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S ? In unity there Is strength. In congeniality happiness. To encourage an I circulate pure literature is to mutually ail each other to a higher and tetter life. OFFICERS. President W. S. Koker.doffer. Montevallo. Mo. First View-President 'William A. Clark, box 9". Danville. Ind. Second Yleo-Pr .'sident Mrs. Sarah Taylor. Arur.ra. Ind. Recording .Secretary Miss Dora Wencr, Plaasant-ave., Indianapolis, Iiid. Corresponding- Secretary Miss Mary J. Loudenback, box ."f, Westville. O. Treasurer Miss Jennie Rhodes. FL Recovery. O. KXKCUTIVH COMMITTEE. Robert X. Moulton. Winters-ville. Ind. Miss Hary E. Swalm, 6"S Vermillonst.. Danville. III. J. I Unycr, Peru. Ind. Mrs. Minnie VTebb Miller. Altoona, V.'üliam E. Fulk. Pe-afur. Ind. OBJECTS. 2 of Art. 1 of CorstitutlHi The enjects of this club shall be to establish pliability. strengthen good morals in fvdety. increase a desire for mind 1mfroveinenf and literary attainments and to extend the work of reformation. MKMRRRSHIP. Sec. 1 of Art. 2 of Constitution All persons of g'l moral character, who are inter-estd in the objects of this organisation, and are -Willing- to work in accordance therewith, are eligible to mernrership. Pee. :. Art. 2 All members of th II. L. C. in good standing shall share equally in its benefits and privileges, and it shall be the duty of cah member to seek, by example, by word and by pen to r-rmote tho objects and interests of the club. Sec. 7 of Fy-Laus Members changing their place of residence sliall notify the recording secretary rf such change. oenerau Sq, ur shall be the duty of all officers to report to the president, from time to time, or utk.u Iiis i -niest, the progress of any business ln-fore th--m, or of th-- condition of their respective offices, and shall advise him of all matters pertaining to the interests or welfare of the Hub. We nr.? the l:--.-t vf readers of this page, who a i e lovers of truth. to a -i'.inint themselves with the objects and merits of. the Howard literary, and lend lis your aid by joining the club. Address th corresponding secretary, with tMrnc'. is per above. :s:A any desired inforiration will be cheerfully given. The Ifowarr.1 I't-Te.ry has n-ither salaried off.er? r.r cont ri mi tors, and depends wholly up Ii its merits and principles for sue, a ?s. -.k-ro'oers only are entitled to the rare benefits of our book catalogue. All letters for publication must b ce ref uliy written on rne slile of the paper only, aeompan'ed by the writer's real r.ime and addres. as r;eil as the r.otn d-- plume, and plainly addressed to the diior. C (i. Stewart. Sentinel ofhee, Iii'aiariapoha. Ind. Members in rene-xing their subscription for The Sentinel wiil please be sure to send $1 (the s-ahperlption price of the paper) to the Howard literary treasurer, as the Hub is allows! a small commission for the benefit of the treasury. Prompt action gu-imnteed. Dues for 1?4 are 2" cents, payable during January" and February to the triiirer. IMÜUIMEVT OK Ill.l I'.IOVS. Concern I ufT the Iteligien of II Inilnnlmn by "Alninl Maple." Tonr Friends Concerning the Hindoo religion a great deal that of interest mitrht be sketched from the papers prefented at the parliament, hut as space forbid v.e must confine our selections prlncip-illy to the representatives of til" variov:.-- faith, 1- tting each speak for them-clvr.-, so v.e here present to you the brilliant and entertaining streaker, Swam! VivekdJianda. the orange-attired monk f Calcutta, India, who. in presenting the Hindoo religion, said: "Three rr llgiorus now stand in the world whi h have come down to us from time prehistoric Hinduism, Zoroasteriunism and Indaism. These have all received tremendous shocks and ail of them proye,i by their revival th-ir internal strength, but Ir.i;,iis:n afih-d to absorb Christianity anl was driven out of its j..lac rf birth by iis all-conq-i" iig daughter. S -t aft r sect has c:is-n in India and seemed t. shake the r-ligon of the V--o.'ts to i;s . ry foundation, but. like the waters .r the seashore ia a tremer. Imjs earthunake, it has re vd-I only fo:" awhil -, only to return in al!-abs'i-i iug o-.i!, and wh-a the tumult of the rn.-.n v::s over th'-so s-i-ts have been h'.X sneked in. aliSorld and assimilated lu the jn-r.f iis- lmy of iin-.th-r faith. The Hindus l.uvc r-'-ived tiieir relisrlon thr u.;h tie ir-v-lation of the Ved'i". They hold that the Vedas are viti.o'it en i. Tt may sound ludicrous to this audi n-e. how a, b.-.k can l witltout lelnnintr or e;,J. l:ut i.y tr.e V(!;is no hook?; are m.-a.t. Ti-.'-v m. an the a cuni'il-.td tfeH-uiiy of y,;titi:a! laws flis-c-jiv: ed " dt'T. re-it p'-'son In dilT.-i etit. tim-w. Jest as tJ.-- ie-.v of j-invitation XfSteil bef..re its iiSC. Very nnJ WC lid exist II all hum.mi'y f 't;ot it. sr wit'-i the laws that govern tie spiritual world, the moral, it! i il rt;d spiritual relations b.-Live.-n soul and st:l and between Individ. ir-1 spirit-; and the father of all spirt were there before their discovery arA :'f:'fl remain eeu if we forgot tlim. "The dl-:verers of t! -se laws are called KL-his ii i id we honor them as p-TtVcted beings and I am glid to tell this audiriC? that some of the very best of them were wt men." In d- fir.Irg ej.is'en e, he said: "If ere I stand, and if I shut my eyes a.nd try to conceive my existence, lf 'I.' what ia the idea before- me? The Jd?a of a body. Am I then nothing but a combination of matter and material substances? The Vedas declare, 'no.' 1 am a spirit living in a body. I am not the body. The body will die. but I will not dla. Here I am in thia body and when it will fail, still I will go on living. Also I had a pat. The soul was not craed tr&m nothing, for creation

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means a combination and that means a certain future dissolution. If, then, the soul was created it must die. Therefore it was not created. "If matter and its transformation answer for all that we have, there is no necessity of supposing the existence of a soul. But It cannot be proved that thought has been evolved out of matter. We cannot deny that bodies Inherit certain tendencies, but thoe tendencies only menn the physical configuration through which a peculiar mind alori" can act In a peculiar way. Those peculiar tendencies in that soul have been caused by past actions. A soul with a certain tendency will take birth in a body which is the fittest instrument of the diinlay of that tendency by the laws of affinity. "Rut there is another suggestion, taking all this for granted. How is it that I do jH't remember anything of my pat life? This can be easly explained. I am now speaking Knglish. It is not my mother tongue, in fact not a word of my mother tongue, is present in my eonsciousues; but. let nie try to bring sueli words up: they rush into my consciousness. That shows that consciousness is the name only of the surface of th mental ocean, and within its depths are stored up al! our experiences. Try and ytruygle and they will copie up and you will le eonsejou. This is the direct anil demonstrative evidence. Verllicatlon is the jHTfect proof of a theory and here is the challenge thrown to the world by Rishis. We have discovered precepts by whii h the very depths of the ocean of memory ran be stirred up follow them and you will get a complete reminiscence of your past life. So th-n the Hindu believes that he is spirit. Him tho sword cannot pi'-r -e; him the fire cannot burn; him tlw water cannot melt; him the air cannot d'y. Tie believes every soul is a circle whose circumfereiice is nowhere, but whose eent.-r is located in a body, and death means the change of this cent--; front bo. Jy t body. Nor is the soul bound by the cnlition of matter. In i's i i y essence it is free, unbound. l..oy ;.ni pure and j er feet. Rut somehow- or other it has K"t itself bound down by matter. i ,m not knowhow the perfect being, the Soul, came to think of itsHf as Impel ft ct. as joined and conditioi-ed by flatter. Hut the fact ''s :i fact f..r all that. It i a fact In everybody' con-cious?! -ss that he thinks of himself as hody "The present Is determined by mir past actions and the futur will be hv the present. The soul will go on evolving up or reverting hai k from birth to birth ami death to death The h-::rt sinks at th idea, yet this is tie- law of nature. Is there no hope? Is there no escape? The ci that went up from the bottom of the heart of despair reaHied the throne of mt-n y p.nd words of hope and consolatim came dvn and inspired a Vodic sage nd he stood up before the world and in trumpet voice proclaJm-d the glad tidings to tli world: 'Heir, ye children of Immortal bliss, even ye that resisted in hither spheres. 1 have fonnd tl ancient n who is oeyon.i ait darkness, all delusion, and knowing him alone you sha.ll lie paved from death again.' 'Children of Immortal Miss.' What a sweet, what a hopeful name. APow me to call you. brethren, by that swee-t nam- heirs of immortal bliss. Yea. the Hindu refuses to call you sinners. Ye are the children of C.ed. The sharrs of Immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. Ye di Inities of earth, sinners? It is a sin to call a man so. It is a standing libel on human nature. Conie up, live and shake off the delusion that you are sheep you are soul's immortal, spirits free and blest and eternal, ye are not matter, ye are not bodies. Matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter. Thus It Is the Vedas proclaim not a dreadful mbination of unforgiving laws, not an endless prison of cause and effect, but that, at the head of all these laws. In and through every pviticle of matter and force, stands one "through whose conunand the winds blow, th-- tue burns, the clouds rain and dath f talks upon the earth." And what Is his nature? He is everywhere, the pure and formless one. the Almighty and the All-Merei-ful. "Thou art our father, thou art mir mother. Hum art our beloved friend, thou art the source of all strength, thou art He that 1- arest the burdens of the univrse: help me bear the little burden of this life." . Thus sang the Rishis of the Veda, and how to worship him? Through love. "He is to be v.orshinped as th" one beloved, df-arer than everything in this and the n-xt life." The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held miller bondage of nutter, an I perfection will be reached when the bond shall burst, and the word they use is, therefore, ni u kt o-f reedom freedom from the bonds of imperfection; freedom from d jat h and misa-ry. And the;. !.-oih that this bondage can only fall off through the mercy of Cod. and this m- pcy corn to tlu- pure. S.j purity Is the condition of His mercy. How that mercy aets! He reveals Him-s-lf to the pure h:att. and the pure and siainies mm sees 'bl. yea, even In this life, and then, and then only, all the crookedness of the heart 1 made straight. Ther all doubt ce:ise3. Mart is in more the fr-ak of a terrible law of i iusdiion. So thts is the very center, 1 he very vital conception of Hinduism. The Hin i d's not want to live u;on words and !hec.rU?s if there are ex-i.-texa-ea b--yond the ordinary sensual e.-ifii(-e he wants to come face to face with them. If thete is a soul In him which Is not matter, if there is an all-merciful universal soul, h- will go to him direct. He must see him and that alone can deti-oc all doubts. So the best proof a Hindu sage gives about the soul, about God. l.s. "I have s-en the ,oul. J have seen (Jod." And that is the only condition of perfection. The Hindu religion does not consist In struggles and attempts to lxlieve a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not In believing, but In being and becoming. So the whole struggle in their system la a constant struggle to become perfect, to become divine, to reach Cod and see (Jod. and in this reaching Ood, eei:ig God. becoming perfect, even a? the Father in heaven is perfect, consists the religion of the Hindu. And what become of man when he becomes perfect? He lives a life of bliss, infinite. He enjoy Infinit and perfect blLas, having obtained the only thing in

which man ought to have pleasure God and enjoys bli.ss with God. Science H nothing but the rinding of unity, and as sxm as any science can rwarh the perfect unity it will stop from further progress, because it will then have reached the goal. Thus chemistry c-annot progress farther when It shall have discovered one element out of which all others could be made. Physics will Ktop when it shall be able to discover one energy of which all others are but manifestations. The science of religion will become perfect when it discovers Him who Ls the one life of a universe of death, who is the constant basis of an over changing world, who is the only soul, of which all souls are but manifestations. And al! science is bound to come to this conclusion in the long run. Manifestation and not creation is the word of science of today, and the Hindu is only glad that what he has cherished In bis bosom for ages is going to be taught in more fotcible language and with further light by the latest conclusions of Hcience. Uescend we now from the aspirations of philosophy to the religion of the Ignorant. At the very outlet I may tell you that there is no polytheism in India In everv temnle. If one stands by and listens, he will llnd the worshipers apply all the attributes of God including omnipresence to these images. It is not polytheism. "The rcse called by any other name would smell as sweet." The tree is known by its fruits, and when I have been amongst them that are called Idolatrous men, the like of whose morality and splrtuality and love I have never seen anywhere. I stop and ask myself. "Can sin beget holiness?" Supe-rstltion is the enemy of man. but bigotry is worse. Why does a Christian go to church? Why is the cross holy? Why is the face turned toward the sky in prayer? Why are there so many images in the catholic church? Why are there so many images in the minds of protectants when they pray? My brethren, we can no more think about anything without a material image than we can live without breathing. And by the law of association the mate;tl Image calls the mental idea up and vice ersa. Omnipresence, to almost the whole world, mean nothing. Has God superficial area? K not. when we repeat the word we think of the extended earth, that is all. As we lind that somehow or other, by the laws of our constitution, we have got to associate our ideas of infinity with the imago of the blue sky. or a sea: some coyer the idea of holiness with an Image of a church or a mos pie or a cross. Th Hindus have associated the holiness, purity, truth, omnipresence and all other Ideas with different images and forms. Cut with this clifTt.reiue: some devote their who! lives to their idol of a chuv. h and never rise higher, locause with thorn religion means an intellectual assent, to c -rtain doctrines and doing good to their fellows. Tl;. whole religion of the Hindu is centered in realization. Man is to leconi divine, r.-ali.ing the divine, and therefore, idol or temple or school or hooks are only the suptorts, the help of his spiritual childhood; but on and on man must progress. If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an iniag would it be right to call if a sin? Nor even when he has passed that stage should he call it an error? To the Hindu, man is not traveling from error to truth, but fron truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. T him all the religions, from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, means so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the condltmn.s of its birUi and association, and each of tlicso mark a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength, till it reaches the glorious sun. I'nity arid variety is the plan of nature, and the Hindu has realize 1 it. livery oth.T religion las down certain fix d dogmas and tries to force society to adopt them. Tiny lay down before society one coat which must fit Jack and John and Henry, all alike. If it do.s not lit John or Henry be must, go without a coat to cover his body. The Hindu has discovered that the absolute can only lx realized or thought of or staled through the relativ. And the images, cross or cieseent, are simply so m'tny cel. -fers, so many j-egs to hang the spiritual i leas on. H Is not that this help is necessary for cvry one, but for manv, and those that do not need it have no right to s.iy that it is wrong. One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India deS not mean anything h"iribl. It is not the nio1hr of harlots. On tie oiler hand, it is the attempt of nnieyelojMvl minds to grasp high splrituril ' truths. The Hindus have their faults, but mark tins, they re always toward pur.tsliinir their own bodies and never towanl cutting the throats of their ncighixirs. If the Hindu fanatic burns himself on the pyr. ho nevr lights the fire of tnquiöiton, and even this cannot be laid at th" door of religion no more than the burning of witches can be laid at the cl !- of Christianity. To the Hindu, then, the whole world of religions is only a traveling, a' coming up of different mn and women, throuch various condition and circumstances, to the same goal. Every religion is only an evolution out of the material man, a GM and the same God is the iiisili-er of all of them. Why, then, are there so many contradictions? They are mly apja.rent. says the Hindu. The contradictions come from the same truth adapting Itself to the different circumstances of different natures. It is the saiiw light coming through different colors and the same little variations are necessary for that adaptation. Rut In the heart of everything the same truth reigns. The Lord has declared to the Hindu in his incarnation as Krishna. "I am in every religion as the thread through a siring of pearls. And wherever thou sec st extraordinary power rising and purifying humanity, know ye, that I am there." And what was the result? Through the whole order of Sanscrit philosophy 1 challenge anybody to find any such expression ns that the Hindu only would be saved and not others. Says Vyas. "We find perfect men even beyond the pale of our caste and creed." Tho whole force of Hindu religion is diiecled to tlie great central truth in every rHigion to evolve a God out of num. They have not seen the father, but they have s-eM tie son. And he

that hath seen the so.i hath seen the fath-'r. This, brethren, is a short sketch of the id-its of tli- Hindus. The Hindu might have failed to carry out all his plans. Rut if thele is ever to be a universal religion it mu.-t b one which will hold no location in place or lime; which v.iil be inlinlte, like the Cod it will preach; whose sun sh'nes upon the followers of Krishna or Christ, saints or sinners, alike: which will not be the Rrahmin or Ruddhihl, Christian or .Mohammedan, but the sum total of all these and still have infinite spare for development; whi -h in its catholicity will embrace in its infinite pms and find a place for every human being, from the lowest groveling man. from the brute, to the highest mind towr-ring almost above humanity and making soebty stand In awe and doubt his human nature. It will be a religion which will have no place for persecution, or intolerance In its polity, which will recognize a divinity In every man or woman, and w hose whole scojje, v. hose whole force, will he centered in aiding, humanity to realize Its divii: nature Aseka's con m il w as a council of the Ruddhist faith. A k bar's, though more to the purpose, was only a parlor meeting. It was reserved for America to pro laim to all quarters of the globe that the Iiord Is in every religion. "May Un who Is th- Rraluna of the Hindus, the Ahnra Mazda of the Zorastralns, the Ruddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in heaven of the Christians, give strength to you to carry out your noble idea." The above sketch gives us a fair concept cr the Hindu's religion, but in conclusion we will quote just a little from the paper of th? Rev. T. E. Slater, a missionary of Rangalore. India, on "Consessions to Native Religious Ideas, Having Special Reference to Hinduism." in which he said: "The Hindu, by Instinct and tradition, are the most re

ligious people In the world. They are born religiously; they eat, bathe, shave and write religiously; they die and are cremated or burled religiously, and for years afterward are devoutly remembered religiously. They will not take a house or open a shop cr olTice, they will not go on a journey or engage in any enterprise without some religious observance. We thus nppeal in our missionary effort to a deeply religious nature: we sow the gospel seed in a religious soil. "It is hard for foreigners to understand the habits of thought and life that prevails In a strange country, as well as all the changes and sacrifices that conversion entails, and, with our brusque, matter-of-fact western instincts and our lack of spiritual and philosophical insight, we too often go forth denouncing the traditions ami worship of

the people, and. in so doing, are apt, with our heavy heels, to trample on reliefs and sentiments that have a d-n-p and sacred root. A knowledge of the material on which we work is quite asimportant as deftness in handling our tools; a knowledge of the soil as neeessary as the conviction that the seed is good." nie central iaci in me ir. .n . .-wn--. -- . I T..3.ac vil a 4e I remcLTrtS concerning umia i,ivi -, that in order to unde.-stand and appreciate them which as he says, have a theosophic basi? we must look beyond all shows, feasts and ceremonials and get to the undercurrent of native thought, which is a reflective spirit, a growth from within. Trusting that the reader will find pleasure and profit In this study, T am yours truly. "MAUD MAPLK." Danville, 111., Jan. 25. WHAT TO WRITE AIlOl'T. Itmi" Make Some SncKeatlon and NiimM Several Suhject. Dear H. L. C. Friends I come before you friends with a light heart and am truly pleased to note the rising interest that is being manifested, and hope tho future may prove what I have sometimes dreamed of. This week our "ad" was squeezed down to one mall corner, while on the other hand we had two beautiful stories, which feature I hopmay Increase, for there Is no better way to bring out and impress the principal which we desire to illustrate than by relating some 5hort story. And I will express myself as highly in favor of this turn and hope it will continue, and will promise you a short story myaelf soon, and If it is well accepted may try it again. I feel that any of us can do something for our clnh if we onlv think so. I have been Hkd bv our president to keep a general watch or supervision over the page make suggestion- offer q""tlons lor ueoaie anu io iinirn ii.-.n--. best. Therefore I offer the following for discussion : 1. Does th? mind think? 2. What is true charity? Should we have laws prohibitln the manufacture and sale of ardent liquors? 4. Can morals have evolution for their basis? r. Should the child b under the direct supervision and instruction of the state rather than the home? C. That moiety in general is greatly in need of moral reform? On the following subjects T solicit ess o. rt i.viv .- i . i o.IAne " . . r t - vnnr frr L-e L in -nr. 1. Ry what methods can the teacher lest obtain and retain the attentions of the average scholar? 2. In what sphere can a young man b-st develop his entire manhood, politics or literature? e. In what way can we brst promote club Interest and increase our number? 4. What proof is there to the authorship and preservation of the bible? I do not otTer these subjects because I have any social idea of them, but I desire to awaken an Interest among our membership: neither ate you restricted to these subjects only, but thought per haps they might create in some an m- j terest arm tnus starx. me nan coning. I will also ask you to give your best definition of life and its aim. I feel we have clone much good and are rapidly increasing, but there is Infinitely j much vet to do. and if we ar not con stantly at work doing our utmost to ac complish our work we soon find it piling , upon us till It Is soon Impossible to take j hold of the work, for there is nowhere to commence. "Irish Girl." would like to have your ) correct address, for I would like to write you If you intend to be In school at Danville in the spring, for I will go out th 1st of April and would like to see you if It Is io I ran. "Winnie Wert." would like to know if you got my photo and why I haven't heard from you. Was glad to Fee your name on the page agn!n and hope you will call more often in the future. Sunjvse "Florence X." would have been entirely lost if it had not been for the election. It is a sure thing in this case that the office sought the person, i an say mat i was nere in senooi at in time you were at Muncie. but suppose you hunted up "Gano" while there. "Ga.no." suppose you think you would like to shake me for not answering your letter of several weeks back. I had the number of which you asked and laid it out. the morning I came away, intending to bring it to you, but came off and left it and it was destroyed. Suppose you have bound them before this. I see the committee has been chosen and am well pleased with the choice, and hope they will unite their efforts with those of the officers and push matters to a grand success. As it is neatly bed time I will close for this time, hoping all will give their best efforts to our club. Yours in love, hope and charity. "1VEX FERN." Danville, Jan. :.'.". AX F.V1L, TO UK Dil K V DKI. I in purr Literature One of (he W.rt I ii II uf ii ft in (lie World. Dear II. J, (?. Friends Although not a member, jerinit me, as a friend, to occupy a place among you for a short time. It Is my good intention to become a member soon if you will admit me. I have ben greatly inteiested in your literary club for some time; was glad to see the advrti tisements crowded out this w eek; hope you will not allow them to reappear. "I. Filiates, " your ideas on impure literature fonnd a coincidence in my mind. I, too, believe that impute literature Is a more potent factor for evil thun sa'oons. although they seem to be almost inseparable, for in the vicinity of the saloon there vile literature ulwavs abounds, and vice versa. Your sugp.eslion or uisiniiiuing pure literature was a tsul one. but pardon iue. dear friend, if I say that It Old not go for enough, for 1 am afraid there would not be as large an amount distributed a there should ue. 1 suggest mat you request each member to pay into the treasury a small sum. which the club may fix. puv- i able semi-annually, and the president ap!oint a committee to secure, or make a list, of such literature as they may think test, and the president appoint some one to secure the literature with the amount raised. That he also appoint some one or different ones to distribute the literature where rnst needed, and in such vicinities they secure some one to act as librarian, and changing the literature every four or six months, or mote frequently If we secure enough, tints forming a reading circle in j these destitute places. And that such j persons appointed le requested to keen j a record of all literature received and ; distributed and shall submit a written reiori of the same to the annual con- j vention. In what better way, dear friends, can we "throw out the life line" ' to those who are sinking under the in- , fluenc of vile literature than in the way "V. Phrates" suggested? 1 I believe if ever a reformation Is

brought about in literature or intemperance it will have to be through the children. They are the hope of our country. The older ones luve become so saturated in ke and iniquity that it Is hard to make an impression on them, while the mind of the child is pktk and impressions made on the child's mind by leading pure literature will, no doubt, eventually enable it to withstand the temptations of this world. I know of a community where a reading circle estab-

! lished would be a great blessing. The parents are too poor to buv pure literature for their children to read, and in their endeavor to earn daily bread they neglect the mental an i moral training. And those parents who could do it will not, for every cent they can spare (and more, too.) goes to the saloon, and can v.e exp?ct anything more of the children than to grow up ignorant wrecks of manhood and womanhood if l?ft in this j condition? They have no ambition higher ; than to be like their parents play cards, read dime-novels, or such as the saloon j affords, and drink whisky, j They are languishing in sin. where we j have never been. Dear friends. I hope I you tvIII take hold rf "V. Phrates's" I plan and make it one. grand success is i ic- ai u-ni wisn ot "FIDELIA FAY. FAILKD. "Falled-ln his trust a man who once Had bren a landmark unto all The prison hou.se for seven months Consoles his fall." I read It with an eye that burns. Yet will not let relief in tears. And at his name my memory turns To other years. Fallen! that one with whom I used To walk in days of sunlight passed. Old lazy days! He has abused A trust at last! . In coollrs de. by winding stream. with book or fish-pole in his hand, , I said, beneath his great eyes gleam. lhat lie was gran I. How could those eyes that In his youth With indignation filled when he Paw men choose wrong beside of truth. Choose evlly? How must his heart rebelling rise That lesser Bonis above him now Are lords. anl he in miseries. The lowest low. The murderer will offer him His symp.'ithy. and those who brealt The law. with him. at table grim. Their food partake. The man who may not read a line i Vvith brutish passion overfull J Hj coming there takes as a sign J Of k mured soul. j j f h(m tj i A traveler gazes in the night j Peep in r forest and afar JTom his homes light. J Propped by the -nay no irmr to be , A mark along the path of time ' Of truth, and its supremacy I Before its prime. I It is a curse to touch the wrong, I And, like a shadow, it will cling ! Fnto our hand throughout our long Earth wandering. i And at the end. although It may In secrecy be hidden here. n ,vj confrojU the d00f ayo 1'ndo him there. I j It is an easy tak to do The right, and have a conseicmre clar, J And face th;it would not blush to view i All in ji hemi.-phcre. And know when comes the certain end. If seeking God cm heaven win. The golden gates will open, and Admit you ia. j The Father knows our weaknesses, j And he has placed the gulden priz ; So all who seek in righteousness I Miv mount Ihe Uie ' 'nr do I think if we should fall, i If stretching out an open hand ; For sweet w imd the bitter gall In unknown land. I I am no judce. but yet I think I The Father understands, and viws. And he forgives the ones who drink The unknown ooze. And if & sin there should be done. Hearty repentance, and a prayer, May lift and bear the erring one J'.eyond despair. Will Jacobs. AtKXAXDER POPR. Contrlbn.ed by a Member of the ?el--n i f i e ( Danville College. Every man has his influence and j we must not be lei to believe that the i poets and great men of a few centuries j i,acfc were of any less importance because they lived in the times they did. As the minds of men are moulding our government of today so were the minds of men moulding and governing the events of the times in which they lived. So It was when Alexander Pope appeared before us. The people cared not for right and Justice, but had their minds fixed on tjie great thing, political power and influence, and in this we see the standard toward which they were working. There are always in each period of years making a century, men ready to rise above thHr surroundings and to become something great, either as writers or as leader in political affairs. Alexander Pop wa.s the most famous pret in his century. Although he did not write as much poetry as rrose, slid he is classed with the poets. His own century dwelt on his merits, while the ninteentii is disposed rather to dwfll uimii his defects, both as a poet and as a man. but all are agreed that he was not a poet of the first class. In one of h!s poems he expit-sses this thought, "that th man Is called t he poet ; it is not the man in himself, but the soul of the man that is the poet." Is we are to judge vpe with human fairness and not merely by comparison with standards of abstract perfection there ate two fe-i teres to be kept in mind. First, the character cf political strife in those days, and second, the political relations of men of Influence. So long as the succession of the crown was doubtful und piiitical failure meant los of property, banishment or even ! it-ath. men set-king higher oluees in p'lltical life worked more earnestly than in modern des. for iheie was nothing In public opinion to keep men within the common bonds of honesty ami the stahd- ! ard lud bctine low that men would stoop to almost anything to gain polilicel power. If Pope bad len a nian of more selfwill he v.'ould have been better able t withstand the spirit and influence of the age in which he lived, but he had a peculiar nature, and In his case we s- e that the surroundings had more to do in the mnking of the man than the man the surroundings, as affection and admiration were as necL-svvU'y to :iis life as the air i he breathed. ' Although some of our prominent literary men criticise him and lind fault with his writings, it is a question whether they would have done better with the sami opportunities. , As a boy Pope read the books which he had. and this way became a diligent student. As a man lie was different from most of bis day, for in his reading he read for th? sense and thought and not merely for the sound of the language. In his writing it is said of him that every" verse Is a masterpiece when taken alone, and, that If we want to read any-

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thing of Pope's we must not read a whole poem, but just one verse end stop, for then we have something beau tiful. Ask Rope to print in vers wl-atcer you might, a scene on a lonely mountain in the wintertime, a brooklet hidden In the forest with its banks fring-d with bluebells ami lilies, a magnificent landscape with the sun jist going to rest and th- farmer returning home from his day's labor, all these and more, and he has the exact expression ready and gives everything minutely that you at" once see It as though it was a picture on canvas. To this descriptive power Pope add d oratorical talent arid tact, ami what ludid not express with bis pen he did with words and actions. Nothing of Pope's was printed until 170'J when he was twenty-one. A few years before this he had met Trumbull, ä man of great influence, and had Le-n introduced into the highest social and literary c ircles of London. It was through his effort that Pope's attention w:is drawn to the highest clsss of French critics and of studying many things :- taining to this subject that he published his "Kssay of Criticism." Trumbull look great interest in Pope, and through his e!T.rt caused hint to write his flece known as "Windsor Forest" and to translate 'Homer." liut this did not satisfy him. for he Wanted to write something leal ad from experience, as be txpressed it. a:. 1 in 1712 appeared a piece called "The Rape of the loi k." It was well received by the social as well as the literary circles, of which he was a member, "but It was revised, made larger and again appenred with greater applause than fcVt.-r. But 172" begins the third period of Pope's career in which he made his fame as a moralist and satirist. "The Dunciald" was the first work of this period to appear ami is among Iiis best works. He was stirred to a-tlo i and caused to write this piece by the reading of a lxk pertaining to the val e of the character of poets compared with their writings. Pop's "Essay on Man" wa next w ritten and was well received by all tlxleaders of that day. This was his last and greatest woi k. lie died at the age of lifly-seven. During his life-time he had one great desire which, if he would had lived but a few years longer, he would have no doubt reached that plane as to bo a poet of fame abroad as well as at home, but In spite of his faults (which are claimed to be many) we can truthfully say of

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