St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-14

that the mayor may resign.
And what would st. Paul do then
poor thing?
THE LAW OF COMPENS ALTON.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was not the
first philosopher to call attention to the
sublime law of compensation. This
| principle has been discussed in one
| form or another ever since the
mind of one man first learned to
| convey by written symbols his
thoughts to his fellows. TO the great
| intellect and the kindly Sympathies of
our great republican philosopher the
task was given of Interpreting this law
to the mediocre intelligence of his fell
low rnortals. Briefly stated-and from
memory-this law as defined by Mr..
Emerson is to the purpose that there
| runs through ali nature-mind and
soul and spirit and force and
matter - the golden strand of gain
ing something for everything that is
given. God and nature are proverbially
generous. The human being that sows
the wind shall reap the whirlwind. He
who takes by force shall in some way
be compelled to yield to force. He VINO
devotes lifetime to giving sustenasa..oooo
70 tile spirit, to him shall the fruits of
the spirit be returned.
TO those who are enjoying the COM
| forts and blessings of home most
| strongly do the horrors of homelesSness
present themselves. The merely home
less man has still many blessings. The
sun warns the Door wanderer who has
not where to lay his head; the birds
MARBLE for the tramp: there are innu-
merable solid and substantial blessings
vouchsafed TO the poor devil who
merely commits the common crime of
| ldlenesS. So it is with the condemned
prisoner; the man stricken with mortal
disease; the aged; the weak of will;
those prone to what the world calls vice.
1t is mere weighing and measuring
and asserting OF blessings over against
curses-that is all.
Without careful reference to, or close
reading Of the book Happiness in
He'll" discussed by the symposium of
oOiS SAIi iiiOh HI hOuuQdJ
it seems very probable that the author
st George Mivart-may have strong
scientific arguments to support his
position. eff a man die. shall he
live again?' is the eternal ques-
! ,tion of the race. If the boon
of Immortality is awarded by Deity
to His weak and errlng children,
how shall they live, and where,
under what conditions and subject to
what laws? Do the same laws obtain
in the life that succeeds death which
prevail here? Ii so, then in both heaven
and he'll the earthly Jaw of compensa-
ton must continue in beneficent
force. While still imbued with
physical life, no man or woman
becomes wholly bad. Lives stained
with the blacklist crimes catch per.
petually the glinting rays of the sun of
purity and peace. The fires of hate,
passion and selfishness may burn
fiercely, but the brows of the victims of
sin are sometimes bathed in the dews of
Hermon, and cooled by the perfumed
breezes that blow forever from Calvary.
Is God less merciful beyond the grave
than he is on this side ? Probably not,
One of the blessings of exact science,
as studied in modern times, is found in
the practical demonstration of the per-
petual and unbroken reign of law. The
human intellect has made great strides
in discovering natures secrets dur
ing the nineteenth century; and, as
far as it has travelled OIL the
road into a thousand realms, it
has not been able to get beyond
the reach of law-law in the singular,
not in the plural; for as there is but one
God with many names. so there is but
one law with countless divisions.
1t is hardly to be supposed that DR..
McCosh, or President Patton, or Joseph
Cook, or Lyman Abbott. or any of the
excellent gentlemen who pronounce
SO emphatically against Mr.. Mivart's
hypothesis that there is ''happiness in
hell" would claim to derive per-
sonal satisfaction from the thought
that there was no happiness in that alb
horrent place or that fearful condition.
Holy Writ informs US that God Himself
takes no satisfaction in the punishment
of the wicked. Do these facts not go some
distance IN proving that there shall never
cease to be happiness anywhere in the
universe under the government of God?
That which man does not want he tries
to get rid of, while he searches for that
which he does want. The GLOBE does
not presume to speak ex cathedra, but
expresses the firm belief that that
which God does not want He will not
have.
Wickedness and weakness are twin
brothers. Prenatal conditions and
personal environment often have
more influence in the evolution of a
criminal than his own innate vicious
nature. Society itself too often pays a
premium on immortality. Inferiority
and frailty sometimes hold in their
bosoms charity SO profound as to put
even selfish righteousness to the blush.
How fortunate it is that an aIl-seelng
God, instead Of weak, illiberal and
short-sighted man, alone has the right
and the power to pronounce final judg-
ment.
The GLOBE is neither irreverent, pro-
fame nor irreligious; but "speaks the
words of truth and sobernesso when it
expresses the hope that there may be
good scientific grounds for believing
that Mr.. Mivart's hypothesis has eIe-
ments of truth in it; aud that, under
that division Of the divine law that gov