The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-24

true forces had not found their true
sphere. God never bungles by msplacing
power. Progress Is choral, orchestral. cos
mic. canary Matching its brood In an
eagle Matching on the thistledown. The
dreamer has his high place; He Is the
ical and materialistic America would grow
without poets and prophets whose breath
has the sweetness of June morning ana
the ozone of the high attitudes Yet we
need the men of practical equipment VINO
can diagnose the situation and map out
path of compromise for everyday mortais
to tread. and when the calm, unerrlng
standards of eternity are applied 10 the
valuation of men IL will be found that
while the starry host of martyrs and loeal
dreamers who have suffered ior their
Jeweled with glory. right ALONGSIDE Oh
them in the very van of earth s redeemed
will march those who were af1ame with the
same high ideals but who knew how 10
adapt themselves without any compromise
OF inherent principle TO the conditions as
they were and to whose tireleSs deXterity
and resourcefuness were mostly due tne
reforms that redressei grievances and the
emarcipators that gladdened millions IN
bondage.
''Cherubim and seraphim carry on and
out further the suggestion into the untrled
hltsory OF the future The same God relgns
there The same austere and unbending
standards of righteousness obtain there
The same differentiations of character and
royalty of conviction govern there. Eter-
nifty Is here and now; and even technically
eternity is only time a little further on
as the imperial university is the common
school little further along.
EVOLUTION OF WORLD.
''As in the evolution of the world God
joins in His administration the idealism
of the rapt seraph and the practical en-
cheering genius of the cherub that helps
things up just as they are. SO in the evo-
lutipp Of fha Snadouy fntIIro the sauna 1nal
process will no doubt go on. Annihilation
of souls at death is a nightmare of the
past. 1t violates the plain law of contin-
uity of development. We are worth more
than to be snuffed out like tallow candles.
Any magical change of souls at death vio-
lates the same divine law of continuity.
The theory that in the shadowy cycles OF
ages wicked souls will quietly benumb and
fossilize and wither out into nonexistence;
or the theory that sin can grow as well
as goodness and some will dwell in black
ness and develop their demOnism forever
while others ascend in the scale of nobility;
or the theory that every soul is retrievable.
and finally, perhaps after inconceivable
ages of remorse and anguish Of experience,
God will be able to persuade all souls back
to their own true home in Him. Whatever
the forecast may be the future is enough
to overawe us all. One certainty there is.
Character continues on as the steamer
touches Honolulu and then steers out and
steams on. We all pass death and go on.
we carry our past life with us as we pass
out. The divine economy is founded and
pillared and bottomed on holiness. Be sure
of this of fate. universe on shaky,
uncertain foundations is an intellectual and
moral impossbility. Judgment and perdi-
ton are unassailable, scientific facts.
America needs to be uptoned by these
truths, especially in the dizzy zenith of
her unequaled material properties And
this vigorous government allows room for
gentleness and adaptation just as a hos
ptal adjusts its healing solent to the dif-
ferent diseases. Heaven, while invincible
in principle, is humane and individual in
treatment. While all will stand before the
same bar no two souls will be judged alike
1 would sooner take my chances before the
court of infinite holiness than trust my
next-door neighbor to judge me. Both the
eternal elements in Gods throne