The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-02-07

The man who is heartily and ear
lnestly striving to do right knows
himself the better for it even if he
docs not quite attain, and the. en-
tdeavor at right living is. a help to
Faith.
4 ''As we go south the changing at.
fmosphere indicates that we are go
ling toward the equator. We know
from experience that when striving
Ito live up to the law Of Christ we
Lare moving. toward God. Exper-
fence shows. that the more we are
like Christ the easier it is for us to
believe in the. existence of God;
then the skepticism and unbelief
vanish away-there is sunrise in
the soul, the earthly shadows flee
Away; out of the seeming void the
reality of God appears. This was
Che resistless argument which
Brought great philosophical think
en- who lived at the close of the
nineteenth century, to a firm belief
In the existence of God. He said
when / am at my best find it
easier to believe and when / am at.
my worst | find it hardest, and why
Is. this true? When the pure heart
and the pure conscience answers
well done to the Christly thought
and the. Christly deed, in that
moment of comfort and peace | find
myself believer And so Jesus
said, If ye will do His will we shall
know of this truth whether it be of
God:' Now here is the ground
where man may be seen to be
standing before the bar of his own
conscience. He has all the time
been within reach of the attainment
4 of pure conscience and if he does
not know the truth and do the
truth there has been an insincerity
about the life. Ignorance of the
law excuses no man. II
/ SIN various passages In the Bible
and from the Savior's own lips it is
clearly taught that there is to be a
final judgment. That in the last
day the Savior shall judge the world
and that all shall be judged accord
ing to the deeds done in the body
whether they be good OF whether
they be evil; and what we know of
the human mind would go to- con
i firm this Pessibl naehing is
really forgotten. The power of
recollection slumbers, but does not
Idle. 1t may be- that at that day
memory will awaken; what is now
Edim or seemingly forgotten may
come out in clear recollection; the
secret thought or desire will appear
again upon the faithful record,
bringing to view faithful represen-
tation of all the past, as the poet
says- w..
Each fainter trace that memory holds,
So darkly Ofdeparted years,
In one broad glance, the soul beholds
And all that was at once appears.
"What wonderful instrument
is the. phonograph or the graphic
phone. On that mysterious cylin-
der the thought and the very sound
of the human voice is preserved.
A hundred years from now that
sound impression can be inserted in
] the instrument and that Identical
thought and tone of voice can be
distinctly heard-a kind of mechani.
cal memory of facts to be preserved
there forever and reproduced on call.
There is something yet more won
derful than the cylinder of the
phonograph or graphophone-
human memory. 1t is thought that
nothing that passes upon the mem
Fory is ever erased. A boy had a
piece of skull lifted off his brain
and he took up the identical train of
thought which had been broken off
years before. A man past middle
life, in the delerium before death,
began to speak in the Italian Ian
guage, which he had forgotten and
had not spoken since his childhood.
| : Upon. some memories thought
makes clearer and more legible
Impression than upon others. Of
samuel, Johnson it is said, He could
repeat from memory anything that
he had ever written. Macaulay be-
lieved that he had never forgotten
anything that he had ever read, seen
or thought. Coleridge tells of an
ignorant family servant who, in
moments of Inconsistencies through
fever, recited passages of Greek and
Hebrew which he had heard read by
his master, having been for many
years a servant of man who was
Greek and Hebrew scholar.
1 sThoughts may be written with
| a pen in invisible ink which heat
may make clearly legible, so it is
1contended by the best mental
philosophers that no thought or
feeling is ever really lost; sleeping,
dormant memories are not dead.
tits a sad thing with bad man if
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