Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-03

In the last days. saith God! The words
are startling in their solemnity. We are
perhaps, even now in that period Of history
denoted in Scripture Technology as "the
last days" Behind US are all the ages,
with their slow stages of development HUI
man life in the past was certainly not pre-
cipitate. One can live more in a decade
now than he could in century of the
past The benefactors of the human race
have endowed the youth of today with I'M
speakable riches in opportunity and equip
ment for noble achievement Life was
never so well worth living as in the pres
ent. True, sorrows are rife, competition
keen, the struggle for existence in many
cases an overwhelming rush; nevertheless,
joys are sweeter, success is more creditable,
life is a grander and more inspiring thing
than ever.
We are living, dwelling
In grand and awful time,
In an age on ages telling;
To be living is sublime
God, in the penitude of His goodness. has
fulfilled His ancient promise, and His Spirit.
like a benediction has rested upon all flesh.
Behold the Divine affiatus breathing and
beaming from Christian faces and ema-
mating from Christian lives as truly as in
the days of Peter That Spirit is our guide
in the uncertain paths of youth, in the
ripened career of manhood and in the fee
bleness of old age. He is the interpreter Of
the hidden meaning of life, enabling our
sons and daughters to prophesy-to preach
by lip and life as advocates and exemplars
of the blessed Gospel.
The Holy Spirit gives visions of the
glorious future to our young men and
soothes the tired soul of the old man with
dreams of the unutterable realities of i'm
mortal bliss. 1 would rather live in this
age of the Spirit than at any other time
in the worlds history The accumulated
wisdom, knowledge, power. glory and in
spiration of the past are handed down to
US as the heirs of all the ages
The visions of the present will unalter-
ably temper the beliefs and habits and
teal is ever strongly Influenced by the
IDEAL Pity the man who drags through
life without any inspiring ideal. No bright
vision appears to lure him onward and
refresh HIS weary soul with the elixir of
victorious life. What this world. in it's
mad rush for the things of time and sense,
most needs today is men of searching VI
sion. men of insight, men of foresight. Let
me urge you, therefore, to study patiently
to pierce the veil and see the inwardness
Of things. Be not content to take things
as they are. Aim at advancement and
improvement. Strive to know the make
up of things-their vital constitution. The
motives of human activity and the phil
osophy Of its destiny present great study.
The world now, formerly. cries out for
seers-men of exalted vision.
The promise contained in this text has
had glorious fulfilment in many noble ex-
amples. st. Paul was a man of far-seeing
vision. He lived on the plane that en-
powers vision. He could estimate things
according to their true relations and pro-
portions. Hence: For Christ count all
things but loss" Visions supplied the mo-
tive force in his life. He saw the Lord
Christ, heard His voice, learned His will
Master remained with him as an unfading