The Newtown bee., 1902-07-18
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/ has said this, as it we're his receipt 70,
getting the most out of life. "Do not
worry" he says, "eat three square
meals day, say your prayers, be cour.
teous to your creditors, keep your
digestion good, steer clear of bilious
attacks, exercise, go slow and go easy;
maybe there are other things that
your special case requires to make you
happy, but, my friend, these, reckon,
will give you good lift" Now that
is hardly the advice needed if quick
and great worldly gain were the ideal;
but if there is other gift of happiness,
other satisfaction than these would
count for something indeed. Christ
| ianity is not giving up the world, it is
not giving up success, or gain, or
pleasure, no; but it is so receiving the
world, so getting of the world that we
get something else with it, getting life
with it. And life is deep; life is
deeper than fortune, deeper than
power and place; life is as deep as the
craving and the longing and the aspir-
ing and the loving of human hearts;
and we must SO take of the world as to
enter into the best Of these things, if
we would drink of the waters OF life.
So I say again the word is true; the
we'll is deep; the real satisfaction of
life is deep and not everyone has YES
sells that will go down to it. Folly
passes thro' life and never tastes Of
living; pettiness and worldliness pass
thro' life and never get touch
of genuine living; sin and hatefulness
60 thro' life and live not. Ambition
and lust and pride have no vessels to
let down where the deeps of life's
reality dwell. Great emotions, deep
feelings, high resolves, noble purposes,
forward looking hopes these are life;
to enter into these is to know life as
God made it, as God meant it to be.
Gold can not give these save for a
passing minute; pleasure does not sat-
isfy the desire of these; but love and
hope and faith and duty bring US to
such waters; these give us such mat
tiers of genuine living.
And that is why we say that piety
or religion has vessels, wherewith to
draw, even tho the water Of life is
deep. Religion is adequate for con-
tentment, for peace, for satisfaction,
even tho it may not be as Immediately
useful towards getting on in the
world, or towards the high places OF
prominence and success here below.
Nevertheless the spiritual life is suf-
ficient unto it's own ends, unto the d.
vine purposes: in spite of the fact that
men may not go forward quite so rap
idly in place and fortune, in spite of
the fact that men may have for the
Ike of faith to deny themselves GER
tain ways of pleasure or extremes OF
pleasure, still it remains true that we
will never live, never taste of the
swelling waters of life
UNTIL WE HAVE RELIGION,
until we cultivate and cherish and par
take of the spiritual portion.
This is the central thought, the
great thought Of this lessons teaching.
Faith has vessels, piety has vessels
Wherewith to draw even though life's
we'll is deep. Jesus knows that of
which he was speaking. The world
may say to us as the Samaritan woman
to Jesus, "thou hast nothing to draw
WITH" but it is not true; there is
something herewith to draw the very
best out Of living; there is a gift of
God unto us by which we can take of
real success, Of great joy, of deep peace,
and of perfect blessing. We must not
be afraid to maintain that; we must
not hesitate to believe it; we must not
dare to doubt it.
Life's wells are deep; the we'll of
happiness, the well of peace and con-
tentment; the we'll of satisfaction:
they are not on the surface; they are
not to be had by thoughtless, careless
choosing. They are deep. We must
go through many things to find their
waters. Fun is on the surface of life;
frlvolity is on the surface of life;
money is on the surface of life; ambi-
bition is on life's surface; but real con-
tent; but patience and hope; but
trust and reverence; these lie deep;
these are not on the surface; these are