The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-04

IOunu tue results ueplOraDle. Inc PRISONS
OF Massachusetts, he declares, are schools
OF crime, and produce terrible effects in
the community Crime in England, where
the prisoners are separated, has greatly
decreased. while in America it is rapidly
increasing. Here is a statement which
challenges an answer. What have our
prison officials to say? Penal institutions
ought not to be nurseries of crime. Are
they such in this country? Your answer,
messeurs.
The best remedy for anarchism is the
! multiplication of house owners. The in
| slant a man becomes q proprietor, even
in small way, he also becomes a con-
sentative. He believes in law and order
he has something to lose. The lawless
and disorderly classes are always those
who have nothing at stake The wisest
thing our milliOnaires could do for their
own self preservation would be to stop
multiplying monopolies and cornering the
/ necessaries OF life and 90 to propagating
small holdings among the people. The
trend is all the other way nowadays. lis
a sinister trend Perhaps those who are
mainly responsible for it imagine the
present situation will outlsst them. and
say with Louis NV: "Apres moi le
deluge" after me, the deluge. Well, we
shall see.
The prudent man foreseeth the evil
and prOvideth against it. There is an
easy way. So arrange the conditions as
that any man who is ordinarily econom-
ical and industrious NAV acquire home.
A home, a wife, children. and family
altar are four divine sheet anchors and
will enable the state to outride any storm.
Verisimilitude and opinion are an easy
purchase; but true knowledge is dear
and difficult GldnriHe.
When any man or woman launches
away with sef-will at the helm, the voyage
is apt TO end in shipwreck. Carlos Mdtyn.
Nothing is more dangerous than a
friend without discI elton; even prudent
enemy is preferable.-La FOntdne
COnceit is 10 nature what paint Isl TO
beauty; it is not only needless, but inn
pairs what it would improve Pope.
When man has not good reason for
doing a thing he has one good reason for
letting 1t alone.-Sir Waiter Scott
What we would do, we should do when
we would, for this world changes.-.Shdks-
pedre.
God never accepts a good inclination
instead of good action.-SOttth.
What's fame?-a fancied life in others
breath.-Schlier.
beginnings are alike it is the ends which differ
One drop falls, lasts. and dries up-but a drop.
Another begins a river; and one thought
Settles life, an Immortality.
BAILEY.
Those who trust US, educate us.-George
Eliot.
In order to appreciate medieval art in
its religious manifestations, writes Theo-
dore Childs in Harper's Bazqr, we must
shape our minds tothe faith that prevailed
in those DAYS and pervaded all classes.
We must represent to ourselves the uni
verse as a vast theater wherein is being
played an immense drama, full of tears
and Jov, the actors in which are dispersed
between heaven and earth-a drama whose
denouement Is foreseen. and the incidents
OF which are directed by God, but where
each scene oilers the richest and most
varied complications. Divine persons. the
angels and saints. are constantly mingling
with humanity 20 help and guide, while
Satan and his darksOme legiOns necessarily
tempt and trouble. Man, solicited di-
versely by celestial grace and internal Sc
auctions, but free and master of his des-
tiny, has this earthly life wherein TO choose
between two attractions. II am a poor
woman, weak and Old" Francois Villou
makes his mother say in an admirable
PRAYER to the virgin; II know nothing.
and never did l read a single let
ter. In the church OF which l am
a psrishioner l see beautiful paint
ings; on the one side paradise.
where are the harps of gold; on the other
side hell, where the damned burn. The
one frightens me, the other dazzles me
Lady of heaven, queen of earth, empress
OF the internal abysses, grant that | may
have the joyous paradise"
Then in the medieval mind redemp-
ton is the prize OF love- Thus God
watches over each one of US and performes
prodigles to save us. But the evil one
also, like warning lion RACES and roves
around men. Therefore, the imagin alton
takes refuge in the arms of saints and
angels, who defend the faithful against
the attacks OF hell. Such was the religion
OF the middle ages, full OF marvels, of
terrors and of love.
From Formosa, an island off the coast
OF China, DIR. Mackay writes that there
has been wonderful turning from idols
on the part of the people. Hundreds of
idolators have cleaned their houses of
images IN ms presence, and thev have
even given the missionary the temple
built for idols as a place for Christian
worship.
In recent public address President
Seth Low Of Columbia college called atten-
ton TO the fact that the Indians sold the
whole OF Manhattan island 10 the dutch
for S24. He added that not long ago land
had been sold on the island for S27 a
square inch. This is certainly an interest
ing fact to the philosopher. 1t shows that
in the hands of savages New York had no
apPreciable value. The value attaching
to 1t is the absolute creation OF civilization.
Nor are the New Workers alone the
creators OF their own wealth and conse-
quence. That city is what it is first. bv
virtue OF its situation at the gateway of
the continent, and secondly because OF the
growth Of the republic. ANY element of
unearned increment to be divided among
those who still contribute to this growth,
must be shared not only by those who
dwell within the great city, but by the
busy millions who are at work developing
the contine mt from shore to shore.
According to the Year Book of the
baptists just published, their churches
gained last year l60.247 new members,
making the total membership of tine de-