The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-06-24
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Sunday a leading journal published a
symposium on "The Coming Man." The
twenty odd opinions expressed by the
more or less famous participants suggest
two thoughts:
Fist, it is surprising how much space
some well-known writers occupy in saying
mighty little. Next it seems impossible
to improve upon the scriptural definitions
of perfect human conduct. Up to date no
thought has forged ahead or even abreast
of the mind of Jesus Christ. No heart has
been more tender than or as tender as His.
And whose hand has been so helpful? Is
It not therefore the part of wisdom to
study His life, to think His thoughts, to
speak His words, to repeat His acts2 I'm
Ill we reach the stature of the divine Naz-
arine, it were folly to go further for an
example. And why accept a less when
we are furnished with the greatest2
"Do the duty that lies nearest to your
hand" exhorted Carlyle, land already
the next duty will have become clearer"
The nearest duty is the imitation OF Jesus
Christ. In the performance of this the
looming man" will find perfection. Self
control, infinite force and requisite tender
ness, q sound mind in sound body, are
all embodied in that ideal. Hence the
wisdom of st. Pauls injunction, PUT on
Christ"
Weeks ago, when the baccarat scandal
first became an open secret, we ventured
the assertion that it would prove to be a
nail driven into the coffin of British mon
archy. The outburst of indignation fol-
flowing the trial of Sir William Gordon
tCumming should seem TO indicate that
the Tranby Croft episode might become
1.-THE coffin itself. Nothing like the COM
motion which it has provoked was ever
before known in English history. Nor is
Ii a single section which has been an
oered. All classes, the most varied inter
ests, have voiced their resentment. The
disgust and rebuke of the great religious
public might have been discounted; but
who would have imagined that the press,
and especially the conservative journals,
would have Numbered and lightened as
they have? The London Times, for ex-
ample, confesses that it wishes, for
the sake of English society. that the
prince of Wales had also signed declara-
stion that he would never touch a card
again" The tory press Is even more de-
mandatory than the liberal; whose tone
bmay be caught from the utterance Of the
London Meas: THE prince is bound 20
live pure, simple and cleanly life as an
lexample to his future subjects. Woe to a
monarchy when it can no longer perform
what may fairly be called Its last surviv-
ing use. 1t is grotesque to have prince
carrying about baccarat counters wherever
he goes as a Mohammedan carries his
praying carpet" The great middle class,
hitherto the most solid and stolid prop of
the throne, under this provocation is al
most republican in its comments Indeed,
all sorts of people In England are heard
asserting that the revelations made during
Gordon Cummings trial have been more
to imperil the monarchy than any other
event which has taken place in Great
Britain in our day.
1t is not that the English people are
surprised to learn of the existence of a
''fast set" among the aristocracy. There has
always been such set, as every body has
known. The present dissatisfaction arises
from the fact that the heir apparent is at
the head of it. A proud and sensitive
nation does not contemplate with any
pleasure the probable succession to the
throne of gambler and roue. 1t is felt
among all classes that the first gentleman
In the realm, by position, should be a
gentleman-should represent the best
Father than the worst elements of the ma
Gonal life.
II Lord Brooke should make the prince
Of Wales correspondent in suit for di-
Force from Lady Brooke the titled adultress
into whose ear the prince is said to have
Erst whispered the story of the pricis.
We may look for storm of indignation
which shall make the present agitation
seem gentle as summer zephyr.
We commend to the pessimists a care
full study of the English social situation.
They might find in it tonic which would
invigorate them into optimism.
Recall the days when he was prince of
Wales, who afterward became George ".
Remember that royal prohigate's cruelty
to his father, his false marriage, his dice
playing. his defiant intrigue with Lady
Cunningham, and the cirque at the Brigh-
ton pavilion; and observe how it was all
accepted quite as q matter of course
the usual amusement of a prince. Con-
trast with that the commotion made by
the decorous dissipation of Victorias son,
eliminating in the threat to debar him
from the throne. The two pictures show
the immeasurably higher moral tone now
prevailing. The exclusion of Sir Charles
Dixie from public life for immortality, and
the reinforcement of the most successful
and popular leader Ireland has ever
known, on account of his relations with
the same line of healthy progress Society,
both in England and in the United States,
sometimes speaks Of infractions OF the
moral code in tone of banter. But it is
observable that when individuals, how
ever prominent and powerful, lift them
selves up against it, they are apt nova
days to disappear as though struck by a
cannon ball.
This is a very small earth after all. Now
comes NJ. Camille Flammariou, the ia
nous astronomer of Invasy, in France,
and reminds us that our planet is 1O8
times less in size than the sun. The
earth's surface intercepts but half a mill
ionth part of the total efful0ence thrown
off into space. Moreover, as seen from the
sun, the earth is but an imperceptible
point without significance. This is hum
bling. 1t does not seem so here and to
rs, anyhow. That is some consolation,
Perhaps the efforts of some persons to get
the earth are the outcome of their as
Economical studies. They have found out
that il is a comparatively small affair.
Well, let such greedy persons remember
that Adam and Eve once had the whole
of il. and were none the happier after all.