Show QUICKENING OF THE HUMAN SOUL Rev Benjamin Young Draws Lessons From Popular Popular lar Novel GODS GOD'S POWER TO AWAKEN S Service mid 1111 I t c Work or I IoS To- To 10 lo to Win iii In Hack Buck the lie Soul IJ Lost t in iii jl I Indifference ll Te Rev Benjamin Young Youns yesterday drew from Margaret new no el novel The Tho Awakening of oC Helena Richie the tile theme of or his sermon Mr Ire Young took tool for his text tet Ephesians 2 1 1 You did thid quicken when ie ye 0 were dead He lie said sid In part 4 CW novel by Margaret Margarot tt Vy deals w with SJ tue le nrAl awakening ot of a human deal a soul sOUI It I Is called The Th he Awakening ot of helena elena Richie It I Is s a charming story well written sUggestive and profitable I it H Is one nc ot of th lie rca really y great n novels I or of C f the thc year year- That quiet to town n ot of actors Old Chester through through its Is quaint characters char char- teaches us some wholesome lesSons les Ics s Sons wUn ns In sound Round morality Old Samuel Wright and U a ant Samuel Wright rl ht the Ito re rc- rc banker and Mr Wrights Wright's rl ht's son Sam form Corm u a group over which a storm or of tragedy breaks II It I could have been averted but it I was Invited Dr Jr Lay Lav- coder the minister and nJ Dr William Wilam Lv- Lv Ji King hnS the physician are arc fre naive and de do- They are ure full orbed orbet souls Is who beam beani out out sympathy and love on every cry hand The Tue chief t Interest of ot the story centers around Mrs helena IK Richie a 1 newcomer to Old Od Ch Chester stor and Dald David nt a. a lad from one of t the IC mountain vii vil lages not for far away Mrs Ils Richie had hall vl- vl come mo to live in the thc house known as The rho Stuffed Animal House She had hat IS left lef her tIer husband of or cruelties practiced upon her and her child In fact It i was through h such cruelty that her babe died Lloyd Pryor became attached to her and brou brought hl her to live in iii tho the seclusion of ot Chester hester For lon long years yours she sIte waited for her hc own to lO die that she ml might ht marr marry Lloyd LloyO She he knew that she sho was doing wron wrong wrong- She Site seems to have lutc been bern caught In a u anet anet unet net from which It was well nigh nigh wel-nigh Im Impossible Impossible Impossible Im- Im possible for her to escape cape She tried to fortify her mind b by the thc old arguments men ments as af tn to tf convenience and conventionality con but she found round no relief from the torments ts of conscience conscience She a terrible mistake She sinned grievously She defied the tho laws of so society so- so clety cetO necessary for oa its Is life and tion ton She She had to pay pa the thc penalty for her transgression In keenest suffering In the tho lie after years It I all al came caine back to her ever every mistake bringing ln Its Is own due measure of or anguish until her cup was wa full ful Heart IM Is Dr Lavender L would save SH her tier The Thc Thebo bo boy David Davi from rein the thc hill hi country Is Ig placed In his charge o After Arlet careful management mana ho he contrives to get David Davi into the thc lie stuffed animal house houst Crying for love lore anti and sympathy the womans woman's soul goes out toward him I like e the tendrils tendrils ten ten- drils of ot a t plant leaping heaping toward the thc dris t golden light She Sue t teaches aches David but tho the lad lat In a n far higher Honeo toadies teaches her She docs docs' know much about prayer but he helps her to pray Jealously Jealously Jeal Jeal- she guards that young oun soul soul Her own secret which has left lef the thc brand brandas as of ot a hot Iron on her heart she keeps well well The youngster develops clops in In- In h He lie lc Is 18 bright and quaint and reflective Sometimes one of or his questions sets her hel heart all al a trouble How she comes come to lo love lo e David She watches him in his pIa play She Is anxIous anxious ious bus about him at school school The he scratches and tho bruises which come to him him arc treated with wih all al motherly solicitude In the tho dusk which Is between the thc dark and dal daylight hl she sIte might have been sC seen ii In the tile parlor or on lh the porch with David on her knee regaling his lively fancy with with some sonic story of or fabled tabled hero Ot or heroine And at lil bight ht after his prayers had been said and anti he had crept to bed bod stealthily as un an angel climbing thc time stairs o of l light hl she sho would come to his bedside and revel r In the tho which always outshines from the thc face of a sleeping There came caine a time me when her secret was ou out out t when t she stood like Ikc one omie half clad cat on the lie wild wid wintry moor Perhaps they would take him from her tier She knew that she was not worthy of oC this tills love Jove Would they forgive her On the tho cr very c ci e of the whirlpool she had been caught and rescued She had seen her error ane Her sin stood out t O In its as nakedness ness before belore be he- fore lore her At length she hind had hut decided for that which was hl high h and und right She Sho hated now whelo she once oneo loved lo She saw how ruthlessly she had hind boon been lun Hung like Ikc a Li I moth Into 1110 the tho fume flume lInt Hut lut she had now decided and In that decision de de- calon surrendering all al thinking silo she hind had lost ni all she found hen herself t But lut how was It done lone It I was David Her Hel soul had hind been awakened 1 by service sacrifice and love From Frunt SI Ian tinnier You remember the tile picture Glor George c Eliot Elot gives Iles us In tn Silas of Molly loly struggling through h time the snow that lint wild wid winters winter's night Her leI bed was soft and ant white and amid a IL straggling bush was her hem pillow As she sank sink down a little head hlad fell awa away from her hor bosom and the tho blue lue ec eyes opened wide on the cold star sll As thc the little one rolled relied awu away all al wet with wih snow front from om the time knees of or time the dead mother her vi vision vision vi- vi sion caught a gleam of or light coming coniing from the time distance on 00 her legs sue Hil toddled through the thc snow snow the time old grimy shawl in iii which she was wrapped trailing behind her and amid the queer leer t lit littie little lit lit- lt- lt tie tle te bonnet dan dangling at her back to lo thc tho door of Silas Murner's cottage collage It I was tIle the lire fire lre on the time cottage colage hearth Sho Silo watched time the dancing Humes She held out her hea tiny tny hands to cutch catch their warmth She was soon goon asleep on omm the tho ho Hoot her hem head pillowed on the misers miser's great groat coat coat- coat When hen Marner larner came In he lIe was utterly Was Vas It his lost Jost gold come comi back Ho lie 10 bent down cown over overlie the lie round thing and amid discovered d It covered covered cov coy ered crud with wih soft sor yellow rings Had Hud his little sister como cOnIO core bac back again to earth Was as It I a dream ream There were stirrings In his lila heart hearl then He lie le picked the Iho babe babo balu up from time Iho hearth There was a movement a ii cry mammy mummy and tho the barriers holding holding the thc lie pent up Hoods floods of time the r past were swept away uway In an un In In- In stant tant cry reached reach d his soul soul Ho lIe le was awake al alive quickened Into beIns being being be be- ing Ins b by tho thio power of ot a a anew new affection In that hour was Silas Sias Murner born borni the tile man luau was ins found Man mi n n ii u lii rail Man Inn Is a paradox He lie le muy nitty s seem ono one He lie be alive timing thing and amId be another mu muy nitty bl yet et al tt tho the same time bo bevery vcr deat dead It ItIs itis I Is IH always alwn's s ad sad to ti-i t see Meo a chain gun gang on the thc streets I mean a 1 group of men watched over by b officers of oC the thc Jaw law tolling toiling at certain tasks given Riven them thel b by bythe the thc authorities as penalty for trans gr slon It I IK is pathetic to see a n manacled man man- tided man or to see sec ce one pick up the tho hail ball attached to the lie chain fastened lo to o othe the thc bal ankle I 1 suppose us as you OU have seen such yo you I have ha c wished It ld cO be 10 dif dl- fer ferent Perhaps you oU have gone Into Ino mi some prison at sonic omo time and anti seen a asad asad L sad Imd face Cace pressed against the thc steel bars With lh the thc memory of or that vision there has imas como conic Into your our thought serious re reflections re- re upon certain phases o of lire life lre But we might bo be 10 wiser th than n we arc ore If It we vvo could get all al of or lifes life's tragedy behind behind behind be be- hind bare or manacled In some sonic 8 sense nse Have you OU over o er thou thought ht of manacled souls Hn e Have you rou ever evor thou though h of ot souls fouls which have h been heen pushed back b bi behind be- be I hind those these bars liars which make contact with larger things impossible Have o S you ou thought o of the men mel who push hush souls back Into the tue darkness darkness' It Iz rc c ere better better lettel bet bet- let let- ter tel them Ihal milston millstones were hung hunt about their necks und amid they were ivero cast Into the sea Picture Picure of oC All Have Ha e you thought of or the pathos of Or I self Imprisonment l What about the thc I Iman man who shuts up his Ilis soul Is there sadder than titan the picture of at atthe the man looking out through the bars he has bus built buit before his Ills own soul He lie le laughed at you long tong 1 ago ngo 0 when you told him he lie was destroying himself He lie le ridiculed your rem remarks when you In Indicated Indicated In- In that he lie was plunging to self self- ruin lie Ie hUM has built buit up tip anti and ane around himself him him- self With itil Ith his Imis own strength he lie has ha riveted these guards and ancl rods rod of ot his own cage He lie Is the prisoner of his Ills hison own o n carelessness S anti and ant sin There are arc certain standards accepted accepted by all ulo There are arc certain things In the thc world which draw together and build up It I is not not necessary to 10 discuss the philosophy of otho origin of thue e things They Thie are oro here mind and are arc accepted b by all al of us In n fact tact If tf we wc denied them so society society so- so det would not give gI e us sheler shelter There Is love lo e and und love o is boiler better oter than iban hatred d. There is and amid that Is better better better bet bet- ter than narrowness There hrc Is la sacrifice i lice fice und and that is better belter beleI than thun selfish selfIsh- ness There here is probity anti and ant honor and anti these are arc better beter than falsehood r. and anti dishonor Now while these thIngs mire true und and generally accepted there are arc some sonic who Wile live oblivious to them Has HoS not nol death indeed ull taken cn hold of the time theman theman man who Wiio denies these thIngs Life Is being continually har hardened l b by Its Is environment cn There Is a beautiful beautiful beau beau- simplicity about childhood which we wc all ull ut love lo to lo see sel In our OU children we want it to linger as long as us possible Thc Tue mother heart Is natural naturally affrighted affright ht ed at time the long long trousers and the long dresses ses Love rebels at sonic some things which Invade the home ThC They rhey must come conic but hut they bring the thc pangs of or pain II It I Is NtH easy for the lie child to lo pm pray II it I is natural tot for a n little one onu to lo lift IUt up is ishan its han hands s lo to the tile I Father uther Now ow I In lay me down to sleep will wi never be 10 erased from memory's tablet Thc ho soul is susceptible sus sus- to lo holy hol influences as Mennon's harp which trembled into melody with every ery e breath of ot he heaven The Tho onu one of to bed would never r think going 1 el without asking for the time protection from rom the great teut power it I feels to be 10 over o el It H 5 A little later you ill 1 Sit have haLVe to watch time the school boy or ur he lie will wi lumblo into bed bet without a thought ht of oC tho the power to whom ho lie owes so luch much It I is the tue burdening process Men n gut get et awa away from this his period anti and unless strong Impressions Impre- Impre have been made on them will wil drift out Into life without much faith in God und and often oren with no confidence In Inthe Inthe the tIme Divine Tho Time sl of or life lre now harden with wih sonic some Intensity Men temi s get t absorbed In things tImings In invention In In iii achievement In accumulation In buildIng building build build- In ma making maing ing a living Ing up in success in storing up In material aggrandize aggrandize- ment mont Men cn become leconie absorbed Jn in mi tile the working l out of oC certain large huge pl h for themselves s or ot for others others- The Tho hardening harden harden- Religion ion Is log ing process is going going on often InS forgotten The Time claims of or Jesus ofen Christ arc mite pushed aside Time Tho of thc time Holy Spirit Stunt are overridden Obligations Obligations Ob Ob- to God are arc cancelled Now Noi ow men niCil do not give glo much lime hue even en e lo to I thought to God Coil or destiny Men len become be be- come collie teu dead In 11 tile the spiritual sense sense I. I tn II it Is that men become dead to I hl high h things s II it I Is cn pitiful when aman a u uman man becomes dead to the thc love lo o of a atrue true Irue brave e woman I It I t I Is sad nd when a u father becomes dead to the tw pleadings pleading of or a zt little child There Theme Is nothing nothing ery very interestIng In iii tho tilo life of that thal man who h the thc comforts Is no longer allured by and happiness of or home But what ant about our relation to God and ancl high tImIngs things Have we wo too forgotten olen The rhe Fathers Father's house and th time pleadings of or nr Ills spirit and time the the kno knowledge e of Ms hits care caro Ils and the lie Innumerable gifts of ills His iia forgotten these and we love we Ye have Him Into the lie darkness dark dark- have gone out from talk ha c on ness hess of or tile Iho nl night ht Is II not tills this pathetic God would touch your life He lie would woul quicken you ou lie would enlarge your you le vi vision vi- vi horizon He lie would intensify your sion He lie le would give Ic you 0 that lint faith steadfast b by which you might be bc kept In the thc lonely ly trying hour lour which lIe He Is w woul dark from that lift YOU vou awa away and amid unwholesome Ho lie 10 would give you ou from that lint deadly deadly dead dead- the time power to cut cul awn uway rein ceat- ceat like a festering bo body betty Istl Is la which I ly sin fastened to you ou and your yom rog- rog tl soul res ress lie wants to awaken your By Ily the time Christ l vision by Jy tho ho Influences of ot l His Ills gospel by Iho timo power of ot the Christ life h by the lie appeal of or the lie Christ draw out antI and transform transform trans trans- will ivill you cross cro s Ito II P wil form Corm you an an 3 make you a radiant soul soul |