Rev. M. S. C. Wright spoke at Appleton Chapel last night, taking for his text the verse: "Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, even thine altars. O Lord of hosts, my King. and my God"
It is one great problem in our lives to find a fixed home in the universe. Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes says, "The world has a thousand roosts, but only one nest;" and it is this nest that we should strive for, this position in which we feel ourselves one with Nature and which is all satisfying. The "roosts" are numerous. Such are health, wealth, power, and knowledge, things which may or may not be good in themselves and which we grasp at, often to the exclusion of all else, and then find unsatisfactory. They are all partial, and death ends them all.
And how are we to find this "nest", this home in the universe? Through the faculties given us we must realize that, created by Nature, we are in accord with Nature. We must obey the laws of the world, laws by which we are built up to higher conditions; for in obedience to them the soul of man can gather all the outside influences which surround it into a soul which shall be beautiful with a beauty like that of the flower, a beauty direct from God.
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