Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

horns at the blowing of which Jericho
fell down, or an hypothesis relative to
the ingredients of Esau's mess of pot
tage, and they would most assuredly
have been taught to bound the map OF
Syria. Should they come now, and if [
had a class who are forever "on the
wing" I'd try to teach them to bound
the map of character.
My comrades in Christ's holy war. it
is woman who has given the costlicst
hostages to fortune; out into the battle
OF life they have sent their best beloved,
with snares that have been legaliZed and
set along the streets. Beyond the arms
that have held them long their boys have
gone forever.
AT Pompeii we saw among the mOltls
of human figures found beneath the ru-
ms a little child that it's mother had
tried to save, but there he lay, just be-
You'd her reach, and for centuries her
poor Frustrated form had been there,
with stretched-out arms and fingers still
showing her agony by their futile curves
for the child was just beyond her power
to grasp.
How often l see them as / study the
pitiful pavements of our towns and
cities-mothers, tender and true, whose
sons forever more are just beyond their
reach.
But not beyond yours. perhaps: not
beyond the united efforts of thu Church
OF Christ. In Edinburgh one of those old
eight or ten story houses had fallen. and
in the ruins the occupants were buried
When the worllmen who had wrought
earnestly and long ceased their efforts.
hn1invipo hot oil Last Lno
a feeble voice calling: "Hcave away,
there; not dead YETI 1t is buried under
the degradation of centuries; poor old
humanity, with its pain and passion, and
the infinite pathos of its earthly estate,
but, as the Christian worker bends to
his heavenly task of rescue, evcrmore
comes the cry from childhood's lips:
"Heave away. there: we're not dead!"
Is This Prohibition Movement Lasting?
s. S. Langland, Morehead, Mimi,
writes to the New York Voice: GA gem
tleman said to me the other day, 'Prohi-
bition is like good many other move
ments in this country-a craze which
takes hold of the people for while and
then dies out after it has spent it's fury
1 said to myself, To be sure there are a
good many craZes in this country that
shoot above the horizon like brilliant
sllyrockets to die away as soon as they
appear. People in this country continu-
ally banker after eXcitement.' But look
at this prohibition movement in whatever
light you please, and you will con-
clude that it is not q movement born of
some impulse ephemeral and feeting
in it's nature, but that it has its
spring and being in the evolu-
ton, and the natural longing and
tendency of mankind to rise toward
the light and to his God. 1t is the at
tempt to throw off those shackles of pas
sion and appetite which chain him down
to his animal and brute nature. 1t is the
eXertion of the inherent qualities of de-
velopment in man which instinctively
points his upward course to his Creator
as the needle of the compass points to
the pole. am a firm believer in the
capacity and power of man for self-de-
velopment and progress. This movement,
then, is not based upon sentiment, upon
feeling, or upon fne-spun theories, but
has its foundation deep down in the ma.
ture of man. l believe it is the con,
seriousness and the conviction of these
truths that makes this movement so per
sistent, and that makes it's followers 81
hApefnl and firing i eia asea3 !.
A Little Private Opinion.