The weekly examiner., 1901-05-18
THREE TRAVELLERS.
WHAT EACH SAW ANo DID AS HE
 JoURNEYED THROUGH LIFE.


 ishness HIS Guide-A Third Loved
 His Fellow. and Thus Served God.
 Three travellers began the Journey of life together. Flowers lifted toward 1 them bright, dew. laden faeesy and. birds warbled their morning carols. 1 Fruits ripened fin great variety by the .wayside The sun threw mantIeS of golden warmth over all impartialIy-
 One looked heavenward and saw only God. In grim forebodings or at times enraptured visions of an antfef pated future he. lost the glory of the present. Fear, the grim overseer, with lash of scorpion stings scourged him along the way. He saw humanity a wTfthing mass of wOrms, of which favored few were by Gods mercy saved, while all the rest were through his vengeance lost
 He made great sacrifices, he did ter l ribIe penance, he suppdieated, he en- l treated He worshiped with hattery, but without reason, which he summed 1 as thing of darkness and child of l the evil one, born to Mre. the unwary into paths of vice.
 His every thought paid tribute to l the sovereign he served. Each gift to another was either & peace offering or a loan made to his God His acts of self denial were born from the fear of punishment or the hope of a reward.
 To the afflicted he murmwed: "It is the will of the Creator. This life is but a drop in the great ocean of eterni- | ty. Repent and be saved before it Is forever too, late"
 | Do 4,% 1.4a should I weepr' he asked '&Ye are an honored instrument in the hands of the All Powerful | question not his providence.'' To all he spoke of this world as at best but a vale of tears Comfort and hope. eonsolation and re lief, existed only on a far distant shore.
 Old Age and his eompani0n, Death, waylaid him as the shadows of night were falling and gently robbed him of his heavy cross. He fell asleep with a servile prayer for mercy on his dy- l ing lips.
 One looked through eyes of selfish ness upon teeming world and cried in ecstasy: sLo, it is mfnei Miners Strength was his gift, enjoyment his pursuit. To press Joy's cup to eager l lips, to shut from out his heart all forms of sorrow and of pain became his highest hopes.
 With the p1ummet of Desire he sounded the deepest depths of the gulf of Indulgence. Under exultant heel 1 he crushed the fairest flowers. Satiety | fawned upon him, and Ennui wrapped him in her stale embrace.
 Dark clouds obscured tho brightness sof the sum-. Looking back up the way fshe had comeg he saw Old Age ar- preaching from afar. He observed that the old, the feeble and the helpless bought or begged or perished by the way. He began to prepare for his own time of need.
 With his strength he kept others from the choicest fruits and sold them for price, and the price he kept He 1 also became the bondsman of a god the god of Self-and when he gave some dole of charity to check the cries l for mercy or relief from those his strength and avarice had parted from their own he worshiped Self as one who did gedlike deed.
 He also feared and summed a demon I dread, Material Loss. He grew blind l and deaf and dumb to all things good. l yet knew it not. Unselfsh Love he never chanced to meet. Death came at last and freed him from his clogging weight of dross and left him rich-in infinite regret.
 One gazed upon the world with min gled joy and grief. Its beauty and it's wealth struck p@ans of thanksgiving from his soul. .sYet why" he question: | od afhoro hoiur food far a Ch0171d any starve for lack of it? For love of justice touched chord of pain in every happy thought. He could not feast I while hunger stalked the earth nor dress in costly garb with rags the com i mon lot.
 ooh, Wrong" he cried. "that perse- cuteth Right! Rights cause is mine and thou mine enemy" He saw humanity perfect whole. preyed on by myriad 1 parasites. His one ambition was to | foil their greed. The bliss he sought was happiness for all. AnotheTs wants by him relieved relieved his own.
 Greed hissed. Thou foolw but sobs of famished children drowned the taunt. Caution urged: ''Bewarel For self provide" He made reply. 'I, part of all. best serve myself when all 1 serve."
 While humbly plucking fruits to i'll poor empty hands the birds songs filled his heart with happy prophecies 1 until it seemed a joyful thing to live in harmony with universal God. Unself- ish Love, touching each quickened pulse, revealed to him the secrets of the 1 blessed.
 Gaining in strength and power. he upward climbed, and down the noun l tain's cragged sides his cheering words rang clear for waiting echoes to repeat to starved, receptive souls below until, where once his love could aid but few, it reached the multitude. And when