The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-04-10

gets tired after a while, or rattle
occasionally. 1t is a long, hare
game, this thing OF lie. Born b,
accident, it is a struggle from tn,
cradle to the grave. With tn,
man 1t is a matter OF ~ceaseles,
labor; with the woman OF eudles.
bearing and patience. Granted
its recompenses, the averag,
person learns before the gray
comes that lie in itself is not worth
living; that il II were not Tor th,
help we can I've TO others it would
not be worth the candle. TO be
sure the path is full OF light and
laughter and song. IL is also iulI
Of labor and suffering and tears.
There are a few who can see only
the first three, and they are the
real philosophers. The rest can
not help but take lite altogether
seriously, and anybody who does
that will get tired after a while.
World worn" is a pretty good
name tor It. 1t has a different
effect upon the individual. With
some It bestows the perpetual
crouch, the feeling that everybody
Is on the skin game, watching to
get the best OF It. With others It
brings the lesson that human
nature in the main is good, that
the average man would prefer TO be
honest, and that TO shut Oh, these
conclusions is about the same
thing as voluntarily accepting a
lie sentence in the penitenitary.
With still others the long lesson
comes that love redeems il all, and
that there is not a burden OF the
flesh that is not redeemed by the
principle, both human and divine,
in either form altogether celestial.
Yet every class gets tired.
Ii is 50 very long until evening
and its rest, that the hear, runs
slow, and the soul cries out TOR
something more than the giit OF
intelligence, Tor some sign that
there are greater recompenses
than these, something to be pinned
TO as a sign that after this is all
over that there will be something
coming to the man and the woman
who nights bravely and loves much.
They want something that will tell
them that there will be something
coming after the change that W IL
call death, and which We would
like TO believe is merely another
name tor change, and a blessed
change at that. IL is instructive.
All humanity yearns for 1t. Every
people in the world, from the
crudest forms Of ssvagery 10 the
most enlightened turn over TO the
same point. Most OF them believe
IN immortality. the majority be-
cause they so much want il to be
so. They picture the rise OF the
spirit from the trammel OF the
worn and iatigued flesh, to the
enjoyment OF Joys that we're i'm.
possible in mortality. Some OF
them have the awful and sinister
belief that after death comes a
reckoning by a grim and awful
Judge, !nstead OF a loving and
plying father, and they are dis.
turbed by visions OF eternal pun
lshment. | never could under.
stand how there could be any worse
torture on either side OF the grave
than to hold the clay OF YOUR nrst
born in your arms, and see the
spark 10 out, leaving ashes and
agony. He'll, IT there were such
a thing, could not he any worse
than that. To believe il would
seem to me a libel upon the divine
intelligence that gives US the les.
son OF Easter, that will be sung
and preached all over the world
tomorrow,
II always seems to me that the
purpose OF Easter was TO heal the
world worn, 10 point them 10 the
promise that there is a reward
coming 70 those who keep their
hearts clean, who do something
Tor the resi- OF the bunch. 1t was
a clever conception OF the divine
intelligence. After a lite OF de.
votIon, OF unspeaksble sacrifice,
came the crucihxion. That is
death OF the flesh. Could there
have been any hope IT the ebblng
on the cross had ended It allr In
place OF the unspeakable misery oil
such an ending, a. ignominy that
would forever have ended the inn
pulse to good deeds, except upon
purely Socratan grounds, the
Father planted upon the brain OF
man for all time the lesson that
the grave is but an incident oil evo-
luton. The means OF instruction
is divine, essentially. The Father
gave the world his only begotten
son, and what that means any
father can understand, He suffered
every penalty OF mortality and at
last died, to impress upon man.
kind that there is a power that
conquers the grave, that makes all
the ~heartaches and all OF the labor
we have worth while. When that
Easter morning, the stone rolled