The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-29

any departing spirit exclaimed: Eternal
not ourselves that makes for righteous
ness. into Thy hands | commend my
spirit?" No, the abstraction NAV do for
the intellect, but the heart finds satisiac-
ton only in the heavenly yet ever-present
Father.
Referring to their recent departure,
Duckworth writes: There is no student
of Browning or of Tennyson ~ho is not
conscious that he is sitting at the feet not
merely OF great master Of song. but OF a
great moral guide and deep interpreter of
life and duty. who makes his appeal to that
which is "likest God within the soul"
who clears the vision and braces the will
and enamors the heart with all things
lovely and pure. 1t Ia a 10Y to feel that IN
al time to come this is the thought which
will be stirred IN the minds of many a
visitor to that storied aisle where the two
great contemporaries of the Victorian era
8 eep together. Others we think of who
used gifts as great. perhaps as theirs on.y
TO enervate and corrupt. But these have
uttered nothing base" They have writ
ten nothing which the most rigid uurists
would blot from the page. The gold OF
their crown is without alloy; there is no
stain on their robes.
In the face OF modern scientific scepti-
cism Tennyson did not hesitate to teach
the efficacy of prayer. as for instance i'll
these lines:
More thing wrought by rrayer
Thea this world dreams of Wherefore let Thy voice
Rise Tx" a fountain or one night aud day;
For what men better than .heep or 2 ats,
That nourish otHd lie " thin the brain,
Il, knowing God, they lift not han Is OF prayer
Both Tor themselves and those who call them friend?
For so tn VIII de round earth every way
Bound by gold chains about the feet OF God
Often the revival most needed Is one in
ourselves When we can't see anything
in anybody saws one, from the preacher
to the man who dusts the pews, that suits
us. it is a pretty good sign that We need a
revival in our own heart, and the soon er
we go to praying for it the better it will
be for the church.
In the biography OF Henry Martyr, the
famous missionary, we are told that he
went TO Cambridge. and after an unprom-
Using beginning became senior wrangler.
Commenting upon this. Martyr said: Il
obtained my highest wishes, but was sur
prised to find had grasped a shadow"
How often 10 We ali seat ourse yes at
the banquet of happiness long anticipated
only to ind its viands turning. ike dead
sea apples. to ashes on our lips. There is a
vast difference betWlxt expectation and
realization In the way of happiness. The
real pleasure lies in the pursuit. Pos
session Is synonym for safety.
\ writer in the Contributors club in
the March AtqRtic draws a s-nsibie dis
tinction between good ang AMI bad.
The distinctive test OF good slang is that
it has real meaning Bad ang has no
meaning; it is simply succession of
sounds which. because they come trip
pingly from the tongue, imnose on the ig-
norant Imagination OF the hearer. When
the mathematical professor silenced the
fish wife by cal ing her 'scsiene trian-
gle" ''paralle lopiped" and an "hypOth-
enuse," he used this weapon. As a rule,
the stang of the very low classes the
thieves Latin. the "argot." the flash Ian
guage" is not inexpensive. Not only is
it's incoming clear enough to the mi
tiated, but there is apt to he a vigorous
and picturesque felicity in its terms when
once their history is disc osed. For in
stance, the word "socdo leger," once
quite current. was maniiestly an
uneduca ed mans transportation OF
''doxoloRer," which was the familiar New
England rendering of doxoiogy This was
the Puritan term for the verse of ascrip-
ton used at the conclusion of each hymn
like the gloria" at the end OF a ch6nted
psalm Everybody knew the words by
heart. and it was eu-tOmArv for the con-
gregation to join in the singing. so that
there wac q triumEhal winding up of the
whole act of worship. Now. a ''sOcdo-
leger" was the term for anything which
left nothing else to follow-a knock out
blow. decisive, overwhelming finish. to
which no reply was possible.
Religion has a hard time of it in the
country, where they sleep it away, and &
harder time in the citv. where they xii IL