The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-01-24

not be loaded heavily with food or
s1rink or work. When thus set free
from bondage, It will break out in some
form of happiness. It's books, it's music,
its art, it's friendship and its religion
VIII All become pearls or gems. The
Creator made man for long life, q
healthy life, busy life, and q happy
life, and these terms exclude the
thought o. being an abject slave to any
thing. Labor must not break the heart.
The heart must find hours Of rest and
change in the worlds great variety.
When business is at a low ebb, then let
the mind and soul come to the front,
Let the slaves Of business go free. A
pecuniary loss may be mental gain.
In agriculture long drought which
ruins q harvest enriches the soul. The
moisture being all drawn from the
fields, tie sun,sheat and light enter the
more deeply into all the vacant pores,
and the ground is all revitalized by the
suns amazing chemistry.
In times Of financial distress the dis
eases Of society are the more easily
studied. because they become more vis-
ib1e. With millions of the poorest
classes now prostrate, the student can
perceive the destructueness Of the sa-
loon, and Of extravagance. and all the
improvidence Of ignorance and vice. As
one must go to Molokai to see the lep-
rosy in all its terrors and responsiveness,
go where the victims from many is
lands have been gathered, 80 if one will
in the midst of an oppressive winter
move among the homeless and foodless
he will see the diseases that take down
the human body and The human mind; !;
wiNsseefhe sorrows that come from the
imperfect state and the other sorrows
that come from the indiyidual alone;
will see that charity must join bread
and shelter to work. When men be-
come so degraded that they would rath-
er beg than work, it is high time for
the physicians to be called in to act up
on such disease. We must offer work
to the we'll men and women, because
work is the law Of health and honor.
Beggary from choice is a leprosy that
eats up the intellect and heart. Society
must create manhood, for in manhood
and Godhood society lives, moves and
has its being. -
NOT TIE MAN, BUT HIS WORKS.
The upper class can easily mark now
its relation to civilization. It creates
and improves humanity. A republic
is composed Of the thoughts and con-
duct of vast throng of rational per-
sons. A despotism is state that is
created not by principles, but by the
mind of person. Henry VIII behead-
ed a number of women. He was him.
self complete outfit of law, judge and
executi er. By degrees the thinking
people @6ncluded that women or men
should be put to death only in obedi-
ence to some eternal principle Of right
and evidence. Thus on the American
shore the peculiar person like Henry
VIII was excused from crown and
throne that some eternal principles
might reign in his stead. A person may
easily make mistakes or be willful
transgressor. Even Lord Bacon was a
mean man and criminal. The state
must therefore repose not upon man,
but upon ideas. Euclid, the geometer,
might have become drunkard or a
thief, but his geometry could not be-
come intoxicated nor suffer any degra-
dation. Its definitions and propositions
were for all time. They were not the
ideas of Henry VIII, but Of all human
ity. Thus came the word republic
"res publica"-a truth drawn from all
men Of all times. The idiosyncrasies Of
a Harrison OF Cleveland are rendered
harmless by the thought Of the state.
The millions living and dead eclipse
the man.
The altar of roses is not much like
rose. You can pluck the flower with
your hand. You can note its delicate
leaves, colors and matches grace, but
in the altar all this individuality is lost,
and yet into that costly essence whole
fields of blossoms betook themselves.
The scattered sweetness Of wide acres
foated into little china vase. AS in
the opening pages Of THE Arabian
Nights" there is magic ball on sea-
shore into which great luminous
cloud, falling down from the sky, has
tens and hides itself, thus the cloud Of
rose leaves, color and perfume passes
from the individual bloom into an es-
sence and exchanges field fox a vase.
What the rose lacks afterward Of indi-
vidualism it makes up in Immortality.
AS an individual rose it would soon
fade. The autumn would smite it, the
snow bury it, but in its vase-its heaven