Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-14

busting unsympsthetic world. why are
you sitting hero all slons7'' a mother asked
her sensitive little boy. finding him
perched on the stairs away from the froiios
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grow up to find the noise of Vanity Fair
deafen all the gentle music to which they
would fain listen.
laundering and bursting
In torrents, in waves
Over the temis. amid graves
Seei on the eumber'd plain
Scattering the past about,
Comes the new age.
An thing. begin asain,
Earth with their deeds they ILL.,
FIJI with their cries
Loitereri why sittest thou
Sunk in thy dream?
Tempts not the bright age3
Shines not its streamf
Looki All. what genius,
Art. science witt
Soldiers Ike Cesar
Statesmen like Pitt.
See their glowing cheeks
Heavenly the flush!
All so the silence was,
So was the hush,"
Growing up brings 20 their nensix,e ma
lures the sad disillusioning which Anodos'
Shadow In FANTASIES brought to him They
thlnk they see their future coming to meet
them, radiant cherub with a ninbus shin
| Ing round his head. knowledge dissnchants
them. and they see he Is only n common
| pace child wearing broad-brimmed straw
hat They think that the world Is A beauti-
ful, kind place; custom shows them sights
| of suffering and misery borne complacently
by those of its Inhabitants whose own lot
| is comfortable. and who are too inert to try
| to bring relief. They burn in helpless in
dignation at the wrongs and cruelties toIer-
ated by gentle. stupid people. because OF
| their very familiarity, because of the APP
nODpleSSneSg attaining to
| edy them. and the generous anger and crav-
| ing for sacrifice OF these fervent young
spirits find outlet in the vocation of nursing
| or of service In a Stun settlement or in
! Joining some pa ssionate movement for the
redress of all wrongs. or in fierce rebel
| lion against all existing social conditions.
Growing up is to them ordeal by fire.
| They need that their Guardian Angel
/ Should keep very tight hold on them dur
| in% the process, and teach them through
| their growing experience OF life that their
compassion and prayers and efforts must
| en- brace the tyrants well as the victims;
| and that their patience must believe that.
despite the powers of evil the redemption
| of the world Is slowly being accomplished.
Gods I'm His heaven-alls right with the
world
For growing up is a sorry process. IL
1t does not bring these young girls into a
deeper. more real belief in Gods mercy. The
ope ming of their eyes is not solely to en-
able them to discern good and evil: it il
also to prepare them for a nearer vision OF
God. The Pilgrims Progress which they
start when they reach womanhood is meant
ID lead them at the end of life 10 the gate
of the Heavenly Jerusalem.
~
We travel-stained elders know better than
they do what a hazardous journey 1t is,
while their eyes dance with delight as they
feel the first gusts Of the dusty roadway
blowing in their faces, peppering their rosy
cheeks We know the dangers and the
WI pyin fbafr
We know how they will need strong armor
under their pretty ribbons and Iaces to help
them resist attacks and blows And that
knowledge ought to make up remember
what we too often forget that when these
young pilgrims see the tracks of bleaching
bones along the sides of the road on which
they travel-a track broader than that
which whitens the old slave routes In AZ
rica-they will need all the enthusiasm, as
sGrance. determination and vigor of youth.
as wen as the grace of God. TO inspire them
TO march bravely along lifes awful road
way.
For this reason we ought TO be thankful
for the special characteristics of growing
up age: for its push. its cocksureness, it's
oelief in its power to succeed. These are
che sap rising in the green trees: surely
gifts from God as the hoier gifts of the
spirit. These growng-up gifts are granted
to help our young boys and girls to make
their first start in life, like the wonderful
horns given to growing bulbs with which
they crack the hard soil and push their
first shoots up to the surface into the air
and sunshine. The horns fall away when
the pushing is done and tender blades take
their place.
So, too. the girls audacity gives place to
the patient tenderness of the woman; ana
the same results can be expected of them,
when they are sound and wholesome at the
core as of our hyacinths and lilies.