Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-07-19
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Hose Elizabeth Oieveihnus Nc" D~
We are liable 10 have notions until we get
knowledge. (
Let us study career ss means only to the
end-charaeter.
The quality Of diyination is the iptellec-
,usl element Of altrustic faith.
No secret of hydraulics could cause dew
drop to hang upon rose leaf in cube
never knew good man or good wom-
an who was not practically an opdmist.
The past is simply humanity. 1t is thou
and ], vast congregation OF thous and fs.
An acorn in the mind is worth more than
an oak forrest at the end Of the tongue.
The noble soul would choose rather not
to be than to be somebody in particular.
So fine an irony has history, that which
makes the shame of his wives makes the
glory of its kings.
|, Manners are made in the market where
they are sold, and their buying and selling
are mostly unconscious.
No Gift can pass between human ere \
lures so divine as the gift Of recognition, f1
il touches upon the creative.
To be dramatic, and at the same time &C
curate, is a rare combination. 1t one is
gift the other is grace
One who has iaith in the concrete is sure
to have it IN the abstract; and the effect is
that of optimism in the world.
We can do no Drawer or better thing than to
bring our best thoughts to the every day
market. They will yield us usurious in
terest.
Millions sublime audacity Of faith aerates
the ponderous craft of his verse and keeps
it from sinking into the abyss Of theological
pedantry.
Our lives are not laid out in vast, vague
prairies but are definite domestic door yards,
within which we are to exercise and develop
our facilities.
Herein is the significance Of the saying
that history repeats itself 1t does repeat
itself, because repeats its fsctors-the men
and women who compose 1t.
Wit the attitudesnd utsersnce Of her spirit
confronting me, | cannot allow the verse to
be poetry. She is she racontetu, not the
rates the scientist, not the see.
The dr1lest mortd spirit must az times
grope Iestfessly and exsectantSJin the outer
darkness fer something beyosd; and this
something must exist, will exist, IN a true
poem.
The mother makes the nan, perhaps; but
the wife manufactures hiua Somotimes the
wife in her manufacture confirms the max
ing of the motter, somtimey countsracts 1t.
TIE born poet has no agony in tie deiV'
eraaee of his sosg. The uttsring is TO him
that soothing baN1r which the ,teranee Is TO
the reader. 1t is he weeping, not the tear
weptr that gives relief.
Tbs humanity Of each of US il like cone
aoliar' harp constructed BY the Ifaster Mo-
sican, and laid dowrstesSerly by Him uposl
the sea,shore, where WINDS from every quar-
ter play continuously
Each % US can so sslievs in humsnity m
general % to contribNe to that pressure
which constantly levers up the race; can
.urr ound sarselvas wit.nan stmospheTe'op-
imi.tic rssAer than the contrary.
Whether nen admit nor mex, faith in eur
selves and aish in our Brother and slIter
humanity fellow from ou7 faith IN God, and
{ that faith De allowed iso- full growth will
each win their rightful rsas
Reciprocity. constant sad equal, amoUg
al His creatures is the plan of the only ma
ker of plans whose plans never fail in the
least lot or tistie. he has ,eserSed to Him
self the power to give withsut receiving.
Human hisser5 Is any hiag but ore cease
less flow of casse into efeet, and Of effect
into cause. There is nothing. but which is
consequent. Yos and s,obat the conse-
qusnts of vast tAngle Of a1teesdents IN
all time before
You come from one Of George. Eliot's po-
ems rs from asTushish BATH of latest sci
enee and re6rsment, appresiative OF bene-
ft, but so battered, beaten, and Gsjointed
as 10 need reoose before Soa caa be CON
scioGs of refrsehaent.
In these deys Of ebb and spiobeand, when
spnosticism reazs its stone well in 'front.' Of
faith, and writes upon it in black letters the
end all end Seall Of al knowing, the IN
movable, vino have no neea'to. know where
God ia to coaSfm our faithin Him.
True self knowledge Is never to be come
at oy burroMng IN the naIro~ hni1 % our
own inolvieai dnoega.s, ,ssiA,ss anu e-Apeii'
ence. we mus, IN oross % truly see our
selves. stand, befsre the great mir1er. hu-
mainly, and, in It's all.reiecting foens, be-
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. ,nrnsi e t;n,A ons .Sopsand vaars iono
,bron.b .h;ch h,ma.;tS ,umbIe3 AIndly in
An emirrant srsin. the last skuockets Of
the Roman empire 9avins up at sne end, the
first sunbeauas Of tho Renaissance shining
in at ths othsr-a1d, no light hssween--the
no-acaount period Of history.
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