Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-09-12

is his own star, and the soul that can
command an honest and perfect inan,
commands all light, all influence, all
fate" What he says is true. At a
glance, however, it would seem that
greatness or success depended upon
heredity entirely, and environment
counted for nothing. Beside, while
any one may be honest, not many of
us arrive at that stage called perfec-
ton. Yet there is rule the obser-
vance of which is within the power of
every one, that will bring the greatest
happiness and the largest possible
success; law which every citizen and
every teacher can and should proclaim
and support by precept and example.
That is: Live in harmony with nature.
To obey this call is life, ever enlarging
life, reaching out to higher and better
fruition; to disobey is pain, degenera-
ton and death. The Maker OF The
universe makes no mistakes; He gov
ems everywhere through natural law.
Foolish man sets up his boosted reason
against the unerrins rule, and his
punishment is swift and certain.
There is no escape. Chastisement
follows wrong with mathematical pre-
cision. Crime takes deep root on its
perpetrator and makes him his execu-
toner or betrays him to the avenger.
DR.. Ried in his Enquiry into the
Human Mind" says: "The wise and
benificent Author Of nature implanted
in our nature two principles that tally
with each other. The first OF these
principles is propensity to speak the
truth and to use the signs OF language
to convey our real sentiments. Truth
is always uppermost and is the natural
issue OF the mind. 1t requires no art
or training, inducement or tenn ptation,
but only that We yield to a natural
impulse. Lying, on the contrary, is
doing violence to our nature and is
never practiced by even the worst of
men without some temptation. Speak.
ing truth is like our natural food, but
lying is drug, nauseous to the taste,
which no man takes but for some end
he can not otherwise attain" We
see that his nature is thus warped so
that from the elements he wrought
upon himself, he is betrayed to the
world in his real character. So it is
with the man who is false to his do.
nestle ties or who cheats or robs his
neighbor. The evil germ is implant-
ed in his disposition, and grows and
developes, clogging his healthful i'm.
pulses until it drags him to his re-
The dart of Islander gathers
venom from the unwholesome air i'm
which it circulates and returns at last
to pierce the hand that sent it. The
law OF compensation everywhere OBJ
tains. "As We SOW we shall reap" is
but another way OF stating Newton's
law OF action and reaction; the opera
ton OF cause aud effect. In one we
call it physics, in the other ethics.
They are but different applications of
the same principle. The end is born
Of the beginning. The tyrant on the
throne becomes the fugitive from
Justice. Columbus in chains reap.
pears the redeemer OF q century. The
avenging hand of destiny, over the
iesolation wrought by Spain, wrote,
'Cuba shall be Free" For trying to
force unacceptable legislation, and
luartering bodies OF armed men upon
l people without the consent OF the
people, George the Third lost his COL
onies, and some American statesmen
could learn valuable lessons from
history. (That is not politics; it is
religion.)
All beings, all events and all changes
prove relative and universal order.
me!ts to noon and noon 70
night; seasons come and go; planets
wax and wane; go and return again
10 their places; the water flows from
The spring to the ocean and back to
The spring again--these are the
oreathings of the prime relation. All
things have their part in one great |
central purpose. Even the talents of |
men are apportioned according to the
greatest general utility. One man is
tilted to guide ship OF state and |
mother to guide team OF mules; the
world is dependent upon both. Provi-
ience divided the talents among men
N just proportion SO that each might
be successful in his own proper sphere.
Vanity sometimes makes men foolish |
y attempt what is above or beyond |
hem, but they can not evade natural |
aw there any more than they can |
loaf up stream. Even when they
,hink they are going in the observer
ices they are going backward. Moth
ng is more distressing than to note
IN Insignificant man trying to parade
n the attributes OF Webster or a
Gladstone. 1t usually makes us
link Of certain animal famous for
,xpanse of voice and length OF ears.
4 little man does not appear greater
~ walking OH stills, nor does it i'm
prove his carriage. / once heard
say he was called to preach |
he gospel and was possessed by an
rreverent idea that he had mistaken
! voice calling swine. Human SYM
,athy did not seem to be in his words
ior the love of God in his heart.
anyone could have listened
% him. without believing he harmed
.ather than helped his calling. "a
pigmy is q pigmy still though perched |