The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-01-24


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| To ministers and all teachers of
| young or DID, TO all lovers of their
kind and servants of ideals; to all who
believe in the progress of the race and
spend themselves TO attain it; to a host
of earnest souls more numerous tlan
the sands in an hour glass. and as lack
week. Bend down your thoughts to
these lowly lines and rise mayhap with
a broader purpose than / can even dare
to sketch.
Were ten hundred hearts among you
now beat high with pure and noble pur-
pose, nine hundred odd alone Will live
to greet the new century. You who are
doomed to die by the way as we move
onward to new age, what benson VIII
you confer upon the warriors for good
that are ordained TO fight later battles
You whose eyes shall see the dawn of
1901 what is to be your grandest prep
aration for your children and chill
drenS children as to the new
problems of the hundred years to come?
Generosity of mind; the surrendering
of mutual suspicious.
Often as child have / disturbed an
ant hill to watch each little creature
go to it's task, some to the defense and
others to the removal Of eggs and de-
bris. But when 1 look out upon the
wide world, humanity seems far less
wise. Men and women of most pure in
tentions scramble over one another's
duties, get in one anothers way; and
| object to many things being done at all
unless they are done in a certain set
manner or by themselves. Because
we are apt to doubt the purity of
others motives, some of the finest ard
most uplifting souls in the world are
hindered in their work and are almost
compelled to turn aside to utilities and
vexations. Because we do not encour-
age them with intelligent sympathy
they spend life in dream of causeless
warfare, and awake TO find opportunity
gone, wasted. | should say then The
mightiest preparation for the new age
that is coming will be for those who
strive to serve God and their race to
acknowledge with humility that there
are more ways than one of reaching
that end. The moral at the end of the
old poem, The Nightingale and the
Glow Worm is very apt:
Hence Earring sectaries may learn
Their true interests to discern:
Brother should not war with brother,
And worry and devour each other,
But sing and shine with sweet consent,
| Till life's poor transient night is spent;
Respecting in each other case
The gifts of nature and of grace"
Men do not cultivate rice on mountain
tops nor Indian corn in swamps. The
agriculture of a region is suited by the
wise ones to it's soil and its climate, and
he who seeks to grow Alpine plants in the
tropics is doomed to failure.
The ocean has many ports, and ships
there are that traverse it in every direc-
ton. To turn all prows the same way
would stagnate commerce.
The land has it's beasts, the air its
birds, the sea its fishes, and all live and
move and have their being as fitting
part of a great world of life. A thou
sand and one things around us show
that there is tremendous diversity in
nature, and that it's work is best car
ried on by those best suited to the
work SO when we see various ways of
trying to benefit our race, ways that are
as surprising to US as alligator farming
would be to an Esquimau; before We
rise to condemn our fellow-workers in
a very wide and diversified universe, We
tlot Il.
not know everything, nor is anyone so
versatile as to be able to suit himself
to the needs and the heart-aches and
agonies of every other soul.
You religious people, servants of the
Prince of Peace, partakers of his spirit,
why are there jealousies among you?
Why ask everybody to believe as you
believe or to see with your eyes? Each
moment you spend in anxious effort to
bring it to pass that your sect or your
way shall be supreme, straig'htway you
bury your talent. In the years that you
waste sQuabbling over 'ismS and olo-
gies there are those multiplying in num-
bers who care no more for your God
than they care for the reputed rings of
Saturn, and whose belief in the actual
influence of either upon earthly affairs
is equally strong. The important thing
seems not to be how they shall worship
Him or acknowledge Him, but, rather,
whether they shall continue to worship
Him at all. Your disputes as to never
settled doctrines make you sons of Eli
to a greater Israel. The weighty mat
tiers of the law seem in this age to be to
improve the condition of the suffering,
to rebuke the selfish, to tighten the way
of the laborer, to broaden the life of
tht farmer, to bring down the kingdom
of God to men, to live in life the Golden
Rule Then will your heart never more
be distressed because all do not work
with you. You will rejoice if they work
at all. Your protest is against those
that sleep while the world is awake
The workers you shall have no warfare
with; "God-speed' shall be your word
to them and God guidance.
To all who desire better worldli-
ness, to all who work for broader life,
to all who yearn after saner citizen
ship. cry aloud from this silent page,
More charity for those who reap not
with us. More breadth of heart for all
who toll for good. More unity of effort
as preparation for the hundred years
to come" We shall consult further.
A Decided Change.