The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-12-24
27-NUMBER II.
CONTRADICTIONS.

"e i''h arOu'id anu 1Hu ourselves
IN world of ,ntradietions. We
learn that there cannot BE- a bright
red flame Of fire without water inside
OF 1t somewhere; that in all cold wa
Ter and ice, heat turks. Nature do..s
not resemble herself always witn,ss
her making Us build fires on the 4.h
OF July, or tlinging u day of SO9 heat
right into the face Of November A
tiny flower which would seen to ap-
peal for the gentItst nursing that
Mother Earth, sunshine and dew
could give it, We have seen. sturdy
little thing, grOE upon some bleak
rock in spite Of everything and every
body
To enrresp- md with all this, ANNA
ted bundles Of Contradictions. called
"humIn beings, have constantly fit
ted % and fro all over the earth
These eongregate together, form soci-
cites, eommonwealths, nations; al
ways leaving behind them riddles to
be solved by puzzled posterity, who,
in their frantic eudeavO-s to bring or.
der out OF the Confusion, make fresh
difficulties which any one may solve
Vino can. or al: the absurd iuc Ing-u-
ities with which poor humanity has
been l-ft to struggle, thoss prepared
by theoiogians have, perhaps, been
the most Remarkable. In the effort
% accept these theories in the inmast
heart, many bave turned maniaes (;
though perhaps they were then about
as. sane as their teachers. At one
time men were taught that there Were
infants in hell aspan long, kept there
by God Of love aud mercy. Men
have been taught that Col was
pleased with them when they inter
fered with His own arrangements, ful
instance, by crushing out the soeial
jOvial side of their natures. Uni Ter
the influence OF this teaching men
and women have disigured them
selves, become hermits aud nuns
have Stunned laughter aud joking
and many an innoeent, heaithful
amusement, and the children have
had To suffer with their elders. Sci
ence and theol Iky have ha1 many 4
quarrel. Science, Ia its turn, has
struggled through all sjrts Of eJntra-
dictOry theories on its way tO perfre-
ton. To say nothing Of the history
of the great sciences, geology, chem
istry and astronomy, who, that has
eOnseientiously tried u Inform him
self upon the great subject of by
geiene, through the papers, has f1un,I
out just Whist b DO to be healthy. We
are told to eat meat, and not to eat it
to walk before breakfast, and mt t.
go out so early to sleep with the win
dow up, and to sleep with il down /;
not to drink tea aud cJffee, to drink
them weak, with cream and sugar,
and not to put cream into them for fear
of producing leather in our stOmachs.
Men despise tOsdyism {; few Of these
same men get al ing without it when
self-interest is Involved. They de-
spise politicians aud their tricks, and
In time turn into tricky politicians
themselves. l know man in whose
character gentleness and cruelty are
about equal ingredients. YOd know
one perhaps in whom yacillatiOn and
stub50rnness both take the lead. We
all know how, through jealousy, a
man may murder the object of his
dearest love. We have sighed for
a blessing, and VIXEN it has come, Ve
have sErunk from it. Even the Ian
guage we speak has in it such exLres-
siOns as Sublime wretchedness,
troublesome comforts" Is there no
reeoneilement, no harmony out Of all
this diseord ? The. seven colors blend
into white. Vastly different tones
may unite into one grand chord. Let
US hope that the warning in our hearts
will cease some time that many
sided Truth, triumphant aud glowing,
will some time completely illumine
the dark corners where error and pref
udice have been sitting and eronIDg
and duping men for ages.
FRANK PENDLEToN.