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The Commoner.
MAY 21, 1909
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Just a Few Thoughts
And so, Rinaldo, you don't take
any stock in what you call those
"religious myths." You are too wise
and too knowledgeous to be caught
by those old wives' fables. You are
not going to accept anything you
can not understand.
All right, Rinaldo. Wo know just
how you feel about it. Something
like thirty or thirty-five years ago
we knew almost as much as you
know now. And we wouldn't be
lieve any such stuff as that then.
Good enough, it was, for the simple
minded, but they had to show us.
You know a whole lot now, Rin
aldo; a whole lot more than you
will know twenty-five or thirty years
from now, if you live that long. And
by -that time you will not be so in
sistent on having the ocular, visible
proof submitted. Then you will take
a great many things for granted.
But you want the proof, eh? Well,
so do we.
By the way, did you ever see a
watermelon seed? Of course. Well,
will you kindly explain how that lit
tle black seed can produce the big
melon with ita.lucious core of red,
rlts cushion of white and its skin of
green, together . with a few hundred
more black seeds like itself? Where
is the green in that ripe seed? How
does the growing melon draw red
heart and white rine and green skin
from the black earth and the white
Tain? When you tell us that we'll
take a few minutes off and explain
.to your satisfaction a whole lot of
those "religious myths" that do not
now appeal to your youthful knowledge.
A few years, ago, Rinaldo, we
strutted around with a head so full
of knowledge that it made us walk
Jop-sided. We had many a quiet
laugh at those deluded old folks who
had an abiding faith in a lot of
things that appear to you to be noth
ing but foolish superstition. All of
us boys- go through that sort of
thing.- But you'll get over it if you
live long enough.
Some of these days, dear boy, you
are going to be called upon to stand
by the side of some loved one who
has spent a lifetime in that abiding
faith. And when you see that loved
one walking down into the Valley
of the Shadow with never a qualm
of fear, and with a face illumined by
a smile of joy then is when you
are going to receive a rough jolt
in your philosophy department. You
insist upon having everything ex
plained to you, but when you go
through that experience you'll be
content to accept somethings without
the explanation. .
Won't believe anything you can
not see, eh? Humph! We've never
seen your brains, Rinaldo, but we
are not going to insist upon that fact
as being proof that you are mentally
deficient. We know better. We
know better. Wo know you have got
brains. And some of these days you
are going to give those brains a
chance to assert' themselves and
then you are not going, to be so cock
sure of all these things. You are
going to take all you can on reason,
and the rest on faith.
Yes, we heard you say, Rinaldo,
that the Bible tfas poor reading. But
that was because you never read it.
Or if you did, you "did not read it in
the proper spirit. Wo used to be
just like you, my boy. But that
was some years ago. Now, when wo
want to read a war story we know
to a' certainty that wo can find none
more thrilling than the war stories
in the Old Book. There is Gideon,
for instance. As a warrior he was
what boys of today would call a
"beaut." And Joshua ah, there was
a general who knew a thing or two
about strategy. And David was the
possessor of some knowledge along
military lines, thank you.
And love stories say, Rinaldo,
did you ever read the story of Ruth
and Boaz? Or the story of Jacob's
love affair? Don't talk to your old
uncle about Jaura Lean Jibbey, or
Bertha M. Mudd. They never could
have framed up as fine a plot as that
revealed in the concise story of
Jacob's little love affair with Rachel
and the subsequent battle of wits be
tween Jacob and his father-in-law,
Laban.
Political stories? Now we've got
it for you, Rinaldo. When wo want
to road a masterpiece of political lit
erature we turn to the book of
Esther and read how that Esther
thwarted the political schemes of
Haaman and put her own favorites
in the place of authority. A lot of
much-touted political manipulators
of modern times would have to go
some to keep up with that little
Jewess.
O, yes; you are about the age
when you like poetry, eh? Well,"
when you can dig up something in
tho poetic line that has the edge on
the poems of that Hebrew shepherd
king, David, we'll admit that we are
a bit mistaken in our judgment that
David swept with poetic fingers the
entire gamut of human emotions. In
the glorious sweep of his divine har
monies he parted tho clouds of
doubts and fears and let in upon
mankind the glorious gleams of the
Almighty's smiles. You never read
real poetry, Rinaldo, unless you have
read the Psalms of David.
Perhaps' your mind runs tothe
dramatic, Rinaldo. Well, yo-i'll find
the best there is in the Old Book.
Just read Isaiah. Augustus Thomas
and Daniel Frohman and all the rest
of the modern dramatists, could get
pointers from that wonderful book
and they have, too.
Or, perhaps, you are of a higal
turn of mind. Ezekial has given a
lot of valuable pointers to tho crim
inal lawyer, and the greatest law
pleading recorded in history is that
of Paul in his own defense before
Agrippa.
Some of these long summer even
ings, Rinaldo, when ypu haven't any
thing else to do, and you feel blaze
and out of touch with things In gen
eral, just sit down In the quiet of
your own room, take up the Old
Book, and opening it almost any-,
where just start in and read. You'll
be surprised how interesting it is and
when you have read awhile, you'll
find your mind clearer, and your
heart cleaner and blood running
freer. Then you can turn into your
little bed and get such a night's
sleep as never came to the young
"sport" who took in the town and
painted things ermine In the exuber
ance of youthful joy. We know what
wo are talking about, Rinaldo. Your
uncle has been through the mill.
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