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THROUGH A SPECTRUM.
Xot since Col. Ingersoll lectured at
tbo Lansing has the Lincoln public been
permitted to listen to so vigorous, so
complacent, and withal so harmless a
damning of spiritual motive and the
doctrine of the hereafter as has been
presented to Courier readers in recent
issues over the signature of II. E. New
branch. Very few people nowadays, except
university students taking the first
semester's work in the department of
philosophy, have had sufficient experi
ence or mental training to think out the
correct conclusions in these matters of
metaphysics, or the temerity, to go into
print, that we may all understand even
as they do. The ease and precision with
which some undergraduates can dash off
a criticism of Browning, horseflesh, eco
nomics, religion, anything at all; and
their willingness to settle any dis
puted question and to tell all about it,
gratis, whether they know or not,
these qualities have been so persisently
obtrusive in isolated cases that the re
sult has been to discredit college stu
dents as a class. In these isolated cases
the willingness to tell is always inverse
ly as the ability.
It is not because of a fear that with
Col. Ingersoll on the platform and Mr.
Newbraiich on the press the spiritual
foundations of Lincoln society are in
danger of being shaken that I make
these comments. But the very authori
tative and conclusive manner in which
he makes his statement? indicates a pos
sible reliance upon some head older,
"" though perhaps smaller, than his own.
And because he has set forth his disser
tation in the phraseology of the psych
ology class room of the university, and
because the general tone of his articles
strongly indicates that one of those iso
lated cases is loose in our midst.it might
be taken for granted that Mr. New
branch is stating the doctrine just as
he gets it at school, that he is simply
telling what he has been taught. I wish
to file this protest against any such im
pression getting abroad and against the
isolated case being allowed to brand the
student body.
It beems that Mr. Newbranch cannot
conscientiously lend his support to the
Christain religion because it does not
put an immediate stop to the Armenian
outrages; because it does not stamp
soulless corporations out of existence;
because it does not take away from men's
hearts all evil thoughts, and all evil
deeds from their lives. In other words,
the Christian religion is here and is said
to be a good thing; these other things
are here also and w all know them to
be bad things, the two are inconsistent,
and therefore, says Mr. Newbranch, the
Christian religion must go! I wish this
master Iogicion might have been one of
the "twenty million worshippers at the
shrine of the Prince of Peace" he speaks
of so eloquently, which, being inter
preted, I wish he might have gone to
church a Sunday or two ago and heard
a 6crmon from a local pulpit on the
elownesft of Providence. The text was
something about one day being as a
thousand years and a thousand years as
one day. On the latter basis and upon
the very bold hypothesis that Mr. New
branch is twenty years of age and that
he has thought about these things seri
ously for three years, his individual ex
istence, mind and all, would be good for
about three minutes in the Divine
scheme. The preucher showed how God
muveu deliberately in physical, intel
lectual and spiritual development. What
has become of Mr. Newbranch's evolu
tion? He talks evolution strong in his
prose-pastsl on the child-organism, trac
ing its development through youth and
manhood to decay and death. But he
doesn't mix any evolution with his ideas
on religion, not he, because it won't mix
with what ho has found, confidentially,
to be tho real truth of the whole matter.
Here is his position: The first cause has
spent millions of years in getting this
earth and its inhabitants into tho pres
ent stage of evolution; organic matter
has evolved from the simple to the com
plex, man from the savage stato into an
intellectual civilization; we have not yet
reached what we know to bo a higher
and more perfect development; but here
in this generation in which we live the
first cause withdraws itself, stops; evolu
lution stops, wo are the highest and the
best; evolution has completed its work,
it must be so; why? simply because
this generation has the honor of co-existence
with H.E. Newbranch, who de
clines to admit the utility of furtherde
velopment or to conceive of any divine
purpose beyond the twentieth century!
Where is the evolution there? Where
is the logic? What is that, anyway? Is
it profound conceit or a diseased imagi
nation or what? Certainly it is not
taught at the University of Nebraska.
The trouble is, probably, that Mr. New
branch first got his theory of evolution
all right, -which same theory many con
temporary headlights of Mr. Newbranch
seem to have also. And so he wrote of
the development of the child-organism.
Then, after taking the rudiments of
psychology, he hit upon the real truth
in this little matter of the Christian re
ligion. He concluded the Christian re
ligion would hardly fill the bill and so
he tacked on the peroration about the
house of blocks.
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Tho last division of thesymphony was
a very life-like sketch of a rough, dissi
pated fathet with his innocent little
boy. Mr. Newbranch sees, in the boy's
personal appearance, the loving mother
in the background. He tells how very
tender the father is with tho boy as they
sit awaiting their turn. There seems to
me to be a great deal in this little des
cription that does not fit into the house
of blocks. When Mr. Newbrapch falls
upon that house with his smashing-iron
I wonder where he will reach in to get
at the "continuity of the states of con
sciousness' that went to make up the
father's tenderness and the mental pic
ture of the loving mother in the back
ground? T. E. WING.
Notice of foreclosure of chattel mort
gage by sale of mortgaged property.
Whereas, on the IGth day of De
cember, 1895, H. R, Nissley &. Co., exe
cuted and delivered to Amos R. Niss
ley a certain chattel mortgage and
which mortgage was on the IGth day
ot December, 1895, duly filed of record
in the county clerk's office of Lancaster
county, Nebraska, and which mortgage
was given to secure the payment of a
promissory note executed at Lincoln,
Nebraska, on the 16th day of De
cember, 1895, for the sum of 812,510,09,
due on demand with interest at the
rate of 8 per cent per annum, from date
thereof and which note was signed by
H. R. Nissley & Co., and payable to the
order of Amos R- Nissley who being
still the owner and holder of said note
and demand having been made and
payment refused and default having
been made in the payment thereof, as
well as in the conditions and covenants
in said mortgage and there now being
due and owing on said note from said
H. R. Nissley & Co., to said Amos R.
Nissley the sum of 82510.09, together
with interest thereon at Jthe rate of 8
per cent por annum from the 16th day
of December, 1895. and by said chattel
mortgage the said H. R. Nissley fc Co.,
conveyed to the said Amos R. Nissley all
the stock of dress goods, dry goods,
linens, domestics, flannels, blankets,
underwear, yarns, cloaks and all cotton
and wollen piece goods, and all goods,
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contained on the east half and side of
the store rooms occupied by said firm
at 1023 and J028 O street in the city of
Lincoln, Lancaster county, Nebraska.
Also all boots, shoes, rubber goods and
foot wear and ulsoall groceries of every
kind, nature and description and all
grocery sundries, wares and merchan
dise situated and contained in the
6tore rooms aforesaid. Alto all books
and books of accounts as shown bv the
firm books, and all goods wares, mer
chandise and personal property situated
and contained in the basement under
said store rooms composed of dry goods,
groceries, merchandise, etc.. together
vith the iron safe and all office furni
ture, fixtures, chairs, cash carrier sys
tem in said store rooms and all fixtures,
counters, shelving in said store rooms.
And, Whereas, on the 15th day of Oc
tober, 1893, said H. R. Nissley & Co. ex
ecuted and delivered to the American
Exchange National bank of Lincoln, Ne
braska, a chattel mortgage which was
duly filed of record In the office of the
county clerk of Lancaster county. Ne
braska, on the 17th day of December,
1895, and which mortgage was given to
secure the payment of three promissory
notes, together with all drafts for mon
ey advanced or that might be advanced,
all In the sum of $11,000. one of which
notes for $4,000. was due and payable
December 10th. 1895: one for $4,000, paya
ble December 15th, 1895, and one note for
$1,000, payable November 26th. 1895. with
Interest thereon at the rate of ten per
cent per annum from the maturity of
each note and all thereof signed by the
said H. R. Nissley & Company and pay
able to the order of the said American
Exchange National bank, and on the
21st day of December, 1893, the said
American National bank sold. Indorsed
and delivered said notes and assigned
said mortgage to the said Amos R.
Nissley, who is now the owner and
holder of each one of said notes as well
as said mortgage and each one of said
notes being due and having demanded
payment of each one of said notes, the
same being refused by the said H. R.
Nissley & Company, and default hav
ing been made in the payment thereof
and the conditions therein having been
broken and there now being due and
owing on said notes to said Amos R.
Nissley from said II. R. Nissley & Com
pany the sum of $6,075, together with
interest thereon at the rate of ten per
cent per annum, from the maturity of
each one of said notes, and by said chat
tel mortgage the said H. R. Nissley &
Company thereby conveyed to the said
American Exchange National bank all
of the stock of dry goods, merchandise
and personal property above described
and all the goods they were the owners
of, situated in the basement and store
rooms above named, together with all
their books and books of accounts and
all property contained in said store
rooms. And there having been no suit
or proceedings instituted at law to re
cover the debt remaining secured by
said mortgages or either one of them or
any part thereof. And the s"aid Amos
R. Nissley being now the owner and
holder of said mortgages and each and
every one of said notes named in each
of them, he will offer all of said personal
property above described and in said
mortgages contained, for sale, for cash,
at public sale at the hour of ten o'clock
a. m. at the store rooms aforesaid on
the 13th day of January. 1896.
AMOS R. NISSLEY.
By Burr & Burr, His Attorneys.
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