The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-11
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FTER father foots the grocery bills he knows where
~ that lame leg comes from.
When the sod begins get good and soft and show
that tender green of which the poets wre all the neghbor
hood boys and play the lawn with sound like
lumber piles falling down.
After automobile has fallen you twice you
begin to understand why the automobiles are bit hostile
The agricultural department the bureau of animal in
dustry the goat the small farmer When it
to making for his the goat shows good
headwork. -~a ~
Mrs E. D. E. N. Souhworth, Of the best-known
novests of past generation, tells of her letters of
meeting her old the author of that cheerful ditty
often sung at funerals: "ss:<.
Ia would not live Away, ask not to stay
Es Where storm after storm rises dark Ger the way
The author of this hymn Rev. Dr. Mueller later pres
ident of St. Lukes hospital New York Mrs Southworth
writes
It in the spring of 1876 when was
ceved by him; fine, tall, BRIGHT old gentle \
G. man; with refined and genial face, and silver
hair covered with little, round, black-velvet
skullcap. He dressed in a long, priestly-
looking gown. expressed my pride and pleas
in having the honor Of interview with
the author of that hymn which, by the way,
in my morbid youth had loved. He smiled
understand,
words that I shall not try to recall that he
had written that hymn in his youth and during
time Of great sorrow and that it not
healthy wholesome utterance and had better
go not have been written He composed it during
night-watch beside the corpse of his betrothed
bride
When I him he was a cheerful, cordial .
old gentleman Of so, and then looked as if
he would like to 've Away" if he could
How many of "the few lurid mornings that dawn on
have adj them bV
this hymn and how many of the dsconsoate have been
rendered yet almost to the point of suicide by
companion hymn, 'Come, Ye Disconsoate, Wherever Ye
Langush, only eternity tell The long, waing despair
ing to which these hymns set admirably
calculated by the fathers throw deep gloom the
cheerful day that the sunshine and the song Of mil
lion birds could hardly neutraze it. 1t is somewhat diff
ferent thank heaven and perhaps will be
learn
Annie Besan has certainly stirred up hornets nest in
India the dispatches to the English papers from Calcutta
be believed. The leading Hindu thinkers
ganizing for the purpose Of driving heosophy from the
stronghold it has begun obtain India These leaders
point out that theosophy almost entirely the creation Of
women, who have built upon the sacred writings of the
Hmdu fabric OF felton, myth and mystery which useful
these teachers but which, the leaders say
religions India is tranquil place where religions Of various
kinds always welcome but it believed Mrs Besant
has gone step too far She that the religion
veaed to her predecessor Nine Blavatsk the oldest
gion in the world and precedes the Veda the sacred writ
of the Hndus This has brought forth organization Of
lecturers proceeding under the authority of Agunyi Guru
Paramahanza the ''Tiger Mahatma" of India. Thru his
disciples series of lectures is being given coteract
Besants influence. They making imprisoned
appeals to the people to look only to their leaders
Theosophy has pictured the mahamas to the western world
the Hindu teachers declare under the guise Of ges and
chaatans STOPPING to perform tricks to deceive the ignorant
They sending Indian teachers England to explain
to theosophss how wrechedly they have been deceived
If Annie Besant gives these Indian teachers Deep
sousearchng look from those mysterious eyes, these Hindu
upstairs will go into the solitude of the forests and
tains and pine away and die-and them right.