The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1914-01-09
THOMPSON DELIVERS
ADDRESS AT The
M. E. CHURCH
Dear Mr.. Editor:

Dear Mr. Editor:
At your request have great pleas
ure in offering you resume of the
address of Hon. J. NJ. Thompson at
the M. E. church on last Sunday even
ing. 1t was brilliant production de-
livered in an eloquent manner, and
characterized by a few erraticisms
that is ever the prerogative of genius
The presidency Of one superior, SUI
preme, grand mind was the speaker S
first thought and it was forcefully
elaborated. He said our outlook on
the universe was as if we were watch
ing sculptor at his work unaware
of the ideal he was pursuing, but
which he ever keeps distinctly in
view and which animates and directs
the smallest touch he applies.
Every action within this universe
had first its origin in thought. So of
the growing grasses and all the world
of nature about us. We watch these
strange processes but we cannot I'M
ravel the mystery; but somewhere is
one who knows So of our own
minds, the speaker said, mo finite mind
has any conception of the substance
of its own thought nor can it I'M
derstand the processes which give
birth to thought How these pro-
ceSses operate must have been a
thought before The processes in the
operation of a finite thought began.
Such an existence demands an under
standing mind. Mans failure to un-
derstand necessitates the existence of
a higher mind than mans. Without
the infinite there could be no finite"
Man fails to see the under why of
everything, but this is only proof that
there is some where a mind that holds
mans mind within its own and clearly
grasps all its issues and is guiding
them necessarily to some beneficent
end Design is everywhere seen in
nature Study the evidences of the
beautiful. Matter in itself can have
no discernment to detect this rarest
charm and since the flower is appar-
emily capable by its own inherent re-
sources of creating this magic it must
be because of the inherent all dwell
ling, all compelling mind that it
should so unerringly arrange its
atoms along lines of harmony.
Instinct is added to vital forces in
everywhere seen in plant and animal
life. But above all plants and animals
who cannot but simply obey the pri-
NAL impress of the creative hand lead
ing them straight to one single I'M
changing destiny is man who can
choose and fix the goals he pursues.
In Jehovah's vision of love and wis
dom rose up man with that perfect
form into which "oreathed the breath
of life and man became a living soul
The speaker said ION the waves of
that divine breath were carried germs
the embodiment of which toward noble
ideals produce all the love, joy, peace,
harmony, beauty and glory that the
world has ever known"
In Adams case, and he was cow
aRdly to try to excuse himself and
throw the blame on another, never
theless man is entirely free to create
the vision splendid which should
wholly mold his destiny and is held
to himself and the universe in abso-
Lutte responsibility therefor. He can
pencil before his mind the vision OF
a noble character and by struggling
become possessor of those tendencies
Man grows to become what he had
worshipped and prayed for in ano-
Their. Study the biography of Cyrus
Field toiling at the laying of the At
lantic cable and be inspired. His
activities seemed to exceed the
bounds of human endurance. Many
were the 24s in succession in which
he did not sleep, all the while visited
with the scorn and derision that ever
waits any innovation on established
practice or old tradition. The ideal
that beckoned him was the linking OF
an oceans opposite shores and being
unfaltering and true to the inward
light that ever impelled toward his
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