The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1906-10-19

merely, but all or them. Inc way TO
bring them out is to concern your
selves attentively with each faculty.
To cultivate sympathy you must be
with living creatures and thinking
about them. To cultivate admiration
you must be among beautiful things
and looking at them" But some peo-
pie have "a stagnating mental cos
mos" They are never willing to read.
They are never willing to study. They
care nothing about the great wide
world and it's doings. They literally
would not go across the street to see
the most beautiful picture ever paint
ed or hear the most exquisite har-
monies ever sung, while on the other
hand some men are never satisfied
with their present mental condition.
They are always reaching up and
reaching out. They will go to any
trouble to learn. No work for them
is too difficult if they can only i'm
prove themselves and learn something
new.
"Drat that boyw the farmer says.
"He is not worth two pinches of salt
I can never make a man out of him.
He is always idling his time away with
some study. | send him down into
the fields to pillow, and as soon as din
ner time comes he opens his tin pail
and book at the same time and then
begins to read Then he forgets every
thing but his book. am just as liable
L: Ia tap
as not" No, farmer, you will never
make a man out of that boy if your
definition of man is to be hedged in
by a cabbage patch That boy has
higher visions of life than planting
corn. He is dreaming. He is looking
ahead to the time when, as minister
of the gospel. he shall save men for
Christ. or when as a physician he can
relieve the pain of the fevered brow,
or when as a lawyer he can defend an
innocent man in the clutches of the
law. Through the disorder of a corn
crib he sees the work which God is
calling him to take up.
Not Lonfer.
"You miserable, lazy lOafer!' cried
the peasants angry wife to the stran-
ger brooding at her fireside. did |
not tell thee / would give thee thy
dinner if thou wouldst watch that it
did not get burned? Now by thy neg
ligence thou hast spoiled everything"
IT'S true that the man who was sit
ting f,y the PEASANTS fire had neglect
ed the task the peasants wife set him
to do, but was he a lazy, contemplate
loafer? That man was the fugitive
king of the English throne. That man
was Alfred the Great. He may have
been blind to the operation of the peas
ants fire, but those smoldering embers
suggested the dream of the flame of
liberty he was soon to ignite. He was
dreaming, like Moses, of the people he
was to lead and the country he was
to rule and the mighty kingdom he
was to establish, which would be ref
uge to all the downtrodden who would
come to it's shores. Do not grumDle,
o wife, because thy husbands thoughts
are sometimes winging their flight a
thousand miles away. Do not COM
plain. o mother, because that daugh-
ter is neglectful of the little things
when she is reaching up for the higher
When Cardinal Chigi told the great
Cardinal de Retz that for three years
he had done all his writing with one
pen and the pen was still as good as
new, Cardinal de Retz came to the con
clusion that his brother cardinal was
a man of very small mental caliber My
friends, in your mental life live for
something higher than the point Of q
pen. Struggle, strive, push. Turn, II
necessary, your study into very bed,
lam of confusion. By thy upheavals
seek for a new mental cosmos. Re
member the broad sweep of the Solo
monte proverb, "Where no oxen are, the
crib is clean, but much increase is by
the strength of the OK"
It is only the ignorant, the stupid
the slothful, the stagnating mind, that
is satisfied with its present conditions
Progress is not like a swamp, will
fetid air and surface of slime. There
everything is still and quiet. True men
tai progress is like the cOmmotion and
disordered waters of a brook. There
the waters are pure and sweet, because
one moment they are tumbling over q
cascade the next they are being dash
ed into foam against some bowlder
and the next they are as a waterfall
leaping over some cliff. They are never
still. They are always moving, always
readjusting themselves to new condi
tons.
As l note the restless connections OF
| the individual mind, so 1 note also the
| restless conditions of the social worlC
and the conflict of the classes agains
| the masses. The socialistic upheaval'
of the present time are not a sign tha
our present governmental life is to bt
destroyed. They are a sign, and a SURE
sign, that out of these upheavals there
shall come forth a better truth, bet
ter honesty, purer social life. How
many wrongs there are to be righteC
on both sides! Capital, with its vas
! resources and machinery, frequently
has more mercy upon its iron and stee
bars and its leather bands and its huge
| pile drivers than upon the bone ant
sinew and muscle of its workmen
| Capital does not say to itself, How
much can make these goods for ant
sell them at a fair rate of profit, tha
the people may buy them the cheapes
and yet | get a fair return for my
money! No, Capital does not say that
Capital says, How can | make these
goods the cheapest and sell them the
dearest? How can | decrease my ex
penses at home and yet sell at the
maximum price the needy people viii
| pay?" All, there is something CONNER
cially wrong about such a condition as
that. Capital, by her own actions
stands as a confessed usurer and eXtor