New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-10

THE PURPOSES OF THE BIBLE.
1t is always a good thing that men should thus 60
out their present lives look either at their begin
nings their endings, and be drawn away nom inc
everengrOssing power of the life about them. IhaI
religion has done Is not against 1t or It's truth IL Is
in favor VI 10th tnose You may rdcue tn Bib
ANY great reigous because IL teils nieil
to THINK where they came from anu where the! 20 ~,
rather than telling them Just now 70 earn te oeau ~
to-day " secure the happiness OF tomorrow. Is
like taking youth u the gate OF his faCers VIDE w
mans IN which no has been brought up ana b We 10
he is busy happy and contented and telling nun b 70
look out and 10 think Of the world beyond ettihg nun
understand sonetGng OF the secrets 0i tist iesion
fearful. All his view OF life is larger ever
AFTER What is about hun Is no less Pleasant pu.
thoughts that working IN his nina. lie lives
travelling beyond them, as he himself VIII 60 some o Gay
and material Of his present life unapprecatYe pelpe
So@aa Of self and ssiasa life IS vci pleasant bat liz
your eyes you did not make yourself = lou came "a
20 by ties that cannot be broken because they
are part OF your very being, and therefore you ar;
s DC sss into tine srseness Of to God
For single moment by means Of this simple sLp
acter the man that mad made himself he IS an I'M
possibility existence outside OF nhagnauo1h at
which men are always aiming We know the nesrese
approach to him. perhaps in our own eOuh.y ost free
quenty heard. Is he character whom we would Lhe
reproduced on large scale or rs Ws no% sut the
tSo Qualities Of energy of sefreance, of untring
Industry which associate with the phrase faS anu Ms
jnow that it means moral obnqulty, for IL lne1is
independence OF other men, and not ey any means n
necessarily and doubt weter most srIr ap enurng
" De of character 1t is based upon price WG h OWN
Willingly great facts O OF rs a tSe 9 men about
him. as we'll the generations before @ 50 o ttb
conception which Is deficient In the element OF run
"a copfessedly position that belongs only to those
who lack this circumstance relation 10 ' noed and
90 hove utilized rightfully . :.
II is character which finds IL hard TO move move IN
onary circles OF life, to coalece with other ives TO
more seltmade man feels himseu a. W V,1o, tEnr
n e 70 Assert his ways and his methods ana so to
deprive them Of their chance OF attih " E uors
aoo' c "a imagine a series Of selfmade men, Tor
each man who has made himself almost - hnn lie
ucss aIe the type Impossible; whatever Is sell
| made must aspire or tend TO be "ou' ~ 10 d" ~
f1 The s%as regards his relation what to GH Se
makes himself God in te worst sen n.hor mem his
claims for himself he is not to dony 10 o'e f er5me
| brcthrsn and the whole conception or ne Duryo
separation the picture OF manhood Is ta ID ~ art
.bie centres independent of each other gau atoIs
ht No one made the other and that each made tel
The outlook Of life becomes narrowed W is IIfes
| hostility and not friendship and assistance Is iA'
| law.
| WE HAVE NOT MADE OURSELVES
Competition is erected into the central principe oi
life rs largely authoritative as Is gITiVl'a'ion ~ 80
| physical world. Whatever evils or apsuiu
| tached to polythesm, which in It's oiu IoIin :, 49,
ara inherited by the spirit which makes man No o"n
| maker 1t is dreadful picture, opposins a' ~ -,
all that is best in friendship in family LIE, IN '"
! bonds of influence and inheritance. Inc DAMS Vi
humanity are dissolved by such process, ~ oocso
10 be a brotherhood, II becomes ine e ~ which we
YARN ipstlv and ioyiully OF brother, we ION Ihe
expression "it is lie, God, that han tS S combines
va onrselve,s then unity with our DIothrI cohiDi'
VIZ, w. ndsnendence OF him. No other man made Us,
INF God made us through all other Hel' ILL n' Sicb
As He formed and guided the generations Iro rhe,.
e are descended lie hath made as he put US @nee
we are to- day and crowded around Us I Save rs our
frIendshps put into our word OF power Iloni
some human lips and molioe1 a 10 of aaiictoH The
world of men ceases be point OF waIlns Gehis u
liable moment to De torn S 10 every member
mas its own place and power How u doe rs e =, ioo
burden and harmonic LIES dllcies tn i lie thai
hath made us and not ourselves all the tlme re
ocing that II was nothing ie osr I ahrence surely
we can never surprised that the comhau 70 INV
God always has Seeohd h h rne relation to God and
man must ever be bound up in one great .iopsn it
II then the thought , Of Goa 'I mpospe to thnI
of Him only Maker we ind aat rom everV VIM rce
not only sresO r US' are but parts Of is
ton and tell something OF tne a'u Ia ~ vn never
Torn mill Vol nave reached through the thought
Of God the personal Father Ia whom al u,e ot 10, ~
ind these ideals perfect IN the world about US We
read such poe tic descriptions as m0aerh poo' has
| given OF the object Of his admiration ana ioNe'
sometimes fain would ind III thee some iauIt'
| And 10! in nonor of thine excellencics
| Nv heart takes pride to think how poor 1t Is
And We lnow that 40 creature Is deserving OF such
words and vet we are glad that the human heaTt can
thus desire perfection and feel us own unwortles
in The thougn of IL glad that afteF inc many
Observation-Disclosures OF human life, human npS can sun
| utter such words. Is there none 10 iulhi theH
Surely n Is our God that hath made us lie VINO bore
Tho great work Of creation can fnll the perfect pe
80 1 and character toward which that creation yearns
Ne look up TO Him for all desires In ne We want
success Measure honor satisfaction IN He We rush
into The actions OF this created world 10 find them
Little gmpses Of them come to u.s. a We W. p Ia th s
wth unrestrnsd words. And hcn as We be an 70 resi-
mon them aud to trust In them they disappear. and