The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-09-06
The Greenacre Congress.

0REENAcRE. ELIOT, Me, Aug. %, 1895.
The Greenacre lecture course proceeds
with undated interest. All the accommo-
cations in the inn and its vicinity, are
crowded with guests. Mrs. Mary A. Liver
more as widely loved and honored as she
Is widely known, drew great crowd In and
around the auditorium tent to hear her
speak on Life and its Possibilities. De-
spite her seventy-fve years, she stood erect
and strong and spoke for more than an hour
without notes and with the burning elo-
quence OF the true Orator-one who has a
tan idea of greatness which was expounded
and lived by Jesus, the Christ. His
rule for attaining it was, "Whosoever will
be chief among you, let him be your
servant" and He proved its practicability.
Mrs. Livermore believes that such life is
one OF the greatest JOY, and repudiates the
prevalent idea that Jesus was man of sor-
row and suffering. Service is the secret OF
sovereignty. Literally and truly, the only
way to gain your life is to lose it. A life of
true, unselfsh service will bring greater
rewards and happiness than one of selfseek
ing. In judging men, we should judge
them by their possibilities and not by their
performances. Mrs. Livermore said she
had often been puzzled to know where the
creeds of the churches came from, for,
though great bible student, she had meyer
10 Gt,1 tIa,s, IT, h.
the Founder of christianity. But no matter
how few or how many articles of belief they
have, the important point is that not a
single one Of them shall run counter to the
fundamental laws as stated by Jesus--love
to God and love to man. If q man says to
you, L can love my fellow men because l
can sympathlze with them but l cannot
love God because l cannot understand what
he is; then say to him that God is the con-
densed name for our ideals of all that is
good. Love Of God is simply love of the
good. If, on the other hand, man says
can love God, but my fellow men are so
wicked and repulsiye that 1 cannot love
them, say to him every man has divine pos
sibilities, and that it is our highest privilege
to help furnish the environment which will
develop the highest possibilities of human
life.
The address by Ralph Waldo Urine.
Living upon the Heights" was an inspira-
ton to all. He said that here and there all
over the world, rare souls have escaped
from the disease, laden valleys of material
ity, and assembled to the mountainous of
spirituality, where health, joy, peace free
dom and purity shine Respondent. What
they have proven possible of attainment is
equally possible for us all. We need but
to arise and go to our Father. To do this,
man must know himself as spiritual be-
ing, made in the image and likeness of God,
who is spirit. Mr.. Urine added that he
heard one Of our most noted writers and
thinkers say, recently. MEN talk of having
soul. l have no soul. am soul.
have body" and this represents the abso-
lutte truth. Because of our non-recognition
of this, our true selves have been the slaves
of our physical selves-we have been giving
our chief time and attention to the body and
called that living. But as we come TO real
ize what we truly are, it brings us into
rapport with the universe. Great laws and
forces before unknown reveal themselves to
us, intuitions become keener and their