The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-05
p1IIPIT EDITORIALS.
- nv pr. Frank Crane at Trinity
Deliver chicago. Preceding the Usual
sermon Sunday, July D. ieoS'
-, vorpTH. FRECRACKERs AND
TIE FOLKS. - s--.<ss
rcopyrighted, 1881

rouls crackers will pop all over our
anu ',e onder If any other people De-
Guy ,ha Americans. and perhaps the
c slu, enjoy explosions 50 mucn.
I'm" Ia then wonder what Is the mean
80 of all this pounding ana popping
IDS ',vling and burning 1t is not di-
anu ooused by feeling OF patriot
re''' othough that may be the remote
S .s of it all. Those VINO know
~ most about the forefathers ana
ln' struegle for independence are
inc ,rbo sit in their windows ana
uiVs .,th a superior smile at the small
"VN letting with delight among their
p0's II is not patriotism that is
,Isn,ring those boys. 1t Is an intrinsic
,1. ~ explosions that beats In the
,.hful heart a boy is a hrecracker
!ou,or fesh: O. girl is a human PIN
III rbere Is something in our ma
WIZ not loves to crash, to scream, to
luis ,ssnv a youthful dreamer ON the
NY Of the Sd of July has imagined
.'raself going up into the air, pouring
shower of sparks as he rises ana
e e-orIv hopping off into considerations
If blue and red stars.
~, What is the meaning of all this?
leans that there is something In US
49, is EXPLOSIVE. We are not Jumps OF
49, nor billets of wood, but we are
SIS If soda water and when the
po'. 80 nronriety is removed we love
~ a., ont into a shower of spray. They
frsxrt N
,ha shirt OF man; now ms rensious
instinct. with Formally and hxity OF
creed. now his scientific knowledge
within some final definition ana ultl-
mate theory; now his political lie,
'r,thin some established and permanent
So, of government. But in the re-
sornatlon and in the rise Of Methodism
and the Salvation army, religion pup-
Md over: Calico Bacon and Darwin
ooh nnlled the cork out of the bottle
80 science and the contents exploded
orow. Garibaldi, Cromwell and WASH
;noton did the same thing for political
life What is freedom, what is liberty,
of which we boast so much, but merely
room to grow? When our forefathers
made the constitution they did not Gre
ate a document which forever and for
ever should remain, but merely endeav-
ored to establish a condition or Things
where human government could prop
erIv develop. Even so the Bible Is not
fixed and bounded to any age. but con-
tains an expansive principle that adapts
itself to all ages; our apprehension or
&c trnth grows with our development
IN intellect and in altruism. 1t is the
rel adantad
growing creatures
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You have an illustration Of this In
the child at your own home. You
sometimes complain that he is too ac-
tive. He is always popping questions
at YOU. and darling his little body
hither and thither like a mouse or
spider. The weary mother complains.
But ii is only a sign that there Is
much life, animal and spiritual, tied w
in that little bundle of flesh. Watch
the 7-year-old girl as she tries to keep
still upon her chair. 1t is Impossible;
she weaves and squirms and ties her.
self into all manner of knots, and final'
ly concludes the performance, perhaps
by reposing with her head on the floor
and her legs in the air. We must give
the physical life room to expand.
have much sympathy for the little boy
who never liked to go to church, bu'
one day surprised his mother by say
ing: Mamma. when / grow up LIN
tend to--be a preacher" why, my
son, thought you did not like church,
was the answer WELL you see, 1t l!
this way" said the young philosopher
II think it is a good deal more fun t.
walk round and holler than it is to 81
STILL" Some of us by our don'ts ar
trying to nail up the effervescent ami
NAL life of our children. AS conse
quence we need not wonder at their ex
plosions.
Even so with their mental life. How
they rain an unceasing fire of question
at you! My little girl went riding wit
me the other day. What q marvelou
array Of inquiries she made! / remem
Der few Of them: why do som
horses make more dust than othe
horses? Why do some people sa
stomp and other people say stamp
is that real man in the moon? If
isn't real man, why does 1t look Xix
real man, and why do people say
Is? Why do some horses hold thei
heads up and others hold their head
down? Is heaven up there above tn
stars? Maybe 1t is in the stars? Ho'
90 they know there Is a God?" Nov
all this is the expansive mind, reachin
out after heaven and earth, spreadin
Itself over the kingdom Of nature. 3
sure and give II room to grow. To er
oeavor to repress 1t is to court an eS
plosion.
There Is another aspect also In while
10 view the spiritual explosivenes
OF men. There are some who think the
can do without religion. Now, religion
the love and warship of God, is II
natural outlet for the developing pow
ers OF the soul. When this Is SUI
pressed by worldliness and unbeli'
there Is sure to be an explosion. Whi
are spiritualism, theosophy, agnosticis
ana all the wild vagaries into whic
hon-Christian people go but merely Il
explosions of a heart whose instinct fl
sood has been unduly cramped and DO
ued! The best preventive Of superst
uon Is not materialism, which wou
endeaVOr To hoy nm tho craving FOR III