The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-03-20

done by the race, no realization Of our
share in further progress; no learning
from the voice of history, no vision of
happy peoples yet to be blessed. Sheep
take things as they find them; men
force nature to their will. Sheep are
content if merely well fed, men do
not live by bread alone Sheep look
constantly at material things; men
gaze upward unabashed even by the
shimmering glories of the throne Of
everlasting might. Let us be men.
So
Try to cultivate a free mind that
will believe in things not seen, in
deeds not shared in, in powers not
possessed by yourself A tad poles
horizon is limited by his unwholesome
puddle, but your horizon is limited by
nothing il you will but curb selfish
ness and be sentient being. The
past is all yours. Though often you
forget it, you are lineal descendent
from the earliest ages. The great of
every cline are your kinsmen, bone of
human bone and flesh of human flesh.
Find interests outside of yourself; en-
joy the Inheritance of great things al
ready done.
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just as learning dead language
helps us understand English, so the
past interprets the multiform activi-
ties. Without such knowledge life is
to us, as with the minimizing brute.
bereft of clue as to whence or whittier.
The blood Of heroes for righteousness
and martyrs to racial duty courses in
human veins Such knowledge will
thrill man into the full stature of
manhood. Yet the supreme grandeur
of living can be ours only when doing
something definite. We may draw
inspiration and pride of birthright
from the past; we must live and act
in the present.
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Bunyan's muck-heap raker saw no
beauties; selfishness in the essential
duties Of life, and appreciation of the
full meaning of life do not abide to-
gether. We cannot serve our race
and worship Mammon. II we flank
ourselves with money bags, or If we
want to, just for what they may
bring of personal comfort we are con-
demning ourselves to loneliness and
heart aches. Money never bought a
friend, and money never held one.
The transforming grace of true wo-
mans love, it never purchases. 1t
buys eye service; it buys lf-seeking
sycophants. The house of the heart
is empty when such I'LL it.
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The trained ear can detect sounds
inaudible to the unframed; the train
ed eye can see the beauties invisible
to ordinary mortals; the trained hand
accomplishes things impossible to
gross manipulation. The heart train
ed to interests outside itself looks
upon new world. Without interest
in others, a narrow life remains mar
row; with it even a sick room may be-
come the centre of worldwide influ-
ence. The shepherd tending his wan
dering sheep, the miner working amid
dangers, the farmer wrestling with
difficulties, the wife at her unpaid la
bors, all can live transformed lives,
if they feel their share in the world S
best interests.
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Whittier describes life as sscry
between the silence" That is lone
some view of it. Your life and minA
are links in an endless chain. We are
the living expression of the dead who
rest from their labors, we are the Gus
todians OF the future, il so be that we
live. How dead the imagination that
cannot understand this! Unborn sons
and daughters are within you. For
them your daily life is preparing a
gloomy or glorious morn. What that
morn is to be, we--you and I-are
predestinating by our strength or by
our weakness.
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But mark you'll To live is to turn
the back on inaction; sloth and real
living are antlpodal. Likewise, earn
estness and full appreciation by our
fellows are impossible. Human no.
bodies have no enemies but he who
goeth forth with noble purposes, is
bound to run counter to the legion de-
mons of laziness and stupidity, glut-
tony and filth, who cry out "Leave
us alone. What have we to do with
thee?" They whose souls are to 60
marching on with armies whose foot
steps never yet have echoed must face
contumely if they try to lit humanity
one niche higher.
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Unhappy for the world is it for a
man to attain his full ambition. He
ceases his efforts; inaction is death.
Better far to have the full fruition of
effort always just evading the hand,
and thus reckoning to further deeds.
Let there be no contenrment with one
good thing done; but have each pur-
pose merely part of something great
err; just as with the universe, made up
of numberless stars, all grouped into
solar systems, these included in the
vast aggregation itself, and that in
turn pushing onward through space
w ooniCouihS ycO hCluuCi oSclit uui
foretold, nor imagined.
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Poverty is no bar to breadth OF
mind or Of helpfulness. The poor
have always given proportionately
more to each other than the rich have
bestowed upon them. The widows
mite is no solitary instance in the
world. And as for giving, whose
pleasure is greatest-they who give
and are glad to have money take the
place of fellowship, or they who suffer
in order TO help? Real giving means
sharing. Or as the Master says in
Lowell's poetry:
'.For the gift without the giver is bare,
Who gives himself with his aims, feeds
three
Himself, his hungering neighbor and
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Do not train your little ones to
think that the main object of life is
to pass expeditiousiy and silently by
the world as a foe to grace. We are
here, to live right where we are, and
now, setting UP righteousness and
striking down wrong. The religion
that justifies man in taking all his
communal rights, peace, protection,
government, and in giving no service
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