The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-04-10
Society Column
BULWER-LYTToN BRANCH.
REGENERATION.
All the worlds a stage
ID all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits and their
And one man IN his time plays many parts

And one man IN his time plays many parts .
Either man Is q purposless p%roduction
OF blind nature OF he lives to acquire, to-
develop something. At death he is evi-
IDENTIFY unfinished and the little he has
developed only shows how much more
there is to do. To acquire wisdom
there must be opportunity and the
years, does not admit OF this. All ma
ture is constantly being reimbodied.
She works toward an end in alternate
periods OF subjective and objective life
"a universal law. for, as Paul said:
1.-The things OF earth are but shadows
OF heavenly things" Ii we have no
consciousness Of past lives, neither have
we Of a~future life. Ii thereis continuity
OF life in the future, which none will de-
nv, then to be logical, past existence
must be admitted. Life becomes worth
living when its mission becomes plain
and it's opportunities are appreciated.
The object OF the soul is not the comfort
OF the body. Only they are worms OF
lily QuSu, as Gu I1Ouo NY I'LL SUFl CS
humanity, who choose to grovel in that
element, those whose aspirations are
OF earth, earthly. "Man is master OF
his destiny and if he wills to build for
TEMPORAL success alone, none can say
HIM nay Yet the soul will be left
naked and shivering and only by ex-
perience, as a child learns the fire even
though the burn may be forgotten, will
he learn that power and wealth are but
Dead Sea fruit; that with them the body
may be clothed and fed, hut the ego
left unnourished; that his true self will
not he satisfied with the husks that are
fit food but for the swine. And at last.
when he has fulfilled the animal ana
starved the human, he Will though in
q far country, turn vearning eyes to-
ward his true home, and through many
lives struggle thitherward. Ii in the
past. possibilities for attainment have
been neglected; if, yielding to evil
thoughts, the infection Of wrong on our
fellows or ourselves. We are now suffer
erlng, it is because nature has taken us
in hand to balance accounts. "With
what measure We mete, it shall be meas
ured to you again." This is not a
pleasant doctrine to the morally
cowardly or the lazy-those who
wish to escape merited punishment, to
reap golden gcain from tares, a harvest,
the seed OF which has not been sown.
From thistle seed nought but thisties
can be expected.
"Can sackcloth clothe q fault orhide a shame
Or do our hands make heaven a recompence
BY StreWing dust upon "a b:iny face.
If this law OF cause and effect; OF ahso-
lutte justice, was fully and generally
recognized. the necessity for agitation,
and all theparaphernalia Of government
would be swept away and the Golden
Rule be the guide OF faith and practice.
.who toiled a slave may, come anew a prince
For gentle WOrthlnesS and merit won.
Who ruled a king may wander earth IN rags
For things done and undone,
There is no more misleading pl]ahtude
than that all "men are born frAe and
equal" One is born poor and another
rich. One under favorable conditions,
another unfavorable. One with q perfect
body, his brother a helpless cripple.
One rises above environments, another
sinks. One finds his level with beasts.
his neighbour manipulates the \ Ray.
One child Is born with q criminal
BRAIN" his brother with an intellect.
ual organism, Does so called heredity
explain the presence Of the "blacl
sheep in nearly every flock, or that
Plato, Dante, Shakespeare. Lincoln etc.
T. above ''heredltv' and that then
= greatness did not extend to their chil
: dren? Mozart at the age Of 4 wears
composed a difficult concerts. "BlinC
Toms" parents had never touched {
pianno when he could PLAY any ~airupof
hearing it played OF whistled. Hered!tl
may furnish the physical form, but re
incarnation the soul Thai uses It. The
form may be an imperfect instrument
giving out discordant notes or the p1avel
may be inexperienced. The guilty Otter
apparently go unpublished; ten9e.
bodies are raked with aches seemingly
undeserved, heart SORROWS comes to tin
lovable and loving and we fail to under
stand the ministry OF pain-that it i
corrective and instructive. That al
suffering nature can chasjise.
.:Those who transgress her law. she ogIy know
How Justly to proportion to the fault