Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-01-23
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SATURDAY JAN. %, 1892.
The Death Of a Rose.
I'm MEMORIAM. }

The most beautiful things in all relig
ions are those portious which describe
the life after death, and almost all re-
igions teach the belief in future life.
The most graceful language and the
most beautiful imagery express these va
rious beliefs. To be sure the character
of the after life portrayed depends upon
the enlightenment and education OF the
believer. But even savages have had
beautiful ideas of this after life. Take
for instance some of the beliefs of our
own American Indians and you find that
even they had some pretty ideas in their
religion.
But our own, the Christian religion,
is the most grandly beautiful, the richest
in imagery and graceful diction. Its be-
levers arefrom the most enlightened and
noblest of all the people of the world
and its language, the Anglo Saxon, is the
most complete and expressive of all the
languages in the world; and there have
been more books, more poems, more
papers written on Christian Religious
themes than all the other religions put
together.
Still, we must not suppose that no
other religions have any beauty or any
well meaning followers.
Just as matter of history l want to
tell you of little bit of the religion of
Buddhism. All OF us who read the news
papers have learned of this religion from
the great author Sir Edwin Arndo who
has tried to show what is beautiful in
this ancient religion which has had fol-
lowers for twenty-four centuries. And its
followers number now more than four
hundred and seventy millions of people.
Think OF it! Does it seem as strange to
you as it did to me? I wonder that there
are SO so many millions of people in the
world of which we know comparatively
nothing.
There is one tenet of this religion tn at
has always seemed to me pretty because
OF its imagery.
Does "metempsychosis" seem an aw.
fully long word? Well there is another
that describes it-"Transmigration OF
the sour-that is almost as long a word
but not so strange. This is the idea
simply told-the soul never dies, the
body dies, and the soul takes up its abode
in some other body. 1--WE have always
lived" says the Buddhist, "but in what
form we know not" And pure souls, the
spirits of children, are sometimes believed
to enter into the life of flowers. l think
that from this idea are taken many oil
our fairy stories. I wonder if that is the
origin of those lines in the old, old song
your grandma can sing it no doubt
about the cruel maiden and her lover:
@Out of his grave grew a sweet rose
bush,
But out of hers brisr.
They twined and they tied in q true
lovers knot
The rose bush and the brier."
As / said to You as matter of history
want you to know something of the re
igion of Prince Guatemala, and because
Of the imagery have used, the tenet In
the poem which hope may please you
The rose was friend of mine a long
time ago, and she was just as pure and
sweet as her own name. Yes, and sad az
it is, I must tell you she was shot and
killed by her little brother who wal
playing with q gun. II that we're the
only sacrifice, If hers was the only life sc
Suddenly taken with those dangerous
playthings one might think it was The