The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-23
NEEDS AND DESIRES
OF A LARGER LIFE,
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science and IA art comes for most of as
| out OF years OF long travel.
| Ii takes he burning OF many midnight
candles in this busy age TO lead even the
/ versatile mind 20 prefer the stately
| stories OF Dickens and Thackeray 10 the
| modern novel. To delight i'm Homer. Dante
! and the other immortals rather than the
| trash poetry OF a kipling or Whitman.
| There - no royal read 10 knowledge" :"
there Is no universal inborn desire for
| truts. I'm and for itself The test OF true
| education is it's ability to implant that de-
sire.
Not on a mass OF accumulated facts.
but on the desire TO know, wisdom builds
| her castle.
What an illustration OF all this is the
| work OF charity done In our great cities
| The great task there is not the satisfy
| ing OF old wants but the creation Of new
| desires.
True charity does not furnish silver
| ana gold or men and women 10 exc out
| an existence. IL impiants the desire TO
| live on a larger. nobier plane.
Its a great day in the work OF one who
devotes mis- life 10 the aid OF those down
town in our great cities when child or
mother begins 10 water and care for some
| budding flower. Then the latent sense OF
lie beautiful has been touched. Soon the
house will be cleaner, there Will be more
sunshine and air there. the nte OF that
home will be sweeter and better.
a new motive, a new desire has en-
tered that life that one day Will de-
velop into new power.
One understands how a new desire can
be impaired by the teacher and by the
worker In the slumS.
But how shall this new desire be Gre
ated in the heart of a man so that ne
shall yearn for the sunlight OF right
eousness.
The method in all these cases is the
same.
The child taken from the dirt and sloth
of its home and placed for few days
in home OF refinement and culture goes
back with desire for something bet
ter Something better has been revealed
unto g. II has come TO know better
mode OF life
SPIRITUAL NEED OF MANKIND.
The awakening OF the spiritual need
OF men, the great duty of the church,
will come by the revelation TO men OF
a higher. nobler life. IL will he by men
marching under the banner of the cross
who melt the worlds coldness With sym
pathy and kindheartedness. who con-
front stern Judgment with tender mercy.
who oppose selhshness with sacrifice
and hate with love.
The lack OF this feeling OF need is
under the name OF Christian.
The great danger 10 the cause or
Christ is not fundamentally then the
lack of desire In mems hearts 10 seek
the Master but the worldliness, of the
church and the consequent inefrect-
iveness Of our being able 10 reveal 10
the world that we as followers of Jesus
Christ have something which in the pos
session would make life sweeter and bet
ter
MAY God help MS 20 live so close 20 the
Master that men shall see our good
works and glorify. not us or the works.
but our Father in Heaven. To he able
10 so toll and labor as 10 reveal not our
selves hu: Jesus Christ to the world. is
the idea Such Is the final OF all labor
done in the spirit Of Christ
When the individual Christian has done
this he has performed a great duty tow
ard his fellow man
He has goaded HIS neighhor then 70 ac-
ton For what man can see himself as
ne is clearly and plainly IN the light
of what he ought 70 he and not make
the effort 20 rise 20 something higher.
A FEW wears ago the learning OF the
schools and tire wisdom az the aees be-
gan 70 filter down into the lowest recess
es OF society.
The uneducated masses who earned
their bread in the sweat of their brow
began 10 thnk. To think was but 20 act.
How many men since then have lifted
themselves through sheer exertlon 60 a
higher n'anc?
They have done II nv the education ~
their minds. by teaching the hand skill
and cunning by the development of all
latent resources OF BODY and mind Men
rise thus In the industrial world
Men rise thus I'm the world of spirit
The spur IS the sense 81 need revealed
in the sesrchlieht Of some larger life
Then tho man who feels " begins to ex-
ercise the latent powers of divinity with
in him he has heard that he r. Son
of Cod; he feels the dawnins realization
~ that Son-ship.
Truth beauty. goodness begin 20 make
themselves felt I'm his life and all life
heats and expands with tho new emo
ton
Behold there comes. too. the birth of
new rower
lle hears the summons arise and walk
and he praises God for his added
strength
LARGER LIFE REVEALED
To whom shall the honor be- ro tha,
soul who by p LARGER ife revealed his
need and snurred him 10 action That
soul innlanted the rorni of new power
To discover tho iov ~ this ~ 20 dis
course tho source ~ sweet waters There
h. no Satisfaction equal 10 that ~ feolne
that vcn have innartcd 90 smother NE q
new mower. To know that you have on
larced the canacitv of another soul 20
feel deeper ~ love truer and hone
stronger r. 20 know that life has not been
spert IN vain.
This Is what Peter did lie gave the
man new power He helped him 90 help
himself so many other things were