The morning call., 1891-01-12

| TO us rs an ideal character. A person more
| beautiful, more loyab!e, more grand, more
| fair, cannot be conceived. He is so beau
| tiiul, so full of joy and gladneSs and sweet
ness that the profoundest minds and genial
hearts can approach him as an ideal. He Is
all we can dream of in God. He is the only
great hi st0rical character of whom calumny
has been silent.
IN OUR OWN COUNTRY.
Jesus Christ asserts himself so that men
cannot believe in him without believing in
, his supreme power. In our great country,
in which there is more general intelligence
than in any other country, men hate su-
periority. Have we ever elected man t.
the Office Of Chief Magistrate because Of
his superior wisdom, spOtleSsness and Ieli-
gious fervor? Our public men must be
popular rather than pure; genial rather tn an
good; WHY rather than wise. Our ruler
are often far removed fron our ideas of
right md purity. Not so Christ.
To-day. rs in past ages, there are millions
OF young men with pure hearts who will
turn aside from all your promises, from all
your hopes, to dedicate themselves to the
service Of CD. This is love of him. We
live only when we love. Saint Teresa, the
greatest mind among W omen, said, .Cnhap-
by men who do not love- IT'S true Sin,
misery, degradation of life come from the
lack of love. Men who have lost the power
to love-they drink whisky aud degrade
themselves. Their bodies are not temples
for the Holy Ghost.
sit is not the real earth around us that is
so beautiful, so lovely; it is the world we
create.
THE LESSON OF LOVE.
''If the spirit be good and beautiful all
around is changed. When we love we
clothe the earth with beauty. See two
Young loyers-how they walk! They hardly
touch the earth; their feet seem to be walk
ing on Paradise. lis dream. to show
what lovely soul can do. This is what
Jesus Christ undertook to give mGn-the
power of love. God is love. We look up to
him and We know that that nameless power
which gives the ocean its motion, the noun
tans their sublimity, the whole earth its
wondrous fairness is the same power as our
Fathers, the Being who uphods us and
leads us on TO God.
1t matters not-the human race is haunted
by God. When we give him our hearts all
glory is shame if God be not in it.
God is our Father. We are brothers.
men Of all races, OF all religions-we are ali
alike to HIM"
The right reverend doctor then recounted
the efforts and accomplishments of the
Christian religion to bring about perfect
state OF society-is development by eman-
cipatlng slaves and serfs, fniming human
consciousness OF right and wrong, and b.
the thousand agencies which spoke to the
Imagination. Continuing he said:
THE FUTURE WORLD.
Il am absolutely convinced that that
PVnti WHICH JESUS OUTlSI exercised In the
world in the past is wholly insignificant
when compared with the power Christ will
exercise in future world. We are too far
removed from him, but he is pushing the
world toward wider sympathes among
mems lives. Undisputahly the wider thu
more shall we see that God is love, that all
power, that all wealth, that all governments
shall take cognzance of this in our natures.
that all knowlt dye shall undermine char
acter unless 1t rests on his love.
We IN America occupy a special position
IN this respect In another generation we
shall see Ihat every woman has vote We
cannot help it. We are progressing, and as
living, God-like beings. more will be given
us.
with one exception we have learned as
Americans that man born on the other
side OF the mountain is not one Of us. Look
at those millions of Germans and French
men with knives and swords waiting to cut
one another to pieces. Why? Because they
live On opposite sides of the mountain.
STRIFE DYING OUT.
The spirit of strife is all dying out of
us, and we shall merge this national mar
rowness into grand unit of Gods family.
ms great Eugilsn-Speaking race will be
more numerous than all the peoples OF Eu-
rope. Here III this new world will be