Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-06-27

: Some few years ago while visitiT
= the Hot Springs in Arkansas,
heard man repeating the words
luEersoll, who made horse play
job polishing his ulcers with a pie
: Of burned clay. The verbose infid,
held that up as the medical scient
Of prophetic times, and then tr
umphantly pointed TO our medic.
colleges and learned professor
But what struck me as PRACTICAL
ludicr0us was the position OF thi
scientific iuidel. He was sufferin
from infiammatory rheumatism
All the stores OF science he had ex
hausted. He was nov bathing in
pool termed locally "The Niur
Hold" and rubbing from time t
time hanifuls OF sand and mu,
from the bottom Of the pool to hi
swollen knees. | asked him how
muUh better of he was than Job a
flF as science was concerned. Wa
he not scraping his sores with mu
as JOB was with piece OF cr0ckery,
[ remember that the scene 80 i'm
pressed Z friend OF mine, that b,
produced some rhymes which struch
me more for their simple truth than
for their artistic poetry. l dom
know that 4 better sermon could b,
preached on Nature aud Nature.
God that these few simple lines:
Let science boast It's regal power,
And druggists prare about their pals,
Let indieIs with faces sorr,
Trace he 70 wasps aad Whippoorwllls;
Let minds romantic or profound
PhaEtasmal theories promote;
TIE nine, while Nat=rc's ba,m COWS round
To treasure what the Prophets wrote.
Come heariiess, scowlin= sceptic, tel,
Was u caprice, or chance, or Whlua
Thai caused yon boiling. babbin-wru
To heal the p dsied. ulcegoUs imls
Come Tyndall, Darwin, Huxley, 50,
Is not your science eating rant
Beside The Misunderstanding sprsy
WHioh bouateous Heaven here doth
grant
These wooded glades lot scofers see
And taste Of Natures mystic bowl,
And learn what i Divinity
And what God created soul
Here halt, and blind. and lame. and sore,
And sinner, saint and Wild Commune
Zen Eros son, bieareyed and boar
All End alike the sought for bOcn-
Behold with what impartial hand
hind heaven her blessings far bestoWs;
Even on The unresenerlte band
Whose eaTnal tastes have wrought their
woes.
Alas how weak a thing J. man,
HE grandest science mimic pIly.
Compared with Natures balm, which can
Work miracles even today.
And miracles were certainly
worked in the way Of healing by
those waters. Men whose Ulcers
and sores were many times more
hideOus than jobs wesc completely
cured.
To come back again 10 the eIe-
ments, We are Lot alone threatened
with destruction by these, but news
Of cholera and yellow fever now
reaches Us. We are advised 10 nut
our house in order, for these grim
visitants are on the way. In add.
tioc to all this, turmoil and disorder
are creeping into politics and re.
iigion. The school question IS sun
to lie made an issue. That will drag
ia religion, aud then what next?
God alone can tell.
The Republican party in the
Northeastern States seems 70 be en-
gagged in a triangular fight Just at
present, with three very powerful
interests. These interests are the
PrOhibiti1nisis, the Personal Rights
men, and lastly, the Free Educa
-lJnal!sts. The PrOhibiliunists hav..
Ong since characterized the Repub-
ica1 party as the child Of Bellal.
he beer drinking Personal Richters
OOk upon it as hypOeritical ami in
incere. But the grand old party As
{ inspired by the genius Of disaster
lerself has actually c0urted calamity
y its interference with the German
,athoiics and Lutherans IS regards |
heir educational matters.
No attempt was made 10 show
hat compulsory education laws.
With the offensive clauses so often
lentioBed Of late, were required in
ither Illinois or Wisconsin. II i.
rue that the German language in
hese States holds second place 10
he English, and in commercial
aatters It dominates the English.
iorekeepers in employing sales
len and travellers must Of ne
essity hire persons who speak Ger
ian. A German merchant would as
ION think Of buying from a man
no could not converse in his
early loved cultural IS he would az
'mmiltingsu eide. INf { he would
the latter more cheeIfIlly ugon
Mailer provOcatiOn.
The German has many reasons IN
slike the English language. First
e himself speaks ii with a decided
foreign favor, and in a dialect
hich brings on him the redicuIe Of
e comedian ami press humorist .
enough this crates a
rtain measure o. ludierOusn IS for
m, even in the minds OF his own
nj iren- Secondly the German
Sarus the average American news
per aud book n unfit reading in 5
family household. Even tin,
erman heeThalls ana wine-celIars +
Ok upon the American news Z
per rs below their STAN {
I'd OF morality and estbetics. 7
The only explanation thar can be :
ven for the Illinois and Wisconsin
ucatign laws is that they are at
butable to the anti Catholic move :
snt started in Massachusetts, a few
ans ago. The battle against par
hal schools there made political
pital for the Republican narty.
IT there only French and Irish B
.tholics could be e0ntended with. y
al on the question OF public >
lools the Irish Catholics are NOT a @,
1t in opposing them. The fact B
two thirds Of the lower grleies OF =
Ichers are OF Irish parentage and p
-tainly an Irish parent could moi y
.ect to having his children educat- II
by his own countryman's son or
lghter. With the French matters q
little different. The French
clannish and narr0wguageG in
ar ideas, especially the Catholics.
a factor in the American repub-
tney are nothing. Little colonies
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