Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22
WHOLE NUMBER 2.536

thousand up to fifty thousand. SO
now is our chance. Existence is not
life, and until it means life, for the
more part as study it, its trend is
! to insanity accident, discomfort. and
greater or less disaster; perhaps in Il
lot OF cases it is 4 gradual pcrishing.
The Master suggested that idea over
2.ooo years since, and in Il brothcrly
way, showed how it could be avoided.
The Y. NJ. G. A., represents ad-
vanced thought, and is a social ex-
preston of the spirit of federation
and human sympathy; joy, and
robust and more abundant life eel
lowship with, and faith, that the
scrubleSt have dormant faculties that
might gladden. the community. AS
l see it, discomfort, an educatory dis
comfort, anywhere and everywhere,
comes to man or city, not IN har-
mOny with the moral order of the
universe. To illustrate: The ignor-
ant man goes to work with plane
on board. The plane chokes, the
board is gOuged-injured; he gets a
painful splinter perhaps men,
tally determined to hurry swears,
(confound it; more and more discOm-
fort! But he is being educated, sits
down in dispair, finally unconscious
ly prays little:
Wha tafO oliam.
HOws hal lima keiigo?
Then silent prayer, which is
since desire, unexpressed, that he
might have his plane work. Hope
grows-peace chases his frown away
he cleans out the plane, turns his
board to plane with the grain and
rolling ribbon after ribbon off, he ex-
periences the Joy of obeying the law
natural law, Gods law, as all true
law is, and with big smile on, he
sings:
There is q power
To make each hour
AS sweet as Heaven designed it,
Nor need We roam,
To bring it home,
Yet few there be that find it."
The prayer did not pull out the
splinter. Good nippers in the hand,
steadied by just that plain little
prayer did, and then washing with
water to cleanse; an antiseptic to kill
tetanus germs, and putting a little
grease on the pitch on his hand to
aid in cleansing it was all under
Gods law, to the satisfaction and
peace of his soul. AS soon as that
got in harmony with his best think
ing he found it was all Gods law
everything working together for
good. That philosophy is what q
Y. M. c. A. stands for, and in its
fullness it means a whole lot. In
Chicago it turns out 100 electricians
at time.
The true church is spiritual body,
made up of all folks of any church,
or pone, who, like Lincoln, intend at
any cost to do theirbest. That kind
of a church is now in transition in the
spirit of peace federation and human
sympathy. No institution is un-
changable. 1t matters not what we
are to-day, we are something differ
ent and believe better, tomorrow
slowly better by conforming to nat
ural law in any world in which we
can and will work. | should be glad
to see the men from Posey county,
Indiana, HOop-pOle Township, Elk
horn Tavern, near Jinkin's MILL
Pike county, Missouri; Aroostook
county, Maine; and whOsoever that
will, federated under that power
within themselves; greater than
themselves, which in any world,
makes for right use of things, that
each might share the benefits of
every other ones experience and
wisdom, where everyone is a free
thinker, as Christ was.
There is q oneness in humanity
and the all-rOund life. that is there
is no occasion for mysticism and two
departments, secular and religious,
apart from each other. Seven days
in the week it is good to preserve
our physical. mental and spiritual
integrity.
The Emmanuel Movement invites
every possible scientific and religious
test. The whole body is the true
organ of the mind. We think as we
feel and we feel as we think.
lfOne will 60, just himself and God,
into his den, any quiet place, and
just think out the things that he
himself knows he ought honestly to
think out Git is just prayer) there
will come great light, which will
enable one to do the things that he
should do. 1t seems a human need
and preserves physical fitness, so
that one working in machinery is
saved from many accidents that befall
those without light, and it is that
way along the line in degree as
lighted.
THE Washington Historical Society