Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-19

How chanSeG are the cCnuliioI's Oh ou'
State.
The cities grown from scattered settle
And linked tg rail and wire: and the
And rural hills and valleys made part
OF the great commonwealth In life and
thought
BY mail. prees, travel One intelligence
Makes us all kindred il. our many homes
Churches nave grown from frcside pray
ing lands
Spires and do mes from forest mjnarets;
Affairs the built where rocks were con-
sacrate:
And organs hlrmur where the pine-trees
with SABBATH psalm and prayer. Hugo
Hitler and thither Shop and mill and
Call in the alien. Wealth grows buster
Getting and pending. And the farm be-
comes
No more the quiet place where leisur.
turks
In quiet minds whose hand. toll steadily
New forms OF wealth are torn-cf home
estate.
And ortt ;u1,ir%: New forms Of poverty
Poverty Of time. selfhood and sanctity
Where population thickens there have
sprung
Questions of law and order. Where tn.
Has ebbed frtm rural towns the untitled
church
RIMS with the echo OF the preachers
How shall we meet the perils Of the 1av?
Where shalt we lesislate and where re-
frain"
Shall preacher. law, or conscience hold
domain
In various realms OF our liberty?
For us there is the same significance
In O;ir rcf ditionS ~ thr rle1 o: OLD
Found in the circumstances of their time.
1f
And wider questioning. We subject now
All to analysis: stars. stones, flowers.
flesh. mind
TO learn their composition and tic laws
That uDderlie creation; analy2c
The soil, norIe its deficiencies and write
Pres 'TiIJuS for il. noel; ana history
TO note it's trend AMI know our q, stinies:
And every mighty movement that up
The ancient soil and t'nns the sueatrs of
hfc
To channels new of custom. purpose.
One man upturns Old Ecvpt and Chalder
To read the ancient scriptures and CON-
pare.
One. microscope in hand searches the
To learn how life was born. One reads
the rocks
And stars and thinks with God through
Turns olcl,en,ist. splits matter into mind.
Weighs tho Invisible and queries: What
tTOt9
Ono studies minds and questions: What
is MANI"
We analvz, the thinker and the Thought
And so we write q science Of tho soul
So by new paths we come again tG pray
The old-iin.c prayer of faith: Our
Father. Godr
And seek His face. His spirit AMI His will
In Jesus. like Him praying Make US
one!"
All this I:,s the same deem significance
For rs the creeds of (, century ago
For these who wrote them.
These, toe, are the DAYS
OF vast machinery. We fertilize.
Plough deeper, cultivate and irligate
And drive our Changing reapcrs through
the grain
For wider harvcsts. On our scrap heaps
lie
Because the modern engine, reaper. loom.
Meet Inc same needs in a TAR better way.
And much that once SLOW fingers wrought
Is shaped ard stamped by the steam
driven tool.
Wise is tie church that has learned to
adapt
Means to its ends. What shall be the
Reaper ana granary Of the modern
church?
What tools, designs and workshops best
Selfhood and service in the modern
world?
These questions have the same signiti-
For us as the methods of a century ago
For those who planned them. Each age
has its own
Greed, method, and condition. Wise are
To formulate, invent, and master ours.
All, We'll for those who govern, those
II they but realize that we ever stand
Upon some crisis of our life: upon
That ever-changinG point of history
Known as the eternal Now. Where
When Ju,Iea slept arf. CalI!ee awoke
tShaIl we sleep while the Orient awakes1
Whore Rome stood. or the summit of her
power.
(Stand we before our glory or our fall?,
Germany, when Martin Luther nailed his
VOW.
CN'lat VOWS write We upon our nations
Our Pilgrim Fathers, bowed Ger Ply
mouth Rock.
(Have we their conscience and heroic
heart?)
There stands OUT Land, our State, our
Christian Church
Pet.cen the folding and unfolding years.
We'll for our church and lard If those
And those who govern think. and watch.
ara pray
For swift discerrment. rightly to relate
The eternal purpose IT, the present day!
Yet as of old.
| sec a winged seed float from yonder
tree
And find its soil. Thither flies bird
Fearing n seed to far. barren isle
A mother croons n song that consecrates
A chiefs deep thought. The Sabbath
hours difrus"
Through gospel. song. repose. and sacred
JOYS
verdure oc purity. Ana as the boy !,
Jesus au.org the hoaIy priests anu
sCribes
Stood in the temple at Jerusalem
And loved the thirGs of God and felt
Gods life
Stirring within him; so mid sray-faced
creenS j,
AMI altar tokens or youth catch the
light
That fails rs Though stained windows to
the soul
And life awakes ana all the ~crld be
comes -
Gods house where Gods will may bs
learned and done
To Christ-,ike souls neighboring lives re-
spond
In cor luct. habit. thought and character
a teacher stirs a Youths fine impulses
And spiritual discerrment all the world