Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-07-29
Thoughts for the Thoughtful, by a
Thinker.

has been said that man is dual being, pos
sessed of two natures, animal and angelic.
And so, according to the development of his
angelic or love nature be will love the little
child. When the animal nature is in the as
tendency there is little love for anything.
When mans animal nature predominates he
is a coarse, brutal creature, warning upon
his fellows, indulging in gluttonous and riot
GUS living, glorying in his physical strength
and ayoirdnpois weight. He thinks that
might makes right. He cannot comprehend
that the weak have rights, and when his Sa-
vior says, "Lore your neighbor as yourself"
he cannot comprehend the command at all.
Only as his spiritual nature becomes enlight>
ened can he understand i. Is he to blame
for this? He did not make himself. He has
to take himself as he finds himself with only
one-half of his nature developed. He finds
himself tethered by antenatal conditions,
and if he makes any Improvement in his
short pilgrimage here it must be in part at
least by the help of his fellows that have
been more fortunate than himself. So you
see the need OF the command, "help ye one
another "carry each others burdens" And
Won must obey the command; you cauuuJ get
ma VI IL. 1ou cannot live, like Robinson
Crusoe, each in q world of his own. So
each one must help to deyelope his neighe
boris angelic part as well as try to strength
en- his OWE He must not hide his light under
a bushel but put it bravely on a hill to be
seen of all. As the angels part Of man be-
comes developed and strengthened he will
have more love for the weak, more sympathy
for the erring, more care for the helpless. He
will pity rather than blame. Instead of hat
ing the wrong doors he will hate the wrong
done. He will make less wars upon his fel-
lows. He will indulge less in guttonous and
riotous living. There will be fewer street
fights, less whippings Of women and children,
less capital punishment, less murder, less in
toxicating liquor will man drink and less tOs
baceo will he use. Less pork will he eat and
less flesh of other animals will he eat, for
his love nature will rebel against torturing
and killing those that are weaker than him~
self. Strength lies in the brain, in the in,
tellect, for man without an enlightened
brain, an expanded intellect, is himself but a
pusillanimous creature. He cannot either
control himself or others, even the lower an
imals So l say it is according to each ones
status of development that he loves the little
child unquestioningly. Not that it is q part
of his own flesh and blood or that it is res
direction Of himself; but its helplessness, its
innocence, its beauty, its playfulness appeal
TO his love nature and stimulates him to pro-
tect the child ana to provide for its physical,
mental, moral and spiritual wants. When
man himself is better developed than he is
now he will welcome and provide for all his
children born into this sphere without stop
ping to consider whether the child was born
in his image or not, or whether the parents
of the child performed certain ceremonies
before the world previous to its advent or
not and when he makes those provisions he
has to make them out of the material he has
at hand. He cannot do otherwise and he
will make them according to his development
capacity. How many years age if a father
was giving his daughter wedding outfit he
could give her a sewing mrchine Or he
could go down town and buy his infant son a
baby jumper Or the ten year old veloci-
pe6e? He has to be governed in a great
measure by his proyidings, in his care, in
his government of and for the child by his
own antenatal condition and the antenatal
conditions of his fellows and also bv the an
tenatal conditions Of the child for whom he
is providing. Neither does the angelic part
of man stop to question if the child is like
ly to prove worthy of his love; whether the
child has superior organism or not And if
he sees that the child is deficient he will
mourn over it, or try to overcome, in part at
least, the defect by more careful culture,
better surroundings. He will not for a mo,
ment allow himself to feel hatred or dislike
for the unfortunate child. He will feel pity
f. him. Now why does not man carry the
ioye feeling he has for the child on through
life ? Why cannot the man of 40 or so have
the same love for the man 20 or 25 years his
senior or junior Simply because of his
own undeveloped condition, his own angelic
nature is not cultured, enlightened, expand
ed. His angelic nature is like a seed that
has not grown, or if grown has just sprouted
and is yet weak and feeble plant If the
seed is planted in poor soil, that is, poor SUR
roundings, and receives little culture YOU
need not expect much of a crop. How could
you more in the field of humanity than in the
field of corn? All nature Is governed by
the same law and | want to ask which is the
more important crop, humanity or that which
he eats Some people act as though the
vegetable was the more important. The
more man helps to develope his neighbor's
angelic nature by the soft answer that turn.
eth away wrath, by kindness, by politeness
and consideration, always remembering that
so doing even un to the least is doing unto
the whole, the more does he develo9e his
own, the better does he provide for his off.
spring and smoother will be his path, the
more charity he manifests for others the
more he shall receive himself The more
man entertains those two bears bear and for
bear the greater will be his reward in Heav-
en-. And what is heaven, the greater will be
his reward in heaven i? What could that
mean but greater gain in peace, in love, in
in an aytla or,A
velopement of his angelic nature For heas
ven must mean a condition as well here as
anywhere. But man has always b2en looking
atar oil for his heaven; not seeing that when
he bore the scathing rebuke patiently, or
forbore the harsh answer, the bitter retort,
that he avoided the quarrel, or escaped the
war. He did not arouse the animal in his fell
low but strengthened his own better part and
so had his reward without waiting for it in
the long future. And why heaven? Whence
the name Why up? But that he had to
look up for something more beautiful than
his rough, stony earth. Not but there is a
great deal of beauty on and in this earth, but
that he sees no imperfections in the heavens
above his head, but all is beauty But he
has in blind way conceived of heaven in
a future sphere where he expects to 90 when
he leaves this Why in blind, indefinite
way has he conceived Of heaven, a condi-
ton where all shall be beautiful, but because
his own angelic nature was not sufficiently de-
veloped And consequently his ideas of a
heaven were all on material plain. He . ic-
tured it out as great and beautiful city,
place instead of a condition. He adorned it
with to him precious stones and gold, that
which he found to be of value to him in his
present condition. The red man has pic
tured it as an extensive hunting ground
where he would not have to suffer the pangs
of hunger waiting for the game to appear All
in accordance with his present development,
The Mahommedan as q vast har em peopled
with beautiful hoarias, where he would enjoy
seusuous pleasures. Why should the Ma.
picture such heaven Because
his laws and customs debar FRI. Intercourse
between the male and female p.gts OF man.
His law had violated the natural law, and so
his greatest .dea Of bliss would be the resto-
ration of the natural condition. The poor
man struggling with poverty naturally looks
forward TO that heaven or condition in which
he can have gold. that which represents all
other material things and, in his enthusiasm,
enough even to walk upon. The overworked
man looks forward to a place of rest and
dreams of angels perfect beings soothing
his narrowed nerves with Divine music, and
man with the animal part alone developed
has created q He'll to put his enemies in He
never puts his loved ones in it. When he
makes his hell he never sees shat il is all in
his own breast that be alone, the one tina
has hell, suffers its toFtures But as mans
angelic part becomes developed he discovers
hat Nall &. ind al N.nsf .