The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-06-24

The mi
degree of SORROW. In short il is kind of
pleasing anguish, as well as generous SYM
pathy, that knits mankind together and
blends them in q common lot.-Addison.
They predict the harvests in Egypt by
the hight which the river marks on the
gauge of the inundation. So many feet
represents so much fertility. Tell me the
depth of a Christians love and / will tell
you the measure of his fruitfulness.-
MGc1dreIl.
One great reason why some men prac-
tice generosity so little in the world is
their finding so little there. Generosity is
catching; and if 80 many escape il, it is for
the same reason that country people escape
the smallpox-because they meet with no
one to give il to them.-LOrd GreUille.
If the loving closed heart of a good wo-
man should open before man how much
controlled tenderness, how many yelled
sacrifices and dumb virtues would he see
reposing there Jean PaR Richter.
1t is indeed a pleasant sight to see
family dwelling together in peace and
unity and gladness. Neither the poet nor
the painter can describe happier scene.
-Dulce DOBlun.
A faithful friend in adversely is better
than a calm sea to a weather-beaten ma
riner.-Euripides.
One of our pulpiters is very absent
minded. A Sunday evening or two ago he
was walking to church in deep meditation
upon his sermon which was upon
Heaven" Suddenly he was brought to
Mortified standstill by this word of salu-
tation from parishioner: Hello, doc
tor, do you know that you are whistling
Yankee Doodle?"
The good man was an utterly uncon-
scious sinner. His thoughts were in
heaven, but his whistle was on earth. 1t
illustrates the importance of keeping our
mind where our conduct is. Thoughts OF
heaven can not sanctify Yankee Doodle"
on Sunday night. We will pardon the
absent-minded preacher this once, but,
reverend sir, don't do it again.
Our notified divorce system is again
under fire of discussion. In many and
influential quarters there is a demand
which gathers emphasis from each repi-
tition, for a uniform national law of
divorce. IL is widely felt that an insti-
tuition which underlies all governmental
forms, and is situated at the very head
waters OF life itself, ought to be regulated
by the general government and the COM
mon interest. What could be more
absurd than the making of such a relation
a foot ball to be kicked to and fro between
the states? With one law in Missouri,
and another in Indiana, and so on
throughout the union, divorce becomes
an easy door of exit out of any marriage
from which, for any reason, either party
wishes to escape. Marriage is thus
fatally assailed in its two-fold char
acter of unity and indissolubility
the pagan idea of convenience and
caprice supercedes the scriptural defini-
ton. Marriage as Christ presented it and
as Christians have preached it lie reduced
to the state of legal fiction. In recent
trenchant paper Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren
complains that we do not guard our
hearthstones as carefully as we do our
hen-coops. Given the conditions of an
unprincipled husband, a rascally attorney
ard a well-filied purse, and our conflict of
divorce laws enacts the rest of many do
mestic tragedy as dark as paganism ever
permitted.
The law we need would not promote in
COuJlDtuCe anu dlu anu ADeL lEauu. II
would or should tone up the public con-
science, make easy and frivolous divorce
impossible, and recognize the sacramento
nature OF marriage. By all means, let us
have a wholesome national statute.
A bright writer in the Popular Science
Monthly for June assures us that cur grand
fathers died too young. Baron Delessert.
founder of the Philanthropic Society of
Paris, found that the annual death rate in
that city during the age OF chivalry was
one in sixteen; during the seventeenth
century one in twenty-six. and in 1871 one
in Twenty-Five. Thus the value of life
in France has nearly doubled since the
good old times"
Sir Edwin Chadwick, the father of
sanitation, became persuaded that there
is potential longevity in men in one
hundred years. and that death at a period
less than that should be counted prema-
ture. He believed that the progress
already made in sanitation is only a be-
ginning, and that the coming century is
to be the one in which the seeds planted
in this are to attain their growth and bear
their full fruitage.