The age-herald., 1900-04-01

1 the whole family happier by his presence; 1 to renounee when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered; to keep few l friends but these without equalization; l above all on the same given conditions, to keep friends with himself,-here is task 1 for all that a man has of fortitude and deli 1 cacy.''
 Burns might have called this the pathos and sublime of human life for it is noble l in it's pathos and pathetic in its granduer | It Is in it's real significance the royal road
 across the marshes to the foot of the hill,
 and so up the slope, winding in and out amongst the stony spurs and spanning the l deep places, till the howery. grassy, song
 haunted, sun-kssed summit shimmers a
 vast plain even unto the horizons far
 verge. Somewhere in the soul of every
 mortal there is cherished, distinctly or In
 faintest shadowy form, a dream ot some place even in this world where there snail | be peace for the wicked and the weary Yea!
 there is none wandering however far from l the way that is right who does not now
 and then catch something of the perfumed | air that comes gently down from the | higher life. The devils spear may burn and 1 bruise and beat down, but it cannot reach
 the sweetly ringing Angelus bell, nor stay l the notes rolling out toward the soul Of 1 all them that are heavy-laden and sore
 needful of rest For Marguerite and for l Faust there is cleanliness and-heaven! The spirit of honesty, kindness, renuncia- 1 ton, this assuredly Is hope, morals, re- l lision, earthly joy that makes for traa1s- cendent bliss. Without such spirit there
 can oe no joy in tn.s world, no happiness
 in dreams, no hope of the unmeasured, I uncounted aftertime promised Of the
 fathers The superfic!es of things wrong
 ful often offers entlcing alIurements but
 indulsence can give no real enjoyment. Much measure of animal satisfaction may come for the moment from the violation cf moral laws, and there be no real pun ] i.hment apparent; for against sin plated 1 in gold tae lance of justice hurtless breaks, or, wrapped in grossness, TO sense of shame shall come. But the human volators do not have so full a degree of comfort as
 that which comes to swine at the swlll-
 trough. Full-bellled swine rest upon their sides and grunt placidly and contentedly, 1 without sin or consciousness of wrong, and 1 without physical or mental pain. They l have 'orows that tnrob, no stomachic 1 fah,ss. They do not carouse all night till l troad daylight; are not called upon to i think, think, think, o think of their heads 1 in the morning. They have no remorse of 1 conscience for women wronGed; they suf- 1 fer not such pains as affiet the wine-bib- l Der, they do not have to contend with the 1 terrors that are in the brain born of 1 Nrongfulness and w.ckedness. The swine 1 at the swill-trough are more fortunate than I men who go astray. for men have the 1 power of reason and bear the burden of l it's responsibility. Most of us know how 1 it is, most of haye envied the swine after we have been guilty Of excessive in- dulgence of dcpraved appetites passions | or purposes in conflict with the commonly accepted laws of ordinary morality. The 1 tlutb in these particulars, as in all essen- 1 ttal things, Is it's own exponent.
 
 Most of us need to pray for the gift of renunciation without attendant bitterness; We need to do works meet for our own re- demption, so that the song of the robin | may differ upon our ears from the cawing of the rock; the laughter of an innocent child be more musical than the inane gulf fan and thoughtless oaths of the brawler; the flush of dawn more enticing than the garish lights of the town; the flowers of the fields sweeter than the beads upon the gob- let's brim; the hymn nobler than the dis cord of the dance-house the noises of the mountebank at the crossing of the streets the caresses of the brave at home tenderer than forbidden ndiscetions the nobler du- ties of manhood of nobler solaee than the transgressions of the nebler moralities; the aims, objects and duties of the true man more comforting than the beguile- ment of sinfulness. Above all, we need to restrain all selfish impulses and desires, and to lift the fallen and strengthen the falt- ering.
 He is not the man of the text who has not in his heart charity for all men. It is grossly human to err; it is nobly human to seek the rescue of the erring. The cynic said that a man falls never so low that some woman or some dog does not love him. Unwittingly the cynic paid trib- ute to the faithfulest fidelity known of the world No man falls so low that there is not some hand ready and willing to up- lift him if he but consent and strive for his own regeneration. This must remain duty imposed by the higher humanties, an obligation resting upon all really good men. Whosoever leaves fellow being, for the time irresponsible, to walk the way to the devil is unmindful of charitys tender teachings. Kind words, sympathy, timely strengthening, will often save even the most besotted, those most steeped in vice. The unfeelng sheer, the contemptuous repulse when there may be reasonable hope of res cue serve to drive the weak far into the cavern of the internal. So long as a erea- ture is not unwilling to be saved he may be saved. Men must be kind, must culti- vate the spirit of charity, the spirit of real renunciation; must renounce all bigotry, intolerance narrowmindness, dishonesty, self-righteousness. By this shall they ob- tain peace for themselves and secure peace for the wayward.
 When the kings messengers arrived to claim Richilieu's cherished ward, the great cardinal stayed monstrous sin by drawing around the trembling Julie the awful circle