The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-05-26
TEE RIGHT Use or TEE WORLD.

We are not, therefore, to suppose thai
this world is such a poor world. A great
many men are addicted to much lugubrious
soliloquizing and complaining about this
unsatisfying world: but whether il is salts.
flying or not depends upon what men try tc
satisfy themselves With. If a man were to
take watch, and try to use it as a com
pass. to steer a ship by, he would say,
How unsatisfying this watch is % Yes. tc
steer ship by. but not to tell the time BY
And when a man uses this world for things
that it was not meant to be used for, it il
an unsatisfying world; but when a man uses
it for the things that it was meant to b.
used for. it is a satisfying world--it is g
glorious world.
The frame of civil society is declared tc
be Of God, and we are not to esteem the
whole structure of civil life as a thing in
different, or thing without its religious
uses, or thing to be mourned over or de-
spised.
| Nor are the pursuits of life to be regard
ed as contemplate or sinful. On the other
hand, the natural globe, the races that dwell
on it, the necessary forms of society. and
the Legitimate callings of life that fiji up
mems days, are part and parcel of God s
creating DEGREES, and Gods providence su-
pervises them all; and men are not to hold
them in disesteem. We are commanded to
! be diligent In business, in the same verse
in which we are. commanded to be fervenl
in spirit. We are commanded to labor
working with our hands, that we may have
for ourselves and to give to others. There
must be competence and af1uence, or there
cannot be charity and comforts.
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dervalued. God is not honored by senti-
mental whining about wretched world and
this miserable life. There is to be a dis
eliminating view of this matter. There is
vast amount of what is supposed to be
pious sentimentalism about this unsatsfy-
ing state of things. 1t is not only false,
but pernicious. That sombre, Respondent
Judgment and talk respecting the life that
now is, and the world we live in, is not
Christian; it is not manly. This is very
good world for the purpose for which it was
built; and that is all Bnything is good for.
A watch for time; compass for direction;
pillow for turning up the soil; ship for
the sea; house for habitation: an OK or a
horse for labor; sheep for wool and food; a
loom for one thing; an anvil for another;
silks for persons; carpets for floors.
Now this world was made for an end
grand and needful, and il is to be honored
in every mans esteem for the things for
which it was constructed. When you look
at the globe, society. mems occupations,
and the like. in this large view, the world
is admirable. It's very rudeness, its hard
ness, its sufferings, are also part of the
primitive design, and are beneficial instru-
mentally. Men that love leisure never can
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cupation. Men who put their supreme idea
of life in self-indulgence, cannot understand
what God means, who makes self-exertion,
in himself, in angelic powers, in all his
creatures, the test of real being. If men
enjoyment without earning it, and God is
storms of hope and fear, pain and ease, in
order that they may grow and develop, Of
course they cannot understand him or his
administration. The prizes in this world
are placed where those men shall get them
who, by development, by opening and edu
Gcating their powers, seek them.
No man shall have the useful iron thai
will not dig for it, or in some way pay those
that do. God never built a house with hi:
hands. The house of God is builded with
ed without hands in the heavens. He puts
the oak in the forest, and the pine on its
sand or rock, and says to men, ''There are
your houses: go hew, saw, frame, build
make" God builds trees men must build
the house. God supplies timber: mer
must construct the ship. God buries iron
men must dig it, and smelt it,, and fashion
lie. What is useful for the body. and still
more, what is useful for the mind, is to be
had only by exertion that will work man
more than iron is wrought. that win shape
man more than timber is shaped. Clay and
rock are given us not brick and squared
stone. God gives US fax and sheep. L
we would have coats on our backs, we must
take them off our focks, and spin them and
weave them. If we would have anything
of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it.
must become shrewd. inventive, ingenious,
active and enterpr,sing.
Now any view of this physical world
this temporal STATE, and its concerns, which
makes man feel i'll at ease in his conscience
when taking hold of them heartily and in
earnest, Is false-false TO philosophy. false
TO experience, and falsest of all to Christi
anity. And that whole owl set of men.
that raven, black winged prophet set. that
sit on the dry branches of nature, and
croak about this miserable life, belong out
side of the line of Christianity. Not only
are they not disciples of Christ, but they
are not knowledgable men even in the ele-
ments of Christianity.
Neither is it to be thought that Chris
tan man should keep himself from all deep
and eficacious interes. in the great move
ments of human society, and of the age in
which he lives. Sometimes men, with
slippery logic. say that God employs wicked
men for the furtherance of his purposes,
and that they must carry on the great ends
of hfe-that they must be hewers of wood
and drawers of water-whlle good men,
though more or less dependent upon such
things, are not themselves to be concerned
in them. Now no man ever will be better
man by seclusion, or worse man by en-
gaging actively and enthusiastically in the
right things of human life. AS strangers
and pilgrims would pass through plague
district, not stopping, if they could avoid it,
but fastening en- and taking care TO touch