The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-11-26
TIE GLORY OF
Professor Wm. @. Su-


times right, tut much more frequent
IL wrong. la recent lecture the
professor said that parents owe chill
dren everything, as he considered
birth a great misfortune to many chill
dren.
1t is true that birth is a misfortune
to children who inherit disease and in
tirmities, for the parents, but the few
who do inherit disease from the par
ents, does not make birth a misfortune
He was right in his proposition, but
wrong in the conclusion that he at
tempted to draw. If he mad confined
his assertion to the simple declaration
that birth was a misfortune to those
that inherited disease, no one would
have said him nay, but the broad de-
claration that birth is a misfortune, is
al arrangement Of the Creator. Some
men may consider it misfortune that
other men were born, but, however dis
eased, crippled, deformed human be-
ing may be, life Is very precious, quite
as much so as it Is to the finest speci-
men Of manhood with perfect health
No man loves a misfortune, and the
fact, that all men love life, is PROOF
that life is blessing. There are very
few men who have ever lived that in
old age regret that they were born,
even if they took no other account of
life than the limited one we live in
this world. They may think,
as most men do, that their particular
lives had been harder to bear than the
lives of others, bat su inning up all
the pains Of life and utting them in
the scale with all the joys, the latter
brings down the beam in the life of
every man.
Many men make this life very
wretched, but it is made so alone by
their own selfshness. They are too
much absorbed in self 80 much so that
they become mOrOidly sensitive, and
then life with them is torture, but
any man whose he, rt is open to the
kindly affections friend s, home and
family, has befor him q rich field of
happiness that if he doe not garner
into his own brains, and his moth and
rust corrupt, it is his My fault. In
fact some. men have no sense enough
to be happy. but the large majority OF
men are happy.
Life is Gods first, greatest blessing
1t Is not the mere birth of new child
that fills the young mothers heart
with tenderest joy. 1t is the knoWl-'
edge that an immortal intellect and
soul is born into the world, not limit
ed TO IS clay habitation of the world,
but TO live on, and grow and develop
throu h the endless cycles of eterni-
ty. Men may deny this glori>
Gus immortality and for them
birth is indeed misfortune, but we
feel it within US, we know that we
live not merely for this beautiful
world, but that we will live on and on
through endless wo-lds more beauti-
full than imaginations can picture.
The child owes everything to the
laiiSntS 1G6aNn1-the parent an i'm
Professor Summers
most penicioJss thatever
man dared to ydtter. 1t is calculated
to break up all those tender ties that
are hallowed by parental authority. 1t
Is calculated to teach INSTRUMENTATION
and rebellion to the home circle and to
lead youth on to license that must
lead to the penitentiary or the galloWs.
Out upon such a doctrine. 1t sounds
like the weak and pulling complaints of
a hypocondriac, senile and impotent
to body and mind, fit only for the hos-
pital walls and the barred windows.
There is no life in it, it is dead prin.
clple, a morbid and unnatural fancy,
that will be endorsed only in the walls
OF a.lunatic asylum.
What is life in splendid health =?
The very existence then, is of exquis-
ite joy, filling the man or woman
with noble purposes and with bound
ing pulses of this very life, they press
on to win an earthly, and way beyond
that, heavenly goal, for which they
feel capacity equal to its enjoyment.