St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-01-22
Some Rambling Thoughts.
BY MEMO"
(Copyrighted.)

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To ministers and all teachers Of Young
or old to all lovers OF their kind and SER
wants OF ideals; 10 all who believe in the
progress of the race and spend them
selves to attain it; to host OF earnest
souls more numerous than the sands in
an hour glass. and as lacking in cohesion:
to such | write this week. Bend down
your thoughts to these lowly lines and
rise mayhap with a broader purpose
than can ever dare to sketch,
Where ten hundred hearts among YOU
now beat high with pure and noble pur.
pose nine hundred odd alone will live to
greet the new century. You who are
doomed to die by the way as we move
onward to a new age, what pension will
you conEr upon the warriors for good
that are ordained to fight later battles.
You whose eyes shall see the dawn of
1901 what is to be your grandest prepa-
ration Tor your children and childrcns
children as to the new problems Of the
hundred years to come? Generosity Of
mind the surrendering of mutual sus-
picions.
Often as child have | disturbed an
ant. hill TO watch each little creature go
to its task, some to the defence and 9th
ers to the removal OF eggs and debris.
But when | look out upon the wide
world, humanity seems far less wise.
Men and women OF most pure intentions
scramble over one another's duties, get
in one another's way, and object to many
things being done al all unless they are
done in certain set manner or by them
selves. Because we are apt to doubt the
purity of others motives, some of the
finest and most uplifting souls in the
world are hindered in their work and are
most compelled to turn aside to utilities
and vexations. Because we do not en-
courage them with the intelligent sympa-
thy they spend life in a dream of cause
less warfare, and awake to find opportu-
nifty gone, wasted. should say then
the mightiest preparation for the new
age that is coming will be for those who
strive to serve God and their race. to ac.
! knowledge with humility that there are
more ways than one ofreaching that end
| The moral at the end Of the old poem,
1.-The Nightingale and the Glow-worm u
is very apt
Hence jarring sectaries may learn
Their true interests to discern,
Brother should not war with brother
And worry and devour each other,
But sing and shine with sweet consent,
Till life's poor transient night is spent;
Respecting in each others case
The gifts of nature and of grace"
Men do not cultivate rice on mountain
tops nor Indian corn in swamps. The aer
culture of a region is suited by the wlst
ones, to its soil and its climate; and hc
who seeks to grow Alpine plants in th'
tropics is doomed to failure
The ocean has many ports and ship
there are that traverse it in every direc
ton. To turn all prows the same way
would stagnate commerce.
The land has its beasts, the air its birds
the sea its fishes, and all live and NOV,
and have their being as fitting part o
a great world OF lile:-A thousand ant
one things around us show that there il
a tremendous diversity in nature ant
that its work is best carried on by thos
best suited to the work-So-when W,
see various ways OF trying to benefit ou
race, ways that are as surprising to u
as alligator farming would be to an Es
quimau; before we rise to condemn on
tellow-workers in a very wide and divers
fled universe, we would do well t
remember that we do not know every
thing, nor is any one so versatile as to b
able to suit himself to the needs and tn
heart-aches and agonies of every othe
soul
You religious people, servants of tn
Prince of Peace, partakers OF his spirit