Blue-grass blade., 1908-08-16

these things pointing to a nobility of char
acter and to the highest Ideals yet cannot
stand the test of analysis. As literally
interpreted, the sentiment is inexplicable.
Emotion may utter it, but reason refutes.
The way and the course of human affairs
tho established institutions of men reject
1t. And the test:-the united prayers of
all the churches of Christendom fail to
reverse the divine decree. More in accord
ance with logical deduction was the human
decree, that the base and ignominious
assassin must die.
thousand people, nearly all Sabbath
school children and teachers, start for a
picnic excursion, and that thousand lives
are lost, and the Slocum horror startles the
world Speak, o Wave o Flame! In
hoarest accents voice your motives!
And thou, fierce Conemaugh! whose re-
lentles flood whelmed a great city, and ex-
tinguished so many thousand lives, in
fearful utterance impart what lessons thou
mayest teach Can the believer in an all
wise and beneficent supervision over phe-
-nomena answer or explain these things?
NOW teeming with wealth and gaiety.
and crowned with fair renown,-in an in
slant desolaaed in ruin,-famed, yet ILL
starred metropolis of the Pacific's Golden
Gate. Again, the atheist will ask, can the
believer in the efficacy of prayer explain
this? Yet the same God whose instrument
tality. according to the theological conten-
ton, brought about all these things.-the
same Is He who notes the sparrows fall:
the same is
He who stills the ravens clamrous nest,
And decks the lily fair in fow'ry PRIDE"
Inc same is He who doeth all things we'll
But the church will answer all these
o6Jections-perchance has answered them
all again and again. But the answers
which the church has given in thepast have
not been sustained through coming time.
IL Will answer these things as it answered
Copernicus and Calico; as it answered
Darwin and Laplace; as it answered Co
lumbus' theory of the rotundity of the
earth.
Death has come to an aged pioneer of
Montana, long resident in our midst
On farm near Valparaiso, Indiana. he
was born, August 6, 1922 His death ocur-
red on April 10, 1908, at 40 minutes past
seven O'Clock p. M. he passed away calmly
and serenely as fades the golden light
from the sunset sky He came to Jefferson
CITY In the winter Of 1864, previously
however, having spent several wears in
Colorado. During his life he was engaged
IN various spheres of activity, having been
Tor time a ranchman in the vicinity of
bouider; and sometimes he. pursued the
nckie industry of mining. He also possess
ed skill In certain mechanical lines He
was man OF great energy and great per-
severance. His ideas, and every impulse
OF MS nature, were progressive To him
there was no final goal to be reached in
thought or in human achievement. but
only eternal advancement. This however
applied to this world only, and to human.
lty collectively-not individually,-as death
according to his belief, is the last of the
Individual. That he made no secret of this
and other unpopular tenets which he held
pointed to characteristics of courage and
seifreliance, which were marked and DOM
inant traits of his life. Pretense he de-
splsed. He was always generous and hos