New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-16

II Is mind that conQuers. Innocency has little value
| IN an infant lnnocency and character 20 toward
value as they go toward maturity and great
| strength. saint like Francis OF Assist
| represents mind working rlghteously. Great
leaders and deliverers like Luther and Paul. repre-
| sent mind working herocaly. Great friends. like
Socrates and John. represent mind working In a
glow OF love. In oden times when noble
| youth entered into his rights as prince or king to
| him came the people bringing costly gifts. One
offered his chariot. another his seeds some
brought gold and gems. Children strewed flowers
| In the way. while young men and maidens marched
/ before singing trumpha songs. And TO the youth
entering the earthly scene comes the intellect offer
l M;, him him hIe a, tool book song prayer
wisdom lends wings to the mind, that the soul may
soar and sing; Society has climbed upward upon
against the stars But intellect has wrought every
rmSpg IN t3s ladder up which ambitious men go
no n co tn no ALPHABET no money no marriage no
fire. iron engine bridge harp. Liberty religion, It
Is called civilized Yet all these symbols OF prog
savage who lives in the sun lstlessy gloatins
as sew IS that sits in his silent
has has never come as redeemer. Some cultured
has been clothed with arts and sciences as with
radiant garments, Civilization Itself is simply
harvests of the mind. Ten talent men are few.
T aDs. far e ;s have found Ave whose
been och-making and revolutionizing But the
NOT So great as the the" sp s1c tha
| separates them from this divine carpenter whose
liberty, for learning and religion make His forehead
| TO strike against the stars
GREAT THOUGHTS AND THEMES.
Chrst's intellectual supremacy appears from the
greatness OF the thoughts and themes with which
he enriched earths Hottest spirits Scholars count
the Renaissance as one OF the greatest moments in
| the history Of arts and letters II call tho roll
OF the elect ones seeking those who enriched mans
life, we mention the names OF Dante, Raphael.
! Angelo with others like Milton and his coworkers.
thought they have borrowed from Jesus Christ
the central thought Of their glorious career In
| deed. II Is scarcely too much TO say that those
! thoughts of Christ called God" and Heaven
ears with sounds Of music To the architect came
| Christ with his thought of "A Father In Heaven
His children" Broodng over that thought. Angelo
caused his fire to point upward and standing be
bowed down and wept in the presence Of Him whom
| the heaven of heavens could not contain To the
| chapels Christ lent Madonna for the panels and
angels and seraphs for the ceilings. To the orator
those great themes called the laws of home and
happiness and heaven When some or. ,rd pngG and
some Magdaen wept bitterly for her sins, he lent
r re IN exultaht mood Joyous Gloria Remem-
being also that Christ had said; Take heed that
ers founded schools and colleges and so attained
| their fame educators Brooding over thrist
his reform in religion. From Christs thought OF
the Fatherhood OF God and the brotherhood OF
Man. Hampden and Cromwell borrowed their move we
ment for liberty The golden rule OF Christ also
lent Garrison and Phillips and their coworkers their
| 'Go We into all the world" sent Livingston into
Africa and Dun to S 70 ms S se Door and
| the weak also sent John Ruskin and General
thoughts upon friendship, home, childhood woman
| love- self-sacrifce, philanthropy religion. h
retained the novensts TO write pleas for the poor
| and weak; the poets with the In Memoriams 70
eeSnst Husce he reormer to overthrow those
who Cypress the poor the rich to pour out ' the
| common life. Though nearly three centuries nav
passed Shakespeare has had but Twelve ,,i grea al
ereat commentaries upon those immortal dramas
10 Young scholar has felt 50 interested IN me
ord o or ca in order to give his beloved poet to the
people or formuasd their r Gentry alone the in
eecual stimulus Of Chrss stSny hes and
been compiled for the furtherance OF Gnr ,ay
thoughts and the enrichment OF mems ire. IN 'deS
Of His influence upon law. literature letters ana
| life II seems hard not 70 believe III N"'l''' ''
| preInacy in the realm or inte"ec'
C11prsT AS LITERARY ARTIST.
For some reason no author has ever spoken OF
| CHRIST os earths supreme literary artist Men
| have discussed Ills ideas of childhood ana nome,
and friendship, and heaven, but they nave "..u
| themselves well away from all WORDS as W Wv
marvellous skill with which He formu'a'eu '"oue".'
| mel
| ,,e1 twice they still breathe the sound OF an
,horao, music The mystery OF style has never been
| discovered. 1t is wrapped In CLOUDS anu NY 49,,
The noet Watson thought style was high Dreeu,"e
.,t,ha, 10 4, he asks that admire In a sPIen-
dH Morse as it arches It's neck and ifs It's mag
ncent limbs? 1t IS style IL IS tne a 'V i,Draure
stYie is the mark Of the pure mental arS S6 ey
the most untainted intellectual no iun, with
asIyie' st nie But the Sermon the Mount has
| I'll is immortal, IOl III AH'
ANALYSTS style is simply great sou, rusn's hrsts
,honsbts injured by translators and p mar 9 Uy
copyists seem Ike those precious "f which
me na'us aUi,f, as to evoke the admiration OF an
5eholders Nevertheless Hls words as Drn and
thought the highest products OF genus 'na
literary art has eysF p Of %dq iSe pathetic style
was 'nS me novelist was asked what was the most
dehn story 4 IN dfFas} Gn coeTdse
knowledge 70 his ew pTSvn Sf f9a S Yet
asked the richest PassasfE d in Kean was
swered ne ard artist. but there one passage
So fnli Of tears that he thousni no "Wome unto
properly % ths labor ana are heavy laden ana
Mi al give sS You res From the ewpSnt OF po e
statesman nncnt on the rights Of man was the sermon
on the II is striking Sss fSSd by children KID
an br,sts surer little children to come COM "n.9
Me- the sentence best ,9vea p ne IN" sentence best
not Ned bv the men the beginning Eof oa
iO,ad the world that He gave ms oIlI' 800 ms v
iove' I'M In hours OF health and success men may
oVe the ajestc pages OF Webster or t Scholars
tetesmen alike excaim: Read me me wOa9s
a. Jesus Christ; they alone breathe 'he '""e'
OF eternity"
CHRIsTs RESERVE POWER
Consider Christs enormous inteliec'uai D.
On.imism Is consciousness or hidoeh rese'F 49,,
, q, ,ouer,v NJ resource Victory s with him
VINO holds the last fact in the case. The poets Oh
despair Ike Arnold and Thomson ieel .". ~.