The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-23
Some Rambling Thoughts.
BY MEMO.
rCopyrlcnted by Dave & Taber."

strong is this:-that having a
glimpse of truth they demand that
others shall see eye to eye with
them. Hence some disputings and
warnings between those whose en-
ergies instead of being directed
against each other, should be unit
edly propelled forward into the real
battle against Incidence and selfish
ness in human hearts.
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What absolute nonsense it is for
any subject, or to announce that we
have at last discovered subject
that has only one side to it. And
mark you this the chief sinners in
intolerance are those who ultimate
ly are found to have the narrOwest
conception of a subject. These are
they who dwelling in srimy coal
mines, deny the existence OF sun
shine and trees or who rattling in
their narrow cells Of thought like
empty milk cans in wagon, by their
noisy protestings drive from them
those whom quiet thought would
reach. Their view of life and of
God is narrowed down to the range
of their own short-sighte iness,
and they live and die content to be
ignorant of the infinite breadth of an
intipite Creator whose works do
Justify him and whose vastness is
only comprehended in tiny frag-
ments by the best of us.
F.*
How dare any one of us stand up
to utter the whole of Gods truth
and then place little human limita-
tions Oh it! We dare it because we
are so small and 80 narrow that
we scarce can see ourselves. Great
men welcome to the great army Of
world-betterers, all who from pro-
found purpose and realization OF
their own Importance as created
parts of.the universe, throw out all
the powers they have il by any
means they can impro' some. 1t is
the narrow. and shrunken men, who
as solf.constituted toll, gate keepers
along the highways of life demand
of us the surrender of this and that
coin of thought if we would traverse
their section of the road.
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There will of necessity, by the con-
stitution of mems minds, always be
those who, holding certain views,
will flock, settle, or fly together like
swallows in autumn. But even
granting this there is no more need
of antagonism between them and
their neighbors than between diff
ferent regiments of the same army.
If You want some really pltiful read
ing, take up Sir Walter SCOTS "Old
Mortality and see how the Con.
venanters harassed by their oppres
sors, snarled and snapped at the
hands that would have aided them,
so that, at the last, whatever advant-
age might have heen gained from
armed resistance to Claverhouse
and others, was absolutely disre-
gurded and lost to them forever If
you need further proof of the horrid
stupidity of squabblers who, blind
to common danger, insist On tri-
umphs over one another, read
Josephus and his account of the fall
of Jerusalem. You will concede it
to be, in all likelihood one of the
most frightful stories in human his
tory, where, in sight Of danger that
threatened to enguif all in ruin,
the sects flew at each other in unex-
ampled fury and slew of their own
people until resistance to the foe
outside the walls was no longer pos
slble. The abuses of all human rights,
the torrents of human blood, the
wrenching asunder of all human ties
by those who insist on agreement
with themselves makes dreary read
ing but it is one of the chapters of
the human record and must be read
if. in order to appreciate the heights
possible in our nature, ve must
comprehend the depths to which it
it can sink.
1t is so frightfully human to flee
persecution and then lay the iron
hand on those in turn who do not
agree with us (our New England
history sadly confirms this that
even though we concede that days
of more liberality have come, yet
each of us must look within to
watch for symptoms of illiberality.
1t is easily nutured, and its -infu-
u