Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-18

Liz llIdS lHdllOD, dllu GOHNlllCo us
that God is love. But the browning
glory of His boundless love, is mani
fest in the gift Of his only son-the
immaculate Christ, to redeem sinful,
miserable man from his fallen state.
Our nation was ushered into the
drama of earth through the benign
influence Of Gods Evangels. Such
q government could not have been
established if there had been no
Christ. This lovely land of ours,
preserved by Divine Providence
from the crimes and pollutions of
former and gloomier ages, is the glo-
rious inheritance of q Christian peo-
pie. Under the mild sway of our
free institutions the mind develops
many sublime qualities. The free
dom Of effort here permitted results
in such inventions as the telegraph,
the Atlantic cable, the cotton gin,
and the application Of steam to nav
igation.
The mind being untrammelled,
conceives, contrives, invents, and
brings forth labor-saving machines
by the hundreds. Can any nation of
the Old World under despotic sway,
show such record of brilliant
achievements in ninety-four years?
High OH the tablet of fame are in
scrlbed such names as Washington,
Franklin, Jefferson, Henry, Hamil-
ten, Morse, and many other choice
spirits. These serve as beacon
lights along the shores Of time, by
which we can shape our course and
stcar clear of the breakers on which
have been wrecked the bright hopes
OF other ages. Liberty had fingered
around the sacred alter Of the East,
until her very name was 4 reproach
when she took her Hesperian flight.
Enticed by the strains of patriotic el-
oquence, she spread her downy pin
ions to shade the Western Continent,
and perched on our Atlantic borders.
She shook her royal plumes, bathed
them III richer tints than ever flashed
from Aurora's golden sheen, and
tanned to q flame the spark of West
ern civilization. Through the be-
nign influence of this bright messen-
ger of love, we behold institutions
Of learning like Yale, Harvard, Cor
nell, and Nassar, clad in the ample
robes of classical and scientific lore,
lifting their majestic spires heaven
ward; and urging the youths and
maldens Of our nation to ascend the
hill of science, where there is q laurel
wreath to encircle every worthy
brow. As love develops in so many
forms; as beauty, purity and talent
are all the more radiant from being
welded to love; as our highest hap
piness is attained through efforts to
promote the happiness OF others,
and rs an injury done another will
surely react against the one who
perpetrates it, why not take hold of
every humanitarian cause with
hearty good will, casting aside envy,
jealously, and sclishness, and every
other petty meanness; exercising Il
broad christian charity, prosecuting
our vocation in brnevolence and love.
Let the suilerings and sacrifices
which Christ made for human re-
demptlon plead for the children, and
with hlnsh let us hide the rod.
''ssuifer little children to come unto
me ana forbid them not, for of such
is the kingdom of heaven
This came from high authority,
and should he received in the spirit
in which it is given. Children with
all their boisterous mirth, are more
innocent than adults, and as rule
when 4 teacher strikes II child, he
strikes being more innocent than
himself. Malice and revenge are de-
basing, love is redeeming; the vo-
tarics of love are willing pupils.
Make a good impression on a child's
heart by kind words and gentle man
ncrS, and that child will do all that
is possible for poor erring mortal to
do, to please you. Therefore | re-
peat, love is power. Do you doubt
this? There are a million forms of
beauty, harmony, and excellence, d.
rectly traceable to love. The peerless
character of our Washington was
fashioned in love; Il believe the rod
was never used in his trainine).
Howard, the philanthropist, whose
great, loving, benevolent heart, yearn-
ed to ameliorate the condition Of
those who were languishing in the
prisons and dungeons of Europe;
dying as he did in foreign land,
while on one Of his missions of mer-
cy, was followed to his grave by
thousands, among whom were the
bigoted Turk, the fierce Arab, and
the cruel Moor. Though they
could not understand his English
tongue, they could interpret the lang
uage of love, and, in gratitude for his
goodness, and SORROW for his death,
wept copious tears upon his bier;
eyes that never wept before, gave
that truest test OF love, tear BY
ron was right when he said the test of
affections a tear, That deeply sim
ming child of genius knows the sancti-
ty of a tear.
No thoughtful person can lightly
put aside the doctrine Of a future
life. On this doctrine may possibly
hang the destiny of a nation. The
child who upon its mothers knee, FIRST
learns to lisp "Our Fathor,n and who,
tour or five years later, is found in
the school room, may sway the scep-
ter OF power, or unveil the most in
tricate law of nature;
AS he is taught in childhood, so.
with rare exception will he be in
manhood. If holy and noble pre-
cepts prevail. he will sway the scep-
ter with justice and moderation, if
not, the footprints Of tyranny will
mark his path. CorLEY.
The Railroad Law.
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