Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1913 — APART FROM MEN. [ARTICLE]

APART FROM MEN.

The effect of mental seclusion in the ministry Is intellectual Be'.f deception, in the opinion of C. C. Hile, In the Atlantic. Living too much apart from men, an anchoret of tfctf study, haunted by watchwords of a "school of thought,” strained by mental over-production, a minister may establish a purely subjective and quite morbid ideal. Obedient to this idea,- bis mode of thinking may grow away from that of nis brother-men, and his life, wounded by the Indifference dt others, may shrink Into itself, to tread henceforth with melancholy persistence the lonely path of an Intellectual lahmatUte.

Prof. Price of New York avert that the soul ia a small shapeless, gelatinous substance, located beneath the first rib. If the professor has a soul like that, we extend to him our profound condolence.