Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1910-09-21

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HSETESS4 And the wonder got me
In sermonizing mood
sermonizing, as conceive the words
largest meaning. being result OF the
minds free play. soul-gossip, and alb
solute fairness with ones self: above
ALL surrounding all, absolute fairness
with ones self. writes the Rev. A. b.
Bealle. And 1t is this interplay and
exchange of fact and fancy with those
superiors, equals. interiors we know
that ultimately shapes ones creed o.
life, don't you think?
We must all be preachers and
listeners too-the noblest and mean.
est OF us must give ourselves up
must hear and tell all that seems good
and fair to us. And we cannot stop
the growing and becoming. The new
truths of other men that press for
trial, whether we find them fact or
fable, In so far as they concern us,
must be heard.
II was of blindness I sermonized
with myself. And some stray notes I
made for you. my neighbors: some
notsam and jetsam found at the day's
end-some tallyings found true.
The condition OF physical blindness
might not be miserable one if. back
or the poor, unseeing eyes a thinking
brain was not sure that somewhere
other men knew the intimate com.
rading with sunlight and the glisten
of dew. l fancy It is this knowledge
that blanches the faces of blind men:
not so much the enforced exile from
the bright day, as knowing how fair
1t is. Not the hurt of the darkness.
but the hurt of the light, which en-.
braces all so tenderly and lovingly
and may not be seen.
PItiful Object Lesson.
Oscar Wilde had vision-saw and
heard flowers and bird-song-yet.
withal damned himself so utterly in
mems eyes. One of the outcasts him
self. by his own and past's making,
that Reading prison gave him text for
sermon of massive scope and in
tensity. o, but the trial men hurt
Wilde-hurt him intensely! Were
they right? / do not know, for he
scared and groveled. too-angeled and
deviled his few years away till Read
Ing gaol got him in its clutches. For
the man had vision and was blind too.
England wreaked her vengeance on
this immoral genius; society destroyed
him in its slow, heart-burning con.
science fame. And his dishonor and
shame has been subject matter for a
thousand common mems gross OBJ
scenities since he was cast into prison
And this is what / mean to be the
drift of my preachment:
Humanity is not made up of two
distinct types-the blind and the see
ing-the evil and the good. only.
Always there are gradations-al-
ways there is the striving and the
losing and the winning
One standard of values cannot be
true for all-not yet.
Merciful sociologists are gorely
needed on Judges benches.
Until the races of men are prepared
for an ideal anarchy, such as is out
lined in the Golden Rule, those men
born into the world morally blind
must have guides and protectors.
Not condoners-not pardoners who
will heartfully say, you have done
no wrong thing. II Is the past which
has wronged you" Rather, men who
know vista, physicians in the largest
sense, to whom all human life shall
seem OF some utility-of some real
worth to future generations, II wisely
directed.
Physicians for the blind-these are
they whom the blind races need! Men
who can forecast fair deeds in the
lives OF men and women that are be.
ing bounded to hells OF their own
blind making.
Always One White Way.
Some days ago my comrade said:
For me there is always one white
way-one real right course to pursue
In any dilemma" II was truth for
her. For an children OF the light. for
all that come into the world under
gracious auspices-for these, too, her
words were truth But for the blind
and the habitually erring her words
were not so true. For them there is
one way, too-but without alternative.
Israel Zangwill gave me my text.
and pass II on TO you blind and sec
ing ones:
BLIND
Laughing the blind boys
Run around their college lawn
Playing such games as blum
over the dappled grassi
See the blind frolicsome
Girls I'm blue pinafores
Turning their skipping ropesb
How full and rich world
Theirs 20 inhabit isi
Sweet scent of grass and bIooI
Playmates' glad symphony.
Cool touch Of western wind
Sunshine's divine caress.
How should they know or feel
They are In darkncss7
But O. the miracle
II a Redecmer came.
Laid fingers on their eyes
One tOuch-and what a world
New born in lovelinessl