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SUNDAY'S SERMON.
The Faith and Genius of George
Washington, by Elder Wooten,
Pastor of Christian Church.
Quality is the best of all value.
A man's real worth and true great-
ness is determied not so much by what
he has and does as by what he is. This
fact cannot be emphasized too strong-
ly. Science, philosophy, and reve-
lation are in perfect accord here, and
with one voice they would all make
this the basis of all true progress
and development. Man, therefore,
is more than a «'creature of environ-
ment." He is not only the archi-
tect, but the builder and maker of
his own fortune. This remarable
fact is written large on every page
of human history. The great Glad-
stone, reviewing the progress of the
race, said: "History carries on its
face the proof, that it is in man and
not in his circumstances that the se-
cret of his destiny resides."
We often describe the character-
istics of the great man in such terms
as ability, sagasity, industry, cour-
age, heroism, devotion ect; but when
we go beyond and seek to discover
those qualities of soul which make
him truly great, we find ourselves
dealing with principles which elude
defidition and baffle description. Yet
certain elements appear on the very
surface which limit achievements,
and invariably distinguish the great
man whether he be hero, artist, saint,
or sage. Of the more basic elements
that might be mentioned faith, and
genius are certainly among the most
potent; and history furnishes no bet-
ter illustration of this fact than the
life and achievements of George
Washington.
We have looked upon Washington,
possibly, as a man who exercised
the principles of faith to an apprecia-
ble degree, but we seldom if ever
think of him as a genius. The term,
genius, is not Biblical in origin or
usage, was little used during the pro-
lific Elizabethan period, but as ex-
pressing the inward mysterious pow-
er and aptitude of the soul, it has
become in recent years almost as in-
dispensible as the word faith. The
two words form an interesting con-
trast. Both are of the soul. With-
out genius there is no intuition, no
inspiration ; without faith there is no
execution or realization. Genius has
insight; faith outsight; the one gives
impulse and aim, the other illumina-
tion and assurance. Genius is an
intillectual gift, creative and produc-
tive ; "Faith is the assurance of
things hoped for, the conviction of
things not seen." As a synonym for
genius our psychologists employ the
term "variation," by which is meant
that power of preception, attention,
and observation which enables one to
see things in their larger and more
complete relationships, and gives
firmness, fulness, and completeness
of organization. Hegel said that,
"Talent cannot do its part fully
without animation of genius;" and
Goethe defined the term as "that
power of man which by thought and
action gives laws and rules."
Invariably we point to Abraham
as a man of faith, and to a man like
Edison as a genius; and we make no
mistake in this. But we do err in
supposing that men like Abraham
and Moses were not geniuses, or in
not regarding men like Michael An-
gelo or Edison as men of faith. The
man who founds a nation, or discov-
ers the higher laws and principles
which govern society, and effects a
fuller and more complete civil organ-
ization, is no less a genius than the
man who discovers physical laws,
constructs useful inventions, or crea-
tes master peices in art. Genius
and faith go hand in hand, the one
the inspiration, the other the assur-
ance, and both working together is
the dynamic of true greatness.
The great man is the inspiration
of all progress. Every advance in
human history is tracable to some
great name. This does not mean,
however, that all great worthies have
been originators and creators. It
does not mean that there was no faith
in the world before Abraham; no
law or government before Moses;
no cities before Cecrops and Cadmus ;
no geometry, physics, or astronomy,
before Euclid, Newton, and Kepler ;
no history before Heroditus, or lit-
erature before Homer ; no music be-
fore Bach or Beethoven ; no educa-
tion before Socrates or Plato ; or no
invention before the nineteenth cen-
tury. It simply means that these
men made an enviable impress upon
history, by taking up what was left
to them by preceding generations,
and by patience, toil, and sacrifice
made the most of it under the light,
inspiration, and opportunity of the
age, thus stamping it with their in-
dividuality and transmitting it in
turn to posterity. Gladstone em-
phasizes this thought in these very
significant words: "It is not in pos-
sessions available for use, enjoyment,
and security; it is not only in lan-
guage, laws, institutions, arts and
religions ; it is not only in what we
have but what we are. For as char-
acter is framed by the action and re-
action of human beings and the cir-
cumstances in which he lives, it fol-
lows that as those circumstances
vary he alters too, and transmits a
modified—it ought to be also an en-
larged and expanding—nature on-
ward in turn to posterity, under
that mysterious law which establishes
between every generation and its
predecessor a moral as well as a
physical association."
A mans greatness, therefore, mnst
be measured by the material he has
to begin with, the conditions under
which he lives and works, the achieve-
ments wrought, and the influence he
leaves after him.
Reviewing from this standpoint the
name of Washington does not suffer
in comparison with the mightiest
names of earth. He lived during a
period frought with memorable events
and sprinkled with a galaxy of illus-
trious names. It was the age of Pit
and Wilberforce ; of Burk and Fox ;
of Watt and Arkwright; of Col-
bridge, Wordsworth and Burns; of
Adam Smith, Hasting and Clive ; of
Lafayette and Lomartine ; of Frank-
lin and Hamilton; of Adams and
Jefferson. The period saw despot-
ism dethroned, and liberty enthroned,
the rise of achievements great and
good; but among names and events
so many and great as these the name
and influence of Washinton stands
like some great mountain towering
above so many lofty hills.
We look upon Moses as one of the
great lights that have illumed the
pathway of human advancement, but
we regard his work as super human
in many respects. But robbed of all
the enchantment which distance lends,
the task which Washington accom-
plished was little less miraculous
than the work of Moses. To give
independence to a dozen colonies of
adventurers and refuges from religi-
ous oppression and intolerance—
these without organization, form, or
order, scattered over a strip of un-
developed coastland for a distance of
two thousand miles, beset with, all
the privations of pioneer life, wrest,
ling with that "three-headed Og" of
wilderness, climate, and savages,
fenced in on every side by foreign
powers, with party strife and section-
al jealously working out their deadly
results—to wrest these colonies un-
der such conditions from the enemy
in the face of all odds, and to or-
ganize them into a government that
is at once the administration of the
world, was a burden and a task as
great as ever fell upon the shoulders
of hero, statesman, or ruler.
With genius and faith rarely dis-
played in history, Washington set
himself to this Herculean task. Po-
litical confusion and intrigue gave
him self possession and reliance;
defeat and disappointment imparted
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hope and courage; the frost jotur.s
and hunger-giants of Valley Forge
only strenghtened his faith ; and when
I the talented and influential Arnold
; turned traitor because he considered
| the struggle hopeless it only gave
! him determination. Through the
,darkness an 1 the gloom, the disap-
pointment, distraction and confusion
from first to last his genius worked
tirelessly on, and his faith never
wavered. His presence inspired
i hope, his name insured destiny. An
| old Quaker expressed his confidence
by confessing that he "placed hi-;
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Ray, J. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, February 22, 1907, newspaper, February 22, 1907; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth142496/m1/3/: accessed May 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.