Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-06-01
The Esltsare Life.

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The f'nture Life.
The march of the mind in it's great
quest for truth is like q work Of tun-
neling through mountain. Marvel
GUS is the engineers sagacity that di-
rects the advance; mighty are the
forces that slowly blast the rock; strong
are the arms and resoiutc the hearts
that push their way on through tho
darkness toward the light beyond. But
out on the mountain-si1e the glad sun
light is poured; every. dew-drop glis-
tens in it, every flower drinks it, birds
sing and children play iu its embrace.
So, while thinkers are working their
way, there are countless folk. simple or
learned, who daily live in untroubled
and happy sense Of divine love. from
which they can never escape.
1t is Life itself which. with, its vari-
Gus voices, teaches Us the best things
worth knowing. And the yoicesiwhich
come to us with sovereign authority
are those of Love and Death, land,
for the mothers sake, shall we add,
Birthp Let one OF the chief Of women
interpret for the mothers,-it is Eliza
beth Barrett Browning, speaking to
two parents who mourn their child as
lost:
Nay, there let me break with your pain:
Code generous In giving, say i;
And the thing which He gives. I deny
That He ever can take back again.
He gives what he gives, appeal
To all who bear babes. In the hour
When the veil of tho body we foel
Rent round us,-whle tOrments reveal
The mothcrhoods 8 advent in power,
And the babe criesl-has each OF us known
BY apocalypse God being there
Fullin nature) the child is our own,
Through all changes, all times. everywhere
He lends not; but gives 20 tho end,
AS He loves to tho end. II II seem
That he draws back o gift, comprehend
'Tis to add to It rather,-amend,
And finish 1t up to your dream,--
Or keep, as u mother may toys
Too costly, though given by herself,
Till the room shall be stiller from noise,
And the children more fit for such joys
Kept over their heads on the SHELF"
So speaks the woman. And what
has the man to sayP Here is he whom
we boast as the wisest aud highest
among our American suthors,-a man,
too, so wrapt in philosophic thought,
so happy in his lonely contemplation,
that he seems generally to stand apart
from the Struggling wOrk-a-day world,
where most of us live. But 'theman is
father, like other men; his boy dies,
and how does he bear itP He puts his
heart into the tenderest poem he ever
wrote, the "Threnody" He, looks
longingly hack ON just such pictures
as other parents do,-the thrpng of
children about the baby in his, willow
wagon, led by the boy ''withs sunny
face of sweet repose, ,n--the painted
sled, the snow fort, the sand castle,
the garden of which his ''blessed feet
had trod every step.-and now the boy
is gone. The lonely father thinks of it,
and will not drown or forget his grief;
and slowly there comes to him the sense
that love can never lose its own. The
rainbow, the sunset all .heaAty, all
experiences of the soul, teschI him .
new lesson:
"what Is excellent,
As God lives, is permanent
Hearts are dust, hea1ta lOV0a remain.
Hearts love will maaG thee again."
The momeRts when such eonYict tions
flash in insights, rather..- are an
assurance deeper than, belief; hut how
much can be carried forth from them
into the common levels Of everyday
life? How much will stay after the
first exalted hoursp There are not
many Of whom the world can, take tes-
timony on these quastions; but iocca-
sionally there il soma onsl In whom q
typical experience is wrought cut, and
who has the gift of expressing II, like
Tennyson in ''In Memorian. n-E From
"7opics Of the Times" in The Century
for Nay.
Dart'nouth's College Bell.
A new college bell has been procured
to replace the one which became
cracked last winter. 1t was cast st
Troy, and weighs about 1900 pounds.
Engraved on its rim Is the college mot
to. "Vox CLAIMANTS In dessrto," with
"ora ct laborA"
Some of the devices made use of to
take the place OF . bsll. since the col
lege was founded in 1859, are very cur
ious. Eleazer Wheelock, the first pres
ident, endeavored to obtain bell from
England, but was unsuccessful, and
during his life the call to prayers and
other exercises was made BY a horn or
conch shell, which, according to the
SoicBO toCOnubs Wo3 OADWu W QUO "
the native Indians. for whose benefit
the college was founded. Some of the
irreverent students Of that day are said
to have been guilty of playing upon
the words Of the college motto In ref
erence to the shell which called them
to their duties. pronouncing the words,
"UOI clam-antis in desert0."
A bell weighing less than one hun
dred pounds was finally got from some
source, and served for about ten years.
During the interim between its break
ing and the procuring Of another, the
college exercises were timed 10 the tap
Of bass drum. The second bell was
brought from Hartford, Conn, In q
carriage. Once after this the horn was
made use Of. The college has had In
all seven bells, not mentioning the
drums and trumpsts. The bsll has 70
undergo o large amount d ringing In
the course Of twenty -(0sr hours 70 meet
the requirements of chnrch. chapel. and
recitatiOns, 20 that it u not strange