The Dillon tribune., 1883-08-11
Hiseell'nrs.
Thu. Daily Press.

Tht Daily Press.
whe all tines must b.iug their own
distractions aud, it may he. seem more
feverin and full Of tr, mors than any
time ser has been to those who have 20
wearythrough them, and grow sore III
them nd sad, we c..n hardly fail to b.
more lneasy than orr fathers werc. ne
causethese gre day such US the fathers
never even dreamed Ct. The whole
worlt makes your home and mine WIS
perily gallery through the daily pap RS
and j is'the business Of the papers TO
give Is the distraction rather than the
q4liAhess Of the passing days. SO IL one
MN in q million brea. the order OF the
Gay by some fearful crime there he stands
TO arrest our attention and compel US to
forget the mi lion, save one, who have
gonequietly about the days duti a. An
inun1atiou hides from VA Ill the rivers
whith flow ssrene!y to the sea, and one
volcanic outbreak all the mountains that
stanl qni. t.y clad in pines and crowned
with white glory, and fire like that by
Laks Huron brings the smell 1t fire as
We ..ad Of il, as II is It'll raging, into
our living rooms and offices.
And this 10 the way the times takes us
captive wherever We turn. 1t use! to he
sad Of the wicked, they are like
troubled sea. It il in some sense true
nov of the whole life We have to live,
when time and space are lost in the tele-
graph wires, and the day draws near
Wien we shall put girdle round tue
world in forty minutes. Is there . trial
liie that in Washington, we are all III
thu court together listening to the shame
FIJI laughter, a. we were all in the White
House Watching the shadows Of death
gather slowly on the face Of our good
dad President. Nothing can befa|l
men, painful, shameful, aud perplexing,
which does not seem to be brought close
10 hand by the daily paper. the horror
in Grand street jars ill the walls which
can be tainted with suspicion, not in
New York alone, but in all other cities
between this and the Pacific Ocean, and
touches the nerve 90 that through this
disturbance we are all restless
In our way. Those who feel real iuter-
est, again, in the Questions which touch
the inner and the higher life have to deal
as they can with the distractions the
papers bring.
In the days Of the fathers, il q man
began to doubt, whether the foundations
bf his faith were stable, or the teach.
ings Of his lifetime true, the chances
were that his name would not be heard
, hundred miles away, or his trouble dis
turb any qui+ heart outside his synod
Or county; but now man shall preach
sermon thousand miles away that his
church counts heresy. and before next
Sunday the contents of that sermon will
be preached again by every fireside
where it can find entertainment, and
wheu he is tried we are all there listen.
ing to the evidence aud wondering
whe Q we shall look for the sure founda.
lion. Or if it please men we can all
name to 60 from town to town and bid
The people witness how they can pull
down in one hour the slow and painful
building of the ages; aud do il to the
OF their listeners, amid vast
slamor and dust, the journals come in
again to report where the hammer
seemed TO make its heaviest mark. and
then there il the new touch Of distrac-
lion and the wonder whether there 10 .
sure foundation after all on which We
can rest and build for the better life, or
those who teach are not deceiv.
Bra and those who hear deceived. These
are the distractions that touch our times
~ they have touched no other time since
The world stOtki. 10 there q disturbance
10 nature, might almost say we are
there 20 watch it and take the shock,
Does the pestilence walk in darkness, or
the bullet slnite in monday, We hear the
means Of the diving through the columns
ot the press AZ If they came by the t+le-
phone aid no feature is forgotten of the
lead. Does faith suffer or seem to stand
1t buy, Or travail toward new birth in
some man worth mention, W. are all in
The secret, aud it becomes to great mum.
Iers a. their own deep concern.
We never take up p psr in which the
Alarm bells IRE not ringing for some new
surprise in nature, in life or in religion.
md while most Vt the sounds which dis.
;urhed the life of the fathers were
'oftcned by time and distance. we seem
% dwell in the very bell chamber, aud
e"U" o"0 e''AOuBu ttlc Ci0uROE t18C
mites GU ths heart and brain forever.
Aud 70 1t is most natural that we should
'sk whether thore can l.s such quiet.
less in our time rs this prophet touches.
Md then whether we can find il: what
ire these foundations Of God and nature.
II life and in religion. and how shall We
quill on them so that he that believeth
hal not make ha>te.-Dr. C0ilyer,
CAN this be an extract from the diarx
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