The Newtown bee., 1900-08-31

swelling of spiritual dislodgemen
 which tears the heart from home o,
 friend or country for a sphere that is
 large enough
 TO GIVE THE SOUL THE USE OF ITS WINGS,
 Seldom does an Abraham understand or
 the emigrsnt know the full import of
 life's changes, often we smart and groan
 under the mysterious hand of circum.
 stances that pours the wine into new
 vessel, or tears the nest from under our
 limbs. Sometimes before life's close we
 find that good Father is our disturber
 at least the centuries of the perspective
 make the unrest of the Aryan, the im- pulse of the Pilgrim now to shine with
 the glory of God, whose hand is more
 and more clearly seen.
 But this truth awakens wealth of
 suggestion almost unlimited, and let me
 in more definite manner briefly indicate
 the most central spiritual dislodgements
 that are apt to shock any soul which has age.
 l. Often the first momentous dislodge. ment, certainly primal in importance and universal, is the dawning of conscious maturity. One absent for year or two from home Is astounded to fiud the changes among faces to him once perfect ly familiar. As the plant of fable grew and blossomed in night, 80 do the boys and girls of the morning become the men and women of an evening tide. It is so sudden and marked as to be revolution. The change from solid water into gaseous steam at the bursting of one degree of heat Is not more remarkable. It is actually the birth into new world. Old things have passed away, the eyes have previously been holden-now they see and know.
 A wonderful wisdom and love guides the bark over this sea. Sometimes the boy fl ashes at the uncontrolled croak- ings or shriekings of voice, often he awakens in the morning hardly to know himself-but for the most part the care. ful parent of the world shields the soul from the too great shock of continual self discovery, and merely thrills life in mild wonder and eager hope. But when the transition is completed and the l sleeping traveller awakens in the bright | dawn of that soul city where he Is to dwell until an angel carries him over a | still vaster sea to yet grander home-| then can he realize the journey he has taken and rejoice in the manhood whither he has come.
 Now does he find that the noticeable l physical changes are far less momentous | than the mental and spiritual body | evolved in that hidden and most vital | transformation. The simplicity of trust and behavior, the dependence and imita. tion of bent, the quiet tenor hardly dis turbed by ambition, traits common to boy and girl alike, have forever in large part passed away. Then is the glow time of romance and now does it rest l with teacher and parent whether this one, once child, sshall have cultivated an imagination that discerns the unseen in things, the poetic instead of the rocky prose of life's road. Now do many new instincts throw the soul into conflict and, as not before, is determined whether the predominant feelings shall be shame or honor, courage or fear, gallantry or boorishness, heroism or mediocrity. l. Then do the companions chosen, the books read, the habits formed, the pur-t pose claimed, the subject of cne's love, the instilIing of royalties, become of vital moment. In no other two years, are 80 many fair craft shipwrecked forever, or an eternal sublimity made sure. fl
 THIS IS A DIsLODGEMENT
 sent by God when the child of a front yard may become owner of spheres; the learner of a lesson one who knows the , mystery of the universe; when the con. ner of line enters into the beauty of poetry, and the one who could trust a parent and enjoy a playmate, knows a { lifelong adoration, and the meaning of Small, delicate, cramped, l is child-a plaything; vast, majestic, creative, God ] soul of 8 strong, noble man.
 Thank God for this tumult of the years, 4 whence if friends shield and guide as the l Disturber desires, soul issues into the ( light of limitless day.
 2, Note next the disruptive power of a