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Show 1 Morbid Or Insane I I'liBBfii Eastern newspapers are commenting upon the jlfllBR fact that a very wealthy young man, the son of a - sBR Chicago banker, who in preparation for the life of tBinl a missionary, to become "on intimate terms with 'iUBBB hardship and adversity," has taken the position of WjMwHl scullion at the country club of a summer resort in "1BBR Tll natural conclusion from the statement is that if the youth is not of unsound mind, he is so morbid on the question of the duty of a religious life that his mind should, if possible, be turned Into new channels. He thinks he is serving the Master; the truth is. he is keeping some poor man ought of a needed job. Ho ought to be compelled to study mathematics or to read Blackstone two hours every day, or to persue some other exact science under a master until he comprehends the fact that this world was founded on perfect Justice Jus-tice and righteous laws and that hence the duty of a man is not to debase himself, but with all his strength and all his soul he should do what is right by himself and his fellow men, according to his means, and according to the brain that has been given him. If, in preparation he wants to practice self-sacrifice, let bim go to some great hospital and acquaint himself with what is needed to most effectually serve the sick and the suffering. It is honorable to minister to tho sick; it is disgraceful dis-graceful for a rich and educated man to push a scrub woman out of her place and take it himself. We are reasoning on the supposition that the young man is sincere and devoutly wishes to live a Christian life. But, in truth, what he is doing awaicons a strong suspicion that the youth is already unbalanced un-balanced mentally or that he is an arrant hypocrite hypo-crite and is posing to win a reputation for self-abnegafion, self-abnegafion, which is only skin-deep, and that he would be more at home in a gypsy camp than in the missionary field. , The life of a cowboy for a year would do him a world of good. He should be shaken out "of his morbid groove and taught that "Life is real, life is earnest," and that a man who abases himself without benefiting bene-fiting anyone else Is shirking his honest duties; iusulting the parents who have educated him and lowering the religion which he professes, in the fHlimatlon of right-thinking men. |