The Washington herald., 1915-07-18

who. before such moral adventure a,
this, answer. Someone ought to do
il. but why should T." and those who
reply, Someone ought 10 do IL so why
not -" Between these two" she re-
marked, Tie whole centuries of moral
evolution" Those two pharses draw
the line today between those whom
this weary world is carrying on its
shoulders and those who are trying to
lift this world on their shoulders TO
higher and better things"
A recent review of a book of Bishop
Brent placed him in the small group
of those who, in a century occupied
with tasks and works. still hungered
for righteousness and followed after
the vision of the divine as the best
men and women did other days" and
il went on to say that what we neeG
today is that spirit that includes the
passion of the early church and the
romantic temper of the media
church. Passion and romantic temper.
everlasting desire. serene. indomitable.
undisCouraC sable expectation. These
are what lift life high above the
level of routine performance and mea
ger rewards and fill il with all kIncs
of blessings and make it to he all
kinds of blessings TO the world.
Need Inspcnt Youth.
What we all need is what was once
said of Henry Martyr. that he had
not a single torpid nerve in him"
What we need is the ardor of un
Gridley Howe. that great soul and
strong heart. who feared no difficulty
and shrank from no encounter, who
remarked to one who asked his aG
vice about some work which he wished
to undertake. The plan seems TO me
to he fraught with great. if not tn
surmountab bile. difficulties. nevertheless.
would never discourage anyone from
entering on a work of beneficence by
dwelling upon obstacles" We need the
spirit of the missionary who return
ing from ten years of labor in Chins
stood up before n great convention and
used these words: You want me to-
make report, but | have no report
to make: you want me TO tell you OF
progress. hut ! cannot see any; you
want to know how many souls | have
won. but | do not know of one.
Nevertheless" he went on in a tone
which those that heard him will never
forget. "I do not doubt the promise,
of God and l do not doubt that those
promises are being fulfilled today in
the heart of a great nation that Is
struggling to be born into the life of
Jesus Christ" And in world like
ours today. where II seems as II all
report of progress were moCkery
and all our lofty ideals were falling
around us in ruins and civilization
were going up in smoke and going
down in n weller of blood and earn
age we need men and women as never
before who can stand up in the spirit
of faith and everlasting expectation
and can say, Il do not doubt the prom
Uses of God: / do not doubt that today
those promises are being fulfilled in
the heart Of world that is struggling
to be born into the life of Jesus Christ.
3. And we must have great eNpeCta-
tons for ourselves. II is much harder
to believe in ourselves than il is to
believe in God or to believe in others.
but we must do IL just the same. II
Is only lack of faith in ourselves that
halts the progress of ourselves. Our
real moral danger is not that we shall
be too low For one man today who
thinks more highly of himself than
he ought to think. there are a hun
dred men who think more meanly of
themselves than they ought to think.
The importance of such faith in our
selves is borne' IN upon one who re-
Allies that with the passing of the
years he has come to the rather set
tied persuasion that for him at least
the day OF grace is past; that his
cha racter Is now settling. IL. indeed.
II has not already settled. into its
fixed and final noulds: that there are
limits growing more and more precise |
and rigid beyond which his character