Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-22

from mankind as by sea of ice, so
charity is the opposite faculty, and
transforms den into palace and
peoples that palace with the minds
and hearts of all times near and far.
There is no evidence that this love of
man was implanted only that man
might bcfricnd beggar or set free
q slave, but that the heart might al
ways draw up near to the human
race and hear its oratory or its whis-
pers, and might laugh and cry along
with its laughter and tears. II is a
grace that helps us approach not on
ly sufferer, but, what is more diff
cult, a being differing from us in
creed, and to see in him who bows a
Catholic or jew brother of our
self. 1t is an Aladdin that turns our
little island into continent. and
makes us citizens of world.
The love of self has never been n
sentiment out of which grew much
greatness. If you will look into the
heart of Paul or Christ. or of any of
the most powerful which have moved
across time. YOU will not find cgotism
there, but you will find a spirit which
forgot itself in presence Of the pro-
gress and happiness and destiny of
mankind. Ego has never been an
eagle OF lofty flight: it has never
been flaming chariot upon which
man moved heavenward but il has
been milestone about the neck,
sinking into the sea all who have
worn such n rude ornament. All this
because the interests of humanity are
so vast and precious that nature new
err forgives those who close their eyes
in presence of such a spectacle. The
grandeur of a nation begins when il
begins to seek the highest welfare oil
all its people, white or tawny OF
black, and the glory of Jesus Christ
will roll like a flood of light forever
out of the fact that He lived and died
for mankind. Thus charity is the
soul, that image of God out on an
errand of love. AS the universe is the
Deity becoming external, becoming
so embodied that other life besides
God may exist and may have stars fol
its home, so charity is the soul break.
ing away from the bosom and build.
ing up worlds Of love and light where
once were chaos and darkness. In its
name the school house began to ap.
pear in far off times, and has repeated
itself until each country road becomes
the path of the dear school children
in its name bands of holy women ex.
plored the hills and forest around
Rome seeking the infants which vice
had exposed to wild beasts and the
elements in its name all the mission
airy ships have sriled: in its name all
the hills of Prussia are are ornament
ed with asylums for all sufferers, the
sunshine of nature aud the sunshine
of love thus meeting amid the leafy
trees; in its name all the battles OF
human rights have been fought +; il
its name came Jesus Christ as though
heaven itself was imperfect unless he
could live and die here. and then re.
turn to the sky ornamented and
blessed with earthly charity. He de
sired to import to heaven the glory
of earthly benevolcncc.
l In presence of Paufs group how
insignificant became the ideal statues
of the Greeks. Paul had seen thu
classic graccs. He had read of then
in Homer, in Pindar, in lIcsioa. II
painting, in sculpture, in poetry. h,
had seen the graceful three, Aglia
Euphrosyne. and Thalia, gracefuness
beauty and success; but coming Il
these ideals after he had studied tn,
lofty philosophy of Jesus Christ, how
their former beauty must have seemed
to him to have frded! That world O
brightness, and beauty, and triumph
seen by the classics had sunk from hi
sight, having been made dim by TIL,
splcndor of new world. lie lat
been with Christ. The ideals OF
Athens, perfect body, n beautiful
face, success at the Olympian games
or in the theatre or in oratory, seemed
humble dreams compared with tht
lofty philosophy of human life tina
fell from the lips Of Him Of mangcl
and cross. Wonderful as Greece was
Its ideals were great only while Their,
was no rival of Athens except Garth
age or Alexandria or Babylon. Wher
all around was twilight then thu
Greek Jupiter and Minerva ani
Apollo shonc forth in clear luster
but no classic ideas could compete
with the wide thoughts which sprans
forth from Palestine after the tears
and blood of Christ had sprinklcd it,
grass. What was Jupiter as carved in
ivory by Pbidias. Jupiter as seen by
the highest classic mind, as compared
with the Heavenly Father of the Cos
pels and with the loving teacher OF
the mountain side? The greatness o
a nation or an age is always TO b,
measured by measuring its creates
ideas. What in this compariso,
would the physical beauty or thu
mental refinement, or the military oil
gymnastic victory of that brillian
nation weigh against the morals ant
deeds and hope Of the Testament? II
all Greece there were no doctrine
that could stand beside these three o
the apostles. As the laundering Ecu
and the light-darting Apollo wer,
deprived Of their fillets by Him wht
wore crown of thorns, so the thre,
graces of the Greek and Roman worlt
were cast forever into shadow by tn,
unwilling of these new virtues, Faith
Hope and Charity. What was Aglia
: that embodiment of all brightness o
eye or soul, compared with the Faitl
that holds fast to divine principl
through days dark and long? VIVA
was Greek gracefulncss seen along
side that Hope which inspires tn
soul from its mothers arms TO tn
grave? What was classic success il
art or i'm conflict seen by the side o
that Charity that loves all men oil
ways? Looking over the wide world
Paul, with the vision of prophet
and with comprehensiveness almos
divine, declared that there abid
three new graces, Faith, Hope ant
Charity, and although eighteen hun
dred years have passed since III,
award was made, years of unrivallct
thought, and infinite JOY and sorrow
there is no hand that would dar,
touch this sacred group. We ado
nothing, we take nothing away. Thes,
there will "dbide" forever.
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