The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-14

- the .wen,y-se ssa nd n chapter ts St e
IWJ Luke, Jesus says: But ye shail
S8kA not Be so; but he that. Is great
yo9ED1 est among you LEI ~, nm ,,i ne d is
'.-'.l''''. chief, as he that doth serve
lhuman beings have IN them anT Sa
ths FIST q ih 81 Witch st they
suit. j a 4 certain quantity OF obscure ana
powerful tendencies that In general spring ~,
from g99d r9qt ana 5ns Whlcn are liable
to be disturbed, to deyiate ana TO pN ONE
CORFU pit I. &. is
Wine turns to vinegar and food r be-
good and natural instincts of man may
turn into unhealthy and destructive In
stincts,8 and may be directed IN the con- ul
For For 4 instance St ' in everything around us
was see a tendency to grow, and It might
be said that 1t Is the duty Of human
bslngT to and ae wheh %
only family outlined to them. Is ~ llot
that their duty and their fate i. q. I.
In short we do not possess q n9 9II ~ ~
not, but we become. We, become because
we are constantly In a state Of ira TOR
nation. The torrent .of life Is n y, Us
Come isSthe la law Of mankind 3.
! Therefore. Mt to preach to man q Emorality.
Ethat F consists In stopping still, IN not
eo1atg foTMard e aas neS
him a morality OF suftl cy or ,resigna-
I8tion Cfor there Is a wrong resi- gna ton.
Just there Is Hight e. g ON nd
81 immobili ty,s would be to preach suicide 'l1I
to him. As, s{$5st I 81, 3,2 /, q
human creature who gives up th ne
move in the direction that nature and, tne
Divine will have 80 to speak, marked <.
out in his very being, commits suici s,:
in that fashion ressts directly by enact
viii. from which he has sprung. and
puts himself IN q state q re s t3n.s "A
lins the education of our childre r., iet =. US
| developed ferment, not only Of &enthusi-
asm. but, l would Il even say, OF ainpl-
1 ton. &. ,l ..-S Z, U &, =,
THAT word is ill-sound inge4eeause am m
Sbition II Is too often mispaced but =, PC.
ling without ambition Is q being wit nou y.
W W,s ID ! :.ambire, which means turn
We turn around. VS. should have a great :
and noble ambition. A man wit hout am
| bition is not half a ma S, II ,
| 86sIf the Il cord that lie sunder8 the dead
|aleayes d enveloped ln@ Its slight covering
Of Iearth.if that acorn, as II begins !. 70
able to think, we would find IN 1t ana :, N
g s ?. n,a pn n-
! bition of becoming an. oakstHttl his s
cent tree Of which it 5is the germ: !, I In.
l&aThus, the man who Is only the pegi m
ming OF a, man. the. child senvlroned ny y
| the humble and modest shadows OF Us
origin, is in our eyes like q CORN ol
germ 81 &
BY the natural impulse that moves y, It
to the Accomplishment. Of its fate, by
the unconscious evolution Otis 81 IL
being the whole of Its future, and It Is
only legitimate ambition ITO push for-
ward toward that futuJe. Later on,
when he has become conscious rs f 81 h tbe
best and the most fruitful Of the 1iore e.
| that.we should seek to make vipate n
his soul is the consciousness OF the 4 helght'
| the nobility of moral bcaut y. 53fs3
Happy isrhe who, In his surroundings,
can find some one whom he can frankly
become disciple full Fl yeneratoR 9s,i for
| finder who resists. there Is also dis
ciple who only asks to bow down; II the
proper occasion presents itself; ne man
women Won who have Inspired him with trust
ana admiration has felt the germ or ms
humanity revived and enlivened by that
radiance that from
Among tha living. among the dead,
among the heroes of history, among those
who are really great there are people
Tho Gapaahhle awtafean9 and
There is the seed of a.hero5 IN every
child, and some times In the most refrac-
|ttory. those who are looked upon as un-
pp ortlt vein that il We'll cultivated.
may give birth to magnificent develop
ment. Let US not repress IN our chiidre re,
Us is it TT not thus that Christianity was. first
put into practice? A living example, q
nsped men aae sad g
has been walking before us. SO great
that He is above al human greatness:
and SO simple that HeSis At the lay , Z. OF
souls He has taught; Flo has inculcated
Nrmness. courage, generosity, the spirit
OF sacrifice unto death. love that knows
no limit. g3i u
we are, therefore. on the right road
when We say that every one Of us should
obey that instinct that impels US to grow,
to come out rs Of the h state n whch
But that instinct may turn. as tho
What What becomes Of it? IN the first place,
| II becomes the ludcrous and meaningless
content with the outward signs of WORTH,
butSls careless Of inner reality
There have alWays haMss sGou,G
Xom ee ssass sAas e dspaS 9ua iis a
| homes, in a certain number of outward
signs signs the superficial labe! of dignity, As
l}long as they nave ,that dec3runl tIe pe-
must recognize t That as cn onE as
Whch fei borders !" upofi the mentality of
who prefers hrianisg t. S Salq s
only dangerous to himself by the ridlcule
| that liz brings upon himself, by the vanity
With which he Is content N
ii is always q misfortune for, q man
to live upon hollow food, but 1t Is not
dangerous to others. The poor fellow
\ may-eyen have a very good disposition
/ so ions ns the outward signs Of his dig
| nifty are not questioned, he is happy the
only misfortune no breads Is that a skep-I
t tic should try tosind our what Is beneath
the label that. he carries and shpHld dis-'
fitness and his titles
One day--ln the time az the old Roman
Of Superficial distinction proclaimed With
great pride and eomp pig 1 1hat the
Of province, The crowd around him
gazed at him as though he had suddenly V dan
become IA great persphagei but q philoso-
pher asked him; HpId the Emperog be-