HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
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. 1879.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
A LENTEN REFLECTION.
The church is on firm ground
in appointing a penitential
season, in which it directs the
mind of its followers with
special emphasis to sins reality
and to its consequences. Sin
and righteousness are the
whole subject matter of es
sential religion and any in
spired soul studying the prob
lem of sin will almost inevit
ably reach a conclusion which,
while new to many minds, is
yet one of the oldest of spirit
ual truths. Jesus was continu
ally reiterating it, and we find
from time to time a new pro
phet rediscovering it and en
deavoring anew to impress it
on the Christian consciousness.
Thus St. Augustine, the great
est theologian of the middle
ages, declared:
"The confession of evil is the
beginning of good wrorks.”
The best of us has cause to
be meek, Meekness is the key
to heaven. And self-righteous
ness is the most fatal sin, the
real “sin against the Holy
Ghost.”
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As long as the soul remain'
steeped in self-righteousness
so long is the beginning of tru.
communion with God and true
spiritual growth postponed.
If an unskilled, blundering
artist who imagined that there
was nothing more for him tf
learn were brought for the
first time into the presence oi
a sculpture by Michael An
gelo or a painting by Leonardo
di Vinci, the shamed amaze
ent with which he suddenly
realized the gulf between hi:
own crudity and their master
ly perfection would be akin t<
the feeling which a study'1 o
the perfection of Jesus inspire
in humble souls. When tha
great teacher and pattern sak
that the child mind is the mine
which finds the kingdom, H<
meant that it cannot be found
without two of the traits which
are most evident in the un
spoiled child— namely simplic
ity and humility. Having these,
’ the disciple realizes the enor
mous difference between him
self and the Master and meek
ly and reverently consents to
learn of Him. It is well to note,
right here, that this attitude
of spiritual humility, this s n
consciousness, has in it nothing
of degradation. It is not abase
j ment; it is seeing aright. Whan
! was Jesus more ergal than
when washing His disciples’
! feet?
Jesus and His disciple Augus
tine were wiser than our
American poet, Walt Whit
man, who in one of his rhap
sodies extols the beast of the
fields because “they do not
lie awake at night weeping
over their sins”. Splendid
things we find in Whitman,
this is not one of them. The
beasts do not weep over their
sins, it is true. But we are no
beasts. Men are men, with the
voice, the speech, the dreams
and visions, of angels. And
they weep over their sins lest
they indeed become beasts, as
men have been known to do.
Sin, the measure of the moral
spaces between us and the di
me, the hint of the distance
hat our evolution still has to
ro, is as real as gold and iron:
■hall we live according to the
>easts, whose intellectual and
noral development is 10,000,
)00 to 50,000,000 years be
lind ours, or pattern ourselves
•.fter the Perfect Man who
vept not for his own sins, but
or the sins of mankind ?
That is the great question
vhich the church keeps thun
Sering in our ears during Lent,
md it is the question at the
teart of all religion, all funda
nental human progress.
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SPRINGTIME.
Spring is with us again. It is
he season when new energy
■nd hope rise in the blood
ourses like the sap in the
rees. It is the invisible urge
vhich makes man plant gar
dens, renew the home, plan for
the future and make noble re
solves. People who do not feel
the spirit of spring have for
ever lost the spirit of life it
self.
It is lamentable that the seas
on for making resolutions is in
mid-winter. For every reason
except the calendar new reso
lutions for change of human
conduct should come with the
first warm breeze of spring.
Resolution is born of inspirat
ion, and human beings, like
hibernating beasts and winter
blasted vegetation, are inspired
by nature’s warmth alone.
Most of us mistake spring
fever for a tired, care-free
feeling when a real analysis
reveals it as a feeling of im
patience for greater things, in
spired ambition and a devour
ing desire to get away to see
and know all. Spring fever is
a much-maligned human ex
perience. That springtime de
sire for a new job, a new house
and new scenes isn’t indolence
and lethargy as commonly con
ceived. It is nature’s impetus
for poets, artists, explorers,
inventors and allthe rest of
the world’s dream children.
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THE GOOD BOOK
A New York periodical re
cently received a communicat
ion from a reader in which he
sets forth that after many
months of industrious study of
the Bible he has discovered
that it contains 3,566,480 let
ters, 810,697 words, 31,175
verses, that the name God ap
pears 46,627 times, that the
twenty-first verse of the sev
enth chapter of Ezra contains
all the letters of the alphabet,
and presents much other curi
ous information concerning
the Scriptures.
These facts are of little im
portance in themselves, but
they are interesting as a rev
elation of the strong hold the
Bible has on the affections of
of the people. Counting the
letters in the Book was mani
festly a labor of love on the
part of the compiler. It is im
possible to conceive of any
other volume of like size ex
ercising so powerful a fascinat
ion that anyone would want to
count the letters.
And it should be borne in
mind in considering the sub
ject that while no one, per
haps, ever made a compilation
of this sort before, thousands
have studied the Bible just as
painstakingly in other ways.
There are well authenticated
cases of men who have com
mitted the whole of the New
Testament to memory. John
Muir, the famous naturalist,
not only learned the New Test
ament by heart but the greater
part of the Old in addition.
It is not strange that a book
which is so greatly loved
should continue, thousands of
years after it was first writ
ten, to be the best seller.
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One way for a rich man to
live to be ninety years old is
to have a lot of hungry heirs
who are waiting for him to die.
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Grafting changes the char
acter of plants. It reveals that
of men.
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Being a deep thinker is all
right, but water from a spring
is usually better than water
from a well.
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Some men are born leaders
and others never can guess
which way the crowd is going.
Just for Fun
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Asked what he thought of
bathing beauties, Ed. Reynolds j
replied: “Gosh, I don’t know. |
I never bathed one.”
Disgusted Lover: She said she
had hidden charms, but I don’t
know where she hid them.
An optimist is a guy who can
look at a pretty girl without
thinking how much it costs.
What has become of the old
fashioned woman who always
screamed and held up her
skirts when she saw a mouse?
Why do they play football at
a normal school?
Young—Bill, if your fatherj
could save a dollar a week for {
four weeks, what would he j
then have?
Bill— A phonograph, a new
suit, an electric refrigerator,
and a set of furniture.
Our idea of a convincing talk
er is one who can show little
Willie just wherein algebra is
essential to his future success.
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Rube: ‘‘What do you think
about this here evolution?”
! Yokel: “Its a good idea-but
can they enforce it?”
Poor March is the object of
many a slam,
And mercilessly do we carp atj
her weather;
But her harrowing task is to
see that the lamb
And the lion be made, dear, to !
lie down together.
“After a man reaches 45 he
is too set in his ways to adjust
himself to a mate-Judge D. W.
Dehaven.
Doesn’t have to; the mate
j will adjust him.
| A boom district has settled
| back to normal when every
! body buys his own luncheon.
Monday was wash day once.
Now it is the day on which we
j have the garage man put the
; auto back together.
Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
A real church member is one
who drops one-tenth of the
week’s gasoline bill in the
plate each Sunday.
First Indian—Let’s go on the
war-path.
Second Indian—We can’t. Its
i>een paved.
Lives of movie stars remind
us that.ours are sublime by
comparison.
Writer—“What’s wrong with
having the hero and heroine
finally marry?’’
Editor—“Don’t you know the
public doesn’t want sad end
ings?”
The office boy, though not lazy
could scarcely be called ener
getic, and finally his employer
decided that perhaps it would
be best for him to talk to the
youth himself.
He sent for the lad.
“Now look here, young man,”
he began, when the delinquent
appeared, “you know you’re
inclined to be slack. The boy
I had before you was worth
WATCHES! WATCHES!
Waltham 17 and 23 Jewels
Hamilton 19 and 21 Jewels
Elgin 7 and 15 Jewels
Wrist watches, Waltham, El
gin & Hofes, $12.50 to $25.00
Jewelry made to order, repair
work Anything in jewelry fur
nished on short notice.
Crosley Radios on Hand. Come
In And Look Them Over.
THE NUGGET SHOP
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Meets Second and Fourth
Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
about twice as much as you-”
“Perhaps he was, sir,” inter
rupted the lad; “but I’ll bet he
didn’t get it!”
You’ll seldom, if ever, find
all the truth on one side of a
controversy.
“My father went from New
York to Boston on a bicycle."
“Yeh? Well I went from New
York to Atlanta on a sen
tence.”
Kind Uncle—And so Jack
killed the giant and got all his
riches and lived happily ever
after.
Nephew from Chicago: “Aw
lay offa dat phony stuff. I
wanta hear de real facts about
dis beer war.”
A writer says that any man
who doesn’t fancy his break
fast should see a doctor about,
it.
That is a much safer plan than
interviewing the cook.
Executioner (to condemned
man in chair)— Is there any
thing you want before I turn
on the juice?
Condemned-Yeah, loosen the1
laces on my left shoe; my corns
are achin’.
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