The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-06-05

soOu, thS achievement OF SuCn ue-
velopment as will make our lives
things of benediction for ali we touch
1t is not so much the agnosticism Of
our tine, for that will pass with the
rising Of the souls need for the etc
nal truths 1t is rather that amid the
engrossment and fascination of the
facts of the universe there is forget.
ten by so many the .vastness OF that
life Of the eternal and the privilege
of fellowship 1t is given us to know.
The pity Of 1t is that moral culture
is not the necessary corollary of in.
tellectual culture and power. 1he
mental faculties are not the supreme
ones in life, those are of the heart.
of scientific knowledge recast and
newly discovered forces in the old
universe with an application OF their
benefcient powers to human life ana
the common arts, life has been very
wonderfully affected and civilization
enriched. The commonest life shares
luxuries impossible a generation ago
to even the most privileged.
Even so, granted the fullest meas.
ure OF material advance, rails still
the world old problem at our feet, but
the larger for the intricacy intensity
and involution Of our modern life.
Still abides life's fundamental past
OF mastery over life's sin and selfish
ness and the doing Of that whlc7
shall mark our service with that d..
vineness which alone holds success
and satisfaction.
Despite all our advance and knowl-
edge and the arts one cannot but
be conscious that we have lost in
this period of gain something vital,
a poise, a peace, a strength, a sanity
our fathers knew in the measure we
do not. 1t is not so much that
Doubts to the worlds child heart
great motive, lofty purpose.
Not the limitation of learning, but
the ordering of it by the highest NOR.
al purpose is the urgency pressed on
you today, for that is the true educa
ton.
Our time Is wonder time Of history
when man the microcosm moves with
swift feet and keen ban to the SO
luton of natures mysteries the col
lation of her secrets and fact, as
sumption of that high place designed
by the Creator as Master of the
universe.
1t is the fashion to live in an at
mosphere of self graduation because
forsooth, man knows SO much. There
| Is excuse for the attitude. From tn,
time when the White Christ walked
the earth down to this day is loni
span. The last century or the nine
teen has witnessed a greater advanc
in all of the things that touch lif
than did all the rest. One stand
amazed at that which the patient IL
genuity and toll of the time has ado
ed to the knowledge and power G
man.
With new biology, new chen
istry, a new physics, a new psyche
ogy. in fact with every departmer
those examples which make owe
whelming demonstration of this stat
ment.
1t is the religious spirit that Wit
Lies the literature and the art, tn
economics or politics, the music al
the oratory, and that saves from sti
ma of EQUALIZATION manual work
stressful type in field or factory,
mine or home.
Behold the parable of the Angelus-
|, for upon Millets canvass in the ia
ing light of day the Briton peasaI
and his wife are lifted infinitely
: yond the limit Of the rude raime
= Of poverty, the pitiful narrowness
. the potatoe digger, by the fold
hands, the bowed head, the revere
spirit that answer the Eternal,
he walks again in the cool OF tle J
In the worlds garden. With tr
moral culture In the life Il s impo
ible that man can be brutalized
% any toll in any environment that dr
= creates. Without that culture defin
- in the homely phrase Of our text,
is impossible to realize any drei
'e that holds lofty o. abiding hope
y the race or to be saved from that
y grossment in worldly things Il
chokes at the last the upward rea
" ing Instincts of the spirit.
y II is this which lends sanction
~ the nobility of your lives as you go
,-s ,rt,suy of the grease and art
&c ne -.i., that consciousness Of y,
C. doing Gods workmanship, sucl
III Elliott puts into her "Stradivarior
u 4. III H.