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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
8ATURDAT, MARCH 30. ISO?.
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THE COERCION OF BADNESS
force* »oclety to main
D regular standing armies o
h court, for tho trial
^ ,‘Tn.l* Jail*, penitentiaries, etc.
of cr (Ill "*y the self-protective sense
1" thl ! bodies responds to tho at-
In social ^° d ,|%iess. If we want to
,,cks ,°h« extent to which badness co-
M° w ,1 .octal whole made up of th
, r( . f 5 the f u w j|| be well tc
.tiasrican ' »' • „ lven by Rev. John
•tody the fl S 1 ur Harper'S Weekly. The
„.u?*fi comparisons he makes aro
“JnlL 0 "detailed cost of crime In the
T'a states present* some astound-
Cnltsd State p the cost 0 f crime
M fleu ,” r New York was $36,562.1S8.24.
18 Grt tate county and city authorities
if Greater New York spent for
ul 605 472 75. In forty-live states
„ ia6<15,4 d) tf)6 expenditure
< ye *.,X?nVri00. Criminal losses by
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By REV. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
'* #<507 ORO.000. Isliuuaam — —+
«* JifJied 1100.000.000. By customs
, re * totaled government lost
£&& "a this one year the
Krwages of 100,000 state prisoners
IS 000.000. whUe the Joss In wages
V\50 000 Prisoners In city and county
Jill 1 , was $35,000,000. The (mand total,
Rir.fore of the cost of crime In the
railed States reaches the stupendous
gSS of $1,076,327,805.90.
-The cost of religious work in the
rnlted States Is enormous. The cost of
I,!, in missions, comprising all do
minations Is $7,000,000; home mls-
."ions expend the same sum. We spend
!i- iducatlon $200,000,000: for church
•Jsensesand ministers’ salaries, $150.-
Ko Hospitals and dispensaries for
Kick poor cost us $100,000,000; for
unlUtrlums of all kinds we spend $60,-
Ko City missions and rescue
iort of all kinds demand and receive
I! 000 000: humanitarian work ot every
kind $12,000,000. Our Young Men’s
•nd Young Women’s Christian Asse
rtions cost $6,000,000: while all other
K and social work in the Uriited
Staten requires an expenditure of $5.-
*10,000. The total expenditure for hu
manitarian and religious work is, then.
ni9.000,000. As against this, the total
L, 0 f crime in the United States for
thevear reached the Incredible total
of $1,076,$$7,606.99. That Is to lay,
we epend more than $500,000,000 a yenr
more on crime than we do on spiritual,
ecclesiastical, physical, humanitarian,
educational and healing agencies put
l0 John Klske says that “man is slowly
passing from a primitive social state.
In which he was little better than a
brute, toward an ultimate social state,
in which his character shall have be
come so transformed that! nothing of
brute can be detected in It.’’ When
»s= M~si
i he disposition to take the
ed That a ?« n G,“ , beet > chang-
Isalah thVnronh^ 0 " 11 ? 8 agB ,0 w, "ch
m which .n P w Phet ’ re fe r ved as the one
In which the Hon and the Iamb should
lie down together. While weTre tmv-
™Hnrt t0 S a r d that ® o| dei} and glorious
period, it Is very clear that we have
tvem n y f,\ art ®d on the Journey. That
?P**'y *? reach it Is not prob-
11 '» Inevitable. As human-
‘ L hP ve, ' t methodj of self-protec-
becomohumaner. more educative
SS2iimJnL 0 .°a ln ?’ ') a lonK as the re are
“"e’^ninsted streaks of hyena and tl-
fer lowing in the blood of particular
tlarv iv/n'h 118 ^ al1 and lhe Penlten-
‘■ery will be necessary, but gradually
fl tP riao ?* w * 11 become places looking
to the reformation of criminals, as well
a* to their confinement.
I am led to write on "The Coercion
of Badness" because of an experience
I had a few days ago
We have at my house a faithful cook.
We were fortunate enough to secure
her services about five weeks ago. She
reminds one of the old-time religious
negroes. She sings Sunday school
hymns as she goes about her work,
such as ”1 Shall See Him Pace to
Face "Never Alone," etc. She Is po-
llte, kindly and sincere. After she had
been with us about three weeks, my
daughter learned from her the details
of a sad story. Last winter her little
boy. something like 13 years of age,
was arrested and put In Jail. The Im
prisonment centered around a hat, stol
en from some man who afterwards got
his hat back, and had left town. My
cook’s boy, after some fashion, was In
liossesslon of tho hat when It was
round and taken from him. The boy
said that another negro had either
given or sold the hat to him for a
small consideration. However It all
was, the kid I am writing about, had
the hat on his head when the officer ot
the law found him and put him In
irlson. He was his mother’s only child.
Se had been at work at $5 a week and
was accustomed to take Ills money
home to hla mother. The thought of
his Imprisonment weighed on his poor
mother’s heart. There was an under
tone of pathos In the songs with which
she kept the atmosphere of the kitchen
beat Into rhythmic undulations of sound.
One morning she unburdened her torn,
depressed soul to the member of my
household already mentioned. It was
not long before the piteous story was
poured Into my ear. At once I tnter-
cook. \\nen was you
boy arrested 7" I asked. "In January,
fn».,r 8spo ? ded - "Have you talked to a
••v, 1 * / , abou i ltr I further Inquired,
niotoa ’ . ,he *"«wered, "I have em-
Plo> ed a lawyer. He agrees to take
nnme U? !h r . ,10 ' Then 1 learn *d the
°l ,be lawyer. It was Saturday.
i my 8 un d «y sermon.
But I determined to look Into the mat-
ter at once. So I went to the attorney’s
Jlv*, 1 * '®"’*,™' 1 1,8 wo * 1 * had
h-SS". be * ora » and a conscientious, up
right lawyer he Is.
anything about the
2?* . T. f lhl * boy’s case-’ I asked him.
P® j° Id me ail about ft. and said that
.e* 101 be, *®ve the boy was guilty,
why, said he. “he Is nothing but a
*t'* r ® cb,,d ,n a ®° end size,
asked the way to proceed to get him
out of prison. He told me. and on the
spot we arranged to spend the whole
°f JfondaS'’ if necessary. In complying
'jith the legal conditions proper to re-
lleve the Jail of one of Its Inmates. I
came and told the cook that her boy
would be out of prison before the sun
went down Monday. Tl/s change In her
spirit was clearly perceptible. Items of
g adness could be distinguished In the
vibrations caused around the premises
by her songs.
I learned upon going to see my
friend the attorney Monday morning
that It would be necessary for me to
sign a $200 bond. This was done, and
then wo proceeded to see the big-heart
ed, humane, efficient sheriff of Fulton
county. He put his own name along
with mine on the bond. After that the
lawyer and myself made our way to the
Jail. The building Is a credit to the
county. The way It Is kept Is a credit
to the officials In charge of It. We
were soon conducted from one division
to another, and stood at length In front
of the apartment where, behind Iron
bars, we beheld about seven or eight
little negro boys, ranging In ages from
8 to 15 years. They all came In a
bunch up against the railings of the
cage to look at u*. It was Just such
an output of animated misery as I had
never witnessed before. They were
almost a lot of Infants. They were
diminutive bits of breathing human ref
use. They were poor little specimens
of the city's offscouring. Tliey had
been raked off tho under side of the
body politic almost ns sfion as they
were born and confined there to further
poison and degrade and harden and
brutalize one another. It was a sick
ening sight. The boy we wanted was
called for. ThM created a sensation In
the cell. Every one expressed almost
DR. J. W. LEG.
despairing wish that some person
would come and call for him. The poor
little 6-year-old chap, looking at me,
said: "Won’t you please get me out,
too?” The officer of the Jail who ac
companied us to this particular Infan
tile division of the prison felt Just ns
we did. Our boy soon threw around
his shoulders the dilapidated remains
of what had been his clothes and came
to the door which opened for him to
walk out. The same door swung back
on Its heavy hinges closing In the other
kids, who followed us, as we turned to
walk away, with curious, hopeless eyes.
I thanked my lawyer for hlB kindness
and leaving the jail asked the boy
where he wanted to go. He said he
wanted first to go to his mamma. That
Is the namo by which he called her.
The way he said It was touching. He
accompanied me to my borne. Walking
Into the kitchen. 1 sold: "Sarah, here
is your boy." With tears in her eyes
and her voice, she said: "I'll never for
get you."
About all this I beg leave to offer the
following remarks:
The sheriff and his assistants are
not In any wise to blame for this state of
things, nor are the members of the po
lice force to blame, nor are the Judges
or .any officers of the law to blame.
They all do about the best they can.
When little negroes are caught stealing
It Is the duty of the police to arrest
them. Something must be done with
them until they are tried. There I* no
other place except the Jail for them.
But there Is not a humane. Intelligent
man In Atlanta who will say that boys,
even though they have been violating
the law by petty thefts, can be helped
or elevated within the confines ot a
Jail. On the other hand, everybody
knows that young boys thrown togeth
er In a prison will reach the criminal
leyel occupied by the very worct In
their lot. Knowing this, steps have
been taken, I understand, to establish
a place for young white boys where
they can be trained and disciplined
nnd taught to lead moral, Industrious
lives. Is It not Just as much our duty
to prepare such a place for young ne
gro boys? Every one of the little negro
boys, with their moral natures rotting
In the cells of Fulton county Jail, might
under other conditions bo trained Into
a useful laborer and citizen.
The schooling they give one another
while bunched together In the close
confinement Is preparing them to bo
future burglars nnd murderers and
rapists. From old and fixed and hard
ened criminals nothing Is to be ex
pected. Society must protect Itself
from their depredations as best It can.
But young boys con be reformed, and
the Community that does not recognize
this and take steps to reform them
ought not to be surprised nt the com
mission of horrible, unspeakable crimen
In Its midst. .Suppose this community
had a thousand tlgeys born In It every
year and suppose that the Innate wick
edness of young tigers could be elimi
nated by training and kind teaching so
that when they grew Into tho full pos
session of tlgerhood they would be use
ful animals like the horse, would we
not stir ourselves to see that every
single tiger had the proper echoollng?
Certainly we would. How much more
sensible to train the tigers Into useful
und harmless animals than to neglect
them and then rage with hysterical
hate when they prey on Individuals of
the community with their murderous
claws! A community, Infested with
tigers, supposing that they could be
trained Into useful animals, that neg
lected them, would Itself be guilty of
criminal negligence.
I am not In my thought putting ne
groes by this Illustration on a level
with tigers. They are human beings,
and the children of God Just ap com
pletely as any other race of mankind
To treat them any other way not only
degrades them, but more. If possible,
the persons who so treat them. That
the negroes can be educated and Chris
tianized no one questions. They re
spond to fair and humane and Just
treatment. The recent and violent ex
pressions ot hate toward the negro
seen In different parts of the country Is
the most abject, pagan, unholy, pover
ty-stricken asset ot our history. It la
as mean and unworthy of us as If
distilled out of the last analysis ot In
iquity In the bottomless pit. Any man.
out of whom the Image of God has not
totally gone, can only think of It as he
hangs his head In burning shame.
Every chivalrous and brave Southerner
should rise up to scorn It, and by all
means In his power run It back to
outer darkness, Its own birthplace.
There never was In the history of this
stale as stupid and Iniquitous and
black a thing as the expression of In
human madness against the negro that
found vent for Itself in the recent riot
In this city. It will be necessary to get
at least ten years away from that lurid
cyclone of unreasoning wickedness to
be able to find words to paint It in the
colors It deserves. We are too near It
now to do more than to get into the
A, B. Cs of a description of Its un
bridled. unbluehlng meanness. It
would be necessary for one to have the
vocabulary of Shakespeare and Milton
and Thomas Carlyle combined to de
pict tho blackness of that bad night.
The time has come when we should
feel again toward the negroes as our
fathers and mothers did, when they
guarded our homes and protected them
while Southern soldiers were fighting
at the front.
The time has come when the politi
cian should no longer be able to find an
audience If he has no higher aim than
to engender strife and opposition on
the part of the white people against the
negro.
The negro Is here among us, and
what la more, Jie Is gojpg to stay here,
and what Is more still, we could not
get along without his labor If we want
ed to. Let us help him. Let us teach
him. Let us prdach to him and prac
tice In our relations with him what we
preach. The negro asks for nothing at
our hands but justice. He cherishes
no opposition to a white man’s govern- '■
ment. He wants a white man’s govern
ment for he well knows that ho could
live In peace under no other. To see
one of our modern stump orators cry
ing, as If In the presence of an Invad
ing foe, for a white man’s government,,
when not a single negro in thn whole
United States asks for any other, orl
would have any other. Is a performance I
from which a sense of humor should:
save him. Vociferously uttering one’s * 1
self against social equality from which
self against social equality Is another 1
form of speculative exercise from which!
the sense of humor Is the only remedy.'
People who think below the surface ab
solutely know that social equality has’
always been impossible. Is Impossible
now and will be to the end of time.
The color line was drawn by Al-.
mighty God, and can no more be obllt-,
crated than can the law* of gravity, i
And the man who should go around:
making speeches upon tho Importance'
of maintaining the color line would be!
about as sensible as the person whoi
should shout himself hoarse In defense
of tho power that attracts bodies in I
proportion to their mass, etc.
The negro has been a negro everi
since the days of Ham. the son of Noah, i
and will remain a negro to the end of|
the human chapter on earth.
What wo should concern ourselves 1
about Is not the maintenance of a white
man's government; that Is ours abso
lutely and forever without contention.
Whnt we should concern ourselves
about la not the maintenance of the
social differences between the white
man and the negro, that was fixed for
us by the Creator when He made tho
world. These questions are not op fpn
settlement, and In the very nature of
things can never be up for settlement.
What we should concern ourselves
about Is the negro’s moral and spiritual
welfare. If by our treatment of him we
can make of him a moral, upright. God
fearing man, the race problem will be
solved. There would be no race prob
lem now If there were not a whole lot)
of mean negroes scattered about In tho!
same community with a whole lot of
mean white folks. The question before!
egroes and good white people |
now la how to get rid of what Is wrong
and bad In both races. The only rem
edy Is not A new one, It Is tho old and '
yet ever modern religion of our Lord;
Jesus Christ. This consists In loving.
God with all one's heart and one’s
neighbor as one's self.
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NOBLE ANGLO-SAXONISM
By REV. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
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rpHE sun Is too high in tho heavens
for any man to defend the Insti
tution of slavery and none are
lax disposed to do so than the people
the South. The fact of alavery In a
republic or Indeed In any sort of so
ciety with Christlanty In the field con-
Mltuted an Issue of Incongruity for
vhich there could bo but one final ro
That result was hastened and
concluded by the war between the
nates, but the result would have come
there been no war.
There are, however, two points In the
hlitory of negro slavery In the South at
which we may pause and reflect In the
etudy of present conditions. One Is
fact that the white man’s mastery
not a bad thing for the negroes;
other Is that the consciousness of
pourr and responsibility which stavory
developed was not a bad thing for the
white man. After alt the cruelties
•nil hardships to the negro people at
tendant upon their slavery are consid
ered and set down, the fact remains
•hat In moral quality, in the elemental
virtues of character the negro race
nude hnmenee progress. In spite of
their Industrial serfdom the negro,
T’ncle Tom," for example, had come
* long way from the jungle at some
body s hands.
On the other side of slavery, the
»hlte man’s side of It, It Is a fact that
la xplte of the III effects of slavery on
“hn, which I am sure were more se
rious than on the negro, there was on
•otahle and compensating gain—the
creation of the remarkable realization
olihe great relation between advantage
J»d obligation. It seems to mo entirely
worthy of the noblest ideals of cur hu-
manlty that passing the paint of tho
l,av o trade the first repudiation of
which was by the state of Georgia, the
Southern people did what Greeks and
Romans tailed to do, and what no other
people of history have succeeded In do
Ing—they took a barbarous Institution
and transformed It Into almost a phil
anthropy. With unlimited authority
over their slaves thejA exercised the’.r
power In such a fashion as to create a
genuine tenderness In the hearts of
those who were In bondage. The main
phenomenon ' of slavery was thla
achievement. If you were to ask me
what loss of the Southern white man
through the past forty years was the
sorest, I wouldiwithout doubt say that
It was the loss of. this consciousness
of supremacy conceived in moral obll-
gatlcn.
To force our way back to that, and
again to exercise Anglo-Saxon superi
ority In a Christian statesmanship, 1
maintain Is the South's true path out
of confusion and Irritation to a solid
foundation for her civilization.
Let us traverse a bit of familiar his
tory with utmost frankness of speech,
We are far enough now. or we ought
to be, from tho Reconstruction era to
look at it calmly. The war came and
passed, the Southern people were not
sorry when It was over. The men
came home. The women welcomed with
tales of the black man's loyalty In .their
absence. Up to that hour at least there
wm no Quarrel with the ne^ro, no dis
may about him. no resentment with
regard to him. Tho soldiers fresh from
the field of defeat In thousands of In-
itances were the harbingers of the ne-
cto’s freedom. They called them to-
rether and made clear the fact of their
iberty. Tho suggestion of a race con
flict was not essentially involved In
Lincoln’s proclamation, no race bitter-
nees in free labor, on the farms no race
antagonism In the neRTos heart or the
white man’s temper. The ruling spirit
of the South In that hour and for three
years of the new conditions held no
prophecy ot the mood that did become
dominant In less than ten years. There
were ruins on every hand, but no ruins
of the spirit. From Maryland to Texas
there was no change of the old spiritual
order between the white man and the
negro. Anglo-Saxonlsm at that mo
ment was as secure In Its sense of
supremacy and Its conscience of re
sponsibility as It had ever been.
A few days ago the significance ot
the fact I am reciting and Its bearing
on tho South’s present problems was
made very clear to me. Advised by a
friend, I sought and found In the capital
a remarkable little book. I have come
across nothing that more confirms my
confidence In the fundamental charac
ter of our Southern people. Thl# little
volume is entitled "Acts of 1865 and
1866.” It Is the output of the Georgia
legislature for tho two years following
the emancipation of the negroes. It
proves what a brave people are capable
of In times of stress. It Is direct evi
dence to the fact that If the South can
get Its best men together In the reali
zation of our Anglo-Saxon power and
responsibility a white man's program
will be the result—a result Immensely
calculated to Improve the situation of
the South.
Hut to the book. On page 239 are
three sections of law. which Illustrate
wlmt the Confederate soldiers of that
legislature thought should be thb deal
ing with people In their midst who
could not vote nor legislate for them-
,elves—a condition you will note which
forty years has again brought to pass
with regard 4o the negroes of the
South.
"Section 1. Th* general assembly of
the state of Georgia do enact: That all
negroes, mulattos* or mestlxor* and
their descendants having one-eighth
negro or African blood In their veins
shall be known In this state as ’per
sons of color.’
"Sec. 2. That persons of color shall
have the right to make and enforce
contracts, to sue and be sued, to be
parties and give evidence, to Inherit, to
DR. JOHN E. WHITE.
purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey
real and personal property and to have
free and equal benefit of all laws and
proceedings, for the security of person
and estate, and shall not be subject to
any other or different punishment, pain
or penalty for the commission of any
act or offense than such as are pre
scribed for white persons committing
like acts or offenses.
"Sec. 8. That alt laws and parts of
laws In relation to alavea or free per
sons of color militating against this
act be, and the same are hereby, re
pealed.”
Approved March 17, 1866.
Simple, clear, conceived in coneclence
those laws aimed no blow and directed
no hardship against the 400,000 treed
men, but were the expression of the
sense of Anglo-Saxon authority and
obligation toward a race of Inferiors,
wbose weakness needed strength and
whose Ignorance needed direction.
Standing In the presence of the judge*
of the auprUme court of Georgia, with
that little book In my hand, I uttered
and they echoed this statement: "If
Georgia and the South could but have
been left to fulfill the pledge of this
book, how much happier 26,000,000
white people and 8,000,000 negroes
would nave been today. There would
have been no Atlanta riot of Septem
ber 22, 1906.”
The most serious Injury of the re
construction era and Its measures was
the unsettlement of Southern charac-
ter at two points—our repose of con
scious strength and our motive of
statesmanship with reference to the
negroes. Reconstruction reversed the
spiritual current of 200 years. It gave
a shock to the white man'* sense of
security In that natural supremacy that
had been the real support of the ne-
gro’s progress under alavery. So des
perate, /almost to the point of mania,
waa th* struggle ot a people Impover
ished and driven to bay to rescue their
civilisation, when the Federal drums
were rolling around the ballot box, that
when It waa done agd over we were
morally not the same $>eople. A fear
was come to be the man of our coun
sel: the motive of defense became the
Inspiration of our statecraft. The 111 of
It, written Into thirty year* of our
history. The harm of It waa that It
Injures a human being, whether boy or
man, when you cause him to take coun
sel of hla fear Instead of his force, or
In any wise blunt his Inspiration of
moral right and moral duty In the or
dering of hla conduct. In the bulk of
Southern legislation with regard to the
negroes since 170 the sense of superior
ity, the consciousness of Caucasian
maaterhood, th* mood and attitude of
the old South, which made slavery al-
moat a philanthropy, has not been, as
‘twere better for us now had It been,
the motive ot our statecraft. Is It Im
probable thAt much of that which we
think offensive In the negro toward the
white man nnd also much of that which
In the white man Is offensive to the
negroes has come out of thla fact? The
negro waa not ao blunt as to fall to see
that the white people hnd some kind of
fear of him, and without design or de
sire on hla part, the Idea that he must
have some sort of power, alnce the
white people were afraid of him, took
root In hla sub-consciousness. The
manifestation of this Irritated the
white people. -On th* other hand, the
fear of negro domination, encouraged
by political campaigns, colored our dle-
ruaalons with a tone of bitterness that
begot In the negroes antlpath
which they were strangers befc
war, when the white people dealt with
them as strongly but In such a mood aa
to generate love and trust Instead of
hate. If th* restrictive measures of the
South have In this senss failed to Im
prove th* situation. It la not bacauaa
they were restrictive, but because they
were launched at the negroes Instead
of for them. We have always declared
that we were the superior race, so much
superior and so much stronger numer
ically and individually that any com
parison would be odious. It was the
truth, and It has always been the
truth. Hut If an Impartial investigat
ing sociologist should visit the South
and go fairly through everything that
has happened from the huatings to the
capitals, from.the magistrates’ courts
to the supreme courts, would be not
and eminently superior In all respects
to th* negroes, we did not always seem
to feel quite sure of It?
I began by saying that the leaving of
thl* fear In the South was the great
wrong done ua by reconstruction and i
Ita attendant measures. That wrong I
was on* for which we can never cease:
regret, and the keener the moral sense
of the South grows the more we will
regret It for the self hurtful tempers It
foisted Into our civilisation. But where
IS our loglo, and our consistency It re
garding tho attitude of tho defensive
as one we ought not to have been
forced Into, we shall cling to It In a
time when no necessity exists for it?
For our power and supremacy are not
In doubt today. The true demonstra
tion of our supremacy will be the re
versal of motive In our statesmanship.
I believe that restrictive dealing for
the negro Is wise dealing, not because
I dislike or fear him, but because he
needs Its discipline. Limitation and
denial of privilege Is no barrier to
progress. The middle class English
man I* the world’s Illustration of power
developed within definite and agreed
to limitations let down from the rank
above. We run our homes on that
principle. I am strong, my child Is
weak, thersfors I limit hla rights and
prlvllegaa. I owe that debt to the
child's weakness. It Is my duty to dis
charge It firmly and faithfully despite
his misguided objections.
For us to coma to th* calm nnd
steadfast raaolva that the negro Is a
child race and ahap* our civic and so-
toward him by that reaolu-
Imperative summons of this ]
hour to the South, I am solemnly con- i
vlnced. This would be masterful. The .
whole world will honor, applaud and '
support the Southern people when UMftrV
begin on a high, strong program like
that. I believe It will win and hold the
co-operation of the wla* nnd unselfish '
among negro leaders.
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THE EASTER PROMISE
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PASTOR UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
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A T THI8 season we commemorate
"Ith joy and thanksgiving the
. cv ent which must doubtless be
!J™ v * r ••>* germinal aplrit and rallying
of Christianity. Every pht-
S h ,V which attempts to explain the
marvelous power of this religion aa a
forc ® human lives, Is
■ need fl n »||y 1o comt> either by the
hits ot * ro “ materialism, or by the
.rf, w*<h of true spirituality, to the
j«urrection thought and the resur-
faith. Christianity la auraly
™ tb .l' , « more than a matchless code
I 81h|cs splendidly spiritualized and
K* rnat *d In the life of a good and
timL man - Hear ,h ® illuminating les-
Imony „f m)me nf th8 worl<1 ' B thlnk-
w* Whom history has been pleased to
2L unbeliever*:" Said Napoleon
“You apeak of Caesar, of
ih» Ian I i y r ’ °f th *lr conquests, and of
. ' ‘‘Hbuslasm which they enkindled
v ,„, heart* of their soldiers; but can
“conceive of a dead man making
Ssjf® t 5 with an army faithful, and
srmift y devoted to hla memory? My
Jj™les have forgotten me even while
tnt"u “.th® Caithaglnlan army for-
iln.u J? n h* 1- 8uch l» our power. A
vtM f„ baul ® 10,1 crushes us, and ad-
cutters our friends. Can you
nieit-e „f caojx,. u the e t er nal *m-
th* ,i.2U b ® Rom an senate, and, from
th« ..P , ot his mausoleum, governing
Mm S"' watching over the destt-
the 1^5 I V’ m ®7 Such 1* the history of
5>-1 •s'.?" , on and conquest of the world
the r l Pu’" P n,,y: *“ch W the power of
th, ’ °f the Chrlatlani; and such Is
file foS dual flrtcle of the progress of
riuirVh ’ f. nd °f *h* government of his
•rumi i "••Iona pass away, thrones
'le. but th* church remains."
Said Jean Jacques Rosseau: "Wb«t
sweetness, what purity in the manner
of Jesus. What an affecting graceful
ness In His Instructions. What subllm-
"ty in His maxims. What profound wris-
dom In His discourses. How Bteatthe
command over His passions. W here Is
the man, where Is the philosopher, who
iSSld so live and die, without ostenta
tion’’ Socrates, Indeed, In receiv ing the
cup of poison, blessed the weeping ex-
petitioner who delivered it, but J *
amid excruciating torture*, prayed for
HI* merciless tormentors.
. And Ernest RenBn, Insisting upon the
recognition of the cosmic quality of the
Miater’a mlaslon and ministry. ,a ‘Y*
“rau. can not belong exclusively •«
those who call themselves Hi* disciples.
He Is the arfminon honor of all wh
bear a human heart. Hi» if
.1st. not '"^'"^^"a traenvoreblp
byMio'wIng that allhistory Is Incom-
prehenslble wjthoutjlln f<) —^ hy
work la * fi n lahed; thy -Hvlnhy^s^b:
" Sand
! h h o‘u n 'r!t nR h*coJne the
conqueror of d ® a, ) b ^ e ' a ShaH > "oliow the*'
SteWi-S® hist traced, ages
of worshipper*.’’
glory, noble founder." Christianity has
not been bullded upon the belief In Je
sus us a dead saint. It has found Its
generic and organising powsr In the
faith In Christ as a deathless spirit of
progress, an ever living and ever pres,
ent personality. The truly enlighten
ed Christian does not say with Renan,
-Thy work Is finished.” but rejoices In
the opportunity to be a sharer with
Christ In the work of bringing now upon
the earth the Increasing kingdom of Ills
Father and our Father. The power of
Christianity Is found In the belief of Its
members In the reality of the’resurrec.
tlon. The Christian world also feels
with the apostle, "If In this life only,
we have hope In Chrlet. then are we ol
all men most miserable?’
The Power of the Resurrection.
Our belief In the resurrection of
Christ become*, therefore, the baala of
our effort toward the’present triumph
of righteousness In our lives. Inasmuch
as we are able to feel the constant
presence and help of Him who "was
dead and Is alive forevermore." In Ibis
resurrection faith also dp we find our
sure and steadfast anchor of hope
which brings to ua the comforting as
surance of the soul's ultimate triumph
In righteousness end In the realisation
of that spiritual perfection for which
every normal child of God must In
creasingly yearn a* tha year* flit away
and the defeats and disappointment# of
,h n'ls r but m ineager and unsatisfactory
r me roytu * proRreyM hi ^ ‘"r "A”
philosophy. -I’’ 8 " a, ’n"he C ?hu- apostro- ambition. In thl* prepar-
nhUosoohy does not touen tne toward £ « Bmb ,„ oni In this prepar-
^E?S i Chri.r; h %e^« U now^‘S; SS -SS ^Cb we call our world
REV. E. D. ELLENWOOD.
ot physical action, and life must prove
but a tantalising mockery without the
soul’s strong confidence In the reality
of the unending life. Science finds her.
If unable to demonstrate Immortal
ity, neither can she disprove It, but In
the subtle alchemy of the soul the sat
isfying answer to the question Is found.
The Inner voice of God speaks com
fortingly to us the assurance that the* followers of his teachings make thl*
universe I* organised In righteousness,
and viewing man’s place In the econo
my of this morali universe wa must be
convinced that the very designs of God
shall be thwarted If Immortality Is only
a dream and the Inevitable divorcement
of the spirit from the body shall make
all of us no better than so many dead
files at the end of the summer.
"And everyone that hath thl* hope
In him purlfleth himself, even aa He I*
pure." Herein lies the personal power
of the resurrection faith. Fortunate It
Is that It la dependent upon neither the
acceptance nor the rejection ot any on*
of the conflicting theories concerning
the traditional physical resurrection of
the body which had bean for a time Ihe
beautiful home of the most deathless
of all God's immortal sons.
Th# Reality of th* Resurrection.
One of the penalties of humanity I*
the tendency toward the constant mag
nlflcatlon of lift's non-essentials at thn
cost of the obscuration of Its vital ele
ments. And this Is a penalty which
the Church of Christ, being a human
Institution with a divine mission, boa
been obliged to suffer. Even today, In
this year of our Lord nineteen hun
dred and seven, there can be found not
a fewjgootJ Christians who would denv
to their brethren the comfort and the
power of the resurrection hope unless
they can find themselves able to ac
cept a belief In Ihe coincident resurrec.
tlon of the mortal body and the Im
mortal spirit. St. Paul, the greatest
apostle of Christianity, seems never to
have really believed in tha resurrection
of the physical body, yet very many of
those who declare themselves to be
one of the fundamental tenets of the
Church of Christ. But whether a man
shall hold Or reject this theory. It real
ly matters but little in life's final an
alysis, provided hla soul shall be pro
foundly touched and Influenced by the
deeper significance end the unchan '
truth of the resurrection.
To know that righteousness Is Im
mortal and to learn also that the hu
man soul la the natural home and work
shop ot this deathless emanation of
divine life. Is to become so thoroughly
convinced of the reality of the unend
ing resurrection as to be henceforth
untouched nnd untroubled, either by
the vague and Illogical legends of su
perstition, or by the peaslmlstle soph
istry of materialism.
Bo do we learn that God. through na
ture, has testified unmistakably con
cerning the eternal persistence of all
that Is worthy of survival In every
Every Easter day must have Ita Cal
vary. The record of the cruclflslon and
resurrection of Jeeus Christ but typl
lies the only possible process whereby
every disciple of the risen Lord shall
eliminate the unworthy and preserve
and exalt tha divine In hla own nature.
Salvation Is.not made possible simply
by preuchlng "Christ and Him Cruci
fied.’’ This Is a theological shibboleth
which Is absolutely shorn of all power
in the transformation of human lives,
unless those who preach It and those
who hear can he convinced that thy
power of the crucifixion Ilea not In the
vicarious sacrifice of the glorified Vic
tim, but In the willingness and faith
fulness with which those who would be
Ills disciples, shall continue to "deny
themselves, and taka up their crosses
and follow Him.” if ws are to share
In Christ's resurrection, then it Is ob
vious that wa shall not be able to evade
the sharing of Ills crucifixion. Then,
and then only, can It be that being
risen with Him we shall Instinctively
"seek those things that are above,
where Christ sltteth upon the right
hand of God."
May this Easter season be memorable
In our lives for the reason that In the
new life which it shall begin, we shall
make provision for Its constant recur
rence by the dally crucifixion and death
of those traits of character and habits
of conduct, of which Christ’s perfection
makes us forever ashamed.
A Real Dilemma.
It was a steep grade In a mountain
division and the old lady was a fidgety,
highly sensltlv* person. Sho snM to
the conductor as he punched her ticket:
Conductor, I* It a fact that the loco
motive Is at the rear of the train?"
Yea, madam," the conductor answer-
d. "We have a locomotive at each
end. It takes one to push and one to
pull to get us up this grade.’’ "Oh,
dear, what shall I do?" moaned the old
lady. "I'm always tralnslck If I ride
with my back to the locomotive."—
Kansas City Times.
To Thicken the Hair.
Oil workers are never bold. Vlxli
oil reslone or thoso of Itu'-la; rxnnihie
workmen's hair: It I* soft and tin. i >
glossy. For petroleum cures Ineipleat k
nexs. and If yosr hair Is thlnn’
eouie In. Never ulntl the suit
you rood.—dL Louie htar.