The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25

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before man? To those, perhaps,
alone, these meditations will be
worthy Of pursual, not for what is
expressed but for what is ex-
perlenced and suppressed.
Truly has Victor Hugo said,
What is said of man, whittier it
be true, or false, often occupies as
much space in their life, and especi-
ally in their destiny, as what they
do" We can measure the distance
of the celestials, but who can meas
ure the influence that may go out
from human soul? Shall not man
be responsible before God for the
buried talent, for the wasted oppor-
tunities. for the years that have been
traced with the finger of idleness in
the sands of time, only to be washed
away with the first incoming wave?
We are made for the ages. We
belong to the eternities and to the
infnities, the attributes. of God.
But upon whom shall the burden of
these wasted years, these blasted
hopes, these palsied prospects, these
fettered talents and these shackled
opportunities, fall? They have
been forged and forced upon us, if
these are the few stripes, who then
shall wear the many stlpes?
The powers and possibilities of
a child are but the influences of the
parents and teachers, carried into
wider circles and there made to
bloom into excellence surprassing
the sanguine dreams of the parents
In view of this, should it not be i'm
perative for the well being of society
to protect and maintain the sanctity
of the home, the bulwark of the
Nation? But how many homes have
; been wrecked and fair lives with la
, tent possibilities blasted thro the
perversity and deception of man
and the abortion of law.
Has universal brotherhood con-
tracted into sphere of personal ag-
, grandizement and greed? No! let us
not Judge. 1t still beboves each of
, us to first cast the beam from our
, own eye before attempting to cast
, the mote from our brothers eye, we
, may then better distinguish before
. whom we cast our pearls, and per-
J haps, prevent the rend.
We are told of the twelve divinity
chosen, one was devil-may we
r then expect infalliblity from twelve
, chosen by man? Burns tells us
that mans inhumanity to man
, makes countless thousands mourn
t Caiaphas, it was who counseled
, that it was expedient that one man
I should die for the people," and by
| death we were made accessible te
e life. By the Imprisonment o1
a Bunyan and the suffering of Milton
r the world has been made infnitly
8 richer. If we could raise the vel
s of futurity and behold what lies be.
yond, in the divine plan of the ages
= our present suffering would be but
? a passing shadow, abundently com.
r pensated for, by the fruits for which
l they were intended, but that cannot
D be, it is for US to:
(. so live. that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravans. which moves
: To that mysterious realm, where each shall taxi
q His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not like the quarry-slave at night.
: Scourged to his dungeon but sustained ant
= soothed
! By an unfaltering trust, approach the grave.
Like one who wraps the draperies of his couch
o About him and lies down to pleasant dreams"
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