Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-09
From The battle-ground of Thought.

chariot on which the Great Ra,,.
carecred ut the head of his victoti,.
army through the palm borderad ~ n
nues of Memphis after some prea, We
quest; here a number of cases az ~, va
able jewelry. worn by the queens
princesses OF Egypt In those dav,
regal splendor; or here series
painted papyri, still fresh and br,.,
figuring the fanciful experience NJ
soil after death, and depicting ne
rearance before n strange and a.
tribunal, which is to adiudicata -,
its final doom. But of Infinitely rro.,
interest than any other object n Az
wonderful museum, are the threa
balmed bodleS-not mummies bn, i,
actual bodies-of Egypt's grea,.
Pharoahs--Seti |. the builder of IVY
of the finest of the temples, the sv,c.1I
cleft in his skull by which he NJ,
slain In battle plainly visible; Rans,aI
the Great, the Pharoah of the opmS.
sion. who ordered the lsraelites 10 ma
bricks without straw; his features ia
eating strong will power and determs
alton; and Menephthah. the Phar,
of the exodus, and, that being "a ~
mantle very man-who said to Ma
See my face no more; for in that n
thou seeest my face thou shalt AZ,
All! little thought the monarch WIZ.
he sent his host to pursue the Isrss
ties through the yawning gorge IN
In the blue waters of the Red Sea NJ.
after a lapse of three thousand ~
hundred years he himself should \
exposed to the gaze OF, amongst otbss
many OF the descendants of those M
Israelites whom he so valnly attenb,,l
to destroy And as the visitor con,s,
pilates that sullen recumbeut avs.
the thought may perhaps flash thro".
his mind that that race, upon whIs
he so impotently vented his ans.
was the race through which tina \,
Of God elected to assume for n M
our human nature; and In that natnTl
with a love and condesoension ain,
gether beyond our comprehensiop
our great Substitute, to be scourvs,
and crucified, that by His stripes n
might be healed and by His atom
ment we might be pardoned aud 4,
cepted.--A Banker.
One Result No race or class \
Out of Many men over passed frt,
OF the War. slavery to freedom viz
record equally pa
of revenge. At Natchez / witnessed
significant spectacle. ] was shown so,
large dwelling houses which before 4
Civil War had at certain seasons bs,
occupied by families of the plantlr,
aristocrncy of that region Most
those houses now looked deserted nd
uncared for, shutters unhinged, VII.
dow panes broken, yards and gariss
covered with a rank growth Of gss
and weeds. In the front yard OF Gs
of the houses / observed some IN,
stumps and stacks of cord-wood a.
an old man busy cutting down with 4
ak a magnificent shade tree. Ths
was something distinguished in his 8;
pearance that arrested my attention
fine features topped with long Whit
locks; slender, delicate hands; clotha
shabby, but of a. cut denoting that IN
had originally been made for a peru
above the ordinary wood-chopper \
n Federal captain, did Il
know him. / accosted him with U
question TO whom that house belonsa
1T belongs to me-" he said. beggA
his pardon for asking the fur!s
question why he was cutting down As
splendid shade tree. Il must live"
replied, with sad smile. my 81 il
fell in the war; all my servants hG
left me. I sell Greenwood to the stes
boats RAISING by" He swung his lt&
gain to end the conversation. A wan a
word OF sympathy was on my tong k]
but | repressed II, look at his dr.
fled mien making me apprehend ~
he might resent being pitied, espect S
by one of the victorious enemy-cri
Schurz in the May McClure's.
Many Folks There are rneaatSc ~
Do Not Know = in this partially o.
Right or Wrong lightened land y.
do not seem to ksof
what is right. and a vast deal Of Isa
Ia being taken to teach them. ID
great work of instruction Is called
form There seem to be also lot M
folks who don't know what Is wTOs
but think they do, aud act With 81
upon their convictions. IN
are they going 10 be taught? 1t is u
portant to teach them, because U
avish their strength, not in personal
pentance, but I'm trying to hinder III
neighhors from actions which they %
denim. II a man Tor a woman thia
some act is wrong and doesn't do
there Is no great harm done, whel,
the act Is really wrong or not, To
about ones own cont1
may be a mistake. but 1t Is one
which the errlng person chiefly y
ters. But to be overscrupulous abb
the conduct of other persons-to ci
denim their actions as wrong and y
laws passed to make them illegal-ds
great harm II the actions condemnel:
not really deserve condemnation. y
code of discipline of the Methoa
for example. when volunar
accepted, may yield a great pToa
spiritually and otherwise. to whonl5
aver lives up TO It: whereas TO %
society In general UP to the standsl
IF the Book of Discipline under penal
II law, would work intolerable mar
ship. Something like that Is what Y
-olks who don't know what Is Troas
seem TO be trying to do, and they ~
out so many different nouo'lA
md in so many different lines-tsni
'oad regulation, night riding, pTonu
Ditlon, anti-betting. anti-yiyisecuuA
nti-speculation, anti-corpoiatlons' ~
i-non- union labor. anti-cigarettes' =
10 on--that II makes the observer VIZ
ler whore we are coming out---harp"