The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-08-30

prompt and easy anathena. The
Imagination helps the other side to
say the best that can be said for
itself, and is more anxious to help
than to hinder.
Church unity is now in the air.
and let US all hope for much from
it; but it will stay in the air
until there is greater employment
of the imagination than there has
been hitherto on the part of all of
Us. In Kidd's Social Evolution, I"
there is brought out the failure of
science to deal scientifically with
religious phenomena because. while
1t has very patiently dealt with ali
other phenomena of the human
race. 1t has very promptly and i'm.
patiently relegated religious phe-
nomena to the region of fancy or
superstition. But religion persists,
and therefore its persistence must
be accounted for in some worthier
way; it is worth looking into again.
So, with the different types of
Christian experience which thrive
and continue in spite ofour finding
them absurd, we must find some
weightier explanation than that of
whim by which to account for them.
In short, we can do nothing with
them until we have felt something
of them, as their adherents have,
and then perhaps we shall p55 1 wa, want / t
to do away with them.
Imagination helps us to love,
and we are never never so near loving as
y, we have really put ourselves
lll NC anothers'S place, and realized
how many things reasonably en-
dear it to him, and how hard it is
for him to get out of it. Church
unity needs men who can say good
things for the other side and the
bad for ones own. If all the de-
nominations could do this for lit
tie, the cause would be helped. 1t
takes no less imagination to see our
selves as others see us than to see
others as they really are. We
have to approach ourselves imagi-
Love is unlikely to
thrive without a good deal of i'm
agination, it will be a forced and
doctrinal and dutiful loving with.
out it. 1t takes a vastly greater
soul to see the good points of an
opponent than to see the bad ones.
This is no easy requirement. 1t
comes only by prayer and fasting.
1t demands the best and purest in
US, and so we call it religious
faculty. Imagination is the intel
lect at work on the side of the
heart, as it always ought to work.
All this recent and painstaking
search into the life of Jesus has
had its root in the demand of the
imagination to see the world as he
saw it, to get his consciousness
about men and God, to get back
to himself. What was once a re-
buke, to say that man was mag
NATIVE, is now almost a requisite
and commentator. 1t does not
deal with what never existed SO
much as with what existed at
distance from us. 1t is the great
discriminating faculty.
But shall we try to put ourselves
into the place of everybody? Are
there not some things that must
be denounced at once and on sight?
No, doubt; but, on the whole. no
man can denounce so successfully
as the one who has gone through
an opinion, root and branch, and
sympathetically. sympathy is
the greatest authority we ever
speak with. 1t is strange how
hard many find it be eloquent I'M
less they are indignant. The elo-
Cuence of love has never been put
to the full test of its possibilities.
The worst punishment you can de-
pict is 1.-THE wrath of the Lamb"
and you cannot do it until YOU
have experienced some of that life.
The denunciations of love are the
only final denunciations. This
eloquence is slow to kindle as we
are slow to learn, but it's glow lasts
longer. The man who uses his
Imagination has the world open to
him; he will never find life effete
nor his brothers possibilities play
ed out. The mornings dawn full
of poss bile discovery for, he Goes