The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-11-03

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your Father which is in Heaven" TIL
text revolves around good works
What IL TO be their character? Can w
discover In the words OF Jesus Himsel
the kind of deeds that will be of servic
to other men as well as TO ourselves
That will save them while they. develo
all the latent possibilities OF our owl
souls. Jesus points us to three sucl
characteristics.
GOOD WORKS TO SHINE.
In the first place our good works ar
TO shine. II II true that Jesus says
Let your light shine" But this Is onl,
more poetic statement for the expires
sion. reveal yourself. God reveals him
self In nature. in the church. In Jesus. IN
men: his creations Man can reveal him
self In no other way. His work Is his
self revelation. II we had heard Murillc
lecture on art we should probably have
been impressed with the idea that he
understood the technique Of his work
but our conception OF him artist
is drawn from the Holy Family"
II Is our work itself. then, that Is 10
4 shine. The light that goes before Is re-
| hected from what we have done. But
what peculiar quality is our work 20
| possss that IL may give light TO other
men. The one sentence uttered by Jesus
on the cross throws more light on the
unique influence OF his life than any
other 1T Is finished"
What he had been commanded to do
he had done Study his life from the
point OF view OF an eager and burning
desire to be saved and you can think
of nothing lacking.
ROUNDED AND COMPLETE.
other men have lived longer, but they
have done less. His work was rounded
out complete This conception of COM
pleteness is Joined In our minds with the
definite.
Our work Is necessarily incomplete be-
cause OF our weakness and fniteness
But finiteness and completeness instead
OF being eternally separate are forever
linked together. We gaze upon a picture
and say that IL Is beautiful. BY this we
mean that there Is nothing that is irrele-
want nor can we imagine anything that
could be added which would enhance II.
II is complete I'm itself
IL thus suggests the infinite but this
very conception OF completeness reduces
II to the realm of the finite. All that is
meant when we say a thing Is complete Is
that II perfectly fulnlls the purpose for
which II was intended.
The screw that holds the hinge on the
cabin door. IL II does IL we'll Is Just as
complete as the shaft that drives the ship.
1t is its completeness that constitutes its
proffta bleness.
Might 1t not be that our failure to re-
veal the light that God has given us. IN
other words unproftableness, consists
not In the fact that we do not labor nor
that we do not labor at many things,
but that we do not do any one thing we'll
One teacher In the Sabbath school de-
votes herself TO many Improbable things
during the week. and an hour to her class
on Sunday. She Is well meaning In her
service and is grieved to find the boys
and girls growing up 10 manhood and wo-
manhood without those characteristics
that constitute the highest type OF char
acter.
CARE, PRAYER AND PATIENCE.
Another teacher labors every day to-
ward the same end and finds her care and
prayer and patience rewarded Her ex-
ira care and labor have crowned her
work and she rejoioes to see Il shining
as a light 10 men In fun, well-rounded
characters. IL Is the little extra unpaid
for effort In life that distinguishes good
work from bad work. "Ye~ are unprofit-
able servants. We have only done what
you ought TO do
III the lack OF this extra toll the failure
as II were To polish ones work robs II
OF Its prontabeness 10 others Il at the
TO ourselves. IL is inherent in the nature
OF man 20 see a thing finished and com
plete. This spirit that may move n ser
want TO the completion OF task IL the
same spirit exercised on n higher plane
in the mind Of the philosopher.
Science seeks with untiring zeal 10 dis
cover the hidden secrets OF nature But
the word scientist implies that he Is a
man dealing only I'm one small and limited
field
IL all our thinkers were scientists we
should have facts concerning chemistry
astronomy and physics but these facts
would stand isolated and out OF all re-
laticn. We should understand energy
and atoms and the electric fuid better.
but we should know lu,le more about
the world and life The mind OF man Is
unsatsied with this
The work of tho philosopher is 10 take
up the work OF tho specialist In every
sphere and to nnd unity and harmony.
To find complete explanation. not in
any particular field. but I'm the world as
a whole This Is the fnr-off divine event
toward which tho deepest and beet
thought ever presses This r. the salts
faction that the mind IN It's rest!essness
seeks.
THE UNITY OF ALL rHoUGHT.
To know the whole. the complete: 10
KNOW Coo. the unity Of all thought. the
mind where focuses all law and order:
10 know all this even as we are known.
is the goal Of the minds wanderings
TnSre is perhaps no work that L. SO sat
isfying as the work OF the artist The
source Of the satisfaction is its complete
ness. The short story satisfies because
there r. presented before us a complete
situation. All that II left unsxpressed
is suggested. The satisfaction that
sprlnka from avery xoni daad b. In.