The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-06-18

listen to its ''still voice" whispering justice
to the wrOnged one. and charity toward the
desolate and afflicted. The poor have the
miseries, the hardshps and the sutferings
of the world to contend against, and if they
grOan unresignedly beneath their weghty
load. it is because they forget or rather ig-
more the teachings and examples of Him
whom they representative hath not
"wtereon to lay His head" The degraded
Ones-as we are-make life miserable and
suffer untold tOrtures by lamenting over
days gone by. and generating within them
selves insane thoughts of revenge which the
lotted span of their future career as well as
their ungOdliness command them to ignore.
because they do not remember that to for
give and forget is the noblest and most
glorious revenge. and oblivion the infallible
remedy against the sadness caused by in
suits and injuries.
BEST we should laugh at our own despair.
And turn down the page of the tale that Closes
For life is bonny and bright and fair,
If we learn 70 scatter the withered rOses.
AS George Elliot says: 1T would be a
poor result of all our anguish and wrestling,
if we won nothing but our old selves at the
end of it-if we should return to the same
blind loves. the same self confident blame,
the same light thoughts of human suffer
ings, the same frivolous gossip over blighted
lives, the same feeble sense of that un-
known toward which we sent forth ire
pressible cries in our loneliness"
But how are we-placed as we are-de-
graded. reviled. spat upon, to lift ourselves
up to that pinnacle of mental peace amp
worldly prosperity. as we'll as the attain
ment of spiritual advancement which good
and wise ones would have us reach? How
are we, upon whom the world and its sOci
ETY. have frowned so bitterly and perhaps
lastingly. to stand the cold. unfriendly
showers of former and latter rains, and
await without one hope the coming of the
bud and blossom?
l answer, the process is a simple one.
We have in this institution many means by
which we can make the past Oblivious. the
present fruitful, and the future bright. TO
those of us who have received common
school educatiOn--and they constitute the
larger percentage of our pOpulatiOn-the
Chautauqua circle opens its arms in loving
invitation to them. Its notices are its
credentials: Study the word and the works
of GOd." Look up" Lift up" Never
be discouraged" Its teachings urge us to
look at the world on the sunny side. and to
learn that through work and by work, we
are called to the honor OF every virtue. as
we'll as to the honor of courageous fidelity
in all our duties. Join it then. you who are
competent. Throw aside your hours of
repining which leave nothing behind bat
agony. and take your place where you will
learn to forget the past and look with
"hopes high burning" to future glory and
renown. To the minority portion of our
population-those who attended the night
school just closed for the summer months
l would say: fight the good fight you have
so we'll begun. ride down by your determin
alton and perseverance every obstacle that
may present itself to the attainment of your
observation-disclosures that when the au-
tumn comes and the schOOlrOom doors are
again thrown open to receive you, it may
be found that the little knowledge impaired
to you in the spring, had blossomed in the
summer and that the efforts of those to lift
you up, have not been unsuccessful.
If we do but this we will not only truly
sweeten the source of our present adversity.
but lay up for ourselves store of good
things which will rebound to our eternal
and future temporal welfare.
lNNISFALLEN.