The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-08-31

way only can human hearts be deeply
moved.
The good done among men may be
measured by the hearts awakened, and
IL we would make others feel we must
first feel. A certain amount of intelli-
gence is necessary, but the heart must
be awakened and the soul aroused, ION
whose delicate strings all the joys and
sorrows of this earth may make mu-
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Greatness and tenderness are fast
friends-they are twins, the beauty Of
each one making that of the other more
radiant. We like to look into the faces
and study the lives of men and women
Of grasping, comprehensive minds,
whether in the arts or letters, but I'M
less we find traces of infinite tenderness
towards little children or wife or friend
We never call them great. We are more
creatures Of feeling than of thought,
| and when a calling is found that calls
into action all the powers of soul, sue
cess is almost assured
Now, read the New Testament and
you'll soon see that the Christianity
which Jesus brought to earth is not
| that of the head, but of the heart. 1t is
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help express what lies deep in the heart.
Those who have held aloft the heart
religion have kept the human race with
them, for they have kept in touch with
the fountain springs of human nature.
For, as one says: 1.-The human race has
made it's literature emotional, and has
built emotional houses, and has filled
them with emotional pictures, and has
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table with emotional friendship, and
has INDUCED in emotional laughter and
emotional tears
The heart speaker and writer and
worker carries with him the sympathies
OF the human race. He is in the same
school with Jesus and the Apostles.
Jesus spoke as never man spoke, but
his wisdom never surpassed his SYM
pathy and love. When he Toasted with
others, the place was rot noted for the
| flow of wisdom and philosophy, but
rather for friendship and virtue.
The religion which he established and
which has been carrying its benign in
fuence everywhere with peace and
blessing for every mortal, is then a re-
ligion of feeling.
And this is in accord with our ma
lures. To US comes then these words
of Paul: Now it is high time to
awake out of Sleep" This is just what
everyone has done who has accom-
plished anything in life. See how
many paths there are along which men
have run to do life's work. And these
are multiplying continually. Hardly
a square mile Of this earth can be found
ha IN
foot of man; and if the seas could
show the markings, we would see them
lined and furrowed in every direction.
And the secret of this zeal, of this
hurrying hither and thither, of all this
expense &c Sndy and mind lies in the
fact that hearts have been awakened.
The miner who patiently washes the
earth in search of the Color" the
farmer, the merchant, the inventor,
ETC., all Of them have awaked out of
sleep. To each and all of them came
the thought that he must be up and
doing; then with soul aroused and a
heart for any fate, he has pushed on
ward to win the prize.
There always will be a zeal without
knowledge, a haste that makes waste,
which is not healthy; but the rule is
that fervency strengthens and produces
health. An awakened soul is a healthy
soul. Every successful life has be-
come such by running to and fro, and
only the few have been injured by this
haste. Our arms weaken when not
used; exercise makes strength.
A life may be worked out or dozed
out. but the heart that burns brightly,
burns long. And heart and body must
work together. It is we'll for US when
we love our tasks. The burden will
then dwindle till it is no burden. We
must with each dawning day return to
our tasks with delight, else our work
viii decline and we shall decline also.
Successful men have loved their work.
Some pursuits are, indeed, prosy and
trying, and we grumble like the camel
/ as pound after pound are strapped on
his back; but most of the tasks Of life
have their pleasant features, and they
clear the heart of those that toll in
them. They are found in all the forms
of labor. Then, some pursuits have
perpetual charm and arouse the souls of
men engaged in them and awaken all
their powers. Here men fly on wings as
| eagles.
| The days become too short and nights
are consumed in the eager chase.
/ Whole lives are lived in a few years, so
much do men crowd into those years.
Some lives go out when they have only
/ fairly begun. but still they are full lives.
/ The little stream may flow for days to
/ fill reservoir-one wave Of the ocean
/ win overflow it. So many men of our
day are always living at flood-tide and
soon I'll up the measure of life.
! Their pursuits possess nights and
| depths that make them sublime as
mountains and draw men on to their ut
most exertion. Some hearts may be
/ broken by the strain, but all will be
| filed with noblest inspiration
And now, if men will thus run along
| their chosen paths impelled by the love
of their calling, then they should not
move slowly along the Christian paths,
! nor groan on account Of any burdens.
! No calling is better than the Christians.
/ The high calling of God in Christ Jesus
/ is the sublimest calling of earth. 1t has
/ in it everything that calls for the pow
| ers Of body, mind and soul A states
/ man represents his fellowmen, and
| their wants are ever before him; so
every follower of Jesus espouses the
! cause of humanity, and the welfare of
| others is ever before him. All the