Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26
TIMELY TOPICS.
SAYS Dwight: ~ know no other path to
thrones but that of blood"

SAYS Dwight: ~ know no other path to
thrones but that of blood"
WASHING TONS birthday was celebrated in
many places by holding anti-polygamy meet
ings, to denounce the twin relic, land demand
its abolition. 80.
THE moral quality of the act of issuing
passes to legislators, judges and other public
functiouaries is under sharp and warm dis
cussion in many quarters.
Who has not observed the restlessness OF
human ambition? Who of us can say, ~ am
contented?" We all look forward to some
thing yet to come. The scenes of to-day dis
gust us, and we are pleased with the visions
of tomorrow.
HAWTHORNE, the novelist, once said that a
man highly educated might lose himself in
his learning, like bees in their honey. That
is, they might become utterly inpracticable in
regard to all the sensible material affairs Of
life, simply learn ed ounces.
THE Christian Leader says of the late Rich.
lawyer, that he practically as well as theoreti-
cally refused to act, on the axiom that a law
yer had but one duty, that of screening his
client. Mr.. Dana strenuously insisted that no
profession could release one from the paramount
claims of eternal right. There are other pro-
fessional gentlemen, not few, who take
like high ground.
MORNING Star: The great beauty of the
gospel of Christ is to be found in it's simpli-
city. 1t is so simple that a, child or wayfar
ing man need not err. "He may run that read
eth it," 1t appeals to the heart as well as to
the head. Its acceptance is all the condition
that is required, and its effect is instantaneous,
radical, sovereign and satisfactory. The change
S wrought in moment, and it is as simple as
stopping and turning about in ones course of
life.
THE Princess Beatrice has lately been Illus
trating birthday book, and now her royal
sister, the Princess Louise, who has been So
journer in Canada while her husband, the
marquis of Lorne, has been governor general,
is about to contribute to Good Words series
of drawings illustrative of Quebec and its sur
roundings. They are now being engraved,
and will be published Immediately, along with
historical and descriptive notes, and poem on
Quebec by the marquis ofLorne.
SAYS writer: Nothing but Immortality
can satisfy the mind of man. The mind of
man is immortal. The ocean only can fill the
oceans bed. How vain, then, in man to i'm
agine satisfaction in the requirement of any
thing perishable Was earth our home, then
to be ambitious would be wise. But we are
bound to immortality; and he who on the
Didalian wings of his ambition, seeks his
happiness in worldly acquisitions, will be
sure to fail.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Inde-
pendent, with audacious, brazen efrontry,
writes to that journal offering some fifty man
uscript sermons of deceased eminent divine
for sale, to be preached over again by any bold,
plagiaristic purchaser who may dare to use
them. The Independent raps the correspond
ent over the knuekles by saying "that any
minister in any denomination in America
using these sermons as suggested would be re-
garded as doing criminal act, and would be
liable to degradation therefor from the minis
try.
RELIGIOUS Herald: The Scotch ir.tree is,
to my mind, the best symbol of the Christian.
The least of earth is required for its roots; it
finds nourishment in dry soil amid barren
rocks, and yet, green in winter as in summer,
it towers the highest of all the trees of the
wood toward the sky, and with least of earth
makes the greatest approach to heaven. So
it is with the tree OF Gods planting. With
the least of earth about its roots, it towers
tine nearest to heaven; deriving nourishment,
not from the earth below, but from the SUM-
beams that fall upon it, and the raindrops
that sprinkle it, supported by the hidden
nourishment that comes from God.
AN orthodox religious journal speaking Of
the doctrines of the inspiration OF the Bible in
connection with the reformers of the Lutheran
era, says: "The truth is the reformers had no
especial doctrine of inspiration, as it was not
necessary that they should have; each believed
that theory that commended itself to his best
Judgment. And that is the only right ground
to stand upon to-day" Here to orthodox
minds is startling looseness of statement;
and religious contemporary asserts that it
amounts to this, that it is allowable for church
members to believe, to half believe, or to
reject wholly the inspiration of the scriptures,
as they may elect.
TIE sensation of Oscar Wilde in Boston was
due to his keen and ready wit. Sixty Of the
Harvard boys had concocted the scheme OF en-
tering the hall in body, dressed in knee
breaches with wigs of flowing hair, and other
decorations of the order. Whispers Of this
coming to the ear of Wilde, he detained his
lecture hour to change his costume.
which was the ordinary evening dress. In his
introduction he alluded to the signs of artistic
decoration, and said: "My sentiments are
friendly to all species of art, although I am
sometimes led to pray, Deliver me from my
disciples -" Mr.. Emerson does not accord
to Wilde pure literary taste. A contempor-
airy feels very sure that if Margaret Fuller
were living she would trample his poems I'M
der her feet. She would not soil her soul by
reading them.
THE Boston Congregatioma1ist dis
courses in this way upon the great falling of
in infant baptism in the Pedobaptist churches: