The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-09-01

by "NEHO."
The New Managed. He walks
down the hill without idle protest, fol
he knows that one long procession OF
human beings have gone the same
way. If ever, for a moment, a ques-
ton arises in his mind as to why il
should all be, he calmly answers il
himself by declaring that he is no
more worthy than others to be ex-
cepted from the great rule Of progress.
Therefore, though he is conscious that
The buoyancy Of youth and the virility
Of manhood have gone by forever, the
western sky is to him no sky ofmeuace
but a sky Of promise, conceaiing greater
things beyond the portals Of the sun
set. He knows that the sunset Of
nature gets its glory from the particles
that have been caught up from the
mass of the waters and now shine back
beauty that to the whole is possible;
for are not the clouds with all their
varied tints only water? And i'm the
sunset, he sees humanity ever beckoned
onward to peaceful night and another
day, by the beauty that shines back
upon us all from those who have been
lifted up. Yet in humility, each
particle Of those iridescent clouds seems
to itself gray only and colorless So he
realizes that only as a transformed life
is shined upon 10y broader purpose
than itself and is glorified by power
that goes on while human power
ceases-thus only can life-end be as
it should be. Content, therefore,
though his own life seem fruitless, he
knows that no matter how feeble its
protest against evil or its actual per-
formance Of good, the broader purpose
of humanity will take that effort to
itself and out Of the many efforts in
one make sunset hope and promise
Of better things yet to be on the earth
that is left behind.
The new n--aged-prOtests against
the fossil tendency that makes men
find the admirable things only in the
buried past-that vague and limitless
term called 1.-THE good old days" The
new man may indeed dig in the an
cient qualifications Of life, but his ten
dency is to discover in the past Of hui
manity, just as the scientist does in the
rocks, mainly saurians, ichthyOsauri,
mastodons, pterodactyls-things that
tore and lorded it through fear and
that afirighted. He says that the good
times are these times; that there never
were any better; and with the eye Of
the seer he foretells that though in the
conceit of our own doings, we think
the pinnacle Of humanity has been
reached, yet there are times still to
dawn that shall transcend ours much
as ours have transcribed those that
went before.
The new n-aged-believes i'm hui
manity with his whole soul, not As be-
ing yet perfect, not even within sight
of perfection, but as having its sub
stance permeated with the possibilities
Of perfection. And for this reason he
can cheerfully lay down the task that
he has attempted, and at which he has
progressed; for he knows that all good
work is but preliminary step to bet
ter, and that no work is lost. His faith
may indeed seem fOO'ishness TO those
who have not the eye TO see things in
visible. His faith is simply the faith
Of the scientist who sees in the humid.
lest and most hidden plant a law at
work that absolutely prevents waste;
change of form indeed there may be-
but annihilatiOn never; 50 that though
an effort may vanish, much as a body
resolves itself into its original gases,
yet nothing is lost. This is his faith
and he cllngs to it as the answer that
death gives to the human questioning.
He must believe in watchfulness oyer
things moral and spiritual by the great
architect of all or he will curse God
for allowing things moral and spiritual
ever to enter the human heart, only
after all to be vanishing mockeries Of
human effort.
But let us touch for little while on
some less serious aspects Of the new
managed. The young love him be-
cause he does not come into their pres
ence to depress. His head indeed may
be gray but his heart is young and out
of the fullness Of the heart the mouth
speaketh; 50 that in all things which
beckon youth forward on the beau
teous way of high life, he is with them
not to discourage but to cheer, not TO
prate of better past but to give them