The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-12-16

of this existence: What is ii in a
man that makes US in his presence
drop or apologize for snrfid aims. law
employments and selfish acts. What
is Justice but sense of proportion.
and whose sense of proportion is right
as his whose vision is eternal? In
thought, the sense of proportion Is
reason. and whose reason is better
than his whose spirit is iInpersonal
and independent because il shares in
the eternal? Whose action is So eff
cient as his whose spirit and wisdom
transcends the obscuritics and self
! ishness of this present existence:
Happiness.
las to happiness itself it is unde-
niable that the only happiness that
defies time and vicissitude is that
which transcends time and vicissitudc
! j have stilled and quoted my soul
says David. There can no evil hap
pen to a good man in life or death.
says Plato. And the impersonality and
independence of the immortal spirit
bring greater positive happiness too
because they enlarge the realm OF in
tercst, and because of that sweetness
and infinite joy in old age. What hap
piness of the senses can match the
grandeur of Socrates. dying with the
words. This is the voice which
seem to hear murmuring in my ear like
the sound of the flute in the ear Of
the mystic.
The most surely serene mind is
that whose faith is reasoned. conscious
not that of the man whose participa-
ton i'm the thought of the race is like
that of a part of the subconsciousness
of the race. taking everything from
the social fashion. The proof of the ra-
tionality of the thought is in the kind
of action that follows feelings. Re sure.
therefore, that you help your ideas TO
results.
Life is perilous business. The in
diligence of emotions without appro-
pirate reaction. or of intellectual ideals
without purpose. is the cause of what
We variously call artificiality. affec-
ton. insincerity. Unapplied religion
is like unapplied mathematics. a rec
reation to some, and a forgotten exer-
else to others.
rs it idle with the reason to cher
ish mans vague reasoning about that
which transcends his reason, and Is
felt only with the soul? At any rate
the conception Of immortality Gains
the mind, whether the conception is
the Immortality of me individually or
my participation and resumption into
the spirit that pcrvades and outlasts
the material universe. The temporal
psychological effects of Nirvana and
of Valhalla are about the same. both
alike lessenins the ego and increasing
the boundaries of the spirit
These two propositions which have
urged that the calm mind is the
fruitful source of the graces of life.
and that this mind itself is attendant
upon the hope of immortality, may be
supported from history and experience
and the science of psychology
Professor Underwood then reviewed
many of the beliefs In Immortality
held by the different races of men. He
said that he could not contemplate !
these eternal rrainspringa of hope. |
these universal conceptions of happi-
ness, without trusting in the reality OF |
these forces and the tirth of that to
which they tend. lie referred also to
the reasoning of ;he scientists. Con .
Guiding he said: and.
s... Immortality. -.
There is no calculus u eternity /
There is no scientific formula for i'm (
mortality. You May say as you like, ,
but as for me / deny the intellectual \
quality. appropriate to a student, to +
mat man who does not cherish the in /
caicnlable reasoning of the heart as I
much as the sight of his eyes or the I
touch of his hands have NOT
the gospel Of calm shirt
from an experience of calmness, but
from the depths of a heart that knows
no cam, save as the sense of immor-
laiity and the supreme law stills its
passions and steadics its reason.
ana reason or no reason. let me.
Ike Guatame. beat the drum of the
immortal in tn darkness this
world ! have taken out of my inti-
mate notebook the motto of nv later
student days. The profound sense of
universal law that governs every kind
IL phenomenon can alone inspire a
rue resignation, that Is, the DISPOSE
ION TO bear with consistency and with
'ut hope of requital inevitable evils
have put back again In my heart
he motto of my early student DAYS.
he words Of Emerson. If your eve
$ fixed on the eternal. your intellect
NIL grow and your opinions will have
beauty which no wealth or learning
n combined advantages of other men
AN rival. Only 1 know a better. loft
er. way of saying it, He that dwell I
tn IN the secret places of the most
ugh shall abide i'm the shadow of the
Almighty"