The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-01
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MORALS% MANNERS
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Morals relate to duty or obligation.
Manners concern behavior or department.
The enc term is subjective, the othor OBJ
iective. But morals should embody them
selves in manners. lis an incestuous
marriage. this between good morals and
bad manners. The constant effort of every
rieht-thinkinR and feeling person ought to
be the wedding of these traits to juoicious
conduct
Because, after all, how is character mani
tested but in and through the daily cour-
age? If this be brusqus, chuTlish. DISC
bliging, selfish. OF what use we're it to hold
locked up within the breast the whole
moral law. God sees the heart-true;
but man sees only the department. We
Judge each other, and necessarily. by what
we see. One who claims to be q saint
will be considered q sinner. If he acts
ons-and hTpocrite too.
Well. we'll, the millennium is not far Off
In politics. A republican president has
appointed democrat as Judge of the su-
preme court. while in New Jersey a dem
ocratic governor has nominated William
Walter Phelps, a republican, as lay judge
OF the court OF errors and appeals, and
the nomination has been unanimously
confirmed by the stale senate. The poll
ticians have set the clergy an excellent
example IT'S time for Christians to stop
fighting one another in order 20 catch up
with the procession.
On the authority Of Alexander Dumas
At is stated that the late Ernest Reuan re-
celved the gilt of 100000 from Baron
Ro:hschili as a reward for his Life Of
Christ" Renan drove better bargain
than did his prototype. who sold bis
master for thirty pieces OF silver.
Alta PRAYER meeting down East"
church member, noted for his failure to
meet business obligations arose TO speak.
The subject was: what must do to be
saved?' He commenced slowly and SOL
EMMY to quote the words. "Whst must 1
do to be saved ?" Then. after an impress
i've pause, he looked around and repeated
the question, what must / do to be
saved?" Whereupon a voice from the
assembly replied in clear and distinct
tones; go and pay John Williams for
that yoke of oxen"
A good many of the "unco guild" be-
fore they can be saved themselves, or
guide others to salvation, will have 20 hear
and heed that same retort. Ii your morals
are good lot your manners reflect the
goodness. Right conduct Is like gilt
edged endorsement on q note drawn by
an unknown partY-it gives morals an
identification and cash value.
A bevy Of girls. chattering like ma2pIes,
compared notes the other day regarding
the number OF books read within a week.
But dear girls. the important question
does not concern the number but the
quality; yes and the assimilation. a great
many books are not worth reading at all,
and those that ars do no good unless they
make you wiser, stronger. better. Read;
that is all right out not
a mere pastime, but In order TO learn.
And make what you read your own by
sssimilating it. "a in the chemistry of di-
nestion bread and meat are turned into
bone and blood-or even, according to
some, into love and imagination.
Instead of using new bible, according
TO the general custom, Mr.. Cleveland was
EwoTn in at his Inauguration in 1885 upon
his mothers bible. a small Morocco bound
copy, and it is understood that be will use
the same one at the approaching Oere-
mony.
at is a sore subject" writes Miss Cor
don Cummings from Ceylon. that
whereas Hindoo, Mohsmmedan and Budd-
hist conquerors have ever abstained from
deriving any revenue from intoxicants,
which are forbidden bv each Of these re-
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ruthlessly place temptation Tor revenue
only at every corner, not only here in
Ceylon. but in India also, where. as has
been publicly stated by an srchdescon of
Bombay, the British government has
made hundred drunkards for each con-
vert won by Christian missionaries"
Men like Nehemiah, whose book has
formed tho basis Of recent international
sundsy-school study, are always needed
never more than nowadays. Grace, grit
and gumption were the permanent traits
in the old Hebrews character, and tney
made him hero. They will enable any
of us TO triumph over the tempter and bis
allies.
Worthy purpose and heroic effort will
bring final success today as they did in
those poverty-stricken ana war-cowed
Jews rebuilt their ruined walls and re-
erected their demolished temple.
lis often brought as a reproach against
the scriptures that they contain in certain
passages words and illusions 90 plain
hs to be shocking palmer and
more shocking than any license of speech
INDUCED in by French playwrights.
The answer is easy. The plainness of
the scriptures r. the infrmity of transla-
tors speaking aiter tho manner OF their
age. But their Utterances never entice TO
profigacy. There is no moral I0oseness
about them. Whereas, the French play
wrights deal in ;rnuendo and double en-
tsndre. which veil vice in order - make
IL attractive and suggest the wickedness
that lies under the rose.
Recent events in this country, remarks
q religious contemporary, have demon
strated the power of Christian sentiment
when acting as a unit to one end. But
they have also shown the utter made
quacy of the present means of focusing
this Christian sentiment upon
particular object easily and quick
ly. What Christendom needs
Is some arrangement like the