The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-06

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Thought Il the engine that moves the
world. As In nature. every molten bespeaks
tae fulfillment Of law, so every act IN the
grand panorama Of human life Is the express
sion Of thought, and SO il ever lsas been,
and 80 u ever will be. Throu.h our busy
lives. from the cradle To the crave. III ioy
and in sorrow. III Anger aud in gladness,
Thought pushes forward and onward. ana ii
! We're to compress into one sentence 4 rule
that would guide aur wandering feet in the
pathway that weuld croan our lives Will,
success. 4 would say: Think gooA thoughts
and do good deeds.
Lie is made up OF thought and labor. and
IS success or failure us We think. Ii Is d
rapid running river, ever flowing onward Co
the ocean of eternity, and every day We pass
into al undiscovered country The banks Of
the stream are bordered with ilOwers, beallti-
ful scenery enchants our view, and We sail
On weaving the warp and woof of lie, to
the sound OF sweet music. doing good deeds,
making the sunshine brighter for our pres
ence, relieving the wery and TIE heavy
laden, comforting the sick and distressed.
giving hope to the desponient. Joy to the
brokeii-hcarted. faith to the iaithless. living
not for ourselves alone. but for the gooa Of
all mankind, or we are shipwrecked by the
storm among the rocks Of vice, dishonesty,
selfishness, or hatred, our pathway is lined
with thorns and thistles, we turn deaf ear
to the pleatlings of poverty and distress, and
retire within our own selfishness, cold, cal
culating and Indifferent, and trade upon the
blasted hopes of our tellow-travelers, and
all this simply, as we think. -
We create world within ouselYes full oil
beauty and harmony, pr distorted with iarring
discord, and darkeneti with evil simply as NE
will. We are the arblters of our destiny.
We work out our own salvation.
Thought is Worship. thought is prayer; or
it is sacralege, corruption and death, just as |
we make it.
Then give birth to noble thought. It
will bring with it joy and gladness !; it will |
create new world for us and fill it with /
beauty: it wilt expand and enlarge our
souls.
We do not think. We.have tie M .ehincry,
beautiful, mysterious, Divine, but welo not
aes it. We fill our mind with puny. trifling
thoughts; we catch butterflies and build cob
houses, and idle our time away in ,rt of
when we have within us the power
20 reYolutionze the earth.
of the myriads of men who have pcopled
he earth sinee the morning stars sang to-
gether, how little 10 we know Of the lives
int thoughts Of each. They fall out by Cite
.ayside and the grave closes over them, aud
till the ocean of humanity sweeps uIlheedingI
N. tramping over their ashes, and they are
unhonond and forgotten. Only
lere and there has one achieved immortality
~ his thought. The worlds thinking is done
= IL few. while we are all gifted with this
nhlime gift. Then why not think. and there
y become power among men, q 8@84 @
Thought is tic vanguard 81 progress. An
III creations are first pictured in the brains{
VERY step forward in the toil>oine march vt
towards perfection comes from
iought. Faith has its prophet and is seer;
eligion speaks the language of inspiration,
nd bids ny hope, skepticiSm fills our souls
nth doubt and unrest; fiction creates world
its own and peoples it with visions OIL
,ncy; poetry uttcrs the voice Ut harmony
nd song, metaphysics deals in distractions,
nd loses itself in mist and fog; the law has c
$ language and its servants. but the high Il
rest of nature, the man who reveals the "
w and the rules of life is the thinker. and Il
linking bespeaks the divinity Of the soul, b
i'd he approaches nearest to the divine b
ho thinks most aud best, and labors iiards h
It for the elevation. aud emancipation of b
ankind. II
And SO thought shall go forward and on h
ard III Its majestic march Though the ages. b
it'll its mission is fulfilled; solving the mys- q
r. OF life dispeliing every doubt iilumi- Il
lting the globe with a blaze of light that Il
diates to heaven; visiting the spheres of q
ldless growth; shining Iii the darkness a.
,plaining the miraculous and the my sierious; fo
'rfecting the reason and tie Judgment; re- d.
liag taste and culture; beautifying the 2
ind; ennObling the heart; grasping all hi
loWledge; educating the colsrielJce: erect 10
< morality that shall know novice; beau
ying the religious sentiment; cailsing its &c
ice of faith. prophesy aud prayer to speak st
2 pure languageof Che sottl giving utter "
ce to a sublime trust thar knows no tear NJ
bbing the grave Of its victory by making 1t
gateway of life; establishiir "a christian. q.
ity that shall embrace all mankind; show IN
Z all diseord to be perfect orders all o.
sming evil universal good; seeing in the
erations OF nature, in the endless forms of lslo
], In every aspiration Of the human heart, fel
every scintiilation Of intellect. in the rag 81
q rock. and in the tiny flnwers the fllfill- au
mt Of an Infinite law, until mysterious ~ 3,
hight. crystallzed and person'fi d. shsll
come spark from the Oznniscient mind.
lose voice is the harmony of the world. mi
A NOVEL experimentsin reportiMg by tele- - s.
al,h was made at the Oxford and Cam =.
dge boat race in England. lssss Cen ral s.,
ws Association had q cable OH board one g.
the steamers following the competing u,
ITS. This was paid ont "a the race pro- s., s.
slcd, and through II all the leading facts e, s
lnectedi With the rxee, intending the vary rs i.
positions Of the crews.aild the times 1t d.
ich they reacncsi wed known points. were So, 81
sgraphed beIore the race was concluded. IN
here AZ a..deed OH record III tie town of !.
tico. Conn.,. bearing date of 1874. convey. g.