Show SAYS SEEK m Ik m. m M YE YEI I Y PEARLS I Rev Francis Burgette Short I Delivers Strong Sermon i on Text I PROGRESS IS LAW OF LIF Christian Men Should Always j I Be Searching for Somei Something Some- Some i thing Better iI i Seeking Goodly Pearls was the I subject of ot an eloquent sermon delivered tlell I ered crell yesterday morning by no Rev Francis Francis Fran Fran- cl cis Burg etto Short at al the First Methodist Meth odist t church Taking his test front from Matt Hi 45 15 The Thc kingdom of or Is like unto a merchantman seeking goodly pearls he lie wild said I in iii part pirt Tho The business of oC the thc merchantman is buying and selling and ho he properly bc best t seeks to accomplish both bOlh In the market Ills His purpose Is to better his condition or in th the language of tho the day to make makA mone money mone He lie must not he be honest hone t tI censured for having hA such Much an purpose for tor in eo so doing he lie mu may be bo I developing tho the noblest qualities of ot his hits i manhood and Ami proJect projecting In himself already already al- al I ready Into tho ho eternal dl day i The Th wl wise wine p. p merchantman always alwa's buys bus the best that ho lie can afford and Just justIns justas Ins as soon SOOIl ft as he ho erR discovers a more moro beautiful beautiful beau beau- pearl J he peeks to la lay hol hold upon It it Inn 1 Many a good pearl has haN been disposed die dis J posed of ot In order orr to bu buy a belter better one Awl And wh why thy not notIon Mon Ion should always seek not Hot only the tho good but the tho better and tho best bAHl as all well And he who re refuses refuses re- re I fuses CUSON to do so fiO Is impoverishing his own nature as well n ns as hIs bis l purse I This principle of nf lifo lito and an activity AH ni M seen neon In the merchantman Is applicable I in the kingdom dorn of heaven o I Christian men should always be searching search In ing for COI something better Lotter and then something best Progress Is th the law la of life lito In tho th kingdom of uC he heaven ven as aK aswell aswell well as the kingdom of merchandise and anil blessed is that man who full tulI fully recognizes that In law Int t Those of oC tho the kingdom of ot heaven should not fall toll to seek the goodly pearls which wealth guarantees Ones One's nature ma may bo ho ennobled thereby but her hern he ie should not stop There Is abettor n a I bettor better pearl than mere mero wealth Christian Chris Chris- than tian philanthropy Is much better a and rill more enduring Hast llast thou wealth 0 O Omy I m my friend Thou hast a goodly pearl but It ft will die JIo lo with Ith thee unless thou shall seek that better pearl which a I wise Investment of that wealth will guarantee That mono money will perish with thee theo unless it shall ho he built into the y von very fabric of ot tho the moral and an re religious re- re phase of tho the community's life This leads me mc to tu say that In ho so ao In- In vesting b by exchange the tho good for tor the better r there thele will ho bo realized tho the best I goodly pearl within reach I mean menn the giving ln or rather the finding of ot otones otone's ones one's self gelf in tho the securing of tho the richest rich I est eel pearl In the kingdom dom of heaven n nut Hut you ou say sa- saI j I 1 shall become a slave slavo to others In iii so flO doing Perhaps so tI I but your servitude Hr to and for tor or others will vIll bring to thorn them that lar larger r liberty and anti lIt life of or deeper meaning and of or I I sweeter Import than either cither you ou or they could over ever otherwise know You have simply exchanged the lie goodly pearl which you OU In some manner mannor secured for tor forthe forthe the tho bett better bolter r one cue which you 1 0 passed passe on to your our follows fellows Indeed more you ou have found the tho best pearl which man mn may ibid find In this life tho life tho pearl peart of ot service Never r mind what whal you may have ha lost as us you re regard it H. Rather see lee that t others liar havo gained und and how others have been ennobled ennoble an and what other others have havo been een privileged ed to possess and then thon remember that lint all the tho riches that they thy claim through h but bul multiplies multiplies mul mul- manifold times lines your o Jr own abundance ance tho thie tho abundance which you shall carr carry with you b beyond ond the life lire that now no inThis Is in f This then Is the message Sock Seek not noton on only I the tho good OO pearls of ot life liCe but bUl I seek eek also nn and diligently IH sock seek k tho the better hetter and the best hest that tho tIm liln kingdom dom of heaven hea In the earth has hat for tor you e |