The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-02-13
The other two changed their coats with
out being told.

The other two changed their coats with
out being told.
We sometimes hear other thoughts ex
pressed that are as much out of date as
the above school stories. A woman &C.
customed to telling stories unsuitable to
be told in the presence of children is told
to get on her own soil before making
that kind of talk. Being in her daugh-
ter's home she replies: 81 am on my own
soil. have the same rights as my daugh-
ter" A young girl who has not half
finished the common school studies talks
of getting married. Such a person is
about as well fitted for the duties of life
as the mariner who would think of going
to sea IN row boat. A mother calls a
boy back to close the door after him.
The father says: 'She is nearer the door
than you are, let her close it." A few
years later the father wants the boy to
help unload hay; but the boy goes to the
house. Here is the secret of family
veal or woe. If these opposing currents
are in mild form they merely ruin the
child But if in violent form they ruin
the home.
While practical industrial experience
is valuable, educational training has a
double value. 1t is not only helpful in
the various positions of life but it in
creases person s chance of securing the
desirable positions. The work of the
schools is not only to fit for business life
but to fit for social life. There are of
necessity rough places where the nature
of our rude and untutored ancestry ap-
pears. How many fall in passing these
ough places in life, instead of rising
above them! have been told that there
is distinction between natural and
spiritual laws There is distinction be-
tween physical and spiritual laws, but
both are natural or according to the
plans of nature.
In my last article spoke of an old
friend who had become a total wreck be-
cause of starting the wrong way from
one of these little rough places in life.
Body and soul go upward or downward
according to these natural laws. Wheth-
err we will rise or fall is matter of our
own choosing, the same as when we step
into the elevator of one of our highest
buildings in our cities. We sometimes
tn ho oir Of
family or friendly relations that we fail
to comprehend our true relationship to
the world as a whole. | once attended
church where there was large audience
and an eloquent preacher. felt sleepy
and looking around saw several sound
asleep. Why? Simply because the
speaker had no connection with anything
higher or beyond the Bible truths he was
portraying. One preacher asked anoth-
er if he had the sexton wake any person
found sleeping in the audience. No."
said the latter, II ask the sexton to
wake me up.
There is quite contrast between a
home in the forest, miles from the haunts
of men and a level and fertile country
dotted with small groves of maple trees
and magnificent houses and church bells
ringing in all directions. But this was
once forest country and any new coun-
Try may be made to approach these con-
ditlons by keeping the ideal constantly in
view. To him who has not the money to
buy food and follow Greeley's advice:
60 west young man and grow up with
the country" is as pertinent now as ever
A boy when reproved for swearing
said: cit is no worse to swear without
meaning it, than it is to pray without
meaning it," This thought is in harmo-
ny with the sermon at the Methodist
church Sunday morning. The thought in
connection With the condemnation of the
Pharsee was that outward sin is not as
b I'D as religious acting in which there is
no vital relation with the Supreme Spirit. |
The heaven working within man, whether
good or evil, is compared to a germ pro-
duclng culture more important than
any outward act. The finely clothed man
sitting in church is no better than the |
same man is when he is clad in overalls |
and following the pillow. The only Gull
ture within that is worth anything has
for its center the eternal spirit as exhib-
tied before the world in the person of
Jesus. That culture within which has
the individual for it's center is the leaven
of the Pharisee and is portrayed by Jesus
as worse than the greatest outward sin.
In the discussion of the sin of Cain at
the Presbyterian Sunday school the idea
seemed to prevail that his failure was
not so much in the nature of his offering
as in the condition of his heart. This
view was confirmed by the fact that he
became wroth instead of trying to please
God when his offering was not accepted
He was protected by God to be punished
by a guilty conscience through long
life. At the close of Sunday school
had the privilege of shaking hands with
the man who paid more than one hundred
thousand dollars toward the construction
of this building and still contributes lib