The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-03-27

that they believe that there are infants
in hell q span long
It Is strange also how individual
churches will sometimes make misstate-
Inents about other individual churches
It Is especially 50 in regard TO false
hoods told with reference to prosperous
enterprises AS long as church Is
feeble, and the singing is discOrdant,
and the minister, through the poverty
of the church, must 60 with a thread
bare coat, and here and there wor-
shipper sits IN the end OF pew, having
all the seat to himself, religious sym
pathizers of other churches viii say:
What PITY" But, let great day of
prosperity come, and even ministers Of
the gospel, who ought to be rejOiced at
the largeness and extent of the work,
de 1unce and misrepresent and falsify.
Next speak of social lies This evil
makes much Of society insincere- You
know not what to believe When PEG
pie ask you to come you do not know
whether or not they want you to come
When they send their regards you do
not know whether it Is an expression
of their heart or an external civility.
We have learned to take almost every
thing at 4 discount Word is sent Not
at home" when they are only too lazy
to dress themselves They say, the
furnace has just gone out" when in
truth they have had no fire in it all
winter. They apologize for the un-
usual barrenness of thor table when
| they never live any better They decry
their most luxurious entertainments to
win a shower OF approval
They apologize for their appearance,
as though it were unusual, when always
at home they look just So They would
make you believe that some nice sketch
on the wall was the work of a master
painter. 1T was an heirloom, and once
hung on the walls OF the castle; and a
| duke gave it to their grandfather
| When the fact is, the painting was
made by a man down east" and
/ baked, so as TO make It look old, and
sold with others for so a dozen. PeO-
/ pie who Will lie about nothing else Will
/ lie about a picture. On a small income
we must make the world believe that
we are af1uent and our life becomes d
/ cheat, a counterfeit and a sham
Few persons are really natural. When
/ I say this, I do not mean to slur cult
ured manners. 1t is right that we
should have more admiration for the
| sculptured marble than for the un-
known block of the quarry. From
! many circles in life insinceritv has
driven out vivacity and enthusiasm A
| frozen dignity instead floats about the
| room, and iceberg grinds against ice
| berg. You must not laugh outright; it
| is vulgar. You must smile You must
not dash rapidly across the room; you
must glide There is a. round of bows,
and grins, and batteries, and O'si and
ah'si and simpering, and uambypaun by
| ism-a world of which is not worth one
good, round peal OF laughter. From
such hollow round the tortured guest
retires at the close OF the evening and
assures his host that ne has enjoyed
himself!
What round of insincerities many
IL
the world Their life Is sham and
their death an unspeakabIe sadness
Alas for the poor butterflies when the
frost strikes them.
Compare the life and death of such a
one with that of some Christian aunt
| who was once a blessing to your house
hold. I do not know that she was ever
offered the hand in marriage She lived
single, that untrammeled she might be
/ everybOdy's blessing WHENEVER the
sick were to be visited or the poor to be
provided with bread, she went with a
blessing She could pray or sing Rock
/ of Ages" for any sick pauPer who
asked her As she got older there were
/ days when she was a little sharp, but
for the most part auntie was a sun
beam-just the one for Christmas eve
She knew better than any one else how
to fix things Her every prayer, as Goo
heard it, was full Of every body who
/ had trouble
But to many through insincerity thi.
|, 1 life is a masquerade ball As at such
| entertainments gentlemen and ladies
| appear in the dress OF kings or queens
/ mountain bandits or clowns, and at the
close OF the dance throw OF their dis
| g-uises, so, in this dissipated life, all IN
clean passions move IN mask. Aoros;
= the door they trip merrily. The light.
| sparkle along the wall or drop from the
/ ceiling cOhort of fire! The Enusis
charms The diamonds glitter. TIL,
feet bound Gemmed hands stretched
. out clash gemmed hands Dancing Zee
respond to dancing feet Cleaning
brow bends TO cleaning brow On viii
. the dance. Flash and rustic and laughel
2 and immeasurble merry-making! Blu
! the languor OF death comes over tn,
t limbs and blurss the sight Light
lower! Floor hollow with sepulehra
4 echo. Music saddens into a wall