The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-19


idea which possessed him.
1T was critical moment lie WAS
standing between the vision anu ~
application. on one side of MN "a'
tho mysterious sheet and its muitii"us
OF beasts. on the other were tho thFee.
men who needed him and the tru'hH
he had been taught. The G'iestlon was
whether the vision could pass through
Peter to these three men and Cor
ncllus. When on the morrow he went
with them that question was decidedi
his vision and it's appropriate dnt,
had Joined hands,
Man standing between his visions
and his tasks; that is our subject for
consideration 1t is the place whore
certain men are often called unon to
stand, and in some degrees it Is whore
all men are standing always. Every |
man has his yisions-now bright and
beautiful; now clouded and Obscure
Of what is absolutely and abstractlS
true; and every man has also pressing
on him the warm. clear lives of his
fellow men. There is a world of truth
on one side and world of men on the
other.
This may be peculiarly manifest I'M
the life of some young man to-day
When the school session has beenl
closed; when the college doors have
dismissed their graduate; when the
professional student has left forever
the calm scholar days behind him;
when the young minister still feels thel
hands OF ordination on his bowed
head-in all these cases. how real arc
the two worlds between which no
stands. Amid the silence and the
| stir. the calm accumulation and the
active employment OF his truth. tho
young man stands with a strange con-
sciousness which is never SO vtvidly
repeated at any other moment OF his
lie.
| sad is his lot. sad is the nature of
any man who can pass through such
/ a moment and not be solemni2ed and
/ exalted by 1t. Sad is that man who
can graduate from college and go out
into the world thinking OF his educa-
ton only as a drudgery from which
he has at last escaped. or merely as
an equipment with which he is 10 earn
his daily bread.
The power OF men to stand between
abstract truth on the one side and the
concrete facts OF life on the other
comes from the coexlstencs in his hui
---s nature of two dinerent powers
one the power of knowing, the other
the power OF loving. The power OF
knowing, whether BY patient study or
tho faculty OF gaining wisdom by ex-
4 perience. everything by which he tries
TO learn and succeeds in Knowing
that is one necessary element OF his
manhood.
And the other is love. that power Of
4 sympathetic intercourse with things
and people which completes and YIELDS
tho whole. These two together must
he in all true men. Sot merely in the
greatest men. but in all TO be genuine
The power OF learning truth and the
power OF loving men must be in you
or me as well IS IN Shakespeare OF
II socratus. Every truth possible Tor
man TO know, it is good for him tc
know wiki reference to his brother
men; only in that way Is the truth
kept 1ofty and pure. This is the daily
meaning OF Peter before his vision
; sitting on the hougetops, and the thret
men knocking in the street below.
There is always danger Of selfish.
ness in our religion. 1t comes ir
various forms. But remember your
religion kept solely for yourself vii
certainly decay Up. up, and go abroad
Find the men who need your Christ
ana to whom alone you can bring Hin
come yourself TO Christ. Be unself
, ism. Be spiritual Be true. Be Xix
him. Cast Off your sins. II not TO
, yourself. for some other soul VIII
could not learn in any other way, bu
good. strong and forgiving is your God
1t is a terrible thing to have seer
the vision and be SO wrapped UP In it
contemplation as not to hear the knocl
Of needy hands on our doors. 1t Is
terrible thing to hear tho knock an,
to have no vision to declare to tn
seeker.
Arise. and go abroad in all love an
faith. for three men seek thee.
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