Newark post., 1914-04-15

q pagan ana KNOW UOU out Oh uOOfS,
meet in thoughts the nymphs and
tabled gods Of brake and hill top
tangle, and live beautifully and
with gladness in the birds, the hills,
the blue Of the sky, the laugh of
children and the calm, deep look in
the eyes of women who love, than
to sit as smugly saved as the most
perfect theologian who lays down
the plan Of God for man with an
Iinkyreed he calls pen, and shuts
out from himself and from others
the ante-chambers of Heaven, the
broad ways to Paradise, the sound
of harpers harping with their harps
above the New Jerusalem Of nature
in order that he may do for God
what God refuses in His splendid
bounty to do for Himself. l would
rather trust the inspiration and the
joy Of the emancipated woods, the
free fields, the murmuring brooks,
the invitation of youth and beauty,
than to clasp with confident gloved
hands the prayer books which did
not bid me forth to these to wor-
ship and to find God.
The passion Of the heart which
brings forth desire is God-born
instinct, pure and clean and right
eous altogether if it be a passion of
the soul. Bodily desires, the long
ing Of hearts that are not whole un-
til mated, is not Of the dust, but of
that spirit Of truth and purity of
which the red-tipped NAPLES are an
depression. | remember, years
ago, such revelations as no book
has given me. How the spring
called to me when the girl with vio-
let eyes questioned Of me as of life
itself as to what manner Of love and
tenderness and joy l could from
my soul produce for her. Above
living root where green plants lean
ed, the waters that had once been
ice, melted into eddied hesitation
and then went gently to the world
beyond nor told one word of all
that miracle. The mouse that own
ed that mound looked upon us and
discreetly turned away, the blue
above was hecked with white
plumes Of promise and we learned
there more Of the sweetness of exis-
tence, of life at its best, of high
ideals, good courage, lofty plans,
than all the lore from Egypt to
Delaware could have given to us
In that communion with nature,
with each other and with God, each
IN the three and all as one we felt
anew the purpose back Of Creation,
the vastness of the opportunity of
our incarnation, the goodness of
the world Of spirit From that
dream, repeated through a few
brief meetings, came no touch of
fiers from pits of agony, only the
sure, swift growths from boyhood
and girlhood into manhood and
womanhood: the arrival at the es-
'o'S NhClC VIC DCS Ill W ste llldI we
are as gods. Years and the foolish
ness of youth parted us, but still,
though now children then unborn
have used that brook and hollow of
the bosom of the hill for their tenn
pie Of God, and their children in
turn, still | know that God was in
the spring time, that His wish and
sure intent is not that the people
shall forget the gladness and ig-
more the passion of the spring, but
shall begin the joy in the recogn-
ton that He is there, and make
such revealing times of the year re-
vealing times of Him and Of the
worth and beauty and freedom
which the human self may gain by
being obedient to the heavenly vi
sion which falls upon us all as we
journey upon dusty highways,
from the glory that was youth to
the splendor that is eternal life.