JAMES MARTINEAU AND HIS GREATEST BOOK - 1905 - High hearts are
never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of
God, even in their dreams and soon they are observed to break u p
the camp of ease and start on some fresh march of f aithf ul
service. And, looking higher still, we find tlzose who never wait
till their moral work accunzulates, and who reward resolution with
no rest who do the good only to see the better and see the better
only to achieve it who are too meek for transport, too faithful for
remorse, too earnest for repose whose worship is action, and whose
action ceaseless aspiration.-Martin eaus Endeavours. JAMES
MARTINEAU BY JABEZ T. SUNDERLAND, M. A. T l a t God is a Spirit,
has not hindered him from shaping the vault of night, and hanging
it with stars or from tinting t72e tender blue of day or f oms
preading the sheet of sea, and streaki rg it wit72 greelz altd gold
o from poising the summer clouds, to fliyzg tke chase of purple
slbadows 09 the hills or from shining tl rough the cool lights of
the spring woods or from clwel lilzg in our hzcmanity, to touch it
with many a grace alzd repeat i it the image of his piety and ibis
truth or from resting with the Naqz of Sorrows as t72e symbol of
his piety and holy love. These are the works of his Creativeness,
-the appeal of his Beauty to our hearts, -the mighty Poem he
improvises through all the rhythm of the U9tiverse.-Martineau s
Hours of Thought. James Martineau HIS LIFE AND WORK. James
Martinean was born April 21, 1805, in England, and died January 11,
1900, in London, at the age of almost ninety-five years. - h, is
lifes long day h, a. ving reached its natura. 1 evening his lifes
full year having roundled toits late autumn, with extraordinaxly
rich harvests reaped and garnered. GREAT MEN. Gods most precious
gifts to the world are great men. But the value of great men varies
according to the quality of their greatness. firere intellectual
greatness, .. unaccompanied with rno ral, of c mparatively low
value, . dndeed, a man of intellectual brilliancy may even be a
curse to the world, if he uses his intellectual powers for evil
ends. But great men who are not only, great in intellect, but great
also in moral character-who possess not only brilliant mental
powers, but the will to use them for hi, ghest purposes-s uch men
are blessings to the world whose value cannot be overestimated. r C
6 JAMES MARTINEAU We speak of Alexander the Great. Such greatness
as the. famous Greek conqueror represents, stands for mingled good
and evil. In like manner, the greatness of la Cresar or a
Napoleon., or even of a Wellington and a Grant, represent some
influences, that conserve and benefit, and some that hurt and
destroy. But I there is a class of great men whom we may look upon
as representing good, and only good, to th, e race. In this class
we find such historic names as Socrates, Plato. Isaia. h, Paul,
Luther, Milton, Wesley, Channing, sand, above all, Jesus. In this
company Martineau belongs, because in him, as . in them, splendid
intellectual gifts were allied with moral endowments equally
splendid, and his brilliant powers were employed, not for
destructlive or selfish ends, but to advance truth, righteousness,
pleace, love, and whatsoever m akes for the permanent betterment of
the world. MARTINEAUS ENDOWMENTS. Martineau was a member of the
famow, London Metaphysical S801ciety, which contained many ofthe
most eminent thinkers, literary men, scientists, and public leadem
of England, such as Gladstone, Ruskin, Huxley, Tynaall, T, ennyson,
the Archbishop of York, Pro fessors SiQwick and Mivast, Dr. W. B.
Clarpenter, Mr. MARTINEAUS ENDOWMENTS 7 R. H. Hutton, Lord
Selborne, and Archbishop Manning...
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