The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-22
HUMAN LIFE.
Danville, H., March Is.


To TIE Howard CLUB-The problem OF
humsn life is complete one, and one
that has not yet been solved, so in my
subject | shall not deal with the problem,
but life in It's various phases.
1--WE shane ourselves the JOY or fear,
OF which the coming lie is N ade,
And fl our future atmOsph re
With sunshine or with snate-"
The most innocent and impressive part
of life may be regarded as child
hood. Does not every one remem-
Der some act or event that occurrr d
in childhood, and does not this
90 to show that youth is the time lasting
impressions are made upon the mind? Ii
is then that the mind is being formed and
consequently is more plastic and impress
sible.
From the age of fourteen to eighteen
our thoughts begin to run in a different
channel from those OF childhood we be-
gin to mediate upon the great misty
future which ID before US.
Advancement is sure TO follow if we
med tate well upon what We write and
read.
That is If We give ourselves wholly to il.
with diligence and steadiast purpose.
In youth is the time for Improvement
for as the body grows so will the mind if
il is cultivated and If it is not, then 1t will
be like the plant which is not Gu tivated !;
il viii grow just SO far and then remain
stationary.
Ii is an absolute necessity in our day
that each person. whether girl or bow
should have a good education, and which
can be received by dint OF perseverance,.
Ii is the effort TO improve or excel, tax
ing the powers more and more. that de-
yeiops manhood ana wOmanhood, both
mentally and physically.
When Edison was thirteen years OF age
he sold paper on the train; boy bv the
name of CLANCY was his partner In the
business, their homes we're q mile apart,
and IL was necessary that they should
have some speedy way OF correspondence
and upon this Edison proposed tel graph
line Tney put up the line: here
was Edison's initiation into the mysteries
Of electrical science. Ii he had been con-
tent with the short line telegraph and the
good he derived from IL. the world would
never have heard of his telephone or
monograph. But he was not content
He kept on thinking and inventinR, and
so he Is today. And so IL 10 wi IA us. We
should not be content with Just little ed
ucation. but il is a duty we owe to our
country TO keep on learning aud thus add
ing TO our store of knowledge Gs We as.
cend the hill of life.
Did you ever take up blotter and try
to find out the word that made the ugly
lines upon it? There NAV have been low
ing ones originally, but they were blotted
out by heavily scored figures and by
deeply marked words of indignation until
the pure whIteness of the blOtter is de-
faced and you begin to think that il can
no longer be of any use.
Now the faces of half the people you
see are like those blOtters.
They are marked by indifference. in
temperance. ETC.. and made ugly by bitter
words and misshapen by angry ones.
As q general thing people get that for
which they live-soms live for fame some
for wealth, some for pleasure, and some
for the good he or she can do. of which
this is the true secret of happiness.
MIDI e life Is the most useful time of
existence; then in quick succession fol-
lows Old aye, which is the decline of life.
and 1 might also add the harvest time of
lie, for the crops which are sown in
youth and cultivated in manhood are
reaped in old age.
Therefore it ID highly necessary, in this
existence OF human life, that seeds sown
In youth be of right kind and properly
planted. Then, if the growing crop be
properly cultivated and ell obnoxious
weeds uprooted and cast out, old age may
then reap bOuntiful harvest, a. q reward
for the prudence and industry of youth
and manhood.
.'The tissues of this life To be-
We weave with eolOrs all our own
And in the field Of destiny
We reap as We have soWn.
The old having passed through youth
and middle age, know the temptations.
trials and triDulations of each, aud often
give us valuable information and advice
in regard to them. Then let US so
live that when we reach the last
stage OF life our past lives will
be lighthouses lighting up the sea of
life, 90 that Others NAV miss the rocks
which might have caused themselves
trouble. For a. the future cannot be d.
vorced from the past, we cannot close up
the record OF the years, days and moments
behind Us, as II they had never existed,
and open a new and bright one, taking
no relation TO those that are in the past.
What has been sown will b. reaped in
the future DAYS of our lives, and then, by
looking back into the past we may attain
some knowledge of that which is yet to
come.
The ills Of this Life are like the hills;