Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-01-13
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that he sang it with "the spirit and the
understanding.
Perhaps | was never happier than
when called few nights later TO see
this man in n bilious collie. | was on
tip.toe to see how man who could
~ing with "the spirit and the under
standing, Jerusalem. oh, how long
for thee" in eight different tunes,
would behave with II strong collie. !
never had n patient look up into my
face with more of that pathetic appeal
oh doctor, save me save me -
learned afterward that he sang this
grand Jerusalem song frequently, and
often with "farawav look" but in
the Immediate presence of collie he
cried, "My God, am afraid it is all
over with me ! On doctor, can't You
give me some. hing powerful? III take
anything!'
When n moment of relief came
could not resist saying:
"You sang 'JerusaIem, oh how ]
long for thee with such feYvor that l
rather expected to find YOU willing to
60" "Oh, don't talk that way ~ he
cried; that's very different thing
that's only singin'. Oh, doctor, it's
AGO min, it's u cOmin'!'
When the gripes got a good hold, l
never saw human face with less of
the "far-away look" in it. On the con-
trary. there was an expression of in
tense interest in something very near
home.
Immortality is the great, overwholm-
ing fact of the universe; the hope of il,
~, Il II, ~
sits down, soaked in tobacco surfeited
with gluttonly, unclean without and
within careless OF his obligations 10
family, society and country shuts his
eyes 10 all about him, and bawls
''Jerusalem, my happy home. Oh,
how | long for thee" is blind, stupid,
snpaking coward.
B 1T that is not precisely wha: wish
to say THIS is moro like it. While
on our journey in this life, cheered and
comforted by the hope of heaven, wo
should not forget tho duties Of our
present state. That is much better.
The world moves, even the theolOg-
zeal world. The evangelical church in
which | try to maintain an humble
membership, a church which think
is more evangelical than all the other
churches put together, even this church
moves. | shall not tell You which
church II Is, but our rector, q man with
u threestOry head and n ten. story
heart, said 10 us the other day that
Christ died TO save man, and not, as
the Old-time theology taught, 10
save the soul of nan. He died to dig
nifty, elevate and glorify the body not
one whit less than the soul; and that's
what the Is bile means when il says, Il
present my body livirg sacrifice, holy
and acceptable" etc. Even our church
moves, and that means that tho very
mountain of orthodoxy has joined in
the nineteenth century march. This
gives me the profoundest satisfaction,
and relieves the despair which the lack
OF sympathy in our school, with tho
vital movements of the hour, had be-
gun to engender in my very soul.
When an old man begins to talk you
can't tell where he will come out, or
whether he will ever come out ut all.
What | meant to say, and perhaps
might have better said in single par
agraph, is this:
There is a strong tendency among us
to dodge all the practical, vital ques-
tions which press close around and
upon us, and give ourselves in an IN
dolent spirit 10 dreaming about the dis
tant and unimpOrtant.- Lei0ts'S
MOHtbIy for Janu0ry
The dog Question,