The Newtown bee., 1907-03-22

morphine in both medicine and reme- l dy before the eyes of the bereaved par ents and informed them that either alone had not proved fatal, but, taken together, they were too much for the lay in his little coffin, so fair and plump and winsome! It did not seem that he could be deadl The mother
 was not yet able to leave her bed and,
 alone in his sorrow, Robin took his
 loved and lost back to the friendly
 hearts at Weymouth, where the broth
 CT was laid beside his little sister. It is hard to lay away such buds Of prom
 ise, but do not their angels always be- hold the face of Our Father? Would we wish, could we dare, to call them
 much more helpful environment, from the Fathers house of many mansions? We, who know how much bitter there 1 is in the dregs of the sweetest cup, how much rain of tears in the bright est life, how many misSteps in the smoothest way, how much conceit and
 brag in the noblest effort, how much backbiting and fault-fnding in the
 dearest love, how much conflict and defeat in the most victorious warfare,
 God-devoted walk-shall such as we 1 fly in the face of the Almighty and dash our feeble wills against His
 Providence? Robin bent in sorrow
 before his fresh aff1iction and learned
 that aff1iction is Gods open door to hearts similarly distressed. Who can
 bring the balm of consolation to a mother weeping over her innocent in his coffin like mother who has her self wept there and, through the rain-
 bow of hope shinining athwart her
 tears, has caught the gleam of a heav-
 enly radiance? We lose that we may
 gain. No personal loss but gives an
 opportunity for sympathy and help in like losses of others. Words are sweet
 but language wrung from experience,
 never miscarrtes nor is mistaken. The true aureole encircles the brow of , grief humbled before God that it may become mighty with men, "By sorrow only can the headStroDg
 and presumptuous spirit be shamed in to gentlenesS and So]emniZed into hu } m1lity.''
 l Hears are vain when a soul so bright
 Wings its way to the gates of light
 God pity tn ose who cannot say
 Not m1ne but Thine;' who only pray Tbe he' nI this cup o1 Pass ;nsna and cannot see
 Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
 There comes time in most lives when the fOrbidding becomes inSup portable and the insupportable lum bers on to the intolerable. The night | work of the newspaper office was un
 pleasant to Robin, but was endurabIe 2 by itself alone. When to this rever day edition of the Courier, with Robir F for telegraph editor of that edition . requiring him, for no more pay, to ado to his work through the week tho l task of seeing the Sunday edition t( , press, he perceived change to be in t evitable, though how it was to come ol t what it was to be was alike unknown = A physical inconvenience may bt borne, when necessary, but sensitive = conscience revOlts at the violation of 8 r erations of godly ancestry and by hi own early training, Robin was bound r te respect the Lords day. Consider = ing the subject, he saw that corporate : greed had paved the way for the sub . stitution of the European holiday fo
 our American holy day. The railroad 8 iu particular, pleading the necessity o = traffic, had gone on from one trail ] each way daily to an almost unlimited l. traffic, especially of freight. Since r the breach of Gods law inevita bl, g ends in upsetting human law, is it any l. wonder that the Sunday train has beel 2 followed by the freight rebate, the sil against God leading on to sin againS r man, by which Rockefeller and othel 2 trust magnates have been enabled tt g squeeze the life out Of individual en Z dea vor because it stood in the way o t. their unho1y piling up of pelf? Ih - private cars of Armour and others ar s only judgment on the railroads fo 0 having first cOnspired to break God ? Jaw, the 4th commandment, for gain ] Would there be Sunday business un e less there was money in it? Robil r was reminded of the Arab fable: e traveller through the desert rode no j. ble horse, driving six others, almost al y fine, before him. Coming to an oasis r he offered it's sheik the six horses, i e he would accept and use them. Tn l. traveller rode on and, noticing hoy e magnificent his steed, the sheik, no