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in any position to which th»*re is a
salary attached. Pilkins, however,
take» the golden mean.
He's in
evitably on both sides of every
question by natural gravitation,
and so is universally popular. I
believe you were unanim ously
elected m ayor of Golden T hrone.”
“ Yes, and a booming city we
have,” said Pilkins. “ I m ake things
fly, a new schoolhouse th is spring
and a new courthouse in the fall.
‘Education and ju stic e’ are our
hobbies.”
“ Why d id n ’t Prince H al come
cTown?”
“ He won’t leave Golden Throne.
He smokes his forty cigars per day
and m editates. His philosophy is
to do nothing, and he enjoys it.”
“ I sometimes th in k he’s wiser
than us a ll.”
“ My new ship the ‘A lbatross’ is
ready,” said C aptain Furgeson.
“ Take a sail tomorrow?”
“ T h at we will!” cried Paddie,
“ over the waves of the d ark blue
sea, our thoughts as boundless and
our souls as free.
W hat a luxury
tiiere is in the great ocean!
I feel
like the poor woman who had lived
in a country place all her life; and,
when she did have a glimpse of the
sea, she*said she was glad for once
to see enough of som ething.
We
are awfully cram med in; and, if it
were not for the sea, we should
never have the sense of sufficiency.”
“ I couldn’t live ashore,” said the
captain; “ I feel all the while as if I
h ad n ’t room ”
“ The only trouble with a ship is
th a t we can ’t go shopping,” said his
wife; “ th at is all th a t reconciles me
to the land.”
“ You can come shopping to my
store,” said Pippins. “ I have some
nice cabbages and tu rn ip s and a
little of everything.”
“ T h a t’s what I w ant, a little of
everything,” said Blanche. “ Don’t
you th in k the more we have the
better we are?”
“ Yes,” replied the doctor, “it is
right to be dissatisfied and eager
for more. There has been too much
self-denial and repression. We feel
the necessary reaction now, and
w ant more th an we can g e t ; but it
is these restless, infinite desires of
the heart th at have made th is earth
to ‘blossom as a rose.’ If we were
satisfied with the least possible we
could u>*e, there would be no prog
ress. It is because we w ant palaces
and not huts th a t men know how
to rear palaces. To st"ip m an of
his w ants would strip him of his
stren g th .”
“ Is it not m a n ’s w ants th a t make
him u n h a p p y ? ”
“ Perhaps so for th - inn* l»eing,
but happiness secured at the sacri
fice of our w ants is a dear-bought
happiness. O nly th at happiness is
valuable which is secured in and
through the m ultiplication and
satisfaction of our w ants.”
( to be continued .)
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By W . E Johnson
Our present body is the seed of
our future body. The one rises as
n atu rally from the other as the
Bower from the germ .—New York
Observer, Sept 2nd.
• W ho ever heard of a corpse
sprouting aud raising a crop after
it had been planted in a boneyard?
Your m etaphors are crude— very
crude.
................. E. M.,
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L iberal U n iv ersity C om pany,
SILVERTON, OREGON.
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God keeps a good supply of asbes
tos suits for his saints. They can,
Yours for Progress,
therefore, glorify God in the fires of
th is world and escape the fires of
the next.— Philadelphia C hristian
S tanda rd.
C u t th is o u t, or copy it; enclose
w h a t you can, and fo rw a rd to
If God doesn’t w ant his creatures {
J. E HOSMER, President,
to get burnt, why doesnt he p u t ,
out the fires of hell, instead of open
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use of God being guilty of arson,
anyhow’?
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Jesus w’ent to prepare a place for
us, and how well it will be prepared
no tongue can describe nor pen pic
tu re.— C hristian Conservator, Sept.
15th.
All the same, C hristian scholars
have always m anaged to describe
this place prepared for us as a re
sort of “ endless torm ent,” and ablaze
w’ith “ fire and brim stone.” Really,
how your god m ust love his crea
tures— love to frv the fat out of
them .
The fact th a t we are dependent
for power upon the work of God
within us, does not in any way les
son hum an responsibility, for every
m an can receive as much or as little
of the power of God as he desires,
for God is alw ays ready to do his
p a rt.—The C hristian Guide.
If we are so to tally dependent
upon God for the “ w orkings” within
us, we m ust be dependent upon
God for the “ desire” for this
“ power.” If God made us what
business had he to p lan t “ Jesireb”
for evil within us? W hat business
has a perfect God to do a botch job?
The Christian’s Threat.
“ He th at believeth not shall be
dam ned,” is the spontaneous la n
guage of absolute and savage ty
ranny. No man who respects his
neighbors could u tter it. It is the
language of a savage brute who will
frighten you if he can; and he would
frighten you because he has no ra
tional m eans of bringing you over
to his side. He cannot reason, he
will not try to convince you; he
does not understand the* meaning
of reason and con viction. He there
fore resorts to brute force in its
worst possible form, and sets up a
perpetual Reign of Terror by way
o f gaining adherent*.
Such was Jesus, such are his real
followers—th e m ost detestable of
all th a t is hum an and all th at is
legendary. The only person in the
case who ought to be dam ned is
the brute who utters the threat.
Jos. S ymes .
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