The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-29
e1SUNDAY ThOUGHTSbo
AOHk
MORRLSG0 MANNERS
TY A CLERGYMAN


per class aggregates nearly as large a
number. viz, 7S.O45. They are largely
either foreigners or natives with foreign
parents, in both classes. This relieves
America of the reproach, but not of the
burden and danger.
Heredity and environment are RESPONSE
bic mainly for crime and criminals.
Counterfeit those and We can remedy
these. Here is hint worth acting upon.
Save the children. Ii has been well said
that God himself cannot make saints a.
the adult end OF life as fast as the devil
can breed sinners at the childhood end.
Prot Bryce, in his american Common
wealth." declares that the average Ameri-
can clergyman is better of than his En-
Tlish brother. Here is new argument
for disestablshment. Preachers are
better paid on the voluntary principle than
where the people are legally taxed for
their support. Thus the separation of
church and state conduces to the tenn
poral advantage OF the clergy. This de-
stroys one of the stock arguments In favor
of the union Of church and state.
The moravians stand in the forefront of
the missionary column. They are the
smallest OF the denominations-an illus
tration of the scriptural saying that ''the
last shall be first"
We have passed, in a single generation,
from indifference to nature to a nature
cult. remarks an esteemed contemporary.
In the volumes of American literature
upon the shelves OF our readers one may
look in vain for other than the most Incl
dental illusions to natural objects and
scenes, except for didactic purposes, before
the days OF Thoreau. The same thing is
true of English literature before the days
of the Lake school, and Ruskin tells Us
that. in all classical poetry, he cannot re-
call single line in praise of nature. ex-
cept in relation to some sensual gTatitica-
ton Today we have writer's OF the most
brilliant gifts who vii devote as careful
work 10 the description of a walk through
unpeop ed fields as Victor Hugo gave to
the battle OF Waterloo. and men will find
today as absorbing a subject for studying
a crimson leaf as in the past they discov-
cred in a fo.iated capital from the acropO-
lis OF Athens.
In this there is cause for Joy. It opens
10 every eve a picture gail-rv with which
the Sale de Diane OF the Louvre cannot
compete. 1t reveals world OF beauty
and skill on every hand. 1t presents q
field of study In each changing hour.
Whether the window lie lge be driited
deep with the treasures OF the snow. each
crysta q lining star, or the lawn be
purple with springs violets, or the
meadow rich with the yellow of the
marsh-marigold. or the brook ahame with
the lObella cardinals. or The autumn way
side cerulean with fringed gentians, we
have ALWAYS present with Us some object
of beauty and open book of study. The
poorest slave of toll has around him con-
stantly a vaster store of color and design
than wealth can buy. No invention of
mans cunning has added more to life's
comfort than this opening OF resources in
the material world for absorbing study
and immeasurab o delight.
The writer above quoted calls attention
in the same connection TO the misfortune
that this study OF nature has degenerated
into nature worship. Naturalists see in
the material world not gift OF Gods love,
but a substitute for Gods grace. Nature
without God becomes not q picture by
some great master. but only a kaleido-
scope turned 10y the hand Of chance. 1t
presents then not infinite wisdom and be-
nign design, but only color and form ar
rayed by chance.
A well-known Darwinian professor of
natural history was lecturing TO a ass in
botany. After describing in detail all the
methods BY which the gardener pro-
duces his hybrids, how with the utmost
care be selects his stocks aud arrays his
cross fertilization, he passed 10 show how
species after species of living things might
arise hv simple self-evOlutiOn. until ar
rested by the simplest of all questions,
"Bnt. professor, what has become of the
gardener"
The Interior explains the origin of the
term Din-monev. Pins were introduced
into England by Catherine. first wife OF
Henry VIII. They were not, however,
the well-known sharp-pointed instruments
we now wear. but were made of gold, sill
YER ivorv and brass, many OF them weigh
ing six or eight pounds. These pins were
worn in the ladies' hair and used on dif-
terent parts OF their clothing to taste
folds or drapery, and were IN part Orna-
ments The Spanish manufacturers were
permitted TO sell these pins only during
the Christmas holidays. ana accordingly
lily money for their purchase, which, nat.
uraly enough, was called pin money. At
first these articles were very expensive,
costing as much as jewe ~. Alter pins
had become cheap gentlemen continued
to give their wives. daughters aud sisters
money as before. ostensibly to buy pins.
In this way the term pin-money origi-
mated. and it is now applied to an low
ancs made lady to buy any small articles
she may need or fancy.
Ours has been well called the golden
age of privilege and opportunity. The
measure of power is willingness.
Where the worship is high and pure
the worshipsr will be high and pure too
Here lies the secret Of christianity. Il
permeatss the Hottest spiritual idea, and
thus assimilates TO itself the whole con
Rregation OF true believers.
Human opinion is one thing. Truth il
altogether another thing Opinion is mo-
truth; at the best il is only truth filtered
through the standpoint. the disposition
the cultivation, the mood of the holder.
The surest way 70 double LIES joys is Il
halVe them.
One of the deepest and most crying o