The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-05-19

leastl" Thus the Trainer ofthe universe lets
fail upon the children in this desert the mama
of day. When that is gone, its sweetness
all exhaled, then comes up again by night
strange, invisible cloud which rains down
food once more. All things thus indicate that
man has long pilgrimage to make in one
world or another.
Thus before the problems of property and
learning, man stands weeping because of the
unopened books; but behold be is inspired
by the very things unseen, and every power
of mind and body is developed by the pur-
suit. A socialism which should limit his
property would ruin the mind We should
not have even mediocTity, for, take away the
possibility Of great property, and even the
mediocrity of industry and gain would de-
cline. Just such ruin should we witness,
should a community of mind be declared,
and all brains should be limited to reading,
writing and arithmetic, and to only an hour
a day of intellectual toll even amid these
simple shapes of study. 1t is away from such
fetters, it is out in the presence of the in
determinable that the soul rises up to its
highest stature. The possibilities of each new
day are to the honorable a trumpet-call to
new labor, and out of this new Inspiration
come the material and mental grandeur of
our world.
There remains one more problem, which
| shall call the possibility of death. 1t
is perfectly possible for you and me TO die
next month or next autumn or next
year. 1t is problem whether you
will be anywhere in the streets of earth
a year or five years hence. We need not
pause over the statement of this impressive
uncertainty. We need not awaken our
sleeping sorrows by recalling the multitude
of those who have gone from Us of late days
gone in their youth or middle life, gone
when they fully expected to stay. You all
know the height aud depth of this inquiry.
1t needs no amplifcation, for the problem of
when will this world end to you or me is so
strange and deep that nothing can be added
to it by any rhetoric. When will you cease
to liver What an unopened bookI No one
on earth can break the seals and read the
hidden date But now mark the human sue
cess that comes from this enigma. / do not
say that n greater success may not be COM
ing to the inhabitants of some other world
by some other influence than that of an un-
certain grave, but of man rs he is we must
speak. Look at
THE TWO VAST FACTS
which greet al born into earth ~ We
can not stay here always The earth would
not contain all its countless millions did none
die If other thousands of millions are to
come, then we must pass away. To come to
such little world at all necessitates II short
stay. We can visit earth, but we can not
live here. The second fact (2) is that we
are imperfect beings and this awful removal
from this place must come in some manner
that will help make us nobler men and wO-
men while we stay. The Almighty. there
fore, says: Il will remove each generation
in SO years, but / will conceal from each one
his own day of DOOM" When disease swoops
across the land all will fear, but all will not
die When the dark cloud comes up from
the horizon, and when the lightnings fash,
and the thunder makes the hills tremble all
will wait in strange silence, but not all will
die; out upon the seas, in the storm, all the
inmates of the ships shall pray but only one
ship shall become tomb, and thus all shall
seem on the confines of death always. and in
such pathetic world shall they think their
thoughts and plan their actions. From early
life to old age each one born into this planet
shall be unable to boast of to morrow, for be-
tween him and the future he will see this
shadow lying.