Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1893 — Page 5

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orriCTT.. President "Will E. Strawn, Montpeller. Tnd. First Yue-preciiteut lorri:e ii. Jack 011, Ke Laneaser. Ini. Seemid Vice-pre.ideni Miss 8us C. Tarier, Kaloua, la. lieeonhna Secretary Mi-e Dora Wenner, Fleatnrjt-aTe., Indianapolis, Ind. Oirret?"i'.din Secretary J'Lss Emma I Herker. Knit-rr, III. Treasurer M-is Mary J. Kelley, Campbellstow n, O. Kierutive Committee Alonzo Finley Jsoobi, GreeiicHtle, Ind.; Wiliaru A. Clara. Aothuoy, lad.; S. Kckei-dn r. MonUra'lr., M..; j. C. McDonald. 51edin,Tean.; Mrs. J. 1. iJarnes, Lruceton ilJ. 9. V. Ya. OÜJF.CTH. Fee. 2 of Article 1 or Constitution 1 be object of ihe Howard Literary Club Is to tsroorese re Iiiernttire.atrenKihen morality, (staid. h sociability, im-reae- a d.sire lor iclu i lmpreven.snt and literary attainments and to tile lid the o:k of rformutiou. MKMlIEtN Ft-c. 1 of Article 2 -f Constitution All j r":n r-f siod moral character who are Interested in th object o' this .miniion and are iUinc to work in accordance tuereaitb are tlivib'.e to memberh p. We 111 st er1ially tnvire rvery one truly and DDei!oirnnniii intereaud in our objects to join our cluh. l.etnrs oi inqoiry should be addressed the Correspond, ecretsry with !iinp. Die ilbwartl P terary lias tic. trier salaried ff.cers cor contributor, and depends wholly ipon it merit and pr.iicudes ior uccp. Members only art entitled to ti e rare bene ts of our book ci"i 'kiif. Ali letters lor pub ieaiion nnift be carefully wriiteii 011 one ii.ie f tiie pitrr oidy, accompanied by the writer a re it;rae er.d a I Ire, as weil at the uom !e plume, and p)a nly uddrpps"i to the f.iilo;, C. t. tfiewart. SENTINEL ßice, Indianapolis. Ind. Members in reiirwinir subscription for Tux FKNTlMiL will jilease be s;:re to srinl 1 t- the II. ward Literary 1 reafurer, as the cub is" allow ed a mall commisiin. Due credit and prompt a'-tion Knarantred. Members, in sei. i: 112 their photos to the ditor tor repri'da-'tioii on tfii puf, inut eeinl om d plume, and also rral hh.tj Slid a idrrM. the latter will not be putlislitd e iceyt by rejest of the (niirr. The Hnnn-il due 2 cent mnst be sent to Ihe trenmrt-r by or l.ctorn Mnn-ii 1, 'iDA b." CN AT H 1 1 SM. in Interetiiir l:ifr Hut I'erhfxps Xot 3tatir Vill j,tpp with lir. Fditor and FKinNP1 Iiefor I beIn I Irish to pay that I r.e'.iova in immoruhtT n' I know tlt:it I hsvn evidnca of thii out-tula of the Next, 1 believe ia l?u Christ. If I did not bfüeve in Ilirn is Biiprenie Biiperr.atural ly I w.uid have to ad i.it that Ilrt was sa:reme naturally. I etate this that you may know whie to 5n ime if I stem ia the fü.iowin to gu w v frorn it. Soui- hav upon th papo pivt-n their reasons why &iLei.in xiia. "l.ontj Traiuj.'s" re son is n;t intelHent. fctiil, hi; reaH'in for at.V-iitn ioja not nover ti.e logical whole. Tno reaso.i why atheists are atüeia'- and intUtiently 8 ) la because th vid-nc is mo-t y upon Iheir pile. Thia may noun! pretty eti f for church meniSer, b:it alter ynarn of iookini,' into tha evid -n for fc's upon both iddfs, with a decided par iality for hn sida opposed to nt!iri-m. I have been forced to coiiiM to this concilia; on. Yri it is a conclii'ion that äU ivh u l'uit of 1 1 1 a frent hop tht tue Uiiwü, t I nknown, tnay l- truth, even in thna minds who esn boft of bo fpiritual rv-lation. CLrLstians depend upon faith and hope. The athtt claims the hope but w.li have none of the fa.th. Christians he.ievo la reve'a'ion, in spiritual ir.anirestalion of euch in f-ome a2 of the worl 1, it not this. If we havt no faith of ourselves, bare in the statements of some before And for our explicit faith here, we pect the prornised extra besinj. Thomas was an alhe:t. Wiiat t ared lie (or the story of hi brethren that Christ bad arisen? Sarh stories had been told before of pop e, and little did he believe d them. The women at the tomb, and the visIon of anz!. and their statements thtreon, be would bare none of it. Visions of an i;e a were of common occurrence if you were to believe mre y men's jro-d for such things, and Taoinai knew bow prone man waa to take and believe things npon eluht evidence of hi nensei. Ar on the Fame evidence of others. He was Dot of that ifuihb!e kind, be trave them to Understand. Twin i'aine once said that a revelation to one mac was not a revelation to another, and a man could not he Vlamed for txittintr aiide man's testimony llone, especially when he knew how errUi bn wa anl nnredahle in other waya often. irnes. And so you sue. Doubting Thomas ar.d DonbtinzTom were much aiiicw, only, one it ia re orde 1, received a decided revelation and the other went to hii grave without one. And I don't suppose there was uuch inference shown to thern in tternitr, if they ware to be judged lor the deeds oione in the body, and the?ood and bad they ii I here worn balincnl aright. Tom Fair. via not an stilt-int ia the arc-ptd form of the term. For he believed in a God, a supreme being, nd he often ra led upon Hirn when in distress. I'ut he di l not think the storv Of the miraculous birth and ascensions of the Jen of more account than (he name incidents found in liomsn mythology or l'ersian leerend. He cUimtd that the Jews hid too low a conception of (iod, and many an argument that Tom Paine held forth on hundred years asro Itritfirs and the great divines and biblical profesorx are giving to their ncho are as aomething uew today and original, with them. And if they are leged with heresy a howl of indignation goes up against thoe who arraign them, from all over the land. I l n't lay that lirtgz and Smith and auch men are not right, but I do love consistency, and I despise to pee one man reviled for what another is upheld in. Of course I'riggs don't go quite ao far as went I'a ne, tut tome of his scholsrs wiil and don't you et it get out rd your mind, either. A"in. no man is bad simply because tir ia baJ. it id not a eli-vidat

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( trnth that he is ao. Man ia bad because ' of celt, or iuherent principles, and no man la intelligently an atheiet because Christians do not do their d'tty, and ministers also fail in theirs Such a reason as this for a man t give is too pueri e. too childish. If atheism had no mre than this to base its foundation upon, atheism wou d be no factor to contend with today. I have found that th moment a man intelligently lets go the idea of a personal God, a (iod who will in the end bring about human welfare and destinies aright, that moment the load is pbifted all upon nian'a shoulders in bid mind, and be eeie to work some way and how to get man to rule h s own Hie aright and throuch this to cause, or compel men to be rui. d aright also. There may be atheista who are, and think the reverse of this, but I have never known them. All tha murderers, aduitrcees au l downright im an people I ever kttw bad a stanch belief in the truth of inspiration, but they did rr.t live up to that he.ief. Atheism kn-ws that the church and true Christianity ia one of the greatest cii izing fnrtors, I i;ives the mini-try due r.-rd for the earnest, faithful, manly men who inhabit the pulpit today. Once in a white it tuny cry out aa.nst the priestly narrowness and keeping the poopI'a thought ia rttart?in ruts, but for every ecolf it toads it geU dozens back.. U did not come tj defend atheism just ex.irtly. I int-n lud to talk awhile to ''Hawkeye' and hero I am almost at the en I of the editor's patience Looxing over the matter 1 onnot free where th n-.n-helief in immortality and u Hiipreme bein can besuch a stupendous libel. That is. nw mind, tttk'nrf such belief outbid or revUiin on th ruiitur, and this is the way one wou d have, to arjue it from the premise "Hawkeve" hat- a.-umd. I knew there are many peop.e wiio ay, without the bib e and insKirati n, nature itietf proves then is a iod, a f'unremo Maker. I claim this assertion to he founded upon very auperlic.al groumii 1 cannot free that either a limitei or a great knowledge of creation proves a maker. We of conrre see miuiithfitis atrangr, intriat., wonderful. Much that our ;i .-.itod knowh- jo far cannot exl lain. And we stra'irt'.tway r"t to work to sa' tSere nwes-anly mu't be a maker, a desi'.er. Why? .Jut because w cniKt underKtand of anything beinur ma le that was nt created nor designed, l'.eause we see something that seems to hold a co relative t-xistenc dependent on eomethingel.-e. It must be that way all the way back. Now I claim right here that ou side of revelation there is no proof of a supreme maker, because in arg tin g back we always end with something smaller, pomethuig more imperfect in the line tf creation, instead of en ling at a great starting point. And if we keep this sty e of argument iid we end alwar just where we begun, for nature is a ring. We come bang up against a place that we will have to concede was never designed or created and always exidtel. The eci"ntist leaving revelation out of the que-tk.n finds it just a easy to gtop at atoms as to etoi at a theory that iroes beyond them. He knows the atoms exist ami he knows that, in fact, l.e enn gi no farther. And as far as his evidence will go. it may be that tt wa.s tha atoms that wer never designed, never created, always were und always wiil be instead of God. To his knowledge they always go an eternal rjun.i. The scientist has bis hope. Did you aver know of a jrre.it frcientist that was a very wicked person? The very knowledge they obtain. The hungering p.fier more gives them a hope of immortality and a wish it exists to gain it. He does not wish to live merely for the eelliehness of living hut to learn more and mors. II knows now that all things are formed from atom. The earth, the wit' r, the living plant and animal, from its lowest development to its highest n ret. He knows thes atom are in a constant aut of change, goiug. pasBiug from the shifting rock, the decaying vegetation and body, to their or ginal state, to reappear again in other forms. This he 6eys and knows. Ihit he can find no sure evidence of a personal God back of it. He might cUitn nature as a God, but he can. give it no tangible form. He knows that certain atoms combining form water. He knows when these atoms, even in part withdraw, water does not and caunot exist, or be. He finds life dependent much npon a like reason. Th coming together of many and certain atoms. Hut when disease or time disintegrates these atoms, the life disappears to come no more in that particular form. II knows nothing of the soal, does our scientist. H says that if it exists it exists independent of life. He says that atoms never perih and if the oul is a created atom it too shall never perish. Hut b cannot put bis finger upon it and te 1 you exactly w here it is, font has not form, nor leaves 00 trace that he has yet solved. Hat titer ia one thing that science wiil decidedly tell you : That man is one factor in this olan of creation and that if he goes down to death at twenty years of age or seventy be leaves bis mark upon earthly time. Kven if immortality L a myth, man no lees has livd and has had his day, be that for good or vil. H is no rnvth, nor are his thoughts illusions. Like the grass, be came for a pur pose. INo matter whether bis going beinto adrenmless leep.as last year's grass, or not. '.There is nothing by chance, exactly, in this world. When the right time arrives for the atoms to cornming'e they do so, bringing forth other reproductive conditions in this commingling. Hut who knows how many mistakes, balks and bad beginning! and endings these atomic conditions may Lave met with In aons of time back of us. 1 think I can tra a few of them myse.f in what little of science I know. We are here; we know that. But we are no myth ; no illusion. If we go down 1 to a daauiioss sleep toaight our though ta.

oar lives will live after us. An 1 if immortality only exiua in the lr-ataer' brain no less should we make our live ad near perfection here as it ts possible for us to do. "lu v i." MAUD MAPLE" AGAIN.

Sh Contributes 1 Paper on Emerson's EsS"y, First Series. Deab BnoTHEita and Sistkrs I hope you are enjoying these coid evenincs in reading and meditation as I am. iVhile I would encourage much reading of pure literature as etimu'ating to nobio e.lort. I am cognizant of the fact that e as a people read too much and reason too little. Meditation is lacking in tha minds of tha ma-ses. We evince much eagerness to imbibe the thoughts of others and go color all our own by this association. Nearly all are wont to court eociety in thought and person rather than solituJe, whorein we aloue liatea to the voice of our own eoul. Then let us choose our association of books as we do that of our friends. It is a trite saying that "a man is known by the company he keeps." rio is one by the books lie reads or c hooses. An it has been suggested that wedi?cus the books we have read a.s Heb cted from our II. L. C. catalogue, I will here speak of one just read. "Emerson's Esmya," first series. The anther Impresses U3 as a man 0! greatness, of sen ma and worth. Perhaps America has not within the nineteenth century produced another such ethical genius as th a poet and phi.osopher. Ralph Wal lo Emerson wsb born at U.iston in 1S0J, and died at Coucord, Mass., in 1SSL. In 1S.12 he made his first visit to Europe, which la-ted nearly a year. It s-emsthat his main purpose in roing toETg'nnd whs to meet Coleridge, Wordsworth, DeQuincey and Cnrlyie. Hi.s meeting with Thomas 'arly le resulted in a strong friendshit), whicli coat nued until both were old men. Judging from portraits of Emerson, in both middle life and old age, we see that of a welbbalanced temperament; with firmness and self-esteem as the dominant characteristic, which co ored all miaor faculties. We also note a lure development of the faculties of renon and originality, conscientiousneps and epiruuality. I do not think hi3 fir mm es indicative of stubbornness, or bis seif-esteem that of egotis.i.. Ho si'Dptv realized his o.vti worth and recognized that of all others ua eu'.ml. He teaches tig that the tlifTereruM b"tse n pt-r-ons does n- t lie so ni'i-!: in upurior wisdom as in th t,xpr.td..:i of that which we pods-frs end that it is truly by th- use of oi. r talents that they ir.c; ous-'. He 6ays: ''He is reat who is what h is from nature, ami wio never r-'tinti is m of others." 'I hen sure y he him ell wns great. He wan an original, independent thinker, holding himse.! s endia-il .' to his own convicti na ; but behevtug that min'i Ai)prhensMn of truth is ever progressive, lie m er st'od stili, but ever prt-esed onward and upward to more nr.d more truth. Vet, like ail preat men w ho inhabit a higher stdiete of tho'.i.hl or lie in advance of their time, bis wriluigs may not be as fully appreciated ia tha era of his life as they will Le in Centuries io coin e. I think no one can rea l h i w-iMngs. without feeling sironirer and be't. r tor it. He impresses us with tod ursvervii.g lid.Iity to hime-elf-to his 0 11 soul's highest conviction aa the voico of God wiihin bim. I!s tr'to t tbre". 11 tno.i Iii 'ruth would teach; ; 'rout Iii Iii Mr:, If ihou tin- In an oti!J rs!t. "Emerson's Ewsays." of wbi. h I gaV, wero published in 1-H and embraco tiia following subjects: "Herv)i.n,"' "I,"vt,' "History,' 'Vo i Keliance," Vomoeneation," :,.;D:ritual Laws," ''Friendship," Prudence." "'Ihe Over-Sul," '-Circles," Intellect" and "Art." All of the ubjects areso d- eplv inter-sting to me, and in this dive; t-ity there is n unity so apparent I he. iiate to break t e ch:".m cf such sui. imo thought lest I m-r it sentiment, but will make, a few extracts that may give those not familiar some idea oi the work. He eays: "Self-trr.;t is the essence of Iteroia it. It is too etale of the soul at wir, and its ultimata objects are the l ist delianoe of falsehood an 1 wrou-jr, and the power to bear a 1 that can be indicted by evil a.ents. It spe.KS the truth, nn l it is just." A!o says: "Thu characteristic ot genuine heroism is i;s persistency. All men bav wanderiug imp'ii..-8f lits anl btarts of generositv. Put . hea y.v.i have reo vd to ti great abide bv yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yi urseif wi h ttie world. Th" h-r tic can not be common, ncr the common the heroic." It s-erriB to me all may be heroic enough to trut-t i or the soui'tf cojim. iousness of right untlinchingiy under any and a 1 circirndiauced. It wid bo gi-u ui iu that hour which is bc-jt, ii our thought is staid oa God. As Emerson says: 4Tho roui can le truted to th9 en i." We need never fear to take co Hicil of Go l through our own H'jul anl stmitl by it. Of Helf-relipnce bestvs: "A man should learn to detect and watch that g!rfa:u of light which flashes acro-d his mind trom within more than the iustro of ttie firmament of bards and hagtss. Vet he dismisses without notice bid thought, because it irt his." "Trust thyself ; every heart vibrates to that irn strin.'. ' Groat nvn have always d-nn so, and confided in themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraving their perception that the eternal whs stirring at the r heart, working through their hands, predominating in ad th ir being." "lnisist on yourself; never imitate Your own eilt you can present every moment with the cumulative fore- of a whole life'o cultivation, but of the adopted ta ent of atnther you have only an exteiuuoranäous. half poHsesBion." Concerning spiritual laws he tavs: "The whote course of things goes 10 t acb ns faith. We need only ob v. There is a guidance for each of us and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. Place yourself in fl.e middle of th stream of power and wisdom which flows into you asiiie. plant yourself in the lud center of tbst flood, then you are without effort impel ed to truth, to right and a perfect contentment." Also says: "The lesson winch these ohseryatbins convey is, bd mid not seem ; let um acquiesce; let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits; let us unlearn the wisdom of the world ; let us lie in the Por t's power and learn that truth aluito makes rich and Kreftt." Of prudence w quote: "There era all degrees of proiiciency in knowledge of the word. It is su'licient to our present purpose toindicatn three. One c a. sbveato the utility of the symbol, esteeming he.i th and wealth a final good. Another ein. live above this mark to the beautr of the svmbol, as ttie poet and artist, and the naturalist and the man of e' ience. A third class live above the beauty of the svmboi to the beauty of the thing signified; these are wise men. The first class Lave co ami on senHe; the second taste, and the third spiritual perception. Once in a long time, a man traverses the whole scale and sees and enjoys th . Bymhol solidity, then also has a cear eye for its beauty, and lsstlv.wnila he pitches bis tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, dos not olfor to buiJi house and barm

thereon, reverencing the splendor of the God which he sees bursting through each chink and cranuv." In his essay of the "Over-Soul" he bays: "The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. The nature of ihese revelations ia always the same. They are tha perceptions of the absolute law. They are the so't tions of the soul's own questions. "There is acerlain wisdom of humanity which ia common to the greatest men with the loweat, and which our ordinary education often labors tosi.enceand obstruct. The mind is one. and the best minds, who love truth for it9 own sake, think ranch less of prosperity in truth. Thankfully they accept it everywhere, and do not lahel or stamp it with any man's name, for it is theirs long beforehand. It is theirs fro-i eterr.it-." How many of us, deHr triende, can justly claim trt be ot these best minds; Are we a! ways w iiiin; to accept truth for truth's paka wherever found? Are we net all much given to looking first for the label ere we are even willing to investigate? Paul's admonition, "Prove alt things; bold fast that which is good," ia as essential today as when uttered bv him. Truth is all that is worth while, so let us seek it earn'-stiy and diligently. I hope others mar find as much pleasure and profit in the reading of this book as I have. I shall now read his second series. The words of great men and women awaken and impel ns to higher ellort. Emerson aars: "The eTect of any writing on the public mind is mathematica ly measures! le bv its depth of thought. How much water does it draw? If it awaken you to think; if it lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence; then theelfe-t is to be wide, slow, permanent over the minds of men ; if the pages ins'rnct you not, they will die like flha in the hour." While we mar not be able to write with "the grsat voice of lo-juence." aurely a 1 may write komething that will instruct and help another. Emerson saya: "Every man ehoold let out nil of the length of all of his reins ; e'.ould find or make a frank and hearty expression of what force and meaning is in him." So iet u b'ickle on the harness of work, let out ad of the reins, "'drive like a Jehu" and do our best. Work and live to the best there is in us, if we would 11 a fold and l-ve op our soul's powers and possibilities. Yours for truth aad ellort. Mai-d MvriE." WHAT IS FAITH?

'NuMcf' Tru In l liii It ;md Cmlerntaixl .tt VI::it it Ie,ri. "' on I go not kruVT-r.;, I wttuM n it if I miht; I' J lit.. it w ü i,i the d.uk with ool, thuu j a. one in tl.e hiv.t, I i r ithcr .k Uf faith wi'h Ifira than ro tions by Faith, what a wor,d?rous, powerful, stimulating gift. We have othr gifts greater, bat w ithout this it is impossible to mi. tin them. Put Lt ud examine and tre wl.at faith really is Weimt-r says it is belief, objecf of belie', a:td Sr. Paul -ays it is tha "subatance of thtii.'d ho:ed for, the evidence of things not seen.'' Without faith it is irnpessiblo to enjoy anvthing in lite and we are informed by good authority' it is impossible to enjoy the iuture die without it al.io. v'i Kli have faith in something be it right or w rong. Then how necessary that we be ure our faith is fe 1 founded. We all have some ii'h-nd in whom we repos'; coulidence and some creed in which we behove we li -nr m.tny ihir.g" we do not believe, an I know p. rsoas ia whom we have little con!il-nce, yet we believe or have mora iai".: thun wa eome'.imes imagine. Some people claim they believe in nothing which thev can not see or know by their knowledge, but I assert tho.-eareno eeoh persona. We all believe there i aa Atlantic ocean, simply because somo say there is that have eeeu it; vet but low ot tit ever saw tha ocean onrsu vi'". Wo a 1 have some belief as regards religion, but .'II do not have faith ia the way Paul explains it. And though we have the evidence of many of the most good anil eminent men, vet some, because th.iV have never experienced it, deny and scorn. Put, though Christ and his techin:s may be. anil are. to many persona besides t- e Jews and Greeks a mumbling, block und biolisiines-. to us woo are saved it is the power of God unto salvation. 'l.ittlo Nuisance" thinks that wo bhoiiid truHt men with the making of o'tr las ie-cause they trust 11 in the cu inary department, i hit do they '.' Do they not provide just, what they please anil c.-mpol us to coo n it in just tbo v. ay it euits thein whether it sui's our tisto or their own health? You remark about tha i:n;unty oi the polls. Did you nt know that ail places in general, whero women are exc u-led. are impure? "Dora D." I should have replied sooner, but will row say I received your letter and book list a I right. Many tbsnlas for it. Yes, I wnt on when the way was cleared. "Ponnie Sweet lies j .," welcome, thrice welcome. 1 will re ne. nber you and there is "Jean Ptilconer," I must have a good handshake. Did you know I enjoy your letters. I have treasured in my scrap-book one of your 1 -iters in the long ago. Coma tell us iijt.ro of your fun or are you married or do you have a stepfather and don't dare tell too much. Wiil coma one in or out of tin i-iub, I don't care which, wri'e and give eora-.'thing of the living autho-B. lt eeems it is iiard finding out much of authors without they be favored w ith wt alth, or influential friends, or die, of Cour. I euuposa we have SO ne in our club who are or could be successful authors. Pet us have a history of you an 1 your productions. I think a person should tie praisod, and seo the fruits ot their labor here while living if their friends can be persuaded of their worthiness. I mean some encouragement aud part of the fruit, as it is not according to God's plan for us to receive full benefits in this world, and it is impossib e for U3 to do so as our influence keeps spreading Pke the waves cn the water when a pebble has been thrown into it, it keeps widening and rolling on until it reaches tha land, so our influence will extend through all time, Voltaire is not simply being punished, I have no doubt, for his sins, but his writings are causing others every year to enter the same, which must but add to his own misery. The earns might be said of good tuen in the opposite direction. Putio! 1 started out with faith and ended with influence, but we generally influence according to our faith, so I'm not otl' the track fo badlv at last. Let the farmer rir;s and wive give their mode of raising and managing chickens, butter and their way of keeping house, etc Well, the city ladies may tell their way of keeping house, too, that ia if they do their own work. Au revoir. "uxEr." A NEW COMER. Thoughts About the H fiat Sort of Companions und llookn. DerII. L.C. Have you room for one more? Then allow me to express my appreciation of your club. One may seek far und wide before finding such full, dep entiment as is expressed each week on the H. L. U. paga. Not long ago I heard a gentleman make us of the expression, "wo seldom ris far above our companions." or to that effect. Whether origin! with him I do not know, but it p'.t me tt.inkinic If it is true, how care'ul we ehould be. Who are nur compinions? Art human beings any more eo than ttie living things we call books? Iy)ok into the great library of the world and you will e -e there the grave and the gav, the light and the wealthy, and thre, aa elsewhere, we üaJ the ones that 0 rat

attract us are not the ones to which we would be attracted. Especially if the above words be true. Many works here iu brilliant colors which, like certain drugs.

! should be la'aeled poion. Put alas, we have not that advantage. Yet in its own time the world wid mark them, though it may be after many a fair mind has gone down under its intiuenca. There is a little more inducement to being in bad human company than in bad book company. Th former may be better by tha contact, but to the latter it is a.waj a the same. Thea there are shelves upon shelves of euch books, as we are. Sold musty and smelling with age, some new ; written in the times in which we lire. Let me take down that little brown volume. It ia well marked and thumbed, nevertheless it id as good as ever, and will stand the wear a long time yet. It ia Franklin's Autobiography. Wo lind ourselves unconsciously making rules and adopting maxims with the author. Not one has ever sent a f-hip into the breakers. Well, vood luck to the grand old library; may its good increase and its bad go down. Success to the club. If A KM ET DELU WHY THE SCENE CHANGED. A Pretty Scene Spoileil by the Apprnrance of ft Itioat. To ttte Club As the sun sinks beneath the horizon on one of those beautiful days in June, a pleasant fright meets our gaze. A house situated back from the road, and surrounded by shade trees. Py pe-ping around the house we notice a ery large garden, filled with a most numberless varieties of vegetables; and in ttie garden and scattered over the large yard are also numberless varieties of flowers, all in fuil bloom. tSitting beneath one of the large shade trees we see a young man, apparently not ever eighteen or nineteen vears of age. In one band he holds a p -ncil and in the other a note-book; he certainly has heen writing, but just now be seems to bo studying about something. How peacelul and happy be looks with his pencil and book before bun. Prom within the houe we hear the strains of a woman's voice humming that good old tune, "Jesus Lover of My Soul." Also in the garden we Bee a youth who has probably seen fourteen or liltoen summers roll round. He is hoeing away and keeping time by whistling the latebt craze in songs. I-n't this a beiutiful as well as peaceful eceue? Ah, what a change has come over it. What causes this young man to hurry up from his shady ratrcf.t, put his pencil and book in bis hoci:et and start toward the house with a frown upon his face? What eau.-CJ the youth t") stop bis whlstbng and hot with a more ardeut vigor? What c.:us;b that voice to suddenly cense within? Wo ?ay again, what causes .t? Ah, yes; now we fr.ee. What parson is this we notice just coming up from the gate? Ha seems to ba a man who is oinewhat pist the middle mile-post of his life. Put why should ho change this beautiful scene? Put io-k! Diil he fall? No, not quite; just scumbled " on one of the stones in tha walk. Put 1 glance at hia face; that tells the tale ; his I lace is b oatod. his eyes are bulged out, ; and he has a peach-bloom on his tios.e. 11a is a liiave a toave to that curse 1 stuif ! called alcohol, lie con J Lave no harder : master, for be rains both body ami soul. Losing the body is not much; but jii.-t think of losing tha soul, body, health, friends in fact, trvf rything. Hov many, manv hoixia m eua.i are changed iu this way ? Mron drink is the worst enrny the Christian has to contend w ith. Whether it ba in the shape of a cohol, whiskey, beer, wine, and borne even go so tar as to call it bittets. and say that it is good tor the health. Ls aaythicg good for the health which causes one to go cra'.y? Thai causos him to roil in the gutter with the hos? To beat, and comoumts to murder bis wif? What is good haa th, ; . l ! . o tri . . . .1 . j-n I 11 uns oe wie ca.-e. vv nm is 11 in. it is oil ing our jails, cur reform sctuois, our penitentiaries? Why, strong drink, of course. Take ttie victims of tins vile stutF out of theM institutions, how many inmates would there be left? Why comparatively few, indeed. In fact the majority of these inmates come to their ead end. e ther directy or indirectly, from htrong drink. Then again, how much money is spent every year in the production of this prominent weapon : thedevi!. We lind that it reaches m into the millions. Suppose this largo amount of money was used i'l some better purpose. What a large amount of poverty and crime would bo prevented. For wa are sorry to say that poverty and crime sometimes go hand in haii'L Put. what causos the poverty? Why it) a great many cases it is caused by strong drink. Yes a very great many cues. Put you say tha: it lit le does not harm. Now, don't deceive yourself. How many have utarted cut with only a little; theii a little more, and eo you go on. Until now where ia your "little?" You ar-j landed in the alough of despond, and what is more, cannot get out. Vim might ns weil be a slave, guarded bv a hundred soldiers, yes, better, ior tha fclavo may receive help from without; but you, never. That cruel monster has his clutches unon vou : you catiuo; escape J bi n. Let his lingers tou :h you and you are gone; or that touch soon becomes a clutch, which holds you fast. We 1. dear friends, you will have to pardon me for coming hack so soon, but I receive! no welcome when I was here last, eo I come t.gain just for spite. When I route again 1 may bring a couple of friel) Is along. Wouldn't you be s'pnsad if "Variety Jim," that 'ere backwoodsman, should cone walkin' ia with a "lair one" on each arm? Wouldn't "Kotneo" hustle around hunting up two na chaira? With best wishes for the club, I remain yours fraternally, "Vakikty Jul" 1'716 Ssample-avo., Ft. Louis, Mo. TItY TO DO GOOD. Everybody Should Kxcrt Himself for Good in the Worhl. MyDerII. L. C. Fkienps Although I joined your club some time ago I have not written for the page. I have been interested in reading th letters of the brothers and sisters of tbe club. Our club is organized to do good. Oh! How much good there can be done. Many time am I impressed as 1 walk into: a church and look over a congregation. How many are Btanding in the ways of tin and folly, and looking on aa a few are worah ping God. There is a great work ior us all to do. As the churches are doing a grand and noble work, and I suppose most of us are members of some church, there ia yet a great work for us as a club to do. We all have some influence. If we all use our influence for good we w ill surely accomplish a grawt work. Many times a eingle kind word spoken will change the life of some person. There are a great many vices in this world. Should we not help to fight them? Certainly we should come out as brave BO'diers to fiht them. One of these vices is intemperance. This truly is a vice. Pet us see what Solomon says. In Prov., twenty-third chapter, he says: Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath bsbbhng? Who liath wuund without ea ise? Who I. nth redness of eyes? They that tarry long at t .0 wiae; they that go to Peek runs I wines. Look not tiiou upon the wins when .1 is red, wheu it givetb its color in the cup, when it moreta itself arigttt. At last it biteth like a serpent and tingeth like an adder. How ead to know that all professors of Christianity are not shunning thia rice.

I know of a great manv who profess to be Christians who go to the oaloon. A certain minister once said that whea he was chastising his 6on for going to saloons tbe ßon said, l ather, some of your church member go there." How many who want to see a work of reformation going on are sett.ng each examples? May God helo every member of tha H. L. C. to set good examples. "iUITNOr." Gilead, Ind., Feb. 13, 1S93. FROM "CALICO BILL."

Cnles There la Chniig the CoTemment Will He Apt to Fnil. Deau II. L. C. Fr.iF.NPs I see that my position has been assailed by tho brilliant intellect of "Evening Star.:' My good s;6ter, come and let us dipcups this question and see whether the present indication does denote tho downfall of our government or not. I see on ono ?id the struggle for existence, sharp and constant, while oa the other ii another claas in dreamy inactiveness, revealing ia opulence tbe product of other men's tod. When we ees humanity with her jovs and Borrows, leisure and labor, high and low, rich and poor, wo are pursuaded that something is wrong. io to the abode of our day laborers and see how they live. Our hearts bleed in prcfoundeet sympathy. Tha hovering wind sweeps through their humble domicile, chilling their half clad persons to the bone. The wife gathers her little brood about the smouldering coals and casps the youngest to. her maternal bosom in vain endeavor to keep it warm. The wolf raves just outside the door only watting a slight mishap when he springs into the home, matching the child frotn the mother's anus and driving tha rest into the cold, desolate stretts. The poor must struggle hard to prolong their existence, and in their lowly hovels, while near by rises the mansion of the wealthy. Towering walls rear their lofty and inspiring epires. The walls are festooned with variegated colors, the windows are curtained with finest fabrics and the Uoor carpeted with imported brtissels. upon which the foots eps fall as lightly as on the untrodden snow. Tho millionaire revels in his ill-gotten gaiu whi e less fortunate pÜ6S his hammer and and trowo.1. So long as we court the favor of the wealthy we are tending to build caate, with rich upon one eida and the poor upon the other, that has characterized and prec-ded the fali of evcy ancient government under whoa ruins wa s'ill find the mangled corjtaa of the nnllion iire nr.d still near the clank oi the chains of vassalage. I tell you if wa expect to be happy we must place our foot on the neck of injustice and crush it in irs infancy, for the youth today must bear the burden iu the future. Shall they be slaves or shall they be' freemen? We have a great and spacious couti'ry. The hills of New Hampshire and Vermont constructed of granite, tl.e ivevflhme state imbedded with an in-exhaur-Uble bed of co.tl and subterranean currents of oil, a central part yielding abundant agricu'ture product; the Pockies agiow with precious metal, a western coast with abundant fmit, and vet n i:h all this the thinly clad dies cold and the hungry cries for bread; tbe churches rear " their im.: form oi brick and mortar and lofty church spires pierce the eky, while within a few feet o: her sacred shrine the waif crouches for shelter 'neath her walls and dies of cold. Do not understand that I spak desparingly of churches, but I do think there are men who bow their head to tfi ir God and give their costly gifts to be seen by men who would not raua a linger in behaii of the hungry, but stand inexorable to the shivering wor.d. Through the stone pave 1 streets tho outcasts wander and beg tor bread 111 the shaüow of co leges. Masses grow up ignorant and vicious since the struggle for existence is so sharp and constant that the children must at a tender aga enter the worksaops to keen the wolf frout the door. Where poverty enters hope retires, where hope retires iniquity enter and where crime endues. Pefore lotg the unfortunate victim of depressions ree s and sways along the etreets or sleeps in a felon's ceil, while the unreserved tears of the wie flow in silent angu sh. Such conditions the God ot our universe never intended should be. If there is not a change inade soon our government is sure to meet with the same fate as the governments of Pome and Greece. Was not the king of Pabylon with ail bis magnificent spiendor driven from his throne by the great omnipitent God, for it is written that vengeance is mine and vengeance will I pav. What is the cause of all this misery and distress? I see my article is getting very lengthy so I wih have to desist for the present. I would like to hear some of tha older members' opinioa ou this bubject. "Calico Bill." Feb. 8. "FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE." She Is Ilusy, lint Fuithtul to the Club und Its Ii:trn-nta. Dear IIowat-d Family "Florence Nightingale" wants you to know she is still with the circ e, has too much principle to forsake it end go to any other society, and she wants you all to know it. If I am silent I am interested all the same. I have been very busy, am yet. and will be until we get a tenant. With work, indoors and out, public work for different societies, I am very busy. We have our duties oa the farm to attend to, as well as town ones, too. We are eo situated as to be in town and country at tho same tim. and of course I have d luh'e work to perform. "Maria" and "W. Dewdrop," you see why I have not answered your good letters. "Mau l Maple" and 'Howard," you know not how much I missed you at reunion. Dear brothers and sis ers you know not bow much is due "Maul" and "Howard" br enjoying what we do today. How brav-ly they fought for our rights, while a few of us stood around afraid to say what our names were, at least I was. I did not know bow soon I was to be swallowed. 1 know whereof I speak for I was at the meeting. I shall write reunion notes when I have the time if the editor will permit. I am saving ail the papers to reply to ad "personals' at that time. Kind wishes to you all. "Florence Nightingale." Feb. 8, 1S93. Soui Corrections. Df.ak Friends I regret that a printer made me say " cents instead of 2ö cents dues from every member an imperative demand, which every member is expected to honor 'before March 1. The large stationery bid, etc., has nearly exhauMted treasury, and I hope all will order club stationery promptly as it is not convenient for club to bold in stock 80 much stationery, which was printed for all lot all uss it. And all who have not secured badges will please be good enough to ord.r ta e at once price, .?l.'Jö. Add rase A. F. Jacobs, Greoncastle, In 1. Yes, my d?ar friends, you may call this au imperative call for money. I promise you not to repeat it. Sincerely, Will F Stkawx. Montpelier, Ind., I eb. 10. Her heroml Attempt. Kivd Friends of the Howard Literary Ci.cb Will you allow me to write a few lines. I have been reading the letters of the page for the last few weeks and thought that I would like to writ. I live

in the country. I think that it 13 mucb nicer than it is to.be penned up in the citj all of your lives, i will stop to tell yon that I am bitten yers oid;a"so that) hope that ail welcomes MiacmLT3E5S. Middiefork. Ind., l eb. 5. TO A GOOD MAN.

A Tribnte to the Ijtte lSUhup Itrooks ot M.ieaeliurtts. TO THE IIOWALD LlTERAr.Y CLtTI Among tbe many names new enrolled with the eilent majority and who havi passed beyoud all mortal ken in this new year of grac, lV'd, not one stands forth eo prominently as that of Pithop FLiliips Brooks. His life spent in the rervica cf the Matter is an inspiring sermon. Notwithstanding an impediment in speech, like the great Pemoslhehese, he cjnqured a physicai üJeot, ani hi? eloquence and manner of speech were elect rio and fiscinating. His life is grand and needs no nourish of trumpet and drum to cail forth bis many virtues and waits ol character. Hi words of lire and eloquence will resound through theportilsof men's hearts and make themselves known only in the reflection of nob.e Jives and beantii'ul character. The golden i-enaer of memory will waft the sweat perfume of li s life and work to the young army of Christians who are preparing to do valiant services for tha master militant. It ia not so much hie gifta f ir tellcct and oratory and persuasion, ut tho Ftrong current of truth deepcated in the inner man. With such a iountain-hea I, no wonder the stream of I. is eloquence was pure and ireo and invigorating. "No fountain can ri.- e ingbei lhn its eourco." Me spoke to the heart of man, and hence the "open sesame" of bishfsj. The true foundation of his euccess may be derived from the following, words, taken from a memorable sermon of his: "Never fear to bring the sublimes! motive and toe most infinite endeavor to tit smallest duty." This sentence alone far exceeds many of the sermons one hears upon church crela and religious dogmas. Every young man end woman who ia 6triing to become something more than the inanimate clod or the clinging parasite, who de-ires to make life worth something, to make tl.e Otd earth better for having lived upon it. ehould not need the warning given to ) d Scrooge" by "Marley's Gho.t," but now in youth, when health and etrc-hu'th end beauty crown escLi coining day. uhou.d commence with thia benutiiu! sentence ai a foundation stone to br.i ! tit? iuture edifice of character which will outwe:gh the treasures which "moth nnl lire" consume. Tak the lesson of Phii.ips Bro-.-kV lifeanl from it glean tha truths which alone outlast tbe conquest of death. i e -f l-j tu Mil ni ta t rteuorf ; let it frw l' rem v.i.n cr, aul b;iv-uiu ll.ru ugti the ; ji Of ate; 1. 1 the mii-sie csnvM show Hi i at 111 , In -. i 1 oi' at f I ir. s ; iet th light bireutu mi li.s U'ji J 1 of Imi", tlial sltuooovl tte -,tu Cf tl hi: ' i :.rn, an 1 In the h.mk of fame, Th- kit.iri. tii,-.- irl of h v ri.iON write, Ar.it h i 1 ,t i;i 1-1 iik-ii, an i tVm claim A püiia It- h., im. cl'.ch i;o;u Li:a tt:s hllk'Wii li.iue. "Ardyb," Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. G. Ob eicht the chiiinn i f slumber My ter.f a f i-1 1 1 tun i, W hi.o thought a wiir i ks tha rtorm ctoad ilj'hei ItiKcvh air will.red mind, Ti'l I (?ra; et at lonctb a to'iuks That a- w.tl.in tttj rec!i. If .rch:i!i;e its Giltnt m-s .ge Might t..ka the rdiice of t e:th. Cut tha wor ls wro 1 nil and leaden, Ani n ) ,icw ring tliri.l ake, Wh.le lou Jer thv rnry tlc:non. duouru of Lis irl juij h, ipoke. But as with 1 :st;e8 flu-'en, Fittt kft-r p I turnet; A fact) t'juk. .1 out u;.i.d ma iioiu tbo vo.uuic ia'.elr cpurnel. But I notJ ncarce the b-auty Oi Ihe foreti'-a.l gtaontU aal fair, The tvu'ltT curv? oi th preity lip, Iba wavo o. the .Utk brja hair. For ovtr the sea of j asi on, by I ho ii.hl uf th womlroui eyes, I market ihro.wh lltu murky iltasdS The tar ol' L ij-c 1 "The worlJ'a oi' " itatelr cadence Uli, ( t: I hd aerrej litem ail. Anil the ,,-'.00111 of iheir ruesoai shtJevt iluur o'er Lie 1 ki- a pail. But Rran.lor, fu'lur, richer, The k.-; n U of h r lifa. The tiiri.l of Hi brow lyrics W.th Iutj uaJ .caity rife. What though that soul of rauiis II .1 1 ,'u.;o to aori.U unkitosa. The I'kl'.t it S 10 1 Iu p:c-Sil.g Had hri),hl.uul all uty own. Brooklyn. ".Vai, B. E. Sxrrm Mrs. Ihiij.uulii Harrison. At er , h j; e ' t'.l Inspired each breaat TCh re long bal Ii ig red d'.'S.i anrestj At morn silt Kittys to frmf er leak To fprsul throughout lue OjuV.utiit, he who tho Crt d hi nor tooi, Tit.- qiieeiilii si of Wotitaahool. hit a. 1 h r w a !h t Live aud art, AVas s:iiu:ioned. trout tho naliou' fceart. The willing band that wroa,ht Ith (S.U1. At la-t wi re folitd tetd aol niil; Tiio ih.uUt'hifi.1 h.td j a-cd awaf A here hie is cj.i.h.Ttd cji with eiay. Herteath the fl.a low dath bal cat So d trk e't-rali, a corl gj pa-sed 1'r.iiu Waihiiton tofnir "Crown Illli, A city of the Jeul 0 Uli. Th -n, in that city of the dcat, Tin adjoat f aal rltei was aaij, A j.l tarlh n ghea to keep la trust A i!jor-crouM caiket's tiered dust. Kow, in one hart too der it grief For Tiiuu'a fleet years t gita rotisf; I or in uras alona our pres d ot, There's grief through .ut tne c iLtlnant, Mi a I, lud. "IV. W. SicickiwaLl' 18r;$. It OATie at thi appt'lnle 1 time, in tear, ilesrt-a 1, a n I n of twelve m icths tt begla. Why was the New Year'" ltojrt snal? Hal sla Ho sut nud and sliadnwed all the ly-ne years That in its youthful heart were kiri J.e.l frare That tilnry's Inrta'd for h-ijrlit it iui'ht not wlaf Was it b cause a eiia lowed pathway in That leads to nuulit to brig t as t-t earsortT Tha year's first bnsth "1 warm, but i..n prew col 4 And chmifed its tall 0 tears to crystal white; Thun ah an irtiimUe o'-w its h. jrt f-r-w lihl And Stull' a assured some motire sr.md c .atri I'd. New, in suspense, an a tx.otis p ople wait To learn what ia tho stea leert of lata. VV. W. odttraLu M-aJ, Inl. No pill or nau-JFBtini potion, but a plet?ant t mic and laxative i Simmons Fiver Peu a tor. Neive Blood Tonic jv.'v? a. Builder 50r. t7.-vJ TtEDICLNE CO., per box. Vy.i-Tv Sctcncctady, N.Y. 1 fur Si. 50 aad EroCliVlilC OnU