| Show COGITATIONS AT Nl TIlE THE HOSPITAL B By L. L A A. Hollenbeck Beginning September 21 1925 I Iwas Iwas Iwas was for for two months hs a patient In 11 the Holy Cross IIo Hospital at Salt Lake City and W went through two serious operations ns th the doctor having toMme told toM me 1110 that I I. I had not not notto to exceed ten lays z to live live without them Not J being JoinS smart enough to gam gamble lo on poker and not willing to lies bet e on horse races for fear Ceal the tile ards cards ards' are ue re st stacked ckel yet yeton yeton on a a business rif proposition l or l' l heath ca It particularly the Blatter wl where ele the the chances are principally my my way must take talco ch chance it for forr dl J. J my e the alj all C native t e 1 is Ull unbearable b e r J 10 self self-conr self i a f and faili J 11 A 4 man in a ato h rv 1 l Cf 4 n 1111 lids lid's i to 9 tIll tl s. s ic I Mi Mim m r he 3 M h 1 naj najt 3 t Ift a lute little gi bouc th tho thoS S gr eal t dl 1 hind and i t n iJ m m J case i 1 L Lna tl had na d l ito occasion ccaSi i t to change form Corm r f-r r T beliefs hi antl hil l convictions so EO sot far as j 1 jv was s z and while thinking in hinl t 1 the matter tt i I 1 composed th tho l fo following i lowing lowing Ing f fI d' d I sta stay or tn tirgo go Ith the J lor i knows which I If at the gatEt gate gat fit Bt Peter I shall find Ill I'll clasp his hand and wish him well and kindly plead with him hint And ask him to be good to all man man- kind Though belief mo may be the word pass disbelief is virtue too For it develops the e ep enquiring mind The Lord he knows l and I 1 know too No vengeance is permitted over there For youth ma may wildly wander and old age may blind blindly err It is because of no perfection here For youth is oft ort mistaken and old age is blundering too coo coo- A universal state fl from ln year tear to year j 1 IT i j Then let us be he assured of this That while were we're gaining Knowledge here on on earth That error is I's th the ba basis ls Tor discovery of the tr truth th And err error r. r is the cause cause of wisdoms wisdom's birth For whenever we find fint err error error r we wc also find Und some truth J Which fi findings are arc of or CUI fundamental dal l worth v r I 1 3 J. J f. f During Daring D my nu illness I hal hail a b bad li liI I hemorrhage and for for awhile awhile I 1 was vas I fairly in ill thc J alley of of the tile Shadow Shado It was stopped a and Id th the doctors in injected injected in- in Injected into m my blood vessels a quart Juan and a half haIr of salt water It is the theory of tho w evolutionists that all nIl life ife came from front salt water the water the sea and thus I I 1 have not the Hollenbeck blood any any more but but- butI I am crossed jack hack to a an million Ulion years or more with original al organisms long 1 before the time ime that I I was as a tadpole le and you iou were a a fish and hence I may play up cut-up some omo sono strange pranks and aull as super super- I played great great greal in ancient times imes may not wonder f if like Mark Marl Twain when what I I. I W down clown the the street and andam am about about to to meet a man that I 1 owe I will have Hit e e ea a a superstition on to pass pass over ner aver to the tiie other side f lc ot ot tl the o s street i d I One day the tho as as exa the incI incision where 1 was he u up p and he touched near t the J f soi oro e spot I t which had a a sUgg l' l u t I I hurting rt s l and ld ud d tho thoughtlessly SY i ti s if e 1 Ouch which ins has a a i violation j n ot t the rho old i saying Never cry C c y youre you're ure In hurt rt J and anti tile doctor t after an and in iri classic to mo language ll O t. t told td d nio mo tO that that t that didn't i 1 p rL l h ho hei didn't want want to hurt t me bi lt if I Imade made a fuss When licit I wasn't wasn-t 11 rt how hint r J t I was he going to know lwow w when cn I t tva was was I hurt It was elegantly and amid force forcefully fully said to which I made 11 no ri reply ilSy I Two vo or or three las days later lator c o r was in arum and several nurses wore cle i er C lher there a and aud d I said to the Von oi 1 ought t to leave have h heard amen e rd that 3 ro roast st that tho the doctor doctor gave me mo ten tuo e I other othel da day The doctor turned t to I the e nurse who ho W Wand had lead heard hoard it and au d said OlIo Ho deserved it H. H didn't h lid t to o which which I chipped Sure I de descry erv cd ed it It I 1 got Just wh what t was coming to me mc it ft was said in good class classic c English too and I rather enjoyed d It Tho The only thing timing I regretted was Avas a s that I I could not have hare handed that tha t roast to Shakespeare before h ho o wrote Hamlet for it if I could n no o dou doubt t he lie would have placed It St in In t that play and It ft would have gone gon e down In ill history as a choice bit o of oC f 7 T the greatest greatest s of oF li literature lit lit- in rhetoric et 9 legre t e that the th world or I ever cyer pr ed Of course course there r. r ivas was vas a good goot natured ll h and all ril was waG well 2 They say that that man man Is made In the thu th Image of his maker if it so o then If God be tho maker maler he h must have the same samo attributes faculties s and char char- c ar- ar as the iho mail man he made Then God besides being all things else must must be a great wit and rind humorist J He lie must look at some sone mens men's pr r- r t with with great grent sorrow and compa campa KS s 's slon 0 and then again to see sec some sonic t of ot the k self conceit egotism and peculiar 1 ands A P e liar antics that are arc are common common pony many peo- peo e pie must lust strike his r mm 80 ac of or humor l. l and I imagine r rl f y B-y Af e a that I Ib can can sec see Him rf tL g but out In the Ulc brush b u h contort co at tho the and il i rily a e cn Ii Wad unique fal- fal lies and r C ib lr J 1 a tract t- t s of J r men JI en 1 cant can't CV C 6 r h dint C r li ii any creed n 1 lr 1 7 b hartt edah and a nd Budd- Budd t k 1 us look 00 r 1 r Ill u 51 v to IQ hl him an and themAn the mAn nian an wh i W 14 ed is n not m t 1 wound bound o c and an has h s notis not tf b 1 r is s reason r ason to any aily aJ Y c cec eed but is iser ise leg opel f 4 f Tto to t investigate n and an er e i l' l thing and ail is willing to go go ver tho th pursuit of oc of tr truth lIl with with WIn l all au u l. l reason may may lead ea him 1 Is tho the th greatest greatest cst nobleman l of i them all for freedom of f the tho mind intelligence and aud l simplicity fC re the greatest tC vl virtue lu To this this' I t may also add acid industry i n for tor it t is i only the tho f lt d ts th that l fan Can n hope to io soar in inthis this w il rl l. l t. t V. V I 1 I I I J t I I I Many people 1 Relieve believe that a manlas man 7 lias h las as a a. guardian angel and amid when the Lord ord is ready to call a man he withdraws withdraws withdraws with with- draws the guardian and that mansoon mansoon man soon oon meets his its fate I J. dont don't deny it i I dont don't know I Well VeU Im I'm not ot boasting at all aU but an anyway ay It seems seems that the guardian angel Is still with mc me or at least I Iwas was as ivas permitted to return from the hospital Of course if if- the thc Lord has jurisdiction in the thc matter th the sug- sug g estion comes that perhaps he has I s some ome use for mo pie yet et You know I 1 have been writing editorials for Cor some papers and expressing myself pretty freely Creeh about religious p cal social and business follies Collies re regardless regardless regardless re- re of or customs political parties partie ot or religious creeds I have seen times when I 1 wished a Republican 1 writer would a a. a particular r Democratic friend of mine because I I Iwas was so close to him hint that I Could not do it and amid it should ld have havo been t done Such conditions happen halpen i In Inthe inthe t 1 the church and in iii secret societies s as well as as as' in political parties where e a brother would be greatly gratified grab fled fied it if an O outsider would criticise the thc wayward brother No doubt doub t that a a. critic of that kind would havethe have hav havethe e the approbation of a real God wh who eo o would recognize the need of or a little e chastisement That critic might b be e called a Fool killer Fool and I have hav e wondered if that may have been why I was permitted to return and caul i iso IE If IEso so so I will end endeavor to execute th the thc e duties of or my office w with th fidelity and andI and amI andI amII I will have o to agree with that eminent eminent emi emi- J nent western historian Levi Edgar Edga r Young that he Is more afraid o of or f lawmakers ers than il he i is o of ers That is an epigram by a philosopher philosopher pher as well as an historian and 1 have often wondered If f ho ha had th tIle the e law particularly in In mind min d when he hc said it j I In the the end of lit life UCe j tho individual is told tola that he lie mus must t I believe certain In doctrines But belief be be- lief is a matter that should be bc controlled conI controlled con con- trolled trolled I not by by the tho fear fea of oC punishment punishment punish punish- ment or gration d It if he does not behove bc bo- hove but but t by a free and l untrammeled l ed reason that weighs ei and considers consid ers and if ir he lie follows that reason n to the best of his ability and anel com con commits mits an error he le is even cven then greats greats- great er or than tho the man man who comes to a aright i right conclusion conclusion through through a D blind l belief who hag UI repudiated or 01 dwarfed dwarf dwarf- ed his reason reason The Tho former w was wasI was gron growing iu while hUe tho the latter was as co t l- l tri trading If It g God th the rep r rca rca- n 1 soiling faculty and amid m el I wo would l punish 5 man mall for 01 an an error of or ft It t df titan then that God would repudiate o I his own wor work k and punish the than roan because h ho himself l u tailed failed failed to give trio plan man n 1 better hetter reasoning faculty lint But t 1 tl to office of th the tho reasoning faculty acuity Is no not notI tot t to bo absolutely u tob accurate I r for l' l t to reason implies u s the right rig to cri and while a man is reasoning he js als also o g growing owing whether his his' conclusions b bo boright e right or wrong but if it ho grows he h e I must must not tie tie his hh to an oily aay creed cree d assuming that creed to be bea a r fact fac ct t investigation for tOl regardless 33 of how sh strong a man may Wray believe a II creed if it the creed be wrong all anti and l it ithe be lie assumed as truth then hen the th nna man mani n is i ip alwa always s and mid is ii i wrong there i. i i no re reward rew re- re w yard ward ld fen fell any l man an to b be wrong 11 un- un t- t less ho 1110 be b wrong wrong becat because ni of a fre free te e use of the reason in which case h hei ho he hois e ee i is gro growing ying lO right ing-right right or wrong a i ia 13 3 ever to receive t time tho 1 truth Therefore the reason should over over b bo bu tree free to question all statements whatever what ever over without any fear Cear e that Is the thc hl highest hest state of or m men man an and d of the human mind |
