The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-08-24

heaven. :"
How can any man know that?
How can he know that the cook
here will eternally wrestle with pots
and pans "there;" that the hostler
will hold reins over the backs Of de-
parted horses; that the hotel CLERK
will continue his activities and send
"Front' with the new arrivals to
rooms freshly swept by tired cham
bermaids?
He says: ''We must go on doing
there what we are doing here.
lfhomes are necessary here homes
are necessary there-the centers Of
family life."
We cannot hope, then, from sur
cease Of gas bills, and the plumber
is to be an eternal menace! The
promised possibilities Of the old
heavens ard hells were terrible, but
ths--this is past endurance
But worse is to come, for in
heaven" Mr.. Newton says, "thcre
must be the reality of the state as Of
the church. In the heavenly state
there must be the functions of the
earthly state" Polling places,
straight tickets, Tammany deals, ice
trusts and strenuous, militant,
roughriding vernors tower
there ~
"There will be hosts of unde-
veloped lives to be governed and
ruled" And so benevolent assim-
ilation by Mark Hanna will 20 right
on, it seems, and the adjoining stars
will be governed and ruled, "
and trade will continue to follow the
flag.
"a studious man will be stuGious
i'm heaven says Mr.. Newton,
Then there will have to be books,
printers ink, pulp mills, and The
eternal grind Of the nimole reporter
out on his assignment; the weary
editor arranging "copy," and the
pedagogue prodding dullards.
Can the "material-minded" of
whom Mr.. Newton speaks with lit
tie favor, outdo these conditions of
his own theory? | think not.
But "heaven is not Poing to be
any better than it should be after
all, for we are told "there is no
more heavenly heaven to be found
in all the worlds Of space than you
will find in you own New York" I"
If this is true, then for all eternity
the cry OF anguish is to be in the ear
of every tender and thoughtful man,
for in this "heaven" in dear old
New York (than which "no heaven
lier will ever exist in all the worlds
of space, the lions paw is ever
on the throat of the weak and un-
fortunate, and the shrek of pain
floats in through the palace window
and disturbs even the saintliest men
at their full meal.
| can imagine a heavenlier heaven
than that-if only one might have
'all the worlds Of space for location
and free scope for speculation.
But Mr.. Newton says that each
man gets what he deserves in this
world and makes his own hells here
and hereafter. Generally speaking,
virtue brings on earth its own re-
ward, and vice insures here its own
punishment. In the long run the
good man succeeds and the bad
man fails.
If this he true, how can his pre-
ceding statement be true, when he
says. "There is no such thing as
living in soul-sin up to the day Of
wallowing in wantonness,
sitting the spirit in sensuality,
clutching at gold and numbering the
bodies and souls Of ones brother to
get it--and then by experiencing re-
ligion or by receiving extreme unc-
ton at tho last hour 60 straight into
heaven. Z"
DO these murdered bodies and
souls get what they deserve? Did
they succeed or did they deserve
to be murdered? How about those
who are born handicapped with in