Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-09-19
Weekly Sermon
IN SPAIN.

CASTLES IN SPAIN.
They represent a form of real estate
ordinarily quoted low in the worlds
markets. A practical g discounts the
with fancies. Dream houses may do
for poets or ne'er-do- wells, but not for
busy, well-ordered people of affairs.
let the probability is that most OF
US. whether consciously or no, are
property owners in that dreamy. far
off country beyond the horizon. we
all spend more or less time in our
Chauteaux de Espagne. Children.
especially, in the exercise of their
imaginations, habitually invest coming
scenes with %splendor and people them
with fairies.
But children are not the only vision
aries. Most of us older and wiser folk
share their expectancy. There is a
good time coming, we assure ourselves,
and paint the future in bright colors
from a liberal pallet. Like those OPP
timisitic ones of whom the prophet
lsiah spoke we feel thai Tomorrow
shall be as this day and much more
abundant Whatever tue past has had
or meagerness or of pain. through a
blessed vitality of the human spirit, a.
better expectation is cherished for DAYS
to come.
You may reckon hope a very unsub-
stal.tial diet If You will. but in it's pow
err to sustain life there is nothing In
the world to equal it. Most of the sons
OF men live out their days under it's
inspiration. 1t can provide a bit OF
blue in the gray sky of the hardest
worked and most circumscribed life.
making both the labor and the limi-
tation tolerable.
The bearer of the dinner pail h
way" to cramped and hired quarters
has a vision of his own cottage by
and-by with a table spread by his
own neArfh2fOnQ Tha n1orL onv-
demned to d%rudgery, foresees his name
some day on the letter lads of the
company and cheerfully ldures his
discipline. Dick Whittingtons every
countless Londons and that is why
they can trudge along life's dusty
highways content with poverty and
rags. 1t is a blessed provision of our
human inheritance that we are, when
In normal health, optimists and per-
suaded by great and unceasing hopes.
Moreover this hopeful imaginative
mood has a very great practical value.
The builders of air castles have given
us gifts beyond u casual thought. The
civilization come from visionar-
les. 1T was not merely a swinging
chandelier that Calico saw in the old
cathedral. but the pendulum that runs
all our clocks. The steam escaping
from a Scotch boys tea kettle became
through his adventurous imagination
the power that turns the wheels of the
worlds On land n sea.
1t is not necessarily to ones dis
credit that his day dream is never
realized. There is only half a truth
il indeed as much as that-in the
grim adage which asserts that hell is
paved with good Intentions. What
ever else may bring men to doom, their
right purposes will never do so. The
reach of every good nan will far ex-
coed his grasp to the end of the chap
ter.
In his present world men are pr1s-
oners of hope. We are beguiled along
the way of life as children are allured
on a Journey. One pleasant prospect
after another is held before us till we
reach the journeys end. Nor shall
we finally be disappointed: The uni
verse is not built on deceit. Illusion,
which is a principle of providence. is
by no means the same thing as de-
fusion. The airy castles of our dreams
shall one day stand in solid reality.
Meanwhile, in the brave words of
Stevenson, 1T is better to travel hope
fully than to arrive and the true sue
cess is to labor The Parson.