The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-01-03

why the longer experience man mas In
speaking the harder il becomes for him.
1 heard Senator Hoar once say that it
was great deal harder for him TO make
o public speech now than it was when
he was sophomore in college. Strange?
Not at all Because the thoughts that
are in the man Of go have gotten below
the memory; they have gone down be-
low the consciousness; they lie deep in
the soul, and he does not know where TO
find them, and yet, when the occasion
comes, when the eyes are fixed ON him,
when the audience is stirring his heart,
he draws unconsciously on tho secret
reservoir within him, but which he did
not know was within him. So every
time he comes trembling before the nu.
dience, and every day breads more to
speak.
There is o hidden life in all Of MS,
| and it makes us what we are. 1t is this
hidden life that chisels the face, that
puts the strange expression on it. The
hidden life of sensuality marks the line
ON tho outer life. The man may never
have indulged in sensuality; he may
have been held back from sensuality by
fear, but if, deep down in his heart,
there is the sensual nature, the sensual
nature shows itself in his face. You
know that. You women know it, at all
events. You have seen men whom you
would not care TO travel alone with i'll
q car, and yet you know nothing against
them save what is written in their
A,,l
are some faces that carry in their lines
q benediction, a blessing, peace. They
do not know it. You cannot say their
faces are beautiful--put them in mar
BILE, and you do not care for them-but
the soul shines through. This is tho Sc
cret of those strange attractions and re-
pulsions which we all sometimes feel.
We come into the presence of one man
and we are instinctively repelled; we
try to put the feeling away as a preiu.
dice, but we cannot. We come into the
presence of another man, and we are
drawn to him, we know not why, and
yet we are drawn to him. It is not all
prejudice; the intuitive soul of one per-
ceives the secret soul of the other. Wo-
men and children, it is often said, are
good judges of human nature. They do
not discriminate; they do not analyze;
they cannot tell you why, but they are
sensitive, and their nature responds to
the subconscious life of those with
whom they come in contact.
The Deepest Faith.
Now, it is possible to have this sub
conscious life, this hidden life, nodded
by Christ, by God. And this is the
highest type of Christian experience. 1t
is when this hidden, subconscious life
lays hold Of truth, and truth lays hold
Of 1t, that creeds pass into faiths. The
difference between a belief and faith
is this: Belief is something still exter-
nal to me. Is there God? Yes, be-
lieve there IS a God, but still God is
outside Of me, and so think OF him. Is
there God? This is no longer ques.
tion. God has entered into my very
soul; he is part Of my subconscious
life. Even if try to get rid Of him l
cannot; he is woven into the very struc-
ture Of my being. My belief is no Ion
ger belief; !t il faith. The man who
gives a reason for his faith is by no
means always the one who has the
strongest faith.
There are many Christians like the
old sainted lady who replied to her
nephew just home from college when he
said, Aunt Sally, how do you know
there is God?' "Why-why--why-
know there is God" God was not
outside of her at all. He was no longer
something external, TO be looked upon,
reasoned about, argued concerning; he
had entered into her subconscious life.
and just because she could not give the
reason Of her faith her faith was deep.
The deepest faith is the faith that en-.
ters into the life that is below the line
Of argument below all questioning.
So our moral life is deepest and best
when 1t comes below conscious volition;
when we do what we do not because
we try, but because we cannot help it.
When tho boy says to the mother, ~
did not think" the mother does not
know exactly how to answer the excuse,
but the real answer is this: No child
has come to perfeetness Of nature until
he does right when he does not think.
So long as you have to stop and think
to do right you are very imperfectly
educated. Two boys were going up the
stairs Of Cincinnati factory. There
was pail of naphtha on the landing.
One boy threw his lighted cigarette into
the pail, thinking it water. There was
a flash of upleaping fame. One of the
boys ran down stairs into the street to
escape. The other boy ran up stairs to
warn women who were working there,
that they might escape. Neither boy
thought. Each boy acted instinctively.
One boy was coward in his subcon-
scious life; the other boy was hero in
his suboonscious life, and neither of
them knew it, We are not what we try
to be; we are not what we think we
are; we are what we are down below
the line Of our thought, below our con-
soious life purposes.
The Secret of Peace.
This Is the real secret Of the highest
life. 1t Is not to be Christian endeav-
orer, to be always endeavoring. It Is
30 to endeavor that by and by you will
live below the line of endeayor, and
life will fow spontaneously out Of this
hidden life with Christ in God. This is,
what the Bible means by saying W,
must be born again. 1t is not enough
TO make good resolutions, to live life
ruled by resolutions, a life regulated