San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-16
MORAL TRANSPOsITION.

cOngregatlOniW were a llttles lnclineu
to kick on last Sunday morning
because the preacher had traded
his usual discourse on morals for
an essay on industrial schools"
This is quite gratifying, as 1t
evinces a growing interest in the
teachings of the LIGHT and affords
q ground Of hope that the light
that is in you, members Of its
congregation, is not becoming
darkness. These homely discourses
are aimed at no one, but in so far
as they are suited to every one
are offered as directions along the
highway of improved and improv-
ing personal and family and social
conditions. Having only obvious
truth for their authority and
common sense as their foundation,
they depend solely upon their own
force and direction and adaptive.
ness for thir effect.
The subject of this morning is
one that has long pressed upon the
attention of your preacher, as one
that might with great propriety
be brought to your attention and
impressed upon your consider
alton. 1t is a subject that has
more real corrective power in it,
to the square inch, than any other
that could possibly be suggested.
1t is subject that busies itself
with that evenly balanced con-
lid grafton for others that prevents
that warping' of judgment, that
leaning to the weak side OF our
prejudices and our ignorance, that
is so common when we pass upon
the actions, the motives, or the
words of others. 1t is a subject
that the Nazarene philosopher
frequently pressed upon the at
tention of his followers, and which
has formed the theme OF the
moralists in all ages.
This fact of moral and mental
and social transposition is con-
coded by all those who have really
studied the secret of human in
Humanity, the strange perversion
OF that humanity to open the
gates Of hell rather than the por-
tails of paradise to the sons and
daughters Of earth. The philo-
sophy of this remedy for the envy,
malice, evil speaking, jealousy and
injustice of human feelings as
finding expression in humanIjudg-
ments, has only been understood
by those who have gone deep into
the recesses OF the human heart
and studied all its springs Of
action. None but these can apply
the remedy, for none but these
can so touch the point OF connec-
tion between themselves and
others as to make that touch
effective. 1t is only wise and
understanding humility that can
do this.
More than one Of the bright
particular minds of the later ages
have not deemed this theme un-
worth their greatest efforts, their
rIpest powers, their strongest
presentations, their clearest IL
Illustrations. 1t is one worthy OF
the pen of the divine, the selo-
quence OF the greatest orators OF
antiquity, the sublimest verse OF
the poet, the greatest living actors,
the double loaded column OF the
metropolitan journals. 1t it as
high as heaven In ltS divine origin:
as deep as hell in its searchings
after the real springs of human
action. as wide as universe in the
all inclusiveness of it's embrace,
as healing as the hand of infinite
pity in its touch, as soothing as
the breath OF consolation in its
ministries, holding within itself
healing for the cruel hurts OF
social and domestic and individual
cruelties. 1t is as simple in it's
directness and as effective as a ray
of sunlight. ,sssS
1t is not q creed. IT is not a
dogma. IT,: is not an article OF
faith. 1t is not eU&BEl ition. cit