Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-10-26


! will study the works of the Creator 5
hand If the grandeur of the Creation
is too great for the mind to grasp at
one time, it will be very much to his
/ mind. if he takes up the smaller work
of the most minute portion of the
works of the Maker. In some little
plant, ther will be found opportunity
for such a study as will reveal the
most minute care of God. Following
this line, many students have gone
deeply into the examination OF some
small plant and have carried their ex-
| aminations with microscopic detail,
and have blazed the way for other stu
dents, until now we no longer are ex-
perimentors, but are able to see the
relations which these small parts bear
to the great whole of what is far be-
yond all our conceptions of creation. In
4 this however, we but follow where ouI.
! Lord taught us to look. The sparrow,
| the lily of the field, and even the hairs
/ of our heads were summoned to teach
us. And He drew one of his great les
sons from the grass of the field. A
blade of grass is a small thing in COM
4 parison with the starry heavens, but
| the man of God will find nothing too.
small to teach him his lesson. And
we need to learn the lesson which God
would have us learn. In the concep-
/ ton of great things in this day, we
are willing to forget the interest that
needs to be taken in the smaller things
of life. This is day of great ideas,
as we follow the lines of aggregations
I and consultations of capital and prop
erty. and note the growth of nations
as we'll as communities. But no great
ness can ever blind our eyes to the
necessity of noting the smaller and
/ less significant things. The greater
/ things are made up of the smaller,
! The highest mountain has in itself the
most minute particles, and the ocean
is composed of drops The just can
not be ignorant of these features of
the world about him, and as he notes
/ these. there will come to him in one
way. a feeling that he is very insig-
nificant How small we are in COM
parision with the great works of the
| Divine, oppresseS us till we remember
that not in all of these combined is
there what there is in the smallest
child OF man. An immortal soul
I stands out more prominently than any
;. gshcr part Of the Divine work, bs-
cause than for that soul, the Son of
! God was willing to give up His life.
And the life Of that little one must
stand long after all these material
things have passed away. 1t gives us
an impression Of the love of our Faith
er in Heaven for man, when we dis
cover for the first time how many and
j how great have been the things which
| He has placed under our eyes, that
we may see Him and trace His love.
Such knowledge of Nature tends to
the creation in us of true way to
! form our lives to have them just. Were
we compelled to stand upon the crude
notions which ignorant persons have
of right and truth. we should discover
that we were far from being just.
To this idea of a knowledge of Na-
ture and the inanimate in this world,
we must add what seems to some of
far more Importance in the study of
man. BY some very advanced think
ers, the chief study ofsman is man.
This study may begin with his body
and advance step by step till it reaches
! the immortal part, or it may begin
with the soul and descend to the tene-
ment in which that soul is enshrinSd.
| There is no need to insist upon the
| study of our bodies, as this study
! forces itself upon us whether we will
or not That one who has never been
forced to give attention to his body
| is supposed to be most favored. In
the material studies of our day great
attention is given to the body and its
weIl-being. There is no wrong in this,
1 but should the study of our bodies
usurp the place which the soul and its
| life should occupy, then wrong is
being done The just person must
know his own body and soul and
/ spirit Otherwise he cannot form
right idea of his place in the work of
his Creator. or give attention to the
relations which he bears to his fellow
/ men, Too much study of ourselves is
apt to make us think too much of our
selves and our place in our world. But
when we are able to take full view
of the race, we must be impressed
/ with very different knowledge. To
/ live and let live, with the ability to
give to every other the right which
| we claim to hold to the truth as we
have been given the opportunity to
/ know it, is to be had only when one
has been able to study man as man.
And study alone will not give this re-
suit There must be the intercourse
OF man with man, and the liberation
that grows out of a broad spirit that
sees in every other man one to whom
possibly another side Of life has been
shown. It is very easy to predict that
this can come alone from taking a
view of all life. We discover in the
history Of the past Of the race just
where the truly human must be. found,
and as we sift out the real from their
surroundings, we shall look upon the
contribution which each age has made
to the sum of human knowledge.
Whether this be more or less, we shall
ever be growing in our knowledge of
ourselves As | understand it, we
grow not from what our first parents
were, but from where our last par
! ents brought us. We're We compelled
to live apart from all that has been