Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1911 — MUST PUT HEART IN WORK [ARTICLE]

MUST PUT HEART IN WORK

Both Holy and Earthly Service la of Little Avail When Per- « formed Without It. There Is no true work done without enthusiasm. The artist whose heart Is cold is a mere artisan; the student of science who works with no great humane enthusiasm for knowledge is only a mechanism more delicately organized than his microscope or his magnetic battery; the statesman who is simply a calculating player, with human pawns on the chessboard of a nation or a political party, Is less a man than the humblest citizen whom the Impulse of patriotism urges to the daily discharge of civic duty or pushes on to ttfe battle’s front In the hour of bis country’s peril. The deepest secret of life, as well as the mightiest force of life, Is love. Without love there is qo enthusiasm. We freeze our hearts by selfishness and stifle them by sordidness; we fix our eyes upon the little field circumscribed by our day’s activities and ends. With no wide-reaching affection and no uplifting ideal, we make our life a treadmill and of.our duty an unwelcome drudgery. We disclaim the highest endowment of the soul, and deny our sonship to God. Narrow faiths and narrow hopes put fetters on the kpirit, and small affections keep small the heart. —Philip S. Moxom.