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Corn, Wine And Oil.
tho study of those things , and , by disseminating the knowledge thus acquired , please and interest their fellow men . The desire to acquire knowledge of the past is not the outgrowth of civilization , nor of trained and educated
thought , but is one of man ' s natural propensities , an innate qualify . Tho untutored Indian listens to tho legends of his people , as told by the fathers of his tribe , with as deep an interest as ever was manifested by the
scholar in rending the pages of the historian . But while tho propensity is natural , educated thought and the energies of civilization havo directed and developed it . so that man , not satisfied with the knowledgo that logonds
and authentic history have furnished him , has supplemented history , and gono boyond it , to seizo with avidity such scraps of information as could be obtained from a minute examination of the surface and bowels of the earth
Time and money have been lavishly expended in searching among the alluvial deposits of the earth , among the caves and crevices of the iocks , and among the tombs of
the long-forgotten dead , for arms , implements , ornaments and inscriptions which have defied the ravages of time , and remain to us silent , grim , but true exponents of the oharacter and habits-of our remote ancestors .
The archaeologist , with untiring industry , has delved in tho peat-beds and shell-mounds of Denmark , the lake beds of Switzerland , upon whose surface the ancient
lakedwellers once built their huts ; the alluvial deposits of the Mississippi and the Nile , the lime-stone formations of England , Wales and other parts of Europe , and in all places , no matter how difficult of access , provided relics of the people who inhabited this globe in prehistoric ages could be discovered .
And such has been the zeal and intelligence with which these men of science have pursued their investigations , that we are not without a very considerable knowledge of our remote ancestors of the so-called Stone Age , when all the
arms and implements used for cutting , then possessed by man , were made of stone . From a knowledge that this propensity , which is a part of our being , must descend
from us to our remotest posterity , has come the idea of treasuring up in some safe and secure place memorials of the present for the benefit of futme ages .
This is a beautiful and generous custom , and may result in great good to the human family . True , this generation abounds in works of history and general literature , but thej give only genpral knowledgo of the customs and habits of
the people , and contain little or none of that local history so enchanting to the residents of every locality . It is such memorials as have to-day been deposited , which will
tell tho future generations more of the daily life of the present inhabitants of Estherville than they will obtain from any other source .
Who can tell how many years shall have rolled away before the little casket which we havo to-day deposited shall again see the light ; what eager eyes shall search its
contents , for knowledgo of tho daily life of the presont inhabitants of yonr city , which it contains ; what hearts will thrill with gratitude to those whose generous act has left them this message from the dead and buried past ?
Could we , with prophetic oye , but rend the veil of futurity , and , gazing down the long vista of future years , behold this spot , when all-destroying time shall havo caused these walls of solid Masonry to crumblo and decay , and
that stone to fall from its place and expose to view the treasuro hidden there , what wonders might greet our prophetic vision ! We might behold a great , prosperous metropolis , a centre of commerce , throbbing with the
bustle and activity of a great city ; its streets thronged with eager thousands , hurrying to this spot to catch a glimpsrs of tho wonderful relic of antiquity . And we might behold , where now stands this fair city , but a mass
of unsightly ruins , whore now stretches away , as far as the eye can reach , fertile fields green with summer verdure , naught but barren desert waste , with no sound to break the awful , eternal silenco . Improbablo as this may seem
its possibility will be admitted when wo recall Babylon and Nineveh , and the fertile fields that exhausted nature has permitted to become barren deserts . It may bo well for us that we do not know what that scene would be , else might
its darkness and gloom fall upon us to-day like a pall . But as we havo buried these memorials in darkness , with love and faith let us indulge tho hope that they will again
be brought to light by thoso whose hearts will throb with gratitude to those whose generosity and forethought has placed them there .
Corn, Wine And Oil.
Tho " cornoi' -stono" has frequently been referred to metaphorically by orators and writers as a symbol of strength and endurance . Without it the building would
be incomplete . No matter how perfect the superstructure in both design and execution , without the foundation , tho corner-stone , it cannot endure .
That which the corner-stone is to the building , character is to the man . Without that foundation to build upon , his labours are all in vain . He may possess a mind whose comprehensive grasp can reach out after and seizo upon lofty
and novel ideas , which can readily discover tho fallacies in the most subtle logic , oxploro tho mysteries of nature , and hold communion with tho savants of all ages and all
countries ; but without charactor ho is imperfect and incomplete , a building without a corner-stone , without strength to withstand the storms of adversity or tho allurements of vice . Henco to attain success in life wo
must have character . Whatever attainments we may possess ourselves of , without character we have nothing . Admitting , then , that character is a thing to bo desired , is it a thing to bo
acquired ? Are our spiritual beings modelled , formed and furnished by the hand of the Supreme Architect ? A re wo given irresistible inclinations towards good or
evil ? Aro wo in our moral natures but tho result of natural causes ? That many facts can bo produced tending to prove the affirmativo of this proposition I will not deny . We know there are races of thieves , and that the
propensities to defy law and commit crime havo boon transmitted from father to son for generation after generation . On the other hand , we know that high moral qualities found in an individual can be readily traced
through a long line of ancestors noted for honesty and integrity . But these facts only tend to prove the affirmative of the proposition ; they are not conclusive evidence that it is correct . On the other hand we have at least
occasional examples of individuals breaking away from tho good or bad tendencies which they have inherited , and the worthy individual blushing with shame for a debased parentage , and the moral leper raising his disgraced head
to point with pride to a long line of worthy and honoured ancestors . We do not inherit our moral natures , but only our moral tendencies . The son of a thief is not necessarily a thief , nor the son of an honest man honest . Tho one
may find in his moral nature a tendency to commit crime , but this ho may resist and overcome , and by continual resisting finally eradicate . The other , by continual
Yielding to temptation , soon finds his moral nature changed , and his natural tendency to choose good rather than evil is entirely destroyed .
But in addition to the evidence that man has the power to form his own moral character , to bo found in our observations of the lives of others , we havo the most convincing proof in our consciences of tho power within us to
regulate , govern , and form our moral natures . We know in our own experiences that a temptation resisted ceases to be a temptation , and that a duty , the performance of which at first requires self-denial , eventually becomes a ploasnre .
But while the Supreme Builder has not , furnished us with a complete spiritual building , ho has furnished us with tho plans and specifications , and the material with which to build , and having done that has left us tho choice to build
as wo will . True , some have been furnished with more and better materials than others , and may thus be able to erect an edifice whose towering beauty , strength , and symmetry
may be vastly superior to those which surround it , but all are given matorial of quality and quantity sufficient to enable them to erect their superstructures in accordance with the Divine plan .
If tho work be well done , if character , the corner-stone be well laid , if tho material in hand be put to the best possible use , if such adornments and ornamentations as tho specifications call for havo been carefully and properly
affixed , if the opportunities for acquiring knowledge , such as they are , have been improved , then , although the spiritual edifice which we have been able to orcct may be plain and humble in comparison with others , it will none tho less
reflect credit on the builder , and will always possess some points of strength and beauty to call forth the admiration of the beholder . As thero are different orders of architecture adopted in the erection of edifices by man , so the
Supreme Architect of tho Universe has not designed all men upon the same plan . But while the order of architecture after which wo are formed may be that of Tuscany , simple and solid , rather than the graee , beauty , and strength
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Corn, Wine And Oil.
tho study of those things , and , by disseminating the knowledge thus acquired , please and interest their fellow men . The desire to acquire knowledge of the past is not the outgrowth of civilization , nor of trained and educated
thought , but is one of man ' s natural propensities , an innate qualify . Tho untutored Indian listens to tho legends of his people , as told by the fathers of his tribe , with as deep an interest as ever was manifested by the
scholar in rending the pages of the historian . But while tho propensity is natural , educated thought and the energies of civilization havo directed and developed it . so that man , not satisfied with the knowledgo that logonds
and authentic history have furnished him , has supplemented history , and gono boyond it , to seizo with avidity such scraps of information as could be obtained from a minute examination of the surface and bowels of the earth
Time and money have been lavishly expended in searching among the alluvial deposits of the earth , among the caves and crevices of the iocks , and among the tombs of
the long-forgotten dead , for arms , implements , ornaments and inscriptions which have defied the ravages of time , and remain to us silent , grim , but true exponents of the oharacter and habits-of our remote ancestors .
The archaeologist , with untiring industry , has delved in tho peat-beds and shell-mounds of Denmark , the lake beds of Switzerland , upon whose surface the ancient
lakedwellers once built their huts ; the alluvial deposits of the Mississippi and the Nile , the lime-stone formations of England , Wales and other parts of Europe , and in all places , no matter how difficult of access , provided relics of the people who inhabited this globe in prehistoric ages could be discovered .
And such has been the zeal and intelligence with which these men of science have pursued their investigations , that we are not without a very considerable knowledge of our remote ancestors of the so-called Stone Age , when all the
arms and implements used for cutting , then possessed by man , were made of stone . From a knowledge that this propensity , which is a part of our being , must descend
from us to our remotest posterity , has come the idea of treasuring up in some safe and secure place memorials of the present for the benefit of futme ages .
This is a beautiful and generous custom , and may result in great good to the human family . True , this generation abounds in works of history and general literature , but thej give only genpral knowledgo of the customs and habits of
the people , and contain little or none of that local history so enchanting to the residents of every locality . It is such memorials as have to-day been deposited , which will
tell tho future generations more of the daily life of the present inhabitants of Estherville than they will obtain from any other source .
Who can tell how many years shall have rolled away before the little casket which we havo to-day deposited shall again see the light ; what eager eyes shall search its
contents , for knowledgo of tho daily life of the presont inhabitants of yonr city , which it contains ; what hearts will thrill with gratitude to those whose generous act has left them this message from the dead and buried past ?
Could we , with prophetic oye , but rend the veil of futurity , and , gazing down the long vista of future years , behold this spot , when all-destroying time shall havo caused these walls of solid Masonry to crumblo and decay , and
that stone to fall from its place and expose to view the treasuro hidden there , what wonders might greet our prophetic vision ! We might behold a great , prosperous metropolis , a centre of commerce , throbbing with the
bustle and activity of a great city ; its streets thronged with eager thousands , hurrying to this spot to catch a glimpsrs of tho wonderful relic of antiquity . And we might behold , where now stands this fair city , but a mass
of unsightly ruins , whore now stretches away , as far as the eye can reach , fertile fields green with summer verdure , naught but barren desert waste , with no sound to break the awful , eternal silenco . Improbablo as this may seem
its possibility will be admitted when wo recall Babylon and Nineveh , and the fertile fields that exhausted nature has permitted to become barren deserts . It may bo well for us that we do not know what that scene would be , else might
its darkness and gloom fall upon us to-day like a pall . But as we havo buried these memorials in darkness , with love and faith let us indulge tho hope that they will again
be brought to light by thoso whose hearts will throb with gratitude to those whose generosity and forethought has placed them there .
Corn, Wine And Oil.
Tho " cornoi' -stono" has frequently been referred to metaphorically by orators and writers as a symbol of strength and endurance . Without it the building would
be incomplete . No matter how perfect the superstructure in both design and execution , without the foundation , tho corner-stone , it cannot endure .
That which the corner-stone is to the building , character is to the man . Without that foundation to build upon , his labours are all in vain . He may possess a mind whose comprehensive grasp can reach out after and seizo upon lofty
and novel ideas , which can readily discover tho fallacies in the most subtle logic , oxploro tho mysteries of nature , and hold communion with tho savants of all ages and all
countries ; but without charactor ho is imperfect and incomplete , a building without a corner-stone , without strength to withstand the storms of adversity or tho allurements of vice . Henco to attain success in life wo
must have character . Whatever attainments we may possess ourselves of , without character we have nothing . Admitting , then , that character is a thing to bo desired , is it a thing to bo
acquired ? Are our spiritual beings modelled , formed and furnished by the hand of the Supreme Architect ? A re wo given irresistible inclinations towards good or
evil ? Aro wo in our moral natures but tho result of natural causes ? That many facts can bo produced tending to prove the affirmativo of this proposition I will not deny . We know there are races of thieves , and that the
propensities to defy law and commit crime havo boon transmitted from father to son for generation after generation . On the other hand , we know that high moral qualities found in an individual can be readily traced
through a long line of ancestors noted for honesty and integrity . But these facts only tend to prove the affirmative of the proposition ; they are not conclusive evidence that it is correct . On the other hand we have at least
occasional examples of individuals breaking away from tho good or bad tendencies which they have inherited , and the worthy individual blushing with shame for a debased parentage , and the moral leper raising his disgraced head
to point with pride to a long line of worthy and honoured ancestors . We do not inherit our moral natures , but only our moral tendencies . The son of a thief is not necessarily a thief , nor the son of an honest man honest . Tho one
may find in his moral nature a tendency to commit crime , but this ho may resist and overcome , and by continual resisting finally eradicate . The other , by continual
Yielding to temptation , soon finds his moral nature changed , and his natural tendency to choose good rather than evil is entirely destroyed .
But in addition to the evidence that man has the power to form his own moral character , to bo found in our observations of the lives of others , we havo the most convincing proof in our consciences of tho power within us to
regulate , govern , and form our moral natures . We know in our own experiences that a temptation resisted ceases to be a temptation , and that a duty , the performance of which at first requires self-denial , eventually becomes a ploasnre .
But while the Supreme Builder has not , furnished us with a complete spiritual building , ho has furnished us with tho plans and specifications , and the material with which to build , and having done that has left us tho choice to build
as wo will . True , some have been furnished with more and better materials than others , and may thus be able to erect an edifice whose towering beauty , strength , and symmetry
may be vastly superior to those which surround it , but all are given matorial of quality and quantity sufficient to enable them to erect their superstructures in accordance with the Divine plan .
If tho work be well done , if character , the corner-stone be well laid , if tho material in hand be put to the best possible use , if such adornments and ornamentations as tho specifications call for havo been carefully and properly
affixed , if the opportunities for acquiring knowledge , such as they are , have been improved , then , although the spiritual edifice which we have been able to orcct may be plain and humble in comparison with others , it will none tho less
reflect credit on the builder , and will always possess some points of strength and beauty to call forth the admiration of the beholder . As thero are different orders of architecture adopted in the erection of edifices by man , so the
Supreme Architect of tho Universe has not designed all men upon the same plan . But while the order of architecture after which wo are formed may be that of Tuscany , simple and solid , rather than the graee , beauty , and strength