Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-03

and ridiculo have often been the price
OF this allegiance. Truth stirs and
sometimes makes men urcomfortable.
II you wake man out or second
sleep ne VIII not always rray for you.
Truth often rousos out Of q pleasant
dormancy and for its suppression the
hRndlest thing offered Is used. 1t may
be q brlckbat or q gibbet, Socrates
drank the hemlock. Anaxagoras and
Aristotle were banished. He who was
the embodiment OF truth upon Ills fair
brow they put the plated thorns and
arraycd Him In a cast-pif 'ogu OF the
Herodian court and sconfully cried.
Behold the mani" Says George Mer-
edith, 'Expediency IS mans wisdom;
doing right is Gods
Personal RELIANCE.
Again life must be regulated BY judy
ment in the light of q moral Ideal.
This means emancipation, Personal re-
Lance means the end OF tutelage. The
adoption of an Ideal means that one
secs the glory and the responsibility of
the man. The standard has been chosen
with elaboration. 1t Is my choice. l
am arbiter OF my own destiny. My
ideal is before me developed out Of the
treasures Of the ages In the light Of
this, duty is all important There Is Joy
In my work now. | am bound to
definite end. am achieving something
and am now developing character.
one must have selt-mastery The
battle OF the rs" so viVidly described
in the Epistle Of Romans by Paul Is not
an Isolated experience. Every man
knows something of struggle. The house
Of mans soul Is visited by many un-
welcome guests. Desires and feelings
and ideas come of which we would
thankfully be rid. The best are not Sc
cure against these intruders The real
nf conflict ig ytfRnpStnH bV the
Biographies of saints. EVIL spirits seem
TO lie In wait to ambush US. They
spring upon us unawarcs, They come
like a tiger lea ping from his lair How
can we get rid of such? How can We
obtain mastery? We must "inhibit
their expression In act, Our feelings
and desires, 1t Is truly said. feed upon
their own expressions, 1t is so with
the savage who hrandishes his club 10
bring himself to the slaughter pitch. 1t
Is thus with the devotee who seeks In
ritual the flame TO fire his religious
emotions" Deny expressions to the
passion and you have gained partial
victory. Keep back the first word IN the
rising storm OF wrath. Keep back the
first gesture when some evil impulse
would drive you on To do otherwise
may develop a habit which will be fatal
to success and dangerous TO character,
Not only must we inhipit the express
hlpT Ql evil W. IlllSA IulllNhAf wv f'S'-
lively good. | think here can be found
n law which dominates the theories OF
pessiinism and optimism. A constant
reading Of Schopenhauer and Hartmann
would make most men pesimistlc. \
study OF other philosophers J might
name would mean tho growth of optim-
sim. Enthronc the good and in large
measure the evil will he busted. open
the windows OF the soul and let the sun
light in Practise moral hygiene
There are social circles In which ma
licious feelings wther. energetic pur-
suits in which contact with 3 larger
life swamps petty irritahilities. natural
scenes of peace where ne can no longer
anchor by one gloomy OF sordld
thought. And Browning has told us
how even vice and crime can he re-
buked by the mere sight of innocence
Open the mind n beauty and tn good
ness. Develop salf-mastery Remember
that he who will not answer 10 the rud-
der must answer 10 the rock.
FAITH IN GROWTH.
AS we go into the larger experiences
| OF life we ought to go with faith in
| the upward tendency of things. IT is
not difficult TO look back and believe
in progress. The story of evolution
| Is written in large letters Study the
| building of n world, That piece of
some wild chance. There is conflict
| Of forces There Is writing and ur-
n,oil of heart. Earth's granite sides
| are fractured and the mountains are
| flung into the blue. Smitten and
riven, yet order is succeeded ny or
| der II courses in the grooves OF
eternal law and In harmony with the
! plan Of the infinite. The story re-
vealed in the strata of the earth Is
| H..
| And march of that eternal harmony
| Whereto the worlds beat time
Struggle Is coincidcnt with life
| There ara wars and rumOrs of wars.
| Ii the agony of the world could he
compressed into a single cry the very
stars would oscillate AT its uttersncc,
| Nations strive with nations Empires
| struggle with empires. System Crap
| pies with system. Philosophy Is OPP
posed by philosophy Race completes
With race, The orient strives with
the occident This Ia the record Of
history. The political heritage Of the
| Anglo Saxon has been purchased at a
tremendous cost OF blood one is over
whelmed with the contests Of life
| Through the microscope the record IS
seen to be the same, The very planets
carry the scars OF mighty battle upon
| them, But travail means life. All
history proves an upward working
law. The evidence which grceis us
suggeting that the universe is ground
| ed In reason Is sufficient basis Tor a
faith that law is working for national
and universal enlargement. Law IS
! the silent augmentation OF God with
men, the proof that
Through the ages one Increasing
| purpose runs,
| And the thoughts OF men are widened
| with the process Of the suns.
All nature wldens upward and man
| Is never forgotten, therefore ! should
have faith in Tho upward tendency
| OF things.
! It will be helpful to w to have a
faith that personality is the keynote
OF progress. John FIske interpretS
| evolution through personality. Agas.
! slz has said. Man Is the end toward
which all the animal creation has ton
| dod from the appearance of the pale
ozoic fishes Both science and the
| Bible give man the first place In ma
| ture. Man Is the text OF the ages.
| Personality Is not a prodigal. Man
| has never been homeless. He is more
| than matter, for tho masterpiece or
| divine thought is reached in mlnd-
| He is more than material. for inc
! image OF the invisible God must pc
! wrought into an immatcrial 9nd an
! immortal fabric, He Is NOR" than
stun. for the purposes Of God are with