Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-06-08

OF an unappreciative public. and the con-
servatism of worn customs. and launch
out on the great sea of originality new doc
trines of truth that are distasteful and
seemingly absurd. Popular applause and
public opinion holds such a sway over the
hearts of men that it requires extraordinary
force OF character to resist its sweet. Sc
ducing charms. "Out of Nazareth can no
good thing come" has wrecked the hopes
and ambitions of thousands born in OBJ
security. who have striven to rise in the
great struggle for power. who have not had
the innate force Of will to overcome the
most i~nsurmountable obstacles. The
worlds greatest characters are those who
have thrown down the gauntlet and def
antly battled singly and alone against the
odds of public opinion. animadversion and
conservatism. Socrates sacrificing life to
his doctrines. Luther suffering excommu-
nication. Columbus spending years in de-
privation and supplication to brave the
dangers OF an unknown ocean. and Jesus
Christ offering himself a willing sacrifice
for truth, were all used as illustrous exam
pies of the lessons taught by the subject Of
the Grafton and which were brought out
in the we'll worded and we'll constructed
Grafton.
'SALATHIEL,"
BY Frederick E. Robinson. puzzled the
wits of those not well versed in literature,
but when the legend of the Wandering
Jew" to whom the name was applied. was
graphically portrayed in style very like
that of Lew Wallace. the audience at once
awoke to interest. Salathiel was a shoe
maker of Jerusalem. and during the pas
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borne down with the weight of his heavy
front of Salathiel's dwelling, he was driven
around. calmly pronounced on him the
curse, Thou shalt wander on the earth
till l RETURN" aud throughout the earth he
has wandered. counting death and suffer
ing. but ever wandering on and on. The
legend was simply recited as an ~allegory.
representing the wanderings of the human
race in its earthly career. and from it as
a base, the speaker built up a framework
of human hopes and fears. that for elo-
quence aud beauty of poetic sentiment. it
would be hard to find an equal. The
mystery of human life in its intellectual
force. the movable and the unknown. the
finite and the infinite. death and eternity
were dwelt upon, and out of the confusion
when considering these distractions there
always comes the conviction of the abso.
uteism of God and the eternity of truth.
Man without revelation sees no future past
the zenith. no purpose in life. no heaven tc
win. and struggle les blindly on amid the dark
ness. Hope alone buoys up the despairine
%wanderer. and its setting is like the setting
of the sun into the blackness of darkness
Since Adams fall evil has been a more
active principle than good. and life hovers
'twixt these to conditions like a star in the
twilight. between day and night. Evil be
wilders reason. dcadens conscience and
leads to delusive pleasures that swallow up
all hope of good. Man too often obeys the
clay-given mandate. Follow pleasure and
be merry" instead of the other and better
mandate. Conquer self and thou shall,
rule" because he drives truth from resting
with him and wanders forever in the
despair of error and self qualification. The
famous harp of the Norseland king. with
wires stretched from castle to castle, pro-
duced no sound when peaceful zephyr.
played, but when the wild rawlings of the gale
swept through the resonant strinssa sweet,
delightful music was heard. which swelled
into the %grandest. soul-inspiring harmony
as the wind became more violent. Only
III SAaS Va itS "AO VIC Nv tlIC dilI
overcome. bring out the true and best OF
mans nature. and they who can conquer
the evil within, and outlive the storms OF
opposition without. shape a course to true
greatness. The completest %conquerors
are they who move the world and acom-
plish the great things of life; whose lips
proclaim the truths which sway mankind:
from thec center of whose hearts emanate
the great thoughts which are the axioms OF
humanity. So it has been from the be-
ginning. so it will be to the end; men are
wanderers and hope is the star that light
ems the way.
THESE COLLEGE YEARS"
Was was the theme upon which Harry
ID. Hare spoke. He wittily alluded to some
of the more amusing incidents of college
life. and eloquently of the location of
had there been enjoyed. These college
years; one who has never tried them knows
not with what feeling we see them drawing
to a close. The daily contact with schol-
arly men and women; the intimate inter-
course with fellow students; the continual
living in an intellectual atmosphere that
appeals to the higher thoughts. the finest
feelings. the sublimest impulses. bind the
student to his college with bonds that are
next to those of home. The future is
opening before our gaze. AT last we have
come face to face with the immediate bust
ness of our lives. Our attainments will be
of no worth to us unless they appear in a
nobler manhood, a nobler ~womanhood. a
nobler service. We realize the l%ittleness
of our own knowledge in comparison with
the greatness of what there is to know.
What we make of ourselves, not what any
college stamps us as being, will be the
basis of the judgment of our lives. The
age yearns for noble men and women. with
broad brains. great hearts and lofty pur-
poses. If we can satisfy that yearning in
what we offer in our lives and services.
the world is waiting for US: if not. it has
no place for us in its regard. This is a
glorious age. The letters are being shat
tered from human minds. too long en-
thralled: false distinctions are being swept
away: higher ideals are filling the souls of
men. Life means more today than ever
before. Remember that He lives most
who thinks most. feels noblest. acts best"