St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-28
We Build Our Worship, Yet
We ALI Hope for
Peace.
The Inventor and the Far
mer's Daughter Have the
Lower Ideal.
We Seek the Events That
Always Cast Shadows
Before.

ing. The service was strengthened by
the singing of Miss Selma Washneck,
who rendered two selections in most
acceptable manner. The preacher, as
text, quoted from Isaiah, including the
words: 1.-THE wolf also shall dwell with
the lamb and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid. And little chlld
shall lead them. The earth
shall be full of the knowledge Of the
Lord as the waters cover the sea-" The
preacher said it was his intention TO
plead for the ideal in national; that he
claimed that no matter what appear
anceS were people demanded an ideal;
that nothing less would ever be salts
factory to mankind.
And the underlying reason is in the
nature of things. And. being iii the
nature of things, it begins at the lowest
point. Here at the lowest point MI.
Spencer has shown that even Ill the
Invention of q steamers screw for pro-
pelsion, or in the lever that drives an
engine, or in the projectile that the Bal
timore sends across the foamy water
against the walls of the fort,
There Is an Ideal.
Yes. there is an imaginary lever that IS
perfect; there is steamer in the mind
Of the inventor that goes without frlc-
ton; there is a projectile that meets no
opposition of resistance: there Is
planet that does not have to overcome
friction Every inventor considers TINS
an ideal condition, and then strives IN
every way to overcome it,
Now rise from purely mech anical
things and you will see the same con-
dition adhere in larger things.
A band of rough men are lying around
a campfire at night; above them tower
ing mountains with the winds singing
through their tops, below them the river
singing its cheerful song. And as they
watch the fitful glow of the lire one
reads the story of little Nell. And as
the men hear the story a GREATNESS IN
terest is developed. Why? Because they
have an ideal humanity: they do not
want to feel that her suffering has no
relief, her SORROW no surceaSe.
And the farmers daughter who goes
down the dewy lane in the morning TO
bring the cows. and, catching glimpse
of the yellow Glove vine" pauSeS long
enough to gather it into Der hand and
throw it over her head, repeating as she
does 80 the words of the charm-haS
she not the vision of some knightly
youth who will ride up to the place and
lake her away to live happy and con-
tented life forever after? And all of US
while we smile at the hope OF this girl
In the dewY lane throwing her "love
vine" and singing her charm-haye not
we some place away back in our mem,
DRY that is to us what that island
of Imagination was to Iaylef-
that island Long Ago" where
we bury our treasures that
. H.;
there are fragments of song that nobody
sings-hopes of gallant knights and fair
ladies never more to become truths
lutes unswept, harps without strings,
cottages by the greenest of valleys, by
rivers with waters clear as crystal?
And we have exchanged them-these
dreams for headaches and heartacheS,
and aneties, and burdens. Still, 1t was
true to nature we should have these
dreams. They were dreams, no doubt,
but under them was that greatest OF all
truths, "Hope springs eternal III the
human breast"
The Impossible Stands Ont,
but somewhere and sometime the i'm
possible will be true for mankind.
There are certain events that cast
shadows before. There are ideas that
are ''in the air." And the first thing
that is in the air today is the fact that
we so often lose sight of-the fact that
all our national advancement comes
through the Impractical man, whose
ideas are considered visionary, who is
himself ridiculed, and who would never
he looked upon as the Moses gifted with
power to lead people into the prom
ised land. Of these with Mr.. Lowell
we may say:
Count me DER earth's chosen heroes;
they are neil who stood alone" and the
reason why they stood alone was be
cause they were endowed With the glft
OF genius. And the man who is en-
dowed with this gift of genius is man
who is not formed by the opinions OF
his associates, nor of the prevalent and
organized ideas, nor OF the common
feelings that fill the air.
Throughout this sermon L have kept
before your minds the fact that it was
natural for men to
Believe the Impossible.
If needed to further illustrate this
at the close, would send you to work
of that man of genius, but still skep-
tic, Prof. Proctor, and ask you to re-
member that he based his opinion that
Isalah was superbly gifted genius on
sled peace instead of war. the myr-
tie tree instead of the briar, and the
reign of righteousness and the Prince
of Peace. But a skeptic like Proctor
would hardly be expected to be-
lieve this when he sees only
preparations for war; for we
are preparing dynamite guns, we
are sheathing cruisers-where then is
the promise? 1t is the voice of God In
The heart of humanity. We do not see
the fruition, but still we do believe
somehow that the sword will be beaten
into the plowshare. that fir shall come
up instead of the bramble, and the
myrtle instead of the bfiar, and that
good will supplant evil. No one can
perhaps give an adequate reason, and
there is no need of it. Men will go
through the years that are before us as
they did in the years that are past, be-
lieyIng Ill God and the triumph of good
pess, and the very fact that we must of
necessity believe it, is evidence to some
Of us that it is good for US to hope for
the impossible in lines of our life and
experience, for we feel that somehow
and somewhere the impossible will be
come the clear and attaInable truth.