The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-10

for you at unjust wages-unjust not
according to supply and demand, but
according to the demand of Gods
justice in you; and on the workman's
part, to give honest work, just to what
your thought believes to be good. 1t
is the temper of justice in all things
that we want in every work, in every
motive, in the work of the intellect,
in the evolution of the spirit life
which we live alone and in secret
with God.
What has been said of the hallow-
ing of justice by being just in life,
and at every point in life, is said to
be also and with the same severity of
doing and motive of all the other
qualities which we conceive in the
character of God, of truth, of pity, of
righteousness, of doing kindness.
The proper way to hallow them is to
be their image. 1t is tremendous
indictment of our daily life to recog-
nize that this is true: it is tremend-
GUS call upon us to ask us to fulfil it.
1t leaves no moment of the day, no
shred OF our work, no motive of the
heart, no act or speech at home or
abroad, without its aspiration, with
out its check. But the loneliness and
the glory of the thing to be attained
ought to enable us to face the indict-
ment, and to obey with happiness
the call. If we are true to the ideal
held in ''Hallowed be thy name," we
finally become that which we hallow:
we become at one with God, his char
acter, his life and rapture ours.
And there are two other aspects of
the matter. We may hallow God
and his character as seen in nature,
in that part of the universe we feel
through our senses first, and then in
the soul; and we may hallow him as
we see him living in humanity.
Not the victims of our moods, we
would feel that in nature which is not
us, and, losing ourselves, possess a
lasting joy in nature, the Eternal Or
der, and the Infinite Beauty.
'Put off thy shoes from thy feet, for
the place whereon thou standest is
holy ground"-that should be the at
titude of the soul while we stand by
the sea, or on the moor, or under the
woodland places that we love. And,
if you would lift the whole into infin-
ity, see and hear what mortal eye and
ear cannot distinguish = the Spirit
below the material, the River of Life
below all life, the Love whose smile
kindles the universe your spirit
go forth from yourself, feel the spirit
of thought and love which is moving
everywhere, then, in this passage of
the spirit into touch with the Spirit
of God, you will hallow his character,
and fulfil this prayer in all your life
with nature.
Hallow Gods character in man
Hallow him in all the truth which
men of science have taught us, and
hallow God in them. Hallow him in
all the beauty which the artists of
the world have created for us, and
hallow the Divine Life in them. Hal
low him in all the noble work of law
and government and progress which
men have wrought out for man, and
hallow God in the men. History,
art, and science will not be less noble
but more noble, when you link them
to an everlasting character, in whom
all the work and all the men are ever
lasting.
Hallow his character in all those
who have blessed and redeemed the
world by love and holiness, in the
great prophets, in the saints and mar
tyrs, in the thousand unknown, whose
gentle love has been garden of
flowers where the troubled have
found comfort.
And if you see them as the reveal
ers of God, as charged with his char
acter, you will be saved from the base
and carping criticism which prefers
to dwell on their mistakes and fail
ures,-is pleased by discovery of the
evil. There are those who, like the
fresh fly, settle on the sore place, and
blow it into the corruption of their
own jealous and envious hearts. They
do grievous wrong to man, and they
double the disease in their own soul.
It is never useful to manifest the evil
and the failure; it is always useful to
manifest their opposite. Goodness,
being manifested, enchants and al
lures, and at the same time makes
clear the evil;' and, in the light of
the goodness you make manifest, the
evil dies. Not only in the
good hallow Gods character, hallow
it also in the evil. In them the divine
lies hidden, Below their evil the