Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-12

the higher grade of development and
the higher range of all activities, but
that in a sense he carries all grades
and moves through every range of ac.
tivity that nature knows.
He vegetables with the plant: he
breathes and moves about and hungers
and thirsts and feels physical pain
with the animal; he reasons, thinks.
chooses, loves and hates as man; he
grovels, &ssembles, deceives and asso.
ciates in all vileness with the spirits
of darkness; he scars in holy medi.
tation, salutes the eternal throne with
psalms of praise, and reioiees in all
purity and beauty with the angels of
light. All extremes meet in man-all
beauty and all ugliness, all JOY and all
sorrow, all sin and all virtue. No
place in heaven is so high that he may
not rejoice in its light, while the ne
ther depths are not so black but he
will dare to face their horror and des
pair, He walks without fear where
angels veil their faces, and doubts and
questions where devils believe and
tremble. How fttingly does the poet
speak of this strange creature, man:
Man, man, thou poor antithesis of
power,
Chill of all time yet creature of an
hour;
By times chameleon of a thousand
forms,
The Lord of empires and the food of
worms"
Yhis word "desires," then must
have various meanings when applied
TO man. We may say, speaking broad.
ly, that there are bodily desires, men
tai desires, spiritual desires. We have
here a clear reference TO the higher
line of desires, desires of the heart,
the spirit, the moral nature. They are
not mere appetites that may be ap-
peased with meats and drinks. They
re not carnal passions that may be
stilled by indulgence today only to be
aroused again tomorrow. They are MOI
mere intellectual longings for thu
treasures of the schools and libraries
Neither are they the outreachings OF
the esthetic nature fo- visions of ex
ternal beauty and harmony.
They certainly include all that i
pure and worthy along all these lines
but they are the longings of the i'm
mortal nature for whatever is i'm
mortal in nature or ove- nature.
They are as real in the child as IL
man or woman-pe1haps even more
real. The soul is not always conscious
of their meaning in either child or mar
In a sense you may say they are blin'
desires. And the blind are ever lead
ing the blind with the proverbial re
suits. Many mistakes are made in at
tempts 10 satisfy these immortal ling
erings. Alta-s are built, temples ar
erected idols are carved. Creedi
doemas and formulas multiply. Sac
rifees and forms of worship are II
vented But from any and all OF thes
the soul may-fnally must-turn ava
with its sense of longing unsatishe'
We may say it must be so, and u is
sign of hope that it is 80. lmmort'
man is too great to be finally and 10
ever satisfied with the toys OF his b
byhood, or even with the best that ca
be done or said OF thought in the moi
= progressive age.
"Thou hast made us for thysen,
|. said Augustine, "and we are res'ie
, till we find our rest in thee. " The re-
4 desires Of our hearts, our deeper heart
are not for ''things"-for mere ira
pings and external conditions. II
living heart must find a living hear
You want. a companion, friend,
/ Hover. a mutual sharer Of your we
and woe, some one 70 love who q
with love respond. You want q
FATHER whose heart is the found
tain Of all live, the FATHER who
own best name is LOVE. II is wal
not merely a whim--a real want, n
n fictitious one. II is want that mu
s..is6aA II / am TO remain or ov
come TO be in any high true sense
MAN. without 1t take my pia
with the beast of the field and WI
every creeping thing. .
Nav I am not here to gay that q
Father responds TO these desires
human hearts. But am here 70 81
that these desires are responses TO .
original desire in the Fathers o'
heart. Fifteen hundred years beto
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