The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-06-02
JUDGE HENRY C.. FOX PAYS TRIBUTE To
FATHER ROELL AS PRIEST AND CITIZEN

down? What will man achieve in the
next hundred years-in five hundred
years-in a thousand? Where is the
prophet who will tell us? Speculation
and conjecture are useless. The fu-
ture is an undiscovered country, an
unsolved mystery.
Let us turn from the unknown to
things we understand and comprehend.
The past is history. The present is
with us. The future is before us.
There is in the cradle today an in
FAINT generation that will in a few
years pass from the nursery to the
schoolroom, and from the schoolroom
to manhood and womanhood, and as
they pass, character will be developed
and foundations laid. The home is the
bed rock of social life. The relation
between parent and child is rendered
sacred by the affections. Training
and educating children is the hewing
of rock in the quarry from which
temple is to be built, for the boys and
girls Of today will be the men and
women of tomorrow, and as such they
will control the destiny of the nation
III liCl pOllLlCS anu lSllSlOH III
this embryo generation is the states
man, educator, lawyer, mechanic and
merchant of the future. If war should
come, the soldiers and sailors who will
defend our country and uphold it's
flag are now in their mothers arms,
and for this reason we should rejoice
that modern civilization is progress
ing, that the world is growing wiser
and better day by day.
In another important matter has
there been a great reform, and that
is in the changed condition of women
and children, and this should not only
be the occasion of jubilee on the part
Of st. Andrews church, but of the
whole civilized world as we'll. The
time was when the wife and child were
the slaves of the husband and father.
He was their owner and master. His
brutality was unchecked. Until within
comparatively few years, when
woman married, her legal existence
was lost, or rather merged in that of
her husband. They twain in law, poll
tics and religion, were one flesh, and
that flesh was the flesh of the hus-
band. Her property became his prop
erty and passed under his control. He
was the master of her body, and she
was powerless in his grasp. But the
march Of civilization has changed all
this. In this country, which leads all
others in matters of reform, the wife
has now status that the husband is
to acknowledge and regard.
Her legal rights are now recognized
and upheld. She now owns and con-
trolls her own property, and may &C
quire it Independent of her husband.
Her person is protected from his bru-
tality. In the social world she is his
peer, and in many respects his SUI
perior.
Each generation is wiser than the
one before it. The present generation
Is the parent and instructor of the
one. 1t has it's welfare and in
clination in it's keeping, and as 1.-The
twig is bent so is the tree inclined"
and thus the cycles come and 60 In
dealing with children, kindness and
forbearance will do more than force.
The sunshine of smile is better than
the frost of frown. I would rather
see a child smile than hear an old
man complain. The austerity of the
Puritan was fault and not a virtue,
and it is fortunate in this day and
generation that a child is no longer
judged from Puritan standpoints. In
this respect the world has progressed
and grown liberal. Progressive science
and liberal thought has obscured the
Puritan and declared his Blue Laws"
were an invasion of human liberty and
a denial of the God-given right that
was intOlerable. Parents have come
out of the shadows and now walk in
the sunshine. 1t is no longer a sin
for child to laugh, romp and play,
and engage in childish sports on the
Sabbath day. The conscience of the
child Is no longer cramped and mis-
shaped in a mold of superstition and
There is religion in the
smile of an infant, for its dimples are
the finger prints of the Almighty.
Let us turn now from material mat
tiers that we can observe and under
stand to the realm of faith and belief.
Death is the end of life as far as it's
are concerned through
the physical body. After death comes
the Great Unknown-"That undiscov-
cred country, from whose bourne no
traveller returns" AS to what will be
revealed to use after death, we have
no knowledge-no visible nor tangible
evidence. yet the still small voice of
inward consciousness whispers of i'm
mortality and tells us that it is not
all of life to live nor all of death to
die. have often been impressed with
the solemnity and force of the solil-
oquy which Addison places in the
mouth of Cato ffar reading Plnt n,S