The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-03-11

Ed Harris. negro who killed white and two
white children and then assaulted white woman.
was hanged, with all due legal formality, at Lex
inGton, KY, the other day.
Harris crime just about atrocious any
have heard Of. 1t is wonder that the
people of Kentucky stirred to fierce anger
BY it.
Accordingly. it is easy to understand the emo
tons that made parent write to the editor of the
Louisville Herald Pest telling how little grlpre
sumably the child Of the parent who wrote the let
ter-knclt down and prayed:
and, dear Cod. don't let that man go where
the little boy and the little girl he killed went-and
please dear God. don't let him go where my dear
little brother whom laid under the flowers wen!
and ,h please don't let any Of us 20 to Heaven If
that man is going tc be there
And the writer of the letter adds
won't some editor with the gift to say it--some
minister with the authority to interpret Gods prom
ses-assure the frightened children of Kentucky
that all the prayers Of the preachers Of all the
churches on earth couldn't lift the creature they fear
to Paradise?"
To attempt an answer to this appeal is very df-
ficult We know SC little about the divine plan. we
are so blind and limited when we try to conceive
the scheme of eternal justice, that we cannot speak
with great assurance about anything. But it seems
as if some answer must be made.
s.And here it is:
"Dear Little Girl:
"A grown person should never try to advise child
about Heaven because all little children know SO
much more about it than any gro"n-up possibly
can They nearer to it. 1t was made 1cr 'ne"'
You remember, your Bible tells you that no one can
ever enter the Kingdom OF Heaven unless Nc *
= comes like little child.
I. fho vt me-
Kentucky countryside, look about you and think.
Look at the blue hills lying hazy in the distance
at the sunlight falling the fields and farmhouses
and forests at the rivers winding down from the
mountains 50 cool and clear and sparkling. W. i
it's night look up at the shining yellow stars IN the
dark sky. with he moon half-hidden behind the big
white clouds.
"And then remember this little girl: Heaven IS
lust like these things It's place where everything
is warm and pleasant and shiny where little cnoreh
can play all day long the meadows and IN the
woods without ever finding anything to be afraid o.
When it gets dark in Heaven it's comfortable KIND
of dark.
"That's where your little brother and those other
children, now.
And we don't know just where that bad man that
you're so afraid of is. But we know he isn't there.
Perhaps if he prayed to God for forgiveness, Goa
has him in special place where ne can learn anu
be changed so that he, too, can become little chio
again and enjoy the sunlight and the stars and the
fields and rivers. We don't know.
"But we do know that Heaven is place whef"
children are never afraid. And we know that 1od
is very loving and very kind-even more than your
own father and mother are. So maybe-some day.
who knows-youll find that that bad man has be-
come what all Of us grown-ups must become-a child
once more. that wouldn't hurt anybody.
Lets all hope so, anyway little girl. For hat>
is q mean thing to keep in our hearts And every
little child knows that somehow, sometime, God Is
going to make everything come out all right-ever
for bad men,