The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-11-14

Notes by the way

The Past and tbs Future are nothing.
la the face OF the stern To-day.
Proctor.
In vain nave we sought TO bring our
| mind out of chaos. Our pen starts and
stumbles, and stumbies and starts again,
still cropping about in the darkness, uncer-
tain which part 10 take. Did you ever
find Yourself thus: SO much you wish
| to wIite about. but don't know just how
to or don't know hOS 20 ex-
press the thoughts that have come 10 YOU,
but still feel that to obtain peace you
must express them.
How much outward influences have to
| do sometimes with oae's peace OF mind, If
one allows the expressions and opinions II
friends beloved TO annoy; because We feel
so sure We are in the right and they are
| ALLOWING the Past to held them in mistaken
paths. Paths that have been we'll trod,
and which if properly followed would
lead them to see new aud growing duties
in tie face Of stern To-day, stern yet
beautiful; beautiful. because dutifai.
3Let us be glad that we are workers
with God handmaidenS beside him,
doing what u hands find 70 Do. On every
hand there is work to de. work fur the
Master. Any one ofus eanpot Go il all,
Cannot take part in it all, are net required
to, would do lily what we attempted did
we attempt too much. But, dear friends,
did YOU ever realize of he's great value To
each worker is word itly spoken? How
il helps them on to renewed effort, to
achieve greater couquests in His service?
On the other hand, # tie work that lies
near and dear to us is spoken lightly,
slightlngly of, by those whom we lock
up to, if they think that me and my
house" should not engage in 4 work that
lies so near the hearts OF seine of the men,
bers OF that house, ISL il going 10 bring
diseuietude to the hearts Of those vho see
beyond the walls of that narrow house
into the heart Of hat great. thrubbIug
world, where the see
Others have buckied their armor,
And forth to the fight have gone.
Is it right for the beads CT the house to
say to those " no are of the house. bat yet
who are interested III all the human fam
ily.-a family so large that they coald net
| possibly crowd into the portals ofoEr own
narrow home1oof. did they desire.-we have
| much sympathy with Yonr work aud be-
lieye it 10 be a good one. 5Gt do not desire
that our children should enter into its
pursuits. After that Go we treasure the
| sympathy in our hearts? Do we recognize
II aS q y IfdAhs th1t phHc iitE. anu 3EltN-
itv, and brightness in the cee-v heels Of
duty pure and simple that lies nearest
us? Don't we feel that sand has been
thrown in with the oil. and instead of
giving greater a%lacfity Of motion the
wheels have been clogged.
"Nh hen we find an old man, like Emer-
son or Gladstone, who is still open to new
impressions and still pursuing with flying
feet knowledge 4 tsuth, we feel a lro-
found satisfaction. Here. al last We say
to ourselves. is = man who approaches
our ideals; a nal who las kept his mind
open. and WHO at seventy or eighty is still
learning with as much zeal and enthusiasm
as at twenty or thirty. And when We
think OF the Joy of such 4 life, of its sus-
tanned interest ana unfailiDg freshness. we
can guess at what NEST men and women
miss and lose. If there is to be TO dead
line in life, there must be no closing Of the
mind, no day when we shall stop and say
of any position which we have taken or
any method which we rave adopted.
This is final: nothing shall induce me to
change IT, The whole interest in life
lies in the change which some men endea
vor to shut out from their experience.
Every decade has q Lew secret of success
to confde to the man who has an open
mind"
We cannot all see alike. neither would
it be best that We should. but is it not bet.
ter to recognize all the human family as
being q vast brotherhood of maa. all be-
longing to Gods family. and come to learn
that the Il an more holy thar thou
doctrine is a doctrine of lie dead Past,
and not of the living Present. What a sad
state of affairs society must be in when we
cannot trust Il children for a short space
Of time, occasionally, in the christian care
IF those who would teach them the best
laws of health-the effects Of certain
poisonous compounds upon the physical.
moral and spiritual nature; thereby in
shilling into the hearts . ~repuguanc to-
ward these things that will insure for
them a freedom from their blighting grasp
when they in turn are required 20 step on
the field Of action.
Is it right in this late day IF eaIigLteDed
philanthropy to deny our Children the
| right to become familiar With the laws
that govern the laws Of health, ard &c
spirit?
keep tbyself unspotied from the
world" may be 4 very excellent command.
But when it reads. Keep myself I'M
spotted i'll the world il would seem that
we did not question Our Fathers strength
| so muC}. u lsGGu Us III 0OafEVef pains
among men He might lead Us. And 1t
would seem We trusted more TO His guild
anee 10 the work lie giv,s US to do among
His children, for all are His children. and
if we may call him Father, t.ien they are
our brothers aud sisters, 10 matter how
low in the scale ef human degradation
they have fallen.
Dear as is our particular mode of wor-
ship 10 each Of US, We must not forget that
others is as dear to them. though they
may not, in some respects, seera as sin
cere. So We in turn appear to have cur
weak, unguarded points, strong as wemay
be in others.
Does mingling it'll the wofld-elaseiug
all outside our own Sectarian lines the
world',-make Us less true 20 our own
church? From the standpoint of one who
has mingled with many denominations, we
believe is does not, for God has proved him.
self present evefyw here, even 20 the euds
of the earth" so instead of making one
less true to their own, It ouly HELPS to
better illustrate his goodness, hi, power,
and to give one a better conc ption OF What
an u~nbounded source Of light and eternal
truth and wisdom for which they are
working, thus dra ing us nearer to His
throne of loving grace. And We have
come to believe as there is no place like
home to the tired heart, So there is no
place like our " church home to the