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THE DESCENT FROM THE-MOUNTAIN
By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD,
PASTOR UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
.TIBNCE. per#ev«rance, practice-
P s .ffiSS.'XSIS'S;
hop* to realise hi* dream* In
“»«• #f hl * *•>*>"••
Sfouyh he have th. wisdom of Solo-
rr. h . p»*io<> o* ** ur - **>• “*■ ° f
™ u , ,„d ihe devotion of John, nod y*t
f*V c yin* In tho*o preraqtflalt** of
•*.,r hie ■•nrto# mo*t fall for ebort
!? m rreeteet poaalbl# result*
Th , fair caatlaa of onr dream* —
™*«d of » moment'* Intern* longing
lid fad* forever before the chilling
Math Of fact, hot th* *tructur* of
ijl—cter. bullded through patient
veare by many * groan of travail and
Lith many a <'° od of tear*, prove*
alone* th* enduring hop* of eMUsatlon.
Jpjnrt which all th* unl*a*h*d aplrlu
evil atorm In vain.
lawM tell* o* that -endurance I* th*
crowning quality. »"<1 patience all th*
of great heart*," and Indeed he
truly, tor out of It may com*
UTth* quelltle* thet can make ue
of worth to Ood and man.
Among all tho mas* of tradition*
Vbleh form th* oorliar portion of our
*acrrd literature non# le more faednat-
M »nd Illuminating than the den-rip-
tloa of the reception of th* la* for the
Ht brew nation through th* panonallty
af their great deliverer, b) th* »tory a*
Jlr.n ue by the loepired writer, all of
Ihe natural element* end clrcumetanoee
M* made a* Impreeelve and aa awe
inspiring aa poestble. All the host of
laraal la gathered by divine command
nt th# baa* of the mountain of teitl-
mony. Up Into the mldet of the cloud
of smoke With which the Lord has
covered the top of the mountain goes
Mo***, accompanied only by hi* prim*
minuter, to receive from Ood (tlmeelf
the moral code which should make of
Ivrael a chosen people. In the valley,
far below, walu th* multitude under
th* temporary leadership of Aaron.
But .th* absence «f Mom* tor tony
day# upon the mountain waa evidently
too extended a period without strong
and compotont leadership for a flckle-
mlnded. weak-willed people, but a tew
■nort months distant from serfdom.
They became Impatient, native, appre
hensive. They were In a strange coun
try! to them It waa a wilderness. They
were surrounded by strung end war
like peoples, whose hosUllty bad al
ready been demonstrated: Th* pros
pect* tor food end shelter seemed non*
too certain. They began to wonder
whether It had not been better to en
dure th* evils which were visible and
certain than to "fly to others that they
knew not of." Undoubtedly they had
begun to experience the pangs ot home
sickness. Th* milk and honey-of the
far-off promised land were not so al
luring aa the memory of (he flesh pots
of their slavery. Then happened thn
most natural and the most certain
thing In the history of the progress of
the race. They began to murmur
against their deliverer. They denounced
S* a profitless dreamer, sJisre-bretnad
fanatic (Ms man of (Mr kind who had
persuaded them «o follow him In on at
tempt to ehang* destiny, tht* man who
for a home land, but to people a wilder-
had led them out In a fatuous search
nee* with grave*.
Then came that most natural reach
lag out of th* terrified and despairing
heart after th* guidanoe, the consola
tion, th* protection of that power ever
unseen yet ever present tn the human
tout. In Egypt food and raiment end
physical safety had been assured by
allegiance fo tbe estabtlxhed deities, but
out here, away from all th# evidence*
of civilisation, th* comforting presence
wisest course. Man has never
been able to long endure without a god,
and If tha mind and heart flail to Had
Him, then the fertile brain and nimble
hand* must supply the deficiency. "Up."
said the people to th* bewildered and
terrified Aaron “Up: make for us
gods which shall go before us to lead
us, for, as for this man It OS**, who. led
ue forth from Egypt, we wot not what
has becont* of him." Then th* iewelry
and trinkets purloined from their
neighbor* at th* beginning of th* hur
ried exodus were eagerly sacrlflced
and soon th* chtld-llko mind* were
sat jelled by the visible presence of it
new and gloriously re -
’onddenc* was once more
restored, and the gloom of anxiety aul
apprehension lifted front off all facea.
Moses and bin Ideule and bis prowl***
wore forgotten, but what matter. Here
waa a god. Ilk* unto th* soda they ha-1
known aforetime, and whose worship
had brought safety and happiness. It
REV. E. D. ELLENWOOD.
was worth ntuch to have a god whom
they could ace with thetr own eyes, and
In whose help they might thus have
faith. A day of general rejoicing was
proclaimed and all Israel gave herself
over to thanksgiving for th* presence
ot the golden calf which she had made.
But, although th* people had forgot-
ten Moee*, ho had not forgotten the
people., HI* communion with Ood bae
been for thMr sake*, and during nil
this period of his enforced aepertlon
from them their needs nod their possi
bilities have been constantly upon hi*
heart. Idealisation had received with
him trash Impetus. Already he saw
his nation, the chosen people of Ood.
dominating th* civilised world, and ay
universally recognized moral Integrity
and true spirituality proclaiming end
increasing tha glory and power of the
one true Ood. And now, tilled with
humility and with gratitude that he
should be cnoMnrto be th* leader of
great a nation, bla period of meditation
and communion with Ood being ended,
he begins tbe descent of tbe mountain,
carrying wltb him th* lawn which are
to save and to preserve tbs' house .if
Israel. And now copies th* teat of hie
faith, the<«rlai of his patlenc*. the prov.
Ing ot th* worth ot his Inspiration.
A* he naan th* camp where he fully
expeett to And the people eagerly and
anxiously awaiting tho return of their
leader, he' hears th* soond of music
and of unreserved rejoicing. Aeton-
lehed, wondering, he hurries onward,
and soon the whole unhappy Iruili
burets upon hie outraged sens**. While
he ha* been bringing to them Ihr man-
dates ot Ood and preparing for them a
truly spiritualised worship, hi* peopl-i,
for whom b* has prayed-and tolled and
agonised, have been engaged In tho
worship of a god mad* with hendat
His disappointment, dlsmsy and -dis
couragement era more then he can'
bravely bear, and In the revulsion on-l
reaction of tha moment he petulantly
dashes to the earth the tablets upon
which he bad received from Ood the
stated articles of the Inw. in momen
tary anger and Impetus#*, ha declares
a* worthless any rule* of conduct d*.
signed, for the uplifting of a people SO
utterly given over to materialism and
the leadership of th* eenee*. Hie faith
In th* power of Ood eeetna unable for
the moment to cop* with his own per
eonal disappointment
It affects but lltUe It* power upon
our otvd live*, whether we be disposed
to regard this story ns history or as
tradition. Its personal vain* U only
evident as we are able to recognise
It a* an experience frequently repeated
In our own struggle* for tbe realise
lion of th* ideal.
How often do w* discover that the
splendid vision of some mountain peak
of Inspiration baa but slight possibility
of realisation and Immediate apples-
tlon In the valley of life's actual work
and experience? How often do w*
retch some whispered Intimation from
th* over soul of th* exalted possibili
ties of our own spiritual natures, only
to bear, whan the vole* hoe pasted,
th* familiar snarling and whining of
th* beasts within us which dally cry
for food?
What than? shall we ruthlessly
shatter our Ideal and cast It upon the
world's rubbish heap because, per-
chance, It must watt and labor through
weary age* for Ite realisation?
If It ha* been granted unto ue to talk
with Ood, toe* to face, shall w* be pet
ulant and Impatient with those who
have known only the air and tha toll
of th* lower valley?
Dreams ere well, and without them
la progress Impossible, but th* great
pity Is that so many ot th* world's
dreamers of most beautiful dreams
can not stand tha shock ot being
awakened. On* cannot help tho feel
ing that had lb* law been graven upon
the heart of Moaes'as wall aa upon th*
tablet* of Stone th* latter would not
havo suffered fracture as th* result of
hla temporary loaa of fsltb and cona-
dencfl In Ood.
We can never give to other* more
than wo ourselves pneeies. Unless our
Ideal la to ue eo vital and so possible
that we eagerly live it, day by dey. w*
need not aspect that th* m*n and
woman to whom w# would present tt
will b* In any haste to forsaka for It
their gods of wood and atone. Let
every men demand more of himself
than he dee* of other men. Of hit own
condition, of hi* own circumstances,
environment, poeelbtllllee, he knows
something, and may govern his de
mand* concerning conduct according
ly. Of bl* neighbor's Inner life be
knows next to nothing, and has no
moral right, therefore, to demand ot
him allegUno* to his own personal
Ideal.
Keep, then, your Ideal, and after It
fashion your life, and, as for your
neighbor, help him to And on* for him.
eelf. for yours may be for him Impos
sible.
"Let nothing disturb thee, nothing Af
fright tbe*!
All things nr* passing! Ood aevn
clmngeth: ,
Patient endurance nttalneth to all
thing*:
Who Ood posseaaeth la nothing If
wanting:
Alone Qod auffleeth.”
—Longfellow.
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“WHO'S WHO AND WHY?”
•trait it tha way and narrow I* th*
gate that laada to lift and few there
be that find it—Matthew vll ltd
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‘ By REV. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
L OOK elwsy* for the oceanic quali
ty in th* words of Christ. When
He spoke. Hie thought rolled
■round the world. Listen and you wilt
near It throbbing on *v*ry shore of Ilf*.
Teu can never any, "Christ's words
min this and nothing more: this hi
tnetr application and nothing further,'
(or to Him life waa not n narrow vale
between the peaks of two eterntttas,
but life was a continuous, unbroken
(act and etamlty was th* her* and now
ot I He, ae wall aa Its "to-be" and Its
-to-rome" He spoke th* language of
Me. When Christ said, "Strait Is the
tray and narrow Is the gate end tew
there be thet find It." He meant a law
(or the trie that now la, aa welt aa the
Me hereafter.
The dteclple* asked Him tf there
vert "few that be saved." He said,
Tew." and th* reason was that there
rat (ew who were willing to pay the
,11ft of tt. that th* condition* of salve-
Ue* were th* conditions of the strait
war and the narrow gats, and that be
came there were few who were willing
it able tn abide them, there war* few
who would com* out successfully In th*
end.
other words, Chrtwt raised the Issue
of character as the true tetus of a suc
cessful life. It was His way of com
menting on the fact that on th* highest
plateau, nf success there |s much room
ar.d great loneliness.
~ t pMloiophy of Christianity aa a
melon touching Hr* at every paint t*
hi this text. I passed by th* road that
leads to the highest earthly socceei and
I saw posted In plain view, "Strait
b the way and narrow Is the gate and
few there be that find It,"
I pawed by the road that lends to the
dismal realm of failure and I saw It
there. “Broad Is the way and wide I*
th* gate and many there be that go In
thereat,"
I came to the kingdom of mu*lc and
saw the way and the gat* there,
through which the great musicians hod
passed, and this text wan there, the
kingdom of knowledge, ot poetry, of
statesmanship. of business, and It was
tl)*re, "Strait Is the way and narrow
ie th* gat* and fow there be that
find lb"
TheTargWr^foporttwt ,:f yauog mem
who enter college never graduate. Tho
majority of those who get dlplomes for
law or medicine do not practice. In
the commercial life there ere TO per
cent failures. In the war of the world's
work the slain and th* fallen are
strewn In heaps Ilka the awful piles of
dead In on* of Vereetchogln'e. famous
Ruaalan war pictures, the route of the
march Is glutted with abandoned pur
pose* and forfeited projects, and over
all then words, "Strait Is the way
and narrow la the gate and few there
b* who have the character to aurvlvo
the strenuous passage."
Who'* Who?
I have In my hand* through th*
klndnsaa of a friend, • hook entitled,
"Who'* Who tn America?" -lu con
tains eight thousand six hundred and
two name*. It records th* men and
women who ere at the top—th* Ameri
can aristocracy. Don't laugh at this
book. I’d rather you would eay. “Let
me see tt. I'll have my name In th*
next edition." It Is not a hook of fops
and milk tops. These eight thousand
men and women cam* Into their aris
tocracy by th* "strait gat* and the
narrow way." That Is why there are #o
few of them. This 'book preaches tn
Its method and Its catalogue exactly
what my text teachei—the peerage tf
character. It la the earthly reflex of
the heavenly truth. Character counts.
80 long ago the Psalmlat ptfiarhed
the aristocracy of character. "Who
shall ascend Into the hill of the Lord
and who shall atand In His holy place?
He that hath clean hands and a pure
heart. He shall ascend Into the hill of
the Lord end he shall eland In His holy
Pl fto' long ago' the 8eer of Pstmoe
preached It, "Who are these which are
arrayed tn whit* robes? These are
they which came up through great trib
ulation and have washed their !
and made them white In th* blood of
the Lamb."
My friends. It le character only that
narrow gate.
In th* Market Pleo*.
Men are at a premium. Farmers or.
ganlse to huld cotton from an over
stocked market, but society needs no
organisation to put up the price of mqn.
Ikrng ago the prophet started th* ory.
“Run ye to and fro; see now If y* cm
And a man." "Oood Ood. how rare men
ere!" said Napoleon. "I have 11,000,000
n Italy and I have wltb difficulty found
two." Another time be said: "I have
100,000,000 francs In my coffer* and I
would willing give them all for Key."
' % to hie trusted field marshal,
r ran, the field* of endeavor, from th*
charted seas of commerce, th* throb
bing highways of Industry there ts
going up the demand tor man. Aa.thft.
world's work bulks mightier and Ita
problem* Increase Imperiously, the
cull for manhood grows louder and
more Incessant
"Give ue men to thatch our mountains.
Give ue men to match our plain*,
Men with empire In their purpose,
With new eras tn thetr brains."
Character la to ntenhood what crys-
tallxaUon le to the carbon. It crealoe
tie llsmond value. Character Is
mightier than armies. There w*s not
a throne In Europe that could stand
ngalnat. Washington's character. When
tver with Franc* wee imminent In I7M
Provident Adam* wrote • letter and ad-
dreused It to a farmer living In Vir
ginia—a private rltlaen minding hla
own business, saying to him: “Sir.
we must have your name. There will
be more efficacy In It than Ih many M for men to marry their daughters nn<
army." Xou know who that dtlsen trying to stave off the fellow who has
everything else except the one thing
DR. JOHN E. WHITE.
The business world Is ever on the
hunt for character. There Is a down
big petitions waiting In Atlanta for a
man. In any group of leading business
men they talk about the difficulty nf
finding the men they need. There ere
needful—a fine character.
A. well-known and universally hon
ored cltlsen of Atlanta remarked to me
th* other day: "I find myself at the
point where to make money and rep
utation Is easy, but without th* phy
sical health to accept and discharge
faithfully th* responsibilities that are
offered"--f quoted lhar~reniartt-tii a
gentleman and he said: "Tea, that
man la aasy to agree on among alt tha
lawyer* and judge*. They ell have
absolute confidence In hie character."
If there I* nothing In th* world great
out man and nothing truly great In
man but character this man of whom
I speak fiiaa achieved life's greatest
earthly aucoeaa, to whleb the addition
of public office or of n fow million dol
lar* can really add nothing. People do
not put thetr confidence In prop*
In position: they put tt In a man.
man only baa succeeded In Uf* who has
deserved and won tbe confidence of hi*
fellow men: who has never betrayed
their trust In him, who hoe never gone
beck on hta word and who can look hla
couwlance In the face without flinch-
"Old Hickory" Jackson.
Now and then w* have object lessons
of tho truth, th* political peestmlam
sometime* obscures It, that th* most
popular and the . moat forceful politics
la the politics of character,
Joeegh KVilk. ot Mlaeourl. came up
and atood on this single narrow plat
form and said: "I have been fighting
ihe political corruptionists with ell the
power at my command and have lashed
them wtth the-whtp of the law. I havo
no favors to aak of them and no quar
ter to give. It la unrelenting war to
the end.” The people of Missouri knew
a man when they found him and In
rallying to him they said what the
heart of society la aaytng all th* time,
that character le the grandest thing.
This country never had a president
who gripped th* conscience of the re
public as did old Andrew Jackson. The
people knew that whatever hie political
mistakes might be they had a mas at
tho head of things who waa not to be
bought end not to be sidetracked. And
they gave him a throne In the hoart of
the republic.
At one time the combined Influence
of the banks, the buelneaa world and
Mark runlr 1 hindered at tha White
House to compel him to deals! In hi*
policy, but th* wave* beat against a
rock of granite character Uke Gibraltar.
One ot the' number who approached
him with a great delegation from New
Tork and Philadelphia years after de
scribed thetr visit.
"Well do I remember the day we called
upon him. He ret there In hi* arm
chair. I can see that old warrior face,
with lla enow-whlt* hair even now.
"W* told him of the public diet rata—
th* manufacturers ruined, the twenty
thousand angry cltliens that had gath
ered In Independence Square. He heard
ue all. W* begged him to leave the
deposits where they were; to uphold
th* Great Bank tn Philadelphia. Still
he did not say a word. At length one
of our-members more fiery thanlhe
rest. Intimated that If he persisted and
th* bank were crushed—a rebellion
might -follow.
"Then the old man rose. I can are
him yet. 'Coma' he shouted In a
voice of thunder re bis clutched right
hand was raised above ble gray head.
'Coma with bayonets In your hands
Instead of petition*—surround the
Whit* House wtth your legions. I am
ready for you all. With the people at
my back whom your gold can neither
buy nor aw*. I will awing you up
around tbe capital, each rebel of you—
on n gtbblt—high re Haman'e."'
"When I think of that one man stand
ing them at Washington battling with
all th* power* of bank and panic com
bined, betrayed by those In whom he
trusted, eesatled by all that the snake
of malice could hies or the fiend of
falsehood howl—when I think of that
one man placing hie back against the
rock and folding his arms for the blow.
while he uttered his awful vow, "By
th* eternal I will not swerve on* Inch
from tho course I have chosen!" I
must confess that the record* ot Greece
and Rome, nay. tha proudest days ot
Cromwell and Napoleon, can not fur
nish an Instance of character ttka that .
of Andrew Jackson when he placed life
and soul and fame at the haaard of a
die for (he people's welfare""
You may not agree with roe. but my
prejudice* every omo ot them tell awmv
from th* man tn th* White House new
like enow flakes melting In the stub
when I am told, and I believe IL that
Theodora Roosevelt Is a man Uk* that.
He may make a thousand mistake*,
but be will, stationed where hr fa, be
mightier than all tho colleges, fur the
common people In inculcating to our
youth the education of character.
Christ th* Comereten*.
All thin and something more Is la
this text, "Strait Is tha way and
narrow In the gate that lends to Ufa
and few there bo that find IL” Ho who
gave than* words to
are lifting th
things gTvda -
tain them. Christ It th* cornerstone
of the character that survives. He ;s
not only tbe example of all that I* no
ble In mjuihood, set before ue to Imi
tate. hut Ha le also tht power here m
our bmeets to drive us along tb#
strait way and through the narrow
gat*. With HUn re tha westering pas
sion ot our live*, wo begin her* that
course of victorious progress which
sweeps us through at tha fast
than conquerors." Tha efforts of t
to be (ood and to be great tn ;
•elves are not to be wholly dh
aged, but three effort* are pethstlc, In
view of Him who stands always at
hand to do for us the one thing eseeu-
tlal to the wring of human life to God.
There le an outstretched hand. Take It
and lake the powers of It; taka It and
from thenceforth Itfs and destiny at*
resolved Into the certainty ot a suc
cess you will never know without IL
words to young men who
their faces to the tdghrei
in himself to help thero at-
THE BRAIN AND THE MIND
By REV. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
It can not be that the thought we
m embodied In civilisation, with all
l<> institutions, laws, literature, art
•nd science. Is only the exudation ot
brain stoma. It can not be that ma-
Jcrtsl brain molecules, secreted as the
llrer swreise bile, the pyramid*, the
lempie of Diana, th* statu* of Hoe**,
Ibr paintings In the Statin* chapel,
lUnJii * 1 , Messiah, th* epistles of Bt.
raul. m Augustine's City of Ood,
*nu Emerson's essays. The thought
■nan ho-, used to change th* face of
nature, to bridge IU riven, to tunnel
nt mountains and to span with Iron
m i« in comments, has not been dle-
tilleu out of perishing nerves, but ha*
wn discovered In the things God has
and transcribed Into the human
■tlw.
1 have itone the whole round of crea-
i . J l0 , n ' 1 •»»' and I spoke.
" * Worl < of God's hand for that pur-
received In my brain
And pronounced on the reel of Hie
u„ hundlwofk—returned Him again
“* rr "“'ion'a approval or censure; I
• _ ato'ke as I saw;
repo, a, „ mln may of (jog-, work.
Sow I* * 1 : ,v *' ?•* ah’* law.
•'«* l lay down th* judg**hlp He lent
T the—**eh (acuity taatad
p ""‘ v « Him. ha* gained an abyss.
Have i ‘"I * a ? w| lrop was aaktd.
*. . Xnowledg.? confounded It
B*... , ,l rlv '‘a *t wisdom laid bare!
I, ’rethought? how purblind, how
ho l ft the infinite car*.
' 1 «u?r?",V llCUlly hl * bMt *° Image
' d ° b u- ‘tf" “T ayao. and perfection,
i. ,. ■'" more and no laas.
h * k ‘ m ' 1 imaginedTfuh fronts me.
■ i 1 <,od l» eeen—God
“ ,Ur - 1“ the (tone, In tb* fleeh.
«xm"'V, 10 :. 1 ! l “ Haeckel, deny the
Is notSm* I 0od ’ *"* c, aln> that there
I*id "f "tetter and motion, and
tone. of 00 »or*-impor
ts on: o r I? u J" v «ra* »‘ Bug* than
ittch to ot a summer’s day,
"•aicri, I i,r, ,hou * hl *• a function of
u »br*m. r , a !» t °ma. They lack upon
I* Produce? mi.”**? *" which thought
*na .•■ the liver niters bile.
•allvaA ," aland* ot ‘h* body prepare
brain diI" , th a ,r reteem th*
•tern mfo’lh „7 1 ?t* , *l°na and convert*
« Ihe stomiih Juu •» «>• nerves
"*»«. nutrition* eub-
"nucie f ,. 1 " ‘hem Into blood and
JW'r ad—co. mo-
rare are accord-
' o«cre»d by the mind.
are on th* same level with gastric
Jutcre which are secreted by the stom
ach, Those Who speak of thought aa
a function of the brain. In the sense
that bile Is a function of the IWw m»d
nutiic juice a function of the atooiicn.
teach that thought Is actually produced
by the brain. Professor william
James. In his little book on 'Human
fmmortalltv," has shown that In the
world of * physical nature productive
(unction I. not the only kind "f tone-
tlon with which we are familiar He
shows that thought may not only b*
regarded a* * function of the Drain,
aa ateam la a function of tha> tea-
kettls. or as light Is a function of the
electric circuit, or a* power le a func
tion ot the moving waterfall, hut that
the brain mey be regarded ns having
a transmissive function In Its relation
tn thouchl. aa a prism haa a trons-
missive function In relation to light,
end as the keys of an organ have a
transmissive function In relation to
sound. Light l» not engendered In th*
prism: It l» only transmitted and lim
ited to a certain path and shape. Air
It not produced In the orgun. It Is
only transmitted through tho pipes of
It Into harmonious sound.
James represents Kant as coming very
clots to the transmission theory In hi*
Idea of the function of the brain Itt
relation to Immortality. He held that
the death of the body might Indeed
he the end of the sensational use of the
mind, but only th* beginning of the In
tellectual use. Thnt the body "would
thus be not the cause of our thinking.
but merely a condition restrictive
thereof, and. although essential to our
sensuous and animal aonsclouaneaa. It
may be regarded aa an Impedsr of our
pure spiritual life."
Mr.- Schiller In "Riddles of Ihe
"Sphinx" expresses th* earn* Iflp*. It
le ao Important that the extracts given
by Professor James In th* notes to
hi* "Human Immortality" are here
quoted:
• Matter," he eay*. "I* an admirably
calculated machinery for regulating,
limiting and restraining the conscious,
ness which It encases. • • • If th*
material encasement be coarse and
simple, aa In Ihe lower organisms. It
permits only a little Intelligence to per
meate through It; If It I* delicate and
complex. It leavo* more pores and ex
ists, an tt were, for the manifestation
of conaclouaneea • • • which per
mits us strange glimpses of a lucidity
that divines the realities of a tran
scendent world. And this gives the
final answer in materlallem: It conelaU
In showing In detail • • • that
materlallem Is a putting of tha cart b*.
fore the horse, which may be reclined
by Juet Invertln
tween matter an
ter Is not that which products con
sciousness. but that which limit* IL
and ronllnaa Ita Intensity within cer
tain limits: material organisation does
not construct consciousness out of ar<
r atoms, but contracts ttu
i the sphere which
permits.”
According to this view, "the lowar
Is explained by the higher. Matter
by aplrlt. Instead of vice verse, and
thereby attain* to an explanation
which la ultimately tenable. Instead of
one which la ultimately absurd.”
The brain may be regarded as tht
organ of thought In th* eenee that the
mind uses It as an Instrument by
means of which to think, but to hold
that thought la produced In It and by
It. and that consciousness Is engen
dered In It* Interior depth* put* human
credulity to a Strain that It can not
endure.
Atoms es w* have awn In a former
chapter, when Invwtad with self-con
aclousness, self-determination and self
action, era capable of amatlng achieve
ments. but tt were easy for atoms to
build n planet In comparison with
climbing tn th* tnatde of the' human
skull end there generating the mystery
and Immensity of human conscious
ness. n«ll*v*r* In Ood credit them-
selves with having som* faith, but
nsver In their highest moment* of all-
rnnquerlng belter have they ever seen
a time when they could accept a prop
osition likt this. The materlell*!* have
gone ion far; they have asked too
much. It la not difficult to nccept what
Lowell says:
Each day the world Is horn anew
For him who takes It rightly—
Rightly? That’* simply! "Tie to eee
Home substance cast these shadow*
Which we call life and history.
Hlmply? That'e nobly! Tie to know
That U»d may still be met with
Nor groweth old, nor doth bwtow
These senses fine, this brain aglow,
To grovol and forget with."
But It Is simply Impossible to hellevo
In brulh atoms, (hough endowed with
tho qualities of aelf-cnnsclousnoss. self-
determination and self-action, reckleee
enough tn generate human conscious
ness capable when produced of destroy
ing Itself and Hie nerve elements that
created It. It Is Imposelbte tn believe
thet material molecules would gener
ate a personality like Nicholas Ridley,
who In turn could use the same mole
cules to think out a resolution assign
ing himself to the martyr's stake. Self-
constituted and self-directed mental
machinery would hardly turn out an
Individual capable of using the same
whwlwork that brought him Into be
ing to burn himself up and hi* Crea
tor, too. Think of atom* arrang«d In
ihr head turning looae on the planet a
f lowing life Ilk* that of the Apostle
'aul. who uaod thain to write his epis
tles and at length force* them to pro
dure the convlctloh that leads him '.n
have his head rut off. Tn accept this
la about aa reasonable aa believing th.il
the Mississippi river, after finding Itself
brewed nut of the snow and the rain
In the Rocky Mountain*, turns back
and uses the melted end the frosen
water to generate the power of taking
Itself off Ihe map of the United Htaten
This Is about as reasonable a* would
be the declaration that music after
getting Itself Into th* air from the
haa amid hla naUtrff
WHERE IS THE POLITE BOY?
W
By Poyothy- Dix.
-It AT HAS become of the polite boy?
Where hss the Istl tone who used
„„ i„ sat "Yes. ma'am." sad. Nw
VV V r “ahen he was addreaajsl bv bis
.M.rsS Sene' I lead! Kztlnet la the io<lo!
Adlu.h.foi beta, to bereadsbo-' only lu
■uch book* th* Kollo Hrrlo*.
In br.pts.ewe; tore ‘.^rfwlT'i.a"
"New "*'uo blatter how dlfttlBed. bow dls-
tlttfuished or bow teaer.T.le tho amt. or
M-iimaii w ho niMr«’*w» liliu-
*A mlJt msnnered small boy. a bo, who
ffirPtWaJf w ”• *b" «"* *• *
««‘ui!^ a b »lfbt* # e®'hotel 'lu m» ripe
rlMC*.
For beboM tbe dlfftmu* t*tw«*n fturh
•n liloiil fronturo aud tl» Iwja that
all about ua und who aro a tuaoaca
and limb and bapploeaa.
Inconaidaratt Boy a.
You ran not walk down Ihr atraol wit boot
tb* rlak or l>*loff monlarod by a (roup of
)mtngalara»wkM kav« pr* ctasbkl tb* fid*
nallt for a »katlaK rink. aaAMrfco do not
iirotrod to try to avoid cullldlnir wttk
It itor* not matter ““ “ —
tnttrrlui; old man,
whom n fall would
America own*
tbervof. and — —
aai If they do oat mlafc to-few.
fn the atrvrt -wrt you dally ae* hoya Ml-
lu* at ease. while my-hnded me* and
women, wbn might he teetr grandparents,
cling painfully fit atrip*.
In hotels small beys ride ep end dews Is
TdffabSt VtSLST*
- business bouses messenger boys dart la
end nut. Jnetllng every one they meet.
Iiefor* whom- Insolent "What's yer aolnie
hn' business?'' the most famous men and
women tremble and grow pale.
Tbe man you go In see niey be courtesy,
leiusterrarloo sad MmpIMte Itself, ten net
ao wfih the lordly boy. wlto feels that he
hss a perfect right to Issult you.
All lll-Mgnnorod.
In hlo home the hey Is oqnnlly larklnc In
th* dseeerias of ore., lie goto aot.heiltnte
to cootradlct eay ernnhin, or to assert hi*
own ffe mseopottiaa tb* resv-rsatlM, U
be rSenses, So matter bow brilliant the
tvrratrd.
Hr »*k* HmrUMSt notations, ol
ifeft bS*dw?WM'
hits at tho wWo.
i not to In? In-
notations, offers rod*
tb* r**l«**t
the lid
II* nnrr tkilnka of atirh a thing n» of
ferine hi* chair to a lady, or opening th*
door Tor her. or tatrodlng h*r any of the
llttl* coart**(*a that aaad to im runsldercd
th* very groundwork or c*ntlem«nllnwm.
and that wer* Inculcated In a txiy along
with th* alpliabat and th* catechUm.
Th* affliction of th* lll-aMnn*ml modern
of prreooal WWMWW
end become* a grave national wrutir*. For
thee* brutal hoya ar* growing up, aud will
be th* men or tomorrow.
What la to becomrof them, and what Is
to become of a coantry peopled with men
w bo have Item taaght no reveres?* for age,
we reaper< fur women, mo 4»f#r*wae foe lew.
end ut) coualdcrnllou for the right* of oth-
that parents fall to give their children Mf*
admlnleters to them with a aledg* hammer,
and an perhaps three anmanaeriy mb* will
meet together la the end and light It out
between than salt as Ilka Kilkenny cats.
In th* furautlin* the bn Inner of ua innet
Buffer, and how acute Is our ulaery le beat
evidenced by th* fart thnt Iniya arc re
garded In the uui* light a» ravening beaata.
and thnt It le practically liupoeetbl* for n
family that posM-awa one or more of these
terrors to get Itoonl lu n flret-ctaaa hotel, or
Ivstae tt dr 11 ruble n|Kirtllirtit.
Title la a shameful atntc of affaire. It le
wroree. It le criminal, for the Itrat atep to
ward hoodlumtaui le lack of manners. Just
•a the Brat step toward detvucy lu life le
good manners. AH parents can not give
their eon* n college eduratlou. nor n for
tone to start In a business or profession,
bat all apnreote raw teach their boys the
gWe^'ewSwliSiMw!^ 111 '^ ,,u ‘* ,,Mt >B n
*Tn»lMihJy*1fC^old story i»lt.»ut the polite
Imy who Iril n feeble, blind man serose
th* afreet and waa left a million dollara In
the old man's will a* a slight reward for
his art Is nut literally true, but It Is true
In aplrll.
Hood mans
will earry a j
pianos and violins and flntaa and drntaa
or an orchtstra. whatla about and
forest tha tamo Instrumonta to massure
off anotbtr multltud* of wav* cur
ia* and daatrap
tatemtnt that the brain
(cIoumims la not amlff ■
Irrational, hilt tt I* dellriou*. It
acl,but th* wlhlaM and mom I
l*** .peculation that a fow ada
m*n ever attempted!o hypnotise I
reive* Into believing.
Th* pinch of duit one* activa In tha
brain of 8hakt*p**». now *l**ptng In
tha church at Stratford-on-Avon, did
not crest* the wondiona mind
through which b* gave to tha world Ma
Play*.
"Though ShakwpMre'a dual b*n*atM
our footsteps r"
III. iptrlt breath**
•klaa;
With meaning won from him forevar
■low*
Each sir that England fo*la, and Mar it
know*:
Hla whl*p*r'd word* from many a
mother'* vole*
Can mak* her sleeping child tn dream*
rajolc*.
And gleam* from iphtres ha flnt con
joined to *arth
Are blent wtth rays of *ach new morn
ing'* birth.
Amid th* sight* and talas ot com mo*
thing*,
flower
deaths ot kings,
Of ihore. and ***, and Nature's dally
round*
Of Ilf* that toll* and tombs that load
th* ground.
HI* vlilon* mingle. *w*ll, command.
P«c* by.
And haunt with living praaane* heart
and eye;
And ton** from him by other bosom*
caughL
Awakan flush *nd attr of
thoughL
■he Ion
•ion’d l
Rouse Custom's Irene*, and spur th*
faltering will."
•ay other ooe thtag. Tb*y an wore to be
J—Iced than (era taint or nmeev. tel
isz ra?a
■ 'tSTMva isae
their .l.ty by th.lr j&prii """
r th* til Menu,'re at the lll-onairag
boy ore the.maaaera be wo* (Bight q«
hut*. And that, a* he wooV rawfrih )»