The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-06-02

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ticular today. Some of you will not
agree with me in part and some pos
Isibly on the whole. For such | am
very sorry. for the fellow who agrees
with me on all things generally has a
pretty good time and is not very I'M
easy about results.
u | attended a concert not long ago
and witnessed a drill by some half
dozen blooming, blushing, vivacious
maidens. They were attired in the
three colors of our national flag,
marching to the soft, soothing strains
of music. AS ! beheld their radiant
faces on which was stamped the i'm
print of innocence and the light elias
ITCHY of their steps | could find
nothing to which to compare them
but the blood-washed throng which
Revelations tell us promenades the
streets of the New Jerusalem. | could
see that not one unholy thought
found Judgment in their pure, fresh,
young minds The sole aim of each
one was to act well her part AS the
march progressed | suppose the mu-
sic commanded double quick for |
heard fam sound of heel and toe
the stage. The audience clapped,
| whistled and stamped an encore. 1t
seemed that all were we'll pleased.
Later on the fact developed that
there was one present, a would be
leader in morals, who had his feel
iings hurt because they danced. May
the Lord of Glory have mercy on
that man or woman whose religion
is of that brand which would prohib-
| it real live, young buoyant man
! hood and womanhood from giving
| vent to the JOY of youth and good
| health when they can do SO without
| injury to themselves or any one
| else The man or woman so dead to
all sense of sympathy with their
kind as to look with disapprovaI upon
an exhibition of the rhythmic move
ments of graceful youth to the sweet
strains of music if given the ruling
of the universe would hush the sill
very laugh of childhood, tie the colt
where it could not play in the pasture
i-cOnsign the lamb to a sty with the
| lethargic fattening hog, stop the
MARBLE of the songsters of forest,
still the murmer of the purling
brook, quiet the song bird of the
gentle zephyrs in the waving
! boughs of the trees, possibly erradi
! cate the flowers from the bosom of
! mother earth, over rule all concert
motion, cause the pillow boy instead
| of whistling and singing in concert
with the lark to go moodily and sill
would drive all JOY and happiness
out of an earthly existence and make
! it such dreary. desolate abode that
we would in concert and truth fully
sing, 81 would not live always. ! ask
not to stay where storm after storm
rises DER the way" do not be
| lieve the loss we would sustain to
make the sentiment of the song true
would be made to us merely by max
ling true that which has been false
ever since it found its way into the
hymn book. | know We are composed
of the mental and the physical man
and am told there is a third part
called the spiritual and am inclined
to believe it for there is a kind of an
undefinable non Understandable
something about us all which if not
spiritual it has not been classified
These three attributes of man should
all receive attention but no one to
the exclusion of the other two. The
development of the physical man to
the exclusion of all else makes an an
imal no better than a hog and not as
useful because unfit for bacon. Too
high mental development makes a
machine with no more human sym
pathy than a sausage mill and will
even cause one to try as impractical
as telephoning to the martins.
Too much spirituality causes one
to forget that man is an animal and
has a god given capacity for the en-
ioyment of the things of this world.
For real genuine enjoyment give me
real live, joyous, laughter-loving
men and women, boys and girls for
companions, and if the music sug-
gests a shake of the foot let it shake !
for ! have never heard of the Lord |
ever lecturing Sister Miriam for that |
little jig she and the other women !
danced when they got safely out of |
the reach of the Egyptian hosts. We |
will go on through this world doing |
all the good we can and as little |
harm as possible, take the moral |
teachings of Christ as our guide |
and possibly enter the portals of the |
Holy City as soon as our brethren |