The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1916-11-03


Elusive. We have no ancestors no de-
scendants; since succession cannot be
predicated OF nothingness. Would W.
honor the illustrious dead? How ab-
surd to honor that which has no eA-
istencel Would we take thought foi
l.posterity? How frivolous to concern
ourselves for those whose end like our
own, must soon be annihilauonl Have
we made promise? How can II bind
nothing TO nothing? Perjury is but
Jest The last in1unctions OF the dying
what sanctity have they, more than
the last sound of a chord that is snap
ped, OF an instrument that is broken /!
Here is the issue to which the Wanted
philosophy OF unbelievers must newt
ably lead. Here is that social felicity,
that sway or reason, that emancipa-
ton from error, OF which they etern-
ally pirate, as the fruit OF their doc
trines Accept their maxims, aud the
whole world falls back into a frighuul
chaos; and all the relations OF life are
COMPOUNDED, and all ideas OF vice and
virtue are reversed; and the most in
violable laws of society vanish; and all
moral discipline perishes. and the gov
eminent OF states and nations has no
longer any cement to uphold it; and
all the harmony of the body polite be-
comes discord: and the human race is
no more than an assemblage of reckless
barbarians shameless, remorselesS,
brutal denaturalized, with no other
law than force, no other check than
passion. no other bond than irreligion,
no other God than self Such would
be the world which mpiety would
make. Such would be this world, We're
a belief in God and immortality to die
out of the human heart EAN BAP-
tTISTE MASSILLIoN
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AS the soft and tender perfume of
crushed violets rises like a henediction
10 the one who bruises their purple
petals with their careless heel, so for
giveness, the fragrance OF thu soul,
rises from the lacerated, bleeding heart
Of the wronged and injured one TO
bless its divine beneficence the hand
that dealt the blow. No holier impulse
has issued from the human heart since
One, in agony, plead for the forgive
ness of those who tortured His pain
racked body and soul, as He hung be-
tween earth and heaven on the cross OF
Calvary No tenderer love is known TO
man than that which carries with IL
forgiveness, emanating from a strong
and steadfast heart that knows and
understands: that views the wrong so
broadly that 1t becomes a vanishing
point in the distance, finally being OBJ
secured entirely by the roseate light Of
love that encompasseth all things, No
finer, greater attribute has aided man
kind in overcoming the difficulties that
beset his daily life. II is the strong soul
that can say Il forgive" even when IL
is impossible to say II forget" The
aching wounds OF revenge and hatred
are cured as by magic when the heal
ing balm of forgiveness is poured into
the heart OF the one who hates. by the
one who is hated A healthy. happy
soul energies from the chaos OF doubt,
suspicion and wrong, to create n new
existence, replete with the love that
''blesseth him that gives and him that
takes" = MARGARET MARSHALL
PERKINS.
We should be as generous with a
man as we arc with a picture, which
we are always willing to give the benz
eft OF the best possible light,-EMER-
SON.