Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-05-25
RMONT FREDERICK COUNTY, MD. THURSDAY MAY 25 1905.

man liveth unto himself and when the
man tries to he always makes a sorry
job of his life. 81 want to have some.
thing to do with the material world
| exclaimed Hawthorne, when by the
long and brilliant cultivation of his i'm
agination he began to feel his isolation
from humanity. "Therc is nothing so
horrible" he wrote to LOngfellow, lin
| this world as to have no share in its
Joys and sorrows" The reason why
the fingers of much that is called Chris
tian service are all thumbs is because
while much is given, little is shared.
Sympathy always has something to di.
vide, not merely something to do.
| The boy Fichte had Il struggle in
conscience between his school books
and his fairy stories. 1t was great
day for him! Any boys first struggle
| is. But the man in the boy won the
| fight and in order to establish himself
beyond the possibility of a lapse, he
| threw his book of fairy stories into the
brook. His father, a precise. unmng-
native, dutiful soul. saw the beau
| tiful book floating away and proceeded
to thrash his conquering boy for his
wanton destruction. That is about all
| many fathers appear to know how to
do effectively! What wonder he did
not spoil his boy! What a boon a bit
of appreciation, of sympathy would
have been to the suffering but victor
ious lad. lie needed bread and his OBJ
fuse father gave him stone! The
father could do what he thought was
his duty, but he had nothing to share
with his boy. He was q monumental
parental failure!
Large Christian service is always in
quest of the joint of sympathy: 1t
makes its alliance with what is. help
ing it to what il ought to be. and avoids
the folly of invertinG the divine order.
This type of helpfulness may be
meagcr in is ability TO do. but is for
ever finding to its unspeakablc JOY
that it has boundlcSs store to divide.
Sharing sympathy is an infinitely more
royal privilege than donating cast of
clothing. or stale food. for 'if | bcS;oW
all lily goods to feed the poor. but hath
not love it prOfitcth me- nothing.
Sympathy as an elective of Christian
service forever pushes Il soul OH toward
democracy. Surely one may confess
with Lowell that while his tastes are
with the ar!Stocrats, his convictions
are with the people and yet, Ike Low
ell. he forever moro and more pu~hcd
into the very heart Of humanity and
glory in the push, too,
The preacher who confessed to Il
friend that he loved to preach and
who was met Ivy the singing, search
ING question. "Do YOU love the men to
whom YOU preach as we'll as You love
to prcach:' felt the thrust cf the sword
between the joints of his harm s..
which sent him to his study II iall
upon his knees and paSSionatcly pray
that he might b. delivered from his
temptation to love his sermons better
than he did souls. preaching better than
persons. The appeal of humanity must
outStrip that Cf hollilcticS
Christian service to-Cay must he i'm.
mcrScd in the C"mo"ratic spirit; its
mission is to humanity-humaNity rs
represented Ivy Ellis Island. also by
Clinton avenue: by Greater New York,
also by the lumber camps Of Michigan.
Every man is 4 sen of God. Every
woman is a daughter Of Cod. Go. find
your man. and by the shining truth in
your soIl by the sympathy in your
heart by the humanity in your out
stretched hand. make him believe that
YOU seek not his, but him.
ThiS-this alonc--iS Christian service.
Christian service after this fashion be-
comes at once an interpreter" 1t makes
Il Gibraltar out of diSadvantageouS
position: it transforms an ordinary.
commonplace ability into Il shining
angel of privilege and achievement.
Everything counts: all things work to-
gcthcr Because the world is ono and
the kingdom one nothing is lost, moth
ing trivial, nothing inconScQucntinl. 1t
makes man grow tall and strong and
confident to really believe the constant
| assurance of Christian service, that
All men ignored in me
This was | worth to God
Whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
1t is to such service. broad. true,
sympathetic, humanitarian. Christian,
| thot vn commit ourselves TODAY. ii is