The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-21
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY JUNE21 1882

and the foaming rapids of the wild river. No,
ne reads poetry, and not infrequently makes
81 tSs ss, s az w, wsitng poetry To S IN
Drought her TO her sad estateG
LOVE.
What viii cure her? Scorn? contempt? OF
no. she viii answer scorn for corn. What. wi
OF the great pity of Christ a great love is born
and on the tide OF this emotion al her sins ar,
| swept away-olottedo out. she Is a new creature
much forgiven because she loved much
We who have much 10 do with children FIND
that bad books are reformed by gentle displace
Inent-substitution. THE Life of the james
Brothers may be taken away, and what shall We
"Bosion's Fourfold Slater" or Edwards on
1.-THE WIFI No. There are good books of as
wild adventure as has been Known by any Mis-
We will displaee THE Life of the James Broth.
ers by The Life OF Daniel Boone" by the story
OF LaSalle, of Miles Standfsh, and 50 lead the
boy gently along to "Plutarcb's Lives {" aud from
"Plutarch" 10 Lakes Lives Of Saints
have seen a small boy IN the chimney corner
seorch his head over Pilgrims Progress"
He could not go TO sleep until he knew that the
giants were dead and that Great Heart was
safely on his way.
THE SECRET is TO SUBSTITUTE
new green leaf for dead one. as nature does
THE Hop Picker's Secret on the Bluffs of the
Baraboo' may have been interesting novel
one OF our best lawyers takes this kind of liter
ture with him on summer vacation, and coming
home find some of il In my valise. when men
slept the enemy came and sowed tares" But the
yellow covered is beaten in its own line of in
terest by the book Two Years Before the Mast !"
by the journal of DIR. Kane" by 1.-The Cruise of
the Polaris" and 'Jeannette," or by any story of
People complain that the Indian hunter and
warrior by centuries of habit does not al once at
a signal from Washington. become farmer. a
tater-raiser." 1t can not be done. 1t required
four centuries 10 make Norman savage and pi-
rate into an English farmer. What can be done?
Make the Indian INTO farmer by natural steps
Horse tanning and herding are wild and free, not
unlike war and the chase. There is a cal for the
same qualities. Already the Chippeway will
chop, but he draws the line on shoyeling.
AND so DOL
Give us time and lead MS gently and we will
honor the spade as much as cur fOrefathers did
the bow, although 1 do not think that we will
write as good song about the useful implement.
Perhaps Upper might write one of his songs.
We who have known grief have at last found a
cure for It, Not in thinking about il does surcease
lie not in lighting it by going to theaters and by
taking morphine
''No soothing syrup Of the earth will medicine
us to sleep again, that sweet sleep had but yes
terday." What will? Pity-pity for the greater
grief OF others In this our smaller personal grief
sea-" Florence Nightingale has her own private
loss and sorrow. but when she walks among the
dying and the grateful in the awful wards of
Scutari. how little she thinks of herself.
. In great and holy employment our personal
griefs that seemed once, when we were idle, like
go out
LET me first 90 snd bury my father" mo-"
said the Msstef, "there is no consolation In that
to him or 70 you Go preach the Gospel
10 the living sick and poor There is
consolation in that" Life els very precious.
All that man has he will give
for his life. end he sits around and thinks and
1lks about his hc''th, and turnlog his eyes in
his Owl insides, weighs his food and keeps a
diary. The state OF his stomach and the state of
his soul absorb him.
Now give him anxiety about other people. turn
the thoughts out and up, and for the sake of
friend or cause or country or Christ, he will
count his life worth less than the dust on his
udals.
To lose the less in the greater is the secret of
health and life and power. In the thought of
the present opportunity the past is forgotten and
IN the thought OF the future the suferings of the
present are not much remembered.