The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-07-17

poor creature knows nothing apout
 Pauls joy of saving men. Until he has
 experienced it he will laugh at Paul
 pretense that he is a happy man. It
 was of such people the apostle was
 thinking when he said But with me 1t :, is very small thing that l should be 1 judge of you" Can you imagine a but | ter1y wanting to become worm agaln,
 despising its beautiful wings, detesting
 the honey of the flowers, and longing to
 go back again to the old selfish, lazy
 life of feeding on leaf? Paul had en-
 tered upon a higher life, and from its
 vantage point he made the proud decla- ration, which almost seems like concelt,
 and which some of his followers have
 used in that way, but which neverthe- l less contains a marvellous truth-'He
 that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet
 he himself is judged of no man. He
 that discerneth," is the meaning of the
 Greek text He knows the higher things.
 He has superior insight He judgeth,
 not "all men, but "all things.
 real religious experience is like coming
 out of narrow close, superficial recep-
 tion-room, where the conversation has all been on wealth, and scandal and style, into the free air of night where the l bright. blazing constellations speak Of | infinitude. where the frightened and knit | soul expands to the measure of the uhl-
 verse, where the faith ascends the throne l of time and restores our belief in the
 everlasting realities of God. Do you not
 know certain pupils In the school you at 1 tended as a child who had no idea that
 reading and writing were things they
 were going to use in after years? They looked upon the tasks of the school room as things of the moment. They | had no vision They did as little as pos
 sible. and avoided doing everything If ! they could. The object of life was play. , Have vo1 not seen this on a little larg-
 CT scale? Are there not people ln the
 great school of life who have no idea
 that faith and sympathy and patience and gentleness and generosity are things
 they are going to take with them into
 another world? They have no vision | They judge these things by the way
 in which they can make them minister
 to lower desires and comforts. Unless
 God has one law for this world and
 another for the next. these people are
 as unprepared for death as are the boys
 who neglect their tasks in the school un- prepared for the responsibilities thar
 await them without the doors. It takes
 some vision of an ideal life to carry us through the world; how much more 1t
 is necessary to carry us beyond it. Like l the morning incense of the flowers
 swung by the zephyrs, like the lark in
 the far off blue with heaven in his
 throat. like the aurora with purple pen | mons flying to meet the rising sun Is the
 birth of a new love in the human heart | When Michael Angelo was in Bologna
 producing his first works of art lle was
 so poor that he could not have his
 younger brother come to visit him be- cause he had but one bed in which he
 and three others all slept; but yet he
 labored on, striving to breath into his
 statues that spirit of strength and beauty that was in his soul, and that would not let him rest until it was made
 manifest. Mozart composed his "Re- 1 ouiem'' when oppressed with debt and | struggling against fatal disease, which l eventually overcame him just as he had | discharged his obligations and had left | barely enough money to bury him; but | he was borne above his difficulties on l angel-winge by the symphonies and 1 heavenly choruses that were in his | heart striving to express themselves. l Milton wrote his Paradise Lost" after he had been driven out of his own par
 adise of bodily strength and political | power. when blind, decrepit and defeat l ed in hope; but the bright light of the marvellous epic within overcame the dis | commencement of the darkness without, | and enabled him to keep up heart and | hope and still bear up and steer right ] onward" George Stephenson was one of eight children. The whole family lived | in q single room. George had to watch | cows for a living. But there was a Vis- ion in his heart, and one day he made 1 an engine out of mud, with hemlock sticks for pipes. This was the first in- carnation of his ideal. Despite obstacles l and poverty and rebuffs he was urged l onward by the vision until he gave the world the first steam engine, Horace | Greedy, as a boy, camped cut many
 2 night on his fathers farm in western l Pennsylvania, to guard the sheep from wolves. But in his dreams he marked
 out another career for himself. He ob- | tained a place on the Erie Gazette" '"
 He sent his money home, and in
 seven months only spent six
 dollars on himself At last he started
 for New York. walking sixty miles
 through the woods to Buffalo. He went