against sin and un-
righteousness.
WHAT INFIDELITY HAS
DONE FOR THE WORLD
First of a Series of Lectures to Be Delivered by Dr. William States
Jacobs at the First Presbyterian Church.
Progress at Second Presbyterian.
Dr. F. E. Fincher, pastor of the Second
Presbyterian church, in the South End,
on Main street, reports considerable
progress and increase at his church. The
congregations recently have been unu-
sually large. The church is in a grow-
ing neighborhood and is measuring up to
its opportunities
Methodist Pastors to Meet.
The Methodist Pastors' association will
meet this morning at 10 o'clock at the
rooms of the Young Men's Christian As-
sociation. The program committee will
make its report, and other reports will
be made. A full attendance of the preach-
ers is desired.
Dr. William States Jacobs delivered the
first of his popular series of sermons
last night at the First Presbyterian
church, the subject being, "WKat Has In-
fidelity Done for the World?" Taking as
the foundation for his remarks the first
verse of the fifty-third Psalm, "The fool
sayeth in his heart there is no God," the
minister said, in part:
In examining Into the nature of Infi-
delity we find it to be an effect rather
than a cause, and while it is of course
responsible as an influence ?n the earth
for tilings that we must mention, we are
compelled to recognize it as a deformity
Of mind and soul rather than a natural
state. Some insight may be gotten into
this question by a casual glance at the
ethnology of the ranks of infidelity. The
earth has been scoured to find recruits
for their godless cult, and where have
they found them? First of all they have
been gathered from about heathen tem
pies where superstition lias imposed upon*
ignorance till intelligence is insulted by
the frauds of paganism and as an in-
evitable result the minds of many have
rejected God because of the fallacies of
heathen religions. Again a great num-
ber will be found among the intelligent
classes where Christianity has lapsed into
superstitious practices and foolish claims
that are repugnant to reason. Such is
the case in Mexico and to a greater or
less degree in the Latin world, and when
the human mind revolts from the irra-
tional and impossible claims of semi-
idolatrous Christianity what WoiTuer is it
that it should fall into the abyss of hope-
less infidelity.
Another prolific source is found in the
rapid emerging of nations such as Japan
from the immemorial slavery of super-
stition into modern civilization through
the inculcation of Western ideas of
science and philosophy without tlie salu-
tary influence of the Christian religion,
and it is inevitable that culture with-
out a creed will produce infidelity.
Still another large company has come
as the result of the oppression of the
churches over the lives sometimes, but
over the conscience all the time of a,
people whose hearts have beeii taught to
hope for freedom of body and mind, and
in their protest they have rebelled
against God, when their rebellion should
have been against men, who in no true
sense represent God in that oppression.
Still another company has been recruit-
ed from that greaf cloud of witnesses
who have observed the insincerity of some,
the impurity of many and the faults of
still more of the leaders in the chuicli,
and who have made the preat mistake
of judging Christ by Christians or Chris-
lu/ntl then, there are a few who #>r laVk
of investigation and because of intellec-
tual pride, or for disappointment, or be-
cause they have been neglected or mis-
treated have embraced the cold comfort
of "a godless philosophy.
However many they may be no one
could be proud of the company *e has
joined when he becomes an infidel.
forms ofInfidelity.
Let us briefly look at some of the
forms of infidelity.
First, there is "agnosticism," which is
a classic name for "ignoramus," and
while it assumes the outward form of
extreme honesty in confessing ignorance
of spiritual things it may be said that
the same principle applied to physical
science would subvert not only our
philosophy but every known and proven
principle of science. The repeated as-
sertion of the "agnostic," 1 do not
know," naturally raises the question
whether Providence has really given him
any faculty for knowing.
A second form that we should consid-
er is skepticism in the sense of common
doubt of everything that pertains to the
supernatural. A careful investigation oi
the species reveals it to be ordinary
"carnal mindedness," which is an im-
peachment of itself. "The carnal mind
is enmity against God" and no wondsr
that it breeds infidelity.
But the common type of infidelity that
we meet oftenest is materialism, which
undertakes to subject ideas to the phys-
ical tests and see spiritual ideals through
the telescope. It is another case of the
pig aspiring to fly.
But what has infidelity done for the
w*orld? I see no great civilizations that
it lias built up for the comfort and joy
of the people. I see no universities i.t
has founded for the instruction of the
human mind. I see no orphan asylums
it has built to shelter the helpless. 1
have heard of no crusades it has organ-
ized to overcome vice and extirpate
crime. I have heard of no campaign i;
has launched for the moral amelioration
of the race. I s«e no memorials of grat
itude that men have raised for the com-
fort they have found in tenets of infi
delity.
But, on the other hand, I do observe
that they bolster up insincerity with
lies. Colonel Etlian Allen, the gal.am
leader of the Green Mountain boys, wa;
an outspoken Infidel, but his wile was a
pious Christian woman. His daughter
fell sick and her father was sent for ta
hear her dying words. "Father." sho
said, "shall I believe the principles I >u
have taught me or those my mother nas
taught me " After a few moments of
agitation, he replied: "My child, you
had better believe what your mother has
taught you." Infidelity is a lie and no-
body knows better than manv of thoso
who profess it that it is a lie. "The.e are,
however, some sincere doubters but thov
are uninformed. Sir Isaac Newton was
an infidel until he examined the evi-
dences of Christianity anud ever after-
ward was a firm believer. The celebrat-
ed Gilbert West and his friend, Lord
Littleton, were infidels and determined
to expose the cheat of the Bible. Otia
chose the resuriection of Christ and tho
other the conversion of Paul for hostile
criticism, but their investigations result-
ed in their giving up their purpose and
yielding to claims of a simple faith in
God.
INFLUENCE OF INFIDELITY.
Infidelity destroys all moral restraint.
You may call the simple faith of the
Christian shackles if you like, but if
you strike those shackles from his mind
and heart you unbridle that desperately-
wicked thing, the human heart, and pan-
demonium will reign. Some friends of
Voltaire proposed at dinner to discuss
atheism, but Voltaire objected, saying.
"Wait till my servants have retired; I
don't want my throat cut tonight."
Again infidelity has darkened tlie path
to the tomb. The fear of death and the
absence of a sense of security on the
brink of the tomb are the creatures of
infidelity. Death to the Christian is a
triumph, but to the infidel it is defeat
and despair. What wonder then that
"they sorrow as those who have no
hope."
The works of infidelity are not endur-
ing. What abiding memorial is there that
is not to their shame? In the providence
of God their strongnolds are being broken
down. Gibbon, Voltaire and Chesterfield
tried to destroy Christianity, but the.
hotel of Gibbon at Lake Lemon has a.
been put to the use of printing Bibles
and Chesterfield's parlor, formerly a club
room for infidelity, has become a vestrv
and where once infidel raillery was heard
afterward the intercessions of Christians
were made to the Christ once dishonored
there.
The Temple Review
The Post acknowledges receipt of a
copy of the first issue of the Temple Re-
view. The Review is a magazine which
has been established by Rev. F. Huhns,
pastor of the Baptist Temple at Hous-
ton Heights. It will be issued monthly.
The news of the church will be pub-
lished, together with notes of progress
in- the various institutions connected with
the new institutional church which is
thriving under tlie direction of Rev Mr.
Huhns. Tho January number contains
photographs of J uuge r. M. Ktniin i)'
and Miss Julia Spencer, librarian of the
Temple library.
The cover page contains the creed of
the pastor, which is a striking paragraph.
It is as follows:
"I believe in boys and girls, the men
and women of a great tomorrow; tnat
whatsoever the boy soweth the man
shall reap. I believe in the curse of ig-
norance, in the efficacy of schools, iu
the dignity of teaching and Ihe joy of
serving another. I believe in wisdom as
revealed in human lives as well as in
the pages of a printed book; in lessons
taught not so much by precept as by
example; in ability to work with the
hands as well as think with the head; in
everything that makes life large and
lovely. I believe in beauty in the school
room and in the church, in the home, in
laily life and out of doors. I believe m
laughter, In love, in all ideals and dis-
tant hopes that lure us oil. I believe
hat every hour of every day we re"> •«
a just reward for all we do and all wo
U"I believe in the present and its op-
portunities, in the future and its prom-
ises and in the divine joy of living."
Secretary Tesh Coining.
Committees appointed from the various
Baraea classes of tlie city aro at worl*
arranging for a meeting to be held at
he Young Men's Christian Association
'n February at which Travelins Secre-
ary Tesh of the Baraca movement will
i ell ver an address. There will be other
ttractions also. All the Baraca classes
if the city are interested in the event.
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