Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-27

in d mans soul into one harmonious
God-controlled whole. Every man Of
rs is an assemblage Of somewhat war
ring units I am inclined to believe
these units are the ancestral chips
that sRe have inherited Instead Of 81
Dr., Jekyl-Hyde combination, very
simple compound. we are more like
the Miss Beauehamp Of DR.. Morton
Princes Disintegration Of Personal
/ it3, avery complex assortment Of con-
stituent elements. Which Of these
viii dominate? In some men the.
saint is largely king during child
hood; in adolescence it is toss up
between the mystic, the crusader. the
scientist, the beast and the criminal.
Throughout manhood one or the other
|lof these FORCES ahead and in old age
|6naracter is as rigid as adamant. The
richest personality Is that In which
every inherited element 10 given due
share, is worked up into the final
blend by will Loyalty subject to the
great universal will. If you crush
rnthlessly out Of your being any Of
its original parts, your resulting self
is MANNED. Take the beast tn human
nature, the animal propensities and
passions You may murder them into
an anchorite but your starved monk
is only q half man. Control the beast
in man, direct 1t to noble ends, and
what q source Of power HIS bu0yancy,
his animal spirits, his welltrained
body becomes. There is just one prin-
ciple for upbuilding complete harmo-
NOUS personality and that is merging
the self in the universal self, the
mans will in his Fathers will. the In
dividual in the veal of the whole.
As this process proceeds, q mans
individuality becomes more marked,
his personality richer and more many
sided. A friend asked me the other
day, III is that possible? replied
It Is the story of the mosaic picture.
Here in building up your picture you
need stone of peculiar hue which
must fit into this curiously shaped
hole. You choose your bit of rock and
begin 10 chisel it. 1t first ii does not
fit. It has no characteristic form. 1t
is a mere block You shape 1t, cover
its sides with facets, cut 1T into ever
more marked individuality and at last
when 1t becomes so many sided that
it is unlike any other stone in that
picture it fits perfectly INFO its APP
pointed place and is merged in the
whole Some people do not believe
in personal immortality. ] do because
in order to eommingle with the whole
of Gods thinking creation, a man like
that mosaic stone must be shaped
into an individuality different from
every other. He has to persist or else
Browning's song will come true, Thy:
voices praise seemed weak; 1t.
dropped creations chorus stopped
In Gods universe the mosaic picture
and each individual stone therein
endlessly develops. Now Vivian built
up Carlisle Heth's personality, the
elements Of which were fast distinte-
grating under her mothers social am
billions. He did it by leading her into
community sympathy TO find her
place in the common human life, nay,
in the larger common divine life of
Gods family. Therefore the story
grips the soul 1t carries one back
to the man CT Galilee, For it was one
of the pre-eminent marks of Jesus.
superlative genius that he instituted
the movement of winning the world
through the action of personality. He
founded no church, he knew that
woul COME of itself. Only man
whose personality has been co-ordip-
ated into a harmony of powers can
eonsuTnmately help a fellow to get his
powers in hand This world win al
ways need such sayiors. Jesus gent.
us lay in his ability to propagate his
kind as well as to enter personally