The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-18
VALUE OF WORLDLY WISDOM
OUy Ho1ry Christcon WarnaclO

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Although all that We see and touch
and know has Mother reality nor
value except as a symbol. do not
srorn the wisdom of the world nor
its objects What we learn and what
We possess can have no permanent
value Nevertheless. We cannot attain
to any knowledge. nor acquire any
possession, that we do not take to
ourselves the essence Of the pcIma.
neut and real. Knowing and having
the things ot earth are as steps
upon the way when We master their
meaning TO realize the relation Of
knowledge and of possession 10 our
eternal being is the sum Of wisdom,
but to seek TO learn Of truth and
to strive for these possessions which
make for comfort and for service 10
20 be one who is dilgcut in his de
sire 10 come upon perfection We
may have no appreciation OF why
these things are and Of how they
can have relation TO the undying.
yet to set the will upon the finest
and best to be obtained with the tai
cnts and facilities We know to be
ours, il 20 take the one step which
We know how to take. II Is only
through the application OF energy
and through the appreciation -,
form that we can attain 10 that light
which reveals TO our vision tho
thing as It is.
The full meaning of what we com
monty call life lies In it's opportunity
to discover what il is worth We
can never separate the wheat from
the chaff until We know what is OF
value and what is not Only the
spirits is OF value, because only the
spirit has any reality. We find the
spiritual through the physical. That
is our path. Only as we develop an
ability to refine upon the physical
expression are we able TO relate Il
to that essence which gave 1t form.
We cannot bring the physical
which we have dreamed ourselves
to be into the realization OF tho
spiritual that we are, except through
the exercise of the WILL seal and
disccrnment of the improved. orderly
brain.
Unattended the planted seed will
come forth from the soil. but first
It must have been imbedded within
/ the warm, generating earth. Unat-
| tended, the plant may attain de-
| gree of growth, but the plant which
receives the studied cultivation OF
the agriculturist is ever superior in
it's frution to that which never was
nourished by design. That brain
which is not carefully and enerseti'
cally developed will no more lead a
man into full consciousness of his
possibilities than will tree or vine
yield the choicest fruit without spc-
cial care. The individual may some
/ times touch that vast sea of light
which we call the spiritual, the d.
vine and the godly, though he be
untaught that to know God is the
end of life. but It is only that great
and refined mentality which never
loses sight OF the eternally spirit-
ual in any relation which can unite
life with divinity at every point. So
are all things attained through the
consciousness OF the one thing
worth while. and so is death over
come through the affirmation of
life.
What we call a material age IN
dained of that thought above all
manifestation. The interminable at
tributes and the countless express
slons which combine in the com
merce. industry and artizanship oI
the complex life OF today are OF q
high and a sure design. We are moi
lost in a mad race for wealth al
some have supposed. We are no
hopelessly engrossed in that materi
ality which many believe to have
absorbed all the best that Is within
us. Instead OF less consideration o.
these expressions. we shall se- "a,
increased consideration of them witt
the mental and the spiritual prog
ress of man. There is nothing incon
sistent in the expansion OF form
which is the outcome of an erpan
sion OF consciousness which include
spirit and qualities OF spirit.
As man advances in understanding
the forms in which that conscious
ness are made manifest shall IN
crease in beauty and magnitude, evel
as the rose unfolds 10 the baptism q
a. ,,gt II 1t. l.