New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-09
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and others, BY forcing them upon the witness
stand, and making them submit TO . cross exam
nation:
Shall We ask the intelligence OF nan Whist it de-
Dspdsi Ib answer s ITO know. To knov mo
truth 70 know the whole truth; the primal ana inn-
mite truth; 70 know 00dW
Shall We AK the heart of man the end Of all its de-
sires It will answer: ITO love, TO love the COCA;
to love the supreme and infinite good; 70 'ore " =,
and all things else bscsuse OF some reflect OF uya
Shall we ask the will Of man its purpose ~ wiz 10
DIV: ITO act; 70 oct in accordance With the primal
t,u,h for the supreme GOOD; 10 90 Goa WIN. -,
The head the heart the hand OF man With one
voice proclaim th At the end OF man Is 70 kno. %
love 10 live for God This is Code owu destiny
Mans destiny therefore, is Godlike For God created
man in His "owp image and likeness
The destiny Of the ssul, then, to come TO Cod to
be one WITH God. To live, is 10 think for God, to
love for God TO act for God.
The real point Of the question does not relat'
to the need Of divine life for humanity. nor to
the essential qualities Of that life, {" here set
fortb-but to the discipline and influences requi-
site for ito production and growth. This is fully
considered in subsequent part of the volume
wherein the advantages Of the Catholic ritual, in
that respect, are strenuously urged. But the
persons for whose edifcstien the book seems to
have been primarily intended, do not, we i'm
aeue, call in question it's Il AIN theirs IS to the
necessity of life abeve the plane Of the senses
Indeed, this is virtually conceded By the author
in the folio wing passage on the American char
acter:
There is large class Of persons in the United States
who look for and seek more spiritual and esrnest
life There is scarcely American family which
will not testify to the truth Of this sts'ement-not
only a. present fact but as part of its history
BY the efforts of some one or more OF is members 10
realize such life. One might almost cay tnst tnis
desire after more spiritual life is one Of the chief
characteristics of the American people. For, al
though we proverbial for our thrftinees, espe-
cialy the eope of the Mode and Eastern States,
who seek money for the purpose Of boarding it. 1t
If sought, almost always, as means to something
better ard more noble.
There are few among us who have not felt, at times
that life should be an uninterrupted act Of plety;
that our deeds 10 be true shond be acts Of worship
that what rot directed TO God Is lost profane, if
not sinful We know IT, and speak not a. random
when say that large class Of people are ear
nest, seriOus-mnoed and dissatisfied at heart with
the life around them and are unwilling 10 decline
on a range Of lower feelings" They are eager,
anxious restless TO be freed and 10 live better and
spiritual life and hence they grasp and each at
any enterprise scheme, theory, or doctrine, however
absurd 40 long "a il promises 10 discover to them the
Gveit.
But come Of the resons why this class Of souls is
more in this country than among any other
Protestant people may be distinctly stated.
Our first reason may be called political and eco
Domics one To be freed from the and tolls Of
the common duties OF life is necessary to the develop
neDt Of the DObler powers OF the soul Here, In the
United Statee competence ia more easly acquired
than in any other land-thsnks TO our politi3a ns'
tutioLs ana ,he advantages of our country. Hence,
those who feel strongly called TO live a higher life
have the leisure necessary TO their growth aud de.
velopneDt.
Many in whom under less favorable circumstance,
all instinct Of a OWNER life would be stifed and trod-
den out here come TO full consciousness OF their
nobler powers and true destiny.
Ap0her reason, and one which may be called geo.
graphical il, the nature ard state Of country. 1t
is not enough to be freed from and toll for the
development of our secret powers and aspirations af
ter a purer and holier fe-more il neesed-sllence,
solitude is needed Our country presents these to US
with lavish hand, and the grandest scale, 10 her
deep forests her vast prares IN her unexpored re-
gioDs and uncultivsed lands; these with our sparse
population force great part of people to silence
and into solitude And these conditions give quiet
and tranquility to the mind qualities which conducs
and, SO to speak provoke man to the meditation and
contemplation of his own nature his destiny aud OF
God for solitude gives birth 10 nober impulses,
ard Nature, rightly viewed, leads upward, step by
step, rs il were TO our common Author, IN whom all
secrets are opened to our view.
He then proceeds to give brief history OF what
he calls noble attempts to realize "a better,
purer, and boiler life in our days and in our land,
by linen who, bold with divine affections aud
flied with mighty hopes would "live and con-
secrste their lives to divine purposes" Brook
Farm, Fruitlands, and the Brotherhood of the
Holy Cross, are made to cit for their MINISTRIES,
as types of the ideal purpose described by Car
lyle: ITO make some nook OF Gods creation a
little fruitfuler, better, more worthyof God; to
make some human hearts little wiser, manfuler,
happier more blessed, less accursed This Is
work for God" The author sums up his view
of these experiments with quotation from John
Sterling
In sympathy and in truth We may ssy, Of these un.
successful efforts, with the poet:
20! wasted strength o! light and calm
And better hopes % vsinly given
ain MN The hey