Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-06-26


as Il Is today. The age in which we live
is the age of ages. 1t is the age when all
nations and all churches are becoming as
one nation and one church. II Is the
golden age of golden men and women.
who would not rather live in this nine-
leenth century, with all its railroads and
steamship lines. with all its schools and
colleges. with all its ehapels and church.
s, with all its opportunities and prog
fess. than TO have lived in any of the
centuries OF the paste
One man may tell us that never In the
history Of the world was there so mucn
evil, SO much defeat, SO much weakness,
SO much ignorance, as there is at the
present time. But another man may more
truly tell us that nowhere in the past
was there so much goodness. so much
triumph, so much power, SD much knowl-
edge. as there is today. For every evi!
there Is possibility to overcome. for
every battle there Is an opportunity to
eonquer' ior every weakness there is Il
power; and for all our ignorance there
Is world of knowledge
Nowhere in all the annals Of earth and
time has man had the opportunity to be
ana TO do as he has today. lie lives in a
world of opportunity He Is coming to
see more clearly than ever before. the
Kind OF world he lives in and the kind of
man the world expects him to be. This
vast universe, OF which We are a part, all
nature around us seems to expect great
that is in him. He is Responsible 10 earth
and to heaven--to man and to God. His
responsibility increases with his opnor-
tunity. and his opportunity increases with
MS mental and moral growth. Every
man, therefore, is under obligation 10
make the best of his own life that he
may be "A benefactor to his race
Ii has taken nature and grace a long
time to teach man how TO live his true
life, From the morning of his day until
the evening hour he lives In Natures
great schoolhouse and learns to say with
Shakespeare, There are books in the
running brooks, sermons in stones
tongues in trees, and good in every
thing. From flower and leaf and plant
from landscape and tree and mountain
from river and lake and sea from sun
ana moon and stars he hears voices
speaking from the unseen world and urg-
ing him onward in his journey toward
the IDEAL. In the pages of the sacred
volume he reads the realities of the pres
ent and the future. In human life ana
character he beholds the same truths
breaking in upon the world.
The great purpose of earth and heaven
is TO reveal man to himself, and to arouse
within an aspiration to move toward that
ideal. Man. therefore. has never been SO
dissatisfied with himself as he is today.
tie does not live down in the valley of
coBtentment, but upon the mount of
aspiration lie does not live and think
III u llNlescircle only large enough to con-
tain himself ana his friends. but in a
circle that takes in humanity and reach
es out into the eternties beyond. In the
words of Emerson, "His life is a self
evolving circle which, from ring i'm
perceptibly small. rushes on ali sides
outwards to new and larger circles ana
That without end.
1t is only in proportion as man is dissaf-
is.ied with himself and seeks enlargement
that he fullills his own life and the end
of his creation He was not created 10
he weak and useless. but to be strong
and useful. He was net created to be
dt generate but TO grow He was NOT
created TO fy.along the highlands blIf.
"'ro mount up with wings "a eagles. To
run and not he weary to walk and NOT
faint He has no right 10 he as me
pool. a curse rather than Il blessinr hllt
as the stream increasing more and more
Ina trn,,sr 1,ug ~ ,isl, flIsi + sss 'he entire
No man has = right To- seek to h.. any
thing other than his best What he is
ant i does today IS put a snggestton of
# is fair ~ Saw maj he b9e neWS,. iV vi
lived at his best. No year in his lifo has
been 50 good but that it might have been
pDt'ei' no hlollth so croWaed win result
mi. no week e. f5,-re.,,,,,ii., in its ~
nuence upon the world. but that IT
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pit , li!tt II hilst9I hf-Ve oteh more nelpl ut
anu inspiring. ENety man ought 10 pe
MT far hg,.inn dnna u,ron9g I,,t fo, D ,I,,
having done absolutely right not for
having failed, but for not having
No person Is more highly favored than
tne STUDENT no one mas 4 greater op-
rrovy re- daraIon 10 ir,crepse bis now,
and thus prepare himself to take his
In :, In roo .xorld In the reain, of ~
se,,-fb and stt11v he finds rnnm for fha
exercise nf mi MS mental novyers When
he stndies himself ont of ths acadanny he
1In1s himself ~ tho fbreshoId of thn col
lpre Thus hs Il enable,l to iournAv an
r., erraater haights af man4sI never
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1le prophecy was by Miss HeNins,
and a brightly conceived admirably
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" iieteh pa - ""9 'e IA
seS flg prophetic VISION nad come IN q
very "ilsaiiai way olotihs ny .ne hre
sac titeM lio'ii d oasAet VI 'eavss
fire. it slowly began to burn and as
X r,Irned these words were traced on
-, Ieaf.
L"V ieai
oh. strange is the will of nature.
How great is the lesson she weaves;
Inc prophecy OF hlnety-seven
she pens upon the leaves.
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