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Show 4 ' ' i i ; . : ' i i ' - ( -Ml I 1 I i 1 I. V 3 I . . 1 i .. j 1 . M I I : ii i I hv I ( '.. it ) a r: I v , r ti "I I . 1 i - .. i . 1 fc i i :t to r yif 1 re- 1 ri or h.. i'ui H- f ' l i.. y t J t n iik f i ms f r'. . . us . J as our C 1 n t.;iip f!v. s. 1Mt 11.11 is a r'V '. fr'iial fn'j bvoui rnic-t not on'.v i.i wt'-t is wviM.''i 1 rcnM.ai.ly In th T -i. -.t ty tb r-T-r.Mnce -i pr" .1 ei-strlions of ta ilif 'net Of hl ul. - . v 1 1 n a rrt.f 1 inn that T8f.r amazes On there Is .v;f,l n 8r--it to the rel'1oii8 ctnlrn in f.-rms tht dpo nd bp;iutiiul or that r t r-.ow anl frotesi'ip, one aspprtiri? s mncn re-ird-ng riimal InBttnr 88 th oiner. 'i nrre Is no room for (J:oourppmert, no frrnind for aught but opUnMsin for the Chi intlan worhprfor the thin he Btandst for U erved by all'that taovf t;war1 and outward. The 'present relu-'ous attitude 1s on that sets Itself toward tne aLiiln thing. Tiatitiful Idsil-rn." That, however, is not to ay tbat all Is wall, or that the attltuJe of tody Is Ideal. It Is setting toward the Ideal. There is a temper of mind that Is not to be commended, bowever. In that Idealism ii.u v i. m ms w7lA1v on men I ' . ' I. ' 1 ' J . '. , 4 ' . t V 1 t til 1 i, v t I. i c . i i r, i i j i : f s a r t t f i . ... t t Pt y i - !t v l f c- X 'I B fl ti ii . . 1 1 ' f a f i .-r. i cat i i.-s tne ee rret p- i t I rtf , a- 1 only those i ). t j I r i . '. i . r t -u l.rtve f ;rr-; l i i r r 1 rufr to the , t -art's r i v t ,-e e 6 ' i In tf,u touch rf i: - f (.!. ire 1 iv) found t.ie inr f -r if ... -i. l t. at he brtrss. :::-tIr:r-i"::;;: rl't," Our atf:ti: mut reij five afent to more tru-i tse rt7vtn'-s of b' h (nor-alltv (nor-alltv and t-jii.'.l c rsrter. e must emt rae "t e maiter 1 r t rf all our see-it'?" see-it'?" to f .d tve time 1 v.slon and the true outcome of Ideal in the real. The rower to rnske rr,siMe that we would be. lleg in tne eeoret of a onion and communion com-munion with that maoter life. As well dream of canvases full of beauty without tne penius that Is behind all true art, of a ralnhow In the sun-scorched sun-scorched stretches of a f-ahara noon day, or the subtle harmonlei of the masters In the roar of a greet gte-t rnl'l. as to Cream f finding the Chrlatly without Christ. nd to our sanction of the beauty of the Christian religion we must add the embrace em-brace of that which la its spring and the secret of realisation In the GM coming into man for his completing, if our pur-P"e pur-P"e for 1" l t- b r)!l'"'i. WHICH 110 lam ' ' --- there Is an element of fatal weakness. The eseentials of h1h human- conduct are voiced splendidly. ' The thing Ufa should be Is uttered on every hand. It answers well, as It speaks much, that ; one should find young fellows, clean, manly, man-ly, bubbling over with the very Joy, of living, poring over volumes that are full of high thought and of incentive to the loftiest life. In the parlor car or the quiet corner of the club; or that sweet and cultured women ahould be rounding out the little gayetlee and social pleasures with the books and the thoughts that ara so fast putting woman In her own appointed ap-pointed place as twin worker with her brother lor th. world's saving. There never was ao ( much beautiful Idealism voiced aa In today. . But there Is a fatal weakness In much of the religious life. It is In an effort to put the work of the human heart upon tha plane of mere self-fulfillment by the power and beauty of Its own dream and PT?ere" seem to be none left to question' the dlvlnenesa of the call to aervlce or tha beauty of a Ufa keyed to seU-sacrlfice. One Weakening Tendency. There Is, however, too much closing of tha eyea to th fact that a man must find a ourca of power for high and abiding realisation. , ' 7' To aee the good and the Mteh la not to realise It. To know the beat la not to b the beat. A student In the University at Tokio said, a few weeks "We are weary. Our teachers tell us of the high and beautiful things, to be pure and honest, hon-est, to be unselfish and full of love, but they do not give to us that which will make It possible." ' , There la in that the philosophy of all dreamaL all moral cults, all lofty ambition In the evident life. Realisation only Ilea In the possession -ot a power which will be a spring of service, and-a. means of complementing tho narrow weakness of the eoul. ' ' ' . - The time yields assent -to the beauty of Jesue Christ's character, to tha supreme su-preme work of his ethics and tho permanence perma-nence of his spiritual maatery. It paints his tenderneea. It sings his love, and tha richest epics and perloda of genius aro -echoes of hie worda and reveallnge which , are tha secret of Jhelr Inspiration. Our ministry to humanity, all th social pro- |
