Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-12-03


superficial undertaking; not by a
concentration Of thot upon life S
generalities, but rather thru the
mind being given to ponder ON
life issues, with the searchIight Of
the divine spirit. This accounts
for the imeXhaustable teachings of
Christ and the truly apostolic class
Subjects which today captivates
the general mind of the world
could find scarcely any considera-
ton during the apostolic period,
A few presented themselves with
the aim of getting some degree of
general recognition, but they were
forced into practical oblivion
where they awaited the coming of
distant generations whose minds
thru false training might be more
susceptible to their nature. The
time hoped for has surely come.
The mind of the world is so plastic
as that it can be made to conform
TO any mold, secular and religious,
hence molds of loose and abstract
philosophers are being supplied ii
the extent that human minds are
shaped to forms of fashion and
fancy, so that human lives to an
appalling degree are void of moral
stamina, and hence there is no
rich suggestiveness in their char
acters. They are shallow beings,
or creatures, whose seeming good
is but the floating shadow of a
past worthy aspiration. Nor, evil
IDENTIFY is the end of this surface
leveling yet. And if yet unborn
generations that are possibly to
come to this world are to develop
into rich suggestive characters the
sign Of such is not offered by
present generations, in any gener-
al respect. For not only is the
present world stepped in shady
sentimcntality but such shows a
Vitiated taste which will intensity
under the situation and which will
consequently call correspondingly
for an increase of matters of the
same character. There is hope,
however, in the future influences
of the lives Of present few. There
still remain in this world. notwith-
standing the situation, some lives
of deep minds holding a richness
Of possession, to be embodied in
works will live thru the ages yet
to come, which will appeal to sue
ceeding generations as lives of the
past are appealing to this age.
Such Is the preserving moral ele-
ment of this world. Nor is it pos
Sible that this element can become
entirely extinct. 1t will live in
suggestiVeneSs against whatever
.ude of resistance there may come
against it. And every sphere will
have its portion of this element,
small as the portion may be, This
source of encouragement is offer
ed in the fact that such exists
today, in a time of secularization
and sentualism.
There is mention of this element
as having existed even i'll Sardis,
and that at a time of the intensest
grossness of that place. SO has
the refining fires of divine grace
kept this element alive and puri-
fed all thru the epochs of sentual-
ity and decadent philosophers
from the beginning. And the ele-
ment of such generation will be
source of inspiration of thot and
live to succeeding generations,
thus human works and words will
be analysed in the future as they
are being analysed today The
necessity of this prevents the
grave claiming the entire individ-
ual. MAN tho dead, speaketh. "
And the words preserved gets a
hearing of future conscious sub
jects. And tho, possibly, but a
word or deed may be observed
at a time, yet the suggestivenesS
of that preserved principle of the
human life will unfold a thousand
fold to those who shall attempt to
solve its lessons. Proof of this.
we say, is in the present unfold
ment of past lives to earnest
hearts in quest Of abstract truth.
Thus are lives enriched thru the
richness of other lives. We do
not get our greatest helpful in
fluence from present lives. The
influences eminating from present
lives stir impulses of other lives,
and occasionally help greatly in
giving aspiration effective motion.
But it is the influence of the So
termed dead, more particularly,
that fires the ambitions of the liv-
ing and keeps them ever moving