Show I Mast Mastery ry and Mystery I IBy 4 By DR FRANK CRANE I think it was the gifted editor of the Century Magazine Glenn Frank that made the pungent ob observation ob ob- that what men seek in religion on really consists consists consists con con- of two things things mastery mastery and mystery In tho the first we want leadership In tho second we want light The problem before every man man manof of ot the tho most practical practical E kind Is master mastery Ho seeks to Know l how ow to b. b bo master aste of ot himself of the tumultuous passions th that t arise In him of other people and of events The rule of life Ute Is is that one must eat or or be eaten I i One Oie must subject his surroundings to himself or I must be subjected to them The problem therefore Is how to attain the mastery r. r An Anything that will show us how to cure disease how to overcome our mental limitations limitations- and how to utilize our passions is a welcome hint In mastery It Is the one ono thing everybody Is interested in When y you u pick up a a. paper you find many departments depart departments depart depart- ments financial sporting society and so forth forth There are certain pc people that are Interested In oo each h hof of these departments 1 but ut there are l many people who do not read an any one One man for fOl instance never will look at the tho sporting page Sports do not Interest him hUn Another never looks at the fashion column And so on But there is one problem that Is Interesting to every person that passes by on the street whether It be a bishop or a bum a princess or a prostitute That problem is how to to-mako to make the most out of ones one's and how to attain life Ufe how to overcome difficulties mastery It is because beMuse religion subtly helps us in this struggle that it 11 is of eternal interest to the tho human race Another source of continual interest Is mystery It Is a mystery ry how we c came me here How low a man with his memory and hope and imagination and nd other faculties grow out of an nn amorphous lump of matter no one can explain It is isa i ia a mystery where a man goes goeR to The greatest greatest great great- est poets and philosophers have faced death and made their speculations ul but we ve of this day know w abOut as much of what takes place after aiCer death as as those of ot the stone age Our little island of knowledg knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge edg will always be but p p. L speck in a vast Oc ocean an of mystery C Strangely enough f this environment of mystery has its effect on the human s soul ul From It there come hopes and arid dreams and impulses that cannot be ae reckoned With by logic We can never rid ourselves of the essential mystery mys- mys tery ery of life I Religion Is la founded In this mystery and ana those wh who can throw light tIght upon it are re Invaluable Copyright 1925 by McClure l Newspaper Syndicate i |