El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-06-01

WYE SHOULD live as though We
NJ were always on the eve OF the
Great Revelation; and we
should be ready with welcome, with
warmest and keepest and fullest, most
heartfelt and intimate welcome. And
whatever the form it shall take on the
day that it comes to US, the best way
of all to prepare for its fitting reception
is to crave for it nOov, 20 desire it as
lofty. as perfect, as vast, as enobhng
as the soul can conceive. 1t must be
more beautiful glorious and ample than
the best of our hopes 1t must OF neces-
sity bring something nobler, lOftieT, near
er to the nature OF man, for 1t will
bring US the truth.
To man, though all else that he value
90 under, the intimate truth OF the uni
verse must be wholly, prominently adj
mirable And though, on the day 1t I'M
wells, our meekest desires turn to ashes
and float on the wind. still shall there
linger within us all we have prepared;
and the admirable will enter our soul,
the volume of its waters being as the
depth Of the channel that our eXpecta
ton has fashioned
Is it necessary that we should con-
ceiYe ourselves to be superior to the
universe? Our reason may prove what
it will; our reason Is only a feeble ray
that has issued from nature; a tiny
atom of that whole which alone shall
Judge 1t is fitting that the ray of i0ht
should desire to alter the lamp whence
it springs?
The Feeling Within.
That holiness within US, from whose
summit we venture to pass Judgment on
the totality of life, to absolve or con-
denim it. is doubtless the merest pin
l. Il IL
illmitable snhere of life. 1t Is wise to
act as though all that happened to man
were all that man most required. It Is
not long ago-to cite only one of the
problems that the instinct of our planet
is invited to solve-that a scheme was
on foot to inquire of the thinkers of Eu-
rope whether IL should rightly be held
as gain or a loss to mankind if an en-
ergetlc, strenuous, persistent race, which
some. through prejudice doubtless. still
regard as inferior to the Ayran in quail
ties of heart and of souI-if the Jews,
in a word, were TO vanish from the face
of the earth, or to acquire preponderance
there
I am satisfied shat the sage might
answer, without laying himself open to
the charge of indifference or undue res
ignati0n, in what comes to pass will
be happiness" Many things happen that
seem unjust TO us: but of all the achiev-
ments Of reason there has been none so
helpful as the discovery of the loftier
reason that undeTlies the misdeeds of
nature.
1t is from the slow and gradual vim.
djcation of the unknown force that we
deemed at first to be pitiless, that our
moral and physical life has derived its
chief prop and support. If a race dis
appears that conforms with our every
ideal. it will be only because our ideal
still fails short of the grand ideal. which !
IS, as We have said, the intimate truth
of the universe.
Dreams Are Desires.
Our own experience has taught rs
that even in this world of reality their
exist dreams and desires, thoughts and
feelings of beauty, of justice and love. |
that are of the noblest and Hottest. |
And If there be any that shrink from /
the test of reality-in other words |
from the mysterious, nameless powers !
of life-it allows that these must be /
different but not that their beauty is
less, or their Vastness, or power to |
console.
Till reality confront us, it is well. |
it may be, to cherish ideals that we /
hold to surpass it in beauty; but once /
face to face with reality, then must |
the Ideai name thaC nad led on our
noblest desires be content to throw
faithful light on the less fragile, less
tender beauty of the mighty mass that
brushes these desires. To do our true !
duty in life, 1t must ever be done
with the idea of all that is highest in
our soul. highest in the truth that is
ours And even though it be permissi-
bic at times in actual, everyday life
to compromise with events and not
follow impulse to the ruthless end
as did St Just, for instance who in
his admirable and ardent desire for
universal peace. happiness, justice, in