Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-18

mighty opinions and they were exact
ly opposed-those who liked the docu-
ment and those who disliked it-there
is but one opinion now, and if it were
put to vote in all the states OF the
south, Shall slavery be reinstated? ?"
there would be an overwhelming vote
of No" The pen with which the doc
ument was signed and the inkstand
that contained the ink are relics as sa-
cred and valuable as the original Dec
laration of Independence, with all its
erasures and interlineations. The in
stitution which for seventy or eighty
years kept the nation in angry contro-
versy has disappeared, and nothing is
left to fight about. The north and the
south today are in as complete accord
as ever were flute and cornet in the
same orchestra. The north has built
its factories on the banks of the Chat
tahoochee and the Roanoke, and the
south has sent many of its ablest at
torneys into our northern courthouses,
its most skillful physicians into our
sick rooms, its wisest bankers into our
exchanges, its most consecrated minis
ters into our pulpits-all this the re-
suit of the proclamation of JAN 1,
1863
Rev. Solomon Spaulding was for
some time in poor health, and to while
away the time he wrote a preposterouS
religious romance. One Joseph Smith
somehow got hold of that book before
1t was printed and published it as
revelation of heaven, calling it the
Book of Mormon" and from that pub
Hcat1on came Mormonism, the monster
abomination of the earth. Rev Solo
mon Spaulding might have been better
engaged than writing that book of
falsehoods. However much time we
have, we never have time to do wrong.
Harness January for usefulness, and it
will take the following months in its
train. Oh, how much you may do for
God between now and the 31st of next
December! The beautiful weeping
willow tree was introduced by Alex
ander Pope into England from a twig
which the poet found in a Turkish
basket of figs. He planted that twig,
and from it came all the weeping will
lows of England and America; and
your smallest planting of good may.
under God become an influence conti-
mental and International
Now that the train of months has
started, let it pass, January followed
by February, with longer days, and
March, with its fierce winds; and April
with its sudden showers; and May
with its blossoming orchards; and
June, with its carnival of flowers: and
July, with its harvests; and August
with its sweltering heats; and Septem-
Der. with its drifting leaves; and Oc-
tober, with its frosts; and November,
with its Thanksgiving scenes; and De-
cember, with its Christian hilarities
March on. o battalion of the months,
in the regiments of the years and the
brigades of the centuriesl March on
and join the months and years and
centuries already passed until all the
rivers of time have emptied into the
ocean of eternity, but none of all the
host ought to render higher thanks to
God or take larger comfort or make
more magnificent resolve than this the
| first month of the new year.
But what fleet foot hath the months
and years! People lightly talk about
how they kill time. Alas, it dies soon
enough without killing. And the lon
ger we live the swifter it goes. Will
liam G. Bryant said an old friend of his
declared that the going of time Is like
the drumming of the partridge or muf-
fed grouse in the woods, falling slow
and distinct at first and then follow
ing each other more and more rapidly
till they end at last. in a whirring
sound. But DR.. Young, speaking of
the value of time. fstartingly ex-
claimed, ASK deathbedsi''
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