Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-08
c. Eg4Aass sSss@sga e. sWseA Eagd!2

the day of 6anger to him. He is disIl-
there u no sun; because there are sick
people, there Is no health; because there
are failures, there Is no good being done.
And at this stage he crawls like q rabbit
into his hole, and burrowing downwards he
cries out, Il have got below the surface
land Internationally he has); have seen
through things, and down here where
safely burrow. there is no sunlight and no
beauty-religion is dead. society is dark.
and the social life is dreary and miser-
able" He is below the surface; he has
passed out Of the stage OF dreams and
illusions, he has seen something, but not
enough.
There Is q further stage. When q man
gets deep enough, he learns hope again;
mean the stage where he sees not merely
what things look like. not success nor
failure. but what life is meant for. to live
for God and to live for men. Then. whether
the sun shines or not. whether things are
dark or dreary whether society is ad-
vaneing or detertoratlng. he IL still enabled
to hope. He has to- 1--we for God and men.
And then he makes a further discovery
that exactly the same voice which taught
him Is teaching other men, and the most
unexpected men, all around him. He sees,
too, that the untoward crooked things which
at first only seemed to disillusionize his
cheerful optimism mean something; they
mean education and character; that the ex-
perienee OF life don't end in themselves. but
they have the power to make men into
something else. And so he passed into the
center, into the middle Of things. Then
he hat uvht oh ha
he had seen through and found no good in,
all those things come back again as in
struments OF higher work, to work the
adjustment which is necessary II he Is ever
to fili his God-appointed place. Then hope
comes and he begins to understand what at
first sounds 30 strange, viz, that expert
ence worketh hope. He has gained a
deeper knowledge Of God and Gods ways;
he understands better now; he feels that
however helpless things are there 10 stu
Christ-that, Got IL In Heaven--alls well
with the world.
"A great writer has said that the secret
OF vision is undying hope. What we can
hope for only two or three of US may see.
What can we see, we who are yearning 20
see something7 Well. we can see just what
we can hope for-neither more nor less.
Let us see what we hope for, We hope for
the day when love win be the universal
law OF mankind. We hope for the day
when men will make God their religion in
stead Of making religion their God. We
hope. for q great IDEAL for the day when
men will think that the service of man Is
the deepest religious privilege. We hope
that the day will pass away when any sus-
piclon OF degradation will be thought to
attend upon any act Of service. We hope
for the day when the best things will be
made the common things. We hope for
the day when men will seek not so much
to give charity as to do justice; when men
will seek not for patronage, but for oppor-
tunity of service. We hope to see men be-
heving that God not only created vast
religious change. but through 1t and by II
TO create great social change; to make
the employer to regard the worbingman as
his brother. or as his son: to make mon
regard injury to women as injury to their
own sisters; to make a man find himself
not In some mystical dream, but to find
himself in the often unconscious wants OF
those around him. We hope-and let no
man say we are optimists. We have
grounds for our hope; we are beginning to
see the dawn OF better things, which nifty
years ago would have been impossible; we
have found that there are companies which
sometimes think OF wages as we'll as dlvi-
dends. We have found that It has at last
dawnsd upon all. In q measure, that man
IL more than money. character than pos
sessions. purity and decency than high
rents"