Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-02-11

COUNTY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY H. 1904.

more noble in his own sou, IN she struggle,
but had done his share toward the solution
found by this greatest and last. who, was
also "born under the law that they might
receive the adoption of sons"
So, tell you, is this restless search for a
condition that shall answer to our concep.
ton; this fascination, which compeis lis
to search out the elliptic of providence,
the geometrjc certainty underlying the
apparent ecceGtricity. And every struggle
to find this certainty; every endeavor to
plumb the deepest causes OF the diScord
between what the nature bears and what
the soul believes every striving to find
the God of our loftiest faith in our darkest
day, WILL in some way, aid the demonstra
ton, until, in the full time some Newton
of the soul will come and, gathering the
result of all these struggles between our
conception of life and our condition
in life, will make it the base of some
vast generalization, that will bring the
ripest conclusions of the science of provl
dence into perfect accord with the grand
apostolic revelation. 1--WE know that all
things work together for good to them that
love God"
We wrong the deepest revelations OF
life when we are not content to let tins
one little segment in the arc OF our exist.
ence stand in its own simple, separate
intention, whether it be gladness or gloom:
and trust surely, it we are faithful, the
full and perfect intention must come ont
in the full range of our being. God seldom
perhaps never, works out His visible pur-
pose in one life, how, then, shall He in one
life work out His perfect will? The dumb
poetry in William Burns, the father, had
to wait for Robert Burns. the son: Bcr-
nardo waited to be perfected in his son.
Torquato Tasso; William Herschel Left
many a problem in the heavens for Joan
Herschel to make Gear; Leopold Mozart
wrested with melodies that Chrysos,om
Mozart found aftcrward of themselves III
every char. Der of his brain, and Raymond
Bonhcur needed his daughter Rosa to come
aud paint out his pictures Tor h'm. d..
Reid. has said, that when the bee makes
its cell so geomctrically, the geometry is
no, in the bee, but in the geometrlclan tnat
made the bee Alas. if in the Maker there
is no such order for us as there l. for the
bee! If God 50 instruct the bee; II God 50
feed the bird; II even the hons. roaring
after their prey, seek Their meat irom
God: if He not only holds the llnnet on
the spray but the lion on the spring. how
shall we dare lose heart and hope.
So, then, while we may not know what
trials wait on any Ot lis. we can believe
that as the days in which this man
wrcaticd with his da"l; maiade7 are the
only days that make HIM worth Hcmem.
brauce and but for which his name had
never been written IN the book OF lie.
so the days through Wmch we Strlgg",
finding no way, but never losing the hght,
will be the most significant We arc Gated
TO live Indeed, men OF al! a3Gs have
wrCstlcd with this problem ol the differ
ence between the conception ana the con
dition. I,tc is full ol these appeals, from
the doom that Is on u 10 the love l1a5
is over us-tIom the God we tear TO tla
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