The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-10-21

blood and fury OF down trodden hungry
thousands.
Then add 20 their influence the innn-
encc OF that middle class living from
hand 90 mouth upon their debts, who ape
and bow the knee In worship 20 those
who have gods OF gold
Then add 90 the Influence OF these two
classes the swarminc thousands Of poor
| tnn- -la2A. to make The effort TO rise, Too
| ndoIent To learn thc way of the simplest
task. who rejoice in living Ike parasites
upon society and the work of other men.
! Add the influence OF these three classes
| together. Compute what Il means today
! in tho American home. In public as well
as IN private life. In the church as we'll
as the world and tell you when
lazy 10 sluggards who will not work
Is weighed against the positive workers
/ of evil. it discounts and makes 20 shrlvcI
the deeds OF those whose hands are black
! with crime.
! must work. 4.y whole being demands
! it Tho world invites Il. No breath of in
| spira tion ever famed lazy soul, The
| first prophet ElIah WAS toiler When
! weary aud hoartsore he starts from the
| north Of Palestine to 60 down 10 tho
Mount Of God. he hears the divine voice
| chide because he iaries on tho way.
Isaiah would have been called a genius
! by Carlyle, for he had the capacity for
! incessant labor.
Newton. Darwin. Huxley. Spencer arc
| men who have looked deep into the
/ mysteries Of nature. Thcy were natures
/ priests But natire never pronounced 10
! them a single truth Tor which they had
not yearncd through the silent watches
OF the night. for which they had not
! tollod through the long and weary wax
| ing day.
MAN MUST hENEAL HIMSELF
! II was in the nnture OF God to reveal
Himself lie created the heavens and the
earth. He created man. It's I'm the nature
| or man TO reveal himself
| Not by words alone written or spoken
| hut by deeds. Assyria, Babylon. Egypt.
| the mound builders ancient and well nigh
| forgotten races. Scarcely n word comes
| up from their centuries that but for their
deeds would well nigh be centuries OF
! silence
Walls are left and we know something
OF their homes and their palaces and their
shrines The images OF their gods are left
/ and we know more than We should have
| known what life meant 10 those genera
tons now crumbled into dust.
! Works OF art tell Of their hopes and
! fears. their JOYS and SORROWS
| And the ruins OF Babylon. the Acropolis
and the Partheuop reveal to Us secrets OF
hearts that centuries ago ceased 10 beat
! These things are the revelations OF ma
| lions ana r1ort-te all-eealing ages
! One JOY la reading their lessons Is only
| equalIed by the joy tney must have had
| I'm seeing the life OF the nation and the
/ aspiration and lonelngs OF indvadual
souls made so plain that all who ran
| might read
What JOY IN revela ton. The name Of
one OF the worlds greatest scuptors Is
| perhaps lost 10 posterty.
Set the beauty of face and form the
| a. .E..l.a
! grace OF pose revealed IN the Venus
dc --.io light mp the darkened chambers
| OF our halls OF art and adorn the quiet
I simplicity OF otr homes We do not know
! who the sculptor was. We only know hc
/ was human We can only family image
! with what joy and eNultntiun he looked
! for the first time upon the nnighed work
of his hands and saw that &C was good
! with chisel and hammer out OF the hintv
| rock he carved face aud form SO won
| drously fair that we stiil know the beauty
| or this unnamed soul
| So often had the soul of pa Ninci com
I muned with the soul of his master that
he longed 20 reveal to the world what
| only the skill OF his hands could make
! immortal And 50 with care and patience
! he painted on tho wall "The Last Sup
per"
| When we think of Jesus sitting at
meal with his disciples the image that
4 dlptdlS II Npl NNt lnut We nave nitturtU
i hut the one Da Ninci PAINTED. And now
| the work and toll are finished The last
! touch has been givsu Ia Ninoi steps
! back IN that nNTTOW cNNPer To ggC rnc
nnshed work Could an tho pleasures or
| an idle iife time compensate for the first
moment OF JOY when looking on the pict-
f, urc ne saw that he had frcscocd on the
wall the image that love and sympathy
had first nurtured ia his soul.
JOY or Toll AND LABOR
We can not break away from the iov
| OF our toll Year uv year we put land and
sea between ourselves ana the dreary
| round Of daily duty Soon tho landscape
ceases to charm tho eve. The gallery Of
art no longer plcascs. a divine unrest
ceases upon ne and We long TO 60 back
to the tasks ana duties i,ft behind
| Then are we conscious that IN them and
because OF them HES burden is not heavy
! and grievous TO be borne but there H. The
woll spring of our deepest JOY.
! Yet as speak these words know they
do not find echo IN some souls
For some, labor II not Joy but sadness
! They 20 20 " not with song. but n sigh
Life because of its burdens is drudgery.
| Pessimsm becomes their philosophy. De-
spair their religion They can not under.
stand tho spirit of Goethe who longcd
/ for eternity th0t be might be able 10 ac-
conpnsh the work he had hoped 10 do
l here in time
So easy it Is 20 abuse our privileges To
turn the God given Instruments of laugh
| ter into tears.
To take the opportunity Of llfo for VIC
| tory and make IL The sure and certain
! element of lfe's defeat
The great burden ~ Hoe evil is nsuEht
| with instruments Of righteousncss.
| Ambition D. "a natural Instinct OF man
| IL ought - had him 90 Heaven. How Of
| ten II makes his own soul the fearful
| channel house OF hoil
Love r. tho diviucs' ~ uassious Hut
] love becomes tnc band ~ tempered steel
| that binds some men 40 all that dcfles
| - we'll aE q hnra In All fhlI Illl-LlLnr q nn