The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-24

table, an SAYS, saws she, ~ know what q
concep is; it's jest sool thing with nothin'
IN it," But a fool thing, SAYS |, is
name. an you mustn't have any
name or word to a concep. WELL" SAYS
she. tits jest seen BIC fool thing that
thar amt no name for it. | never had
none of them exposed statuery idees,"
says she. AN don't want none Of 'em.
Well, I've got one. saws |. Got yore
granny" says she. an went out slamrnin'
the door.
Every ono remembers how Plato
thanked God for three things. First, that
ne had been created a man instead OF a
beast; second, that he was horn Greek
instead Of barbarian, and third. that ne
had been endowed with the gift Of philos-
ophv. The Christian has ground for more
profound thanksgiving He can rejoice
that God created him in the divine image;
that he has been recreated In the likeness
OF Jesus, and that he has been called TO a
service which embraces IN its scope the
whole world.
But as it regards service, n man will
never be more useful than he desires 10 be.
1t has been well said that religion today
is not so much q battlefield as it is hos
ptal for sick and disabled folk. 1t is too
often onlya round Of poultces and plaster
and nourishing diet, and tho talk is
mainly oil troubles and trials and what we
have to pass through. A good deal OF the
current religion looks very unlike the
warrior or the maiden martyr. It's poor
thing, coughing feeble apology for its
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get in anybody's way if it can be.et alone;
that shuts its eyes Tor fear OF seeing what
is wrong. and holds its tongue lest il
should give oifense; poor, SICK, signing
thing that can do nothing in the
world but sit down by the fire nursing itself,
creeping occasionally into the sunshine
when the wind does not blow from the
east. There il much need that we add To
our faith virtue and manliness. We need
a religion that is q thorough nuisance 10
wrong-doers, with an eye like an eagles
for anything that is not straight. aud maxi
ing n great noise about IL; such as shall
set the Pharisees grumbling Indignantly.
Wanted, n courage that can die but that
cannot be made TO quail that can bear
being laughed at and starved, but that
cannot do other than speak and act Alright.
We need now, as almost never before, an
Shbuusideu loE AIHlteOuSutbos
A woman, whose rDling passion is not
vanity. is superior to any man of equal
capaeity.-Lerater.
IT'S a great misfortune not to have
enough wit to speak well, or enough judg-
ment to keep Z liza Bruyere.
IT'S heaven on earth to have a mans
mind move in charity, rest in Providence
ard turn upon the poles of truth.-Lord
Bacon.
He who does not know those things
which are OF use TO him and which are nee
essary 10 him, is but an ignorant man,
whatever he NAV know besides IHlsts0n.
Nothing Is 50 great an instance of ILL
manners "a flattery. III You flatter all the
company YOU please none; If you flatter
only one or two YOU aifront the rest.-Dsan
SWif.
Good qualities are the substantial riches
OF the mind, but it is good breeding that
sets them oil 10 advantage.-joIsi Lock-.
Christ is all. Not q tangled thread but
He can straighten out; not a blurred
scripture but He can erase it; not mis-
sent arrow but lie can direct it. All in
| all He is for life, in death, through eter-
nifty. Glory -. u. ESenrIin.
Education is learning the game of life.
It's rules are the laws of nature. Retzsch
depicted Satan playing chess with a man
for his soul The real chess-board is the
world. Tho player on one side is hidden.
The life, fortune, and happiness of every
one depends on his knowing something of
the rules of a game infinitely more diff
cult and complicated than chess.-Hlrley.
Physic, often, is only bad substitute
for exercise and temperature.-An0
IF Won want kpOurlaloa Won Fnuet toll
for il: if food. you must toll for it: and
If pleasure, you must toll for it. Toll is
the law.-RiRkn.
Delusive ideas are the motives of the
greatest part of mankind and heated
imagination the power by which their
actions are melted. The world in the
eyes OF a philosopher is a vast mad-house.
-M0ckepzts
Strike not only while the iron is hot,
but make the iron no. by striking
CTom1ceh.
Our acts are angels, good will walking
as shadows by our side.-JoLn Fletcher.
The Rev. Jeremiah Porter is the first
minister who preached sermon in Chi
cago, when it was still 1T. Dearborn. in
1928. Mr. Porter now lives in Beloit, Wis,
hale and hearty at the age of eighty-seven.
lie was sent TO the frontier in those DAYS
as a missionary of the congregational
churches.
The late DIR. Hodge OF Princeton used to
say to his Students: "Calvinism is the
broadcast OF systems. 1t regards the divine
sovereignty and the freedom of the human
will as the two sldes of a roof which came
together at a ridge-pole above the clouds.