Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-02

strive for It, the less they have Of H.
| Some old heather says:
| The worlds a labyrinth, where unguided
: men
Wander up and down to find their wsari-
| ness.
| No sooner have they measured with
much pains.
| One crooked path In hopes TO IND their
freedom,
But It betrays them to a new affection.
The great vulgar throng Of high and
| low rush and struggle and strive to
gather gear, confident that large posses
slons ensure the glorious privilege of be-
ing independent. In their efforts for
freedom, they make themselves incapable
OF its enjoyment. Covetousness Is idola.
try. Ayarce hardens all within and pct
rifles the feeling. We are members ono
OF another. We live upon one another.
Our sympathies, our loves, our affections
are 10 us as the little and great roots
OF the trees that spread themselves GUS
for nourishment or the leaves that
breathe in and out the common air. The
unity of the Spirit. the communion OF
saints, Is the doctrine OF the natural
world. Isolation is induration. incrusta-
tion and perpetual Imprisonment, ana
death. The courses OF greed and avarice,
make the mummy; the living. recognizable
mummy. A fortune oyer and over again
letters, manacles, and indurates. ana
perverts every sensibilty and affection
of our being and vitiates and debaseS
every Taste and appetite. To such VIC
tins freedom is tho idest fancy. They
are slaves to their livers and Kidneys
to lawyers, doctors. and ~pothecartess
Selfish ambition, for its devotees. acc
complishes a destiny, IN spite OF its shows,
little less enslaved and despicable than
its low born sister. avarice.
Avarice and ambition are the great
general stalking giants that range about
the world and make the people drunk
and fix them In hard bondage. and mako
them familiar worshppers OF lowest ami
mails And they have their agencies that
do their work easily everywhere.
We brag of our freedom. And perhaps
there Is as much Of mutual commons
place slavery in this country as any
where on earth. The politicians, that talk
most OF our free country, are the
veriest slaves-not only to low proclivl.
ties-but more or less subservient to and
afraid OF every vo.er-afraid' to speak
their sentiments; afraid TO do their duty;
afraid 10 think or act on principle.
Our high iivers and high people are
slaves to one another; slaves to the
mantua-maker and tailor and cook;
slaves 10 the newspaper reporters:
slaves TO the common crowd OF gossips.
They are afraid OF breach OF etiQuctte.
OF form, OF fashion They are afraid OF
seeming vulgar and ignorant, and dis
play their ignorance and vuigarity
in their desperate efforts TO hide
them both. Shoddy. cheap. ana
common souls and mean limitations I
would betray themselves, wrapped s1d
adorned with all the silks and jewels
OF the East They are afraid to smile.
40 such. freedom IS unknown and hope
less. 1t Is dangerous.
The most pitabie slaves are those
whom we meet with every day trying %
seem or be accepted for what they KNOW
they are not. o. how pstiable TO ee AZ
vavs hiding patch. covering BLOT
concealing a defect. or showing ourselves
IN Tor what we are mott Lord Bacon
saws living IL most despicable. because
a. shows us to be more afraid or man
than OF Cod. Coming from His HAND
and filling honorably the place 20 wnlcn
He has assigned US. we are al nono.e
ah,e-the homeliest and most deformeo
the object Of His tenderest care W.
dIshonor Him by being ashamed 20 o@~
cunv faithfully our proper place. py ~,
crediting IN our persons his hanaiwo..e
W. "a then only free In doins His Will
..whose service Is perfect freedom" The
only freeman In society IL the thorou4hs
bred gentleman: the only freeman ~
business Is the thoroughly honest mani
the perfect type OF the freeman Ia ~
that "moves In Charity. rests In ProvSz
dence. and turns upon the poles -
Truth" While no that trusts In IN