The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

an usher near me cuss1ng him for ms
lack of reverence. "Hell of way to do
in church, isn't it," he seemed to NUT
ter, as the man went on reading about
the baccarat scandal in England, and of
how bright little child in Michigan had
recently been boiled in a kettle Of hot
maple sap.
Before and all through the services
the rattle of the lesson leaf or celestial
menu, if l may be allowed that term, was
very disturbing, especially to those who
desired to hear and criticise the prayer.
l would suggest the leather covers used
in restaurants sometimes for these hymn
slips to deaden the sound and keep them
clean. They would not rattle them
selves or the speaker so much then.
Professor Swing ''is great big brainy
man" He does not get his sermons from
the worn wax cylinders of his mind, or
reel off the thunken thoughts of men now
dead and turned to dust. He is big,
broad man, in the shade of whose mighty
think works, to use simile of his own,
the little poison weeds of doubt and dis
trust die out and disappear. Great
minds like great trees get all the SUM-
light, and the breeze, and the ozone, or
whatever it is which they require in their
business, and at their feet the little
measly jimson weed of schism and
those things curl up and die. Meantime
far above, and refusing to monkey with
the trivial dogmas and the palid, noxious
growth below, the brave big tree losses
its grand old arms about, and the birds
come there and build their nests and
spoon around in the early spring, and
thank God for the beautiful and the bully
old universe, so free to use temporarily
and then return in good order to the
Creator.
David seemed to know that I was there,
and so he spoke well. applauded him
once with my umbrella, but was re-
preached for it by a heavier set man than
l am, so did not carry it to excess.
Speaking of General Sherman Profess
sor Swing said: "What glorious thing
it is for us that God never repeats him
self! He gives Us man equally great
in some ways for the one we have lost,
but never again the same arrangement
of talents. What grand man was Gen
eral Sherman! A character like his has
an eternal monopoly of itself.
"The perfect man has the affections,
the understanding and the will equally
balanced. The scholar is apt to Guilt
vate his understanding at the expense OF
his will and his affections" Thus he be-
comes a bloodless, flabby hungerer for
more books, more problems, more to
read; loveless, abnormal man, lop
sided copartnership between a wabbly
will, weak affection and cerebral
tapeworm. CThe language is not Pro
fessor Swings; only the idea, the thought
germ. The word painting is mine.)
So, likewise, the drunkard and the lib
ertine allow the affections to run away
with the will and the understanding
| while the stubborn man permits his
will to ride with Mexican spurs over his
! affections and his understanding. He
| has firmness and that is all. He does
not love anybody nor know anything,
| He is the great anthropoid Jackass of the
age in which he lives.
The congregation united in repeating
the Lords Prayer, the big organ warmed
up to its business. and the congregation,
including the bright young prima donns
vino pens these lines, went softly and
| plunkingly home in the rain, still re-
membering the closing hymn Of the
morning:
Earth has many cool retreat,
Many spot TO mem'ry dear;
| Oft we find our weary feet
Lingering by some fountain clear;
Yet the purest waters flow
In the land 10 which ve go.