The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-19

| A-Nh'ohA. oLfdnSe, IS III not, thai
one should be in love with doub,
with death! Yet some spirits
there are those who love to dwell in dark.
ness-Wrapt in the solitude of their own
gloom, and to whom housekeeping JOY
Vleios not so much az poor fraction of the
pleasure that darkest melancholy gives
them. So with Colonel INaERsoLL; that
same sad perhaps" which stands beside
MIN at his brothers grave, or at a friends
dying bed, seems to have charm for him
which certainty could never produce. There
IS something awe-inspiring in uncertainty,
In mystery; it is that which attracts men to
agnostlc tendencies of thought But what
sad commentary on the wisdom which
oroughtinto existence this glorious world of
ours II Colonel INGERsoLL's state
ments were true ''In the drama
OF life we are all actors and
no one knows his part No .prompter's
voice is heardn' What an absurd drama
indeed, this life would be if this were true
truly, II none knows his part and there is
no prompter, then indeed are we on g
FOOLS errand
6ut enough OF negative exclamation.
we may know our parts if we but learn
them; and if there are moments of doubt
and uncertainty wemay hear the prompt
ers voice II only we open our ears to hear
and our hearts to understand. Why, the
very heather comes to a better conclusion
than the colonel. The wild, free spirits of
Scandinavia, curling their passions and
bowling at the shrine of ODIN, in the main
knew their parts aud wherein they failed
ODIN prompted them. The still wilder
spirits OF Arabia heard their prompter in
the shrill voice of MoHAMMED, and in
Islam heard their parts. 1t would be a sad
mistake to suppose that it was
miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain
this Mohammedlan faith, which so many
creatures of the Almighty have lived by
and died by. Time would fail US to speal,
of SOCIETIES, Of Courteous, of Plato, of
Moses, of CHRIST and the prophets, who all,
with more or less clearness, taught men
their parts and prompted them when thew
forgot. Then what of the voice divine
within each mans breast teaching him con-
stantly his part and reproving him when he
fails to enact it wells Is this no prompter?
The colonel was so pleased with the sound
OF his poetic words that ne must have for
gotten their relation to facts. "Will the
curtain rise on another scene?n Can
reason only whisper faint ':perhaps7n |
and nope fainter but fouder "yes?' Are
there no better prospects than this9 Nav
it be that the proud wealth flung back upon |
the heart must canker in it's coffers9 Nav
1t be that the links which falsehood hath
broken will unite no more? Is |
1t possible that the deep yearning love that |
hath not found its like in the cold world |
must waste in tears!-that truth and feryor
and deyotedness, finding no worthy altar.
must return and die of their own fullness2
Can 1T be that beyond the grave there is no
maven in whose wide air the spirit NAV
ind room, and in the love of whose bright
laoitants the lavish heart may spend itself?
Il so, then what fools-yea, "Whau thrice
nocked fools are wet" But we need not
ioubt with the colonel. Humanity does
lot doubt that the curtain will rise On an.
other scene. The voice of Con hath de-
'lared it to the humblest The Door saw
lge In darkest Africa knows it, and does
lis best to recognize the "Prompter "
hough his benighted state enables him to
10 no better than to honor him by worship
through monstrous idols. Th5 aborieines
If America, though separated from Europe.
Knew 1T as well as the chieftains on the
EASTERN continent. Celestial voices ymn
into the souls of all men. Reason saws
yes" emphatically yes. ana not 'sper-
laps;" revelation, though the colonel NAV
leny 1t, says "yes;" and hope triumphantly
Dove them all say, ~ know it will.n