La Junta tribune., 1900-11-24
"oUR WINTER READING
Comment and Suggestions by Rev. q.
r. Vaughan

evening sermon was given a, the
Christian church by Rev. b. +.
Vaughn last Sunday evening:
The words OF the Quaker poet
could well be paraphrased thus;
Alas for him who will not read,
The thoughts OF men that upward lead,
Who hopeless threads his weary way,
Content TO think on things of clay,
Nor4onEs TO see a fuller day."
Yes alas ior the one who in the
presence OF opportunity for good
reading will not, foi he is becoming
more and more lonesome
II in the day S OF Solomon there
was no end TO the making OF many
books, what shall we say of the
present age when book is hardly
taken seriously until il has passed
its fifty thousandth mark? We are
reading some and
'Let knowledge grow from more TO more,
But more OF reverence In US dwell,
TIN mind aud soul according well,
Shall make one mu sic
'Ho~ many things by season seasoned are. 3"
We have learned more than the
doughty captain of Plymouth knew
for we can now Gather cherries at
Kent IN the season OF Christmas"
and accompany our Tbanksgiv
ing and Christmas turkey with
straw berries hut they don't taste as
those we cat when knee deep in
June.
Reading is one o. the things that
go somewhat by seasons and there
IS reason tor II, especially here
in the blaze and glory OF Colo.
RADIOS sunlight, which makes us
loathe to read, save by the light of
the lamp.
The months are now at hand
when the lamp is lighted, the
chars drawn up and the boys and
girls are in from the streets or
ought to he, and the time for read
ing is at hand
It is too late in the day to plead
for the practice Of reading, save in
a few cases for the practice is
upon US for good or i'll, for better
or worse.
Several mo;iv es lead to an en-
tiargement each year OF the amount
OF reading done, ranging from the
probably questionable to the very
best, and it is these motives that
determine the character of our
| reading, that help to answer the
quertion .What shall we read ?"
When one is taught how to read
and given no hint as to what to
read that has been given him
which may prove curse ins,ead
OF benefit.
Some read to ''pass away the
| time as if time didn't know
enough to pass, whether we read
or not. Better far to fill in the
day with doing, even though the
doing has no better purpose than
the exercising OF the ghost of
ennui than to waste the time in
idlen allowing the moments to
pass through our lives untitled
with the result OF conscious effort,
but better still that our reading
be done for some higher purpose
than to pass the time away.
We may read as we change our
clothes, to be in style. 1t is dis
astrous to our feeling of pride to
be compelled TO say to ourselves,
| when some reference is made to a
popular character in the field of
current literature, what was said
in company once when a quota
ton from Shakespeare was rem
dered "What sort Of rigamarole
was that he was coming over?"
| 1t is humiliating, when asked if
David Harum took undue advan-
tage of the deacon or if the owners
OF the jumping frog did wrong to
load the opposing batrailian with
shot, to be compelled to admit
that we never met Mr.. Harum or
that we know too little about the