The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-07-24

law or principle to apply to all cases
needing his energy. Let him exalt
his valleys and that very process will
straighten the crooked paths and
make smooth the rough ways. And
the glory of God shall attend such
industries. A man need not by any
necessary compulsion change his
moral complexion when he quits his
home for his shop or store or factory.
He need not change his skin when
he passes from his worship at church
to cast his ballot at the polls. His
voting and his praying ought to get
mixed in some inextricable fashion so
that if he should chance to deposit a
prayer in the ballot box and drop a
ballot in the contribution basket the
moral confusion would not be over
whelming. We need as high sense
of honor and integrity in our civil
relations as in our religious. The
Hon. Wayne McVeagh in his address
last week before the graduates of the
Pennsylvania university, said: THE
black flag of the corruptionist is far
more to be feared than the red flag
of the anarchist. | do not believe
that any evil can be greater for us
than a general disbelief in the in
tegrity of our public servants, and l
entreat you whatever other mistakes
you make, as citizens, that you will
never be guilty of the crime against
your country of giving your voice or
your vote in favor of any dishonest
man for any public Office. Such a
man in such an Office is more to be
dreaded than the most violent en-
envy of social order" All of which is
as simple AID as strongly sanctioned
as the placing of honest brick in well
tempered morter in a wall that is de-
signed to sustain a vast weight in
the interest of the people, or the
furnishing of good food to those
whose industries must be laborious,
A thoroughly equipped life will serve
great variety of interests with a
spirit that is always identical with
itself whatever the circumstance. 1t
is like a perfect bell, that will give
forth the same tone, strike it on
whatsoever side.
In leaving this thought for the
present let me say that in order to
occupy these several parts of our
life with efficient service a generous
culture of the nature God has given
us is essential. Each faculty will in
dictate its special field, but the terri
tory of our life is one territory; and
at the border of each special prov
ince there must be no impossible
gulf separating us from the rich
fields just beyond. This is one of the
misfortunes we encounter very often
in the life of individuals. So far as
the scope of their life is concerned
they might. just as we'll have re-
ceived but one faculty, one province
They never cultivate but the one
field. There are men who mine in
the earth from birth to death. They
never see the sun. They never
breathe the upper airs. There are
men like that who live even on the
surface of the earth, but they never
see but one thing, or but one order
of interests. The material pursuits
of life are in the lowlands of it. Oul
material industries need to be ele-
waited by larger intelligence. The
weary work of the world, its drudg.
ing needs to be illuminated by
higher considerations than the mere
work itself. These valleys need to
be exalted. These industries must
be seen as tributary to the high
spirituality of existence. So only
can they be taken into the fellowship
of rational existence. So only that
the glory of the Lord be seen in the
thronging industries of the world; sc
only shall their songs be heard.
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