Passaic City record., 1896-02-29
RELIGIOUS READING.
OUR VIEW POINT.

IN coming to the truth of the Bible, every
thing depends on ot1r point of view. The
scientific student of nature has first of all
10 learn how to Observes he has not only to
get his eyes open, but to put himself in a
position to see. He must get the correct
view, or the great book of nature will fail to
open to him. On visiting the White Hills
once, we had O great desire to see the
sold Man of the Mountain" AS the
place was near our hotel we visited it
before the tea hour, but to our surprise
we saw no sold Man''-noth;ng but a mass
of huge and rugged rocks. On reporting
our i'll success, one of the guests gave US
fuller directions as to the single place where
the marvel could be seen; but even then we
succeeded no better. The fellow-guest then
accompanied us, indicating the precise spot
where we must stand to obtain a view, when
at once the proportions of the great stone
face came into the field of vision. The feat
ures were all there before, but our eve
failed to see because not placed at the right
angie.
So are there phases of divine truth which
can be understood only when viewed at
the proper angle. By little variation
Of our position the whole is lost.
There are indeed, some divine truths
which, like the great mountain ranges, ever
lie before us and can be seen from all Sides
near and far but they have phases which,
call for the eye of the artist. And even the
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adjustment Some get more out of the Bible
: than others, not because they have better
powers or knowledge, but better adjustment
They learn to come in the temper and mental
attitude in which alone it is possible to real
ize the excellence and beauty of Gods truth.
The soul is taken off the book, and we see,
as it were, the great things of God.
BEST EFFORT BRINGS FORTH NOBLE WORK.
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tie man, and makes him larger. The hum
biest work gives dignity to the worker who
has put himself into it. Such an architect
as the great Richardson of our own time
must have felt this enlarged selfhood, as he
saw his ideas soaring skyward, like birds on
wings of stone. Such poet as our own
Lowell must have felt this enlarged selfhOod,
as he wrote the ''Commemoration Ode" or
''The Cathedral" Such romancer as our
own Hawthorne must have felt this magni-
fed power of himself as he created the i'm
mortals. 1t seems to me that this is some
what the meaning of the words written at
the very beginning of the Bible, in which it
had made, and, behold! it was very
good" This self-satisfaction of God with
His own work helps to prove how good and
great He Himself was. The necessity OF
work carries alongwith itself enlargement OF
selfhood. And this enlarged selfhood means
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a better and stronger one. Work magnifies
Ignorance minimizes. The person of the
worker becomes so great that his own per-
sonality goes out into other personalities. he
masters them by his own enlarging self
mastery. Work is thus both a cause and a
result in this self-mastery of man. 0 my
friends, thank God that you are put in a
world of work. Thank God that you are put
In an age that calls for work. AS you love
your own self and wish to have for yourselr
the largest selfhood, ever and everywhere be
q worker.-Rev Chas. F. Thwing.
HE a1yETH REST UNTO OUR SOULS.
Christ will give us rest-s'to our souls, -