The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-04

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| OF many minds is turned to illumine
| every corner OF the world, how can you so
| we'll set toward the fortunes OF men as py
| bringing your art and skill, your genius
and your strength to the delineatlon OF
| such living as will make your state a
| principality OF the kingdom OF heaven!
| In this maelstrom of changes and compe-
| titions that surorund you, he part OF the
| hero is TO choose that line in life which
will give the largest scope for cleansing
! politics OF lies, puipits OF cowardice,
| trade of cupidity and literature OF sensu-
| ality.
| line. Society will laugh at me, they VINO
use policy will outreach me. Or course;
] that is why you should do these things,
! for that is
YOUR OPENING FOR HERoIsM.
Where are the college men that dare to
fail? Is there not room for heroes? Where
are the persons in every walk OF society
who understand that they cannot be over
reached il they reach toward God? Where
| are they who believe that God never al
| lowed a man to fail who worked for Him?
Away with all this parleying with sell
fish spirit that leads young man TO con-
! suit his deprayed taste and his ambition
! and his hopes of making money. Are you
| not aware that man with the capacity
OF Jonathan Edwards might have stood
| at the head OF the bar, might have shaken
senates, might have rolled up great feesY
| You know that Richard :. Storrs forsook
| the law because ne believed IL better To De
loved than TO be winner? Do not under
| stand me as saying that man cannot be
lawyer and hero at the same time,
| but understand me thus: Choose the law,
! il you choose 1t, because you believe That
in il you can glorify God more than else
where; choose il because you aim within
that profession to right the wrongs OF So
ciety. Do that with yourself that you
an - ..olxs nd
you had done.
To the member OF the household that is
Christless, circle in society that Is
vapid and idle and selfish let me say:
Come out from that sef-dissstsified Ca
pernaumi You are longing for heroism.
Show il i'm a well-deseryed attempt for
contempt for an idle life. The main OBJ
iections TO the miserable occupations OF
fashiona BILE life is that they shut out the
time necessary TO be Christlike human
being. Don't accept a place on some
committee and have your name printed
in a pamphlet that is sent to the chari-
table, and consider that Christian hero
ism. The hospitals have their friendless,
loveless patients. Befriend them, love
them, not as a member of committee,
but as a member OF the human species,
and as
THE IMITAToR OF JESUS CHRIST.
! The houseohd in which you live Is, we
will say, unsympathetic. Let spotless
life steady support by you of every
7 good object that is mentioned, calm
disgust with playing with sins, and the
/ fash of righteous spirit in you-let
\ these things mark you in the homo, and
live there. conscious-loysl, spite OF
brother and sister and lover. How much
do you believe in the righteousness OF
5 Jesus? Some have believed In it the
worth OF their arms and eyes; some have
parted with their tongues, and have
r braved the world crop-eared for con-
= science.
cling TO them, and sought TO hold them
back from the heroic, "What mean you?
! am ready, not TO be bound only, but
D also TO die for the name OF the Lord
. Jesus. But we have faften ON an age
when people wait twenty years because
D they are afraid to be examined by a
church committee for mem bership OF
? the church; and in the light of burning
4 martyrs who lived out the violence of fire
and the howls OF mobs, there is many q
| moderner who doesn't dare to call him
p self Christian!
WE MUST HAVE A NEW PURITANIsM.
Is the State SO pure that it needs nc
, | political martyrs? Is ii 80 single-eyed
, | that il will vote for a man because he
has noble great character? Is there nc
temptation for tho candidates to dcdgei
, Does the aspirant for Office not find
, means 10 come AZ the heroic and some
times lose the office? l want to live to
see the day, and expect to see ii, when
. the noblest wise man will be given the
power. Whether that ever comes true
will depend on your appreciation of the
heroic, ana your obligation to live it.
/ live for for the day when books will
be written purely with the aim OF rails
ing their readers TO love of truth and
purity; and 1t will be deemed a horrible
thing to play the low passion of men
under the specious excuse that the writer
is drawing true picture. There is room
in authorship for heroism, and the re-
cent upward trend of Howells is one OF
the brightest bescors OF better days.
There is room in your college, your
home, your profession for as much hero
ism as your human nature can compass,
and the practice OF it can't beg in too
soon.
Have you considered that God has,
somewhere in the course of the years, a
test waiting for every one OF us. 1t may
be in this world, or another God asks
some men early, others late, how much