The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-06-17
THE IMAGINATION.
''SoIicitor'' Thinks II Ought To BE Properly
Cultivated and Developed.

solicitor Think. 1T ought to BE Properly
Cultivated and Developed.
To THE HOWARD LITERARY-It requires
no great exertion of the Imagination to
notice that the Howard literary club is an
ideal balance wheel to each member and
reader, for our creed lies at the foundation
of all good society and government
1 hope our society will not long continue
to resemble most churches, where few
members perform al the work. II life is
but the unfolding OF character, we should
build upon the solid foundation of
"honor, love and charity" This implies
truth, honesty and industry. which the
world in its need is keen to distinguish
from the false.
1t has been said that the world is a
masquerade. Few appear to the casual
observer or abroad as they really are. The
imagination rules each life. because
it is closely allied 10 the power
of thought. Then why not cult
vate and control it? How true
that our greatest fancies are with fancied
foes What imaginary storms sweep over
the horizon of each life; what miseries we
endure; what ills we suffer that are the
merest dreams of the mind IT'S only
when purified and ennobled by the Christ
ian virtues that the imagination is the
good angel of our natures, showing us the
only path of q fruitful life, and all things
desirable and good. Like reason and
memory it is subject to discipline, and the
sovereign will of man. Never-dying forms
of beauty of ontransing loneliness follow
when the heart, the fountain head of life,
is purified by the presence OF the Christ
ian graces, to the exclusion OF their
opposite vices. Purity and happiness are
insepsrable with real success in life, and
the law OF love, which spans both friend
and foe.
1t is a conspicuous fact that the sacred
writers bind the Imagination and the
heart in inseparable union. This, would
say in answer to MAUD Maple" is the
innate source OF truest inspiration fos-
tered by close communion with nature
and natures God. Will Harper Livings'
please enlarge upon this thought? Inspi-
ration is the motive power of an exalted
imagination. 1t is obedience in love to
the law that is ''holy. just and good"
There NAV be an UNEMPLOYED border land
between body and mind, but the assured
state Of conscious existence beyond the
grave is the one unbounded field where
the imagination may roam, as a never
ending Sabbath OF the soul. There NAV
be little connection between the powers of
sensation and reflection. What thought
really is we may not define; wether its
source is original conceptions or the COM
bined action of the memory and the i'm
agination, we know that the mind may be
master OF itself Necessity is the basis of
its requirements, which rises to privi-
lege.
The imagination is not confined TO the
realm of conjecture in viewing the actual
tiles of time and space. We have a clear
view of mans sphere in the universe of
being-eternal in existence, infinite posi-
bilities-a trinity of powers. Today we
no longer say: "What can man do? but
what can he not do?" The power to
wisely cultivate the imagination, with
brains as an invested capital that must be
wisely used for the good OF humanity, is
the essence, the force that must move the
ship OF human progress past the source of
the deep, surglng currents OF every form
OF vice to the tranquil shores of higher
civilization.
Man conqueror! Yes, in the light OF
history. And today he sees the beauty
and harmony of the universe, and hears
the music Of the spheres. Blt-sad re-
Election! Times noblest offspring-man
after nearly six thousand years only
begins to recognize the power to rise to
the sublime heights of moral. intellectual
and spiritual advancement he may attain.
Upon these momentous subjects may our
Howard literary reflect no uncertain
sound. Let US remember that few, COM
q min
ton strong enough todetect the false from
the true, and be ever true to exalted con-
victions; but they are the bone and sinew
of our civilization, OF this republic. They
are names of brave men and women
at which the world wonders.
I, In this age, overheated with excitement
and frenzied with speculation, it is not
strange that the imagination runs riot"
to use the words of the May Mascot"
dragging down the brightest intellects to
the lowest degradation. Mans capabili-
ties (of Advancement imply their counter
part-to sink to depths as low. A careful
discussion of the most important topics
presented by Hamlet" which hope will
Immediately follow, will illustrate this
stern and startling fact.
why do more women than men lead
in all moral reforms p II will certainly
not be denied that they do. think the
question could be justly presented little
more forcIbly. The apparent answer Is,
Because her views of life are not so selfish
as those DINA As her life-work In the do
mestic circle flows from philathropic mo-
tives, she is ready and anxious to improve
the great opportunities man neglects. By
her warm sympathy she diminishes sor-
row; BY her gsiety she hiehtens joy; by
her tenderness she soothes; by her inteIIi-