The Newtown bee., 1892-02-05
The Bee Buzz.

There are some places still in which the people make great account of public funerals. Those who seldom visit their neighbOrs, except on some errand, al ways go to funerals. Some never go to a church except W hen there is a service tor the dead. Ministers and religion nev CT seem to have any value to them eX- cept in connection with the grave. Their best clothes hardly get aired from one end of the year to the other unless some one in the community dies. Men who " ''-1 ''-- 'hio'- tn treat the living to pay their respects to the dead-pass- ing right by the suffering and needy per haps, to gaze at corpse. It is custom, superstition, idle curiosity or what?
 Good is conta gious as we'll as evil. If you would catch d noble split, go where there is true enthusiasm for noble en- deavors. And, if you would infect oth- CTS with high ideals and holy living, go among men and be what you seek to make them.
 A good woman complained to me that her nearest neighbor bored her for two whole hours, one morning, by her con- stant loud talking and forthwith she pro- cceded to bore me in the same manner to tell me all about it. It is so much easier to be conscious of our own happiness than that of others.
 If the so-called labor questions are ever settled, the solution of the VeXed problem will be found in the practice o1 the principles and spirit of Christianity Agitation. riots and legislation may serve to educate and convince men of the folly of seltishness on the part of all concern ed; but capital and labor will at last fine their greatest mutual interest in the gold en precept: "Whatsoever ye would tha men should do unto you, do you even SC 1 to them.7
 There is no greater inconsistency thai that of admitting the truth of the Christ ian religion and then practically ignorlns it's divine principles. If Christ Is th' hiohest standard in the world and the SC verest test of what we are, must we no then be judged by Him? Having tn greatest light there is under heaven, cal we ask to have our conduct judged ac cordine to any less light than that in tn midst of which we live? Can we who ar born and bred in the monday of Christ endom expect to be judged by the hgh of heathendom in the days of Moses o of Socrates? And if we do not accep that which we know and admit to be tn hest. but refuse to live up to the highes standard we have, what else can follo' but our just condemnation-even ou own self condemnation? It is startlln
 thought that one may live in Ohristel
 dom and assent to the claims of Christ anitv and conform to the eternal life I Christian society and yet, at heart, be heathen.
 Toa student of the science of goverl
 ment. our prevailing methods in pract cal politics present some very interestiI
 topics for study. People are very dem
 cratic in their feelings on the one har and yet very servile in their submisslt J
 and allegiance to autocratic leaders
 the other. It is a government of the pc :, ple. but the bosses always make up u e ticket for them. It is government h the people, but the platform of the par Q is often constructed simply for the m Il cbinerv to stand on during the campaig It is government for the people, D
 corporations and rings often control le
 jslatiou in the interests of commerce monopolies at the expense of the count ; at large. We call our representatives
 office our servants, but they consld
 themselves our masters. We are su
 posed to honor the men ot our choi
 with our sovereign suffrage; but, son $, times, our honor suffers because our e didates chose to get the nomination = :; election in one way or another .-I Rev
 0. Wright,