The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-18
DEFEAT OF MAKAROFF AN
ILLUSTRATION OF FATE
In Discussing Hawthorne's Story,
DR.. Hurlstone Cites Instance
of Worldly Uncertainty
AN IDEAL OF JEREMIAH

Seeing in the comparatively modern story
OF Hawthorne's The Great Stone Face,
comparison with the ideal of the ancient
prophet jeremiah. DR.. Albert Hurlstone
preached a sermon on this parallel last
night. His text was from jeremiah TX,
23-24
"Hawthorne's story of The Great Stone
Face is beautiful commentary on the
words of Jeremiah's prophecy" said Dr.
Hurlstone at the Roberts Park NJ. f.
Chuch. 1T is the duty OF each man TO say
TO himself. is this aim | set before me
the highest l can reach? Is the end l pre-
pose not merely a desirable end but the
most desrable?' Here is the guiding line Of
duty. Everything must be subordinated to
the chief good
THE great stone face was work of
nature in her mood of majestic playful
ness, formed on the perpendicular side or
a mountain by some immense rocks, which
had been thrown together in such a po-
sition as, when viewed al proper distance,
precisely TO resemble the features OF the
human countenance.
1T seemed as if an enormous Titan had
sculptured his own likeness on the preci-
pice. There was the broad arch of the fore
head, hundred feet in height; the nose.
with its long bridge, and the vast lips,
which. if they could have spoken, would
have rolled their thunder accents from one
end of the valley to the other. 1t
was a happy lot for children to grow up
to manhood or womanhood with the great
features were noble and the expression was
at once grand and sweet, as if il was the
glow of a vast warm heart that embraced
all mankind in its affections and had room
| for more.
TT was an education only to look at it.
We covet riches. we glory In them
Money is power. But riches take TO them
selves wings and flee away. As the part
| ridge stitch on eggs and hatcheth them
| not. so he that getteth riches and not by
| right, shall leave them in the midst of his
| days and at his end shall be a fool.
Neither let the mighty man glory in
| his might The great soldier we glory in.
| We reserve our loudest plaudits for the
national hero who has won his laurels on
| the battlefield. wellington. Nelson. Give,
| Gordon. Washington, Grant Sherman, or
| our great admirals, Dewey or Sampson;
| the Alexanders and the Napoleons do Won
| ders and men are ready to believe that God
| is on the side of the biggest battalions,
''The other day the Car of Russia said
to Vice Admiral Makaroff: My choice has
| fallen upon you and | will not take a re-
| fusal;' and so the admiral went TO the TAR
| East, the pride of the Russian navy, the
| man in whom his Emperor trusted the
| hero of the nation, but amid the flying
| flags he is suddenly cut off, furnishing an
other sad illustration of the truth that
| The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power.
| and all that beauty, all that wealth eer
| gave, await alike the inevitable hour, the
| paths of glory lead but to the grave.
| 1.-The war-worn veteran, styled old Blood
| and Thunder of whom Hawthorne tells.
l
all the glory of a military career, was
| thought by many to be the ideal hero. But
while the multitude cried: The general
| The General the hero of the story failed
| to recognize his ideal.
| Let not the wise man glory in his wis
! DOM because wisdom is the most exalted
of human possessions, it is. therefore, the
most enduring. Reputation-that precious
| treasure-may be ruined beyond recall by
the breath OF malice. Affections wane,
our dearest friends grow cold,friends OF
| oh of
| those who are bound to us by the closest
| ties and the most solemn vows Riches
may be dissipated by the folly of friend
| survive the loss of all these, and, aban-
| doned by friends, reputation and wealth.
amidst the decay of M, bodily f fac
| Wisdom is great, but 1T has great disap-
| pointments, and many limitations.
! Human leaders and human idols cannot
| satisfy. But blessed are the pure in heart
| for they shall see God Meditation upon
| the true, the beautiful. the good transfig-
| ures the life Unconsciously the hero of
| the story had grown into beauty of life
| and character and was himself a reflection
| of the loftiest ideals of prophecy. He kept
| his heart open continually and thus was
| sure to catch the blessings from on high
| when it should come.
! angels seem to work with him in the
| fields; to sit by his fireside. to be his
| friends. Not a day passed by That the
| world was not the better because this man,
humble as he was, had lived. His words
had power because they accorded with his
| life. They were the words of life because
| a life of good deeds and holy love was
| melted into them.
| Pearls pure and rich, had been dis
| solved into this precious draught. If the
| quest of our life becomes the lofty ideal
| of jeremiah then we, too, shall set before
| us the Lord Christ. the only One through
| whom we can attain the TRANSPORTED life
by the renewing OF our minds. 1t is then
| that we eXclaim we gaze upon the van
| ishing objects of worldly glory: God forbid
that should glory save in the cross of our
| Lord, Jesus Christ l. is here that peace
! is found that knows no measure, joys tina,
| through all time abide