The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-06-14
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BAPTIST
FEMALE COLLEGE ALUMNAE.
MRS. SUE ARNOLD 'CAUsLAND's
WELCOME ADDRESS.
LddieS Of The association.


Alma Mater. How brief, In one sense,
is the space between our meeling--the
hand touching of the Junes! Yet, in
another, how extended filed az are
the years with all the experiences be-
longing TO the life of womanl For some
where, in league with Time, is the
pilferer who after stealing the hours
and days hides them away out of sight
as if they had not been; so that the
mere years as they pass look brief and
shadowy as they glide into a dim, di-
perspective. But memory,
that untiring conservator OF all that is
harvest laden, yet unburden.
ed, is full as busy as the thief, enrich
ing us with the record of experience
INTO knowledge, ideals into
realities, and thought into living facts.
think you will go with me to the
limits of the statement that this to-day
in which we find ourselves is pre-emi-
nently an age in which ideals are
sought to be made practical realities.
An age at which convictions find ex-
preston In acts, and thought seeks u
visible embodiment-a seething, tn.
muituous epoch, in which much that is
old is being submerged, and much more
that is new is being upheaved. Yet,
withal, the undertones of the mighty
advance of change are musical, and as
parts of grand harmony, whose
rhythmic measures beat in unison with
living, throbbing prOphesies for the
future can be heard by those who wrap
themselves about with silence and
listen. Who is there with nature astir
in unison with the life pulses of the
planet does not feel herself to be stand
ing upon the very edge line of entrance
into new world, expectant of matters
deep and strange, awaiting fuller
solution of things and the sweep OF an
widened horizon OF
The flash of light, the
roll OF sound, and the overshadowing
are as the oncoming of rain to grounds
thirsty and in readiness.
The age, if anything, is one of insa
table inquiry into all that has hereto
fore been considered as rightly removed
from the profane touch Of human
curiosity. But the questiOner of to-
day unhesitatingly steps within the
propylon OF the temple of knowledge
and with the emotiopless appliances
of analysis dispassionately determines
upon the best and the quickest way OF
removing the next obstruction in his
way. Nothing which the age can
draw into its field OF consciousness.
either in the heavens above, the earth
beneath or the waters under the earth
escapes Interrogation.
And the spirit within this on-rush of
g..
reverence grows with the growing cer-
tainties of knowledge, and knowledge
rewards the searcher, let the motive be
what il may. Truth is its own tri.
umphsnt reality. What are the right
limits Of investigation? Where and
by whom are the bounds TO be set2 are
questions to be Fortunately asked OF
the timid by the honest Investigator ir
any field whatsoever.
A careful mind in gathering up the
scattered results of modern research
becomes easily aware OF the presence
and trend of underlying influence, and
comes upon an idea which seems dis
tinctly to voice the working of all or.
ganizing, developing law. This is The
4nity of life sosthin a unity Of nature
Try this conception in ways near and
remote-on planes low or exalted, anC
it Yields the old formula of the Rasi.
crucIans, GAS above 80 il is below
The circling law which rounds SUI
in like fashion rounds nebulous mat
ter into dew drop. The sweep o
force which is around the outermos
limits of space has it's copy in small il
the spiral tensions of all atom.
We have come to be familiar will
the ideas OF the unity of nature, th'
unity of force, but it is not long since
Prof. Drummond stepped little TO tn,
front from the ranks OF those whit
"known how 10 announce softly
"natural law III the spiritual world,
gathered honey of knowledge, celled il
the human brain the fuller idea of tn
unity of life--a one life-the unity q
truth.
The paths of thought which her
open up are compellingly attractive
and command the lover of knowledg
to enter by showing the universe to
moving upward on track of Obligator
development for all units OF conscious
ness which live in the unlimited con
sciousness.
A materialist would tell you ths
this that we call lie is al effect All
not cause.-the result of matter
motion. But he fails to find the syi
thesizing unit which gathers up Il
phenomena of manifestation as pear
are gathered upon central thread an
lacking which the activities of for,
aud matter have no meaning, no goa
and leaves them unlinked from al
cause lost in the un logic of manifest
ton being its own manitestOr. Thoug
here is the result of interchanging Il,
tivities between the molecules of Il
brain. | wonder if the activity of Il
atoms constituting an electrical IN
chine burden il with thoughts.
The Egg ptian hierophants symbol
ed the conception of the higher acti
D tiles OF life and the inverted reflecti,
OF their operations when thrown upC
the fields of matter by figure viii,
:. lucidly suggests the manner of natu
in dwarfing and inverting landsca
upon the human retina, or the refle
ton In camera Obscura.
So, in this conception of the materis
ist, that matter forms the one basis
all things can be found the inverted l
fiection of the truth OF the one life.
is the colossal pyramid of the Upp
Pthah In the dwarfing palm OF d
Lower Pthah.
But how innate and ineradicable
the feeling in the heart of humanity
the truth Of consciousness of exis
ence outside of the physical sense
Alter mastery argument in favor
! the extinction of personal conciousne
with the disintegration of the BODY
materialist longingly said "Upon {
whole would TGtttr not be annihil,
ed. l might regret il afterwards.
/ To come back-the working effet
of the conception of the unity OF life q
80 rapidly multiplied, and the dress
each SO fashioned to suit the ayenu
: they have and are entering that VIII
we may not always know them {
what they arc, they are to be encount,
ed in almost all places where men q
making the strife and effort of life
the state, the church, on all the hig
ways of civil traffic, down to the haI
of the labOrer linked into the hand
, his fellows. Unity is strength, and
consultations follow. But, chiei,
! and finest amongst the shapes of Il
maniiesting is the beautiful, the radia
idea of the LrOthcrhOOd OF man.
How many steps onward before I
brother will be held higher than [
self! How far removed thing is il
y which TO listen for knell-the rim
ing Tor the death of the animal in ms
The genius of whose lite is every IN
Tor himself and the take tho hindmo,
What unaccustomed light that W
NJ be which shall shine upon the wo,
~ when man comes TO covet selfsacril