Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-09-01
Current Ideas.

"On the Heights"
Do the best thou knowest, today.
Shrink not from frequent error in this
gradual, fragmentary state. Follow
thy light for as much as it will show
thee; be faithful as far as thou canst,
in hope that faith presently will lead
to sight. Help others without blam.
ing their need OF help. Love much
and be forgiven.-M Margaret Fuller.
Would you show yourself really
good to your daughters? Then be
generous to them in truer sense
than that Of heaping trinkets on their
necks. Train them for indepen-
dence first, and then labor to give it
to them. Let them, as soon as ever
they have grown up, have some little
money or means Of making money, to
be their own, and teach them how to
deal with it without needing. everys
moment. somebody to help Them
Springfield Republican.
That animals have thoughts, lam
guage, intelligence, affection and
gratitude Is certain. What is there to
disprove their Immortality? Few stop
to consider how much like animals we
are, how very slight the distinction
between their physical and mental Or
ganism and our own. Are they not
generated and nourished in the same
way? Do they net die in the same
way? Have they not, in common with
ourselves, the power Of memory, the
emotion of fear, and the moral senti-
ments of maternal love? What inlets
to knowledge have we, except our
senses? And do they not possess
them all? Is not the decay Of their
bodies repaired by the circulation of
the blood? And is it not carried on
by the mechanism of the heart, arteries
and veins? Does not the mysterious
organ-the brain-seem to be the
point of contract, the connecting link
between mind and matter, as with US?
In fact, it is not at all unreasonable to
believe that in that other lie to which
this is but little gateway, through
which all animated nature must pass,
we shall there meet and welcome the
animals We loved here; our old familiar
friends, the companions of our child
hood and later years.-Dora Dare
more.
Poor Interior! It's readers have
our sympathy. Its leading editorial
last week fills about half of the page.
to the sad chrtailment of Editor Crews
notes, and of all subjects is DEVOTED to
an exposition of the question in the
Catechism which asks: s'What is
the misery of that estate vhereinto
man fell?" And all that to be read
with /the thermometer among the
nineties! Here are the cheerful sub
headings, each Of which, with its own
Subdivisions, is treated to the extent
of nearly column. 1.-THE Race
Wretched because Cursed" '.The
Curse Universal" Cursed because
Fallen;" Effects of the Curse"
The keynote of the article is found in
this extract:
"There is no difficult in accounting
for human misery when we bear in
mind the terrible fact that the race is
under the wrath AID curse of God.
The only wonder is that the misery is
not greater"
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And the editor, surely Professor Pat
ton, proceeds expounding Paul: "The
whole world (including infants) lis
guilty before God" Then follows
the Stiffest Old School theory of Ad-
ANS federal headship and the impu-
tation Of his sin. This seems to indi-
cate that in The Interior, at least, the
New School theology has definitely
succumbed. We judge that DR.. Pat
ton begins his system of theology
where the Hebrew concludes it, with
the word "curse. "-Indcpendent.
Away with the popular sentiment
that it is matter of Indifference, be-
You'd himself how young man shapes
his course. For be assured that
health impaired and blood corrupted
by his dissoluteness concern NOR
than himself, though his was esough
to shake him from his infatuate pur-
pose; more than mother or father.
whose hair whitens faster at the spec
tacle of his folly than by the lapse of
years; more than brother or sister
whose brows tighten with joy at the
memory of what he was, but blanch
with shame at the record of what he
Is; more than his heart-broken wife
who has been cheated by his nows,
and poisoned by his blood, and dis
honored by his name; yea. more than
all these, they concern the Inflated
Children through whom alone he Is
linked to the future of the race.
The wrong inflicted smites the de-
fenseess. The poison scattered cor.
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