Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1881 — What Is Man? [ARTICLE]

What Is Man?

This little life-boat of earth with its noisy crew of mankind, and all their troubled history, will one day have vanished—faded like a cloud-speck from the azure of the sky. What, then, is man ? He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before the moth. Yet in the beginning and in the working of a faithful man is there already (as all faith from the beginning gives assurance) a something that pertains not unto this death element of time; that triumphs over time, and is, and will be, when time shall be no more. if . t Is that cheese rich?” asked Bloggs of his grocer. “Yes,” was the answer, “there’s millions in it."—Hartford Post.