The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-07-12

faculty and part OF man pein III: lss
his hands might feel, his eyes might
sec, his ears might hear, and ms as
awakened soul might admire. At
another time, to His nnambitlous and
devoted friends, He had annointed
Himself as the Light Of the world,
the Way, The Truth and the ! Llte.
70 this iller, the half-bred philoso-
phcr, this, my be, literary man ), or
scientist. concerned only to keep his
place and not offend great Cesar:
this seeker Of the popular favor, this
political hypocrite, no response was
y,ouchsafed. # would have been IN
equal keeping with his character and
more sensible to have asked, What is
honestly The earnest seeker after
truth has begun its attainment when
he knows in his own heart what it Is
to behonest. Truth was never ear.
nestly and unsclfshly sought in vain.
Men are very apt, in this world to
get lust what they go after. 1t is
almost enough for the average man.
in answer to the great question to say;
Truth is what s'is so,'' and falsehood
Is what "is not SO" Incubation on
those simple eggs will hatch and
cherish a full hedgcd answer.
TO Pilates question a great french
ulpit orator has given q grand rcE
ply. Massilon o;'cns an epiphany
sermon as follows;
s"1'rnth, that Light Of Heavon'
figured by the star, which, en- this
day, appears to the Magi, is the only
thing, here below worthy of the cares
and the researches of man. 1t alone
is tile light Of our mind, the rule OF
our heart. the source Of our solid Joys
the tsuaAat;on Of our hopes, the eonso,
lation Of our fears, the alienation OF
! evils, the cure for all cur Affections
it alone is the refuge of The good con.
science, and the terror Of the bad; the
Inward punishment Of vice the in;
ternal recompense otyilstHn!e: II i F9loonf {
immortalizes those who have loyed
Il, and renders illustrioHs the chains
of those who suffer for 1t, attracts
public honors to the ashes of its mar
tyrs and defenders, and bostows re-
spcciibility on the AFFECTION and the
poverty Of those who have quilted all
to follow it: lastly, it alone inspires
magnanimous thoughts, forms hero.
icai men. souls Of whom the world is
unworthy. sages alone worthy Of thai
name. All Or attention ought
therefore, to be confined to know 1T
all our.talents to. manifest it; all oul
zeal to defend it; in men we ought
then to4ook only for truth, to have
no wish of pleasing them but by
truth, to esteem in them only truth
and to be, resolved that. they shall
never please rs but by i; in a word.
1T would appear that u should have
rcaly to shoN. itself to be loved; and
+tEat it.shows to ourselves in order to
teach: is to. ourselves. # y +
fyet us'lcnder gloryto the truth, and y
Fin order that it MAY" deliver us, Jet
ua fs}icjously receive, it." 49,.
+ The first act Of Gfeetioa was the
sublime order:-Let there be highland
there was light: Tie last; and high
est eff. to man was the gift Of God
the Divine Nature manifesst in the
flesh; The: capstonc of crcations the
bringing in Of Everlasting Righte-
BUSINESS; the amounting of Tie Most
Holy.-full fight and truth,-in Chs
person of the Savior Of mankind; in
whom arc held the treasurers of all
knowledge. !, To whom every knee
slral II bow, every tongue shall swear
-Richmond Times.