The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-26
DR.. W. NJ. PADEN.

programme of life is full of this faith
Abraham, the friend of God and the
father of the faithful was d child of
hope who endured as seeing the invis
ible. Joseph, the Disraen and Glad
stone of Hebrew history. dreamed on
the Judean hills before he ruled in
Pharaoh's courts. Samuel, as a boy,
heard the voice of God which made him
for life a prophet of God. David had
visions of goodness and mercy while he
cared for his fathers sheep. which it
took him more than a lifetime to real
lie. The men who planted and founded
the Christian church were the children
of new dispensatiOn. The whole
civilized world is still at work on the
programme given to such children of
faith and hope as st. Peter, St. Paul
and st. John. The visions of the new
worlds youth are still our programmes
OF unattained possibility.
We have all had such mountain Wis
ions.
Each of us is like Balboa
Once in ali our lives do we,
Gazing from some trODic summit,
Look upon an unknown sea.
But upon the dreary morrow
Every way our footsteps seek
Rank and tangled vine and jungle
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To most of us such visions Of oppor-
tunity and dreams Of attainment are
never more insistent than in the days
of our youth.
Is it not so? I appeal TO you to whom
youth is a Paradise Lost. Are you
| equal to your dreams of what you
would be- Are you as courageous and
wise, or as pure and noble? Are y=e1
as good as your youths best vision?
/ One of our poets suggests that we do
/ not need to be very mature to under
stand our shortcomings.
He was just six years old that day, just
six that day.
And l saw he had something important to
As he held in his hand broken toy.
He looked in my face for an instant, and
then
He said with sigh and a downcast eye.
! IF I could ever live my life over again,
I think l could be better boy"
But seriously, the way the best Of US
| come short of our best aspirations is
enough to put new strenuousness into
our remaining days; otherwise we must
sooner or later render sore account.
! Lowell's Extreme Unction" is a pos
sible picture of our final failure to
carry out our sunrise programmes.
Ny looked-for death-bed guests at met,
There my dead youth doth wiring its
hands;
And there with eyes that goad me yet.
The ghost of my ideal stands
Upon the hour when I was born,
God said another man shall be:
And my Great Maker did not scorn
Out of himself to fashion me.
He summed me with his ripening looks,
And heavens rich instincts in me grew
As e1sortless as woodland hooks
Send viOlets up and paint them blue.
Yes. who now with angry tears
Am exiled back to British clod,
Have borne unquenehed for fourscore
years
A spark of the eternal God.
And TO what end? How WELD ] sack
The trust for such high uses given?
Heavens light hath but revealed the
track
Whereby to crawl away from heaven.
OF course visions imply tasks, though
that is not my main contention this
evening. A word, however, concerning
this necessary outcome of wholesome
aspiration may serve by way of a
tonic.
How do you make your great pic
tUres?" asked one of Raphael 4
dream dreams and see visions, then 1
vision comes the chiseI, brush or pen.
Inspiration must beget effort; desires
must bear fruit in accepted duties;
ideals must express themselves in ac-
ton. AS Victor CharbOnnel declares,
What most of us need is the courage
to will our ideals" Men are what they
will be.
Here again youth is prophetic. Most
that ends well begins well. Sometimes
the beginning or bulb may seem mis-
shapen and unlovely. But:
Misshapen, black. unloveIy to the sight,
o mute companion of the uaurky mole
You must be overlOyed to have 4 white
ImperiOus dainty lily for a soul
Most that is greatest and best in US
has its root in our early years. AS
Wordsworth has said the child is
father of the man. but il is worthy
Of notice than the. training of this child
has mucl- 10 DO with determining what
kind OF a son the man will be TO his
father. When the Duke of Wellington
| came back TO Elton after his glorious
career. he was walking through the old
quadrangle. he looked around and said.
Here is where I learned the lessons
that made il possible for me TO con-
quer at Waterloo" There he had
learned TO -ee faithful to present duty
TO be strong. TO be diligent, 10 be pa
{ tent So il is said by one who knows
most OF the life and work OF Phillips
Brooks, that he PUT the master strokes
= into his life when student al Alex
andria
Ruskin declares than in the paint
{ ing of a portrait Of the first five chalk
| touches bring a head into exss.en-e cut
of nothing No Eve touches in the
whole course Of rhe work vill ever a.