The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-04-04

| anything, has read with interest in every
age the results OF the sending forth OF
! the 20
Not so much TO the world as 10 the men
sent forth. Interest Is always personal
/ Let's be honest We have more interest
/ In what missionary labor has done for
/ Smith and Hume than what they have
, done for missions. DR. Smith canes back
| with witticism on his tongue eloquence
/ gushing forth from his lips, fire I'm his
I eye and we take heart concerning the
| Foreign field. IL he ..ad come back with
pessinistic wall we would have said no
| money for cause that will do things
! like that 10 "a man.
Hume. teaching us from India the mean
ing OF Christianity Putting to shame our
| little petty talks about Congregatkonalism
and Presbyterianlsm and Episcopalanism
by telling us that that he is an Eptsco-
! by-gationalist.
Movements are tested by what they can
do for men. Look at the 10 How did
they return. They returned with Ajey,-
saying Lord, even the devils are subject
unto us In thy name. Before Osler pro-
mulgated Oslerism and told us that un-
Tess we had won some battle at 40 we had
better desert the ranks. Professor Shaler
| had said: ITO the oldish person who is
bit weary with the repetitons OF his
days, TO whom the best OF his profits have
/ or new accomplishment is magnical IL
Is like the discovery OF an oasis
IN the derest II bring again the
! JOY of youth for most OF tho
pleasure Of that time lies I'm just such ex-
cursions into the great unknown OF self"
Going Into the great unknown OF self as
Livingstone and Stanley went into
Africa. as Give went into India as De
Soto went into cur South Land TO con-
L nGfs ~
material joy is the consciousness Of ma
terial power. On this thought we must
| build. That which Is above nature Is
built on nature. The first man Adam be-
came living soul. the last Adam became
life- giving spirit. Howbeit THAI which
ia not first which Is spiritual. but that
which is natural, then that which Is spir-
itual
There is no JOY in the child until IT be-
comes conscious that Il can do something
I The papers are busy depicting the condi-
tion OF the richest child i'm America. And
while we read the story Of his wealth
John D., the third Is enjoying himself
kicking up his heels and training his new
| ly discovered lungs. Carry the thought
up through life into the kingdom OF God
Relate your lack OF ioy i'm Gods king
dom TO your lack OF possession. Associate
! your irreligious melancholy 10 your re-
! ligious weakness. Take the shalowness
Of your JOY in the lord as symbol of
the shalowness OF your strength i'm God
Take these thoughts not for despair
but for hope. The doctrine that 10y Is
/ elusive Is bone Of our Zone and flesh Of
/ our flesh. Experience has driven Il into
| our thought by sharp raps on our de-
! fenceless heads. The route TO JOY is cir
cuitous. You find IL in your business. ex-
actly. because YOU have gone about II in
the right way. When do you find e? When
, business prospers, when income exceeds
| expenditure In other words when you
control 1t, and IT has no might 10 make
you its servant.
You have 1t in your hand. YOU have
power over 1t. Grant an equal power
| an equivalent mastery in the moral and
! spiritual realm, and YOU enter into the
J Joy OF your God
You can't hunt 10y as you do game. but
you can do what Is enjoned as the
means to power YOU can concentrate
Plutarch says that i'm the whole city
there was but one street I'm which Peri
cles was ever seen. the street which led
10 the market place and the council
house He declined all invitations to
banquets and all gay assemblies and
company During the whole period of
his administration he never dned at the
table OF a friend We could all accom-
plish something II we would learn wis
dom OF Pericles. Fixing our eyes on that
well worn path between the home and
the market place we would soon have not
only time but power for tho Sabbath
| school the church and even the prayer
meeting To the means OF concentra-
! tion Emerson adds drill, use. routine
| He tells us that the hack IS better
| roadster than the Arab barb
Prayer, how Is IL born? BY wedding
effort TO obstacle Thus man links his
! soul with the universe OF God and shares
| I'm the universal and omnipotent power
| We are told by the wise that life is a
search after power That the world Is
| ,aturated with II and there is no chink
or crevice in which IL Is not lodged" No
| Nonest seeking goes unrewarded says
] emerson. Gods power. too in every bit
| " a. Why then so weak who do we
| ear and tremble2 Why do we confess
ur sins continually saying we are miser-
able sinners on Sunday and then facing
! he world on Monday spending six days
/ trying To convince humanity of n surplus
] &c OF virtue. It's because the power Is
| Iot our own. Primitive man quaked be-
ore the processes OF nature. The flash OF
| Tenvens light was az terrific as the
| luaklng of the earth until Franklin flew
! his kite The pyrotechnics W Heaven
! have been changed into a dray horse and
] our dread vauishes.
| The power of Heaven IL now shared by
i nan. Great personalities lose their dread
/ when they become our friends. The crowd
| n Rome held back n child az the tri-
| umphai chariot passed by saying. That
| ls The emperor. ~ may be your en-
pcror but u BE- my father Perfect love