The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-03-25

poses Of our existence In "thls mighty
maze but not In that plan, and can %.
lablish nothing rs 10 our drifting destiny.
Yesterday II was d0gmailoally detailed
how, from stock identical With It's present
progenoy, we have descended from our
hrsi parents IN Eden. To-day II is asserted
lower order OF animals, aud thence
perhaps from vegetables, aud thence
perhapa from minerals, 30 that oi
n verify We know not whether AM.
mai life, rs commended, inds les lirst maui
ieslhlions in the litlle, shapeless mobile
Jumps OF muous almost imperoepiibla 60
the naked eye, known m tue ollialed mon.
era, propagAting themselves 10 sexual
mono sRnic manner, marking the bonnu-
airy Inns seemingly between life aud non
fife, and then by some holy mystery pro.
dressing 70 the eplandor Oi hupfemlst intel.
lectual capacities. after the physical fashion
OF the transformations OF the muddy Stag
I hat issues from subterfanean furnaces, or
the lowest ocean cepths into thoee
glorious, grand masses whose now In:
accessible and rOseate peaks robed
Ia sunlight beauty do seem TO nlmosi
kiss the sky. IL IL this view OF our
weakness, OF this Effectiveness OF oompro'
hension that should make US much more
moderate In the estimate OF ourselves and
charitable and lenient toward our fellows.
II In true that here and there are 10 be
met
DIsAdREEnLE DISPOSITIONS,
carplug, cynical critics, saturated With the
sicily slime OF selilshness who seek the
"seat of tue scofnefn and on whom the hap
plness. the prosperity Of others. sit as q sort
OF personal oilenss, who can par
don n mnns failures but never for
give his doirg a thinE better than
themselves, whose mean minds delight Ia
sneoring and sooi,lng and iauli-hndiDg, At
everything but imprudent eiirontory and
victorious vice, whose chieiest consultations
ore the defects 81 men OF character and
prominence, and whose inieuses, joy Is
fsilowmap'a fall, hut they arc, let VS. hope
the rare exceptions. And now another
thought: The existence ottheea four insii-
tutiOns aId their spreading numbers indi-
cate two acts; first. the result OF an I'm.
provement IN the status OF our civilization;
and neztHcanse OF atill further improve
ment. Their value grows by whet u ieed'on.
rhey teach the virtues aud their practice
10 the social and toe political powers.
chey are a particular phrase OF
A DETER AND A DEIrERED DEVELOPMENT
and a potent element in the attaining OF
the general veal. They are promoter OF
genuine democracy by lessenlng the needs
for legislative restriction, nnd thereby ex-
tending our liberties. For, let II be oonced'
ed that government, In It's last Analysis, Is
an evil, though temporary convenience,
an incidental product Of circumstance and
not an essential concomitant Of pure civii-
Zetion, and whose forms and requirements
decay ns civilization improves; for
the ireer the government the less
{ G law. What n cage is for the wild beast,
: dungeon for the ielon, n strait jacket Tor
tuo mauisc or clutches for tho lame, gov
eminent Is for the wicked or the weak, for,
as has bean somewhere put, law, judges,
and iuries exist merely because knayery
exists, msei3terial force is the sequence OF
social corruption, ard the policeman Is but
the complement OF the criminal. The sys'
tenn OF phil snthrophy that correots such
code BY fitting its adherents 10 he guided
by noble impulses rather than be coerced
by comm nd, that frames character and d.
reefs conduc. from the basis Of sympathy
thatis GCd.like into practical bene7o-
lence that vs. az broad AS humanity Itself, i9
4 system that IL positively leading 10 . COO
tuuous political eniranchisement Under
such Influence this Ultimate development
OF poor, struggling man 10 80 Logically cor
tain, es clearly natural az the develop
mant Of the embryo, or the unfolding OF
flower. Tor, tell you that tho universal
law ofphyficsl modification Is also tho lay
of mental modification. And Just so eurely
as comes The time when the tree needs no
longer The pgogping, when the house re-
qures no more the scsiioding, when the
can detect the error ofa semitone
In tie sea Of sounds that flood the opera
house in the rendition OF one 81 uahfels
oratonos, when the hlscksmith's arm, AID
he laborer'5 hand, and the
sailors sight become thorough
IN adapted to their several uses
through exercise, oven like unto vice that |
,rystaliZes into granite hardness by induig- |
.nce. Just so surely must come the time
when the virtues OF themselves will rule |
political government.
And ] know OF no agency, save religion
only TO hasten that contamination 80 con-
as
THE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.
To Its membership let all credit and glory
attach. To him who is u true, faithful,
member there may not come the
Iaudatory fame of conqueror, but may be
The fate OF victim; he may neither BIO
brealsfasted in banquels on silver SAVERS.
nor be dined aud wined under delicious
stacks OF scented roses to compliment with
Pereian prodigeli,y OF perfume the deeds
that he has done, but he has unquestionabiy
rs unit what IL equnlec by
others would represent Niagara OF power
and Paradise Of plenty in the gardens
Of the good In his quiet .arcano, no stare
glitter on his breast, no banners recount
his achievements during his life, At his
death no national lsurels and no stsreo-
typed borrowings by polished periods pro-
ceim his past, but only silent tears shed IN
Inc secrecy OF sincerity. Sacred self-saoriiice
was his key-note to dnty, ard self
consciousness OF duty dore was the banquet
AZ which he ieasted, and the flower that
sy along the brestt of love aud waved even
when IL waned. HIS was the firm ness of
principle put into practice with the iergor
81 passion. What, though the chords OF
a refined sensibiiity as they were set GO
quick vibrations by the lowest notes OF
suffering swept under threadbsre coat Of
poverty, yet was he born king Of
men, towering among his fellows like a
Yosemite pine in the forest, and, though
destitute, still diGnifed, conscious that
there remained to him an order"
from which none could degrade him, and
that 8 star radiant as the one that burst
upon the vision at the lowly birth at Beth.
Iehem still shone about his heart, and