The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-15

like ut.
3. Ability to stop working when you
want to keep on.
There is a one-sidedness that is desira-
BILE that is the set life toward
beauty: lust as the needle always points
to the pole. The man who is large enough
to take on real culture is the man who
is able to take on the handshake OF all
the ages. He can take on all that is best
Of the past. Company makes kindred.
Liking makes likeness.
Culture leads man to be loyal to truth.
| II man is loyal he becomes disciple
e the truth. which Is both knowledge
md force, Ii raises n man and gives
him true sense of the mission OF the
human race,
There il no reason why any work
should he vulgarized. The touch of n
divine hand transforms it. The Ssu of
cod was a carpenter. The soul is more
| than the body.
". The Uses OF Culture.
The World is buster to-day than it
| ever was before. This is an age Of spe-
cial undertaking. Character never was
at greater premium than it is now
Man realizes his duty to the human race
more than ever But we are afflicted
| with kind of restlessness. Men go
| hither and thither. seeing pleasure. con-
| tentment, peace and they find it not
| Then the best read books to-day are not
| the best books. 1t has been said that a
| fool can always be found to admire and
praise the work Of fool.
| Religion has become too respectable.
| 1t lacks that depth and earnestness that
| it should have. There is too much bus
| mess. Art has become indecent. under
| the name of realism.
| Then we have a criminal class-an in
| cubus resting upon our civilization, of
| whom no good is expected. A still larger
| class is the poor. The poor we have
| always with us. There are two sources
| of poverty-waSte and Incidence. There
| ore actually people in the world who dis
| like to work. Let it be remembered that
| there must be tailors. Every advance
| in civilization is made at the cost of
| somebody.
| Then there is a kind of industrial OPP
| preston. Now every laborer ought to
| of contract, but this right usually means
| sign the contract or starve.
| In the great industrial wars the merci-
/! full as well as the merciless go to the wall.
But the everlasting struggle of the poor
/ Is uOL dIOue 1oUu duu ClOIlltS, put
| for something to feed and clothe the mind.
| The stars shine out when it is dark
| enough. Is it not about dark enough now
| for the stars of knowledge to shine?
| The real test of power is accomplish
ment There is no such thing as learn
| ing for its own sake. The hard-handed
| are not the only workers. There is toll
| of mind as well as Of the hand. Learn
| ing gives II man strength and assurance.
| The world can't wait for us to become
omniscient We must make the best pos
| sible use of the little knowledge we have.
| There are some things that are already
| settled. so that when we thrust in for
| the problem of the hour we find
| that the back ground has already been fix
ed. 1t is safe to say that wise men have
lived before we came into the world.
1.-THE solution, therefore. is nearer than
| we think. 1t does not lie where we most
look for it. The confidence of our genera
alton in external aids borders on the
miraculous. 1t demands that our posses
sion Of material appliances shall be turn
ed so as to solve all enigmas to-day and
! at once, and make all men omniscient,
! happy and good. We talk as if some dis
covery in science or politics was to lift
up the masses and right the wrongs Of the
world if the trouble were no deeper
| than that, the way of Utopia would be
| short. But even in these demands we get
| glimpses of the way. The nations which
know most about science and politics
are the nations which have discovered
| that renovation must work first within.
The way to Utopia lies for no small dis
| lance over the difficult road of moral inn.
/ nr1xy MT y,nr,tion 0f tho
kingdom of heaven comes by legislation.
| Trouble has always had one chief source.
| Adam blamed Eve. Eve blamed the SER
| pent. The trouble really was in them
selves Until men are taught to look
within themselves, there rs no help Real
ization of the facts is the first step in
reformation. Charity will still be need
ed. The gospel Of thrift should be preach
ed no doubt. But what message has that
| gospel for a man who has had nothing
to eat for three days? "When the sky
falls we shall catch larks." No doubt.
But while we are waiting for the sky to
fall? When all the social redemptions
have been accomplished it will be we'll.
But what are we to do with hungry men
in the meantime? None the less, much Of
our charity is a curse to the recipient.
ANY IuluS IS d curse IudL WedkcuS
hood. Pictures and books and bread may
pauperize man. Much of our philan-
thropy partakes of the kindness that
would give the mole an electric light to
work by. The utmost charity can door
ought to do, is to help make a man mas
ter of himself. Better help a man feed
himself than feed him. Better awaken
a sense of responsibility than persuade
| man that he is the victim Of circum-
stances. The power that rules the world
is not simply Love but Law, no weak
ling or negation or dwarf divinity, but
Divine Righteousness that would make
| men righteous. The way upward is the
| way marked by Abraham and beaten
hard by the feet Of all the saints who
have followed him. Ignoring that way is
the mistake Of those who renounce the
cure OF souls for the cure Of evils, and
| so miss both. What men most need is
renewal, with impulse born Of fresh hope.
| The secret OF this lies in personality. The
| claimant Of in mira from in pyQrv