Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-04-08
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THE MYSTERY OF PAIN.
Text. If we suffer we shall also reign.
III Tim. II, u.
It's rare food for your infdel friend.
He leans back and views you as
though he were q visitor from another
planet. why does your God allow
pain?" says he. That sounds judicial.
| Makes you blink. III He Is almighty
why doesn't He abolish it?" Notice
his III l were God" air. III He were
all loving would He permit it," That's
a squelcher: You wriggle and squirm
mentally. You cough and strangle
like dog that's swallowed 6y. Be-
fore you can stammer forth something
about the ways Of Providence being
inscrutabIe he Is gone and you feel
as though you had been caught burn
ing incense to your house cat. Then
you remember that you would have
liked to ask bis theory Of why the
blind impersoual force he believes In
permits pain. His non-God Is as cruel
as your personal God and doesn't
profess loving intelligence. But he's
gone and you're alone With your pain.
Come soon or late pain will get you.
It ushered you into the world; It may
bow you out. However, the amount
between birth and death Is curiously
exaggerated Three rainy Sundays out
Of thirteen will tempt the preacher
(also his excuse making church mem
ber) to declere that 1T always rains
on Sunday" Some Of our pain we
have earned honestly and ought to be
ashamed to mention 1t. Human wars.
With not only shot and she'll, but e1-
posure and camp diseases. have hand
ed down quite a few to- our human
credit or discredit. Modern psyche:
therapeutics prove that envy. jealousy,
hatred and some other unenviable
traits are responsible for quite
brood. It's not very polite to blame
God for these.
Pain as Warning.
Pain is a signboard. Your physician
tells you. scientifically pain results
from or accompanies deranged. over
strained or otherwise abnormal action
Of the body and serves as warning
Of danger" True. Nature warns there's
something wrong. Don't hush the pain
remove the cause! flushing the pain
is removing the red lantern. the dan
ger signal. from wreck on the road
instead of removing the obstruction.
Without pain practically every III
would I've fatal. because the cause OF
the pain would not be removed.
Ever see mother watching her year.
old fodder? The button box. the stove.
the scissors. the steps. even "kitty's
claws" are unknown quantities and
qualities to baby--it doesn't know pain
hence mot hers watchfulness. After
awhile the burned child breads the
fire" and some other things. Without
pain the race would be wiped out Of
existence. Some babies of older years
would walk heedlessly In front Of troll
leys-fenders are needed even now;
others would wander over precipices;
some would cut hands and fingers OF.
Pain Is protection.
Philosophy Of Pain.
Your infidel friends questions start
ed from wrong assumptions. He has
many such. One is that what hurts Is
necessarily evil. Another is that pres
ent immediate happiness Is the chief
end Of life. And bis notion that God
of love would not allow suffering .
shows be has crude idea OF the ma.
ture Of love. He would train his son to
believe that boy scouts are best de-
veloped on Ice cream sodas and cake.
while bis daughters basketball team
best builds muscle on pickles and
fudge. Love- Is an unselflsh devotion
that seeks another's highest good.
whether for the moment 1t gives pleas.
ure or pain. Life is not an entertain.
ment; it's an education.
This world is Gods university. Death
Is commencement day: pain has been
prominent on the faculty. The oak Is
a tree plus some storms. A statue is
marble plus the chisel. A soldier is a
man plus battle. The martyr Is desh
and blood plus rack and fagot. In
aviation the first rule Of fight is to
turn the machine against the wind.
Mankind rises through adverse winds
Of suffering. The higher your nerve
the more you suffer. Tear
IN arm out Of II crab. it will still live
indeed. may grow a new one. Tear
an arm from q man, he will die.
Mans body Is a marvellous harp. But
do not subhuman creatures suffer-"
Yes. but only relatively. Cut some Of
the simplest forms Of life In half and
they 60 on their way-two exfstences
now instead Of one. doesn't the 6sh-
worm wriggls under the hooky Yes,
but it wriggles before the hook touches
It. '"And the horse2" Yes, the more