The World Beautiful (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... Beethoven and Chopin that stir the heart like voices from an unseen world, --at such times one feels that the profoundest answer which science can give to our questionings is but a superficial answer after all. At these moments, when the world seems fullest of beauty, one feels most strongly that it is but the harbinger of something else, --that the ceaseless play of phenomena is no mere sport of Titans, but an orderly scene, with its reason for existing, its--(One divine, far-off event To which the whole creation moves.)" The entire universe is, indeed, vocal with its intimations of immortality. Pure Lilies "I niuse on joys that will not cease, of Eternal Pure spaces clothed in living beams; Peace. Pure lilies of eternal peace, Whose odors haunt my dreams." The secret of eternal peace is to live in the spirit. "Let this mind be in you that is in Christ Jesus," said the apostle, and that mind was elsewhere defined by him as being love, joy, peace, and righteousness. All these qualities naturally follow large and generous interests, affections, and hopes. Happiness is not the result of possessions; it is the result of a wide range of interests; of that spiritual attitude that takes the good of others to be its own, that is glad in the universal gladness, and that enters, by rejoicing, into universal progress. To hold true to noble use whatever resources we may have is to constantly increase and enlarge them. Life is a trust. It is the most priceless, the most infinitely valuable of possessions, --a gift of rare powers and unlimited resources, to be used for the benefit of others, and thus, in the truest way, for one's self. One only lives for himself--in the best way--when he lives for others. "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear...