Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-06-27

alton foundations are laid on which
such an economic system possibly can
rest 1t will only be because the idea
of business in the midst Of multitudes
! of men and women has been first of all
thoroughly saturated with the idea of
service,
'Listen Shubert, the musician, sold
his priceless songs for ten pence piece,
but he did not write them for ten pence
apiece. He wrote them for the love OF
music, and the joy and pride OF fine
workmanship Paid a little for his
work, not working for pay, One of the
finest things ever said in America was
said by a Harvard University Profess
sor, Harvard University pays me to
do what l would gladly pay for the
privilege of doing, if | could only afford
it, Paid a little for teaching, not teach
ing for pay, Is it not a secular task
when a minister goes into his pulpit on
a Sunday morning and breaches for
pay with no high sense OF his vocation,
OF the living God' Is that sacred;
oh, that is as secular a thing as the
sun shines upon. And when men and
women 90 into the business world to-
day handling common tasks with an I'M
common outlook, saying that the ma
jority OF problems Of humanity today
lie not outside business but inside bust
ness, and trying where they are to
open up trails and pathways, IS that
secular; Oh, there are no secular tasks
on earth; there are only secular people.
A man went into shoemaker shop
and said, How long does it take to
make a good cobbler;' Well, he said,
about six years and then man should
travel. Now cobblers may be what you
will, but that shoemaker was not sec
ular A man went into hammer fac
tory and said, I suppose you make
fairly good hammers here We make
the best hammers that can be made
Now hammer makers may be what you
will, but that one was not secular.
p "Who would fail to think well Of
{ George Elliot's beautiful description Of
7 the spirit with which Stradivarius made
his violin:
i But God be praised,
t Antonio Stradivari has an eye
o That wnces at false work and loves
t the true
o With hand and arm that play upon the
s tool
/. AS willingly as any singing bird
Lets him to sing his morning roundelay
d Because he likes to sing and likes the
song
when any master holds
70 'Twixt chin and hand a violin of mine
;. He will be glad that Stradivari lived
+ Made violins, and made them Of the
d best
d good
e They will choose mine, and while God
o gives them skill
S l give them instruments to play upon,
e God choosing me to help Him
Ii thou wilt call thy pictures eggs
4 I call the Matching Work. lis God
< gives skill,
d But not without mems hands; He could
|, not make
$ Antonio Stradivari's violins
1 Without Antonio
There is not an honest piece OF
- work into which that spirit cannot be
e taken, and without that spirit all our
d schemes for any manner OF industrial
democracy will come crashing in ruin
t. down about our ears All who are
+ going out to be factors of influence in
I this new day build deep in the thinking
r. OF this generation those foundations
o without which, for all our wit and in
genuty in making schemes we shall
some day face in despair the fruit Of
5 our thought.
and in the second place, l should
say that your inner obligation to the
; world just now was to lay deep in your
=. thinking the spiritual foundations on
y which any better international order
d will have to rest. In lS2S the school
board in Lancaster Ohio, passed the
following resolution: You are welcome
> to use the school house to debate all
= proper questions in, but such things as
u railroads and the telegraph are impos-
u sible and rank There is nothing in the
. word OF God about it. II God had de-
; signed that his intelligent creatures
D. should travel at the frightful speed Of
{ 10 miles an hour by steam, he would
Clearly nave lOIu II III MS DUN II l.
, not device of safety
q Some of us look with astonish-
/ ment upon the lamentable movement
in America which is endeavoring to
n lead the United States back into its
+ old policy of alooiness and separation.
+ With the League of Nations, or without
. one, the United States can never stand
p neutral or aloof again in any world
n event, and that for a reason which nei-
q ther you nor l nor all OF us can impede
= or stop namely, science conquers dis
o lance. Science makes endless war on
, distances. Wirelss telegraphy and air
n planes, those are the things that seem to
, hold within their grasp the destinies Of
, human kind. Science imposes terms Of
, unconditional surrender upon distance.
p 1T is only because in the multitudes
s of young men and women IKE your
selves going out into the world the
e spiritual foundations are laid on which
e something fine can rest, worthy of the
= sacrifice that this war caused. 1t may
5 be that there is someone saying here