The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-04

landmark, men have been accustoming
themselves to the idea that the whole
of the world OF the senses follows back
to primary mode of motion. Into
this all will finally be resolved; and
we have moved immeasur2ole distances
toward it by modern discoveries in con-
nection with the study Of electrical
energy. No one can read the series of
articles now in course of publication
in one of the magazines, on the ad-
vance in science and progress in phys
les, without conviction that She goal is
almost in sight. Following that we
shall have the greater and grander con-
ceptiOn of a world of mental and Spir-
itual domination; of waves of spiritual
energy that are as real and infinitely
more potent than those of light; nay,
we dare go so far as to say a cOncep-
ton Of d universe in which those waves
of energy are the foundation of all
things, and the material is merged and
lost, as mere phenomenon, in the
world of more delicate and pervasive
forces which are the universal produc-
ing cause.
We may see already what a revision
OF the standards and what a higher
claim of the moral and spiritual de-
Velopment that will bring into being.
We shall complete our progress around
the circle to their initial point. Again
be desired; but not now in order to
sit on golden thrones or play on harps
or wander in enchanted gardens with
dark-eyed houris, but to reach here, in
this existence, a development of char
acter, an charging of the spiritual life,
an uplifting of the power that is in
man until he can claim his kinship
with the infinite. Then life will seem
boon so precious, with all it's posi-
bllities of that which cannot perish in
any world, that to lose a moment of it.
though spent in fortunes unimaginable,
were to reject a space in paradise. Then
men and women will understand that
heaven and hell and purgatory and
ONAANA
med, has here its beginning and gives
to life its bent. The new restraints the
new incentives to courage and endur-
ance and achievement will overpass the
OLD as the mans desire for the life Of
dignity and honor is stronger and more
hateful than the child's pursuit of flow
er or butterfly. Then the unity of the
universe, the sway of impalpable spirit
ual laws, the subsection Of matter to
that higher energy which alone informs
it, the purpose of life in the inner and
its significance will be as we'll under
stood as are the laws Of matter in our
day. And then men will go joyfully
into battle and meet death with a song
upon their lips, as they did in the days
when sagas were sung and throughout
the annals of martyrdom; because
they will understand the prescience of
the prophets of the true life. one of
whom told a heather world centuries
ago that there can no evil thing hap
pen to a good man. either in this life
or in the life to come" In the misty
gap between the past and the future
stands this age, with the old lights dy-
ing and the new ones so family kin
died as to throw their radiance but a
little way into a naughty world What
wonder that there is fainting under the
strain of it, despair in the presence OF
promise still so dim and far, and i'm
potent surrender where mind and heart
have not yet been attuned to hear 4he
high call to battle of the a:l-embracins
Good. Infinite pity is the port On of
those who fall on this stony ascending
path. Infinite hope and infinite as
surance for the stronger and mora ra-
diant future should be the message sc
every true man to the world.