Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-05
| THE ROSARY or a RAMBLER.

and recollections, and IL in those old I
days you gave any time at all to read.
ing, you will recall the pathetic little
chapter written by the inimitable
Louisa May Alcott, wherein poor
reckless, unfortunate Joe, with a pro-
spensity for putting her foot in it,
sees her younger sister Amy sail away
to enjoy the delights OF the old world
which she herself SO longed to see and
for which she was so much better pre-
pared. The charm OF Miss Alcott,s
books lies in their naturalness. and q
day or two ago a real Joe was found,
shedding all5alone the tears of envy and
longing which pride for herself and af-
lection for her friend would not permit
her to shed before the favored tourist
to-be. The greater appreciation which
she would have could not be gainsaid
and did much to Justify her grief. It'll
did not sound just true to tell her that
she didn't need SO much that means OF
culture, for why should not the words
ito him that hath shall be given" hold
true in things intellectual as we'll as
Material? That they do not many In
stances could be sighted in proof, yet
a woman whose knowledge of the art
and people OF Europe was almost in-sl
exhaustfble and whose talks thereon
We're far more Interesting and instruct
i've than many who have crossed the
pond had never been beyond the boun-S|
8daries of her native state. 1t is such
as she who teach US that education and
refineme MT come not from without. but
from within. They are not to be pinned
onto one g character as a girl fastens
scarf of lace to her bodice, for they are
q great part of charactersit itself.
s&s
The sermon which the noted DIR. Hill
lis preached Sunday before Last in Ply
mouth church, Brooklyn, and which has
been the occasion for so many sermons,
discussions and editorials, has proved,
il nothing else how very near together
stand the men who think. "A breaking
down Of the bars or at least a broaden
ing of the vision has been in progress
for the past few Years and not unob-
served, yet oftentimes Il seems as IL the
union of the world in life-call it re-
!igion If you wiil-of love and good will
is Still afar off and delayed by bicker-
ings over doctrines and BELIEFS. But
when such an occurrence as this comes
before the peoples attention they must
see how the old differences are being
swept away. For OF all the discussion
which has been heard on every side dur
ling the past ten days, not one person
4 has been heard to declare boldly and
unqualiffedly the word-that he
believed in the old theory Of election and
prGdestination. Criticism for DR.. Hills.
There has been, but II has been more A6r
This manner of expression than for his
idea, more thathe has given5the impress
lsion that all Pres byterians hold to the
,Istenet than that he himself has re-
l2nounced It, Fifty years or more ago.
'ltsuch would not have been the case, for
itthen the majority of the members of the
varioIs churches We're held like Milton
lin The Doctor of the Old School in the
1 bonds of q Very bitter and strait-laced3
lreligion. The fatherhood of God and,
1.-THE brotherhood of man despite its
triteness, Is the principle which has
wrought this change, for men are COM.
ling to know that the greatest command.
| is to love, not reason on the nature of
1.-the creator and his relation to the cree
/ ated. Centuries Of pondering on the di-.
yine had made the ancient rabbts learn
ed in the law and in its interpretation
\ but their scholasticism was not suffi-
cient for when the son of the carpenter
| of Nazareth spoke to them he said, "A
new commandment / giNeEuIlto we, that
I've love on another The Years have
leone and gone and passed into centur-i
I les since that simple rule of conduct was
| laid down by the Master Ignorance ard
depression and supers tition have COM
l:bined to make man forget the bidding,
| but the signs of the times would indi-.
lcate that he is beginning to learn that
So many roads lead up to God,
SosSery many cresds,
\ When Just a little Kindness
4 all this old world needs.
i That person has made very great
i mistake Who imagine that the reading
shof human nature and the knowledge of
4 the way to handle 1t is an accomplish
Hlmentwhich only grown people car have.
i With an average child it will need but a
4 few hours to teach him that facts will
not bear out his theory and that much
lean be learned from the little people.
4 There was once little girl who was as
4 suredly Very willful and presumably
lIrnther wild and various frolics which
She joined in with the other boys had
\ brought her suffering, until one day, the
lEcli.nax was reached. The delight Of this
illittle girl. who preferred to play ball
With the boys rather than dolls with the
girls, was to climb trees, fences or
harms, 1t did not matter What, just so
I; she could climb. Warnings many had
4 been hurled e. her. but in the self-conti-
4 dence OF the young she needed not the
j words OF her elders. And so 1t was that
one day very pale little girl was car
ried into the house, where she lay for
many weeks with both legs broken.
4 Then family and friends swooped down
| upon her and while some brought her
i sympathy and dainties, others consid-
/ cred It an opportune time for advice
while she was unable to escape. In the
4 family We're two aunts, who were the
first to appear upon the scene One
came and said: Poor little grille: but
i never mind, she'll be we'll soon. and I
4 don't believe she'll climb so recklessly
4 any more. will she ?" The little girl had
4 barely time to assure her that she in
tended to abandon the habit when the
other entered and said: well. SO you
4 have hurt yourselfsat last. have you.
hut suppose you'll DO climbing again
4 as soon as you can get out ?" Quick as a
A flash the unladyiike words came from
the lips. which had Just said the gentle
4 ones, You Just bet will,' and the
4 deafness Of the one she addressed per-
4 mitted an asidttto the aymna tibet IL amt.