Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-11

velopment of the child life is the exercise
| OF faith In parents, teachers and truths
| taught. It is true in mature life and i'm
the common affairs of every day The
| farmer sows his seed, the merchant con.
| ducts his business, the scientists his ex-
periments, and each exercises faith in per
sons and laws.
All great enterprises illustrate tho same
truth. The men who have been most
| conspicuous In great achievements have
been so because of the greatness of their
faith. The apostle was right. Faith is
the victory that overcomes the world.
| For what is it to overcome the world but
to employ its forces Of whatever kind for
the better and nobler DEVELOPMENT of an
ideal character
This is faith. 1t creates an ideal and
seeks to realize it. The difficulties, temp
| tations and sorrows of the world are trans
inuted into this better life. The posses
sion OF faith Is then the only genuine sue
cess in life. While faith is personal, and
its victory is in the silence of the SOUL
when the hour of action comes, it will be
the source of power. The man who sees
no high destiny. and cannot read In him
self or in nature greater possibility for
himself than the drudgery of sensuous
life, will never reach anything higher
than that
Faith has three characteristics. 1t sees
the invisible. A horse or a dog may have
as keen sight as man, but man sees
what neither of them sees, because he has
faith as well as sight. Mans conception
of moral principles and acceptance of God
are the fruits of his faith which is able to
see what sight alone could never discover
Faith also sees the distant The near
appeals to the senses, the remote to faith
1t Is the distant too that most affects the
life Whoever can project himself sufli-
GENTLY into the future to form an ideal of
greatness, goodness or honor that wildly
affects him will not be likely to be over
come by present passions or qualification.
Like the sailor who guides his course by
the stars, or the traveller who makes his
way by some distant mountain top, how
ever much the direction of his road may
change, the man of faith directs his cour-
age by his ideal, or by some great purpose
or work which appeals to his Imagination
Faith has to do also with the abiding
The near and the visible are the change
able. The Interchangeable are the invisible
principles, and these remain while the
things change with every month or year
There are myriad forms of force, but force
itself is one and invisible. The principles
of moral life are as immutablc as God
himself is immutable. TO sight they seem
to change. The standard of honor, jus
tice. truth are not the same always and
everywhere. TO faith however, they are
the same always. There is the absolute
law of honor, truth and justice, which
abidcs forever. Whoever holds to the
abiding will conquer the sensuous and
temporary. Faith must mean victory
over the world. 1t subdues it by the very
nature which it represents. Faith can
not die while man lives 1t will not die
because he lives. The man of faith is the
world conqueror.
The music for the service was of high
order. The programme was as follows
William Conant Organist.
Anthem, "Hark, What Means Those Holy
Voices" Verdi
baritone Solo, Dr. Morse and Choir
Hymn. Choir
Trio. saviour Breathe an Evening Blessing
lGdds
Mrs. Morse and Misses Haney and Lapham.
Offertory, Violin and Organ, Schumsnn
Messrs. Morse and Conant.
Rock Of Ages, Choir and Congregation
The visitors that have already arrived
are: Mr.. Arthur r. Craig. secretary Y
NJ C. A. of Waterville; Mrs. Cbas c.
Burrill of Ellsworth; Miss Emma Davis
of White Rock Mrs. Frost of Belfast; Mr.
Perley Clark of Unity; Mrs Collins OF
Oak Grove seminary. Miss III. G. Bcede
of Mcriden, CT, who Is to be in the
faculty the coming year, will remain
through the week. very large attend
ance is expected.
The annual prize concert took place,
this evening. The programme was OF
much interest and we'll carried out. The
committee have difficult task to decide
who shall be the winners of the prizes
The programme:
Observation-Disclosures" Schlepegrill
Morse Philharmonic Orchestra.
ITO the Lions Elbridge $. Brooks
Fred H. Jones.
"A Winning Race Kenney
Miss Abbie Merrimap.
Napoleon Bonaparte," Charles L. Phillips
Louis d. Pulsifer.
"A Race for Freedom Anon
Miss Nellie Minott.
soprano Solo-"On Venice Waters
Miss Sophie q. Lapham.
fThe Worlds Progress" Waterson
Ralph Stone.
"Tbe Boat Race Holmes
Miss Myra Norris.
THE Doom of Ciaudius and Cynthia"
Thompson
Summer Mills.
The Swan Song Brooks
Miss Mary Searls.
Base Solo-"Murmuring Voice of the Deep"
Eson
Trafton l.. Hatch.
How the Mortgage Was Paid" Neil Burgess
Harry X. Pierce.
Jack the Fisherman" Kelp
Miss Lila Mssterman.
1.-THE Mser's Punishment Osborne
Myron +. Bennett.