The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-01-21

heaven of good luck. The vanities which
they renounce in this world they expect to
get back in the world to come. They must
labor here, but they will have eternal pic
mic there. They must resist temptation
here, but they will be saints in spite Of
themselves there. Here they can do
without such trifes as riches, and parade,
and rank, but there they will strut on gold
and wear robes of white satin and be crown
princes, every one. Their Heaven catches
and keeps and furnishes mp for them every
thing they had thrown away on earth, ex-
cept the soul. Soul ii has none, and If 1t
had, that mighty captive would break away
from his voluptuous imprisonment. For
the soul Is intellect in quest of truth, right
eous will, proving its strength over tempts'
ton BY victories ever fresh and more and
more glorious sympathy with all other souls
as identical with itself in desire and possible
attainment, aspiration to become like God
by growth in everything that is Godlike,
pure energy that never fails or flags, but
rests on the wing like the albatross over
mid ocean. Is il any wonder, then, that all
schemes and contrivings for Joy wherein
the soul has nothing to dc but lie still and
be famed by perfumes of fortune disappoint
and vex it; that its never folding pinions
beat impa;iently against the bars of any
csge OF outward conditions. however gor
geous any paradise that is merely a grand
good fix? That sort of paradise
man had and left lorg ago. The
myths are true, whether heather or
Christian that put it in the beginning of bis
career. It was the epoch Of his childhood'
when he led q natural life, with none but
instructive wants which were easily quieted.
But as soon as his thoughts awoke and
looked around this play garden OF world
seemed too combining and mans natursl life
nakedness to be ashamed OF, and TO be clad
been going further and further away from
paradise, driven when he would not 90 will
ingly. But the Further be goes the greater
he is, and the greater he is the less ability has
be TO pause, for bis greatness is in ibis
thought, which types what things ought to
be- but are not, and which he is ever trying
to realize by transformation of them into
its likeness, SO that instead of the natural
man, there shall exist humanized nature.
Where nature has left wilderness, he will
have orchards; houses and cities he will sub
stitute for caverns; winds, floods, lightnings
and all cyclopean forces he trains as his ap-
prentioes; he works in his quarry that he
may build its material into a palace Of
art after the plan of his own spirit"
No man need 20 desplse money, but it
must be remembered that church is never
fact that kid-glOved religion is, of ell the
cheats that ever deceived men, the most
despicable. When religion has TO resort to
ali sortssof kickshows to maintain its stand
ing; when Christs apostles won't preach for
any sum less than is paid to bank presidents
and railroad presidents; when 5anctuaries(O
are sold out at auction, and pauper benches
are IN the rear of velvet cushions; when
men, full of roast turkey and plum pudding,
attempt to preach to men and women who
have dined on crusts or not dined at all
such churches and such apostles are played
out for usefulness. And yet the world is
full of such burlesques and farces bypocri
sic, and hsrlequins. aud the fact becomes
emphasized that there are those who like
Beecher, believe that there is no single
side of religion" that does not "run right
back to money"