The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-06-09

the passion OF music: "What good can
come out of NAZARETH"
They will not believe, it matters
not how we may fill our DAYS with no
BILE lsngings that ripen into realization,
they will find an excuse for their ex-
istence and refuse to believe. Let
them Snarl and fumO and scratchl We
are not working for their praise or di-
risiOn, but because we must give vent
to these surging, silent cries within us
that tell us to go forth and conquer the
whole world, to rise up and gather all
broken hearts and wounded souls into
our arms and love them all-all. We
feel the beating of. these strange, wild
thoughts against us, s,-like Gagged Great
ures, they are bound. We can not
free them. The hidden echoes that
would respond to them are dumb, mar
ticulate, and we hear only the dim,
dreamy splashing of the mystical sea
beyond, as it laths the shores of etern-
ity. We cast off the foolish, Haunting
cloaks of society, fashion and conven-
tionality and stand, free, fearless, up
lifted, nearer to God and humanity
than we have ever been before. But
alas! the moment passes, the might
of our sordid, commonplace lives closes
in acsund us; we hear the peevish cry
of the multitudes, "He is crank, an
unbeliever, fool to defy us! lie is
not great. There is nothing about him
that pleases us, so there is Of course
nothing pleasant about him"
And we sink back into our narrow
liYes, puppst to the sneers OF a snarling
world and survile to the opinion of
men! Wrongs may go about us
wrongs that sap the very life blood of
their victims and yet we must not dis
cuss them; unless we gossip with our
neighbors behind closed doors. Plain
speaking does not make of the world a
friend. We must smooth over the worst
OF undisputed facts with a gloss of
worldliness and attribute it to human
nature. If we speak plainly Of the sins
being daily committed, we are eyed
askance and despised. That's the way
people receive mentioning of their
wrong-doing!
There would be nobler women and
braver men if society and fashion were
not in existence AS it is, women rush
blindly on, believing in that senseless
maxim, Gas well be out of the world as
out Of fashion," and abiding by it.
Their paradise lies in new gown,
painted lips and falsly- brilliant eyes
Oh, for that old sweet Eden, that knew
not painted cheek or a false heart
We have forgotten how they lived in
simple peace and happiness that frs
unstained pain in the green garden O
youth and hope and joy. For although
men rail and scoff aud mock, love is the
, moving-spring of the universe With
out it life would be blank. Oh, you
who love Icherish the gorgeous dream
i. while it lasts, for you will know all toe
soon, how truly little Tom Moore sune
/ when he said there was nothing half SC
sweet in life. Soon the world, with it
/ devotees of society and fashion famirI
with jewels that are but cheap tinsel il
: q narrow world, will come between yo,
/ and that pure, honest, untainted love
: and it will lose its pristine pureness ant
/ yon will learn to look for trick i
every thing.
8 Were it not for society and fashion
4 would not be SO. The world puts u
l dow within narrow limit, then touch
+. es the boundaries and says: $50 ia
t shalt thou go and no farther.
: Woe to him that oversteps thes
r boundaries in the eyes of the world
/ He is met by tempest of sneors. I
e the sight of God it is an act worthy G
r reward, for it is throwing aside of every
s thing little nnd mean and narrow.
/ But the world does not think so,-
S if you do not cringe before its cowardl
: edicts as a chr under the lash, you bt
e come Every, very foolish. Oh thu
It there were more fools of this kin
S among usl
d Have yon not known people to who
e "our set is their very life blood? The
# spend their lives in trying to ket
r within the favor of that "set" Itseen
that the very stones should rise
e mutiny at such show of shallo
Q strife.
s L this velvet-clad, diamond deckt
J woman of the world, hiding under h,
= costly apparel ber virtueless being,
: sin hidden away like lurking ghost,
/ be more honored than this latter,
d pauper, who fell because she loved "n
e wisely but too well?"
/ ".Ah, of course" complaceatly r
; marks Mrs. Grundy;" there is rank al
is tortune to shield the name Of the on
l. the other oh, we'll, she is only pa
ar peril "The way of the world, Il
y lear friends but what way! Is Crit
any blacker under rags than und
satin? Yes; the world thinks so. Dc
God? All, we'll. that is another matt,
" Nobody cares what He thinks of t
y ways of the world. Love far Him
~ entirely obsolete in these DAYS. Ii