The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-21
With the Long Bop. !. !.
"a,s .sfars's vslks. saost ,lsly .. \ a'sss.'
O. deare the Russians not burning their stores so as
IN to get the insurance money.
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~ to get the insurance money.
An authority on wheat has figured "shyness' at
The end of the crop year of bushels If this the
case somewhere it, there will be later lot OF
mers holerng for wheat with cutlery like grand opera
of pounded thumbs. ''" % ss - ~%N'@9% $%%% *
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Youth Companion has the following excellent lesson in
geography: - 1~~~" '">s @=3@ -"
Jimmy said the teacher, whats cape ~
IA cape is land extending into the waite" Cor
rect. William, define gulf "A gulf is water ex-
tending into the land.' "Good. Christopher to
small eager-looking boy, "can you tell us what is a.
mountan?'' Christopher shot up from his seat 50
suddenly startle the visitor and promptly re-
sponded "a mountain is land extending into the
air.
complete the lesson, it might be added that cavern
Is place where the land doesn't extend into the interior
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Of fellows who is always holding sense OF
superiority due to acknowledged ignorance met his match
in ST. Louis girl The PosDspatch relates the conversa-
ton, which ran thus:
He ':I used to think that knew great deal, that
wise fact; but the older become the more reaze
that know nohing.''
She: "Agnostic plain ignoramus?''
Somebody has described caulihower cabbage with
college education An agnosc with some
similar Of training
The Ltchfeld IN. D. Bulletin recalls the days Of
the "old swimming hoe'' and asks: .~ ,..,.
Did the boys knot your. pants, have spring, IT,
aoe'' that only the bravest could touch bottom and
''show gravel,'' in the good old daysY .>..--~
Did they? They did, And the mean big oy,~that was
always 'picng on small boys had half cap-board
handy slap the small boys just they shot OH the BANK
It crime.
The OPERA "Parsifa is discussion in musical drama
of of the profoundest problems of the reality
feyil It has been called 'drama Of enlightenment
The hero Parsifa is 'Fpure Innocent He is innocent
of right and wrong Of good and evil 1t is the chdlke
states Of Adam and Eve before :'the fal.''
But as the play proceeds this simple innocence appar
entv has i'll effects Parsfal Stays the swan, not wano
ness simple ignorance His consciousness has to ad
from simple innocence to pure knowledge AND mere
where almost critic thinks the nub OF the matter hs
Parsifa thrown out Of the palace because of his IN
ADEQUACY to heal wound of the king In touch
with and the work of Enlightenment begins and IS
carried the conclusion Hence the critics. and often
the theoogians say that evil is good 1t has done this
work. So eminent writer the Rev. Dr. H. r. Johonnot,
in the Christian Register, says
The method of enlightenment is also precisely the
same in E'Parsifal' as in the legend Of Eden: En-
ghtenment comes thru innocence but thru knoWl-
edge Of evil.
Eden that moral enlightenment comes except thru
knowledge Of evil. '-* ~'
If this were true is it not logical conclusion that chill
dren should be taught evil? 49,.
reality Parsfa does not win his own salvation and
his healing power by which he is enabled thru divine pity
heal the wound of the king thru his knowledge OF evil
but thru his perception of the unreaty Of evil power
Parsifal first faces the temptation Of living the sense
nfe Kundry appeals to Parsifals passions, and when
this appeals the higher side Of his nature Il he
yield to her. he shall have divine powers.
eff my great love should embrace thee, -. =:
Surely to God-head I will raise thee:'' "
But he refuses know evil in either and 50 wins
his enlightenment and the divine pity which enables him te
be instrumental in healing the wound Of the king
If the redemption lay in the knowledge of evil surely the
king would have redeemed for he fell before the fr
temptation and knew evil; but instead of redemption
brought him the apparently incurabe wound ..>...
Not in the seeing of evil but in seeing thru it and de
ecting it's nothngness lies mans redemptlon-th1s seems
be the teaching of the mighty work Of the great modern
master. a. ..>:~ 4--~~ III : -. 3a4:,
To see and hear it, however poorly rendered and to &c
the clue leading thru the labyrinth to wonder and adore
- "A. J. R.