Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-02-08

for prot,er consideration 10 deed away
property You have drawn tfis
deed. Tie seal is affixed OPPOSITE
where you arr to write your name
The commissioner Of deeds Is present
10 witness You have your pen II
hand. There is ink in the pen
There is Only one thing for you u
do. and that n 70 sign your name
Suppose you stop now without sign
ing your name, what does It all
amount tor Nothing.
So yOu have resolved to give your
self up t. God You propose TO sign
off to him your body. your mind,
your soul. You have all things nee
essary for the transfer The angels
Of God are here to witness the eternal
transfer. Why do you not now with
your will complete the work. Halt
where you are and all goes for moth
ing. Sign your name to this spirit
ual transfer
Professor Arago. the mathemati-
clan. got woefully discouraged in his
work and was about to give up when
be saw some words Oh tie paper
which had been used to stiffen the
cover Of his book. and the words be
ing indistinct he dampenel the cover
until he could take it off and see
the words plainly and he found they
were words Of advice given by
DAlembert To a student. and the
words were. Go on, sir; go on II
o ye who are convicted. Go ON T.
You must take one more step or all
the steps you have taken will amount
to nothing. Go onl
BLINDED ARROGANCE LEADS TO STUN
BLING.
Learn also from my subject that
pride is the precursor of overthrow
Pride is a commander well pluned
and caparisoned. but it leads forth a
dark and frowning host. Pride
goeth before destruction, and a
naughty spirit before a fall" The
arrows from the Almighty'S quiver
are apt 10 strike man when on tho
wing. Goliath shakes his great spear
in defiance, but the smooth stones
from the brook make him stagger
and fall like an OK under a butchers
bludgeon. He who is down cannot
fall. Vessels scudding un,ler bare
poles do not feel the force of the
storm.
What are those three sleds that
have just gone into the yard of a
miserable hotel in Warsaw. Poland,
on the cold night of December the
tenth, 1922 Who are they. who
from these sleds have entered, and
the servant Is trying to build for
them fire with some green woodl
Napoleon. with six attendants, on re-
treat from Moscow The fire amid
the green wood has gone out and the
emperor is walking the floor to keep
from freezing.
Then bounding into his sled, the
thermometer twenty-six degrees be-
low zero he disappears in the dark
ness. He who little before had an
army under his command, together
with troops offered by other nations,
in all /, 1877. 900 men. now retraating
through that December night with
three sleds. and those of his army
not dead under the snow, reduced
for food to a handful of rye dough,
seasoned with gunpowder for lack Of
salt, and mouthful of horsc1csh.
From what height to what depth
Nebuchadnezzar in the palace; Ne
buchadnezzar forsaken in the fields.
Again learn from the misfortune
of the king Of Babylon what ter
rible thing is the loss of reason.
There is no calamity that can possibly
befall us in this world SO great rs the
of intellect to have
the body of man and yet to fall
even below the instinct Of brute. In
this world of sad sights the saddest is
the idiots stare. In this world of
awful sounds the most awful is the
maniac's laugh. A vessel ON the
rocks, when hundreds go down never
to rise, and other hundreds drag their
mangled and shivering bodies up
the wintry beach, is nothing com
pared to the laundering of iutellects
full of vast hopes and attoinments
and capacities. Christs heart went
out 10 those who were epileptic, fall
ing into the FIRE, or maniacs cutting
themselves among the tombs.
We are accustomed to be moro
grateful for physical health than for
the proper working of our mind.
We are apt 10 take ii for granted
that the intellect which has served
us 80 well will always be faithful.
We forget that an engine with such
tremendous power, when the wheels
have such vastness of circle and such
swiftness of motion and the least inn.
pediment might put II out of gear,
could only be- kept in proper balance
by n divine hand No human power
could engineer this train of immor
tai faculties,
How strange it Is that our memo
ry, on whose shoulders all the sue
cesses and misfortunes and occur
rences Of a lifetime are placed, should
not oftener break down, and that the
scales of Judgment which have been
weighing 30 much and so long, should
not lose their adjustment, and that
fancy, which holds a dangerous
wand, should not sometimes mali.
ciously wave IL, bringing into the
heart forebodings and hallucinations
the most appalling. Is il not strange
that the expectations OF this intellect
should not be dashed 10 pieces on It's
disappointmentsi
Though SO delicately attnnel, this
Instrument OF untold harfnonies plays
an thou.,h faar ahonla IL anl .,...ra