Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1901-05-08

the progress of bees in and ont tn.
Passages of certain flowers is vast.
OF labor till you understand the gen
Grafton of plants. But a fish and no
water, bird and no air. bees and
no pollen, this would be unreason
able. We carry the same convic
ton with us from the physical into
ethical sphere, aud argue with Ger
tainty from goodness TO blessing and
from badness to misery. If people
reap what they SOW, whether
1t be wheat or hres. We
are satisfied. If wheat springs up
where 1t ought to have been tares.
and still more, tares where it ought
to have been wheat, We are gravely
disturbed, and feel that the founda
ton of things is being shaken. When
the good man Is sent to the stake
and the Oppressor lives gloriously
honest folk seek in all directions for
an explanation, and at last. in sheer
desperation, demand another world
to redress the wrongs of the present
one, which surely is topsy turvy. We
demand moral correspondence. .r
fact, and we DO so largely because
We find moral constitution reflected
Ia our own conscience Shall 49,,
drop this principle of reason wnru
We cross the threshold Of th, spirit
ual world. and are We al liberty Co
imagine 1t 70 be blind aIley: Here
for instance. IL man who has cen
tered bis hope in the world to come.
who is daily preparing himself for
Its llfe. who Is making great sacri-
fees to obtain it, riches, Who is try
ing to keep every Thought aud action
of his life in It's atmosphere lie
has acquired "A spiritual constitutions:
he is the finest organism Dr. life; the
saint is the flower of thc human race.
Has Jhis mau alone no meaning iu 81
ordered universe; Is he a mere freak
of unreasou: Is be mistake and
waste? Worse than all, is he a dc
fusion and deceit: AS the hird
to the air. and the fish to the sea. so
is my soul to Cod the Mystics
used to saw. Have the choicest soul,
been supply befooled. because there
is no sea and no mir: Can the most
sublime instinct of the human soul
be without fulhllmcut? Can anyone
suppose that the NEST deviue hope
implanted in our breasts is alone to
return void: Whence have come the
prayers of SAINTS unless they be
Gods breath in man returning 70 his
birth"
Where IS the substance whose idea
has visited great minds in all age,
unless it be with God: Think Won
VT can imagine anything more beau
tiful than is going to happen in that
perfect sphere where Gods will
runs its course and is glOrllied?
There may be great surprises for Us
all when the day breaks and the
shadows flee away; but if there be a
God, the saints of the ages are not
going to suffer loss. For a day be-
fore his death Socrates sat with his
friend aud spoke of the future, even
in that darker time, with such con
fidehce that even now, IN the full
blaze of Jesus teaching, one
still reads the "Phaedo' at Easter
time. He commanded his disciples
not to call his body Socr-tes, because
Socrates was still alive. Was this
only n pathetic dream? When his
wherry was run into upon the
Thames and nearly sunk Archbishop
Leighton was alone undiSturbed
"Why should | be alarmed he said
with mild amazement. because,
his friends answered, eve might all
have been drowned" Then" said
the Scottish saint, " we should have
been the sooner at the other side
But if there was no other side? 1t
is incredible that the fool and the
sinner, and they who have lived Xix,
the beasts who perish, shall be sat
isfed, and receive that which they
have imagined and desired, anC
the saints alone be deluded and rob
bed. Amid all doubts which afiiic
the mind aud all the moral paradox
IS Of life, one clings TO the belle
THAI there Is "a spiritual reason at tn,
heart of things, aud that 1t will win