The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-02-15
with q child and went home to heaven
with q converted robber.

"AoAA - SouNCTUCu TOUUCTs
1t is said that people fulfil rela-
ton. They perform orbits around
each other, each gyrating, too, upon
his own axis, so that there are parts
of the character of each which are
never brought into view of the other"
The hard and unyielding life is not
only the reprehensible life but the life
OF failure; it throws itself out right of re-
lations with other life. 1t is abnormal
and reacts disastrously upon itself as
with Shylock, the Jew. True life is
life in harmonies The self-centered
man will see his situation if he were in
the world alone. Other life makes
life tolerable. We feel the force and
influence of other life and commune
with it although we cannot Judge it.
When we come to that, life is complex
and full of mystery. The individual
life, in it's inmost heart shares its Sc
crets alone with God. People move on
different planes of life determined by
their temperaments, experiences, edu
cation and intellectual and spiritual
susceptibilities. They do not entirely
understand each other and so often mis-
interpret each others motives. This is
seen to be true in all life relations.
Business life cannot come to the same
opinion. Where parties differ they
comeat it by compromises. No man
can stand unyiellingly upon what he
deems his full rights, or judge another
man by his own virtue. Our supposed
rights may not be our re al rights, they
may interfere with another mans
rights; if they so do, they are not our
rights. Because in Judgment we do
not know all of the facts we ought to
be, toward all men, where no vital
principle is involved, yielding, con-
ciliatory and forgiving. In some re-
spects along this line this is a peculiar
age; it is an age before all others for
the discovery of the individual man
and of the individual conscience. There
is more respect for man as man.
Human life is more reserved than it
was. Heart secrets are not, as of olden
time, matters of commerce even be-
tween intimate friends. Orators do
not rove the people in masses. The
individual and independent vote has
sto baareck oned With ii politics. And
so with the individual conscience in all
matters of moral reform. Again in
determining the influence and power of
christianity; there is religion outside
of existing forms and organized insti-
thtions. Creeds are being simplified;
there are men who make no outward
profession, who want the communion
on their death bids, who have lived a
life of prayer and have tried to regu-
late their lives by the teachings of
Jesus Christ.
This is symptom of our time and is
the influence of Jesus in the world and
upon all life. 1t is a growing power in
Christianity and fruit of it which is
not gathered up into our religious
statistics in the record of the year. 1t
is the vitality of Jesus throbbing
through the heart and affecting the life
of the world. Of all times these are
not the times to judge the hearts of
mem Jesus said of the men of his day
'judge not that we be not judged. "
The Christians were not even to Judge
the Pharisee He said we may know
men as we know trees-by their fruits:
by their outward conduct, and appar-
emit graces but.of the true fruit of grace
ripe, rich and ripely favored in the
heart, even Jesus declined to positively
determine. He said, 81 come not to
judge and yet if Judge my judgement
is true for it is not 1 that judgeth but
my Father" Paul's plea here is for
charity, for kindness and patience with
the faults and weaknesses of others.
If differing human lives eyer come
to their perfect understanding and
agreement it shall be when all have
come into the likeness of the elder
brother, and there is no desire so dear
to the human heart as that of the time
ofwhen we shall have perfect command
ourselves and are able to live coutinu-
ally in right relation with God and
with all other life: and hence in our
noblest powers and impulses, where the
soul is never seen to be untrue to it.
self nor swept by the storms of evil
passion. 1t will then find its highest
experience in charity and mercy and
it's highest JOY IN loving service. The
word of God teaches, and all expert
ence likewise, that whether in life that
now is or that which is to be, life can
only reach It's Golden Age" when it
lives in the spirit of the Golden Rule.
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