Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-15
Build ns&hedr.ls.

Ladies and gentlemen, your bust
ness 70 cathedral building. That
y my appeal to you this day. That
y me burden of my heart and voice
az THIS hour. Cathedral-laying over
against brtck-laying, that is the anti
thesis. Let us SEE this distinctly ere
we leave his assembly.
Io pc a cathedral builder. ones
understanding of life must be clear
and complete. Let me build into my
a study of life. Let us de-
vote a few minutes to the study of
life, with an exhortation that you be
not satisf1ed with aught less than the
Indefinite term. 1t is. after all, moth
ing less nor. more than adjustment.
Establishment means death; proper
adjustment, life. One appeals to a.
physician when his body is improper
ly adjusted to the physical world
about him. A farmer lives only as
ne adjusts the seed to the soil. The
as he adjusts his stock to the de-
sires and whims Of a patronizinR pub
lie.
Three Circles.
Now there are three circles Of ad-
justment. First, the physical. This
is the circle In which the great ma
jority OF people are content to live.
To adjust ones body t o food, cloth
ing and housing; to surround one
with a comfortable environment; to
be permitted to go hither and thither
as n 'pleases by automobile and
yacht, and even aeroplane-all this is
adjusting ones self to the physical
environment, and, physically speak
ing, makes him very much alive.
Beyond this mere physical circle
Is a second ~far-reaching circle where
IN live those who adjust themselves to
the world of. intellect. Herein the
PHILOSOPHERS, the poets, the historians
dwell. They hold comparatively little
interest in a physical environment;
out when they are waited forth on
the wings Of poetry. or drift back
through the centuries with the his
torians. or delve deep into the earth
with the scientists. they are happy
and thoroughly alive. But this is not
the last circle Of life. Lying far be-
yond the Observation-Disclosures with
spiritual world that must be taken,in-
to account ere ones life is made COM
plete.
There are those spiritual adjust
ments that must come, adjustments
that deal. with character, before one
really lives in the largest and truest
sense Of the word.
"One's life is not to be meas
ured BY the number of things he
accumulatee acres, houses.
bonds.
Ownership is a questionable thing.
after all. Would that we could get
this thoroughly. ingrained into our
consciousness. One can own any
thing that he adjusts himself to-. A
rich and ignorant man buys a book
OF the day. He places it in his H.
brary. A Door but literary man steps
into his home for a half day, picks up
it in the library, and goes away.
Question: "Who owns the book-the
man who bought it but did not read,
or the mar who did not buy it but
read?
Different Conceptions.
Another rich man who has no con-
ception Of art Is the successful bidder
on a great painting. He wishes it in
his home purely as a matter of pride.
To him it is 81 much daub. A poor
artist passes by, steps in. looks upon
the picture, absorbs its theme, lives
in the seventh heaven of delight as
he gazes on the anne When he
leaves he takes the picture in his soul
that greeted his eyes Question: Who
owned the picture-the nan who
bought 80 much gilt frame and pig
mont but could not appreciate the
same, or the poor artist who looked
upon it and took it ava with him ?
These are sufficient illustrations to
show that there is an apparent own
ership and a real ownership. The
real ownership is the costlier of the