The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-25


 mo room for these sentiments and you
 abolish the poets and singers of the 1 world. No longer would We have the Inspirations and longings of men voic- led by the Master imaginations of the ages. Who can fail to see that the heart service as rendered by the mu- sicians and composers has been a vital
 contribution to the richness and hap
 piness of existence. l want the hum
 and the din of the streets enliyened
 if it is only by the grinding of an
 Italian street piano. It reminds us
 that life is not all labor but that there
 is field in mans nature too large
 and too aspiring to be claimed by
 drudgery alone. Notice also the heart service rendered by the artistic tenn
 perament. Every billboard proclaims that man has ideals of beauty no mat ter how crudely these may be realiz- i ed. To satisfy these ideals countless
 men have given of their art and en-
 riched our civilization. But man
 cnaves not only beauty of form, but beauty of conduct There is a love
 of God which is exhibited in deeds of benevolence, acts of charity, and words of sympathy One of the hope ful signs of our modern life is the new appreciation of this old com mandment to love God with all ones i heart The thought, the time, the care, and the money given along the Nnes of benevolence proclaim not only the possibilities in this field of ser vice but also that there is a wide spread desire to grasp this opportun- | Iity The man whose heart is not throbbing in sympathy with all classes of men is out of joint not only with the times but with the principle of life itself
 | In the third place we are to love God with all our mind, For ages the church was afraid of reason. She thought 1t would lead men into dis cord and atheism. Yet here is the
 command to love God with the mind, nor need we be afraid of the dictates of reason. For reason is not a wild cat that lies in it's lair awaiting an op- portunity to destroy the values of life, i But rather is it the cart horse which has given itself up with infinite patti ence to perform the drudgery of mans mental processes.
 1 Nothing could be more fitting than that the list of prophets apostles and martyrs of the ages should be supple mented with a list of the scholars, scientists and inventors who have made humanitys cause their own thus serving God with the mind and the realms in which the mind may serve are without number. I will cite one which is we'll known, read In Pro- lessor Give Days History of Com merce that in the 18th century the volume of trade increased 1928 per cent. This means that not only was | the number of mems blessings multi piled many times but that they were also much more widely distributed than formerly SO that man living on any part of the worlds circumference could enter more nearly into all the | blessings of the race. And when we examine the cause of this tremendous increase we are forced back to the mind of man for an explanation. Scl- entific thought introduced the steam ship and the railway which alone made this vast distribution possible. Scientific reasoning forced nature to give up her hidden secrets so that old goods could be made by newer and cheaper processes and old processes were made to deliver newer and cheaper goods.
 But the duty and opportunity of high and cleaE thinking Is confined not alone to classes that I have men tioned. In a democratic country stability of government depends upon the average intelligence. Therefore it lis clearly incumbent upon the Chris titan and the citizen, to examine hon estly the situation of the nation or the city as it presents itself to him, to make up his mind in regard to that situation and to know why he has made the decision that he has
 We now begin to see how very broad our ideal of life is to be and yet we have not seen all, for labor and sentiment and reason are not large enough to include the contents of what Jesus Saw in His vision. It was the profound conviction of I'm manual Kant that life Is both rational and righteous. And if we should leave out this latter quality we would not do justice to the facts of common experience nor to our text: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy (soul
 Heap. up all the achievements of la- Dor, recount all the art of benevol- ence of man, recall all the triumphs of reason and you have not yet reached the summit of the highest ideal. For with all these benefits no one would want to live in a world where men broke their promises, where they cared not at all for their conduct and where they had no sense of honor and uprightness.
 The most significant fact is not that there is corruption in high place, the significant thing is that there are so many honest men trying to make con ditions better. And that there has been beyond any dispute a toning up of public responsibility. There is no possible way of our getting along without righteousness. Strength and mind may be employed for the attain ment of low ideals. Benevolence may cloak immortality The only thing which will give permanence to our civilization and keep our religion above reproach is to inculcate ideals of truth, honor and uprightness in short to love God with the soul