The Newtown bee., 1897-05-28

mountains and the great seas of the hu- man heart; and he has learned to wan der over them, to be familiar with their beauties, and to rejoice in them here, and to know that these reach out beyond in- to these eternal and spacious habitations where as st the beginning the spirit of the Lord God walketh in the gardens in the cool of the day.
 But this most difficult work, this train ing of the heart. It is lesson to which Algebra, and differential Calculus, and the theory of Aryan word roots are simple and easy subjects. It Is no trivial job to mould mind, how much more matter of diligence and labor to control and rule heart.
 There are churches recently discover ed in Abyssinia the ancient places of worship of the primitive Abyssinian Christians, which are made in this fashion. The people went to some ob- scure place in the wilderness where the earth was solid rock. They then dug a great trench in the rock in the shape of a square, thus leaving an immense cube of rock in the centre. In this cube of solid rock, one perhaps as big as this whole church they cut out a church. They made doors, and windows, hollow ed the inside out into rooms, or one great room, left walls standing severll feet thick; when they were done they had mono1ithlc church, a church cut out iof one single stone. It was underground too, where it could never be seen, and where if seen and attacked it could be turned instantly into a stone fortress. But oh, what work? I can hardly i'm agine anything more perfectly symbolic of the labor before the man who starts in to truly fashion temple of God out of his heart; we are accustomed to think and speak of the stony heart and it is often more than half truth. It means years and toll, and unceasinz diligence to shape and fashion it into anything worthy for the worship of God. But it is worth such work. When it is finished it is refuge, defence, and temple all in one.
 I would say it yet again; educate your heart; don't grow up and know how to work, and how to think, and how to play and not know how to feel, and how to pray, and how to love, and how to enter into all the deep CT places where the heart of 8 man is brought near unto the heart ot the universe, which is the heart of the living God. Thus train yourself and deal in such ways with the children; watch their growth and see that the teaching of their young days reaches that which is more high, more wide, and more profound than body, and head, and eyes, and hands. Let it not be that they grow up and are taught to multi ply figures, and trace the course of riv- CTS, and calculate the interest on dollars, and know the intricacies of the harmon ic scale; while whether they learn any, thing of affection, and sympathy, and helpfulness, and reverence is left largely 8 matter of happening, and their good or i'll fortune tn getting & Sunday school teacher. See to it that there be as care- ~--~ NOAASeNAAAb child as in it's head. For it's own sake, for to the child and to the man, the heart has more to do with making happiness than aught else, for it's own sake wake it's life to know the deeper things than seeing and hearing and gathering gain; and for the sake of the world which that child must serve; world which needs cOmfOrters far more than laborers, which needs those who shall inspire it far more than those who shall enrich it; which needs those who shall speak unto it of the mysteries which have been from the beginning hidden from all ages and gen. erations but manifested unto those in whose hearts there is made known God with them hope of glory. For the sake of the world which the children shall grow up to serve. Educate their hearts. 1
 We hear vast deal about not preju- dicing children in religious matters about letting them examine and decide l for themselves. WHY CERTAINLY; ONLY GIVE THEM A l
 CHANGE TO DECIDE by letting them know that there are such things as worship, and love, and unselfshness, and forgiveness, and jus, tice, and mercy, and brotherly love to be decided about. You wodld have them | decide between the Coperniean and Pto- lomaic theories of astronomy by telling them about them both as they get old enough to understand them, and you feel pretty sure that they will decide