The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1915-12-16
For The vidette.
LIFE.
BY AMANDA cAPERs NEVILLE

nature with this dear, big, bound,
less old world of ours alive with
great, grand men and peerless
women. Beautiful, incarnate
Life!-dropped like pearl from
the hand of Divinity. Fair and
sweet and altogether lovely (if we
would only make it so) as the first
| white Rose that bursted into bloom
land gave its fragrance to the aro-
matte breezes of the uncultivated
garden of Eden. 1t is only those
whose footsteps have strayed SC
near the crossing of the barr as
4 to almost feel the swish of the ev-
erlasting waters that can fully un-
dertand and appreciate this Won
derful, God bestowed blessing OF
Life?
| Wiser heads than mine are con-
tending that the world is DEGRN-
GRATING. That never before in the
annals of history did crime hold
such high carnival in the courts
of sin and never was corruption
SO tolerated in the halls of JUS
tice. What a libel on the dear,
good men and women of to-day
who are giving the very best that
is in them for the betterment of
humanity.
! OF the causes and the why's and
the wherefores of this bloody
slaughter over the seas we cannot
understand nor can we
| form any conception of what the
| denoument of the struggle will be;
| but THIS we know-that in this
blessed, bountiful land of ours
where the unsoiled banner OF
Peace floats its protecting folds
over her happy people, like a
white winged Dove, with the oil
i've branch in its beak, there was
never before slch universal good
| fellowship and love for a com
mon brotherhood. Prejudice has
been slain and over the last spade
of earth thrown upon its entombed
body the beautiful Angel of Love
| with a light in her eyes and a
| prayer in her heart scattered the
seeds of peace and unity and a
| boundless charity that wal take
root and thrive and bud and bios
som and bear fruit until all Eter-
nifty.
| A new Epoch has dawned upon
us, the world thrills with the glor y
of it and, in the light of progress
i've intellectually, men and WON
en- have grown broader-minded,
more tolerant of the lapses- and
vices of their fellow man, and
while sin is as deeply deplored as
ever before, yet is the poor, un-
| fortunate sinner not so relentlessly
bounded down and his transgres-
sions more readily condoned.
There, is, happily, a spark OF
| Divinity in the very worst of us
that oftentimes leaps into flame
when the cry of distress is borne
to the ear and the answer goes
back to the call with potent pow
er that brings relief.
| What would the poor, starved
| Belgians have done had it no.
been for the great shiploads o.
| food sent from our generous shore:
| to their furnishing multitudes
Bread cast upon the waters ane
wishing for no RETURN; and how
beautifully did they express theii
gratitude by hoisting the proud
old American Flag over their dev
astated cities and blood, drenchet
trenches to unite with US in com
memorating the birthday of oul
Immortal Washington.
The sweet Spifit of the Queen
regent, Charity, sways the era 0
the day and lives in the great, BIZ
heart of the world. Men, VIII
in the long agone, would toy gin
gerly with a single silver col
ere they allowed it to pass ou
of their possession, now thrus
their hands deep down in thei
pockets for the crisp banknote:
lavishing them generously whel
ever the hand of Want holds out il
shriveled fingers to clutch the dt
nation.
1t is no longer thought a col
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