The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-10

enemy--theroby. instead Of a dead man. ne had
thereafter good soldier We come OK race
that fail aud fall and sleep in the presence Of ai
enemy, but we are not shot when our inheri-
tance thus weighs us down. If we ask for pardon
it comes, and by our faith and our pardon we ara
brought nearer to God.
II was said Of one poor woman she liz much
forgiven, for she loved much. And 1t ought to
be said Of u.s. We love much because we are much
forgiven. Baffled, beaten and asleep, the disci-
pie is not left to the devil He who could not
watch with his Savior one hour is watched by his
Savior all his hours and is brought off at last e
conuueror, and more than a conquer0r-not by
his love to Christ, but by the mighty love Of
Christ to him.
1t would seem to me that in meddlinc with
nature we must be careful. 1t has been sug-
gested that Cherry Creek better be abolished.
Certainly it is in the way but how shall we aboi-
ish It'll Possibly it might be diverted, bat not at
right angles. / suppose swamp has uses--if no
other this, that it holds back delays the
water. Drain the swamp send the water
quickly to the river and you will
have flood. The question in Indiana is not
how to drain land. but how not to drain it. The
State is not clearing land now it is planting
lumber What so fine frontier to nation as
an ocean or great desert. America is well
fenced in from foreign trouble by nature, and SO
is Soudan. The best defense against modern
artillery is the simplest; the positive natural de-
Tense. an earthwork. Nature has something to
say for herself. Before extirpate nature let US
hear what she has to say. Every custom has a
reason. The pillow of Egypt is not such poor
instrument for a rainless country as may be
thought II stirs the earth like
mole A Mexican has reasons for think
ing that oxen can draw more and easier
by the neck than by the shoulders The Hudson
bay packer uses his neck, shoulders and back
Ii you are going to make portage it will be bet
ter to let him teach you than for you to teach
him. The best boat crew in the world learned
their victorious stroke not from professor but
from their fathers Their endurance they have
inherited They are the children and grand
children OF the men who came down the great
rivers and along the lakes to find the great
west" every one of them, man and woman with
paddle in hand. These children were predes-
tined boatsmen. Four of these children of the
French voyagers Of 200 years ago build their own
boat and go over the ocean. and paying no atten-
ton to any rules but those born in them van
quish all the crews that contend with them.
Great Is nature. Put all your thoughts upon
it and make you suit of clothes for an arctic
winter, and the Esquimaux you find beyond the
circle is better clad for the climate than you
are. The skin of the reindeer is warmer than
the skin of mink or otter 10 live as long as an
Esquimaux you must live as he does-in an ice
house. Eat what he sets before you, wear what
he wears. This is the testimony of Lieutenant
Schwatka- In proving all things and holding
fast that which is good, you will have both
hands filed with old things. Cattle men tell
me that the very widest savageness, even of
cattle, is valuable, enables them to rustic and
find living on the plains. The
refined and utterly civilized cattle, in
the struggle for existence. fail and
fall Perhaps the qualities we are shocked to see
in our children--the signs Of the natural savage
have a value. They will need, in the battle Of
of life, the old force
There is great deal of rough work to be dona
in the world. 1t will not do to make the chill
dren too fine. Simple amiabeness will not do
Good nature will not do 1t must be strong ma
ture, it must be human nature. Into St Paul
must be carried over all the earnest zeal and
steady strength of Saul of Tarsus These quail.
ties must be kept and rededicated. The soldier
becoming Christian does not cease to be
soldier. He is henceforth good soldier Of Jesus
Christ
How thus to make men good and not to make
them weak is the question.