Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1894 — Page 5

THE .INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1894 TWELYE PAGES.

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Prompt action guaranteed. Dus tt IRtM are 2 cents. parable during January and February to the treasurer. from m Whit he Thinks About Demo. Devil and Et1I. The earliest traces which history gives us. archaeological or linguistic, of primitive man. phowra 11s that he early worshiped, f?areI and propitiated something. The elements round about him were his first forms of worship. He was but a helpless, simple child of nature, and rparded the wonders of nature, which he knew no more about than a child, with awe and fear. The sun he soon found, was his benefactor, his very life; therefore he early gave it his worship, as the Supreme Good, and relicts of this ancient nature worship are still to be found in the religions of today, changed tr modified slightly but no less easily traceable. There were adverse forces in nature which brought eil or los to man and seeml for awhile t control or hide the great and good powers of nature; these were classed as demons with powers almost as greut if not 4'ilte. as the good. The wind demon, which drove away the clouds, heaven s milk cows, and thus dried up the blessed rain, seems to be o-ne one of the first demons we find named. This demon jday-d havoi; at tinit-i with man and man's possessioi. s, his attributes for evil widened. I'ropttiatkm and its consequent worship was its lue, the beginning of deinen worship, you might say. And this worship still holds iu some forms of religion yet. To thosw who understand thi old nature worship the reverence the Hindoo hold for the serpent is easily traceable back to the days of our Aryan forefathers, when the fiery serpent of evil darted across the sky or descended with awful roar to slay man, or do hurt to him. We know that old srp?nt now as electrteitj',. but lie wa a terrible thing to anclents"ari'd whi- in legendary lore they TbegaJi . to personify him he was doubly dreaded. As time wmt on nature worship gave pla-ce to legendary or hero worship. Great leaders of men or warriors now took a high place in the heavens after their death, as holding powers ovt-r the destiny of men. Mixd with nature worship in a strange manner, these gods of good or bad as the case might be. footi merged Into personal gods, having many attributes common to man. They came or went upon the earth it'wilL or had, according to song and legendary ' Wory, at previous agon done so. Myth and truth became st ran eely mixed m time went on. It is Impossible in a- flhert article to touch upon thee strange beliefs, for, as nation pprang from eoh other, or divided and mixed with strange people, these views took on different colorings, although never loelrg much of th marvelous and generally adding more a tlm passeri. That wWh often was a jrod of good for cn people became a god of evil or a

demon for thoir dependants. Evolution arly bean to show itself In modes of thought upon the supernatural, and all of these beliefs held stroiis sway over th minds of the people coming after. And though thousands of years have intervened since then, yet today anions: the ignorant and urn-duca til an bo found traces of this old demon belief and among even a. Ix-tlcr class it lingers dimly in one or two fonns. The Ksryptian of the tin.of Moses held to a well-formulatel belief in a multiplicity of srods a nil demons, in a resurrection or iv-uniiing of spirit and body, in heaven and hell and several other sub-t'-rranean ehamlers. Their ides on some of these thinifs were ve-y muHi like the b"lief in the sam held by the church today. With all of their great knowledge, art and civilization, they do not seent to have Impressed the .low with it. or their religious belif. The Jew of course w;is a elat-e s.nd inclined to look with disfavor upon his master, who under Ramenes tised him pretty mean. Put the history of the .lew shows that the Kgypiian na?' of the Jew was a clenn record to his u?age by Mahojnm"tan and Christian slnee. And it is the Jew's belife in demonoiogv- which I will touch lightly ujM'n now..

The Jews, as 1 said, held the Fgyptian religion lightly. They held a belief in a supreme bing, and a very material 'dea of jingo's who were loth gMd and bad. They also seemed to think that heaven and hell was in speaking, or easy distant e from the earth. But they held these views lightly als:, and it took littie for them to go back on any spiritual message given them Mses. learned in all the knowledge of tho Egyptians, and that mprist-d more than sometimes referred to. although many legends have gathered around his name, held tho belief in ono God and impresses this sternly uron his people. And the Jew. through this teaching for several hundred years, held a certain idea of i'.od. which lie went away slightly from afterward, lie believes in evil powers to some extent.ovcn to classing the Fgyptian gods as that, but believes them all to tie subject to and workers under his God: thev are a necessity to Him and to His bidding. One Joes not seem to be more out of place than the other, and both are near him to go upon his errands. There 'seems to bo ii' rproa-h upon the evil spirit, for ho is a necessity between God and man. Iff nee the strange statements made in old Jewish works which unbelievers will not swallow, and believers cannot answer ofteiitime, of God sending evil spirits, putting lies in prophets mouths, and so on and so forth. An evil spirit from God is a common expression of these old times manuscripts, and it is well to j understand these expressions. They are the keynote to the Jewish idea of (od at that time; and it was a very correct idea of Him if they had gone at the solution more scientifically and not so ignorantly. Rut men seldom get beyond th real knowledge of their day, and if one teach them they will stubbornly hold to belief instead of research, reason aji j the truth. God with the Jew was the maker of all things, axtd the overseer of the smallest as well as the greatest. The ancient Jew was something of a universalist. If he sinned retribution came swift and fast in this world. The Jew also had free will power given him. God might tempt htm cr send his messengers to give him adverse orders, but he claimed to have thr power to know the right or wrong of thee propositions if he had only kept true to himself and orders. And when you read in II Sam. xxlv chapter that God put it into the heart of David to number the people, then for this transgression causd 70,000 to die by pestilence, this was a prerogative directly accorded to God, and man's disobedience was directly responsible for it. For man could not be tempted or controlled only by Ood. He was the only power. A long time had elapeed between this ancient manuscript of Samuel and Chronicles, which records the same story over again. The Rabylonlan captivity had intervened. The Jews were a changing people. National beliefs were dying out with their language and they were taking on the varied beliefs of those they mingled with. We all know hew the m'ghty Persians believed their power of evi' w: equady ereaied with the good. It was a constant warfare between them and man. and man's soul was the shuttlecock. T!kJews came back from this captivity wit 11 a stranger faith than ever in their Ind and His power, but satan had been magnified aLso; and while their belief in God's jHwer was net lessened, yet 1t would not do now to attribute evil to Him. and so satan must shoulder the blame of tempting David when they rewrite the old story: although GJ will do the punishing. Thre Is no Inconsistency of statement here. Satan and God are not the same, as some aver. Ther has just leen a little evolution of belief is all. In that time and ng- the world, lor.:; before and long since, as history shows, disease, death, deformity, pestilence, national calamities, earthquakes, eclipses Were all caused by somebody sin. or as the work of demons. The smallest disobedience or wrong-doing of this, the favored ieop!e, was all that was needful to bring a pestilence ajid grr-ftt calamity. These people knew nothing of the laws of nature, of disease, and they thought God. could be propitiated by ma-ssaiM and bloodshed, and this explains it all. They listened to the voice of their priests, as ignorÄ&A as themselves of the laws of life and nature as to the voice of God, and believed It to le the voice of God. nd thus God's true laws wer misunderstood. Coming down to the days of J"sus, several hundred years have elapsed. Two tribes of the Jews, small and insimificant in the eyes of the world, remain. Mixing with many peopU. their language a dend one. talking In the languages of other people, and mtny of their beliefs, we find them now. believing in. legions of demon, headed by one great one. Legions of angels, headed by one archangel. According to their belief, that little country of Palestine was literally overrun with devils. - Instead of the simple belief which their ancient forefathers held of immortality, they now. the orthodoxf bulk of them at least, hold to as exhaustive a belief tn three or fur future states as the ancient F.sryptlan or Etrusean: In fact, they have all the gloom of Etrusean. Rut they are divided into thre particular sects besides the samarltan. who were not counted.

These sects are the pharlsecs, essenes and saducees. The prahlsees are the numerous, the proud, the orthodox. They hold strictly to every letter of the law, and to an endless oral tradition considered by them as sacred as the law. Some cf these oral belief. were the resurrection, demons, ministering angels of msjiy kinds, hell, heaven, hades and paradise. The essenes. to whom Jesus and His disciples seem to have belonged, were looked down upon with scorn by these j-ame pharir.ee.,; and they looked upon the Pharisees as hypocrites. While these essenes did not hold so strictly to the letter of the law and . to many traditions of the same, they held to mnny of! these oral traditions, with some others peculiar to their sect, such as baptifm. They also held some peculiarities of belief bordering on what we might call astrology 'or symbolism today. Revela.tions gives us a few hints of this. and they strictly claimed a knowledge of medicine which would exorcise these evil spirits In the bodies of people. This last was held secret, or mysterious, as healing then was considered a divine art. The sadui-ees believed nothing of these oral traditions: they only hell to the moral law. Heaven, hell, the resurrection, demons, angels, they claimed had all been engrafted into the national Jewish religion from outside pngan nations, and they would have none of it. It does not seem that they'1 were looked down upon at all by the orthodox Jew ef the day. The Jew did not caJI any one a heretic or infidel who differed with him on such beliefs. Tt was only when he denied God altogether that he deserved those epithets. The idea of demons, or cnl Fpitits. thus passed on down from essenc and Pharisaical Jews to the early Christian church. We find the early Christian writers holding to this belief in some form or many. And instead of banishing the gods of other nations as mythical and false, ihey claimed for them the torsonal and spiritual power of demons. As Christianity advanced, carrying with it its own peculiar ideas of satan and his iower and replaced the anejent leliefs of the countries, its believers infested r conquered, we find strange conceptions of evil powers growing up, the new not only being colored by the old. but g:-atly enlarged.. To know how complicated and strange these ideas were one has to study the demonology of earh country alone and their belief in gotd and bad spirits. These were handed down, losing nothing of course of the wonderful a- time swept on. to posterity. The belief in the incarnation of devils and demons has worked incalculable wrong in the world. The awful Ideas of hell blading, filled with dense darkness, curdling cries of agony, inhabited by horrible demons, with power to tempt man to his undoing, then drag him down to endless torment, body and mind, is the direct outcome of this pernicious belief. Just study these hlstcrys of such In the past. Then in reason make ivour own conclusion if you can reason and deduct conclusions as to how much truth there is for any of this. And from this gross materialism sprang other loathsome beliefs not natneable here. And

strange, too. that men. who should have been front th-Mr position the learned of their time, believed and argued those things to be true; to be divine, with all the vim of the illiterate. Witchcraft was the last living throe of the monster, and no one. without looking up the matter, can we.ha.ve any idea of the suffering, of the lives lost and ruined by this wicked idea that the devil could league with women prim i;ally. and the strange delusions attributal.de to nerves alone were looked upon as proof. Oh. science! A pity you were strangled so long ago, and only now begin to live again. Rut the days of demonnlogy in any shae are passing. Every step lets light on this pagan, foolish, childish superstition. And every step forward which consigns such horrors to oblivion Muses man to walk with the freedom of intellect tality. the chains of the past broken and imriveted. Medical science long ago destroyed the idea of the devil's power over the mental phenomena. To be possessed of the devil or devils in older days was merely to be a victim of some nervous complaint or complication of complaints not understood, because medical science was not formulated then, or if known to small extent was lodged with inj story, and if nies were made they were looked uix'ti as miracles. Faith cure also must have been in vogue to some extent in those days, as faith was required also. Natural science shows that devils or demons never had any control over the elements. Historical science rightly places them just where they belong and shows their borrowed clothes all along, as they glide into prominent belief. Geological and chemical science shows that at no tim? in the earth's history of life could death be attributable to the power in any way of demon or devil. The bet that can be done with the devil is to splrtruaii him some way, and this is something a little doubtful to comprehend. That which we call evil Is in the -world, but It is not opposed to the divine law of the universe; It belongs to and is an esmtlal part of it. It Is an indispensable alternation of nature. The elements which form good from evil as the good is forming. Life is formed of death and death exists in life. They are the constituent parts of each other, and as alternations of nature brfngs that considered evil, so alternations of life bring evil also. IDA S. KHOtl "I,oK Tit.!!." SitHiieatinK nnl Dice 11 In iikIIrk Some Knotty Problem of Kellx'on. Few who have followed the proceedings of the world's parliament of religion, but have been Impressed with the emphasis paid upon the doctrine of the fatherhood of God uiil the brotherhood of humanity, as a fundamental doctrine cf Christianity. And to those who sympathize with that belief the utterances of some who would restrict the sonship and brotherhood to Christians of a certain stamp must have set med a discord. No doubt they were sincere in their belief and honest in its expression. But if those are right the others are wrong, have they lightly construed the scriptures upon which they found their belief? Peter, shaking as a disciple of Christ, said: "There is no other name under heaven, given among men by which .we must ! saved." Xov if the "we" must be applied to all humanity then the RuJdl.ist, the Itrahman und the iv.rasee art? lost. But what the law says it says to them under the law, and they under the law are jiiilged by the law. I'eter, leing a Jew atnl having come to the end of the law, Christ, could lind no safety outside of ChrUt. Rut the followers of Rudha. having no means of .knowing Christ, were not under thy-ktw. Could rot they, being wiibouffhe law, and doing by nature th things of the law. be kept safe? I'eter tells us again that God Is not a respecter of persons, but 'whoever fears (Jod and works righteousness Is acceptable to hfm. And I am not willing to believe that it is in the name the salvation Ue; if it had been the apostles would have used the Hebrew appeiatlou. Is the belief In the personal! :y of God even necessary? If Rudha saw in a principle or law th idtta we express by the word God must he be condemned because he could not by searching find out God. He that loveth has fulfilled the. law. And it must have been love for humanity that inspired him. "He that loves Is begotten of God." Then every one who sincerely loves and works Tor the good of mankind must be a child of God. lxve thinkcth no evil. Lve vaunteth not ItM?lf. is not puffed up. Is Talmasre In his sermon in The Sentinel of this week. Jam 24. Inspired by love in bis w holesale denunciation of the religion of Rrahmans, Ruddhlsts. Confucious a.nd Mohammedans? Has he the proof that all. or any of them, arc the authors of he funeral pyre or juggernaut crushing, Ganges infanticide or Chinc&e thos tor

ture as that Mohammad is more to blame for tolerating polygamy than is Aloses or "faul? j David, the beau ideal cf Judah, was a , polygamist; so was Abraham the father , of the faithful. It was approved in the i

old testament and not condemned by the new. Paul told Timothy that a bishop should (not must) be the husband of one wife then a Christian, even th highest officer in the church might be apolygamist. Yet. it is not fair to charge that Christianity is the author of this evil. Much is allowed on account of the hardness of heart. Those; must bf fed on milk who are not able for strong food. Iet every one abid'in that condition in which her wss when called. Paul did not chase shadows: he preferred to hold to the substance, truth and love. But Ta'niege has found out that the bible is wrong also; that tho author of Genesis was mistaken. He says: "Adam did not se the sun until the fourth day. for. though the sun was created on tlie first day it took Its rays until the fourth to work through the mists." He does not tell us when Adam was mad. but assumes he was there on the first, ready t catch the jlrst ray of the sun. instead of waiting for the sixth to tegin his carerr, as the author of Genesis would hRe us believe. Rut If we could follow' Ta Image In this. I at least cannot believe that God, who could, without an effort, crente millions of suns with their expressions, would put to His utmost to control a petty ciass in an unimrortnnt country of our little world. That a being who could ha lane? the Rooky Mountain on his littl finger would scarcely be able to control R paltry grain of sand. If Tnlmag is right if after 1.S00 years of Chiistianity, and when it has dominion over all the world, nearly. If there are more splendid men- at this moment going over the Niagara, abyss of inebriety than ever before, should not Christendom be Christianized? Mohammedanism certainly saves its devotees from one sin. if they do devise substitutes. Has not Ruddhism avod Japan from wars of conquest which have deluged Christendom with blood? Shall the Parson hold Christ responsible for the evils forced upon India bv Christian England? ' It certainly has boon the purpo? of all religion reformei-s to lenctlt mankind. If they have erred let us try to led thm to th right way. but not to drive them. le;t they Md us pluck the I team out of our own eves. "UXE TRAMP." Jrm. 2:.. I THI-. OLD "MYTHOLOGY, "Tiurnmbia" l)lrnr' lnn nml Tror Mach Trouble to Him. Ies.r Howards Pan was buMt on a decidedly novel plan. He was half h'.irran and half goat. The lower half r.as principally goat, therefore he required entirely different food from circus pesters and obsolete tomato cans. Rut he never ran up a bill at the shoemakers. When Pan's mother first gfTied upon. Mm bei lustrous orbs suffused with tears; great lamentations arose in the silent night watches and she feelingly remarked that she never dreamed that one of her children would pan out such a hideous 1 feature. And yet Pan had his worshippers, and refused repeated offers, big with ducats, to travel with a side show of a circus. Tan was looked upon by the Inhabitants of Greece as the god who watched over herds and herdsmen. It was natural that Pan and Greece should affiliate. We often see pan and grease associated in modern days. Pan was a warm disciple of Terpsichore. He was passionately fond -of dancing, and was frequently seen shaking., .the light fantastic on the grassy mead, keeping time to music furnished by himself on a musical instrument of his own invention. This instrument was a reed pipe of curious origin. A nymph named Syrinx, whom Van loved and followed, was transformed into a reed, -which Pan converted into a pipe with his jack-knife, and immediately commenced playing -The Girl I Left 'Behind Me." This reed instrument was on exhibition several days in the window of ( ne of cur principal Main-st. stores. Pan Vecanie such a skillful player on this pipe that he challenged Apollo, who was the boss flute player of his time, to a trial for the championship. The challenge was accepted, rnd on the clay for the trial all the inhabitants, save those who were entirely deaf, either fled to the -woods or visited their relatives in the next town, twenty miles distant. The judge selected to decide upon the merits of the players was Midas, a king of Lydia; Lydia' last name is not given. Midas, after hearing the parties play, thought he (Midas would award the prise to Pan. - In consequence of this decision Apollo revffuged himself by causing Midas' eara to grow long like thoe of a mule. The following week the socialists nominated him for congress. Apollo, by the way, was hugely jealous of his reputation as an artist on the flute. Beosuse a gentleman named Maroyas rosttetl that he could stirpass Apollo In the art of playing on that Instrument he was punished by being flayed alive. He never boasted after that and the sorrow caused by his death was not Aery widespread. Maroyas's neighbors slept more hours at nights after his decease. The word panic, something we have frequently enjoyed under republican rule and now experience in all its depressing intensity the tmblime grandeur and outgrowth of the McKinley tariff law and other righteous enactments of the surplus-grabbing. Pharisaical, extravagant, shrewd and exceedingly crafty g. o. p., ever yisilant, alert and on the watch tower to deceive the oft-deluded people and regain the scepter of State was invented by Pan. Once uionxa time a parly of travelers, meeting tlve forest god in a lonely wood, suddenly grew weak in the knees and their eyes Increased in -iy.e. One. more bold than the rest. a.cked him ' his name. Pan had been looking on old bourbon when it stlngelh like a lightning calculator and was immensely elevated. "My name, hie." replied the god. "is Pan-hie." "Pa nie!" echo-d the travelers In chorus, and fled In terror, although tht-re was no cause for alarm. Sometimes the goat part of Pan's nature would get the better of the human portion and he would go out in the field or down to Shantytowu and butt a regulation William goat all around a ten-acre lot. During the war with the Titans Pan rendered important service to the gods by the Invention of a trumpet made of a sea-shell, which made such a hkkous noise that the Titans became panicstricken and hurried away from there. It was a perfect ' Bull Run skedaddle. The accordeon was not yet invented or Pan would have been saved the trouble of converting a shell into a trumpet. Fnder the inspiring strains of an accordeou the Titans would have made much better time In striking for their altars and their fires. If any of Par.'s family are still living and feci that we have "presented their relative in u false light, that this version does not pan out as much panegyric to the square inch as thev exected. let them give me a calithumpean serenade. Friend "Tycho." your cordial shake if reciprocated, and. although not a member of your household. I extend greetings and a prosperous New Year to all the Howard. Oh. ye highly favored children cf earth, radiant with the crimson hue of health and happiness, and human forms divine, replete with hr:ulc-an vigor, remember 'tis now the winter of discontent and depression to multitudes away down in poverty's vales. Keep It uppermost In your thoughts that vision of the crowded poor houses greaMy disturb the serenity of their slumbers and that editors also languish under the calamltious radical reflection, and that small favors will be thankfully received and larger ones in proportion. I have reserved a few "shiners'" for dire ernergencieg. and as I cannot with any degrec of complacency be alienated from

the household of Israel and as the time drawoth nigh to renew, I have concluded to come down w'.th the prescribed amount , of lucre for another year, and for your particular edification gird on the armor and come up to the help of the languishing on life's rugged, thorny pathway. "TUSCUMBIA."

MKTHOn OK VORK. Kferjr Mrnbrr of lh Clnb lnM Urnrt Thin Letter. Pear H. I,. C. Members As the president has told us he expects to continue the committee on "methods of work," and as the rules adopted for Hie - governing of said commit te requires that each mmher of the minute corps ! given not loss than one month's notice previous to the publication of their article on the topic assigned them, therefore, as chairman of said committeo, 1 will start the work without further delay by announcing it for the coming month, and shall assign topics to the members of this corps a.s they stand enrolled. For the mouth of March we will have the following articles upon the dates named: On- th 7th "What effect, if any. has fright and fear upon the physical body?" by "Maud Maple." On the 14th "Th improvements most needed in our public schools." by "Bob." On the 21s( "Music, its effects and benefits." by "Dora Dickens." On the I'Sth Does oomietltion tend to effect mora lit v? If so, in what way?" by W. W. Pto kwell. sincerely hope our sisters and brothers thus assigned will find pleasure in giving us th!r test thoughts on these subjects, and that they will have their articles in readiness so as to reach the odiea by Saturday previous to the date for their publication. Let it be understood that subjects assigned to the minute corps are not for general discussion until after they have leen written up-in by th se to whom assigned. This will not interfere with the topics suggested for general discussion by "I von Fern." We feel assured that when this plan is put into practical operation and by its working lvom better undei stood that meml-ers will more readily give it their hearty support by becoming co-workers. There are no hard r-rjui-emeits. Kvery 011 Is allowed ample time in which to prepare their article, and they are not subject to Innng called upon nfienerthan oner pi two months, and are not debaxred from writing on any other subject at any other time. As soon as the membership of this cotts increases sufficient to allow l;S one or two leading articles for each issue the frequency of the rail will decrease in proportion to the Increase of its numbers. Xow. friends, in conclusion let me say that we earnestly desire more volunteers for this corps at oner. We have many members who ought to enlist in this division. Who will be the first to respond? Most truly yours. T. 11. SWA1TC. Ch. Com. on Work. Danville. Iii.. Feb. 1. lWi. p S. wish to make corrections in my letter in the issue of Jan. 10. Th words Indiana training school" should read "Ind'an training school," and the sentence, "To take a stroll amid the exquisite sculpture or beautiful paintings in the idealistic." should read, "To take f. stroll amid Hie exquisite sculpture or leautiful paintings in the art gallery, and their revel in the idealistic." etc. "HOWARD." TI1F. WICKER SON". Contributed to the Clnb b.v I.nej- A. I'll rUer. In New England there lived a very old man with his son, whom I shall call Thomas, and a little grandson four years of age. The old man had been a. kind father, but had failed to correct his son. and his sou was wild and thoughtless, so when Thomas was called on to take care of his feeble old father he thought it a burden he would gladly be rid of, and tried by cruelty and ill-treatment to shorten his father's life. He never spoke a kind word to him and cursed him. and only allowed him enough to eat to barely keep him alive, while he and his little son had every comfort an-J luxury. In winter the old man had hardly rags enough to his back to keep him from freezing. His son would push huii away from the lire which he and his son were enjoying. At length one cold night Thomas came home and found his fr.ther asleep on the floor, with his feet to the fire to keep them warm. He had only an old blanket for his bed. He seized him roughly by the shoulder, saying, "Clear out; I will keep you no longer." 'Oh. not tonight. Thomas," plead the old man; "I will freeze before 1 can get any shelter in this storm." "I wish you would." said Thomas with a coarse laugh. "Be off with you and no more words." The old man wrapped the blanket arou"l his shivering form and went out in the cold, stormy night. The little boy awoke as the old man closed the door. The child said eagerly: "Father, father, don't let him take the blanket." "Why not," said Thomas, much surprised at his little son's earnestness. "Oh. I think you had better keep it for yourself. When you he an old man I turn you out of my house." These simple, childish words came from the spirit of God to touch the cruel son's heart. Ac he looked at the child, whom he dearly loved, and heard the undutlful words from his childish lips the thought tftruck Thomas, what is to prevent him from treating nie as he saw me treat my father? On the thought he acted. He flung open the door, rushed out after his father, seized hint in his arms, carried him in. seated him by the fire and with hurried words and many tears toll his father the cause of the change of feeling, and with his arms round his father's neck, he begged him to forgive his past neglect and unkindness and promised, with God's help, to lead a better ami different life. Your sister in H. 1,. O. Hiiids. I.CCY A. PAKKKK. ' Rennettsville. Jan. "M. amum; ivm:ic iloukhs. "Ha, C. I.." Sends Pleuniiiit CojiiluuiilrHlliin from l-'lorliln. To the Howard Literary Club I am glad The Sentinel found its way to this sunny corner of the I'nit' ii Slates, fur by this means I have become Interested in your c lub from which I have received both pleasure and benefit. And if I am welcomed by you I will contribute again. January Is always interesting here. Not simply because it brings flowers and green trees, for we have those all the year round. The honeysuckle and roses which screen our galleries, have been green and blooming all winter. And the l4r.es, live oaks, magnolias, holly and " opens" are always green and pretty. Rut thej grow monotonous, and we want a - change. January brings us this. Spring opeii3 then, and brings 11s new flowers. The fields and woods are nowwhite with daisies, and the orchards pretty with blossoms. Especially those of the peach, which have been Jblooming a long time. Three weeks ago our organist at cliurch wore a bouquet of double Pt-ach blossoms and the trees outside my window are yet full. Our wild ror-cs certainly lend a charm to the old fences over which they clamber. They are not the wild ruses or eglantine of the north. They are Cherokee roses. Odorous, large and white, with jellow centers. . But their thorns are larger and more numerous than those of other roses. It is really Impossible to gather them with bare hands. When we want a bcuquel we always arm out-

selves with a pair of buckskin gloves and j

scissors and make war in feminine fashion. The northern birds are here. tor. and help to make January pleasant. I certainly believe they enjoy wintering in our sunny southland.- Perhaps you would think so too if you had heard and seen them singing today,The robins and blue birds are my favorites. I have one robin that is quite a pet. I will be sorry- to tell hm good-by. He has been singing his songs in the rain today. Florida certainly has a right to the appellation. Land of Flowers, in the number and variety of its flowers. Lach month furnishes new varieties. In January eAery nook and corner is white with daisies, in February blue with violets, in March yellow with buttercups.and so on through the year. August and October hrings us th most beautiful flowers. Iti October the flowers are lavender and cold. I remember once counting twenty different varieties of flowers, all lavender and in bloom at the same time. Florida's autumn robe of lavender and gold is certainly very pretty and more worthy of admiration than the fine costumes in the French and Russian exhibit at the world's fair. "RAY E. L." Gull Point. Fla,. Jan. 2". HK IMM.IKKS TUR IU.UKÜ. "Jny Mack" Is nt in Ksvor of Mlifil School. Dear H. L. C. Friends It has been a long time since I wrote you a letter, and as you have not all forgotten me, but have called for me to come to the page again, this cold winter morning finds me with an inclination to obey the call. Yes, "Gano." j-ou hit me a pretty good one in regard to the girls. Well, let me shay this: the boy that has no inclination to embrace a pretty girl lacks a sight of having the proper ambition. To change he subject. If I had tint" I would fully tell you what I know of the negroes after leing among them for nine years. I asked in my last letter if anyone, north though it right for th whites and blacks to be taught in the same school. No one answered. Now I slialt say they are two distinct races and should not be taught together. God created Adam and I've and to them was bont two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain when his offering was not acceptable went sway and took to himself a wife, so there must have ben women out there. To be brief, we have a history of the creation of the world and of Adam, but we have no history of the creation of the negTO or of the Indian. We know they never sprang from the white man. sc must have been, crea.ted separately. The negro is not susceptible of a white man's education. I will give you verbatim a short letter from a negro preacher to myself in re gard to a buggy he wanted to bur. Take notice he puts his name at the commencement : September the 14th, 1S93. James Nooks I seat myself to rite yo a few lines to in form yo of thot troid. Pleas sin me word what yo will do about that trade i has found that i has a bout 200 bondler of forder end i om a fread that i will not hav the forder to spire but 1 yill pay yo the money In . months of yo wonts to trade i wod cone to see yo but i om pulling foeder Mr. Mack Dornell. You see he puts my name last and his first. Let us not mix the two races, but rather endeavor to purify thÄ white ra-e and bring it to a higher instead of a lower plane. I shall try to do more fcr the dub this year than last and hope we may add many names to our roll. "JAY MAC." Medina, Tenn.. Jan. 2.". TIioiikIiI of Otbrr. (Selected by Ren Ardys for the H. R. C.) Were half the power that fills the world with terror. Were half the welth, bestowed on esmp and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error There were no need of arsenals and forts. Longfellow. Chance generally favors the prudent. Fan belt. The danger hid, the place unknown and wild. Breeds dreadful doubts; fire is without smoke And peril without show. Spencer. Faith is the force of life. Tolstoi. Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife. Their sober wishes never learnt to stray; Along the cool, serpiestered vale of Mfe They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Thomas Gray. Friendship is communion. Aristotle. Good natura and good sensa must ever Join; To err la human, to forgive divine. Pope. Generosity 1 the flower of Justice. Hawthorne. Only the actions of the Just Smell sweet and bloiom In the dust. Shirley. Inspiration must find answering inspirations. A. Bronson Alcott. O thou, who. in thy secret heart Dost nurse some life-longr dream of art. Be wise today! Entity thy might: Make large with toll the hours of light! Robertson Trowbridge, Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. Lowell. All earthly thine are aubject to decay. The fairest temple and the proudest ta le Crumble at last to ruin. But the pteat Immortal truths which they embody stay And on the earth dwell ever. They Rave perennial life; and soon or late Rurst the rude soil wherein they germinate. Rufus Henry Bhcou. Indianapolis, Jan. 17. Soul Mild Hoaly. Bar the portal, close the caenient. Thou and 1, alone, oh soul. And I bid thee stand and answer. Mocking not the stern control. Years of patient, willing lKndae, Moving swift at thy behesi. Dreaming only of the treasures Promised by thy eager quest. But the years flew by unheeded And I stand before thee now With youth's radiant visions hlightel. Faltering step ami clouded brow. What hast thou, oh soul, to offer, Restless, eager to depart, For the swift and faithful service, Clouded brain and weary heart? In the misty dim hereafter Shall we ever meet again? Has this hour of bitter parting Nought to move or cause thee pain? Gone as light upon the. mountain When the day's last beams are o'er; Joined as erst, for joy and sorrow, Soul and body nevermore. MRS. It. K. SMITH. The Orer Stationery. To the II. L. C. OfiVers and MembersThere was some stationery on hand unsold and by direction of the president I have divided it. and sent each officer a share, this is for your official work and no charges. I t-end 1 his ro that all may know why an ex-officer is rending out the stationery, as home have written me for Information and it's impossible for me just now to write many letters. Let

us all take hold t-- help our Hirers mak th H. L- C. boom this year, and su pose each of us brings in a new member or two. as 'Florence Nightingale"

sugg.ted. Now, it has net Ken Ion since I brought one, and 1 hope to get .not her ere many weeks. ".''largwetV eome with a letter soon. Ivar "Aunt Sue," you have my deepest sympathy In the loss of your dear friends. May He who rules over all give you strer-gth and grace to say "Thy will 1-e joi-." I will try very hard to write ou soon. I hav had to negict so many of my dear H. L. C. friends during the past jeür. Patriot.' thank you for letter tunl rhymes: come to pag. "Later On.' your time is up. and "Hamlet," Hoo(dc Bob." "Flossie Fearh." "Farmer' 0 Wife." and a host of others, let u hear from you. "MARIE." The niecd l.ltht. Oh moonlight, bl-ssed moonlight. What stirs my roul as thee; What fills my heart with a brighter tlrht Than that thou give.-t ne ? Oh moonlight, lovely tnoo-.il'cV.t. Thou sendest to n-.e sv eoi iitams: My home, my youth, v. i.'i a!! its dell cht. Comes back with thy piea-nnt beams. Oh moonlight, silvery in-oi light. It is then 1 love to roam. The shades of night are tathfred o'er V Rut thou will guide me honv But, oil. what i that I hoar? A flash, a nimble, a roar A cloud is rising in the West; My dream of youth Is o'er! ; Park, dark, dark is all round; The wind begins to blow; The heavens have opened, the rain Is fall ing Into the dark vale below, ( But look! Post thou not see That wave of silvery lifcht Coming from the depths of yon black cloud. Lighting again the r.islit? , Po It is with a Christian life The dark clouds rise and fail. But the fight with a lustre that nve fads Is shining over all. Guiding us onward and upward To a hlcher and better life. We hava trampled dow n those 1arc. tarSt clouds We have overcome the strife, Sttll guide us through this no-my sa, Tho'i light which shines for all: We have seen Thy bright, and (aiilintf fao. We have hearkened to Thy call, Thou, who rejgns supreme above, And Thou, who always pfes us, Still be our guide throughout our lives. Thou blessed Light. Christ Jsnt. , "ÜASII1NG NICK." ! r.lley, Ir.d., Jan. 21. To "Fidel In Fny." ' "Fidelia Fqy." I n-ti. e by rradlr your letter in the ppge of a leoent isu that you were desirous of joining th II. L. C. Our door is ever open for new members. Address the recording secre tary. Miss Dora Weimer. Fleasant-st-, Indianapolis. Ind.. and await her instructions. Respectfully. TI1K PRESIDENT. T Cure !? upcpniit. '4utlpa Hon and Chronic Nervou diseases, Dr, Shoop's Restorative, the great NVsrva Tonic, by a newly discovered principle, also cures Stoma h, liv er and kidney diseases, through the nerves that govern) these organs. Hook and samples frea for 2c stamp. DR. SHOOP. Box X, Ila. ine, Wis. T.INKHAMS vegetaDie uompouna Is positire coro for all thoso painful Ailments of Women. It will entirely cure the frorst forms of Female Complaints, all Orarlaa troubles. Inflammation and Ulceration, Falling and Displacement, of tho V01nb, and cousequent hpinal Weakness, and is peculiarly adapted to tta C hange qf L'Je, Every time it will cur y' Backache.' ' It Lai cared more cases of LeticoiN rlioea than mar remedy tho world has ever known. It i almost infallible la B'trh cases. It dissolves and expels Tumors from the I'terua in an early stage of development, and checks any tendency to cancerous humors. Thac Bearing-down Feeling: causing pain, weight, snd backache. Is lnitantly relieved and permanently cared by its ose. Under all circumstances it acta in harmony w it h the latm that govern the female ,sv6tem. ao4 is & L&rmiesa as water. It removes . Irregularity, Suppressed or Painful Menstruation1, Weakness of the fotoutach. Indigestion. Bloating, Flooding. Nervous Prostra 4 tion. Headache, General Debility. Also Dizziness, Faintness, . Extreme Lasaituue, "don't care" and 'want to Le left alone" feeling, cxcU lability, in itability.cervousne, ß'ceph'ssnes. flatulency, melancholy, or thi 4 blues, and backache. These ara sure indications of I'eiua'e Weakness, fcoiue derangement of the Uterus, oc Womb Troubles. The vrhole story, however, U told Ir an illustrated book entitled "Onide tj Health," by Mrs. Tinkham. It contains over 90 pa?es of most important information, vLich every woman, married or fcingle. should know about herself, bend 2 two-cent stump for it. ior Kidney Complaints and B'ACkache of either ex tha Vegetable Compound is unequaled. I ttTV !'m '-'- JS'-SJ-1 All druggist sell nound. or sent t? Liver Pills curt mail, in form of pills or Lofor on rrfcipt of J 1 .OO. Corrrtpmtdenrm Constipation. Sick Headache. 25c. Ton can address In strictest confidence, 1IDI1 1. riMUUK XLD. CO., L)U, Sua, ELY'S CREAM BALM I had catarrh to bad there were great eores in my nose. one plax-e whs eaten through. My nose and head are well. Two bottles of Kly's Cream Balm did the worK. e. s. Mc.Mii- V riw"TkT: len. Rbley. Mo. MAITtiVt A prti-le is ppllM Inte räch notr11 tri Is asrebl. Price M cents at rirnjrliitw of mini. EI A" BROTHERS. U Wanta-at- Nt, York.

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