| Show editorials As a boomerang the following toI loTring article pl written by james K knudson son of 0 mr and mrs james jamas knudson of 0 this city who Is laboring as a 1 missionary y in great britain Briita ln appeared la in uie the editorial columna 9 ot of the Mil anniar star july ed bd there I 1 la a very tery singular sin guiar missile m used by the natives ot of india and australia called a boo boomerang morang wh when en thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion it 11 describes remarkable curves and taking a retrograde dir j i ns near or even to tha th rear ot of the place from thence it was hurled in its whizzing course thru space it may slay or wound its prey or mayhap miss tho mark to the chagrin of the hurler the point is abat it usually cornes back and is ever a deadly weapon when aimed rightly there are singular missiles used and flung at random among men hasty leasty or evil spoken words devil deil ln in actions licentious and uncurbed thoughts which boomerang like return to their sender but too often after having slain or wounded in their devastating journey these like the curved gaming sticks of the natives are deadly weapons when almed aimed rightly or rather we shall say wrongly their return la is surer than the boomerangs tor for the latter may tie be impeded by a material obstacle or a whiff of a capricious wind but these human agencies of satan never fall fail to come again to their sender to tantalise tantalize tan talise him liko like the heathen native some are chagrined by missing the intended mirk mark others fiendishly I 1 await the ha return of 0 their evil castru anent ment to see it if it bears the blood 1 I stains of a hit and gloat over it it if it does la in the tha end disappointment awaits awai its this man as disappointment greeted the hunter who sent his re I 1 tr leving ieving pointer after a supposed prize game bird which he had bad felled and i thedoe the dog returned with a sickly carrion I 1 crow oh that all could and would take to heart the great truth uttered by paul to the galatians Galat lans whatsoever a man that shall he also reap one cannot sow weeds and reap roses neither can one scatter seeds of 0 vice hatred jealousy and their kindred ii in thought word or deed and garner a fruitage of oe virtue it live ve amity or related petty jealousies individual bicker ings trivial quarrels between and among church mein members bers as indeed I 1 others for that matter are decidedly like the boomerang boom crang in their nature they return to the sender not only to prick his conscience with trouble arme thoughts and needless needless anxieties but the church as a body as an organization suffers from the evil rebound I 1 the tha language ot of peter in his first epistle general ils is condemnation or instructive criticism according to application it reads be ye all of one mind having compassion one of another love as brethren tie be be courteous not rendering evil for evil or evil or railing for railing but bilt contrariwise blessing knowing that ye are hereunto called that ye should inherit iii herit a blessing for he that will love life and see good days let him retrain refrain hla his from evil and his lips ithac they speak no EO guile let mm him eschew evil and do good let him seek peace and ensue it for the eyes of the lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers but the f ace e ot of tho the lord is against them that do evil 1 peter 3 8 12 i remember also that wholesome thoughts and actions are heavily loaded with I 1 a potent recoil charge bo be not weary in well doing |
