New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-12


line and plane OF his boys development Oh remember
would have myself to death for some that showed
done, dared for them and in their defense And II
WIS because had been touched Just IN. ., me
ins BY them. But the boy grows little larger He |.
just beginning to feel not that those things are aogethcr
to have the love Of knowledge awakened in him. and
the sense Of co@gesn and ne has i'ht caseS
S finsh's euu s.G S'd fsss anu to hunt to
teaches him not only th sse ba things sr gaming
Rm da sTSnSn ns's In thinning S@d %
until by and by he has some such eIperisnee as nad
fell back from he s sree a Of @ my nSs SeT made 70
that in and tnSs mad s and
him And il that man that first walked up In me tne
sense of intellectual victory tae CONS Su .nat
tenco and that could gain knowledge, and add know
edge TO knowledge head shall have gone down into
But no lives and shall never iorges nm ana
boys to have . IsrSrenc 70 them iSas
Develop dor 1I0f that That best them AND when
step SgnST hS for s art sche Ss
disciple tho philosopher In whose schoo nc or 10
take what frequent and OF more universal expe
and advanced affection Of gratitude which
exists namely, in sensitive religious souls 10 him VINO
delivered them from the prson-hOuse OF doubt and
brought out into the liberty and the trust OF faith
i'm the horizon OF earth the loves which arc formed III
religious minds for religious hel2tnlness'
rK,t
things Then the stage OF gratitude was TOR pasmes
and means of sport it higher and took in ideas
ment so that the instinct which had very low origin
went on charging and increasing. Inc morality
that is rightly , dealt and WIN Il sns IL be- s no
hndered and II II be justly dealt WITH tho tendency OF
TO the organic conditions of the individual OF the fam,
n.y. and OF civil socety-is TO spread themselves upward
Struck the phosophical principle on which morality
works up toward religion by which the habit OF affection
reative duties that we owe to each other aud society
and which necessary to this plane OF existence went
still higher residence, higher world, other beings,
and, above all, the supreme then those very
been gradually formed and transferred rise up and you
worship Cod and You recognize life as Immortality, and
taking aim at the other and higher that this life has
been all the way through series OF successive aeade-
You rose through that a and by their minslratons TO
the competency of the higher life. .
the first place-I In the discussion OF this side
what moaites are, namely, they are, IN their highest
selves TO their households and civil society at large, TO
their social relations in this world and in time and
form prepares for the next, a higher deyelep,,
ment Of in the next adv ance and also lnterory that
class of faculties and II it begins In tho physical II it
goes Oh TO the social ana men INTO the anu o
bic into the invisible 80 that every morality that does not
into spiritual form Is estoped ana dwarea; every
drawn but not signed, and not negotiable, 1t Is vine
that spreads and branches and covers Itself with leaves
nt never blossoms it blooms it stops blossoms
and brings forth grapes IL is tree that becomes
All morality, initial and intermediate, must consum
mate iisalf in the higher regions before II becomes per
fected morality then, the ono hand II mon say
am not a religious man" Il sorry To say almost
everybody says than, "but still do about as well as
know how. lam trying TO live moral life; don't get
drunk | don't steal, and don't lilo much; am
irving to just 1t IL crooked world, and 1t Is hard
thing 10 carry yourself along and do at times toterI
little to side mo Othcf nut all
am living about right. 1 hope when the judgment day
is about balanced l have done considerable harm
know. | have been very selfish in spots but
know may have crooked the truth litto way, but then
pulled IL very straight over there and great many
moro times, and | have AVERAGED IL wen, ana
| don't know much about those thinss' ana
don't think ANYBODY else does; ,o but .. w here
any rate the members of the church. that 10 about the
easy way in which mea think about morally On dt zen
What would you say Of mon who should make voyage
to distant v, county yro S aHa 1af for He
while they staying mt home-nO provisions Tor Ihe
future for the sea- nor for the distant continent nt
you not deizens Of time alone on i've mere mat You
may live and these virtues which are necessary Tor
good and Indispensable, but docs IL follow th tose
virtues and mOraes prepare you for an entirely different
when the body drops what then All when those habits
and all those selfrestrants, and all those mo!lties
When that 'o exiscnoe becomes purely spiritual have
dropped away from you how much have they leit!
sore because he has those Fundamental habits train
Ing which qualities HIM Tor physical existence and
the dealing with the physical mind But sup
pose he passed instantly into state where
there is nobody. no stores, nor anything
but rea and the moral sentiment AMI the Affections
how much has he got Of hemi All the stock in trade
that he Ind was that Which had relations to t sr"e
self as a chrysas, if the chysas said. don't care;
for its WINGED state when it is 10 soar through the air
you therefore fitted by your lower moralties only
other hand, what VIII there be OF you An
artist takes picture and he begins WORKING al inc DOT
eG On up 'nt to The the middle distance, and he COM
petes il, saying to himself, i" Well. VIII complete
leaves the picture and il is concluded TO sell H. And
takes knife aud cuts 1t right through and sells tho
half, and it gone and he tries to sell the upper
half There is MT anything therel IL never has been
painted. And death cuts men in two, and
leaves the bottom here, and there isn't any top
TO 90 there Men that good citizens but only good
citizens for this life who develop themselves in respect
to that only in respect that, shoots going up no
vines from them lift and illumination and higher de-
velopment from them, die. How much Is there
win think of somebOdy-select some worldly man of
great wisdom great power, position; you think OF him
there enough of them and can have one apiece
all around. And now let see what there is of him.
How mnGh Is there OF nim For groo example n0gsr
will say yes. DO you think that he is
mat 5 % consider sSod oRe
Well, mean refinement. Refinement He has got too
much force for that he is like wild boar OF the forest
lie don't stop for refinement he business. Well
about his moral instincts, his sensitive honor Honor
lie goes for interest He knows where Is and he don't
stop, neither for any little impediments. Well
it respects deyoton don't think he squandered
many hours i'll his closet Well, TO generosity he has
got the generous feeling which large manhood has for all
those that have served humanity. Hero is man that
has-Frankn here is Shakespeare, and 1t is proposed
raise statue to him, and all men that feel that
they have been made richer and WISER and better by
the life and the writings OF those men, say would 90
to God could give them personally something but
can't and all do Is to express my gratitude by some
contriton " their honor among men," and you go
to your man that you are thinking OF,
and say TO him, "Wir you contribute something to
Franklns statue I" "Ohl Franklins statue! What do
care for FrankIini No; not a cent, not cent" No
generosity OF that kind. But say TO him, "Look here
don't you know that you are trying to get that last
minority director to agree TO this change and to fall in