The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-10-27
EPISCOPAL SERMON.

Rev. z. T. Vincent, rector Of the
Church of the Redeemer, preached
last Sunday from the text: And i.
shan come to pass afterward, that
| viii pour out my Spirit upon all
nesh; and your sons and daughters
shall prophesy, your old men shall
dream dreams, your young men shall
see visions Joel lI:2S. The sermon
was in part as follows:
II * to ,he latter part Of this text
that wish particularly to call your
attention today: your old men shall
dream dreams, and your young men
shall see visions
here We have picture of life. Age,
past the time of action, looks back
ward upon the achievements of
ITS youth, perhaps glorying in the
olden days when everything was done
IN the way 1t should be. Imagine the
contrast betwten a well-spent and
an ill-spent life. With the one, re-
morse gnawing at the heart strings.
an Ill discomfort, phantoms Of mast
SINS hooking any kind of rest. The
Iraiity OF age becomes a burden, inn
agination the slave Of bitter recoIlec-
tIons; and unless true repentance
follows, conjunction and regret. life
Is a nightmare and death specter
( of terror
Ag nnst this stands the picture of
the closing days of godly life. After
a lifetime Of service, there is content
ment. After life we'll spent, there
is rest-and dreams As the sunset
casts its soft radiance across to the
eastern sky, lighting up the whole
! heavens with its rosy glow, so the
dreams of the pious patriarch, lighting
up the house of memory, bring peace
and felicity, with the sense of bles-
sedness and thanksgiving to God for
the grace which enabled his youth
to be spent in the service of God and
man.
As ageiS prone to look backward.
so youth looks forward. Not in the
past, but in the future, is the golden
glory of life. Yesterday is past and
gone, its memory but lightly brush
ing the canvas of today. Today is
but the stepping stone to tomorrow
where lie the fields of amaranth and
the laurel which is to crown the brow
of youth. And age smiles at youth
with Il genial tolerance, happy in its
happiness, with perhaps a tinge of
regret for the awakening which must
come but glorylng in its enthusiasm.
And after all, though time may mark
the fallacy of immature ambitions.
and later years may actually build;
yet the spirit of youth, the vision OF
him who has kept that spirit, is the
motive power which has spanned con
tinents, and seas and conquered the
air. The visions of youth have made
us of today The inheritors of a glori-
Gus past.
The prophet undoubtedly believed
that some sort of blessing would nc
company the seeing of visions by the
youth of Israel. Evidently they
would be among the most promising
OF the nation. Can we not expect the
same thing in our own generation
The true Seers are of our best. Not
the laggards in life, not the pessi-
mists, but the eager, expectant ones,
to whom life is at once a challenge
and an opportunity.
We can do nothing without visions.
We may call them plans, schedules,
designs. propositions, schemes, or
what not; but they are visions.
A block of marble is hewn from a
quarry. To one it is piece Of stone.
, Another may see in ii the foundation
Of mighty building. Still another
may see imprisoned therein a figure
Of wondrous beauty, awaiting the
chisel Of the artist.
Men dream of the thing nearest
their heart. So our characters deter
mine our visions, and our visions de-
tefmine our destiny. The worldly
minded will picture themselves at ease,
with fortune a. their portion, all the
desires of life gratified. One will
write a best seller" and in compla-
cent egotism imagine the plaudits Of
1.-The multitude. Each one places him
self in the center of this circle, the
whole world equidiStant upon the cir
conference, but looking toward the
superman. These are they who dwell
in the land of mirage, VINO build
castles in Spain"
Are y sions then practical? Ger
tainly from these day dreamers the
world finds little OF help. What is
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