The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-10


ent duty. Tonight your hearts are
full of hope; the future is illumined;
you think lightly of the obstacles be-
setting your path toward success; OF
the struggle that must be waged. The
soft yielding vessel has been shaped
upon the potter's wheel perhaps with
some skill, assuredly with earnest in
tent; if the plastic material has been
well tempered we fear the less the
trial of the morrow when the not
furnace flame is to test the heart and
try the frame; to stamp with honor
or with shame these vessels made OF
clay Look forward; guided by the
best counsel you can secure, ana
above all by the promptings OF your
own prayerful hearts trustful ana
humble. Lay out your course OF traVel
and of work This decided upon, look
to the ground beneath your feet, and
lose no time in speculations concern
ing futurity.
stood once on a dark winter night
by a railway track at a station wait
ing for the train that was to carry
me home to shelter and warmth.
storm had been raging for days; and
not a few fears had been expressed
that railway travel would be impeded.
But promptly on time the train
reached the hating place, and Whlle
the water tank was being filled and
some adjustment of cars made, L
ventured to ask the engineer how ne
liked his occupation, how he regarded
the dangers of his calling, partlcu-
larly how he felt on such night,
when the powers of destruction
seemed ali at large. His answer was
a lesson long to be remembered in the
philosophy of life and duty. Look,
said he, 1.-The headlight illumines the
track for a hundred yards or more,
so much of my life is clear. perhaps
miles ahead the way may be op-
structed. the bed washed out, the
bridge swept away, but l try TO cover
the hundred yards of lighted road,
and before ] have done so announcer
part is clearly shown. And traVel as
fast as I may the light is always
ahead, for the rest l must trust 10
Providence" I hardly expected to find
so able a teacher in the grimy diver;
but I took my seat in the coach to
ponder over the lesson, quite content
to leave my safety in the hands Oh
one. whose soul was so full of faith
Faith? All. that was an example OF
The pure faith of which the theolo-
gian talks, for which we pray NO
blind Indifference that may be naught
but rashness under another name, put
trusting hope, and unfailing contl-
dence in an over-ruling power in
whose hands rests the safety of all.
Ride on, part of the path is clear, be
sure thou art on the right road; be
sure thy duty tells thee to proceed,
and the darkness OF the years deepest
night will be dissipated as fast as
thou canst travel.
That such faith is essential to true
regard of life and a proper perform
ance of its duties is now very gener-
ally recognized. Any effort that in
creases such trust betters our entire
life 1t has been said that lntellec-
tual development tends to quench all
faith, and to exalt the mind above
the ,oul. Such i. not development
or progress, but retrogression. If we
designate such training by the name
education, we do but misuse the
term. 4 true education is that which
develops the entire organism; and of
this the spiritual part claims full
recognition in any scheme of train
ing. An unsymmetrical development
must result. in deformity; and de-
formity is always unnatural, hideous.
whether it produce an unsightly
growth of muscle and the dwarfing of
spirit and mind, or the reverse. In
tellectual power unaccompanied, I'M
tempered by the element of spiritual
life may be the attribute of a giant,
but giants are monStroSitieS
literally and figuratively. The
influences of religion are as
necessary to the perfect development
of man, as is the dew essential to the
growth of the plant and the sun
shine to the ripening and mellowing
of fruit. True religion is a powerful
educator And what is true religion
in he OF
because it is mine, not yours because
it is yours; not the proclaiming of
orthodoxy because in accordance with
my views, to the exclusion of hetero-
doXy because not mine; but any form
of spiritual belief founded in sincerity,
and applied to the growth of the
faculties and the perfecting of the
soul The scholar who is SO engrossed
in the pursuit of knowledge of men
and things that he has no time nor
inclination to. heed the cravings of the
spirit for food, without which it can
be regarded as wise. So too, the
spiritually minded, if neglectful of
physical and mental demands will
become no less an example of de-
formity; he will grow into an en-
thusiast, a zealOt, bigot, deprived
by his own indiscretion of the power
to judge and even the capacity of in
lSlllSGnl WI
What man calls secular learning,
and what ne knows as religion are
hand-maidens engaged in reciprocal
service. Religion mingles the sweets
of humility, the fragrance of prayer,
and the nourishing elements of faith,
with the draughts of knowledge,
which but for such addition were in
toxicating, and would act more as
stimuli than as food. Learning which
comes from the cultivation of judg>
ment and the development of mind
power, strengthens and supplements
the ministrationS of her sister, curb
ing the tendency to unbalanced zeal,
removing the excrescences of abnor-
NAL growth; pruning and shaping
the tree of each ones life. 1t has been
said that higher education is not con-
ducive to religious growth; that the
indications of science, and the specu-
lations of philosophy tend to weaken
the foundations of faith; and even
that those teachings argue the nom
existence of an over-ruling power
which man calls God. Search and see
if such extravagant views are held by
the truly wise; they are usually the
words of the unfortunate few who
have mistaken knowledge for wisdom,
the form for the substance the word
of the tongue for the power that
moves it. knowledge and wisdom,
far from being one have oft times no
ASl,fferer fsssered