The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-23
COMPLAINING LETTERS.
The Things Which Some of Them
Contain.

The Things Which Some of Them
Contain.
BROOKLYN, II. Y, Nov Elf we care
for our fellow creatures we must have pa
thence with their discomfort. But some
times complaining letters and fretting
friends grow monotonous, especially when
the changes are continually rung on the be-
lief or disbelief in the existence Of a God.
and the continuance or non-continuance of
life after the physical change which we call
death. A lady writes Inc that she should
| be we'll enough in body if she
could only believe in ruling power,
as she did when a child bsfore
she had read Huxley, and Tyndall, and Her
bert Spencer, and Bob Ingersoll. This
woman's Eeed of God is So great, and her
belief that there is no God so "well
founded" that her days aud nights are full
of sorrow. Her health suffers on account
| OF this mental and physical strain, and she
| Is no comfort to her family or to herself
| This Is not an exceptional experience and
do not know that there is any help for such
a condition. There is a divine discomfort"
| and there is discomfort which is almost
demoniac in its res Its What can we say
| to the mother who has lost her child when
she cries out in her anguish: SIS there an
| Infinite father who cares for my
heartacheF' We may believe with
all our hearts that there j., but
what service will our faith perform for
this woman, who has gone with Ingersoll in
| his iconoclastlc ami conceited work. There
are mysteries and mysteries, but how an in
telligent brain and loving heart could be
turned from faith in God and astuture Exist
tonce by the blatant statements and de-
| nunciations of any man is to me the
greatest mystery of all. Even the scientists
can only go just SO far. Like the most
Ignorant among US, they them them
selves plump against solid wall, and there
they have to stop. The scientist
OF to-day says simply a1d mode5ty, II
do not Know He does not Dir his own
| belief or prejudice, and every dev the
breach between science and religion is
iessenlng. To wish to go back to the I'M
questioning faith OF our childhood is child
isa Indeed. We once, per APPS, believed
/ that the world was mace in six days We
know now that this world is hundreds and
hundreds of thousands Of years old. This
knowledge is not calamity. It ought to
| make us happy. Tue most radical of our
S ienufic Investigators tell US that everv-
thing Is growing in accorda ce with law
and that year 10y year we are attaining 10
something higEnrt aud better. Now. all
who stop to think must admit ttas
this is not entirely material universe. 1t
IS dominated By spirit, and this fact is in
| disputGhe. The secret, the main s,,ripo of
the universe, | believe to he God, and II [
had Bob Ingersoll for breakfast, dinner and
supper, it would not change my convic-
| tons. sunrise, sunset, Jupiter and
| Mars as they now appear to us every evel-
! ing, the gorgeous CO. steliatiOaS all obedjent
| to law, the birth of an infant the budding
OF rose, the yenrning of the soul 70 those
| VINO have gone on. and for a great heare
and loving hand to trust AID cling to, all
tell the story Of compensation and
reunion. Indeed, the greatest of all
arguments for God and home is the
fact of the universal longing. So let not
your hearts be troubled. Be up and doing.
Look up at tee thickly-studded firmanent,
| aud not down on tee dirt az your feet, Do
something Tor somebody. Bring a smile to
TIE face OF tire sad, a piece of beefsteak to
| the hungry, word Of cheer to the sick aud
| despairlnG. Redeem your lives fl ON little
ness. Refuse to put your own doubts i to
words. BE careful never to disturb faith
Decline to tear down, however kintly
and logically and scientifically, un-
| less you have something better
| to offer in place of the thing you take
away. When you are inclined to lay that
| You must have this and that material proof
before you can believe i'll any hing, just ask
yourself how much von really know of the
things which we call common, and are of
| everyday occurrence. You do not wait 10
| know how life came to the animal before
you eat the meat. You do not make it u
condition of eating bread to dis.
cover the secret of life in the grain.
| You eat, you are nourised. and you know
nothing of the great secrets OF tho universe.
| From the moment we wake in the morning
| till the dawn of the next day our lives arc
full of mysteries, and yet they are all ac-
| cepted as matter of course, while we 90
| out of our way to be u; happy because we
| cannot tind out all about God ard future
| life. 10 be near to God means, in my opin-
| ion. the establishment of the right relations
| between ourselves and our great family of
brothers and sisters. We cannot help zach
| other that we do not draw nearer to God.
| 1t is natural for us to want solid fouuda-
ton under our feet. This we cannot get by
| groVeling in the dust of material things.
| Sometimes when my limitations seem hard
TO bear, AID my ignorance presses upon me
more heavily than usual. find comfort in
the thought of the length OF time that
shall be learning even the simplest things,
aud of the splendid eternity of the educa-
ton awaiting me. l cannot be cheated of
desire of my heart. and consequently must
live somewhere to get it. That some
where cannot be here. Now, | am glad of
| all the real scientists and | read their works
with avIdity and joy. They help instead of
hinder me, but want nothing to do with
the loud-mouthed, dogmatic unscientific
denuncators who make coarse Jokes about
divine things, and who. in the sacred name
OF education. endeavor to pull the hope
| from the weak and blot out the light of life
from the struggling and the aspiring.
ELEANOR KIRKE.