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self. and thus he may become lne
medium Of a thought oh intelligence
that ls universal He lives no more
his own selfish llfc but lets nus con-
sclousness becomes possessed anu hut
fused by the infinite and etelual llig
OF the spirit. And although ne mus
surrendcrs himself 30 order 20 I'VE 'ng
life OF absolute reason. yet thht to
which he surrenders is ln reality nus
truer life. II "a not "a NE that is ioi-
elgn or oppressive 20 MN. III ~
above. but Is also within nm. IN
acknowledging It's sovereignty ne S
not submitting 20 any arpHIaIy IA"
or 10 any external authority put 10 "a
law that becomes hts own, an authorl-
ity enthroned In the very essence OF nus
own NE and reason. Tie thus allalhs
10 the ideal perfection OF his own ma
ture. and he has no thought no WISH
that is not In harmony Win lnal pm,
ciple which Is the light ana lie OF al
this Wonderous world
RELIGIOUS INSIGHT
what philosophy. thus laboriously
demonstrates, by cold logic fehsioouuss
Insight has been aware OF since tle
very dawn OF revelation u I'VE yet
not ], but Christ llveth in me- writes
the Apostle 1T Is God mat W0rketn
In me to viii and 90 do of hls sooa
pleasure" IAN things are OF Coo,
who hath raconcled US 10 Himself,
II the knowledge and love OF COD
truly mean, as / have supposed herein,
the Identification of OF my thought ana
being with that which is above and
yet IN me--the universal or absolute
q TO- af.NN A.. fHt|H
but In which We all alike hnd the re-
allzatlon and perfection OF our nature,
then 1 understand the Scriptures Inc
eternal purpose which DC purposod In
Himself" TO mean that the consumma .
ton To which we advance Is that God
may be an In all" These and similar eX-
presslons seem to me to give expression
20 that which today science and phil
osophy must humbly repeat as the
sum and result Of all their teachings,
the final decision Of their respective
investigations. Truth Is, therefore,
something more than our own thought
tried and verified II is the thought
God Himself. a. Is more than perish.
able human thought. II Is the thought
OF the Eternal Cowper says
"The works OF man Inherit, as is just,
Their authors frallty aud return TO
dust,
But truth divine forever stands Sc
cure.
It's head as guarded as It's base is sure.
Fixed In the rolling flood OF endless
years.
No pillar Of the eternal plans appears,
The raying storm and dashing wave
denes,
Built by that architect who built the
skies
Browning declares that truth is,
"Thunderpealed by God TO nature,
whispered by my soul to me
Schiller says:
Truth is more than a dream or
song and even Swift maintains that
Truth Is eternal
TRUTH rs THE THOUGHT OF GOD.
The emotion Of Joy which We feel in
the discovery OF truth may therefore
be due to the fact that we are discoy-
ering the thought Of God. which Is only
another name for our own truest and
highest thought To be- truly ourselves
Is 20 be ike God, TO think truly Is 10
think like Him To discern truth
has always seemed 70 great students
more Ike a recollection Of something
once known and forgotten for awhile.
than the requirement Of anything alb
solutely new or foreign. Truth has
therefore a meaning beyond and far
above the propositions which IL states
and the human ideas which II formu-
lates. II is a knowledge, not only Of
our own mind, but Of the mind Of the
Creator Of earth and sky and all that
Is therein While therefore, the teach
er may fail 20 acquire many OF the
things that make life pleasant, he does
acquire the mind Of the Eternal God
and In the consciousness, more or less
vague Of this fact, may be found that
singular devotion to truth which char
acerizes earnest students. and that
power which the profession Of teaching
and the pursuit OF knowledge have al
ways exercised over the minds OF the
devotees Tor martyrs. whichever you
prefer 70 these professions.
II is this fact which explains the love
OF nature, and shows why art takes
nature for her model, and why from
contact with nature in filling the soil,
arise the virtues Of patience, perse-
verence, self-restralnt, ana a VIII 10
work. which ne at the foundation Of
human progress
Says Dr. Harris: THE mind finds In
nature us own rational principles, its
own differences. It's own mental Gre
atlons. Man finds In nature the eX-
preston Of his own reason. We eX-
plore the outward world and We find
IL the expression Of the intelligence Of
which We are conscious In our own
minds: we find II COnfOrmed 90 the
Ia oh falH
own thinking. We observe bodies and
their motions. but they conform 10 the
laws Of mind and express It's thought
Nature is scientifically known only as
we know the thought Il expresses. II
nature were not the expression Of in
telligence like our own there could be
no science. II nature were not already
the expression NJ ideas II could never
be translated into thought
THE LOVE OF NATURE.
THE love OF nature" says Ruskin,
rs an inyarlable sign OF goodness OF
heart. and justice of moral perception
when Il Is originally absent from the
mind. that mind Is In many respects,
hard, worldly. and degraded; and
where having been originally present,
IL IL repressed by art or education. that
repression appears 70 be detrimental TO
the person suffering from IL"
Mature never did beray
The heart that loved her; It's her privi-
lege
Through all the years OF this our life TO
lead
From Joy to Joy; for she can so in
form
The mind that Is within us that neither
evil tongues
Rash Judgments, nor the sneers OF sell
FISH men
Shall ere prevail against us, or dis
turb
our cheeful faith. Wordsworth.
The love Of truth is therefore almost
identical with the love Of God, To
love and 10 pursue truth for its own