NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
15 
RANDOM THOUGHTS. 
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By D. F. Lamson. 
LI. 
Humorists have their mission, 
presumably, to their fellow men; 
though the end of their mirth is too 
often heaviness, from Sterne and 
Tom Hood to the latest purveyor 
to frivolity and laughter. 
March weather is proverbially 
changeable and full of contrasts ; 
and so is human nature often, but 
we must get on as best we can with 
both, until we have something bet- 
ter; and when we once make up our 
minds to make the best of evils that 
can’t be cured they lose much of 
their evil to us, their sting and bit- 
terness are taken away. 
How often we hear people say, in 
a pleasant spell of weather, well, 
we shall have something to make up 
for this; how much better to say, 
we will enjoy this anyway while 
it lasts, whatever discomfort the 
future may have for us; dreading 
possible evils never prepares us to 
bear them. 
One of the neatest and wittiest 
rejoinders was that of old Dr. Bel- 
lamy, a Puritan parson of Connecti- 
cut, to a young upstart who asked 
him flippantly if he thought he had 
any religion; the Doctor quietly re- 
plying, ‘‘None to speak of.’’ This 
was answering a fool according to 
his folly. But, while not choosing 
to throw pearls before scoffers and 
ignoramuses, one must not shrink 
from an avowal on all proper occa- 
sions of his convictions and beliefs. 
Dr. B. would have been one of the 
last to do this. 
According to report, one who oc- 
cupies the place of a religious teach- 
er said lately in the pulpit, ‘‘What 
is fear? Fear is love.’’ This state- 
ment, without qualification, is rath- 
er startling at least; it seems to con- 
found things that differ. But peo- 
ple evidently do not care much for 
clearness in the utterances of the 
pulpit; they prefer a certain degree 
of mist and kazincss to the clear- 
eut distinctions of an Edwards or a 
Park. Congregatiozs are fed large- 
ly on a dict of intellectual and spirit- 
ual mush, and many are getting so 
that they rather like it. But it is 
a little discouraging when our teach- 
ers mix things so. 
When will public speakers and 
debaters learn to recognize the 
truth that there may be in an op- 
JOHN xii: 24, 25. Rom. vi: 11, 1 Cor. xv: 36. 
Except the corn of wheat fall to the ground, 
And in the earth’s dark bosom buried lie, 
It doth abide alone. Except it die 
And rise again, no fruitage shall be found. 
So lose we life that life may more abound. 
Lord, teach my lowly heart this lesson high, 
That when in death shall close my mortal eye, 
I shall with life, immortal life, be crowned. 
And teach me, too, this lesson day by day— 
To die to self and live henceforth to thee; 
Yea, I will count myself as dead to sin, 
If so to resurrected life I may 
Arise at length from sin’s dominion free, 
And over death and hell the victory win. 
ponent’s views and position? The 
old story of the gold and_ silver 
shield has its lesson still for dis- 
putants and wranglers. 
The old is not always better or 
worse for being old, as the new is 
not always better or worse for be- 
ing new; yet there is an advantage 
sometimes in a thing being tested 
and proved, as there is often some- 
thing in its being novel and fresh. 
The glories of knighthood of the 
days of Guy of Warwick, Sir Henry 
Bohun and Lord Marmion, have 
long ago vanished in the haze of 
romance; but we have with us the 
knights of a better era, the knights 
of the ocean and the Labrador ice- 
floes, of the jungle and the slums, 
of Cherry-mine disasters and of 
avalanche wrecks, worthy of the 
Templar’s fame or Sidney’s plume 
of snow. 
Short of E$$e$. 
Wonder if any of our Dedham 
and vicinity people have ever re- 
ceived a letter like this: ‘‘Dear $ir: 
You will pleage excu$e thif but I 
am sorry to $ay that the letter $ i$ 
mis¢ing from  thi$ typewriter, 
wherea$ I cannot do better. I with 
to $ay, however, that if you $hould 
Resurrection 
J. A. TORREY. 
happen down $treet $oon I would 
congidered it a favor if you would 
$top in and $ee u$ about a certain 
$mall matter that $hould be $ettled. 
Your $incere $ervant, ete.’’—Ded- 
ham Transcript. 
Congressman Gardner has been 
much in the limelight in the fight 
which resulted in the freeing of the 
house of representatives from Can- 
non’s ezar-like ruling. The Hssex 
county congressman has won a place 
among the country’s progressive 
leaders and has brought fame to his 
home district and elation to his 
friends on his showing. The Bey- 
erly speech of Capt. Gardner show- 
ed that he had a pretty good idea 
of the feeling of the members of 
congress and things have come out 
much -as he _ predicted.—Beverly 
Times. 
The simple word ‘‘hash’’ covers 
a multitude of things we know noth- 
ing about and assures us that when 
ignorance is bliss ’tis folly to be 
wise. 
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