, 1877-12-17

on Ae huss naee nfo ~ hs.,,aFi.n Sgut "" Fiji
!. savage about meeting t's deal ehil:
1ren beyond the grave. and all the telling IL
vain. for perhaps hc dhl mot wish to meet them !
ti,en IN thelr infancy, TIL HIN Of etc ni.Y, anA
lie will feel that yol have sail nothing, Tor ne
cannot measure this fittir snan on earth. Hc-
tIcfan waits thus nos only for learning, ami |
Of = brain,power which ca, wake
UP and hear her impressive voice.. Climate and
soil even are ailfes Of q Gospel, for when tho
northern air and u soil that tletrands labor,
mind, then the Ideas Of the Sermon on tue
Mount grow great aiong with the great bacon,
Or Shakespeare, or Milton. or isanYau. There.
tore, It came to pass That the North
France. aud Italy and 8pain-stood by t'c poetry
pf the old Church. snd would not FOLLOW the
logic and thought Of the colder clttnes. TINS
our planet earth entefs tnlo MI our experience.
and by all thinEh shapes each one, aud bT eesh
one thing shapes all.
The prayers Ut the best sA[nta arc shaped BY
the 1nnguage. and science, mud custom around
him. In All lGnnrant aIc lie rfays fur miracles.
III amid Id ii shs " e,er"ai i4~s md s.ys ihv VII 6s
done. Each altar Is Influenced hy the light of
liberty, snd education. and }nctry, as we'll a'bv
tho l,can Of light uivinc. When iiai bows In
holy place. The pocsry of a great era hclps
him aee heavens beauty. the learning Of great
age helps him measure hcavcn'e worth. ~
As Christianity had shuwn her dependence
sbc % asked its tS the Roman and Greek figures 10
take her hand, 50 attrrwar,l tn the great nwak-
eninK Of tie sixteenth century, allc Invoked
earthly, human ahl. She waited for q new
printing lad sprung up In Germany. itty years
before Luther; tito magnetic nec'llc had been
discovered and adoptcd, and new world lad
made tic European heart beat quickly: gum
"A liar
make communities out of thosc wt0 had
lived in castlea; Dante pad Rnng In Italian
anl Citaucer In English: universities had
sprung up, ~ single one ot whsrt, tlle.s M
uctvfnE into the lore and beauty Of tho long
buried antiquity; annsic, too, had come to
jo,u with poetry and tho other arts IN cheering
aud arousing mankind. 1ieru Luther aprearcd
eral tu,nult, tho morning song u waking
world, And 1t was tho waking world too that
heard tic song. Tint gifted period which Is
called the aae Of ElIzaocth was Just scndlnK
Thua, follow the career OF Christianity and
you will find that It has always sought the help
1T every form Of human industry anu TRUTH
disc arc not merely its friends but It's helpful
| companions. The telescope which finds the
fixed stars helps tho Gospels teach Us the great
ness OF God; and the paintings antlmusic which
HEt0in LIE bQAts N4tt klI1
In beauty to the culttEcl mind, help the heart to
long for Immortality nnd to 1nd on another shore
the beautiful things We must leave behind u, u,
here. Thu statesman, and the legislator anu
lot toward aw, and nil the puj!le to pass from
human to i!Iyttlc statutes. Each happy hont,
full Of mutual lore, be II on the old Eupfiratet
ur 1iber or he It on tue hhlne Or Hudson, helps
will be homes for all those lovng ones TINT arr
scattercd by that i!na! wintry wind. As the
littlo strnans meet and forn' one RIVER anu NJ
M river upora!ds !ts tsilutar'cs for coming
but acccpts rhcerfully tho k!ndrcl water
como 1t from Alp Or Appcninc, 70 Chris
ttal,lty receives joyfully tho strcamH that 40"
toward its vale, aud cares nothing whether
Lebanon, or from that fabtcd parnasstls whcl
grew the untading flowers Ut the imagination
It says to ntl these clear streams: Let Us mingl'
our waves aud aow toward tho one ocean peace
In Mind this higher friendship between reliVlo!
and cacl, form Of lluman thought, he could stu
from ths higher ground, have written his eil'i
sion about Tho Meeting Waters; for When on
At lie p!acc where mighty stFcaus converge
the words Of your youth may come oacK 10 So'
In new drapery:
Thcto IL not, IN the wlde world. valley 10 sweet
A Tho v*lo in whose bosom theae bright water
Tho unlon Of loarning and p!cty will be til
eaftnf @ pasad;.so. s; +. oonv,r,o +o mi. ,,,e,ur
ana MoW these T. .a, a,,} so1rI.n,f fnsn,
N seils1oh,; ~ ~ t. stcn.aa III TX asJ -
ate tne at1cb u FcnSni 70 s.S s .n ~. VIZ ~
a tn mGu19 @ sgar T,o oui nfte.; cnns ~ tyHets
tacy iGa a, ne9 ,irne ~ ~ ~ ninomrnrt
neena ~ naom 1toan tnG ~ MY, u ~ ~, n
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}oasney,nEs' @ ane pnis p,' .aI' ht ,,rIv nvcr nm
oses % n" - rha asto sto,esn,n" a c,n fo"n nnhi,
as soul no ~. ~. ~ t'." .,on,a ~,
eMpFel " eaM a taas ~ ~ on.t H. t.,, a.
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~ ps"ps auu :S ~. ss.sr1.,. " H. an hru,
Cnites, a ~" .Ma,r"H intt. i"na hr thc unlIft,,
S1oss tacM neMtt aiu.,s.. ~ ~, a,v ,r!rsn,,n
meditation aud hope Tint spring up by the alta
vi thu Almighty. AL the hitherto greate
thought has drunk deeply at tho vel! ot orc
lasting !t1e. LETTER. Kinder 70 u!nu nas ~
ttG paht!lels!n " npltoAA tlI1n lug s"oaE.