The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-18

come leaplng down the mountain sides
to 1rrigate the valleys that our food
may be moistened so that our roots can
suck 1t up. God has sent US this atmos-
pher1c disorder that we may grow
strong and feed hungry world. The
rain is just as essential to our lives as
the sunbeam" Wonderful and true an
swer that. When / tramped home 1
did not find fault with my wet gar
ments. I knew that the rain, as truly
as the sunshine, was sent as messen-
ger of divine love. Where no oxen
are, the crib is clean, but much in
crease is by the strength OF the OK"
Do you not grasp the sublime proverb
as applied to the physical or natural
life?
But we can have ga stagnating cos
mos'' in our mental life as well as In
our physical or lower entities. The
man who physically basks under the
summer sun, who never wishes to do
any manual labor, who always sits
down In preference to standing up and
rides instead Of walks; the man who
never takes any more active exercise
than walking upstairs to his bed and
who never feels the exhilaration of a
pedestrian expanding his chest against
the beating winds, either becomes a
physical degenerate,or Is foolishly sign
ing his own death warrant. On the
pther hand, the man,who simply allows
his brain to lie fallow, who never de-
velops his mind, who never studies,
who never struggles up the mountain
heights of thought, as the Alpine
climber pants and pushes and pulls.
himself up the crags of the Matter
horn, Is man who becomes a mental
degenerate. 1t is only by work, only by
discOuragements, only by shutting the
teeth and bracing the willard pushing
ahead, that the chaotic conditions of
the mental realm can be evolved into
the harmonies of mental cosmos.
The Development of the Mind.
John Ruskin once beautifully de-
scribed the development Of the mind.
your minds" he wrote, "are endowed
with vast number of gifts for total
ly different uses = limbs of mind
which IL you don't exercise you Grip
pie One is curiosity-that Is a gift,
capacity of pleasure in knowing, which
IL you neglect you make yourself cold
and dull Another Is sympathy-the
power of showing the feelings Of liv
Ing creatures, which if you destroy
you make yourself hard and cruel.
Another of your gifts is admiration
the power of enjoying beauty or In
genuity, which If you destroy you
make yourself base and irreyerent-
Another is wit-the power 'of playing
with the lights of the many sides OF
truth, which If you destroy you make
yourself gloomy and dull to others.
In choosing your way of work it should
be your aim as far as possible to
bring out all these facufies-not one
merely, but all of them. The way to
bring them out is to concern your
selves attentively witty each faculty.
To cultivate sympathy you must be
with living kcreatures land thinking
about them. To cultivate admiration
you must be samong beautiful things
and looking at, them" But some PEG
pie have ga 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 its doings. They literally
would not go across the street ito see
the most beautiful picture everspaint-
ed or hear sthe most exquisite har-
monies ever tsung, while on the other
hand some Smen are never satisfied
with their tpresent 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 cantoniy I'M
prove themselves andslearn something
new.
"Drat that boyv' the farmer says
s'He is mot worth two pfnchess of salt
I can never make a man out OF him.
He is always idlingthis slime awayfwith
some study. I send .him down into
the fields to plow, andtas soon asAdin-
ner time comes he opens his tinApalL
and book at the same time and etnen
begins to read. Then hea forgets,every-
thing but his book ami just astlable
to find him there rea1fngian hoursiater
as not" No., farmer, you will never
make a man tout of tharboy II your
definition OF AZ issto be thedged In
by cabbages patch. That, boy has
higher visions Of lifeya than planting
corn. He is dreaming. He is looking
ahead to the time when, Sas az minister
of the gospel, he shall save men for
Christ, or when as a physiciarNhe can
relieve the pain of the tfeyereO brow
or when as lawyerfhescan defend an
innocent man in the clutches of the
law. Through the disorder off a corn
crib he sees the work twhichS God is
calling him to takesup.
Not a&Loafer.
"You miserabieJ lazy iloa.fere" cried
the peasants angry swife. to'the 'stran
ger brooding at fher' fireside. IBID
not tell thee I5would .give thee thy
dinner If thou fwouldst watch that il
did not get burned? 'Nowiby thy neg
iigence thou hast spodiedsieveTt thing
IT'S true that theN man who twas sit
ting by the ,peasant'safire 'hadsneglect
ed the taskithe peasant's4 wifeAset hin