The Newtown bee., 1900-08-31

another is built out of many circum
 stances, all touched and softened by thu Divine Love; from the beautiful world into which we are born, to the house thai
 A HUNDRED SACRED ASSOCIATIONS HAVE MADE HOME.
 We settle down in each nest with sense
 of rest and finality, and have no wish te
 risk ourselves in the depths outside oul
 little life. Left to ourselves we had
 never cherished any spiritual ambition
 we had never wished to use our wings.
 But Providence, sometimes by rude
 shocks, sometimes by gentler compul.
 sions, dislodges us from our place and
 casts us forth where we must fly or be
 dashed to pieces. The great changes of
 life are moments of supreme adventure
 when we bid goodbye to the homes
 which with hundred familiar surround
 ings, bid us stay, and commit ourselves to the unknown with it's depths below
 and it's heights above. Every new de-
 parture Is an abandonment of security 1;
 1t is an expedition into an unexplored and mysterious region. It is venture of the soul" (Potter's Wheel, pp. 13-16).
 How general is the expression, coming even from the lips of many hard work ing man: "I should not labor unless l had to-" And often we gaze wistfully at that savage who lolls in the shade on the hot summer hours, and ''visions that awaken discontent' seldom startle his days or haunt his dreams. The father who has gathered fortune about his family is seldom without the anxiety lest they, used to every material delight, shall lack the thrift and purpose which won him success. Therefore does our Creator leave TO tomorrow secure, and into the most assured safety come with awful warning the most distressing dis asters. The picture drawn by Drum mond of the winds which chill the savage, driving him to skins for clothing, the rain which forces him to provide shelter, the thirst which leads him to seek the spring, the ever recurring hunger that plunges him into the dangers of the thus by hardships becoming strong, by difficulties learning shrewd- ness and invention, by family cares being refined from gyoss selfishness into some form of love-this process which makes a man out of brute never Is absent from any generation, seldom fails long iR any in some form to produce un- rest.
 Ethnologists carry us back in imagina- tion to the first Aryan home, where the first progenies of our race-perhaps in Western Russia, may be north of the Himalayas, we know not where-dwelt| simply in the care of their focks. Soon however the home grounds became too small for the support of the increasing thousands and some more venturesome than the others were impelled by the bangs of hunger, but also by thirst for to leave the home nest for fields unknown. Thus wave upon wave, separated by centuries of time, d owed out and on. The Celts were urged on to France, to Great Britain and Ireland :; the Teutons pressed close behind and even crowded into their British isles ! the Grec-oLatin branch swept into South Europe; and taking up the impulse the lair skins swarmed down among the natives of India and Persia; while the being perhaps the last to I eaYe, remained closer at home in East Russia. Thus does the unnameable, in- | definite impulse to move, whether to | get food or find freedom, urge Abraham l 70 seek new home in Canaan and Israel | 70 escape from slavery into it's land of I Promise; 90 does Boone leave the com- I forts of the coast to seek the perils of ! Indian and grizzly in an untried frontier | and the Pilgrim to be left conscience Tree leaves the abode of Christianity to tound new commonwealth. Likewise,
 mpelled by the knowledge of best ad- Edison is satisfied with no machine until he has tried every possi- | oility of invention. In the same manner, Britons by natural growth fill the farms md cities of their home, but then finding | heir beloved isle too small, push out
 toward the setting and then to the risi, s Jun and at last to those frozen regions where there is unbroken day-that they nav find room. Within the youth, in he inventor and explorer, the conner ,ial traveller and the foreign invader, yes