The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-04-04

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Twilight was falling through the
autumn evening when We pushed out
he black punt and set forth across
the lake.
We were gliding through the twi-
light and the creeping mist away To-
ward Ciackan and the cottage there.
n which Daniel was TO prove himself
| before us all
Daniel How well we remembered /
| him. How short a time Il seemed /
| since the days when he had SAT among |
| ns in the school house there among |
| he trees. And now he was back from |
! sollege; and every one was proud OF
aim. and we, his old playmates. were |
| going to hear him preach the Word, |
| We made "a goodly company. From |
FAR and near people had gathered to |
10 Daniel honor. Claekan allied half |
the room. Gorteen gave It's best and
wisest In the second row from the |
able sat Mary. Daniels sweetheart. |
her father on this side her mother on
that Everywhere one saw familiar
faces. stern and rugged. beaten with
sain and wlnd~faces that In the morn
ing had looked up AT the minister
from the pews In Derryvad. and now
we're turned upon the door watching
Tor sight OF Daniel
iiush' The door opened. and a III.
lie procession came in-the preacher
irst. Daniel next. the family following
after one BY one To their places on the
arst form
| Thar. f..il..kr..sE hal. hat
.er from Isaiah, read well and feel
,ngiy: then third hymn. and q
shorter and more personal prayer. In
which God was asked TO hiess the
preaching OF his word: then a min
ute OF hustle, followed by a dead hush
Is Daniel rose
His face was flushed. his lips trem.
blcd little; slowly he read a text:
Old things are passed away, behold.
all things are become new" lie re-
peated II ms II TO Mary and himself.
and then closed his bible. laid IL on
he table. and began.
He opened confidently, with the
surety OF youth and the fiuency OF one
well prepared There was no hating.
IN breath he was whitchot. brim,
ming with words. They came like
torrent pouring down a mountain. 40
quick that one might hardly follow
them. 30 insistent that one almost felt
hem whiri l sat amazed. whelmed
(you have seen willows bent toward
a stream. or a weed bowed toward tho
SUM; and already Daniel was deep.
and frowns had gathered on the
brows OF many, when OF sudden the
glamour went. and ! had plain Sec
ing.
What Daniel said have long forgot.
ten Though men NJ clackan viii re-
peat much OF II 10 you even today:
but given the text and the occasion.
and yon may easily guess the fash
Ion OF his discourses. II was Just
what you might expect OF an ambi.
tioua youth gifted and not without ed
ucation come fresh from the pastures
OF culture 90 shed light upon the
darkness of his native hills. Three
years ago Daniel had left us. fiIied
with those old things: now. having
browsed happily. he had come back
shining with new things claekau
was a dear place, It's people worthy
but time had moved on. leaving II
bound In ignorance. Such changes
had come upon the world. such won
ders been revealed OF late In the do
mains of knowledge' There was this
wonderful theory of evolution. There
wore those extraordinary discoveries
In science. There were those mar
yeluua doings OF the higher eriti
eism There was this new spirit ol
the age moving across the face Of ths
waters BACK there lay those old
dead things; here among us wers
those wonderful new things. quick, I'm
| pcrative. claiming. said Daniel. In q
whirl OF words, fullest consideration
OF all Christian men
To the consideration OF these. there
fore Daniel passed: and before bin
we ignorant Ioughsiders sat dumb, on
faces set and hard. Boldly be tramp
pied on our ignorance: boldly @oult
lead US into light All his lcarnini
and reading he drew upon. striving q
give us true knowledge. We wer'
narrow. prejndlced intolerant: hehols
this new spirit Of the age which shonl,
make us free All men we're broth
cTks Obs thflht4an Soul Nhh AZ kooi
as another Our ideas OF religion
were Anticipated. Our conception o
God was childish. We had vain no
tons OF heaven and hell. we read on
Bible ignoraptly; We bad never grasp
ed the real spirit OF cbrist's message
10 the world.
Had Daniel stood In some city pul
pit, doubtless everything he sal.
would have won approval: but he va
preaching In a hillside parlor To an Ia
norant little company. and he d.
foolishly. and we misunderstood him
and set our faces against him In pits
ing SEQ This our DanIeIs Thi
the man we had trusted and loved
This the result, of education an,
knowledge2 All. the shame. though
We: and Daniel. reading our thoughts
maybe. closed with rush. and ga
down.
A stir passed through us. like th'
going OF WiId among ripe wheat. nhel
sprang into oommotIon at the ao'ini
of one rising behind Rn ia a far cor