The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-03-13

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burned. If the man himself escape
it shall be only so as by fire. Who
does not know that in this day, in
this country, nothing is done with
any thought of the eternal years"
The railroad bridges plunge hun
dreds to destruction every year. From
the men who build bridges up, or
down, as you please, to the men who
make the laws, they are altogether
gone out Of the straight way. Their
work is too often of wood, hay or
stubble; it is not laid on the founda-
ton of a conscientious manhood, &C.
mented in honesty, faithfulness and
strict morality. A man should glory
in his work. The ladder up which
he hopes to climb should be planted
in the spot where he stands, whether
at the forge, the bench, the machine
Every day should see angels ascend
ing and descending on his ladder,
and work every day heart within and
God o'erhead.
Wealth is not in and of itself
creator; it is only means; it is the
medium through which the physical
strength, the mental power, the moral
force of worker may be applied to
the useful and beautiful things of
life. Wealth may buy a picture,
but labor and an inspired magma
ton must first produce it. Wealth
may buy and own machinery, it can
not buy the inspired spirit in the man
who invented the machine. Only
through such inspired work can
wealth be made to serve the utilities
of life. No man should glory in his
wealth. Every man should glory in
his labor. What the world is waiting
for is for men to whom wealth is not
an end but means; and labor not
means out an emo.
Another of the utilities of life, one
which we must take time and space
to mention, is home. What the homes
of the world need is a better mother
hood. The mothers of the world
need to be trained to higher ideals,
to more considerate understanding
of the duties and obligations which
motherhood brings with it. Out of
the consecrated intellect, the teach
able spirit, the cultured heart of the
mother must come the nobility, 10y
atty, morality in the life of her child.
A tradition in the Christian church
is that Mary, the mother of Jesus,
was the child of many prayers, hoped
for and wished for for twenty years
by Anna and Joachim, her father
and mother, and solemnly dedicated
before her birth to the service of
God. Her child, Jesus, was the fruit
of all these prayers and vows brought
to divine issuance by the spirit of
truth and love which remained with
and over Swallowed her through all
the months Of his prenatal life. What
a lesson to mothers in this one fact.
Jesus, the Christ, the Saviour of the
world, ideal man, born of human
mother whose heart and soul were on
fire with heavenly vision of truth
and love. Is it true that in human
motherhood there is such power for
good! hen we stop to think of the
evil-minded, vicious children who
throng our streets and fill our reform
schools; of young men who crowd
our penitentiaries or tramp in rags
and dirt, is it possible that they too
like the Lord Jesus were, in infancy
ciressed and cared for by mother?
With all our prayers. let us never for
get to pray the dear God to send us
better mothers.
We know that the whole creation
groaneth and travaileth in pain to-
gether until now, but the earnest ex-
pectation waits for the manifestation
of the sons of God, of better man.
hood and womanhood who shall re.
plenish the earth, enlarge, magnify
and consecrate the utilities of life.
OSHKOSH, Wis.