Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-24
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doubly sad. therefore, that Just at the
beginning OF the term OF man young
in years, born himself in the newer per-
Tod of our history, and a man who lee
in the later war some of the rebels Oh
other days. man whose mother was
herself southerner of the southerners
lit is doubly sad that the old prejudice
and hatred should have become so APP
parent again. There will be in this case
no sympathy for the south. Hot-head-
edness is the only excuse that can be
urged in cxtenuation of the bitter and
unprincipled attacks that the editors OF
the south have been printing, and the
men of affairs of the south been saying
against the president of the United
States. 1t is in reality no excuse at all.
1t is only childishness and lack OF rea-
son. The north has proved how far 1t
exceeds the south in generosity. Back
into the union it would have left had
1t not been compelled to remain, the
southern states were taken, and in time
all the barriers. political and otherwise,
were removed. During the later war the
north applauded the man of the south
who was worthy of applause. not for
getting that he came Of the family
whose men were leaders in the seces-
sion, not forgetting that he himself
fought at one time against his country.
Among the men who were brought into
prominence by the war with Spain
there was none more popular, more
toasted. than Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia.
Confederate flags have been returned,
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to their foes Of other years-and then
the south seeks. like spoiled and pet
ulant child, to provoke petty quarrel.
It should not make the mistake of
thinking that because old scores have
been wiped out that it can do no wrong.
Industry, perseverance and democracy
have given the north the supremacy
over the south in the trades, the sci
ences and the arts. To its other quail
ties it has added generosity and a
broadness of mind which the south,
with all its boastings of chivalry and
hospitality. would do well to initiate.
800
ooh, you may II you like. really do
not care for them" one girl said to an
other as they opened the Sunday edition
of a city paper and looked at the copies
of well-known pictures given with the
magazine supplement-. "Oh, YOU have
them, have you?" the recipient of the
gift said. as she looked at the pictures
Of Hoffman and gazed long at the one
of the Christ child as he stands in the
temple disputing with the doctors. No.
1 haven't them" the first girl replied,
land I don't want them. do not care
for them at all. You wonder at that,
because you think that I would care for
pictures of religious subject. Well.
that is just why do not care for them.
10 me they mean nothing. Now that
picture" she said, pointing to the boy
as he stands among the elders, zig just
the picture Of boy. 1t is a pretty head.
but 1t is not anything else. 1t is Just
an ordinary boy. a human boy, and
there is nothing divine about 1t. That
is just why like it, her friend an
swered, because 1t is just boy, hui
man boy that can understand" A look
almost OF reproof crossed the others
face as she said, There has been SC
much Of that OF late. We hear so much
of the human and solittle Of the divine,
and think 1t is a very bad sign, and
that Is why I would not have those pic
lures around me-" "Oh. I do not think
So" objected the girl who held the pic
lures tightly in her hands, as If she
feared her friend would reconsider her
generous offer and take them again. It
seems to me that the divine side. as you
call it, has been emphasize SO much
that we-the world in general. have
come to look upon Christ as one imper-
sonal and so far away from us. Why,
when / used to be taught that he was
divine and 80 very different from us, the
fact that he was without sim nevec
impressed me at all with desire to
quit my own sins. For felt that II he.
were OF a nature so different from US
that llis sinlesness was nothing more
than what might have been expected.
Divinity Is so hard to comprehend, but
humanity, q warm. heart throbbing hui.
mainly, means SO much to me" The
other girl shook her head, only remark
ing that 1t seemed to her that the rea-
son the church was losing its power and
the world its interest in the church was
because skepticism and free thinking
had striven with seeming success to
take away the belief in the divinity of
Christ. So they went their way and left
the perplexing subject to theolosians.
who have studied it and propounded 1t
SO long. and with such poor results that
it is perhaps best for other people who
are not scholars and who have work
which must be done, to leave it all
alone. do your work as we'll as you
can and be kind" is not the motto Of
Fra Elbertus alone. 1t is that Of many
men and women who may know little of
the theories Of the church and its lead
ers, but who are living in their every
day lives the principles which the son of
man or the son of God preached CEN
turies ago along the shore. Of the east
ern sea.
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