The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-11-15
accumulation Of thought tho evsrncreasing refine
ment OF mental nurture.

accumulation OF thought and tho ever.ncreasng refine
ment OF mental nurture.
THE DANGER ISOLATION
whenever man will open his heart, his conscience,
this supreme world his through The process Of aceu
mutation; but corresponding to this Is the process
OF distribution. Every little nowcrpot has mole AZ
the bottom II you stop that vent the plant cannot
grow for its communication with the organic forces
that are imbeddcd in nature of. How great is
the ambition wealth, for the power of wealth, for
the wealth OF wealth. But II the rich mans nature is
isolated from tho world how his heart dries up
how the very man dies outi The richest man who
keeps open his sympathies, that when anything
in something goes out, Is blessed by all while
he who cuts himself of from the OF the world is
cursed by mankind Il is the same thing with knowl-
edge How beautiful is II 10 a pursue knowl-
edge while the zest Is fresh How beautiful his face
bccomes bow his eyes light up how his voice becomes
deep and sonorousl But when the communication is
cut of between the man who knows and those who
san, scctarian, and men point to him with scorn as
a bookw0rm, os man who thinks he knows, and
because he thinks SO men do not care whether he
knows not
More deadly even IL the condition Of the man who
possesses goodness and whose goodness not balanced
by corresponding process OF distribution. The
Pharisecis charity was bargain his piety "A trade and
therefore 1t was that Jesus sought him out as The sub
iect Of His most bitter invective II not because
the Pharsee not good but because he was good
shat he was not good for anything. (Langhter.)
THE QUESTION or BALANCE
OH tnnL the knOWleuge oil DamnClng acquisition Win
distribution were only better understood Whenever
more comes in than goes out IL ros at the heart;
whenever more goes out than comes in then there is
languor and weakness And come to disspa
ton How sad is to in the young this draining of
vitality into the cutters Of debauchcryl All apprceia
tion of the heroic the divine OF the sanity things Of
life ceases; tho will force becomes demorazed; the
man has no purpose resolution any more; he is n
nuisance and burden to society. There is not dis
solute man woman who does not poison the whole
community in which he she lives. There is terrible
contagion from the influence OF an unccan heart. III
there children they inherit the and diseases
which their parents have inflicted upon themselves.
INTELLECTUAL DISSIPATION.
But there Is an intellectual dissipation which IS
equally dangerous. | read few days ago book on
the Border Land OF Insanity and from this 1t would
appear that all travel on this border land every
day for whenever there is outgo mental force not
warranted by accumulation the disntegraon of the
finer portions OF the brain begins. An experienced
physician said the other day that there was three times
as much insanity IN its incipent stages in this country
in England. Men overworked day and night; no
accumulation of mental force except through news
papers and light magazines and what outlay OF brain
force This waste goes on IN spiritual ieehng, 100
Nothing slowly accumulated as spiritual emotion
There are probably only ten people in TINS community
Prayer in the spirit in which was written. daughter
Most people cannot pray ferventy more than once in
six months Qaughter.) And yet people go on pray
ing shouting hosanLa hs, &c, though the very
cheapest water the water OF life. How sensible IL
the difference from loud mouhed glorifcation TO an
empty heart (Laughtcr)
is DANGER or REVIVAL,
that the outgo is so much larger than tho income
fcOple WHO never LHouRHt vi anything Uut iHtlr
rant hourly about God. tLnughter) People
who never felt a conjunction of conscience about
cheating their creditors talk about their sins. 1t
is impossible that this outgo should continue when
there is nothing within There surely will be a re-
action just as there is reaction from the midnight
debauch All this display and wastage Of emotional
power Is so much subtracted from the real integrity
Of the man, and wonder If Indifference atheism and
viclousness follow. For 200 years in Europe all the
efforts OF priests were directed to make men feel rap
turous love for vhrs and during tins very period soc
ETY. most demoraliZed-war followed war blood
she'd carnage rapino devastated the earth; and all
this while the world lay PROSTATE the feet Of this
bleeding visionary Christ No. If there is reflection,
II there accumulation OF sterling WORTH OF
hood, virtue and honesty OF thought and purpose then
this avalanche OF religious emotion will only lay waste
the soil that IL should fructifyl