Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-07
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at takes all sorts of people to make
a world" is a homely but true saying,
and one very extensive class are those
whose minds are warped and contracted
by their own inherent nvarice and illib-
eral greed after the tangible, small reali-
ties of life, in preference to tho broader
more comprehensive and profitable
They have little conception of anything
outside their own limited sphere, or OF
the amenities we NIL bear relatively to-
ward each other. They remind one OF
the old fellow who never said grace or
asked o blessing anywhere but in his
own home, and then this is the way he
did it: "God bless me and my wife, my
son John and his wife, us four aud no
more. Amen"
Illiberal, sordid, selfish in their views,
they cannot allow to others the same
privilege which they accord to them
selves: that of thinking and doing as
they please. To be on good terms with
them, everybody must think and do as
they think and do. They have their
W road to heaven marked ont, none
other can possibly be correct, and oles'
sed are they only who follow therein +;
all others are infallibly cursed. They
know nothing of that true charity and
liberal christian spirit towards all,
which admits of the possibility of others
being right in their views, as we'll MS
themselves. With their own little two
inch guage they measure all mankind,
and have no idea of progressive cnlight-
eminent beyond.
Such narrow minded views are gen.
orally the result Of willfal ignorance
and moderation. It is tho spirit which
leads to mob violence when all other OF
its means fail, impelliug the burning OF
school-houses, churches, converts, and
even the murder of men or women for
the expression of views md theories at
variance with its own. 1t is the spirit
which crucifed Jesus Christ, and after
wards transferred to the doctriues-not
to the practice, Of Christianity-has
prosecuted, and even now would persc'
cute oil who have the enlightened
tsmerity to dissent from its absurd, IL
liberal dogmas. 1t is the spirit Of the
dark ages, which still persists in oppos'
ing all religious advancement, anc
obscures tho broad white light Of Gods
holy truth as revealed in the great Bible
Of Nature.
Another phase in this narrow minded
principle, and generally one of its con
comitants, is the man whose whole sou
is absorbed in making money; coming
as it were, all the better feelings ant
proclivities of his nature concentratedly
into hard minted treasure. Money il
his God, his heaven, his all, and thu
jingle of the dimes is the music of hi
soul. In his greed for the accumulation
of dollars. he is neither just nor gen
erous. He stcadfastly ignores thu
Scriptural precept of "muzzlc not thu
OK that treadeth out the corn care
fully counting each grain saved tina
way, willfully unmindful of the fact tina
in the long run he is the loser instead
He holds the dime SO near his ey,
that he cannot see the dollar beyond it
Heretofore, as well MS now, 10 our ed
itorial remarks, we have seen fit to SO!
truthful things which hit hard in a va
riety of individual instances. 1t is thu
ambition of every good photographer t
produce pictures true to nature, and il
the pen portraits we have drawn, w
have been both gratiied and amused t.
observe how quick certain people recog
nize their own. If, even US n literary
tailor, We should happen to make coat.
which do not fit anybody, nobody ii
required to put any Of them on. i
they ht, all right. Select your own.