Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-09-23

| literature, or science, or intercourse with
the best society, so develops the soul that
Gods world is henceforth more fully ap-
| preciated. The grandeur of the material
world depends upon the sensibility of the
heart. Chalmers, Mitchell, Proctor,
Winchell and their readers and followers
live new life under the stars and upon
the blossoming earth. To the simple gold
seeker the stars are only spots in the sky,
the earth an unthought-of substance that
produces grain, but beyond such re-
Elections neither heaven nor earth reveals
any charm AS mind is the gateway be-
tween nature and the soul, the more ones
life abounds in reading CT reflection the
wider this gateway by which nature
rushes in upon the heart The strings OF
the piano yield no music ifthey hang loose
| ly like a SPIDERS web. They must be
| tightly drawn. Then they become full of
| life. If voice sounds N room the
strings that are in harmony grow resonant
and tremble in the sweetly-disturbed air
| Thus the immense world of the Creator
lies so much clay and water and dust until
| something has given the mind tension of
invisible nerves, and then the works of
| God make music in the spirit All things
| from the sounding sea to lonely autumn
leaf tiuttering to the ground wake up
| sublime or pensive feelings in the heart.
! The earth that was a desert or bloody
| battlefield where mad men fought for
| riches becomes temple of the Almighty
! and OF His happy worshipers.
or the happiness that comes to mortals,
| that which comes by the gates of the in
| tellect is least liable to injury. 1t cannot
make to itself wings and fly away. The
soul of the educated mortal is indie
structible property. Poverty may come,
white hairs may come, all the changes
/ in earth may come in its sight but
there the educated soul stands in the
midst of its treasures for not even God
the Almighty can take away the quality
of the human spirit The soul always
draws after it the color of its virtues as
the sun flies accompanied by its ocean of
| light. Indeed, if the poets and all reve-
lation be true, the soul is more perma.
nent than the sun, for they unite in de-
claring that
The sun is bu. spark Of fire,
| transient meteor in the sky;
The soul, immortal as its sire,
Shall never die
Any thoughts regarding happiness
would be very imperfect should one omit
from them mention of the fact that the
most blessed form of pleasure known here
below comes from mans relation to 9th
ers. 1t is for others all noble souls chiefly
live. From the great philanthropists like
Paul and Xavier down to the young
mother who holds her heaven and earth
in her arms; from the Jesus Christ who
lied for others down to the father who,
coming to his cottage at nighttall kisses
the children at the gate, it is all one
! sublime scene, that of the heart drawing
Joy from wells outside of itself,
as the bee gathers honey from the
great fields larger and sweeter than its
humble life. 1t is for others that
we build our houses and buy our
furniture and plant our flowers. As for
self we are all naught. Self needs only
simple food, simple furniture, simple
praise and after while a plain burial
and plain white slab engraved with birth
and death. 1t is the presence of others in
the world that transforms all things into
beauty. the air into music and life INTO
love Hence by the way of our relations
to others will the present happiness al
ways come. These are the outreachings
of the soul that bring life and joy. As
tree sends its roots down till il reaches the
rich earth and pure waters and reaches its
leaves upward until they lie outspread in
the rain and the sunlight, and thus cxults
in verdure and bloom and fruit, so the
noble soul reaches out and from its in.
winnings in the social world draws the
powers and inspiration and JOY OF these
years. 1t is not to be wondered at that
Christ left the heavens and came upon
His mission to earth. 1t was an oppor-
tunity worthy of "A God that there was
planet whose millions needed the out
pouring of some ones love.
Mans relations to others being thus the
great source Of his income of happiness
these relations should be accepted and de
veloped until he should find no sublimity
in mountain or sea compared with the
sublimity in man, no beauty like that of
the human countenance and no passion Of
the soul deeper than the sentiment Of hui
manity. To live for others is the divnest
form of live 1t is Christlike, Godlike
Man cannot go beyond such shape of
destiny.
! desire in this informal discourse to
add one or two thoughts more To find
what is the happiest shape Of life, do no
consult the pageant of to-day nor the ac-
cidental impulses of your own mind 1t
may DC tne passing nOuf Is Hnulng It's
supreme pleasure in some pursuit that
will live only for an hour, from the chase
after "A butterfly that will die when it is
grasped, from devotion to fashions that
will change and leave behind only the
memory of folly. 1t is safe to consult
only the long past. That is why God
gave man the power of locking back, the
power to hold the old centuries forever in
viz hat ba mo- Ia Il I,,yI
the accidents Of a moment, but he may
read true wisdom in the many genera
tons. Locking at this mighty expanse
OF history, we now see that the happy
men were not those who lived in vice and |