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mastery and discipline by doing the will
of God in daily life.
CD 1lluminative. The second stage of
the Upward Life is built upon the habit.
now established. of faithfully doing duty
Here come great inward conflicts. The
battle is transferred from the outward
deed to the inward thought and experi-
enee. Here "accidie" is encountered. the
Dark Night of the SouI' spoken of bv
st. John of the Cross. Publication of
motives must be achieved. until the soul
learns to choose good for its own sake,
to follow the Path mot because it is
pleasant but because it is the Path"
60 Unitive 1t is at this stage, when
the soul is united consciously and really
to God, that it partakes of His nature, is
dified, according to the other mystics.
But it must be borne in mind that the
earlier Greek conception of God lacked
that intense personal quality which we
moderns inject into the word, and that
deifcation apparently means with the
mystic precisely what Paul covers by the
phrase "partakers of the divine nature -
Hence the Ecstasy is not to be grasped
at. but it comes; it Is not an excited or
hysterical state 1t is not cIairvoyance, 1t
has nothing in common with the trance.
or clairaudience, or visions of spiritual
ism. Like sensation, it occurs it cannot
be proved, but the subject knows indubit-
ably that it has occurred, q seizure, as
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God, and Henry suso was not only
more of a visionary than either, but
also an ascetie OF the severest tyne.
All these belong to the German group
called "triends of God" which also
produced the wonderful book entitled
rheologio Germanica." which so pro-
foundly Influenced Luther. and mas
gore through many editions in many
translations. Some mystics confess that
they never had an experience of the
Ecstasy. but confess to a belief that
1t is possible.
1t is not surprising that among
women saints the experience is fro
auent, but before we come to them
we must catch the names of St Francis
of Assist who deserves the most care
the "Initatio Christi" beloved OF many
Protestants and the great Ruysbroek,
THE Ecstatic Doctor" an unlearned
priest who attracted multitudes by his
spiritual mastery of life He II is whom
Maurice Maeterlinclx so profoundly ad-
mires, and says of him: Ills marvel
lous ignorance rediscovers the wisdom
of buried centuries. and foresees the
knowledge of centuries yet unborn"
Ruysbroclt's doctrine leads to the con-
Victien that the faithful soul Will at
tain to the Ecstasy by Experience of
the Active, the Inner and the Con-
templatiye Life, faithfully maintained
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thusiasm >for God. and who believed
that again and again he had been lift
ed from the common plane of think
ing into immediate access to the Alb
solute Mind. His successor, Porphyry,
had a similar experience, but IL did
not save him from Chaldean magic,
spells, and faith in invisible and pow
erful demons. such as are represent
ed in false mysticism today under the
pseudonym animal Magnetism"
Through the work of plotinus the great
Augustine entered into freedom, so that
the classic Confessions" amount to a
textbook on the higher. experiences OF
the mystical soul.
Another great mind. known to lit
erature and history as Dionysius the
Areopagite, also Duns Scotus must be
nobly ranked with the mystics; but we
come down from the sixth to the
twelfth century to find Hugo and Rich
ard of st. Victor, near Paris, join
passion, and reasoning about the
Ecstasy. In Germany in the latter half
of the thirteenth century Eckhart
studied these older writers and himself
swung strongly toward Pantheism
making the soul of man essentially and
naturally the product of the immanent
God. Tauler, early In the fourteenth
century, reasoned greatly about the
perfect relationship of the Soul and
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THE ECSTASY-By George Eaves, D. D.

| the history of mysticism, to have passed
by way of such surrender into rapturous
sense of unity with their ultimate self
in God, receiving the assurance of in-
mortality, and kind of identity of nature
with Him. For an unnumbered host, in
all the communions or groups of the
faithful, ere in fact surrendered souls,
desiring above all things that in them
ard through them the will of the Eternal
and Infinite Love may perfectly achieve
itself. AS the great bishop, Phillips
Brooks, said in the only sermon I ever
heard him preach, job was a mystic
when he cried, Though He slay me vet
will I trust Him. And If Job was a
mystic in his surrender, the poem shows
how he also had his ecstatic vision: II
had heard of Thee with the hearing of
the ear, but now mine eye seeth Thee:
wherefore l abbor myself and repent In
dust and ashes."
What then is the way to the Ecstacye .
1t is reached by the Scala perfectionis," I"
the ladder of perfection. This ladder has
three steps:
% Purgative. This includes contrition,
confession and also the social and civic
virtues. These, says Plotinus, represent
the Divine order and law of limitation
The true mystic never withdraws from
commonplace business and duty. This in
cludes what is called the "ascesis." which
does not mean asceticsm but true self
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it were, by Power not the self. but at
perfect oneness with the SELF 1t is as
sured contact with the absolute, and its
counterpart is the fascination of the soul
with love for God. DR.. Inge has offered
definition thus: ut begins when
thought ceases, to our consciousness. to
proceed from ourselves. 1t differs ffom
dreaming because the subject is awake.
1t differs from hallucination because there
is no organic disturbances: it is, or
claims to be. a temporary enhancement.
not a partial disintegration, of the men
tai facilities. Lastly, it differs from
poetic inspiration because the ina gina
tion is passive"
Passing by the well known cases Of
Paul and John, who clearly knew the
reality of such an immediate fellow
ship with God, and who came away,
awed and chastened. 1t is interesting
to find the founder of ,Montanism turn
ing the Ecstasy into the normal ex-
perience of every day believers. He was
unconsciously founder of the ''Holi-
ness" people of today. who insist on the
necessity of what they call the Sec
end blessing" by which many q them.
at least, mean the rapture of the soul
into God d-consciousness
/ have sufficiently dwelt on Plotinus
non Christian and neoplatonic think
er. who however assuredly shames or
thodox believers with his intense en-
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~ N certain earlier papers on mystical
writer's I have had occasion to refer
to what is called by them the Ecstasy.
1 propose now to survey the whole story
of that experience as set forth by those
writer's. from Paul and John down
through the ages, only regretting that
such survey must be exceedingly brief
and abusive, rather than FL and expesi-
tory.
: To begin with, 1 quote note by Mr..
Fleming, an author already cited. by way
of reminder of the uniform attitude OF
these mystical saints towards their won
6erful experience. That relation is known
as apathy" Instead of working up an
experience of the Over Soul. by phychic
stimulation or expectancy. their prepara-
stion lies wholly along the path of holi-
ness and every day duty. 'In fact" says
Fleming, "the stiffness or apathy of soul
which Plotinus predicates does not mean
idleness or vacuity, sitting, as it has
been put, with eyes shut and hands
folded That in itself would be a kind
of pressing of God. Rather, it is a
luminous awaredness and habitual medi-
tation, together with a complete resigna-
ton of the self into the hands of God"
y Hence it is probably true that. even in
our busy age, multitudes of earnest souls
may claim, though they know nothing of
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In this higher state the soul sinks
into tho vast darkness of the Cod
head, into the Abyss in which the Per-
sons of the Trinity transcend them-
selves" But this is not idle vaporizlng.
No one is more sanely practical than
this wonderful teacher
My space is nearly used and | must
defer mention of the great women
mysties st. Catherine of Genoa and st.
Catherine of Siena. st. Teresa. ST
Loyola. John fthe Cross. Mime. Guyon
and all the moderns. from the seven
teenth century.
Outstanding In this ago of worry.
hurry. push and barefaeed impudence.
is this silent testimony of the seers,
teachers, anehorites. and pastors
whose lips are dust that assuredly they
passed from the daily round and COM
mon task into the very embrace of God
and returned again to daily duty not
Insane. not puffed up, not hysterlca1.
but patient, gracious, humble. wise to
lead others. Granted that IL was not
their hidden and personal rapture that
most helps the world, but their heroic
patience and faithful discharge OF daily
duty; yet IL must be confessed that
there is some wholesome relation be-
the purity, nobility, fidelity, of the
lives they gave to men. because team
selves were .given to God.
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became less fixed and wandering; a gen
tie trembling came upon him. and at last
his eyes filled with tears, and he put his
hands before them and bowed down his
head. His memory OF sorrow, wrong and
trouble had not come back to him .
But some dumb stir within him made
him capable again of being moved by
what was hidden, afar off. In the music.
If 1t were only that 1t told him sorrow
fully the value of what he had lost, he
thanked heaven for it with fervent graft
tude. As the last chord died upon his
ears he raised his head to listen to its
fingered vibration
CHRISTMAS MERRIMENT
'The day arrived. A raging winter
day that shook the old house sometimes
as If it shivered in the blast. A day to
make home doubly home. To give the
chimney corner new delights. To shed
a ruddier glow upon the faces gathered
round the hearth and draw each fireside
group into closer and more social league
against the roaring elements without.
Such a wild winter day as best prepares
the way for shut-ont night, for curtained
rooms and cheerful looks, for music,
laughter, dancing, light and jovial enter
tainment So guests were hidden and
musicians were engaged and tables
spread, and floors prepared for active
feet, and bountiful provision made of
every hospitable kind Because it was
the Christmas season, and his eyes We're
all unused to English holly and its sturdy
green, the dancing room was garlanded
and hung with it, and the red berries
CLEANED an English welcome to him.
peeping from among the leaves =
Now, the music struck up and the dance
commenced. The bright flre cracked and
sparkled, rose and fell, as though IL
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my pocket, I believe that it has done
me good, and will do me good, and l say,
God bless it,
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
1.-THE noise in this room was perfectly
tumultuous. for there were more children.
and unlike the celebrated herd in the
room, they were not 40 children conduct
ing themselves like one. but every child
was conducting itself like 40. The conse-
quences were uproarious beyond belief,
hut no one seemed to care. But
now a knocking at the door was heard.
and such rush Immediately ensued that
she with laughing face and plundered
dress was borne towards it the center
of a flushed and bosterous group, just in
time to greet the father, who came home
attended by a man laden with Christmas
toys and presents. Then the shouting and
the struggling and the onslaught that
was made on the defenseless porter. The
scaling him with chairs for ladders to
dive into his pockets, despol him of
brown paper parcels, hold on tight by his
cravat. hug him round the neck, POM
mel his back, and kick his legs in ire
pressible affection. The shouts of wonder
and delight with which every package
was received"
CHRISTMAS MORNING
'Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, tur-
keys, geese game, poultry. Drawn, meat,
pigs, sausages. oysters, pies, puddings,
fruit and punch. The poulterers'
shops were still half open, and the fruiter-
ers' were radiant in their glory. There were
great round pot-bellied baskets of chest
nuts, shaped like the wastcoats of Jolly
old gentlemen, lolling at the door, and
tumbling over into the street in their
apoplectic opulence. There were ruddy,
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poor. They shine before men to remind
them that wealth and its seeking and its
anna ssing are not the be all and the enc
all of life.
Every one knows that the best friend.
of the poor are the poor themselves. Be.
fore recourse is had to the charity SO.
ciety the neighbors of the very poor LEND
the helping hand. When work fails the
man out of a job applies to his fellow
workers to ask where employment is t.
be found.
And half of the last loaf of bread of 8
poor family often goes to another thai
is poorer.
Charity is the beauty of the lowly.
The wealthy woman sends her clothinl
and household linens to be laundered ir
a poor district of her city. The work /:
done by poor woman. The pieces ar,
washed and ironed amid surrounding
that are shocking in their squalor.
But they come back clean and fresf
and wholesome.
The ray of light which shines through
a dusty, dirty. cobwebby cellar window
shines no less brightly because of the
filthiness of the medium through whicr
it passes. 1t is the light which counts
not the pane of glass.
From the humblest surroundings com,
the most touching tales of quiet good per
formed, of unselishness and sacrifice
Among these are many of the "humar
interest stories which every one likes tt
read. Notice as you read your city paper
how many more of such stories com,
from the slums than from the district.
which house the wealthy.
This is not due altogether to the fac
that there are so many more of the pool
than of the rich, so great a majority o.
the poor whom we have always with us
1t is a reflection of their condition, o
the struggle for existence, which does no
stife the finer feelings of the heart ant
soul.
There is moral beauty even in the
slums. Go there with open heart AM
mind to see it, and it will reveal itsel
to you in all it's strength and grandeur.
Viewing 1t will make better man OF
woman of any one.
Some rules of conduct are impossible Of
observance. They demand not merely
ideal conditions, but ideal persons to live
in such conditions.
Here are some practical rules by 9
practical man:
IT never come to work except In the
best of health, take all the rest | car
get, live happily with my family anc
leave my family affairs absolutely al
home and think only of the work ahead
when on duty
The man who wrote these rules is not
a professional moralizer. He does moi
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himself behind the girl from next door.
but one, who was proved To have had her
ears pulled by her mistress. In they all
came, one after another. some shyly
some boldly. some gracefully, some awk-
wardly. some pushing, some pulling-in
they all came anyhow and everyhow.
Away they went 70 couples at once,
hands half round and back again the
other way; down tho middle and up
again; round and round in various stages
of affeetionate grouping; old top couple
always turning up in the wrong place.
new top couple starting Off again as soon
as they get there; all top couples at last.
and not a bottom one to help them
fThere were more dances, and
there were forfets, and more dances.
and there was cake, and there was negus,
and there was a great piece of cold roast,
and there was a great piece of cold roast,
boiled, and there were mlnce pies. and
plenty of beer"
HAPPY NEW YEAR
THE chimes are ringing In the new
year. Hear them They were ringing.
Bless their sturdy hearts, they were
ringing. Great bells as they were; mel
odious. deep-mouthed noble bells: cast
In no common metal; made by no COM
mon founder; when had they ever ehimed
like that before? A band of mtl-
sic burst into the room, attended by a lot
OF neishbors, screaming, a Happy New
Year"
DEATH A JUMBLER
Another Christmas come, another year
gonel More figures I'm the lengthening
sum of recollection that we work and
work at to our torment, till death idly
Jumbles all together and rubs out al,
Merry Christmas, sir, and Happy New
Year, and many of 'em. Have had pretty
many of 'em mysolf-ha, hal and may
take the liberty of wishing EN-. I'm 81
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weaken at last-for such is the common
fate of humanity-but there will be no
sudden Snap to tell of vitality cracked
and consigned to the ash heap before its
time.
Investigating this question. an English
medical authority has found that nearly
every person who lived a quiet, steady,
monotonous life without periods of relax
alton and studied the ups and downs OF
| the money market failed either mentally
or physically in a short time-less than a
dozen years-and. ultimately disappeared
| from active life.
| On the other hand, those men who were
| operators of great skill and cooness and
who lived regularly most of the time, but
| occasionally gave way to periods of relax
alton, lived longer and had fewer mental
| disorders.
"Protracted anxiety without rest
breaks more men than does hard intel
| lectual effort" says the London medica;
authority.
! "Dulse est despere in loco" said
Horace, which means that it is sweet to
take ones pleasure in the proper place.
| This is mot an argument for improper
pleasures Such increase the tension on
| the bowstring instead of relaxing it. They
| corrode it's fiber. They make 1t rotten.
When the bow is restrung and the at
| tempt is made to draw the arrow SHAFT
| to the head
! The string breaks. Not with the snap
! that tells of effort applied too strongly,
but with the rotten tearing of the fab
rc 1t does not break quickly. 1t goes
| to pieces.
| But the proper relaxation at the right
| time and in the right place Is good. The
highest form of recreation is the chang
ing of ones activities. If you are a
farmer, try to take an interest in art or
| literature or music something else
which lies far outside of the circle of
your accustomed activities. If you are
a brain worker learn the blessedness of
| close contact with Mother Earth by work.
ing in your garden.
| So shall you wear out at the last, not
rust out or break suddenly.
| After January 1, 1914, the use of funeral
plumes on horses is forbidden in Great
| Britain 1t has been found that their
wearing often entails suffering and dis
comfort on the animals The law of tho
| land forbids the infiction of ANY un-
necessary suffering on any animal"
| So the horses will be relived of the
suffering caused by the funeral plumes
| How about human beings?
| They suffer also from funeral plumes-
| from the "trappings of woe" The sight
| is shock to the spirit 1t inhicts les
son on the mind A continuous success
sion of such wounds would be fatal be-
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Joined the dance itself in right
good fellowship. Sometimes it roared
as If it would make music. too
Sometimes 1t flashed and beamed as if it
were the eye of the old room: It winlked
too. sometimes like knowing patriarch,
upon the youthful whisperera In corners.
Sometimes it sported with holly houghs,
and, shining ON the leaves by fits and
starts, made them look as If they were In
the cold winter night again and nutter-
ing in the wind Sometimes its genial
humor grew obstreperous and passed all
bounds, and then 1t cast into the room
among the twinkling feet, with a loud
burst a shower OF harmless little sparks
like a mad thing up the broad old chin.
ney."
CHRISTMAS FOR EVERYBODY
Every movable was packed off, as II
it were dismissed from public life for
evermore; the floor was swept and
watered, the lamps trimmed, fuel was
heaped upon the fire and the warehouse
was snug and warm and dry and as bright
ballroom as you would oeslre to SC e
upon a winters night. In came the
fiddler with a music book and went up
to the lofty desk and made an orchestra
of 1t, and tuned like 80 stomaehaches. In
came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial
smile. In came the three Miss Fezzi-
wigs beaming and lovely. In came the
six young fellows whose hearts they
broke. In came all the young men and
women employed in the business In
came the housemaid with her cousin. the
baker In came the cook with her broth
ers particular friend. the .nilkman. In
came the boy from over the way, who
was suspected of not having board
enough from his master, trying to hids
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the tall canes on the sides of which
being worn smooth by their fur. For
day or two the runaway subsisted on
the wild fruits of the swamp, but on
exploring further toward the north, he
found that there were plantations on
the opposite side of the Alabama river,
and by means of the use of piece of
wood to support him in swimming
across. he made his way, hungry man,
to a plnatation at night, where he
told his story and procured food.
Hal soon became an expert forager.
as was indicated by the loss of an oc-
sionaI pig, lamb, goat or turkey from
the plantation. Not content with his
own freedom, he determined TO bring
his family to this swampy retreat.
Making his way back to his distant
home, he succeeded at night in mount
ing his family on two or three choice