The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-02-15
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MORALSGO MANNERS
II A CLERGYMAN

A large intellect and noble spirit will
ever find. like the banished duke in LAS
You Like II" tongues in trees, books in
the running brooks, sermons in stones
and good in everything. The typical
scofer is the devil. and those who are like
him fix "low motives into noble deeds"
until not even Helen is beautiful nor
Achilles brave. In the temple at Smyrna
were looking-glasses which distorted every
fsce-the most innocent and happy.
Some minds are like those hateful retlec-
tors.
Let US look for the good, the beautiful,
the true in men and women; and looking
we shall find them. Otherwise earth
would be hell.
The story of Sir Henry Rawlinson's de-
cipherment OF the inscriptions upon the
lofty rock OF Behistun, carved in three YER
sions, Persian. Median and Babylonian.
is one Of the romances of scholarship. Sir
Henry was the most eminent orientslist OF
his dav. He desired 10 solve the enigma
OF the Gun eiform text and to DO for Assyri-
ology and the cuneiform records what the
famous Rosetta stone had done for Egypt
olUgy and the hieroglv phies. Having
found the inscriptions above mentioned
he began his work and pushed it to sue
cess. The difficulties he met and over
came-diiiiculties 60 apparently insupers-
BILE that previous French explorers had
retired from the field in despsir-the
treading OF a labyrinth with a cue, the
study of the inscriptions craven MP in the
air 500 feet above the surrounding pain,
the patience. the energy. the final discov-
cry of the key to the phonetic value of the
Assyrian characteristic recital Is az in
structive as il is fascinating.
The present International Sunday
school lessons which have mentioned
Darius monarch to whom the rec
ords on the rock of Behistun al!ude-re-
cali and emphasize the worlds indebted
ness to Raw ison.
During the sessions of the present par
lament popular government in Great
Britain promises to make notable adj
vances. A bill securing home rule in
Ireland is now being debated Ii il passes
Justice and fair play long deferred in the
Emerald isis, will be at last domesticated.
The liberals, too. foreshsdOW in the
OF political adumhrant-the adoption OF
the one man one vote principle, and the
restriction of class legislation. With Mr..
Gladstone in Downing st. those whom
the old maa ca Is "the classes" are likely
have the nightmare. while the masses
have their innings at last. Long may thew
hold the field.
Life is journey. We do not always
know the best roads to the journeys end
One of the best guides is Faithfulness
Those who engage his services are sure Of
the most considerate treatment on the
way, and will reach their destination in
the safest and speedlest way.
Vanity is usually esteemed (by men
the peculiar prerogstiye OF women. 1t il
not so. IT'S the hesetting sin Of every
one. For what is vanity? Is it not the
undue parading OF whatever We most
pride ourselves upon possessing? Thus
there is q vanity of learning, of talent, Of
wealth-as we'll as OF dress or looks The
ladies' (God bless them usually have
something 10 be vain of-besuty, accom-
p!ishments, amiabilitv or what not. We
shame-as the prize fighter in his fists, OF
the miser in his sorimping.
Seli-respect Is to be dist nguished from
vanity. The one leads US 10 act suitably
to our estate; ths other makes "a pay
the peacock and oeport ourselves on the
most inoppor,une occasions. Seli-respect
regards our character. Vanity seeks 10
impress others The first is laudabie
The other Is weakness-weRkness which
often leads to sin.
The curious in such matters, remarks
a re igious contemporary. will find it both
amusing and instructive to examine the
numerous accounts of the life of the late
Benjamin Z. Butler. which have appeared
OF late, and notice how uniformly the
adiectives original" and unique" are
chosen to describe him. No post-mortem
praise would have better pleased him.
The consuming ambition of his life was TO
ride rough-shod over the opinions and
better instincts of society and stand out
as Original" and unique" But alas for
that ambition When one can scarcely
turn a corner without running against
some one who is also trying TO be
original and unique" by being con-
spicuously and audaciously conscience
less. Let the lie of Butler. with its bril-
liancy, mental ability and lamentable
failures, cry out to every Young citizen
If you wish to he really original and
unique. get a conscience, live by its
slightest dictates, and, if need be, yield up
your life in its service"
The deaconess institution at Kaiser
werth, on the Rhine, celebrated its fifty
sixth anniversary the other day. This
was the pioneer of this kind. Now there
are sixty-three such institutions, with
5000 deaconesses who supply $4,000 sta
tions. Their annual income, ali of which
comes from voluntary contributions,
amounts to 81 100000. Yet the work of
these cody women is so quiet that few
know of its existence.
Let us learn to distinguish in these days
OF fast and loose theology between doc
trine and dogma. doctrine is some
principle that is disclosed or inculcated in
the bible. A dogma is our human con-
ception or explanation of bible truth.
Doctrine is to be accepted. Dogma is to
be examined, and received only when sat
isfsctory. The first is sometimes beyond
mot in opposition to- reason; the secO nd
should a. ways be within reason. Doc
trine is all right. Dogma is apt to be all
wrong. The one is God-Riven. The
other il man-made.
A profane father having overheard his
boy swear ike trooper, threatened him