The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-10-06

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% eh IT. It Is abs ABSOLUTELY Ut necessary e. "a " that
love may not become hate. For how
often the honeyed sweetness of the soul
turns into the bitterness OF wormwood
because confined In the too narrow limits
OF one breast.
The Milan cathedral ''bnlt with the
strength Of giants and adorned with The
pride OF the world and the highest type
OF Gothic construction. was but an idea
it, its com compIeteness @ % must have M '1a been n great a.
enough 10 flood the larges. mind suffi-
ciently beautiful TO charm the most po-
blood bloc 'ga must have fow flowed "a and With Win what hat
intense spots OF red the cheeks. must
have burned when the man who had
seen II with the. mind saw 1t complete
with the eye. no longer a fancy adorning
world
would cease to doubt altogether. said
man OF Christian experience to a youth
almost persuaded to be a Christian.
To symbolic the reality within us Is
to quicken the reality itself into new
life. on the contrary. TO create a syms
boil that has back of 1t no reality Is TO
destroy, and effacee from the soul the very
possibility OF such reality.
Jesus turned from the Pharfsees. the
orthodox religious people OF his time TO
believing. as he said. that in the king
dom of God there was more hope for
them than for those who gave expression
10 a life and faith which they did not
possess. The sackcloth and ashes. these
long prayers on the street corners, those
aims given In pubic to be seen OF men,
instead OF being virtues were vices with
strong arms that closed and bolted the
gates of heaven. There was no warm
blood back OF these things. There were
no loving hearts urging forth the hands
Then. despite their allegiance to the
church. their respectable orthodoxy and
their well-formulated theology. he cries
out, oh. generation OF Hpers, how shall
ye escape the .pangs OF hell? Honesty Tor
Jesus was a virtue. These publicans and
liable allegiance 10 church, no true or
thodoxy no theology worth having that
Is not honest There never was. there
never will be.
NOT IDLE THEORIES.
These thoughts on the virtue and vice
the loom OF Imagination. they. are les,
sons that are taught by history and
that are illustrated by every people IN
in the world OF religion. All law, all
institutions ell ritualism have tneir
place ard value as the expression oil an
inner reality. But when there Is no VIII
back Of the law, no thought back or the
institu ton. no life back of the ruuai
these become "whtened sepulchres filled
with dead mems bones"
II Is of practical value. therefore. for
us to glance at this time at some or the
most common symbols OF our daily life
and endeavor TO learn some lessons tnat
may be OF interest and help in our daily
living For we may accept II as truth
that the cold bare facts concerning these
things have their value
These facts may help to give worth and
meaning to that which We do and say.
The frailest speech and the humblest
deed lack in significance TO him who gives
them forth, only In so far as he does not
understand them I'm relation to life as
whole. The humble and dreary task of
the miner in the bowels OF the earth may
seem to the miner himself a mere act OF
drudgery without significance. But
knowledge Of its well-nigh Indispensable
ness TO humanity, the thought that his
pick rs the lever to the world OF trade
and the source of human comfort and the
task becomes dignihed and enlarged.
The widespread knowledge OF the great
ness of the most humble tasks in the
mind of the working classes Is one OF the
phenomena OF our generation. One of the
causes of the present evil In the Industrial
world lies I'm the fact that labor az well
as capital, does not always appreciate the
fact that the knowledge of the import
ance and vastness Of the task ought 10 be
followed by the wisdom that recognized
the responsibility which the task imposes
Let us look therefore at some common
expressions OF our inner life In the hope
that we shall gain both knowledge and
wisdom In relation 10 them.
First OF all our work, our chosen voca-
ton: the daily and accustomed tasks TO
which we set our hands. To do some
thing is rightly considered duty. In
this country especially II II the idler and
not the toier who is deemed unworthy Of
the highest social distinction. The idea
may still prevail 10 a certain extent in
England that no gentleman will enter the
world OF trade. But here, and the idea
grows everywhere. that woman may
enter upon a business or professional ca
reer and I'm the eyes Of those whose opin-
ions are worth having. IL there are apol-
ogies TO be made. they are for her who
sells her wares or administers 10 bodily
Ills. but for the idle and frivolous who
are among her patrons.
Yet Il Is not TO be forgotten. n the soul
has more value than the whole world,
that this work II II is 10 ennoble and not
| debase must be true expression OF the
inner life. We say one must have a taste
| for a. True. But more that that, II we
| are honest and seek 20 preserve our hon
f, esty IL must be honest work. IL must be
| shot through and through with integrity
| and uprightness.
Let the conscientious student in his
| freshman year do one poor task and ne
has nut n pry under the foundation
| stone on which he must build his sue
| cess I'm his last year. Psychology explains
| this, by the law OF cause and effect. Is
there not more In IL than this? II there
| not before the mind the consciousness OF
I the fact that we have led others 20 be-
| lieve IN a weakness I'm which we do not
| ourselves believer Many q good man has
| done I'm a thoughtless hour an evil deed
| that has blasted his after life. So much
| do the thoughts and opinions Of others