The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-09-27


anguish"
And. we say further. and our heart
is as the heart OF the dead for GOODNESS
There is no order All things are
driven about by blind chance"
What soul drinks In with its moth
er's milk will not leave IL In a day.
From our earliest hour we have been
taught that the thought OF the heart,
the shaping OF the rnincloud, the
amount OF wool that grows on a
Sleeps back, the length OF a draft
and the growing OF the corn depend
on nothing that moves lmmutable, at
the heart or all things: but on the
changeable will OF n changeable being
whom our prayers can alter. To us.
from the beginning, nature has been
but a poor. plastic thing. To be toyed
with this way or that. as man happens
20 please his deity or not. TO 90 10
church or not. TO say his prayers right
or not, 10 travel on a sunday or not.
Was II possible for us In m instant 10
see nature IA she Isthe lowing vest
ment Of an unchanging reality When
soul breaks free from the arms Of
superstition. bits OF the claws and
talons break themselves Off In him. II
Is not the work Of a day 20 squeeze
them out.
And So for us the humanlike driver
and guide being gone, all existence. as
we look out at il with our chilled, won
dering eyes. Is an aimless rise and
swell OF shifting waters. In all that
weltering chaos we can see M spot so
large as n mans hand on which we
may plant our foot
Whether n man believes i'm a human
like God or no Is a small thing. Wheth-
er he looks into the mental and phys
zeal world and sees no relation be-
tween cause aud effect, no order but a
blind chance sporting, this is the
mightiest fact that can be recorded IN
any spiritual existence. II were al
most a mercy 10 cut his throat. II In.
deed he does not DO IL for himself.
We, however, do not cut our tAroats.
To do So would imply Some desire and
feeling and we have no desire aud no
feeling We are only cold We 10 not
wish I'D live, aud we DO not wish 60 die.
one day q snake curls itself round the
waist of a Eahir woman. We take IL
In our hand, swing Il round and ground
and fling it on the ground-dcad. Ey-
cry one looks NJ vs. with eyes Of admi-
ration. We almost laugh. Is II wonder
ful 10 risk that for which we care
nothing?
In truth. nothing matters. This dirty
little world full Of confusion, and the
blue rag stretched overhead for sky
Is SO low we could touch il with our
hand.
Existence is a great pot and the old
fatc who stirs 1t round cares nothing
what rises 10 the top and what goes
down and laughs when the bubbles
burst And we 40 NOT care. Lee IT,
jol bout why should we trouble
earse'1rs? Neycrtheless the physical
sensations arc real Hunger hurts and
tlgr therefore we eat and drink. In
action pains MS; therefore wc work Ike
~e.ipq slaves. No one demands {, but
we SIT ourselves 10 build great dam
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