The Red Cloud chief., 1890-03-14

wv eSu eiOSt tOr WuoS moy oppcor ~ tuo
next turn Of the road. Suppose you, Q
man In mid life OF old age, were, with
your present feelings and largo attain.
ments, put back into tho thirtics, o. tho
twentics, or into tho teens, what . nuis.
snce you would be 70 others and what
On unhsppiness 70 your self. Your con.
tomporaries would not want you and
you would not want them. Things that
In your previous Journey Of life stirred
your heslthful ambition, or gavo you
p,essurcable surprise, or lcd you into
happy interrogation, would only call
forth from you . ~disgustcd 20.
pshaw" You would bc blsse Of thirty
and . missnthropc ct forty and uncn.
durable ut nifty. Tho most inane and
stupid thing imaginable would be . ".
ond journey Of life. II 10 amusing 10
hear people say: II would like 10 live
my life over sgain, II could take my
present experience and knowledge Of
things back with me and begin under
those improved suspices." Why, what
On unintercsting boy you would b. with
those preacnt sttainments in . child's
mind. No a would want such . boy
around tho house. A philosopher at
twenty. . scientist 81 hsteen, an arche-
olO9ist u ton and . domestic nuisance
oil tho time. An oak crowded into an
acorn. A Rocky mountain csglo thrust
into tho cgg shelf from which II was
Matched.
Besides that, II you took life over
again, you would have 10 takc its deep
sadness over again. Would you want 10
try again the griefs and tho h~cartbreaks
and tho bcrcAvcmcnts through which
you have gone? What . mercy that We
shall v be called to suffer them
again! We may have others bad enough,
but those old 0ncs again. Would
you want " 70 through tho process Of
losing your father again or your mother
again Or your companion In lifo again or
your child ngainp
Besides that would you want u risk
tho temptations Of life over again?
From tho fact that you arc here ] con.
cludo that though In many rospccts
your life may have boon unfortunate
and u~ncOnsccrated you have got on ~
fer tolorably well. II nothing moro than
tolcrsble. Az for myself, my life has
bccn far from being ~ cOnsccrated a.
would liko TO have had II. I would not
want 10 try II over again, lest ncxt time
! = would do worse.
Why. just look at tho temptations wa
have all passed through, and Just look
~ tho multitudcs who have gone CON-.
plctely under. just call over tho roll
Of your school mates and college matcs,
the clerks who wcro with you In tho
samo store or hank. or tho operatives In
the same factory, with just a. good
prospects ~ you, who have como 10 COM.
pleto miShap. Some young man that
told you that he WAS going u bc . mil.
and own tho fasteat trOtters on
Wostchestcr turnpike and retire by the
timc no was ~thirty.ivc years Of age;
you do NOT hear from him for many
years, and know nothing about him un.
I'll s0me day hO comes Into your store
asks for favo cents u got . mug Of
becr. You. the good mother Of tho
household end oil your children risinR
up b call you blsssed, cen remember
whom you were quits Jealous Of tho belle
OF the Village who was ~ transccndcnt.
~ fair and popular. Hut while you
have these two honorable and q~uccnly
namcs Of vito and mother, she became
. poor walt Of tho street. and went into
tho blaakneas Of darkness forever. 1.-Two
life over aaSinr Why, II many Of those
who arc now respectable WIRE permitted
70 experiment tho next journey would
be demolition.
hesides oil this. do you know II you
could have your wish and live life over
again II would put you 70 much farther
from reunion with your friends In
Hcsvcnr II you src In tho noon Of life
Or the evening Of life you arc not worry
Tar from the golden gate at which you
are 70 meet your transported and cm.
paradlsod loved ones. You Gro now, lot
~ say. twenty years or ten ycars OF D
year on from celestial conjunction. Nov
suppose you wont back In your earthly
lisc thirty ycsrs or forty years or atty
ysasA what On awful pOstponement II
tho time Of reunion! IL would bo -
though you were going u San Francisco
70 . grcat banquet and you got 10 Oak.
land. four 81 iivo milCs this aldo Of Il,
and then camc hack 10 llObOkcn or Har.
lesn ~ got . bettcr start; o. though YOU
going 70 England to be crowned
and having como In sight Of the mount.
aims Of Wales you put hack 10 sandy
Hook In order to make = bettcr voyaRc.
The further ON you got In life II . Chris.
tiAn. tho bearer you arc 70 tho renewal Of
broken up oompanionshipA
And II We, dcplorinR our past life and
with the idea Of improvements long for
IN opportunity 70 try II ovcr again, q
70 ON making tho same mistakes and
committing tho Same aims We only
demonstrate that tho repetition Of u
existence would afford no Improvement
II WA green apples before and Il would
be Rrccn apples over again. A. o -
. ship captain strikes = rock In the lake
OF $50 he reports II and = buoy 10 swuns
over that reef and marines hcnceforth
stand or from that rock. And oil U
mistakes In the past ought " b buoys
warning NJ 10 keep In ths right channel.
There II NO exouse for 10 Il 70 split on
the samc rock whore w split before.
(seans along the sidewalk u night
where excavations IN being made, no
frequently . = lantern ON Q frame.