Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-01-02
CHRISTMAS MUSINGS
Good Feliowshlp.
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those peoples who have, more or less,
at some time, come under the baptism
Of the Roman Catholic Church. IL Ia
q day commemorative of Jesus Christ
and John Barleycorn, and Is assumed
to be one OF the days Of good fellow
ship.
Good fellowship. In the proper,
broad meaning. Is the sum Of civil.
ization. When the age Of general
good fellowship arrives In the United
States, the Republic will be nearer Its
aim-the aim OF its founders-than IL,
or any other republic, has ever been.
Tie Idea Of republic embraces tho
fellowship Of its masses, and without
that embrace 1t Il not = republic. We
have made two mistakes In our efforts
after such fellowship rs Is useful. pleas.
ant and good. We have had two fel-
lowshlp. In the United States OF Amer
lca las elsewhere, alsol. and neither
was good fellowship. Christian f-l-
lowsl,ip |, one f; alcoholic fellowship
|, the other. The first. rs practiced,
l. a hypocrisy; the other Ia folly.
The iirst breeds self.deception and
leads TO general deception; the other
begeti those follles which evolve
crimes And both are borrowed IRON
that era Of intellect In which the crea'
tive powers OF the universe were man.
headed. aud recorded rs having spo-
ken TO man TN the tongue OF a lie-
brew. = Greek. a Roman, an Arab, or
a Chinamanl. with frequent orders to
slsy his fellow man. and cut him oil
utterly from the face OF the earth-to
torture hlm-malm him-scalp him.
and make him suffer to the utmost In
thi, life aud then send his soul to al
in,leiinablc. unsurveved. badly-located
place. where that abused es.ence (tlie
soul) Ia to perform the impossible feat
Of acting aud suffering like body.
Men have relied upon religion for res
olution, and upon whisky for courage;
and have found their failure In their
folly. Fanatlcism resolves nothing,
and brutality /, not courage. lie only
n truly resoiute whose reason Ia fully
charged with the Justice of facts, and
h. alone Ia Courageous who feels, to
nm. h..t of bI, sober knowledge, that
be defends the truth and the right.
when we learn In America to hold
,pdiyidnsIs respon,lblc-not In So
c,e,les NOT In clubs. not In parties, but
ma indiyld,,,l,-we shall be some nearer
the Aim of the Republic. We should
sn,,eayor toward mutual benefits aud
indivjdu,I responslbllity, Not that
sort of respon.ibiIity which stumbles
into b,rbari,m and accepts the chal-
lenge 10 FIGHT from every drunken In.
.,nity or burning fanatic; but that
,s..cn,hl. .or, Of rssponsibility where
~ . nan or wom,n must make good
~. aa,,na,.,. wo,d of hi, or her
sno IeoV s e., a., ss, liar from
.,V"s, ~, ~ - ,s',n..hin"h vi n. c,, og from
iii III ,,ss ~" ~ ns.fsrms,, and placs,
., ~ ,rn., e IN = . word he steadily and
s,.saIr i. .h...d fro, ,sll,wsbln In pro.
s.erny ,y u,o 20 ,h. % s.,s.bnod ",t.,.d or
po,.o" ,.s.,nn ~ @ ,hs inst ,osItion r..
.o.a,,h,a onIv hv manife,t rood works.
sovvsoe W. o So.,ir hn, o,,ite .IowIv'
esre s 81. a.. ~ .,h,cs md 4,
.o",ns ~ ' Iii, ,.ow In Indsnerd.
sno r.nnsss GOO ,hali ouier.n
ems' e,,. % ."u ,nw.rd th,s enocb af good
,"i,,ps,, III ps, E.,iowsh,n m some sort
.e'op IN, a mr.. s.IIpwsbin of dol.
,,o. III, % 10 ,,s.ly In Iocks and bolt,.
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