Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-05-28
Power, Love, Religion.


Since modes OF life beget modes OF
thought, and opinions actions, and
heart, spiritually as we'll as physically.
mutually improve or injurc zach other,
so has tate, when both are to be headed
at once, only one cure Of afiiictlon. Ii
sorrow purlfes men. why not nations!
Celtaicly, AID it is for this reason that
men perceive it less, # wounds and
fast.days improve the one, battle
fields aid centuries Of penance do the
other, aud generations must sink sadly
apd sorrowfully to destruction. Not
by splendid martial funeral with firing
of cannon, but by a battle Of The ele-
ments, Is the sky made blue. and the
earth fruitful. At the slme time 10
history, as 10 the almanac, the thick,
dull St. Thomas's day IS shorter than
The bright, warm st. Johns day, al.
though both conduct into new seasons
Of the year.
But until, and in order that, our
children and children's children may
pass through the winter centuries, this
It is that nearly effects US and educa.
ton. We must meet the entangle-
ment by partial unrayellings. The
child must be aimed against the fu.
ture; yes, even against tue close.
pressing present, with countelbalanc-
lng weight Of the three powers against
the three weaknesses OF the will, of
love, and of religion. Our age has
only passionate power OF desire, like
animals, the mad, the sick, very weak
ling; but not that energy Of will which
Sas most nobly displayed 10 Sparta
md Rome.-.n the Sofa, and in the
early Church. Aud now the arts, as
The state formerly did, must harden
The young spirit, and subdue the will.
Tho uniform color Of stole oneness
must extinguish the comDon praise oil
the various tigerspots and serpent
orlliancy of passionate agitation; the
girl aud the boy must learn that there
is a something 10 the Ocean higher
than its waves; namely, a Christ who
calls upon them. When the stole
energy of will is formed, there is then
loving spirit made free. Fear Is
more egotlstic than courage, because IL
is more needy; the exhaustlng, parasite
cal plants OF selfshments only attach
themselves to decayed trunks. But
power kills what is feeble, as strong
decoctlon of quassia kills flies. II man,
created more for love than for opposl'
ton. can only attain free, clear space.
ne possesses 1--we; and that is love OF
the strongest kind, which builds on
rocks. not on waves. Let the bodily
heart be the pattern Of the spiritual;
easily injured. sensitive, lively. aud
warm, but yet a tough, free-besting
muscle, behind the lattlce.work OF
bones, and its tender nerves are dIri-
cult to tind.
As there is no contest about the ma
lure asd power of love. but oaly OF 'he
gays to attain them (there, however
penetrate deep into the mattcr,) but
as about religion, on the contrary the
doubts of many must first be solved as
to whether there be only one. and
whether different paths leads to 1t, so
the thlre point in which a child Is to DO
educated against the age, must endea-
yor to establish first, instead OF tue
means. the right to educate rellgiousiy'
Power aud love are the two opposing
forces of the inner man, but religion 10
the equal union Of both, the man VIM
n the man.