Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-28

which are just what we needed 10 reacn
but at which we hadnot yet arrived Such
is the text | have read in your nearing.
Happy are we ii these words apply TO Us.
isor in the realm OF religious thought We
are ever prone to spent TOO much Time
about mysteries and too little on pam
and simple matters of life ard duty; we
worry ourselves into unrest ana DOUBT,
and heat ourselves in argument: While
ii is our privilege to be living III peace
and strength enjoying 4 steadlaSt iiope'
a vigorous life, and ever increasing use
fulnesS. ,
This tendency to look into the mysteri-
Gus is. when rightly restrained, a useful
and necessary element of our nature, ana
1t is universal One Of our american
humorists uttered a profound truth when
he said Man is a strange being mole
in the ground excites in him more wonder
than a star in heaven. The mysterious.
the UNEMPLOYED, exercise stranse power
over us. and it is doubtless this that has
led TO the grandest ard most raiu mi,
discoveries that have enlarged the lielu
of human knowledge. And the spirit OF
this text Is by no means n ostiie ~ .ile
most active and eager and restless inveS
tigation. ., 80
denotes. this must in order TO iuillll ~
uIlrpose. be kept within bounds. ana IL
has PASSED beyond its legitimate bounds
when a man has become so intent upon
the unknown that he fails TO make use OF
what he knows. II Is TINS inoruinate Jn
.has satirized in the words | have quoted
that exaggerated and abnormal form OF
If which makes a man so absorbed IN me
unknowable that he neglects a plain d
ranf fact or duty. or is blinded to an APP
IA rent DUTY while he ponders over lhe
mysterious. the possible This IS Just me
point of danger. AS If 2 man Wlshllis 10
reach 4 distant city and standing ~ ,he
"a rtinsr az two roads--tne one the pam,
t;ract well-known familiar way. Leading
81 raight TO his destination;th other a wlnu-
ing, circuitous, untraveled ro,iu 't III
no one knows whithcr--should spenu a.
,ta time necessary for his journey pom
darinr over the possible direction taken
by the unknown way: ....a mo too
This is precisely tau a.t,'u MATTERS Of
~ hiphest Importance. In regard 70 the
whole subject of life and duty anu ISL ,,s |
nv. we spend too much time on 1,; .ne ~,
,,,;ac and too little on those thiiisS via,
IRE direct and plain and certain, E Dd
~ an,,at helm feeling that the world haa
bnen happier and better today II lhuc ~ "a
the time spent n i 10TH had been spen.
=, nv nnnlvinc them to the concrete Idcts
- lifa Even now men allow lhti ia,f,,I
% he disturbed and Kept from cno a,rot |
and faithful living pee, neca' Shall hold that
~, Is eternal. or whether Ihey si,a..
lard it as having been crea,eu, 1'soi,,.
nan is the result OF y process sh;ont Of q |
i ma, Of whether he Is the Object % %, e
ton ~ - ,ct Of creation. The questions Oh
: - hio.her criticism disturb many.
Il these things are important anu ; snea
AZ ,,,astions by no means to be dismissea i
arr s.I'It1,s Only we assume toward .neni 90 q
iisarc attitide when we allow lneIn ~ |
w ,sorfsre with the enjoyment OF knI 'si,, |
ini.,.,,iepe and the performance on p, anl
privleiin every other realm We are CON n
duty anpIy the knowledge we nave "a
TEN f "a of mystery. Plain ana sllilpiief
the ~ facts that man must opserve
are .i reap the fruits OF the eaI Iit
n, ne w os;mple conditions are followeI aiine
II, I'll But the growth OF seeu ,vn ~
by an MYSTERY and years harvest w t},at,
deep ~ r. men instead Of doing what taey
be ioss s should spend their time us
unders.a ali possible theories OF gernli aar
cussin ma growth The common salio I,o ena
easily s man can explain how they m hahv
but ~ holds them in place. your paoy
or Won, by telephone, put no iiV ~ lttIa
calls ~ how the accents OF lts ,1 m,.
tones nes'o and agencies and then W. tn tnik
to lor TO know all about them. , we NV
that wu,,ination, gravitation, eieclrio orso
OF ger.n rnnws what these thii!ss ara
but WIZ onveloped in mystery, put w O.
ls by light. and our nap pm. rse
surro ,aace' and safety depend on our us'
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