The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-04-20
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Ply A CLERGYMAN.

In the year Immediately following the
resurrection Of Jesus Christ the disciples
celebrated every Friday as commemorative
of the crucifxion. and every Lords day
rs Easter Sunday. BY aud by Chris
tlans agreed upon one certain Sunday in
the year as their Elster. and on one GER
tain Friday as their Good Friday. Ever
since the great council,a at Nice 4. d. S25)
decreed the day Easte r, has been celebrated
hv our Roman catho &c brethren as il is
today. For ages professionalism discarded
Easter. but it is pleasant 10 observe how
steadily it has made its way into the
thought and life of the Christian world,
until now it is almost universally reeog-
nized and observed.
The possibility OF such an event rests
upon the Divine Omnipotence. The God
who originated life is undeniably able to
revive it. The fact is proved by tho
scriptures.
Assuming the credibihty of the scrip
lures, no other TACT in history is more
amply attested. The variety of circum-
stances under which the risen Savior ap-
! pegred; the different moods in which the
eve and ear witnesses were TO whom He
showed himself and spoke; the minute
ness of the testimony OF these witnesses:
the publication of the occurrence on the
very spot where Jesus had died within few
days of his decease, and in the presence
OF many participants in the crucifixion;
the acceptance OF the testimony by these
participants. and the conversion of MANY
OF them then sDd there; the willingness of
the apostles to risk everything upon this
| truth, and their persistent proclamation of
IL as the keystone of the arch OF historical
Christianity; the impossibility of honest
mistake on To cir part, and their acknowl-
edged honesty and godlv sincerity-these
facts make up A mass OF evidence sufficient
to cSnvInce the most skeptical OF the his
toric verify OF the Christs' resurrection.
Well may the universal church put on
her singing robes and break forth into a
| chorus of faith and Thanksgiving.
The proper way of looking upon death is
to regard it as a part of lie. 1t means
transition. IT'S trausier-wo were here;
we are there. Death" as Victor Hugo
said, sis not q blind alley but thor
oughfare, opening on earth, ending in
heaven
Montaigne records that 20 him who told
Socrates, "The thirty tyranes have SEN
fenced thee to death" the philosopher
made answer: And nature hath SEN
fenced them So the queen in "Ham-
let" seeking to console the melancholy
prince in his grief for his father, says:
Thou knowst tits common all that live must die,
Passing through nature TO eternity
Accept death as inevitable. Prepare for
il as for joarneY. And then avail: the
day and hour of departure with serene
comPoeure. If we are ready. tits rather
TO be lOnced for than feared. 81. Paul
dipped his pen in the ink of inspiration
and wrote: To die is gain" Heaven is
large and fairer earth.
Anciently, God did directly what he
does now through the medium of the
physicians. He dictated the diet of men.
lie understood from the start what medi-
cal science begins in our day to see and
teach, viz: the vital connection between
diet and health. BY the wonderful chem
istry of digestion, food is turned into
thought. 1t becomes either the Hamlet Of
Shakespeare or the piracy Of Capt Kidd
God told the Jews not to eat the owl
The prohibition still stands, morally. The
owl is the emblem of despondencv. lis
the bird OF night and of nightmare 1t is
doleful and hIdeous, with its WOO WOO!
1t perches over Christian experience. II
croaKs in the midst of Christian work.
1t haunts ministers. 1t is a regular at
tendant at prayer meetings. 1t goes to
roost in church. IT'S found atthe fireside.
Bird of i'll omen Dyspeptic bird
Hoist the window OF vOur gOul saith
one; put the gun to your shoulder, aim
at the black jungle from which the boot.
ing comes; pull the trigger. and drop that
owl OF religious melancholy into the
bushes.
Both abroad and here foreigners never
tire OF commenting upon the manner in
which our American girls run about with
out ehaperons. In Europe, where orien-
tai nations still measurably prevail, and
women are regarded as possessing the
seven devils that went out of Mary Mag
dalene, girls are kept under strict surveil-
lance-until they are married. Then thew
are thrown on their own resources with
out anv training in self-protection, and
lett to TAIL an easy prey 10 lihertines.
Our wav is different We believe in
teaching our girls what they are, who they |
are and what the world is We train |
them in self-knuwledge and self-depend. |
ance. Responsibility is the great educa- |
tor. Put girls in charge of themselves and |
they will be well looked after, as a rule. |
Clustered virtue is not so strong as virtue |
schooied and disciplined out in the world. |
A chaperon is relic of barbarism, and !
suggests Persia and Turkey If our men
are kings, and women are queens, they |
are free and independent. Woe beiide |
any intruder upon their liberty
No man In recent times has been SO be- |
praised on the one hand, and so dispraised
on the other hand, rs the late Walt Whit |
man. Col. Ingersoll, for instance, said at
the funeral, pointing to the coffin: "The |
most eminent citizen of this republic is
dead before u.s." The IndcDcndent. com. |
menting on the same occurrence, remarks:
He wrote the nOisiest, noisomest stuff |
ever called poetry"
The truth, probably, lies between those |
two estimates. Whtman's nasty celebra- |
zion OF the body and its functions chilled |
Emerson from his side, aad caused the |
police to suppress the volume But his |
lifelong ministry to the sot, the criminal, |
the pauper reveals the tenderness and |