The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-11

ment, that we might seize that which lay
within our very grasp. God has planted
deep in man nature an instinct for barter
and trade. By this means does God give
him gold for BRASS and for iron, silver
He has planted beauties in the clouds and
fields. but few men can appreciate them
for the full wealth of their beauty.
God has given us various kinds of life,
each to be developed. First, the physical
life. In one this is full and bounding
every step a JOY. every breath q delight
There are others TO whom every movement
is pain; their sweat is blood. We should
cultivate this ply ical life to its fullest
perfection. This is Gods ideal, and since
the race stopped SHINING God has been
lengthening the life of man. Men differ as
much In the mental capacity. God would
~lectual life. Men vary even more widely
In their emotional nature. There are men
as stolld ss a stone. Tnere are men bear
ing In their hearts tie wrongs of q race
that should set aflame the blood of age.
or make an infants siDews strong as
steel. vet these affect them no more
than the idle wind which they regard not.
They care nothing about the race; nothing
about it's wrongs They are like the earth
worm that leaves the sunshine and creeps
INTO it's cold and narrow grave. But there
are men of wonderful emotion, with life as
fresh as the morning, as sweet as the
spring. How it bubbles over at q rose and
goes out to greet 1t; at sight of q child 1t Is
Icduy u ONoIuOWs 1uSy COuut tucis llNCo
as nothing. SO that some idea of liberty
may live, or that some conception OF q
grand possibility for the race may find
room to flourish. There Is as wide q vari-
ETY. of spiritual life. In some it 10 q dull
sense of pain; q sense of imperfection,
never breaking into joy. never bursting
into beauty. OF others the fountain-head
of their spiritual life is In the skies, and
their fountain plays over its pearls In the
sunshine. They are warm with this life.
SnmQflnaa altar Uraaf Qf1tlcfINn fhaV ara
taken mp into the third heaven, and hear
things impossible to word IN the poor, low
speech of men-glOrious. supersensuous.
They know that if God should bestow q
little more upon them they would ole. The
body could not contain it.
What God asks Us to do Is to give our
selves up to Him. For brass He Will give
gold; for iron, silver. God wants greater
men than He can make. He can make q
man es great as He wishes, but it tax %
God ard man together to make a compan-
ion fit Tor himself. He wished to make of
Abraham a man to do his mission. He fit
ted him for his purpose through years OF
trial which drew him into relations of per-
feot reconciliation to God's will. Moses
was another example of Code attempt to
bring man to his ideal. With all his regal
power at the Egg ptian court. Moses was,
as yet, unfit for the work which Goo had
prepared Tor him. A long advance in the
character of Moses was necessary. and 1T
came through years of trial. until he. in
truth. became the companion OF God.
The Bishop spoke of the wonderful
emotion of Christ after He had resigned
himself completely, and for the last time,
to the will of God. ''Gc not back from
Gods Claims" said he, '.Go not back from
Gods open door of opportunity.
Go forward, not for q sacrifice
of your Isaac. but of yourself. Then light
ming in your hands is but an emblem of
greater swiftness, q material manifesto
ton OF the power with which He wants to
endow your souls. This world is but q hint
of the great love that breaks out of the in
finite to glcrify your being with the knowl-
edge of God, who is love-"
At the same church. in the evening, Bish-
Cd Merrill delivered q sermon before q
J large audience.