The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07

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tolerated iInmoralities the simple
recital Of which would bring the blush
OF shame to the face os the simplest
Christian. But the religion of Christ
with sublime direetnesS cries out:
Ye must he born again. Z This Is
the meaning 81 the CIV Birth,
which Is central ii the Christian sgs-
fehi 1t IS the touching Of the soul
IL It's fsssntlsl unity s. thAs AZ &c
1|.I- NE 3 e Ii2lft Il. e
le66nM eShcep tionS u al that are
necessary Tor right wing ana right
character. They think that knoWl.
edge Of political economy will remove
social difficulties, that acquaintance
with civil government Will give men
public virtue, that familiarity with
chemistry and anatomy will give men
private graces; but quite the contrary
is true. a right life. IL necessary in
order that a man may have true In
tellectual conceptions. This MAY
bear hard upon the rampant infidel,
and even upon the scientific skeptic,
but it is the view Of chat Teacher
who has more profoundly influenced
the world than any other being, and
who has built the most magnificent
institution on the globe, the Chris
tian Church. Tt is the true view. "A
mans moral life has mere to do with
his intellectual conceptons than his
intellectual conceptions have: to do
with his moral life. TESse who are
engaged in the manufac ure and sale
Of intoxicating liquors defend the
business upon individu$ ! social and
political grounds; but di these men
prove by rational and scientific pro-
cesses that the liquor trt ffic is right,
and then deliberately eng age in it out
of pure beneVolence to tt agricultur-
alist and to the taxpaye !? No, who
does not see that finding themselves
in the business, and fe cling public
sentiment rising against them, they
invented the arguments to justify
them in their course 8Df conduct.
Their wrong character parverts their
view of the truth in TIE case. On
the street we meet meng3whose con-
duct indicates that this Is their prin-
eiple of living: ''Every aman must
look out for himself" IEd they dis
cover this proposition to be true by
conscientious inquiry into the social
organization, and then deliberately
choose it to control thkir actions?
No, evidently they found themselves
acting from such selfisl eensidera-
tions, and then invented The creed to.
justify their conduct. How can
any man believe III EenTi 's0scl
life is snot hered Id sell Isl Aesss Who.
has not known some MN who was
rampant in infdelity, forE 3etful Of di-
vine influence, wrought Upon by God
in the center of his being: all his
purely intellectual difficulties passed
away in a moment. A purified life
rectifies the intellect. -,ghus it APP
pears that obedience, a Isght life, is
necessary to right thinking.
.s 2.-Obedience will bring a man in
to that moral likeness to God that
will enable him to receiyesdiyine rev.
elation. q, <ss .s -.
The revelation of man to man is
possible only as there is Il moral and
Intellectual likeness between the two
in communion. Words will not re-
veal my. thought to you unless the Sc
crets Of my, words are already in your
possession. Words are only signs
that do not resemble the things they
signify. What resemblanee is there
between the word bread and the]food
for which it stands? Speak of a
frozen lake to an inhabitant of the
Torrid Zone, the words do not give
him an idea: Why talk Of the blue
ness of the heavens to one that can
not distinguish colors? What can
the most eloquent description present
to him resembling the real sensation
of blueness? This is a fact familiar
to the student of philosophy and sci
ence. Unknown objects must be de-
fined in terms Of the known AH5the
words of the definition must be
known, or they convey do definite
conception Of the unknown, Take
more practical Illustration, 4 Imagine
here such man as Alexander Won
with all the power Of his
natural endowment, with an that the
schools and study and traVel and gen
eral experience added to him; with
all his knowledge, astronomic, geo
graphic, scientific with all that made
him the tFanseendant man that he.
was in his period. Now bring face
60 face with him negro boy from
gentrn1 Afriea, with little original
capacity and no external SalSanfaEesl
of culture And though Iumbeldt
shall have the logic 81 . Webster, the
Ifire of d Clay, and the int ation 81
Calhoun powers Of express pn almost
preternatural, be cannot SSeveal his
lofty thought TO the boy Let him
speak to him of philosoI ", Of its
fundamental concepts: subj etive, OBJ
jective, apriori aposteriori, innate, he
knows nothing; let him sp8tk to him
of natural science, of Its dsammonest
rms:law, force, energy, he$is totally
ignorant. He must become a. child
himself and speak childish things,
before he can communicate. any idea
to this child. Thus it appears that
the revelation Of man to man is nos
sibly only through correspondence, or
likeness in heart and mind. "a Z.
It is also true, as thus illustrated.
that the revelation of God to man is
through certain harmonies of life Or
correspondence. This great.neW spir-=
1tual realm in which sphere reYelation
moves, has ideas, concepts notions
distinctfvely its own, the ntSaning Of
which must be grasped elsSzthe Ian
guage thereof is sounding Igass and
tinkling cymbal. How. CARS God re-
veal the meaning OF that Yacriflcia1