The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-08-03
Bereft Of its Guide.

"As we go deeper down into life We
discover the secret more and more OF
sorrow and helplessness- We see that
many souls around us lead idle and
foolish lives, because they believe
they are useless, unnoticed by all,
unloved and convinced they have
nothing within them that Is worthy |
OF love. Isut To the sage the hour
must come when every soul that ex-
lists claims his glance, his approval,
his love--if only because IL possesses
the mysterious gift Of existence.
The hour must come when he sees
that talsehood and weakness and vice
are hut ON the surface, when his eye
shall pierce through and discover the
strength and the truth and the
virtue that lie underneath,
Happy and blessed hour when
wickedness stands forth revealed as
goodness bereft OF It's guide, and
treachery is seen TO be loyalty, for
ever astray from the highway OF hap
piness, and hatred becomes only love
In poignant despair, that is digging
| It's grave.
Then. unsuspected of any, shall II
be with all those who are near the
good man as II was with the pentient
thief; into the humblest soul that
will thus have been saved by look,
or word, or a silence, shall the true
happiness fall--the happiness that
fate cannot touch, that brings TO all
men the oblivion 1t gave unto Socta-
ties, and causes each one TO forget
until night-fall that the death-deal-
ing cup had been drained ere the
sun went down.
The inner life is perhaps not wha,
we deem 1t To be. There are as
many kinds OF inner lives as there
, are of external lives. Into thess
J tranquil regions the smallest ma,
enter as readily as he who Is greatest
for the gate that leads thereto Is no
. always the gate OF the intellect.
[ IL often may happen that the maj
OF vast know ledge shall knock at thi
l gate In vain, reply being made fron
q within by the man who know
: nothing. The inner lie that
surest. most lasting possessed OF tn
utmost beauty. must needs he th
one that consciousness slowly erect
!, In itself with the aid OF all that
= puerst In the soul. And he Is wis
= who has learned that this life shoul
be nourished In every event OF Oh
Ir day; he to whom deceit on betray,
's serves but TO enhance his wisdom
D he In whom evil itself becomes fu'
B. for the fame OF love. lie Is wise VII
at last sees In suffering only u
,e light that IL sheds on his soul an
~ whose eyes never rest on the shade
u IL casts upon those who have sent
Is toward him. And wiser still Is IL
IN man To whom sorrow and Joy M
s5 only bring increase OF consciousness
S. but also the knowledge that son.
is thing exists superior 10 consciousne
even. To have reached this poi
,s. Is to reach the summit of inwa
9 life, whence at last we look down I
mr. the flames whose light has helped @
nm ascent.
% But not many can climb so hig
"a. and happiness may he achieved
es the less ardent valley below. whe
ke the flames spring darkly to life.
,s Aud there are existences still INC
an obscure which yet have their pla
n. OF refuge.
,al There are some that instinctiy'
m. fashion inward lives for tbemselv'
we There are some that, bereft OF ini
IN. ative and OF intelligence, never d
cover the path that leads into the
selves and are never aware OF all u
y" their refuge contains, and tb
" actions will be wholly the same
~ the actions OF those whose intell
,'e weighs eveiy treasure.
~'' There are some who desire o
~ ~ good, Though they now not whereof
as they desire 1t, and have no suspIcI
go that goodness is the ono fixed star
e loftiest consciousness. The In
ea ,, life begins when the soul becoT
VIZ good and not when the INTEL
~ ripens.
1T is somewhat strange that
'o inner life cannot be formed oui
evil.
No inner life exists for him VII
,nts soul is bereft OF all nobleDess.
20. may have full knowledge OF self
hat may know, maybe, why be sn
and goodness and yet shall he seek In !
D at for the refuge and strength,
90 treasure OF invisible glaaness,
will form the possession OF him who
. Ia fearl.ssly enter his heart. For
out inner life Is built up Of cretsin
With joicing Of soul, and the soul can n
for be happy II II possesses not and
zied not something that Is pure. Ii
perhaps err In its choice, but q
even. will IL be happier than the
. on to which IL has never been give
start choose,
ham And thus We are truly saw