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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. 8ATURDAT, MARCH 30. ISO?. r 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 | j M [ : i : | 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. '••••••••ft#•••••••••••••••••< !•*•••••$••••< NOBLE ANGLO-SAXONISM By REV. JOHN E. WHITE, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH >••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••« ^•••••••••••••••••••••••i • **i* see ***** see eee eeeetteeeee ************ see •*•*•! 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. •WMMMMMMHtMMIMMWMHMHIMMWMMQl THE EASTER PROMISE |« a «* «•••••••••»••••••••••••••999»***•••*•**•!••*•••»•••••••!«*••s•••••«• ***•*•••set**••***•***•••••••••*«••*••••••• I j By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD,] PASTOR UNIVERSALIST CHURCH ***••*••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ItlflMllfflHIMII 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.