The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-02-20
PURE LIVING.

seems to be to keep the mind so full of
for other thoughts. This is beautiful
theory, but hard to practice, especially
in localities where child cannot &C into
the street without hearing profanity and
other thoughts which go in its train. We
have science treating of every subject
as the human body. the earth, the heav-
enly bodies, and the efforts of Unitarians
seem to tend toward the construction OF
a science of religion corresponding to GU
other sciences. They have often given
so much attention to the educational
phase of soul culture as to be termed ir-
religious. They believe that the body
and soul of man grows upward toward
God just as naturally as the wheat plant
or corn plant natures.
Every Methodist sermon have heard
during the past year, either in the States
of Washington, Maine, Massachusetts
or New Jersey has been in harmony with
the thought that the man who constructs
and runs the steam engine is child of
God. Doubtless MANY of them are dis
obedient sons. Many have been led into
close sympathy with Divinity by passing
through the trying ordeal of having dis
obedient sons. We are told in the teach
jngs of Jesus that he who does the will
of God without protesting to obey Him
is better than the one who says 81 go
sir, and goes not. Is not here an argu-
ment to prove that the man who aids in
constructing our various devices of utility
is better than the recluse who spends his
time in prayer!
The most acceptable prayer before
God is the ardent desire which becomes
embodied in useful acts, like the lnven-
ton of the telephone or steamboat The
most important part of the Bible is sell
dom studied, and that Isl the prayers of
Jesus which equipped Him for doing his
work Everything worth doing in this
world has been done by those who studied
natures laws and worked in harmony
with creative processes. Theology has
been most concerned with revelation
from God instead of beginning at the
lower round of the ladder, as in other
sciences, and reasoning from the known
10 the unknown.
The society of Friends or Quakers pro-
TESS 10 believe in the leadership of the
Holy Spirit to that extent that it takes a
hurricane to move them. When we read
of the vacant meeting houses scattered
over the country, we can but write on
their tombstones, Died from mac
tivity.'
A Sunday school superintendent Sc
verely criticised the work of the Chicago
University. Later he was lamenting
unjust criticism. 1t seemed a suitable
time to ask him if the Chicago University
was not sometimes unjustly criticised.
He admitted that it was possible All
the lower steps of child training are just
as essential as theihigher and must be- at
tended to if we would attain the highest
success.
An animal, or an orchard. which has
been neglected for season, will respond
to care ard attention, but stunted
growth will be the result. A boy asked
the teacher the meaning of word. A
visitor looked at the boy, which produc-
ed smile. | suppose the thought was,
GSNTl,,, 1i1,,'t no bo1, ec1r bo
write his lesson for himp' AS we look
over room full of children we are re-
minded of seeing farmers look over their
wheat fields and estimate the amount of
crops to be expected. Persons of a diff
ferent turn Of mind would estimate the
future career OF these children
Often the farmer has prospect OF
bountiful crop and a hailstorm scatters
it on TIE ground. A similar catastrophy
befaIls parents and teachers when a child
proves fDlsa and dashes asunder the
fondest of eng cherished hopes. When
an intimate friend passes on to the eter- /
nal shore, it is but one step along natures |
great highway. When one proves false |
there is blank in nature. The two are !
not to be compared.
laid down my pen to attend lecture
Dy DR.. W. S. Hall of the Chicago Uni |
versity on the Organs of Reproduction.
1t has not been many years since moth.
err thought it her sacred duty to keep
every book treating of the sexual organs
hidden away where the children could
not find it. 1t was deemed disgrace to
speak of the way in which animal life is
reproduced in the presence of children.
DR.. Hall prefaces his remarks by refer
ence to the way in which the lover woos
his mate in uncivilized countries. |
would refer to a poem l once read en-
titled, "No Sect in Heaven" 1t repre-
scented the Quaker as losing his broad
brimmed hat, the Methodist as losing
his Psalm books, and every other denomi-
nation as losing their pet hobby in the
waves to be passed this side the eternal
shore. There is not only no sect in
heaven, but no sex in heaven. Jesus
says they neither marry there nor are
Of