The herald., 1898-05-19

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related up there.
and q student of Darwin. we visited the
village church. No seat, bare ground and
the place crowded. 1t was Easter Sunday.
He came round to me and said: II have
found Darwin's missing link" And he
showed me q creature dressed In soma
kind of q cotton blouse. He had not
clothes enough on him to pad crutch. He
had about quarter Of an inch Of fore
head. He was mostly hair. bones and
cotton shirt. And I watched him. After
the people had gone away he timidly
walked over to the wooden image of Mary,
mother of Jesus, and prayed. Not,I be-
lieve, to the image, but he used 1t as
ladder to his feeble foot to get near the
throne Of the Almighty.
All About Eternity
Years ago was in Maine-the state of
Maine should say. was with Oscar Nc
Culloch. Some Of you knew him. many
of you have heard OF him. He visited us
often until he went away.
1t came Sunday and we could fish, but
we did not. Toward evening we inquired
II there was any meeting anywhere in the
neighborhod. We were told that there
was one in q schoolhouse half mile
OF. And we set out In the twilight to find
1t. We found it. A farmer was just light
Ing the place up. He would take a candle.
light 1t, upset 1t. drop some hot grease
on the window sill and then stick the cool
end Of the candle into It. That candle will
stay there That Is the old-fashioned
candlestick Of New England-much In use
in school deestrick" No. !. There were
six candles. BY and by the minister came
After a technical introduction In which
he prayed for the Jews. we sang From
Greenlands Icy Mountains.' And he be-
gan to preach on Eternity" And he de-
fined it. He said: "Av a bird"-he did
not say 'lf'' He said av bird would take
one grain Of sand from the Atlantic coast.
and fly slowly with it to the farthest star
and drop it. and then go back for another
grain Of sand, and so keep on In the trans
portation business until he had delivered
to that star all the sand on the Atlantic
coast. eternity would only be sun-up. And
then he cheered us with some views OF
hell in general. What long time merely
moral man would roast in sulphur. He
made the usual reference to Thomas Paine
and then said: II see there are strangers
present. Would they add a word?" said:
Mac, get UP and tell them that God Is
their friend" He was a poet, a philoso-
pher and Christian, one Of the three
preachers In the world who thought and
said that the Chicago anarchists did not
have fair trial. He was a man who
hunted without gun. Could not bear to
kill anything. He rose in his easy way and
began to talk Of the song Of the wind in the
pines. OF the laps Of the waves on the
lake, of the taste of wintergreen. Then he
wandered of to st. Paul's conviction Of
God. That God was above US and about
us and in US. He sat down and the minis
ter arose. docs the young man mean to
say that God Is in the trees and in the
clouds and in the lake and in the night
song Of the river? We will resume the SUBJ
ject Of Eternity" And then, happily, the
candles began to suptter and go out. and
In the dim light Of the last one we re-
ceived the bensdiction and went out In the
darkness. We walked along with a clump
Of people headed our way. 1t was too dark
to see anybody, but heard one remark in
an old lady's voice. She said: For my
part. don't like the way our minister took
up the stranger. liked what he said"
never saw the lady. but venture that
she loved light and color and music and
the words Of Jesus Christ. Probably she
never had a chance, lived, as many do, a
starved life. Think Of cooking, washing.
sweeping day after day and the only opera
in the week q sermon at early candlslight
on Eternity" beginning with "Av a
Bird
was in a room yesterday where there
Is q rubber plant. It 10 the healthiest,
happiest looking living thing. And said
to the owner Of It: what do you DO to
that plant?" She said: II feed Il flower
food. battle It every morning, talk to 1t,
love 1t and 1t loves me-"
have had a long drive IN the country.
Here's a farm, and the cattle and horses
shine. The log house is plumb and trim.
There are meadow larks and robins about
not afraid Of q gun. The children. although
they do not expect company, are clean and
neatly dressed. You stay all night at that
house. The food IL Of the right sort and
cooked right. And the bed! No better In
the United States. This place one may find
by going through Deer Creek canyon and
then working over toward Turkey creek
1t is in the immediate neighborhood Of
Phillipsburgh. I speak Of this place be-
cause there are others, We paid our mod
est bill, but honor to whom honor is due.
1 have been a good deal Of reindeer. but
have not found anything better than AL
exander Popes Universal Prayer"
Father Of All, In every age.
In every cline adored!
BY saint, by savage and by sage,
Jehovah, Jove or Lord.
Thou great first cause least understood,
Who all my sense confined,
To know but this that Thou art good,
And that myself am blind.
Yet gave me in this dark estate
To see the good from Ill,
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.
What conscience dictates to be done
Or warns me not to do,
This teach me more than hell to shun,
That more than heaven pursue.
What blessings Thy free bounty gives
Let me not cast away,
For God is paid when man receives
To enjoy Is to obey.
Yet not to earth's contracted span
Thy goodness let me bound,
Or think the Lord alone of man,
When thousand worlds are round,
Let not this weak, unknowing hand
Presume Thy bolts to throw,
And deal damnation round the land