The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-02

Hot KNOW what IL is 10 De melancholy,
ana can. therefore, take view OF
nature. in her deep and solemn scenes.
with the same pleasure as In her most
gay and delightful ones. BY this means
| can improve myself with these OBJ
1ects. which others consider with
terror.
He pauses, motions us to follow
where the vantage is best TO behold
the tombs OF the ancient and famous.
and then resumes:
When | look upon the tombs or the
great, every emotion of envy dies in
me-. when i read the epitaphs OF the
beautiful every inordinate desire goes
out: when | meet with the grief OF
parent upon Il tombstone. my heart
melts with compassion when l see
the tomb or ;he parents themselves,
consider the vanity OF grieving for
those whom we must quickly follow;
when l see kings lying beside those
who deposed them, wnen l consider
rival wits placed side by side or the
II cir contests and disputes. ! reflect
with sorrow and establishment on the
little competitions. factions. and de-
bates of mankind. When l read the
several dates OF the tombs, OF some
that died yesterday, and some six hun
dred years ago, j consider that great
day when we shall all OF us he contem-
pCraries, and makes our appearance to-
gether.
Faith brings Out the Light.
All. this is wholesome: there is
health here, but as we view this placid
man and his placid philosophy we note
that his is mostly the health OF nor
NAL sensation, not the health OF action.
eager hope, achievement. Addison =
Is mood armoured against certain
weapons of melancholy, it is not char
acter equipped with great moral tools
for work Unreasonable as is his ad =
vance over the pessimism of William
, Knox yet he offers no rounded pro-
gram to challenge our bouyant ener-
gies.
! There remains larger word,
! freighted with a larger idea II Is
faith Every great estimate of life
which literature in Christendom has
given us has taken color from the
great classic, the seasoned product OF
Moses, the man of God, immortaliZed in
the nineticth Psalm. Therein the pes
simist will find his MI: Swallowed
aspects enter the picture. Faith knows
the uses OF shadows 20 bring out the
/ lights. But the emphasis in this great
sacred classic is laid, not upon the NOR
tally OF the man, but upon the tent
! poral immortality of man. The human
race persists, on and on, midst the
hazards to human existence. The end
! OF the pilgrimage Of these three score
and ten years IS that the pilgrim may
climb to the towering top of things,
! from whence the vast horizons, lie In
willingly out toward the eternities.
| In that far-off age. Moses guessed
; the deep philosophers of these modern
essays as a theory OF education 20
/ satisfy us early with Thy mercy. that
we may rejoice and be glad all our
days" That Is a thrusting of our
does not say. satisfy us early with
Thy mercies." but with Thy mercy
Mercy" is az attribute OF a person;
mercies are merely, or may be. just
| the acts and remote effects of per-
| son. We may be satisfied with the
| "mercies" and quarrel with the person
who bestowed them,
Make us gla daccordinR to the days
wherein thou hast afflicted US, and the
| days wherein we have seen evil" In
other words, then. Moses guessed at
/ the highest uses TO which the human
experience and It's accumulations In
the character which experience has
| shaped.
beautiful is the morally beautiful II
Is the highest form to which the spirit
may be fashioned, and, inasmuch as
spirit, OF all things, alone Is eternal,
! its type OF beauty alone shall endure.
Religion Is Moral sanity.
And establish thou the work OF our
hands upon us" Only an ancient man
ner Of aspiring after character as the
} nnal form Of the beautiful the last re-
! positOry OF virtue and the energies
! spent IN its stTuggles,-the rcsiduum
of life Here was "A moral conserva
florist IN world OF moral waste.
Religion. then, is moral sanity the
gearing Of the human thought into
! Gods thought; and God adjusts the
! gearing so that the simplest trust, the
| crudest aspiring, the weakest will may
/ link into His thought
| To him who has sensed the impulse
! which moves within, wnen the pro-
cesses OF that adjustment emerge w
| into conscious eXpeTieEcc-to him
| comes the answer To the question
| what Is your life: and the more In
articulate the answer, the more ~ the
answer adequate and accurate.