DECEMBER 10, 1903.
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by Ut. Herbert I. BI(low
Cindnnati, 0., Dec. 6. "Optimistic
Pessimists." At the. Vine, Street Con
gregational church, today, the pastor,
Herbert S. Bigelow, borrowed a title
from a new book and chose for a text
the parable of the mustard seed.
Mr. Bigelow said in part:
"Optimistic Pessimism is the title
of one of the chapters of a book of
great merit which has just come from
the press. The title of this book is
'Ethics of Democracy" and its author
Is Louis F. Post, the editor of the
Chicago Public. I have long regarded
lLr. Post as a writer on politico-economic
subjects without, a peer, among
American journalists. His book is a
trGciS 1116 ""
OPTIMISTIC PESSIMISM.
In this chapter on Optimistic Pes
simists, Mr. Post objects to the habit
of regarding all fault-finders as Pes
simists, and all applause-makers a3
optimists. Much that is called pes
simism is a protest against evil. Much
that is called optimism is "devil-worship."
The function of these ' happy-go-luclcy,
lotus-eating", optimists, says
the author, seems always to have been
to sing about accomplished progress
while good-naturedly obstructing fur
ther progress.
It is only the men who have great
love for the world and a profound
faith in the power of truth who will
throw themselves into the unequal
contest against the -forces of un
righteousness. These men who are
optimistic enough to oppose evil are
often decried as pessimists by those
"spurious and frivolous" . optimists
who do nothing but applaud, and, as
, the author says, whose applause is al
ways ex post facto. ' .
ANTI-MONOPOLY AGITATORS.
The people who dignify their mental
and spiritual indolence by the name
optimism, and who denounce as pes-i
simista those who condemn evil, "sel
dom reflect that it is tho3e they call
grumblers and fault-finders the people
who 'rail,' a3 they would put it, at
community evils the anti-monarchy
Sara Adamses and Patrick . Henrys,
the anti-slavery Garrisons and Beech
ers, the anti-monopoly agitators of
our own time who compel the world
. to move onward and upward'
WAS JESUS A PESSIMIST? ... .
There is no character in history
which furnishes a better example than
1 the Nazarene of - this optimistic pes
simism of which Mr. Post has written.
An arraignment of the respectable,
pious and ruling elements o society,
, such as we find recorded In the 23d
chapter of Matthew, must have seemed
to the Pharisee class viciously pes
simistic. Yet, who of the world's
teachers has had so great faith in the
divinity of human nature and the
omnipotence of love and the suprem
acy of truth? Was he a pessimist?
If so, he was an optimistic pessimist,
one of the most hopeful antagonists of
evil that the world has seen.
The parable of the mustard seed re
veals to us the philosophy from which
Jesus drew his abounding optimism.
Truth was to him ITke unto a grain
of mustard seed, "which, indeed, is
less than all seeds; but when it is
grown, it is greater than the herbs,
and becometh a tree, so that the birds
of heaven come . and lodge in the
branches thereof."
. Jesus spoke this parable to men
''who had become imbued with the
truth he taught. But they were hum
ble men. They were only a handful
against the world, and they were al
together without honor in their time.
"Yes," said Jesus, "it may seem to
you to be a forlorn hope. You de
spair because you compare your fee
bleness with the world's strength. If
that were the contest, there would bo
no hope. You forget the all-Important
factor, namely, the vitality of the
truth." ...
TRUTH A THING THAT GROWS.
Truth la not a burden that must be
upheld by the hands of men. It is a
seed that you put In the ground. It is
a thing that grown. A man might as
well try to manufacture an oak from
an acorn as to overcome by his own
might the power that Is arrayed
asalnst tho truth. But he ran now
tho seed. And it I 3 vain for men
to contend agahwt the growing truth
an It wo;ild t for them to try to put
tho oak tack Into tho morn.
For those who keep their religion
tmked away in a soue: Utt.o church;
for thtthc to whom C'hri-itUti.iy U a
creed and not a decs!, a dream an.! not
a bntll, this parable will have little
flgtilfkaruo.
Hut thin parabl I pregnant ulth
hope for thoe who find their religious
endeavor In senlo for humanity,
Ol'KN CANNON MOUTIM.
The rnou who have sided with the
truth whUh tho power of their day
iaj frowned upon auj before which
ignorance has trembled; the men who,
in advance of their fellows, have stood
on the skirmish line, looking with
bloodV-bespattered faces Into open can
non mouths; the men who, with hope
deferred, have waited for prejudices
to melt and passions to subside; the
men who have toiled on in patience,
while year after year the fickle multi
tude has been thrown into paroxysms
of joy over the defeat of that truth
which was its only salvation; the men
who have made war upon the hoary
customs and legal crimes by which
the race has been held in bondage;
these are the men who must find com
fort in the parable; Fof the parable
declares to them that they are not
alone; that the troth they plant is
sending its roots into the ground even
while Its misguided foes dance upon
what they take to' be its grave; that
thejsame power which brings the nak
out of the acorn is working in silence
and working mightily for the triumph
of the just cause. '
THE GOOD TIME COMING. : ' 1
.' The true optimist is the man who
fights the wrong with' good neart be
cause he knows he is' but contending
for the recognition of eternal laws,
and because with the' eye of faith, he
can see the future grandeur of his
humble truth. What inspires him is
the assurance of the good time com
ing when the thoughts of down-trodden
men will soar on high, and the
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