Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-08-12
A LITTLE LAY SERMON.

>-.., a4sgna IRED Of life at IL! That IS the mystery
ssI.7HIISls III which made girl bride kill herself in
XIsFA Az western city the other day. The
~ n NNsH story is one Of those tear wet pages
"a 9S.SA from the worlds LesMiserabesD with
TI@sEtg ~ r which we cannot completely sympa-
vs5gssy L9EEslj thize because cannot understand.
The setting is one in which Hugo
would have revealed because he gored the pebian and
proved that the same elemental passions common to
humanity and that whether our hearts were covered with
robes or rags the thrilled with the emotions.
gaddened by the Joys and ached with the same
sorrows
Let no thoughdess smiIe and above all let not The sup
CRITICAL because this hapless gr married black
smith while she loved policeman The main fea-
ture Of the case isn't whether girl is tired Of life be-
she married prince or peasant while loving
duke a teamster. Their is social position in the
soul WEAKNESS which makes peopek themselves at H.
The great overshadovng tragedy Of the thing is that any
body should be tired Of life at IL. Why at II life is
stretching out n beautiful vsas Of promise for the great
majority Of girls Ii is golden with rewards Of ambition
or rosy with romance 1t may be embtered BY poverty
and hardened by toll but is sweet with hope and downy
with dreams Of coming Joys The cup Of life has
touched their psI They have tasted but the drops
the brm The bitterness and the sweetness OF the tul
cup alike unknown the bitterness merciully shrouded
ignorance and the sweenes shrouded by anticipation
All about US we see those whose hairs are white but
whose hearts Young. Looking back long lives Of
ming led pleasure and pain they declare that lite
er SO sweet as now though they look back II the
age when the world was brightest and life fares, for it
was the f1ryand Of hope and fancy Not all the dreams
Of seventeen came true and not all the propheses
fulfilled Some Of the most fragrant Of the roses
wihered sadly and yet taking it ALL the heafache with
the thrill of happiness life good and there
joys than pains, more flowers than thorns.
That is the lesson Of this radgedy Of H. We
why anyone should be tired Of life at H. because
Providence has mercully drawn curtain before the
eyes Of SOUL binding alike to the futures pangs
ad pleasures and to those OF others well
From standpoint seems strange that girl only few
days bride, established in a modest little home, with
devoted husband and all the things with which thousands
Of other girls would be supremey happy should be tired
Of life and end all with se1f-nurder. But it is
TO us because Providence has mercuy yelled the radg
dies Of love and from eyes, because there is
more happy than unhappy love in the world smiles
than misery We may wonder what difference it makes
whether girl marries clerk mikman blacksmith
or policeman and why she should kill herself
or the other But that is not the point The real
lion issue is that life will be sweet the vast majority
at twice and thrice and four times IL true to
selves and obey the laws Of happiness the law Of human
hearts. God never meant that anybody at II should be
tired Of the life He gave Let profoundly pity
whose soul has found existence unendurabe Of IL Nei:h
er life nor death has greater tragedy than this