The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-03-03

VIXEN some seemingly insignificant favor
10 another breaks in upon our ease IL
brought face 70 fAcs with Our selfshness.
Ne arr ready to make II possible amends,
but the next day finds us forgetting and
ENJOYING our ease again While some one
else takes MP oar neglected duties
There u an intellectual sel6shness. too.
where . mar secure in the possession Of
greassr knowledge than his fellows Is care
Less OF the fact that they dwell in mental
darkness: thinks 1t is weii' If peace and
truth are his
Even into religion does selfishness creep,
and Just here il does its most insidious
work. With many religion means merely
the gaining OF salvation fox self: does not
ask them to so outside themselves. TO give
as well q receive. They feel that it is
well If they are saved, no matter what
comes TO all others Many prayers ask
awhat wilt Thou do for meg" and fail 10
ask lord, what wilt Thou have me dor
Such religion is narrow. incomplete
Selfishness. then, runs through the whole
Of life. sets It's seal on rich and poor. cul-
tHred and ignorant, religions and ire
iigious alike Can il be true. rs some say.
that sel6shness is the impeliing motive in
every human actg That seif-love Is planted
in our natures no one can doubt, but that
Il 10 determining factor in all our acts We
know to be false. IL accounts only for the
lower part OF life In what we deem the
noblest acts self-love sinks wholly out OF
sight. is lost in the presence OF the grander
passion. The poet has well sung:
'Iove took mp the harp OF life
And srnote ON all the chords with might,
snotc the chord Of self
That, trembling, passed in music on; OF sight"
- Ttaaysoa.
How often do We see this power making
lives more compIete9 As self-love led Tito
TO his ruin, so this broader love led the
proud and suffering Romola to deep
strength and peace. Through the power
of willing service she attained deeper dig
nifty and sweetness than the old days knew
The most heroic women ever met were
teachers in home for idiots. They were
giving their lives to an irksome. disagree
able task. but inward peace and JOY shone
from their eyes and spoke from their lips.
And the secret of this JOY was the fact that
they were thinking and living. not tor
themselves, but for others.
OF course just that work is not for all Of
rs, but the spirit which breathes there can
show itself in hundred ways and always
brings reward of inward peace. There is
something Of it in every true home. In
deed, il is just this generous love that
makes true home, that makes mother
a name with which TO touch and sway the
hearts of men.
In the wider experiences of life the same
holds true. The leader is truly great who
uses his powers unselfshly. No matter
what grand powers a man may have IL he
does not make them tell for the good OF
others beside himself be is dwarfed and
stunted nature. As soon as men see him
in his true colors they desert from his
standard. The men enshrined in the
hearts of the people are not the self-seek-
ing politicians who have put through sue
cessful Jobs" but those who have given
their time. their talents, yes, and their
lives for their fellowmen
And in religion, most of oil, we find that
the nobiest souls have ever been led by this
unselfsh love. The essence Of true relg-
ion is accommodation, the yielding of our
wills TO the Divine Will. centering our lit
tie lives in His perfect life. knowledge is
not ''the one thing needful." but love.
Thus does Jesus confsaue the Master of
men today. in thst A. deeply loved them,
and sought not His o~n, but His Fathers
will in all things. In giving His life Is He
did He gained the authority to say, "He
that seeketh 70 save his life shall lose it,
and he that loseth his life for Ny sake
shall find it," Cultivate al your powers to
the utmost, but do not be content with !.
miserable aims that end in SELF seek the
larger, more abundant life; strive to make
the world better and brighter because you
live in it. And most of all. seek not too
earnestly to save these lower lives, but be
ready to lay them down if need be, for in
so doing you open . door by which the
eternal life. with Its mighty tide, may
come In and possess you.
ST. MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
At the ST. Marks Episcopal church, cor
ner Fifth and Olive streets, Rev. Arthur II.
Vivian took for his theme: Justified by
Faith" He said that there was three
fold life in man corresponding to his body,
soul and spirit, but there was no necessary
coalition between those three lives since
they all came from the same source and
were blended in the same person, with q
few words on the reosonableness of faith.
St. Paul said that the just live by faith.
What is faith? The fun and absolute
assent of the mind to what it did not and
could not understand. Was that reason
able? IL was, and all nature proved it.
God had not left himself without . witness
in q single thing around him. The
speaker developed his discourse by taking
in the whole of animate and inanimate
nature.
TAYLo. coseREGATfoSAL CHURCH.
Rev. W. T. Dawson. at the Taylor Con-
gregationai church, in the morning spoke
upon the subject OF the bread of life, TAX
ing for bis text Matthew ~. se-Ss No
evening service was held.
SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The services at the Second PRESBYTERIAN
church. corner Harrison and Oak streets,
IN North Seattle, consisted OF communion
service. Nine new members were received
into the church.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
Rev. s. &. Burcheit, pastor of the First
Baptist church. took for his subject at the
morning service Fellowship and Cleans
ing" The evening subject was spectators
and Laborers.s
csrHoIsC CHURCH.
At the Catholic church, corner Washing
ton and South Fourth streets, Rev Father
Gribhin preached upon the doctrine OF