The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-20

Christian on earth are mentioned here as
in Christian cemeteries.
What testimony to the need of relig-
ion. and to tine power Of faith in the great
emergencies and deep extremes OF life J
Atheism in life is dreary enough, but
atheism in q cemetery Is thus shown to be
impossible. The bosom of free religion
itself rebels against it. Here is further
proof that the heart is better logician
than the head
The diminutive chains Of habit are gen.
orally too small to be felt until they are
too strong to be broken.-Dr. johnson.
Measure every man with his own mea-
sure.-Asiatic Prouerd.
How many praiseworthv enterprises
which have been crowned with the bless
ings of all nations, would never have
been formed nor accomplished ii courage
and perseverance of their authors had
yielded to the claims OF opposition pro-
duced by ignorance and intolerance
Heinrich Schotte
He that hath blind conscience which
sees nothing, a dead conscience which
feels nothing and a dumb conscience
which says nothing, is in as insensible
condition as a man can be on this side OF
NELL IutrtcE HENRY.
Some have contended that mans moral
sense NAV be the result OF education.
But to this it may be replied that were
there no moral nature to which the edu-
cation appeals, no amount of training
would produce the moral result.-R. 4.
BEDFORD.
Conscience in a wicked man is like the
captain of a vessel in a mutiuy; he is
bound, and cannot rule, but he protests
W. Harris
In the moral world there is nothing i'm
possible If we can bring a thorough will
to it. Man can do everything with him
SELF but he must not attempt TO do too
much with others Von Humboldt.
The law OF hereditv, which we have just
begun to study and understand, contains
within itself Ito use the phrase made
famous by Prof. TyndalD "the promise
and potency of life" This is the realm of
/ germs and beginnings. Character is often
| fashioned pre-natally. lis tainted with
! predspostions toward vice, or divinely
/ biased toward virtue, before conception.
An authority divides heredity into the
| following branches:
l. Direct heredity; the child resembles
! its parents.
2. Reversional heredity; the child re-
sembles its grandparents.
5. Collateral hereditv; the child resem-
bles its uncle or aunt.
4. Co-equal heredity; the members
of the two sexes are on a large average
about equal.
5. Pre-marital heredity; the child Of
a second or third marriage resembles a
former husband.
h1-oI;4r. - i
position and character are powerfully al
fected by influences which have power
fully affected the mother prior 10 Its
birth.
Z. Initial heredity; the child is af-
fected by the temporary mood of the
parents at the time OF their becoming such
1t was good reply of Plato to one who
murmured at his reproving him for some
small habit: Habit is no small matter
A habit OF life frequently alters the nat,
ural inclination either to good or to evil.
In letter of Dickens sold in London
the other day, Victor Hugo and his wifi,
are thus sketched: 81 was much strucl
by Victor Hugo himself, who looks like
genius, as he certainly is, and is very in
| teresting from head to foot. His wife is
/ handsome woman, with flashing black
eyes, who looks as If she might poison hi:
breakfast one morning when the humol
seizes her."
The principle of morality in govern
ment has recently won a notable victory
in the British house OF commons. Tn,
opium trade is to be discontinued. Every
body knows that this Infamous traffic ha,
been enforced by England at the pom
of the bayonet. A little more than
quarter of a century ago she waged q
cruel war against China, the second OF it;
kind, to compel the celestials to put the
detestable stuff in their pipe and smoke
it. Now she declares the trade in opium
to be wrong and DEGREES it's abandon
ment. Truly as Calico said, 'E pur g
muove"-onward and upward.
The statistics given out by Superintend
ent of immigration Weber show thai
Italy is now leading Europe in the mum
Der of her emigrants to the United States
Here is the table for the month OF March
Italy. 1869; Germany, 1857; Great
Britain Including Ireland), 1886; Hun
gary, 1889; Austria, 3,4S4; Russia. 1923
total, 29.33S. The Russian contingent il
! composed OF the lowest and most clan
nish grade of Jews, who "left their country
for their countrys good" The Hun
garians are but decree less desirable
The Italians are likely to prove an in
creasing source of political and moral in
! flammation.
The presence amongst US of these hete
rogenous hordes, who may be melted into
homogeneity in order to pacify the present
and secure the future, laws upon the
Christian church vital duty and sets be
fore it a great opportunity. The opportu
nifty offered is the chance of carrying on
the work of foreign missions here at home
The duty is the unfaltering proclamation
OF the law of Christ-Gods iatherhood
mans brotherhood and the golden rule
If the church Is recreant. MacauIey" pre-
dicted Goths and Vandals may soon ap
pear.
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