The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-18
.nTIpIT EDITORIALS.
INV DIR. Frank Crane mt Trinity
psii'e'' c,,caro, Preceding the Usual
chSN ~op sunday, July IL 1898.
~, RELIGIOUS TEMPERAMENT.
fcopyrighted. 1881

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hear people talk apoua su ue,ia,ams
% one having a naturai reiisiouA
sucn SACRAMENT. They say TINS one was
tsmpe .,',th a gross and worldly disposi-
born va VI that one is pious bynature. can
ION sn ,rue? And yet is COD no re-
this " Of persons when He mikes the
spee'ei &c man for holiness and or an
clay - SIM How is 1t some are born
othei an and spiritual and others born
wicked? this is that no such
ny a. reality lies against our Max
enaiss creates every man with an
en- otitu.s for His service. one
se rS Of disposition Is no more re-
IN, IN than another. Ana the REASON
u.s. sove made a mistake In the matter
WI we have narrowed the great
ui" amman religion of Christ down to
p0 little. strait and peculiar sehtl-
ment ,o COL, sniritual tenn
what kind Of a man do we
, naturally religious? The charac-
is somewhat vague, but mas lew
tei ~ marks. He is dreamy and SICK
p0'@ Lie face is pale and his forehead
be has not vigorous toe OF
peni life in him, and never shows
aim hooks. swapping bright eyes and
roaring laugh. AS boy ne aVoias
sude companions, is apt to NOPE and
= t,n,id. when he grows up he natural
:, wears mutton-chop whiskers,
III Albert coat and a last year.
..o~snine hat. no matter what may be
a. nrofession. Women call him nice,
49,, they do not love him, choosing
sotber with feminine perversity, the
rs'er.do-well, who is prone to liquor
and laxity'
II Is strange how churches, books of
aiscipline, Sunday schools, Young Men
christian associations, and, indeed, all
CHRISTIAN institutions seem to put q
nremium on this variety OF the human
bsine and make their rules, admoni-
tions and examples such as to encour-
zoe all TO become like him. He is the
hero of the typical Sunday school IL
brary story. Now, If Christianity shal
be successful and subdue all the earth
Il would be interesting to know II II
would reduce all humanity to this sor'
Of thing. And if so, is it worth while
don't want to make any harsh I'M
plications against the sickly boy o.
man. whose thin blood and washed-ou
nassions never lead him astray, but
want TO enter my objection to the the
orv that the Deity designs this as TIT
perfect type of man or that 1t is TIT
end and aim of religion to produce sucl
result.
Are you a believer of the design o
Providence as shown in the events o
history? If 50, what Go you think c
this 1ict: The overruling Power, a
one period Of history, while Christian
ity was yet comparatively young, al
lowed the monastic societies TO sprinl
up and wondrously TO thrive and multi
ply; SO that for generation after gen
Grafton the ascetic orders attracted I
themselves these naturally spiritual
persons, the sentimental and the half
baked and the morbid; and this clas
breeded not, but died out in the cell
Of the monastry and the convent, eac
succeeding generation draining q tres
supply Of this kind of people from GU
the human stock. Now, If you are
believer in the historic purpose Of Prov
idence, ask if it does not look like Go
intended to weed out tl..s class Of fol
from the human family? Does IT nc
seem as though He intended to XII
them off-as though it was the health.
chivalrous, strong type of man n
wanted to increase, while He shunte
the runts off into barren monastic OF
ders?
Now, believe the religion Of the b
bic fits one temperament full as we
as another. 1t takes to a full-bloode
man as well as to a consumptive won
an, to the dashing and vivacious 81
as well as to the moping and sickl.
sensitive boy. And the only reaso
We don't think so is because we mis-
take what Christianity means. For
means simply a love and trust OF OF
Father in heaven. A jolly, red-face
ditty-loving and storytelling fellow ca
love and trust God just as well as II
mournful recluse. The man who worl
at his days labor with a CHEEKY hea
and returning to his home plays wit
his children, laughs with his wife al
has a contented chat with a neigl
Dor, is serving God fully as much
the groaning and burdened soul tn
has taken the wicked world on his ow
shoulders. The Holy Ghost is just
much at home in the hearts OF the
who enjoy each day the simple, sal
and pure delights of life as He Is Wi
them who ever bruise their breas
against some self-tormenting thorn.
II you have q child that worries "
because he is naturally disinclined
religion, ten to one the fault Is In VIII
You call religion. You have compress
your notion of piety into one phase
lie. The Father, i think, wants ma
Kind, when once 1t is totally convert
and redeemed, to evidence all that 1
mite variety and entertaining diversi
mat we see in flowers and clouds al
animals. He wants jolly Christia
ana contemplative, pensive and WV
cious, ocular and serious, turbule
and quiet, intense and careless, and,
snort, all the interesting variegations
humanity. Christianity, the real ar
Gle, suits a Beatrice, las merry as t
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