The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-07-13

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methods of money making. am
sanguine enough to believe that the
time will yet come when respectable
1ty will no longer be sold to great
criminals by helping them to spend
their ill-gotten gains. A long step
III advance Will have been taken
when religious, educational and
charitable institutions refuse to
condone conscienceless methods in
business and leave the possessor of
illegitimate accumulations to learn
how lonely life is when one prefers
money TO morals.
Some have sought peace in social
distinction, but whether they have
| been within the charmed circle and
fearful lest they might fall out, or
outside and hopeful that they might
get in, they have not found peace.
Some have thought, vain thought,
to find peace in political promi-
by birth, as in monarchies, or by
election, as in republics, it does
not bring peace. An office is not
considered high one if all can oc-
cupy it. Only when few in a gen.
Grafton can hope to enjoy an hon
or do we call it a great honor. I
am glad that our Heavenly Father
did not make the peace of the hu-
man heart to depend upon our abil-
ity to buy it with money, secure it
in society, or win it at the polls,
for in either case but few could
nave obtained it, but when He
made peace the reward of a con-
science void of offense toward God
and man, He put it within the reach
OF all. The poor can secure it as
n no oh h~ f,l
casts as freely as the leader of
society, and the humblest citizen
equally with those who WELD poll
tical power.
To those who have grown gray
in the Church, l need not speak
OF the peace to be found in faith
IN God and trust in an overruling
providence. Christ taught that our
llves are precious in the sight of
God, and poets have taken up the
thought and woven it into immor-
tai verse. No uninspired writer has
expressed it more beautifully than
w. c. Bryant in his Ode to
the Waterfowl. After following the
wanderings of the bird of passage
as seeks first its southern and then
It's northern home, he concludes:
Thou art gone; the abyss of heav-
en-
Hath swallowed up thy form, but
on my heart
Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou
hast given,
And shall not soon depart. -
He who, from zone to zone,
Guides through the boup dless
sky thy- 4--I flighS6
In the long way that l must tread
alone,
Will lead my steps Alright.
Christ promoted peace by giving
us assurance that a line of COM
munication can be established be-
tween the Father above and the
child below. And who will measure
the consultations OF the hour of
prayer?
And immortality! Who will es-
innate the peace which a belief in
future life has brought to the sor-
rowing hearts of the sons of men?
You may talk to the young about
death ending all, for life is full
and hope is strong, but preach not
this doctrine to the mother who
stands by the death-bed of her
her babe or TO one who is within
the shadow of a great affliction.
Wren | was young man | wrote
TO Colonel Ingersoll and asked him
Tor his views on God and immoral
ity. His secretary answered that
the great infidel was not at home,
but enclosed a copy of a speech of
Col. ingersoll's which covered my
question. | scanned it with eager
ness and fnnnH fhnf
ed himself about as follows:
Il do not say there is no God, /
simply say l do not know. do
not say there is no life beyond the
grave, l simply say that l do not
KNOW And from that day to this
l have asked myself the question
and have been unable to answer il
to my own satisfaction, how could
anyone find pleasure in taking
from human heart living faith
and substituting therefor the cold
and cheerless doctrine, 'I do not
know"
Christ gave us proof of immortal
ity and it was a welcome assurance,
although it would hardly seem nee
essary that one should rise from
the dead to convince us that the
grave Is not the end. To every Gre
ated thing God has given a tongue
that proclaims future life.
III the Father designs to touch
with divine power the cold and
pulseless heart of the buried acorn
and to make it burst forth from
its walls, will he leave neglected in
the earth the soul of man, made in
the image of his Creator? If He
stoops to give to the rose bush,
whose withered blossoms float up
on the autumn breeze, the sweet
assurance of another springtime,
will He refuse the words of hope
TO the sons of men when the frosts
OF winter come? If matter, mute
and inaminate, though changed by
the forces of nature into a multi
tude of forms, can never die, will
the imperial spirit of man suffer
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