The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-02-13

thing misplaced right elemental
form wrongly directed or thrust
aside from its normal fellowships.
David A WATSON writes:
81 cannot spare water or wine,
Tobacco leaf or rose;
From the earth poles to the line,
All between that works and grows,
Everything is kin of mine. .
| 81 have stake in every STAR
In every beam that fills the day;
All hearts of men my Golfers are,
My ores, arterial tides convey.
The fields, the skies,
The sweet replies
Ofthought to thought are my golddust;
The oaks the brooks
And speaking looks
OF lovers faith and friendships trust.
And Emerson chanted in his di-
vine sense of treasured fiction:
81 am the owner of the sphere,
! OF the seven stars and the solar year,
| OF Caesars hand and Platos BRAIN
| Of Lord Christ's heart and Shakspeare's
STRAIN
While st. Paul wrote with a yet
grander soul of mastery: I" For all
things are yours, whether Paul or
Apollos or Cephas, or the world, or
life or death, or things present or
things to come-all are yours, and
We are Christ's, and Christ is Gods"
I Cor, iii. 22)
Our Inventory of Values.
All this enormous inventory of val
ues is ours because of the nature we
possess. Each element and fact and
fortune in the world around us has
private amity," as George Herbert
said of the different members of the
body, with some CORES ponding ele-
ment in us. whether Paul or Apol-
los or Cephas here is our interest
in men; "or the world"-here is our
title to the material order around us,
the great, teeming, nourishing, en-
riching earth: cor life"-our title to
the infinite wealth of the worlds in
dustries, its hopes, its fears, its sor
rows and its joys; ''or death"-our
title to the infinite mysteries and the
unexplored beyond; cor things pres
ent or things to come"-our posses
sion and our hope. Out from our
complex and manifold nature spreads
an avenue into each of these great
provinces of our kingdom. George
Eliot again identifies us with the an
cient years when she sings:
s'The soul of man is widening toward the
past.
He spells the record of his long descent
More largely conscious of the life that
was.'
And Shelley cries in the future:
''Let us hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contem-
plates
This unmeasured realm, with all its
unnumbered forces and interests is
ours, and every persons brain and
heart its august center and throne.
You are the center of your world.
You of yours and l of mine. And to
occupy this throne with a great love
of life, with faith in the elemental
integrities of the kingdom, with
large understanding of the abiding
unities of its interests, with the one
great desire that the right thing shall
be done, that no one interest shall
thrust aside and trample upon other
interests; that faith may be, that
mercy may be, that the right thing
shall be and that these passionate
desires shall be the controlling de-
sires-that it is to have the pure
heart, and to believe that these great
interests are the permanent, and SUI
preme, and lasting, and final interests
in the providence of God-that it is
to believe in a pure heart. To occupy
this throne listlessly, with no convic-
tions concerning theintegrity and the
unity of things, with no high ideals
of what life shall be, with no ardent
love of life, Indifferent as to whether
we shall walk in low paths or in ele
waited regions with no great and
commanding purposes that shall levy
tax and toll upon wide order of this
waiting and willing constituency of
power and of grace, that it is not to
have pure heart; that it is not to
believe in it, and thus it is not to have
the sacred vision promised to the
pure hearted. This is not to see God.
This also it is to see the finest powers
corrupt.
The purest crystal stream will be-
come stagnant if it ceases its motion,
but it hastens forward as with a liv-
ing purpose to the sea, and there it is
taken up by the sun and combines in
mists and clouds and falls again on
distant hills and mountains and re-
peats its mission of refreshing, and
its industrious wheel turning, and its
machinery, driving again and again.
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