News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-03-13

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have fallen by the way more frequent
ly, and have wasted themselves more
upon vain projects. He was instinc-
lively cautious and was wise without
effort.
This nationality determined his
daily conduct and formed all the
habits of his life. 1t entered into his
conscieDtiOusness. 1t was root of
his sense of justice. Conduct must
ft the proprieties of the case. To
give less than was due disturbed the
rational order. To give more than was
right for no good reason was equally
irrational. This absolute Justice is a
very beautiful thing. A passionIess
ordering of conduct has been a tasci
mating ideal: but this which we ob
serve in Mr.. Savage was something
finer. 1t was not passionless. His
love for fitting part to part became
a genuine enthusiasm. He loved
justice. An inact matching OF con-
duct to duty was abhorrent to him.
His whole heart was absorbed in do
ing the thing which he believed TO be
right. Here is cautious discrimin-
alton and minute care in finding the
path OF duty, but once found ali the
forces of his nature ted his zeal with
ineXtinguishable fire.
His religious life can be comprehend
ed from the same point of view. He
was constrained to give God what
was fitting. He was just III dealing
with God as he was inst in dealing
with men. Carried to a certain length
this tendency becomes Journalism
Mr. Savage went much farther. What
is fitting in the relation of finite to
the infinite, of the imperfect to the
perfect? Alteration is fitting, conf
dence is fitting, love is fitting. And
Mr.. Savage was engaged with all the
fervOr of his being in giving to God,
the reverence, and the trust, and the
love, that he deserves. It seemed to
him right that man should love God
with all the heart and with all the
soul and with all the strength aud
with all the mind. To this exalted
aspiration to love God as be deserves,
he gave himself with all the fervor
of his devotion to Justice.
This peculiar habit of the religious
life found expression in two different
ways. 1t made him exceeding watch
full of his conduct, and particu-
larry of those parts of conduct
which are most directly concerned
with God. Family prayers, of course,
found place in such life. Onokgivsn
this place in the routine OF TIC Gay,
nothing was suffered toin teT ferp with
this worship. When his son, Charles,
started for Constautinople the stage
appeared at the door before there
had been time for prayers Which is
easily understood when it is remem-
,, bered at what an early hour the
morning stage took its departure
and how many things must have re-
quired attention at the beginning OF
80 long a journey. In such circum-
stances what was to be done? the
baggage was loaded upon the stage,
which was suffered to go on its way.
Prayers were held and then the horse
was harnessed, the stage was over
taken and all was we'll. 1t would not
have seemed fitting to Mr.. Savage
for his son to start for the other side
of the world without morning pray
ers. And so it was with thousand
details of life.
The peculiar cOnstraint OF temper
and of character, under whose con-
slant pressure this servant Of God
endeavored to fill up the measure OF
obligation, resulted on the other hand
in remarkable development of the
emotional life. | have already said
that we are not to think of him as
subject to impulsive feeling. Pri-
marily his life was in the reason and
the conscience. The law of feeling is
that it follows the vision oftruth and
the dedication to duty. When, there.
fore, the life which is ordered by reason
and conscience eliminates in it's logi.
cal conclusion it bursts into fame
emotion. Mr.. Savage possessed a
trained sensitiveness to the higher
ecstasy of communion with God. Sc
perfectly was he attuned for these
joys of the spirit that the preaching
of the gospel excited in his soul the
right feeling with a certainty compar.
able to the mechanical accuracy of q
musical instrument. And worship
rarely failed to kindle his heart. The
most distinct recollection that / have
of his spiritual life is OF one Sabbath
when we had sung the hymn, of which
he spoke with great tenderness
Jesus, thy name love,
| All other names above,
Jesus, my Lord
| oh thou art all to mel
Nothing co please see,
Nothing apart from thee,
Jesus, my Lord
Jonathan Edwards is the illustrious
example of spiritual rapture inspired
by the vision of the truth. Certain
words of his In a sermon on "Tht
Reality of Spiritual Light" come
to mind as one thinks of Mr.. Savage
"He that is spiritually enlightened
does not merely nationally believe
that God is glorious, but he has 6
sense of the gloriousness of God il
his heart. There is not only a ration
al belief that God is holy, and thai
holiness is a good thing, but there il