, 1874-09-28

for It docs not ask mnn to attompt tho lo3aon
lo,7 anytlnE eyor began to bo,-a lenson Whtnli
man cannot lo.ru (for Il lto creaecs spirit llo
n'tat ass,lmo matter, and II no oroath matter c
n rcaln1. and co,nAnds him tu aHBllmo = spirit,
and to beglu Ills study, not over tho origin Of Tim
world, hut OYER tho eublimo realities around and
boforo him. q,
have boou blossed with wonderful powor Of faith
and uniformity Of temperament, hayo folt IN
many m hour the 10y tonch Of unbolfef, aud
l,aro 1ookoll up to tho aky and wondered 1t any
wlscro tlcro woro a God. anywhere thero Mero
now In homes of bliss thoao w1lo had walked
once upon thls beautiful lttlo earth. Wo
hayo found no cnro for this snd wonlermont go
ofrcctunl a. tho firm resolve always to caes our
solves upon the highest conception OF li,lma',
llfo, and assume he real its host n'orah a,a best
not ,nauy, hut ti,cro Is so.notning godtko In
nun tint teaches him That lso should fling hta
heart upon the best ideal, nt,i, oven II lilo be Il
mystery, 1.-Two It out well to tho very extreme mo-
ment Of tho beating heart.
Now, tho best ideal is that which assumcs tho
great spiritual destiny OF tho soul; 1t Is going
forward, and not downward or backward; il.
must nsansno the reality Of its best hopes, mud
best 1norals, and best religion. Anything TINT
faiscs. because 1t not noble enough to be tanto
Nothing In tho idea or Whole rogon Of im'nor-
taly should rob this lifo Of any care, and labor,
aud love, mud happneas 1t ncods, for If there Is
to bo n swees outcome to this career 1t should be
golden stops leading up, to tie bottor
innnHon. But over this ,beins, as
making 1t better here, should bo cast
this halo Of immorlal life TO- giyo impllluo
to tho virtue and religion that blntts ns to God,
and to tho charity TINT buds ua to our 1cllow
mon.
Tho Christian theory sooms able to protlstco
higher order Of mind than call over hopo to
como from world without God md fnsuro
life: Atheism enfoya tho advantage Of mover
wholly constructod shape Of civilization for It.
solf. It can point only 10 individuals, and those
affected BY tho prosenco all around them OF the
deepest religious sout|ment, III order to Judge
Of its mort or dcnlogit Us plan Of theso three
score years, it ia necessary to conceive OF n uo-
cioty from which God Inns been removed. and
from whose grayo all hopo and fcar have
bten taken, aud from whose individual
hearts all tho solcmnitscs and rnysteries
Of religion haro been withdrawn forever. low
nospbero, laden with nothing but mortality,
could over agnin grow such beings IS now adorn
its history, Ii beyond conjecture. Worry nlu9h OF
the worlds charity is founded upon tho dlylno
chiltlron gro journoyiug toward brotherhood
beyond, that good men have hastonod to confess
tho brotherhood hero; and O. w]nt parting
hearts wliol, tho grave has come betweon hAvo
had tAoir toa1u dried In tho annEhinu Of coming
heaven.
If. ut tho last mans thirst for higher thJnga
Bs Qieuctlcd In lust-that giyer Of his life.
Why tre*s With growing zeal l!oreltss strife,
Why, born for creeping should lo dream OF Wings 2
Whilo ws th1s aErco and speak sgainst. any
pu1o r1aterialsn,, yet we confess lhat Of all
forms Of thought It is least TO DO feared. Tho
lun,at loart Tll never receive it. It is . soil
30 cold and barren that mankind will not ever
Aopo to grow great nations or ,ErcAt ininds upo,
At.A !. H.. III