We may well give here the noble words of Dr. Dawson, who in an address
before the Royal Society of Canada, quoted this stanza:

"For a day, and a night, and a morrow,
That his strength might endure for a span,
With travail, and heavy sorrow,
The holy spirit of man."

Then he says: "The holy spirit of man! Holy in its capacity, in its
possibility: nay, more, in its ultimate destiny!"

This is no self-righteousness. It is a gleam of man's potentiality, that
makes him truly sublime. There are many Scripture statements that make
man pitifully little; but this is because of his present sinful
condition. Bye and bye he will rise into his true condition, and then
"The holy spirit of man" will be not only a possibility, but an
experience. It is gratifying to notice that such a man as Dr. Dawson has
this larger hope.

* * * * *

In striking antithesis to such views as we have referred to, I may here
narrate an experience of my own in which I think there was revealed to
me a peculiar phase of Christ's universal attractive power. One day in
San Francisco I saw a funeral procession passing along the street. I
joined the procession, and went with it into the church. I saw that all
the company were negroes. The minister, who was also a negro,
announced the Hymn:

"Safe in the arms of Jesus,