The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-25

health may glow and throb and thrill with the new revelations of love. And so 1 would fain take Helen Kellar's hand and in the face of all the foolish wise men and blind seeing men and stupid sages and ignorant scholars and fool metaphy- sicians, pray, with strong cries ana with tears for the new heart, and the sensitive spiritual optic nerve, that l may have some hint and gleam of that great realm where God and Christ do dwell For it doth not yet appear what we shall be. The Blind Girl Also Explains the
 PartiaIness of Mans Knowledge.
 From Helen Kellar's viewpoint, also, we understand the partialness of man s knowledge of God and the future life. Gods world Is very rich. The hand was made for a flower, not for the troptc abundance. For one golden bough;--the hand will not hold the October forests. The eye was made for a few stars. Our sailors steer by the North Star. In the South Seas the mariners steer by the Southern Cross. We must be content with a little section cut out of the great cir cle. Try as we may, we cannot know everything. He who gives himself to art must specialize on one kind of paint ing. Meanwhile there are ten thousand sciences, nteratures, industries, occupa-
 
 Carlyle studied history and biography to the exclusion of all other realms When he was 50 years of age the nerve of the beaut!sul was dead and shriveled up. One day a friend dragged him to the mansion of a great English artist. The marble porticO and the great halls in Alma Tad ema's home seemed to the modest Scotch man as wonderful as Nero's Golden House. Musing. Carlyle suddenly ex- claimed: Did paint do all thisY' When q friend smiled. and answered yes. The old philosopher was heard to mutter to himself. My estimate of thirty million fools was too smafi." Nevertheless, be- cause the nerve of color was dead for Carlyle. it must not be interpreted to meant hat there are no galleries and nut seums. 1 know merchants who tell me that they do not read a book in a year. That a concert, the opera, or the drama, are dry as dust to them. That their one pleasure is business. Travel cannot amuse them Music has no power to stay or comfort the heart. Other men are quite without the nerve of wit or humor. Recently 1t was my fortune to speak here on q Sunday evening of Col eridge's monologues in relation to that hour when Coleridge met lamb one morn ing in the streets of London. Taking
 
 idge poured out flood of talk. When Lamb saw that 1t was dangerously near 10 o'clock. the hour for him to be at his East India office, the humorist took 8 knife out of his pocket, cut of the but ton, went to his office, wrote at his desk all day, and started to return home in the evening. Coming sharply around the corner, what was Lambs surprise to find Coleridge standing in the street, holding the button between his thumb and fin- ger, while his stream of talk still gush- ed forth Now 1 used the incident as an illustration of Lambs wit and humor, never dreaming that any one would inc terpret 1t as historical. A few days later a gentleman wrote, questioning the ac- curacy of the event. He said that he was not acquainted with medicine and the limits of the body. He stated that stand ing on one limb for an hour produced the condition known as numbness In the leg, and that the vocal chords would not endure the strain of more than two hours conversation. That there was only one instance known In history of a man talk ing for eight hours and that he had constant interruptions, intervals for re- freshment, tonics for the throat. He said that while the incident was new to him, he believed that it was inaccur- ate, and that I had been n1isled by some careless biographer. who dealt in ex- aggeration.
 Now, only the creator could answer that letter and he could only answer it by creating q new nerve of wit and humor. 30 that the full scope of Lambs story could rush into sight. For each king. dom of truth has its own soul faculty, which is a window. through which the soul looks out. The mathematician uses logarithms. but the logarlthms will not help him to paint a picture. What if a chemist should boil one of Raphaers' pic- lures. and make a powerful tea of it. and then take it over co a tea taster to taste 1t for lovelness in an angel or ser- a mathematician who was a genius in his