New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-10

Is a reflection OF the thoughts OF the creative mind
so that when God took the actual and compared Is
with the Ideal lie able to find perfect harmony.
| When man is born into the world there Is in the
| conception and thought Of God ideal pattern Of
what that man become, pattern Of infinite love
| and Infinite blcs'edness.
do not know II you have read the exquisite
poem by Adelaide Proctor. in which she contrasts
the ideal with the actual. You well know that it Is
set in ascetc Roman Catholic dress. which, OF
| | eschew but you will have the sense 10 Law aside
the setting and take the jevtl Of the thought. II IS
the story Of how rough girl centuries ago. lived in
a convent the darling OF the nuns, sweet and pure.
| whose especial work II was TO attend the
| altar Of Mary Wars swept that part Of France
and brought TO the doors of the convent number Of
| wounded soldiers, whom the attended among
| them young soldier whose wounds were not
severe, and who therefore. given 10 the OF
| the young girl. But after awhile, as health came
back he Induced her night to leave the convent
| and cross the moor aud make her way with him to
| Paris, often called the Gay" There she lost her
| good name, her purity, all that made life fair, and
after years had passed she cept back to die within
sound of the convent bell. She fell the steps OF
the convent and there to open the door Ut
once her Office to be the porrcssl, not such
she when she left It, young. bright GIRL but as
she would have been had she remained there and be
came pure and noble matTon. And there, side by
side met the poor wreck OF sin. face face as the
story tells u.s. with Mary the Mother, who had kept
her Place and filled her post so that her shame and
disgrace had never been known, and she glidcd
back into her position and filled that post until she
| died, knowing of her disgrace. The real con
rasted with the dcal How graphic and how pure
picture of what Is now probably passing through
| the hearts and minds Of thousands Of people as
speak, the contrast Of what they with what they
might have been, their actual life with the plan and
| the purpose Of God.
Turn for a moment to Romans viii. Q. and note
/ cndfn NnyV will mats md DAYS n
| regret The life that Is gone is like water spilled
| upon the ground; it cannot be gathered up. But
If are conscious OF failure UP TO now II we have
yielded ourselves absolutely to the son of God, whose
moulding hands reach down from Heaven to fashion
| men, there is not the least doubt but that II we
| can once get hold OF the true principle OF living,
may begin to build mp from the wreck of the past
| and live on the plan and the pattern OF God,
which may yet reach up toward His perfect Ideal.
May God. by his spirit, consummate TINS. Now ue
| first and most important thing Is TO seek Gods pat
| tern. When we start building. are disposed 10
call in a committee to get the plans OF the archl-
tects. But Moses did not get bis plan from g, an
architect; Sc went up alone 10 the summit oi the
ledge Of rock enclosed by a parape' OF alt nSy4
in IN which God h.rs dwell. as So, forth p"'i to
Moses perfectly by model, the Tabernacle which h.
was to erect. 1t WAS woven out OF the light OUT o
there a perfectly exquisite thing, not material but
spiritual like one OF those fairy visions that you see
|
es,hly hand the cords twisted by no mortal touch
the stakes driven by no man energy or strengu,
there 1t stood and Moses looked around ana saw II
in all its beauty. and then he came down TO repeat H.
/ do not think, beloved friends that God ever takes
cepuon of our lives at once but have learned that
God gives his plan BIT at time and tina, as W.
do each bit by itself in Ills grace aud by Ills strength
we are really achieving His purpose and tiat we VIII
the whole by doing each part. We VII bIla a TP
The details every day. II is as II the mother ana hef
child were wording together upon some dress ana tc
/ q pINn
says Child hem this stitch thi,s The Chd turn
TO the mother and says WHY ana the mother snS'
you to do It. and do it quickly ana We'll nacG
and another piece and then another piece and the
child all day Is working away without any distinct
end Of the day the mother takes this bit from
the first hour and this bit from the last hour and
and with her deft hand. She weaves them all 70
gcher realize her perfect plan and she says [hd
say brothers and sisters, God pus into your hyss
bit Of weaving to do now some work to 90 tn men
S SH T Ss%sl to there
a erect T ana G DO not s rsze aat we do
But have got TO do moment by moment wns' dave i,y
when we are entering glory God will take Us aside ana
he will show te perfectly symmerlcal whole wn0d
qss Ses prn % Ss power Sy o the spirit
Now vii jus speak for moment here in order E,hT
am | to know Gods pattern ] suppose that 1oa
to G, rs t0o or our s.nde anas s. @ 0 Ne
must MOI get Into the way Of thinking that VIC are
constantly to walt or sone i dene IRON To answer the
NINA NINA " as to ' Cod Will COD docs not work in
miracle unless the miracle i, absolutely needed ana
tie Impulse and Inspiration Of HI spirit for right,
mndea ana r ,ose II one Of the Rshtes
faculties with which endowed, ard GOD is Tot
NH SfS Won turn 70 two texts which ubtanate
what say samuel yo5r A "dmsn II Leave sd y %
Judgment therefore 10 Him. and ask Him to speak TO
you through your Sanctcd common. bnt tnrrc
are no Doubt, cases in which we have to IeceVc
direct impulse, and think that you VIII generally
find that those definite cases OF mpmlse CONE s T1
lind rs we live near to Him, those impulses to be
reliable when hey concur on 0ne sag WIN TSrre are
hrss nf Which SSns sway 6c go So Gs of d nnd
Maro ddtt Of circ"mstanees and these three
Dc Dc not concar a@d yoa, arc not s s"Te.
II You throw the responsibility God God VIII make
you understand i y"q wait II you don't prow Kn2 ES
responsibility Of making yeu know on Goo. ,,,,Io
II have sometimes said that If had some n,tle
noon. ana the elder Of them was able 70 Understand
me- she could find her way TO the spot where b was hs
the least quick in Intelligence who came 10 me:
and said Papa me don't know me c a., onc come
SIT lmee and would put tn my ,h hr " rbov
her and would say Gs Jq No 4 ne. meet and Where
we picked the first prmroses in the cprng Gas .,n ii
there And nd 1s Of not hs awake e ~oUd
| Father will come TO the garden steps on SatmraaS
| and carry Won there his shoulder Ana II ue
little one could not understand my talk woulo prna
that child to the distant rendezvous But YOU n,Ts
child YOU have worried and frcttcd because you couu
not under, stand your Fathers speech, you nave 0N
| ia remember that He who came 10 THOMAS Whcn
| Thomas could not understand His speech sh'"cI
| Thomas the unmlstakablc marks OF the woilan anu
said Man II you can understand any tnmg yoI mn
| understand that so God will give All unihlstihaDe
| knowledge OF His will to His child. ,...
want talk little more about these circumstances res,
because this has been "a prophetic revelation mo
many life OF how to live used TO say h h, ,oD
smoke in the Bible and God spoke IN history
| and God spoke in nature but never realized uhtn
| comparatively lately that there was not "a single
| Instance or episode in my life which did
M. hring with Il some word from my Fathers house