The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-17

able currency and as we are tempted to
indulge in irredeemable babble and talk
we are also threatened with the evils OF
a runaway activity. The better half of
the world seems to have sort of walking
fever BY sitting down with yourself Tor
& half hours meditation and you Will
know what l mean. Meditation is lost
art. We must be saying something or
doing something or we are restless and
miserable
There are fathers who might about as
well be machines for turning out food
and raiment for their families. The-,
work like machines. during the day and
stop like machines at night. Many OF us
when not at work are as dead as cotton
mill on Sunday. No one would ever sus-
pect that there was living creature In
the wheels. Over-actiVity is making
workmen were cogs and masters mere
fly-Wheels. Men seem to be driven by
steam. The three RS are no longer read
ing, writing and arithmetic, but routine,
restless and rush. When man is THOR
oughly possessed by these three Rs his
business place becomes a sort of engine
house and his home a bit of siding on
which he cools of his engine and takes
So over-activity will sometimes es-
TRANCE the heart from its God as IL some
times estranges il from dear ones at
home. Activities take the place OF eifec-
tions. In working for something when
we may have we forget what we must be.
The provided is put above the father the
worker above the worshipDer. Success
gets more attention than sanctity- Our
ideals of only divorce do good and be
good Now each Is necessary to the
other. but be good is at the very heart
of the family of graces.
The man with the hottest tasks and
most sacred responsibilities is In danger
of the saddest neglects. 1t is so easy TO
make one religious service an excuse
for neglecting another. We may put pub
lie worship against private as the monks
sometimes put private against public, we
should care for both The church is no
his
the church If, however. there is any dlf-
ference in the Importance of the Two
kinds of service. heart service must come
first. He is not to be trusted with other
mems souls who is unfaithful to his own
In so far as Christian work is corrective
we have special need of st. Pauls inJunc-
ton. for the critical or corrective spirit in
US is quite likely TO be nevil spirit. The
devil uses sheep to worry his lambs or
thoughtless shepherds to abuse the sheep
When we fell called to criticise our fel-
lows or to club them to right living or
anywhere out of our way, ii is high time
TO look well TO ourselves The man with
the biggest beam in his own eye is usually
the seVerest censor of his brothers MOLE
Self-knowledge is the mother of charity.
But Christianity is not chiefly corrective
or critical. 1t is inspiring and helpful. 1t
Durifies men by stimulus rather than by
repression. II takes neither brains nor
heart to find fault; ii takes both to make,
you a leader and inspirer of men. The
blind cannot lead the blind; the loving
VIII not VIII the uIlOElIiS. OF the uUSON-
ernable control the ungoverned We must
win men from the standpoint we would
win them to-
When Stephen of Collona fell into the
hands of his enemies they Knocked him.
asking, Where now is thy fortresS?"
Here was his reply. as he laid his
hand on his unconquered heart. Happy
is the man who has such an inviolate and
inviolable soul. He is inyincible. Wisdom,
work with thy might, but above all, take
heed to myself, as one suggests the tru-
est. surest way in which we can serve our
fellow men is not so much to do anything
for them as to he the very truest, purest.
noblest beings we know how, as one of
our own poets has said:
Make thy life better than thy work. Too
oour artists spend their skill in rounding
soft,
Fair curves upon their statues. while the
rough
And ragged edges of the unhewn stuff
In their own natures Startle and offend
The eye of critic and the heart of friend.
If in thy too brief day thou must neglect
Thy labor or thy life, let men detect
Flaws in thy work. While their most
searching gaze
Can fan on nothing which they may not
praise
In thy well chiseled character. The man
Should not be Swallowed by the artisan"