The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-15
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MORpLSDO MANNERS
By a CLERG YMAN.

ion, that this is a growing sin, and one
which infects all classes. There are many
causes one of the chief of these being the
prominence given to racing. not as a trial
of speed lin that there is little harm, but
as a means of betting. The word bet"
finds a place In all life on all occasions.
The very divine enforces his views upon
theology. often, by saying: "l'l bet you
it is 81"
Let Christians preach and practice the
gospel of quid pro quo. The basis of ali
honest business is an exchange Of evuiya-
Tents.
Christianity is not only good faith to
live by, Ills magnificent creed to die by
ASK the death beds, they can tell"
The Epicurean philosophy. which says
live for time and sense, and the stoic
| philosophy, which SAYS brace yourself and
meet care and sorrow and death with
marble bow-both are as powerleSs In the
way of comfort moonbeams dancing on
q bed OF ice are In the way of heat
According to certain critics who
tender their services as our guides in
biblical matters" remarks Mr.. Gladstone,
| ("Ths Impregnab.e Rock" p. 1907.
Israel lived on for 900 years from the
exodus and transmitted q peculiar faith,
J law. ritual and nationality without any
! legislative or Ttualistic or institutional
| system TO uphold any one of them. This
/ very startling proposition appears to one
| 10 do violence 10 reason no less glarlngly
than anv of the assertions ventured by
theolOgians in the days of their pride and
power"
Iceland there are $4,000 people. Po-
litlcal equality prevails-even woman
suffrage. IT'S said that there is not in all
Iceland an iliiterate person over the age
of seven years. There are no police, no
! prisone, no thieves, no pleutocrRis, no
| paUpers-a plain, temperate. chaste. we'll
educated people. Why not annex Ice
land? 1t might serve for an example
only that sort of an example is never
catching.
Temptation is like a breeze over a
threshlng floor it tests and winnows US
or if We are al chat takes US out Of the
way.
In the interesting book entitled "Phs-
raoh, Fellahs and Explorers" Mrs. Amelia
B. Edwards who Is an Egvptologist OF the
first rank gives an entertaining account of
ancient Egyptian notions OF immortality.
| Man, emerging from barbarism, Is ike an
intelligent child, full OF curiosity about
himself He is puzzled by the mystery OF
! his own existence, and according to his
| limit of experience he seeks TO account
| for that mystery. Now the ancient inhab-
itants of the Nile valley accounted for
Themselves in q very elaborate and
! philosophical fashion. They con-
| ceived of man as COM
posite being, consisting OF at least six
parts, viz: body. soul. an intelligence,
| 8 shadow. a name and another element
called in Egyptian Ka. The cooperation
of these six parts as one harmonious whole
constitutes the living man. But they We're
ASSOCIATED by death, and could be re-
united only after a long probation, When
so reunited it was forever. Meanwhile,
being dead, the body Law inert in the
tomb, the soul performed its plous pill
gTimage through q dTeam-haunted the
valley of shades; the intelligence. freed
from mortal incumbrance. wandered
through space the shadow and the name
awaited the return oil the soul when lts
pilgrimage should be accomplished, aud
the Ks dwelt with the mummy in the
sepulchre.
Miss Edwa DIS considers this IA to be
the life principle in man. Being vital, 1t
required nourishment, aud hence it was
matter OF daily prayer among the ERyp-
tians that the Kas of their dear departed
might be provided with a series OF good
square meals. Being divine the Ka was
immortal, and around this the disjecta
membra should by and by reunite.
Miss Edwards suggests that this Egyp-
tian word Ka Is none other than the He
brew word Khai, meaning life" ut
NAV be-" she saws, "that the Greeks Dor
rowed their vital spark. as they borrowed
so much else. from the Egyptians. At
any rate the Hebrews who carried away
out of Egypt even more intellectual spOils
than spoils of silver gold and raimentl
were indebted to their tasknRsters for
their doctrine of the Khai or lite. They,
in fact. borrowed not only the idea, but
the very word"
The century OF missions Just closed has
witnessed a revolution in morals and man
ners more surprising than that other revo-
luton wrought in the material sphere BY
the inventions and discoveries of the
nineteenth century. a hundred wears
back there were but two or three mis-
sionary societies in all ChristendOm; today
there are over one hundred such societies
"a new one for each year in the century
whose representatives are preaching the
| gospel to every nation under
heaven. Then, were there less than fifty
versions of the bible-the entire result
of biblical translation since the DAYS OF the
the apostles, DOW there are 2S0 languages
in which the word Of God has been trans-
lated. and the whole bible is accessible TO
nine tenths of the population OF the globe.
Then, there were no w0men's missionary
agencies; now there are thirty such or
CARNATIONS in America alone. which con-
tribute nearly 3, 600 600 per snnum for the
spread of the gospel. Then most OF the
heather nations were inaccessible; now
almost every door stands open.
The watchword of the past century has
been opportunity; that of the century just
opening should be importantly.
The woman with a loving heart, re-
marks a contemporary, is sure to look on
the bright side Of life, and by her example
induce others to do so. She sees a good
reason for all the unwelcome events which
others call bad luck. She believes in
silver Innings, and likes to point