The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-18

have ceasedt to think, and pious be-
cause not virile enough TO be impious.
but the man who has ceased to learn
is forever disqualified to teach, and
the real leaders Of our generation are
those who are proud to be students
fforevermore. Disciples Jesus called
his followers-that is, students. Not
professors of religion Not even
Christians did he call them, bat stu
dents, men of the open MINI and the
willing heart. men who had found the
teacher and put themselves TO scho )l
forever. The true student as he leaves
college halls should resolve that IL he
cannot keep up his studies in a literal
sense, he will at least keep the STUDENT
attitude through life; that he will for
ever commune with nature in her visi-
BILE forms; forever live in fellowship
with the noblest spirits of the past who
have expressed themselves in litera-
ture, science and art: forever keep his
soul four-square to all the winds that
bow. and look for light from every
quarter of the sky: forever keep the
power to wonder and receive. and to
greet the unseen with a cheer
THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
THE truly strenuous life is interior.
IL consists not merely in scaling heights
bristling with cannon. but in graphing
quering some new crest of knowledge
every day, and dying with face toward
the sunrise. If the day ever comes
when you students shall say in science.
Here is the Ultima Thule of human
knowledge or in public life, Here IS
the final limit OF civic duty or in re-
lgion. Here is n formula beyond which
human thought can never go'-on that
day you will be mentally dead. In the
Pllgrim's Progress IL is written
They laid the Pilgrim in chamber
racing toward the sunrise and the
name Of that chamber was peace III
you want peace, you will find II is not
in mere content with yesterday. but In
racing the radiant dawn OF Gods great
tomorrow
Every man who has seen much OF
the world knows how the love of gain
otten befogs utterly ones mental
vision. Recently in one OF our great
cities ] met young physician whom
1 had known years before as a man of
ioftiest ideals. What are you doing
hereY / said. My main object inst
now. he answered. my main object Is
10 get together as many dollars as /
possibly cam Physical sustenance is.
indeed, essential to life But the man
who can truly say that his main oh
Ject is to get together as many dollars
as possible. whether he succeeds or
rails, has coarsened his own mental
fbre. has distorted his moral persnec
tive. so that henceforth. everywhere.
the great will seem to him small. and
the trivial Will appear the magnificent.
"A college engaged in the task OF rails
ing funds must be specially on lis
guard lest IL come TO view questions
simply from commercial standpoint.
Better far TO remain poor forever than
TO have all the wealth OF Ormus or of
L
by our fathers.
UNTRUE To INNER LIGHT.
In another American city recently
public meeting OF citizens was called
to protest against great public
wrong. Many OF the leading business
men of the city were invited to act as
vice presidents OF the meeting. Almost
none consented. and one Of them wrote
thus: 4 am hampered should like 10
act as vice president OF the meeting.
But / am president Of the insurance
company. The political affiliations OF
this company are such that III the In
surance commissioner chose to vent his
wrath. we should lose hundreds OF
dollars. | dare not act publicly.
when man is thus untrue to his
inner light. can we expect him 10 per-
ceive the truth? Can we value his
opinion in municipal affairs. or in
philanthropy, or education. or religion?
False 10 the inner voice. he has so per-
verted his own mental processes that
he can no more find the truth than "a
magnetized watch can keep true time.
But " n man is absolutely genuine. IL
he is sincere in wori. anu Thought. anu
deed. he Is on his way to all the truth
OF God. lie may be I'm poverty. but he
will be rich IN truthl He may be shut
out OF school, and college but he can
not be shut away from the light that
lighteth every man He may not be
ries the true shekinah within. He may
sleep on n stony pillow. but from the
pillow shall ascend a Jacobs ladder TO
the sky He may be scourged and cru
cited. but on the third day he shall