were but one result? 
_ THE POWER OF A NOBLE PER- 
. SONALITY. 
: (Continued from page 23) 
is no justification for life if there 
How can we 
say life is a failure if it took a mil- 
lion creatures, a million years, yes, a 
million worlds to make one man 
God-like? And they are not few. I 
have a sense that 1 have met some. 
And there are multiplying, until at 
last, before the throne of the Creat- 
or, they shall be beyond calculation. 
A noble man or woman lend mean- 
ing to existence. They lend dignity 
to the commonplace. The purpose- 
less drops away before the life and 
labor they inspire. They give us 
glimpses of higher ideals and make 
us long for better things. They tone 
up the fibres of the soul and set life 
to a rich harmony. Have you a 
‘musical imstrument in your home 
touched only by unskilled hands? 
You do not know the glory of it un- 
til a master hand touches it. Often 
is the sensitive soul touched by rude 
and random touches making only 
discord, but when the master hand 
touches the soul we find that the 
harp within has a strange and won- 
-derful music. , 
_ My memory soars and sings at the 
thought of the noble teachers I have 
had. Longings and _ aspirations 
came to me by association with 
them. Life had a higher and holier 
purpose after I heard them speak. 
Doubt, discouragement, dispair melt- 
ed away as miasmic mists before 
their genial smiles. In their atmos- 
phere there was a sense of enlarge- 
ment, of Visions augmented. 
We find them now and then, every 
where, in every walk of life, these 
‘noble souls that bring to our surface 
hidden powers, that unlock secret 
springs of thought and feeling of 
which we never dreamed. They even: 
‘unloose the tongue until we express 
ourselves in language clear, elo- 
‘quent, passionate. Soul thorough- 
breds I call them. Are you a physi- 
eal thoroughbred, feeling a vibrant 
life coursing through you, while the 
muscles slip back and forth under 
the skin like strings of steel? Well 
and good. Are you an intellectual 
thoroughbred and feel that you can 
master minds? Well and good. Are 
you a social thoroughbred and feel 
that the prestige of generations of 
noble ancestors are yours? Well and 
good. But are you a spiritual thor- 
oughbred? 
I believe in the perfect man. The 
purpose of christianity is to make 
men perfect, It is unquestioned that 
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Christ has helped men to recover 
their lost patrimony and _ shaped 
their characters anew. 
One word to joint the way. There 
is a branch of astronomy ealled si- 
dereal photography in which the 
plates are exposed for hours under 
the fixed stars, until they picture 
there the glory of the infinite heav- 
ens. So may the soul, exposed long 
to the fixed stars of truth catch the 
glory of the moral universe within. 
To take a rough stone and shape 
it into some resplendent ideal as did 
Angelo is a great achievement. To 
take the odds and ends of feeble 
principalities and powers and shape 
them into a mighty nation as did 
that peer of statesman, Bismarck, is 
a great achievement. But for you to 
take your crude nature, the feeble 
forces of the mind and mould and 
make them into a true man, a true 
woman, is a greater achievement. 
No time is too long, no discipline 
is too severe, as the price of the 
elimination of all that is ignoble and 
unmanly. In the forceful language 
of Ruskin, ‘‘the giving up of wrong 
things is not self-sacrifice, but self- 
eulture.’”’ 
And if you were a mere violet 
would anything but the sweetest fra- 
grance satisfy you. And then, if an 
immortal soul ean, anything but the 
noblest manhood or the noblest wo- 
manhood satisfy you? 
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