Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-22
TIMELY TOPICS.

TIMELY TOPICS.
NEARLY two hundred of the memb ers of
st. Francis and st. Johns Roman Catholic
churches, in Cincinnati, have suddenly
developed into Spirisualists Their action
was severely denounced from the puIpits
of both OF these churches, and during the
week active efforts were made
to avoid the influence of the mediums.
Families have been divided, and the re-
gion in the vicinity of the churches named
is much wrought up over the matter. To
yield to spiritualistic teachings is consid-
cred a grave transgression by the Catho-
lies. The Bishop of Bohemia has become
SO much alarmed at the rapid spread of
splritualism in that country, that believ-
ing proscriptive measures necessary, he
has declared any one protesting belief in
spiritualistic doctrines to be guilty of
heresy.
IT is announced that history of the
Northern Pacific railroad from the incep-
ton of the enterprise in 1884 to the open
ing of tho line from Lake Superior and
the Mississippi valley to Puget Sound on
the Pacific coast in 1888, by Eugene V.
Smalley, shortly to be published by G. p.
Putnam's Sons, will treat of early explora-
tions and discoveries in the Northwest:
the effort to open commercial highway
by the route of the Missouri and Columbia
valleys, began in President Jefferson's
time: the formation nroprarc ood ,,;o;.c;
tudes of the Northern Pacific company,
and the building of its line across the con-
tinent; and will include chapters devoted
to descriptions of the new, fertile, and
picturesque regions traversed by the road,
and now inviting the settler and the tour
ist. 1t will be an octave, illustrated by
numerous full-page engravings, from orig
inal sketches, photographs and paintings.
SEVERAL questions are asked of contem-
porary, and the answers given as follows:
What is the middle verse in the Bible? The
eighth verse of the CXVIII. Psalm, and is
as follows: 1t is better to trust in the Lord
than to put confidence in man. Who
wrote the lines ending something like thisb
Bid me not here good night,
But in some better cline
Bid me good morning.
Anna Letitia Barbauld wrote the lines
referred to in her poem on "Life" Here
is the whole stanzas:
Life! We've been long together,
Through pleasant and cloudy weather;
IT'S hard to part when friends are dear;
Perhaps twill cost sigh, a tear;
Then steal away, give little warning,
Choose thine own time,
Say not "Good Night" but in some brighter
Bid me 'Good Morning"
What is the significance or meaning of
the phrase, ga Roland for an Oliver?" 1t
signifies a blow for blow, tit for tat.
Recorded tradition has it that Roland and
Oliver were two of the paladins of Charlie
magne, whose exploits are so similar that
it is very difficult to keep them distinct.
What Roland did Oliver did. At length
the two met in single combat and fought
for five consecutive days on an island in
the Rhine, but neither gained the least ad-
vantage.
"A MAN is immortal till his work is
DONE" True; it is the sense that there is
"a divinity that shapes our ends, rough
hew them as we may" A Christian be-
lever feels assured that his destiny is in
the hands of Omnipotent power, and too
often thinks, do what he may, he is secure
till his destiny is fulfilled. And, yet, there
is limit to human endurance. 1t may
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veritable fact, that a man who palpably
disregards the laws of health,
who overtasks his strength and
exhausts his powers, mental or ,physi-
cal, and thus shortens his life, is suicide.
"Better wear out than to rust out" is
pernicious assertion. 1t is at variance
with common senso. 1t is not right to do
either. The 90 nothing drone, rusting
out, is only worthy of contempt, while the
over active exertion of the busy, under the
Immense activity of the pressure of super
incumbent responsibility is an object of
pity, so far as we see
him steadily exhausting his powers,
and pursuing his rapid funeral
march to near by, open grave. The harp
of a thousand strings thus unwisely, con-
stantly, recklessly played upon, cannot
endure the strain, and one after another
will give way, heart and brain will fail, and
ere the man reaches the allotted three
score and ten years, he will fall in mid
career, victim of overtaxed powers, and
defiant disregard of the memorable laws
of health, which cannot be violated with
impunity.
ROYALTY is not exempt from the sorrows
of our common humanity. Sickness and
death come to the high and mighty as to
others, and bereavement and mourning
cloud the pathway of regal life. The death
of her faithful, favorite servant, plain John
Brown, has excited in Queen Victoria's
woman's heart the deepest emotions of
grief. He was favorite of Prince Albert,
and remained the steadfast, faithful, de-
voted servant of the widowed queen till the
day of his death. She has paid tender
tribute to his memory, quite unpre-