Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-07-13

ingle-tax,,' is urged as solution
TO This hi I klznotty pro lem; but what can.
any device do IS 0 long. as mem S desires
and passions remain unchanged.
We shall have to recognize the. fact
that every reform is related to- every
other reform. II, !: II. III : ~
!: lLntemperance is only one of many
evils which man has not learned to
control. And while the banishment Of
the saloon would be a long stride in
the right direction, it would by no
means millennium; for man IS passions
uncontrolled would run to other evils.
Unless the inner man can be reached
and spiritual growth begun, the battle
will but go on in other fields.
10 many of us comes the feeling
that L can do so little. Alone each
PERSONS work seems small united it
may move the world. You know the
old proverb: "Trifles make perfection,
and perfection is no trifle.' The be-
lief OF Buddha, the Light of Asia, seems
to me beautiful thought which all
messengers from God to different
lands including our Christ have given
to man. First fright thought'' then
fright action" for the thought is
mother to the actional-ways..
'"Think truly and thy thought
Snail prove fruitful seed:
Speak truly and thy word.
Shall the worlds famine feed:
LIVE truly and thy life.
Shall be great and noble creed"
1t is not so much what a man pro-
tesses as what he believes that shows
his religion.
1t is true we slip, fall, make many
mistakes-yet back of all must be the
earnest desire to do the right thing
this and this alone will bring us near
er the great principle of good.
Man has learned to control the ocean,
harness the lightning, subdue the
many material forces of nature and
yet as Ella Wheeler Wilson says pre-
sents the sad spectacle of being I'M
able to control his own fiery passions.
1t is true we are weakened by CEN
turtles OF wrong living, yet back of all
ancestors lies the "great eternal will"
which is also our Inheritance.
We cannot force men into sober,
noble, upright lives; but we can do all
in our power to remove temptation
from their paths-so that the nobler,
higher Influences may come in. Love
alone can influence to any consider
able extent the hayward soul. Some
times it may be aroused by a dose of
plain unvarnished truths, but after
the awakening love and sympathy
must lead it into the paths of virtue
Drummond says we cannot meet a
stranger on the street Without having
our lives to some extent influenced by
him. Ne doubt, each act, each word
plays it's part in the development of
soul. IT'S not what we say and do
once a week; but each day, each hour
of our common everyday life that tells
upon us and there about us. The poet
says, ''Thou dost not know what ar
gument thy life to thy neighbours creed
hath lent," and mo life can be pure
in it's purpose and all life not be pur-
er and nobler thereby
We sometimes get into the thought
that because we cannot be Abraham
Lincolns or Francis Willards that it
matters little what we think or do.
There is no life so insignificant but
it's influence reaches through all eter-
nifty. To each there is some one, a
friend, a husband, wife, sister, brother,
or child whose whole life is greatly ef-
fected by yours. What an influence
upon all future generations is the par.
ents' training of their children!
An eminent judge upon being asked
what could be a graver responsibility
than the taking of a life answered,
''The giving of a life.''
AS parent, you have in your care
soul; if your boys and girls become
noble, upright, pure men and women,
your training will have much to do
with it.
The little boy is anxious to be like
''papa." If you wish him to be a
noble man; you must be one yourself
You cannot teach him one thing and
live another. The mother! who shall
measure her influence? Go read the
lives Of all our great good men, and
you will find it was mothers love
and teaching that laid the firm founda.
ton, The words of Lincoln express
the sentiments of hundreds, "All am
or hope to be 1 owe to my ange
mother. y -. 49,
Truly it has been said: eff yor
cultivate the mothers you develop the
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