News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-01-27
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS

BY "NEMo."
To ministers and all teachers of
Young or old to alllovers of their
kind and servants of ideals; to all
who believe in the progress of the
race and spend themselves to attain
it; to a host of earnest souls more /
numerous than the sand in an hour
glass, and as a lacking in cohesion
to such | write this week. Bend |
down your thoughts to these lOwly
lines and rise mayhap with broader
purpose than | can even dare to
sketch.
Where ten hundred hearts among
you now beat high with pure and
noble purpose nine hundred odd
alone will live to greet the new cen
tury. You who are doomed to die
by the way as we move onward to a
new age, what benson will you con-
fer 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
preparation for your children and
children's children as to the new
problems of the hundred years to
come? Generosity of mind; the sur
rounding of mutual suspicious.
Often as a child have | disturbed
an ant-hill to watch each little Great
To tn
fensce and Others 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
anotner's way; and object to many
things being done at all unless they
are done in a certain set manner or
by themselves. Because we are apt
to doubt the purity of others mo-
tives, some of the finest and most
uplifting souls in the world are him
dered in their work and are almost
compelled to turn aside to utilities
and vexatiOns. Because we do not
encourage them with intelligent sym
pathy they spend life in a dream of
causaless warfare, and awake to find
opportunity 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 acknowledge with
humility that there are more ways
than one of reaching that end. The
moral at the end of the old poem
"The Nightingale and the Glow
worm, ;" is very apt
"Hence jarrng sectares 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 ifes poor transient night is spent;
Respecting in each Others case
The gifts of nature and OF grace"
Men do not cultivate rice on noun
tain tops nor Indian corn in swamps.
The agriculture of a region is suited
by the wise ones, to its soil and its
climate; and he who seeks to grow
Alpine plants in the tropics is doomed
to failure:-
The ocean has many ports and
ships there are that traverse it in
every direction. To turn all prows
the same way would stagnate com
MERGE =
The land has it's beasts, the air it's
birds, the sea it's fishes, and all live
and move and have their being as a
fitting part of great world of lite:-
A thousand and one things around
us show that there is a TREMENDOUS
diversity in nature and that its work
is best carried on by those best suit
ed to the work-SO-when we see
varions ways of trying to benefit our
race, ways that are as surprising to
us as alligator farming would be to
an Esquimau; before we Use to con-
denim our fellow workers in very
wide and diversified universe, we
would do we'll to remember that we
do not know everything, nor is any
one so versatile as to be able to SUIT
himself to the needs and the heart
aches and agonies of every other
soul.
You religious people, servants of
the Prince of Peace, partakers of his
spirit, why are there iealousies among
you? Why ask everybody to believe