The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-09-10
Rev. Anna GaT|In Spencer
breaches a Powerful Sermon.
ALL MANKIND IS OF ONE MIND
Evsr Nation Is Seeking Divine Light, Each
ID It's Own Particular Way, and All
Receive the Inspiration.

A poem entitled Each In His Owr
Tongue" suggested the sermon which
was delivered by the Rev. Anna Garlir
Spencer. at the Bell Street Chapel yes
terday morning. Mrs. Spencer recited.
with much expression, the following
stanzas. from which were CLEANED the
woof and warp of her discourse:
EACH IN HIS OWN TONGUE.
A fire mist and a planet.
A crystal and a CELL
A jelly-fish and saurian,
And caves where the cave men dwell;
Then sense OF law and beauty
And face turned from the clod.-
Some call 1t Evolution,
And others call it God.
A haze on the far horizon
The infinite, tender sky
The ripe, rich tint of the corn-fields,
And the wild geese sailing high
And all over upland and lowland
The charm OF the golden-rod,-
Some OF us call II Autumn,
And others call IL God.
Like tides on crescent sea beach
When the moon is new and thin.
Into our hearts high yearnings
Come yelling and surging in,-
Come from the mystic ocean,
Whose rim no foot has trod,-
Some of us call ii longing,
And others call ii God.
A picket frozen on duty
mother starved for her brood
Socrates drinking the hemlock,
And Jesus on the rood:
And millions who. humble and nameless,
The straight. hard pathway trod.-
Some call IL conservation,
And others call IL God.
William Herbert carruth, In the Mo-
vember New England Magazine.
TRUTH is UNIVERSAL.
BY clear and logical analysis the fact
was brought out that we can get truth in
any tongue that all mankind is one. not
only in physical needs, but one In COM
mon interests, intellectual cravings and
moral aspirations which are ministered
to by thousand influences which cannot
be translated. each into the others
tongue.
In speaking OF the divine life which ex-
lists in every human soul of whatever
tongue, Mrs. Spencer said: 1T Is not true
that India and Africa and China waited
Christian missionary stepped upon the
and purity and humility have known no
equivalents of speech or act outside of
Christian tongues.
Each In his own tongue, men and wom-
en- OF every tribe and nation and OF every
age, have spelled out this one ineffabe
name that no language can fifty write.
Even in his own tongue every human
soul which is illumined by the light that
iighteth every one who cometh into the
world, praclaims the highest and seeks to
make 1t manifest. Some are farther
along than others and they should lead
the rest.
WORSHIP is HUMAN.
1--WE do not understand our distant
brothers. speech. and we sometimes dare
10 sneer at or despise his emblems of the
Divine.
"'Do you think. asks our Chinese minis
ter, Wu, that one of your own countries
would take it kindly If Confucian or ?
Buddhist priest from my country were &c
call your pictures of Christian saints
wicked idols and your golden crosses, In
your churches, lying or superstitious en-
blcms
Each In his own tongue; each with a
too faint accent on one side OF truth
doubtless. and each with an over empha-
sis upon some favorte point of view. = 4
to be human is TO worship and aspire: tc
seek me light and 10 follow and no hu-
man being is left wholly without the cir
Gle OF illumination; still less is any class
or race OF men left out OF the Divine pur-
pose OF progress and inspiration.
I'VE cannot carry. religion TO any peo-
pie we cannot create the religious in
etinct in any single human soul. We car
and should offer our highest conception
freely, to all. and to translate In terms
OF the universal mind and heart-all that
seems best to u.s.
FRIDAY EVENING LECTURES.
Arrangements are now In progress by
the chapel society, with regard to the
Fridayievening lectures which have for
several seasons past proved so interest
ing and valuable to a very large number
OF the intelligent men and women ol this
city.
AS is well known-the Bell street chapel
society seeks TO promulgate the advanced
thought OF the leading minds OF the age
IN ethical. political, sociological and euu-
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