The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-12

braces nearly all outside of the cities,
would come to America if they could.
/ had no idea until / came to Europe
how widespread is the conviction
that America is tie land of promise
to the poor man, and how
widespread lis the determine
ton to go there as soon as
circumstances will permit, and never
thanked God for America so heartily
as | have done since / have seen how
different is the prospect before the
poor In our own country from what 1T
is in any part of Europe There is
absolutely no hope for a poor family
IN any country. through which | haze
travelled, and my heart has ached
when Il have seen little children
obliged to labor beyond their strength
for a. bare subsistence with no hope
| OF any thing but dreary toll till death
shall give them rest. Many of them
are cheated ont. Of the Sabbath that
God gave to man and beast. L be-
| lieve there are ten millions of people
IN Europe ready to. start for America
morrow, if they saw any PRACTICABLE
way of getting there. They would
make good citizens of the United
States, and would soon acquire COZ {.
| petence. / doubtif our government
could do. a wiser thing, In the long
rub, than to afford some aid
to these millions that long for our
/ shores: There are hundreds of thou
sands here who would repay with in
| terest, as soon as they could earn the
| money. the amount necessary to en-
| able them to reach the United States,
and besides this would become valu-
able citizens in developing the re-
IHsources of the mighty West. The
missionaries of Sweden and Norway,
as well as Of Germany and Syitzerlan ],
have assured me that nearly the whole
of our membership would gladly come
to America if they could get there.
They are looking forward and hoping
and praying for the favored time to
come that shall bring them to our |
shores. May the Lord answer their
prayers The Old World has not |
room for them. and the New World |
needs them. 7A''.t
How TO SPEND AUTUMN EVEN
INGs.-Autumn evenings have fairly |
begun. What shall be done with the
Swallowed hours that precede repose?
There never was a time when this /
question was SO important to business
men. Few of those who are engaged /
as principals in either trade or manu-
facture now. attend to their daily avo-
cations during the late evening hours.
But while there is no part of their
time more precious, there is none
other that is SO freely wasted. 1t is
poor economy for one whose business
cares are pressing him sorely to sit
down moodily at his home, with the
heavy burden still about him, in the
vain hope that his weary brain may
thus find clue that will lead him out
of the labyrinth of trouble. He
would not leave an over tasked horse
harnessed all night in the stall, or
expect of any other creature beside
himself such miracle as work with
out recuperation; still less would he
set one that is already tagged out at
task that had proved too much for
his ordinary strength. And yet this
is the demand he is imposing on him
self. His proper hours of toll are
numbered for the day, but he will not
ease his aching shoulder of the OPP
pressive burden, and he is still strug-
gling-now vainly, of course-to solve
tfiss problem which was too intricate
even for his freshest powers.
There are others who do lay aside
the harness after the days toll or
conflict, but who then sink down in
mere vacuity of mind, installing idle
ness for refreshment. There is no
in a state of Incidence.
1t is true that the hands need not
move restlessly, nor the sinews be
strained In unwonted exercise to re-
cruit the system. But the lungs must
be expanded, and the blood stirred by |
fresh emotions if the wasted strength Il
is to be regained. There are many
who are shrewd enough to perceive |
this, but who fail in their object be-
cause they pursue it in the wrong
direction. The true exercise
for recuperatiye purposes is
simply change in the bent of the
mind. Whatever bodily action this .
new mental fexion may demand, the =.
relief is not in the physical activity, /,
but in the fresh ardor which directs ,
it. In plain terms, If the mind and
body be worn down IN the daily effort :
to advance ones material interests. II
let the relaxation be found in an eff
fort equally jealous to do good to
somebody else. A miles walk taken $
as penance to relieve an:overtaxed
brain will only increase the throbbing (
fever if the same thoughts be enter
tanned on the journey. An hours
gallop will not cure even a fit 9
of dyspepsia if the dinner humor !,
that produced it is carried upon the
tide. He who would change the cur
rent of his thought need not go far