Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-24
No. f49

age of forty, and the man who left his stn. dent days behind him in doubt or denial finds, in sfter life, that the negations have died away in the distance, and that conf dence end hors have taken their place. The Christian tl Ith and divine teaching and heavenly friendship have spoken to a part of the soul which we3 closed to them at the first. The soul hs3 learned the true rey- elation of its oHl powers to each other, and the rightfll action of all with reference to the highest things. It has come to under stand that life is feeling and emotion inter- mingling with thought and thus working out into will and action-all the powers in har- monious movement with the noblest ends. And as it hes reached this understanding, it has come to know that the u lth which bears most directly upon life, and glori6ed it, is that alone which appeals to sll the powers in such harmonieus action, and which satisfies them in their union, not in their separation and singlenes5, and, therefore, their partial, ha1f-completed state.
 These are lessons which you will be taught in the coming time, my friends, as we who are older are taught them.
 If you listen to the voice which speaks in the teaching of them you will find it to be a divine voice bearing witness of the eternal truth. You will know more and be more when you have listened to 1t than you know and are to-day, and will rejoice in the educa- ting influences of the years.
 
 influence makes itself especially apparent with reference to our apprehension and re- ception of truth is manifest in connection with, our growth and knowledge. 4 striking and 2eculiar fact connected with our learn ing Sad knoWing-a fact which is observed hy all who closely watch the progress of i'm telligent human iife-is tiist the more we know the more we seem to feel and realize the limitations of our knowledge It is the beginner who Is satisfied and Wearied, and who does not look beyond himself. A man who has gone far on in the way and who seems to want us to know most everything, sees the field ever widening before his vision and reaching out into limitless distance. His own attainments are but the little things, while the great things are in the future. He is as one coming out of dark place into the light, each advancing step making the light brighter to his eye. And yet at the same time revealing more widely extended re- zion, into which he can only enter when he has moved forward on long pathway While he rejoices, therefore, and what has already been secured, he is ever led to place himself in the humble position of learner, waiting to be taught and hoping for yet larger measures of truth. The progress of life in this way, brings every truly educated man to a constantly increasing readiness to receive all the lessons which experience, in every line, may teach.
 It leads the man to open every avenue of approach for the light and, as we have al- ready seen, to adjust all his powers to each other, and to their right position, so that the light may shine in it's brightness upon his inner life.
 Moreover, @ course of development in knowledge-when you consider knowledge in its broader sense, as it is given by experi- ence-is closely connected with faith. The man who studies his own life in this regard, as he goes on through the years, finds that his attainments along the way have been largely gained by courageous venture upon something that WIZ unseen at the beginning. What we know, suggests, but does not prove or reveal, what we do not know. We be- lieve in the existence and reality of what lies beyond us before it comes within our vision.
 We take the step into the uncertainty of the future while it is still a region only of possibility of mystery, because we trust that it heI precious and joy-giving secret to inn part to us. Our faith becomes to us the evil denoe and demonstration of the things not sesn. it gives us the assurance of the rea1i- ty eff that for which at first we only hoped. This is especially true in the sphere of the souls life and in the department of our liv- ing-its richest and grandest part-in which what We learn or gain comes to us largely all reunions of love and friendship. We put our confidence in the friend at first and the blessing follows. We do the same thing all the way through lifetime afterward, and we ma the result ever repeating itself as the confidence is renewed.
 Life thus is school of faith on every side. The mind must venture beyond the knowl- edge which it has if it would know more. It must press forward often into the dark ness trustful in the yet hidden life. The soul also must believe, or the greatest gifts which are possible for it will never be req Lzed; and when it believes, and ever after wards, it knows, with that largest and deep- est and truest of all knowledge, the knowl- edge which belongs to the soul.
 The feeling of humility as learner which the prog ress of life brings constantly to the mind, and this necessity of faith in what is beyond us, naturally also lead the man who is moving forward to look above himself to an all knowing being-to source of light and truth. The instinctive feeling of the soul is that, as knowledge is so adapted to enrich it's life-and is in itself so wide-reach- ing while the powers are ever moving forth towards it's possession-there must be some- where a mind and soul which hold it in it's fullness and send it out as blessing to all others. But this feeling becomes stronger as the years pass on, for as its own faculties are strengthened and it's nature seems enlarged by it's growing attainment while it is still learning the lessons of dependence and of faith, the soul demands for it's satisfaction still grander vision of what is above itself
 It seems to realize more and more in it's thought what it so naturally believed in the beginning. It's demand for communion with
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