The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-01-13
LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AlM'sT AT, BE THY GODS

LET ALL THE ENDS THOU Al
WAYNE COUN
At times he pauses to speak Of
what he has read or learned from
the pages before him. The one
who hastened from the carriage
seems to be writing. Somebody
will know on the morrow. In ono
corner Of the room We see q paint
or at work. He is finishing a pic-
ture 1t will be seen in due
time.
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The shutters have been closed.
We cannot see in there now. Only
through the crevices of the shut,
ters a light. So we know there is
life in there-so we know the fami
ly is together. No one has come
back come out from the door!
Yes-they are there!
Are you afraid to 60 home? Is
itnot better in there than to be
out on the street, jostled by the
busy throng, tired, weary, in need
Of rest exposed to 70 sngers ini4.i-
merable2 From life on the streets
to life at home! The door was
dark but there was, there is a
light within, and loved ones there,
wao from time to time step to the
window to look out and perhaps to
signal US, looking, waiting for our
coming, Oft times they sec us
way down the street, and know of
our coming before we can see
them. At times they close the
shutters to keep out the prying
throng. from looking in, but they
arc there.
There is light in the window
for US. Up there! High above the
street-over the heads of those
who rush heedlessly BY we see it
now as oft and oft for years. Low
ed ones are waiting in the parlor
Of the future! They come to the
window and look upon us. They
know all wo do. They grieve
when we stumble and fall-they
rejoice when we walk erect and by
our lives shed over others a little
OF that golden sunlight of love
which so beauties the room Over
There? They keep the lights
burning in the windows of the
Eternal. If we do not SEQ them
it is because we do not look up.
Or, looking up only at times, our
gaze is not steady. Or, we look
carclessly at all the windows, but
not into any one.
There are windows all along the
road Of life. Windows from which
somebody looks, watching our
every step when We little think of
| windows or watchers. Well is it,
for those who think Of others, for
those who look down, at times to
speak to US, by word or sign, as
language knows no boundaries!
Some day we shall all GO home,
| to keep light burning in some
! window for the guidance of others.
We would not wish to go home to
rest in a house dark, cheerless,
gloomy. As somc paint the grave.
Ignorantly paint it !! But to go
home! To rest with those who
/; watch for our coming-who have
1 ,.reparcd SO we'll for US.
And then! Yes, and then! We
/ shal! work as now-only in clear
\ er light. In that room all is light.
1 Over There will be no MYSTERY, for
! oil will lie known, of that which
| will then be our past, ard it's va
ried clements. Then can we look
/ down upon others who may never
l think who their watchers may be !.
4 Then we can open the shutters full
1 and wide, or keep them closed. We
! can make signals-can make them
I understood to those who look fol
4 them. Aye. can speak to those
4 who listen, and can be heard
/ Then we can know our friends and
I point this way or that, or nod OF
4 motion sugges.ively TO thoee who
! walk with thoughts Hpliited, look
| ing for light. Then we can study
Into that which is now mistery
and read Gods plan as children
/ read booAs, understanding NOR,
and mere as their minds enlarge
Then we can study by the COLDER
llamp light and whisper from til,
/ window to students! Then We cal
1 suggest. by ways and means to u
4 now uncomprehendcd. to those VIII,
1 work, who plan, who study an,
/ who strive.
| Then we can carry this little o.
/ great thought to this worker, ant
other thoughts to other workers
As men look up to, up far and in
to the wonderful windows, so vii
we some day after this temporar
/ life and its trials be ended whispe
to them as others whisper to uf
We will tell those strugglers how I
suoceed-will suggest to workin
minds how to WELD this power.
to apply this pr:nciple-to improv
this or that invention. Then W
can with other workers Owe
There, hold the lamps of God $
men can look deeper into mine.
into the earth, into principles, int
inventions put in operation hcr