The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-11
A KANSAS LETIeR.
Want of Faith and other Subjects of Inter-
est to Many.

Want of Faith and other Subjects of Inter-
est to Many.
''As the dead year is clasped by a dead December
So let your dead sins with the dead days lie;
neS lite Is your, and a new hOIe-Tememher
We build our own ladders 20 climb to the sky.
81 nd out 10 the 'Un light OF prom So, forgetting
Whatever your lie held Of sorrow wrong:
NeWa.te half cur strenth il a useless regrettingi
We SIT By old tombs In the dark too long
"Have you missed in your sim9 Well. the mark Is
Did You faint in the racer Well, take breath for
the next;
Did the clouds drive you back' See yonder there
Were you tempted and feIlq Let IT serve for text
As each year hurries by let it Join the procession
OFskelet0n shapes that arch down the past;
While you lake your place IN the line OF
Your eyes on the heavens your face to the blast
81 tell you. the future hold tsrrons
For any sad soul while the stars revolve,
II he'll but stand firm on the grave OF his errors
And, instead o TegrettiBg. T--1lve, resOive
It's never too late 70 begin rebu lding,
Although into ruin your lif ems hurled.
For look how the light OF the Hew year Is guiding
The wan, worn face OF this bruised, old world"
Had Ella. Wheeler Wilcox never written
another line. she certainly deserves a
.oronet for having sent on its mission of
.heer and hopeluness to this sin bur
dened world tie poem / have copied
above. And this / have done because il
expresses my views so entirely, and be-
cause l believe that the greatest clog in
the wheel OF progress, the most porten-
tous drawback to personal efforts in busl-
ness, in mental attsinments. in religion or
In refOrmatiOns of any kind. is lack of
faith in ones self or in the work IN which
one is engaged. How often / have fought
the devil on this ground In looking
back over the past, / find
that yielding 10 encouragement and
losing faith in myself has caused me more
defeats in the spiritual and intellectual
life than all else combined. And I be-
lieve il is so with every one. According
TO our faith. so be it," II we have
no faith we will not work, that is
certain, and so | send you this "pean of
faith and hope" for the devil OF unbe-
lief is still abroad. You may all know
him by the texts he breaches from. Here
are some OF them: Don't write 10 the
Howard's page OF TIE SENTINEL. you can {
say anything interesting" And, Don't
give that money TO the minister, he
dresses better than you" And, Don't
send those papers or that book to Mrs
D. or Mrs. c., they will not thank
you for go doing" And so on. To be
sure this particular devil NAV look like
an ordinary man or women, but the devil
IL there all the same. for l have met him
In both OF these guises. and / know. But
enough on this subject.
Some one il cant recall the name Just
now wrote in favor of a directory and
he said there hadn't beer sufficient reason
given for not having one. / have a few
reasons to offer against one.
know a lSdy-who is one of the best
writers to 'our page" you will find-who,
Ii there had been dir sctory. would never
have written. Not for fear of parties in
other fields, bnt to save herself from an
noyance. "You can't compel lady to
correspond with any one" No. But un-
principied persons can use her name for
their own purposes. Such q thing has
been done. and a possibility of that sort
isn't . essant to contemplate
Again. in writing for the public, anyone
has the right to forbid the pub ication of
their real name. Such a right could not
be protected il there was q club dictionary.
Therefore. let Us have none. En- What
If there isn't jean FalconerH TAX of
the superior activity OF northern people.
Didn't / vow most solemn that would
visit the page first and be there ready to
welcome you? And / didn't. Never
mind 1t Is all right the way it is, for YOU
have reserved a seat for me near your own
peculiar niche. How nice By the way,
Jean" what are your views on 'spirit-