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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
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NEW YORK LAWYERS CALL FOR NON-PARTISAN JUDGES
By REV. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
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IIV statutes have been my song
In the house of my pilgrim
age,” exclaimed one of the
I een 0 f Hebrew history. Ho convert-
I - (i i aiv into music by observing It un
I ,J| he loved It. When the statutes of a
l people become the songs of Its judges,
i then order and harmony are translated
1 Into all the activities and Interests of
(he state.
The Judiciary of a country deter
mines the level and strength of Its
civilisation. When those In charge of
the fortunes of Egypt, more than
twenty years ago, were struggling to
raise the grade of Its civic life to the
height of a well ordered state. It was
recognised that the first thing In order
was an Incorruptible, capable court.
The great powers, therefore, were each
asked to recommend a first-class Judge.
These Judges, representing the leading
nations of the earth, constituted the
court before which all cases of an In
ternational character were to be tried.
The difficulties between native Egyp
tians were to be left to their own
Judges. But the standing of this court
soon became so high that the natives of
the country resorted to all kinds of de
vices to get cases of litigation between
themselves before It. One Egyptian,
for instance, with the consent of his
opponent, would transfer his Interests
for the time being to some foreigner
In order to have Judges In whom both
parties had confidence pass upon and
settle the question about which they
disagreed.
Anthony M. Klely, brother to Bishop
Klely, of Savannah, (3a., was for
of wLt i! Jl t0 lncrea "e the number
. 1 L d J the supreme court. There
are to be chosen ten new Judges, two
to fill vacancies caused by the explrn-
™ , 0, , t ,T 11a !., nn<1 el * ht to nil nddl-
tlonal Judgeships authorised by the
last legislature. There are to be elevt-
ed ais° at the same time one surro-
gate, whose duties are limited to the
administration of estates and kindred
subjects, and two judges of the court
of general sessions, who will sit only
In criminal cases.
Klely, ot savannan. ua,, was for a
long time the American judge on this
court. This able, learned, Impartial
company of judges have had more to do
with bringing security and moral order
to the Egyptian government than any
other power at work for its better
ment. The political affiliations in his
own country of any one of the judges
was not considered as a matter of Im
portance. The judges were known to
be pure, high-minded, unprejudiced
lawyers. That was sufficient.
The last legislature of the state of
New York authorized the people of
New York county at the coming No-
Excepting minor cases, the supreme
court Judges conduct the trial of all
civil causes In the county, and be
cause of the amount of their work, in
spite of the eighteen supreme court
Judges now pitting, the general calen
dar of the court is over two years in
arrears. So distressing has this tielay
become that lawyers and all others
who have come in contact with the
law in New York county regard the
justice which the supreme court ad
ministers ns nothing less often than
solemn mockery. Cases do not come
up for triftl until three- or four or five
years after they are commenced. Wit
nesses and parties die, and. worse still,
witnesses forget and civil trials degen
erate from tests of truth toward tests
of advocacy and perjury. This state
of things has been repeatedly Investi
gated, and now' at last these new
Judges of the supreme court are to be
elected to clear the situation, to do
away with arrears and make Justice a
new* and living thing In New York
county.
With these ten new judges the whole
number of supreme Court judges In
the county (apart from those sitting In
the appellate division) will be twenty-
six; so that the new <udges will form
more than one-third of the active Ju
dicial system of the county.
An election so important has perhaps
never been held before In this, the
most highly organized human center
on the face of the earth. These ten
new judges will decide, day by day,
questions of greater moment than any
judges on the planet. More money and
more human differences will depend
upon their word than upon that of any
body of judges In the W'orld, except
the supreme court at Washington, and
the house of lords In Great Britain. j
These judges are to be elected for j
fourteen years at an annual salary each
of $<,000. The new* judges will largely
determine the character and efficiency
of the administration of Justice In this
seething center of human activity for
nearly half a generation to come. It
Is to these men that corporate wealth
must look for the defense.of its rights
against public clamor, and through
these men the poor and weak must
obtain their complete rights against
the insolence and aggression of cor
porate wealth.
It is not at all strange, therefore,
that the leading lawyers of New York
should be prosecuting a most vigorous
campaign for non-partisan judges. In
face -of the power of the party boss
and the party machine, manipulated
by the boss. It would be an evidence
of the loss of all sense of responsi
bility If they were indifferent. What
ever of tarnlshment rests upon any of
the courts of our country, grows out
of the fact that candidates of mere
party organizations have been selected
because of their party service and po
litical Influence, and not upon the
grounds of their ability and integrity
ns lawyers. The party bosses have no
regard whatever for professional ca
pacity. It Is their purpose to nominate
such men as they can count on to
make, out of their salaries, the larg
est payments for campaign and party
purposes.
It .Is the conviction of those most
active In this campaign for non-parti
san Judges, that the functions of a
judge in his court are as far removed
from the Influences of party politics
as are the functions of a chemist in
his laboratory, or of an astronomer In
his observatory, or of a preacher In
his pulpit, or as are the functions of
an organ master before his Instru
ment removed from party politics.
There is no more such a thing as par
ty justice, than there is such a thing
as party mathematics, or party geolo
gy, or party music, or party sunshine,
or party luminiferous ether. Justice Is
as colorless as the laws of gravity, and
as unbiased as the snow*. Justice can
no more be monopolized or cornered
by a political party, than can time or
space or cause be pressed Into the
special service of Democracy or Re
publicanism. Justice stands for uni
versal and everlasting righteousness,
and those W'ho administer it should be
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free to act without reference to
friend or foe as Is the magnetic needle
that guides the course of the ship on
the surging deep. To trifle with the
compass Is to Invite death.
A prejudiced, biased, politically
warped judge Is more dangerous than
a pirate or a highwayman. He per
forms the functions of his position un
der the guise of an honest man, while
the pirate and the highway robber as
sume no airs to hide their real char
acter. They hold up ships on the sea
or trains In the mountains without any
pretensions to being other than plain,
every-day, unwashed villains. Society
Is on Its guard against them, but the
Judge comes as the representative of
order^thff advocate of righteousness.
He stands beforo the people as the
mouthpiece of the eternal judge of all
the earth. The principles he brings to
apply to human relations are such as
were ordained before the foundations
of the earth were laid. He should no
more be elected because of his power
to charm, or to shake hands, or to
manipulate the pulleys and ropes of
the party machine, than should a
surgeon be sent to the battlefield for
any other reason than hi* professional
skill.
The peril of a partisan judffe may
not be eo Immediately apparent as
that of a partisan, Incapable doctor,
but It Is really greater. The w’orst
than an Ignorant doctor can do Is to
kill a certain number of Individuals,
but an Incapable, time-serving, party-
biased judge has It within his power to
contribute toward the disruption of
the very bonds of social existence. It
were really more to be preferred that
Ignorant physicians should put the
people out of» the way, one by one, than
for corrupt judges to be placed in a
position to reduce the social whole to
chaos by taking from around It the
principles that hold lt‘ together.
Society Is an organism, ns the body
of an Individual Is an organism. The
persons composing society are mem
bers one of another, as the Angers,
eves, ears, feet and arms of an indi
vidual are members one of another.
Social existence, which means the liv
ing together of Individuals In harmoni
ous, reciprocal, organic relations. Is
Impossible without conformity to a
perfect network of complicated laws.
The place of a Judge Is to understand
these laws, afld the nature and condi
tions of the social relations to which
they are to be applied. The surge**n
before his Individual patient has deli
cate work to do demanding skill no
greater than the Judge before his
larger patient of organized social life.
The relation of the Judiciary to so
ciety Is more Important, If any com
parison were In order, than that of the
legislative or executive functions of
government. The legislative section of
the state might enact harmful law’s,
and these the executive department
might approve, but If the Judiciary
were sound and able, their evil conse
quences might b^arrested. The judges
of a country conflwte the dikes which
keep back the wavlk of passion and
anarchy from submerging the lives and
estates of the people.
It Is In view of the fearful conse
quences that may come to the organ
ized, social life of the people through a
narrow, small-minded, politically-bias
ed Judiciary that 35 of the leading law
yers of New York have Issued a call
to all parties and to all the people
concerned for the selection of non
partisan Judges ot the November elec
tion. In their cnll they sy: "We have
Ignored In our deliberations political
considerations, and have sought only
to select from those who would con
sent to accept nominations the men
best fltted professionally for the posi
tions to be filled. No new candidate
Is proposed whose age will not permit
him to serve a full term of fourteen
years, and ability to.dispatch business
promptly and efficiently has been
deemed an essential qualification."
Thirty-five persons sign the call,
Each Is known throughout the Ameri
can Union os a fair, honorable ami
able man and patriot. The chairman
Is Joseph H. Choate, n Republican,
and the vice chairman Is Alton B.
Parker, a Democrat. The remainder ot
the committee of 35 ore os follows:
John M. Bowers, A. von Brleson,
Charles F. Brown, John L. Cadwalla-
der, David McClure, James McKeen,
John G. Mllburn. John E. Parsons,
William G. Choate, William N. Cohen,
Robert W. DeForest, John F. Dillon. B.
F. Einstein, Austen G. Fox, Paul Ful
ler, William D. Guthrie, William 13.
Hornblower, Charles E. Hughes,
Adrlun H. Jollne. Joseph Larocque,
Wallnce McFarlane, Eugene A. Phllbln.
Harrington Putnnnt, John McLean
Nash. Hamilton Odell. O. L. Rives, Ell-
hu Root, James R. Sheffield, Edward
M. Shepard, Henry W. Taft, Leopold
Wallach, John DeWitt Warner, Ed
mund Wet more.
The motives of not n single One of
these men can be questioned. The Jus
tices they suggest to occupy places on
the supreme court of New York county,
they propose to put In nomination by
petition as Independent candidates.
If the two lending political parties of
Xew York county have any time sense
left, and nny pojver to rend off the
hours on the clock of the modern day,
they will indorse these candidates put
forward by their fellow lawyers. The
success of Mr. Jerome In his fight with
the partisan bosses for the district
attorneyship was Itself a lesson that
should not go unheeded. The right of
these lawyers to suggest proper men
to be chosen can not be questioned.
Suppose instead cf judges ten doctors
l were to be chosen at the November
election, who would be so well quali
fied to name the physicians to be voted
for as 35 of the ablest doctors In the
city? If the election was for ten engi
neers to tunnel under the whole <>f
New York, who would-be the proper
persons to select the right candidates,
the ward healers nr the leading engi
neers of the city? For tunneling under
New York It would be thought Insanity
to select anybody else than expert en
gineers. The best doctors only are
called to perform Ai'firult operations
on the bodies of people. If a man
should start out to build a forty-story
cloud piercer without conshitlng the
most experienced architects he would
bo deemed crazy.
The call for non-partisan judges sim
ply means therefore that In the esteem
of those In New York who have the
best right to an opinion the time has
come to trust only experts In adjusting
and harmonising the dellccate rela
tions and differences which grow out
of our soclnl life.
It Is the sign of the dawning of a
better day when In the commercial *
capital of-the Union a campaign for
non-partisan judges is being presen
ted. It is a movement that needs to he
inaugurated not only in New York, but
In every great center of population
where more emphasis Is placed on th®
political affiliations of candidates by \*>
this party or that, than for their ca- \,
parity to fill the office of judge.
The attempt of the New York law- 1
yera to select Judges who shall be so
consecrated to the Impartial adminis
tration of the law as to turn, in the
language of the Hebrew Seer, statutes
Into songs, will be watched by th®
whole country- It is a high and ad
mirable enterprise. Under tlir touch of
Paderewski's fingers even noise Is
taken to pieces and turned Into music.
The master can do this because his
soul Is consecrated to Pong. What he
does with sound waves the Judge* nr®
to do with statutes—use them to re
duce the disorders and disagreements
of human beings to harmony.
When Justice* sit In the courts In
love with law, nnd the settlement of
human troubles In accordance with It,
ns Paderewski sits before the piano fn
love with the music he can make with
it, then the people will rejoice.
THE DIVINE "MUST
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"He that planted the ear, shall Ha
not hear,
He that formed the eye shall Ha not
«eo?" —Psalm, 94: 9.
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By REV. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
I N one of our magazines there was
published a little poem with the
title "There must bo mountains."
It told the story of a man who had
been born and reared In the low level
lands near the sea and who had never
traveled outside his dull plains. But
by some strange Instinct he conceived
and cherished tho belief that some
where there must be mountains, a
country where the skies kissed the
earth, where the atmosphere was dean
and sweet and where flowers and fruit
and great trees fluorlshed. He pined
''for this mountain land of his dreams
and at length In faith began to look
for it. His neighbors laughed at him,
called him mad, but he clung to his
fnlth and persisted In his search. At
lost, far out at sea, he discerned In
the distant mists the shadowy outline
of mountains rising high. He begged
his neighbors to go with him to And
them. But they were blind and could
not see.
Alone In a little boat he put to sea
and was gone for many days. They
•aid that he had perished In the foolish
quest: that the sea had swallowed him
up. But one dsy his boat was seen
beating up to the shore and himself
standing proudly at the helm. Aa It
drew near the people gathered and saw
hanging upon, mast* and spar festoons
of strange flowers and the boat was full
of rare fruits and beautiful gems, such
as they had never seen before.
He fell down In their midst crying
In ecstaey: "There are mountains!
There are mountains!" and died with
his face radiant and hla eyea fixed upon
the wide aeae beyond which he had
found the desire of his heart.
Thla little poem Is more than a
poet's fancy. It Is the picturing of
one of life’s subllmest truths. It be
longs In the fame casket of truth with
the poetry of the text, "He that plant
ed the ear shall He not hear; He that
formed the - eye shall He not see?”
The link of correspondence between
the Creator and the creature Is abso
lute.
Our deepest thoughts nnd aspirations
are not mocking fancies full of pain,
but prophecies nnd potences of fact.
The Law of Correspondence.
We arc all familiar with the law of
correspondence In the physical world.
There Is a dualism that rune through
nature. Qod made everything In pairs.
“Male and female created He them/'
Mutually each prophesies and requires
the other. The fact of one la proof
that the other exists. God makes no
half joints. That a thing needs to ex
ist In order to Justify the existence of
something else, Is the logic by which
all science guides Its search. Give
Cuvier the great tooth, which demands
a great Jaw, and he knows the Jaw was
Just so, and so manufactures one to
lit the great tooth: and then a great
head to fit the great Jaw: -and a great
neck to fit . the great head and thus
from the tooth of the prehistoric mas
todon Cuvier fashioned In detail the
great animal that did exist In a by
gone age.
Leverrler noting the conditions af
fecting the planet Uranus, said: "There
must be another planet to explain the
strange actions of Uranus." No one
could see It, but he said It must be
there somewhere. In 1848 he made his
compulation and fixed the place In tho
heavene at which It must be found and
asked Dr. Galle, of Berlin, to point his
telescope at that place and he would
find It. He did so, and there was the
new planet which we call Neptune.
It had to be there, Uranus demanded It.
Some one has said that "every time
a child la born a new world la created."
In merely physical fast a man Is all
over to a demand on God for every
thing his physical capacities can cor
respond with. If there exists an or
gan or a power Its correlate will be
found somewhere provided. Lunge Im
ply that there Is an atmosphere. Hands
Imply something to grasp; feet that
there Is something to stand on. Hung
er points to food: thirst to water;
eyes prove that there must be things
to see; ears that there must be sounds.
So ot all desires and necessities of the
soul, far In the realm of the spiritual,
this truth of correspondence is In
force.
Followed out faithfully nnd accu
rately, this principle will bring Inev
itably face to face with the great fact
that God not only exists, but He exists
In an order of mathematical consider
ateness in which man has been perfect
ly provided for. Our needs have all been
net, our desires are all guaranteed. It
Is true even to our evil desires. Sim
ply and powerfully the truth stands
out that every profound craving of a
man Is Invincible proof that Its satis
faction exists.
Pardon and Peace Must Be.
Let us lay the emphasis on the word
"must." There must be pardon for
sin. The ancient thinkers on this sub
ject felt that there must be some way
for the forgiveness of -sins, but they
magnified the difficulties In the way
of It. Socrates said that the gods might
forgive sins, but he was not sure It
would be safe for them to do so. In
much of our present-day thought Is
detected a survival of that old Idea
that the atonement for sin was an
after thought of God—a change of
mind, nn unanticipated program. When
you read of “The Lamb Slain From the
Foundation of the World” what do you
make of It? This Is- what I make of
It: The cYoaa of Christ was divinely
natural. If I may so speak, Its neces
sity resided in the very creation of
man as a free agent. Man being what
he was, sin was Inevitable. God being
what He was, forgiveness was Inevi
table. The liy-arnatlon and the sacrl
flee at Christ were the logic of crea
tion. As It Is sometimes phrased,
"God does not love the World because
Christ died for It. Christ died for It
because God loved It.” It heightens
all my thought of God, and deepens my
trust to find In Jesus Christ what
some one has called "casmlc free
grace,” which Is another way of saying
that "the heart of the Eternal Is most
wonderfully kind,"
Human nature demands nn atone
ment. Human nnture craves V'irclon
for sin. Bln creates In every man n
liability; the cross of Christ and Its
pardoning grace Is the answering asset.
Sin made a debt; "Jesus paid It all:
sin had left a crimson stain; lie wash
ed It white as snow.” Oh, what won
derful action and reaction between
man and God! The law of correspond
ence underlies redemption. The logic
of numan nature Is Christ. Tertulllan
said that the testimony of the mind
was naturally Christian. He was
right. All the facta In the moral uni
verse tend toward Christ. The very-
thought of a sinner prophecies a Sa
vior. Pardon must be. I speak to
every- discouraged and fallen man who
may hear me, anil declare that it Is
no more certain that hunger Implies
food, that an eagle's wing Implies n
supporting atmosphere, that the roots
of a tree Implies a soli for them to
penetrate, that the long flexible claws
of a bird Implies branches for them to
cling to. that love and Its passion Im-
rlc, and at the same time a fair illus
tration of infidel logic. Suppose I do
despise, defy nnd hate the Idea of
hell, what hns that to do with tho fact?
The glittering eyes of snakes, tho
howling, growling and snarling of wild
beasts, the grin of hyenas and tho chat
ter of depraved apes are not pleasant
to think of, blit, they are facts never
theless. I never, as some do, roll the
word hell as a sweet morsel under
my tongue In a desire to be shocking
ly picturesque and boldly regnrdlcss
of sensitive women ond easily - fright-
a materialist.
ened children. I am not
devoted to the Ilterntllsm of Are nnd
brimstone. Milton didn't write my Bi
ble. But with all conviction I assert
the fact of hell, the sternest, most jiw-
REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE.
plies the existence of n Beloved, than
It Is certain thut his repentant long
ing for peace from the rentorse of sins
Is an absolute guarantee that there
is pardon nnd peace with God for him.
"There must be pnrdon; there Is for
giveness with Thee, O Lord, that thou
mayest be feared."
3. Hell Mutt Be.
Hell Is nn ugly word; but It Is not
as ugly ns the thing for which It
stands. Hell Is the hardest word In the
English language; It represents the
hardest fact of the morai' universe.
Robert G. Ingersoll, long before Henry
Ward Beecher suggested "Robert
Burns"’ as the fitting Inscription for
his tomb, said; "I honestly!believe ttiat
the doctrine of hell was bom In the
glittering eyes of snnkes that run in
frightful colls watching for their prey.
I believe It was born In the yelping
and howling und growling nnd snarl
ing of wild bensts. I believe It wna
born In the grin of hyenas and In the
malicious chatter of depraved apes. I
despise It, I defy'It, and I hnte It.”
This is a fine example of Infidel rheto-
tfi Hvll( IIIC nil. I llrnl| IIIU81 *
ful necessity of th® universe. Hell hns
not been Abolished In any creed known
to me this sldo ot recklcs* unbelief. The
idea that there Is a new theology that
cuts hell out Is a mistake, unlta-
rlnnlsm nnd Dnlversallsm and All the
other tangential creeds contain the
teaching that there Is a hell, a place
of torment. True, thev suggest that
opportunity to escape from it frill be
afforded After deAth, but hell as a fact
and a terrible fact Is a truth tvhlqh
even the new theology has not been
able to avoid. Hell must be. It is a
fact demanded , "by the nnture of the
mind of God, by the moral forces of the
universe, by the prophetic menace cf
the human conscience and by the anal
ogies of nil law.”. It Is certain that
after death we must every one of us
•*o somewhere. Do you think we can
all go together? If all could ro to
heaven, It would not be heaven nor
happiness to the man who had hell In
his heart, nnd It would not be heaven
very long for anybody, for he would
make a nell there In short order. 1
believe In hell as a place, because the
Scriptures so speak of It and because
locality Is a necessity of exact thought,
but I believe every man who goes there
carries hi* Are and hi* fuel with him.
"I sent my soul through the invisible
Some letter of the after life to spell;
And after many days my soul returned
And said: ‘Behold myself am heaven
and hell/”
The wretched old man In the Valdos
ta
. nnd who begs the governor to
let him die, Is by no means the first
Instance of conscious humanity stand
ing at tho brink with the certainty of
hell flaming In his heart. Of the san
est and the ablest, one In history cried:
"I nm taking a fearful leap In the
dark,” nnd another, "Remorse! Re
morse!”. Utopian dreamers picture a
Racialism In which the state will have
no Jails, but they forget Always to
take into account the fact of .human
.nature. To think of a moral law with
out a hell a man must first sand-bag
conscience nnd stifle one of the deep
est-laid of all the instructive human
faculties. Hell must bf. Hell Is.
Heaven Must Be.
This Is the thought that affords the
tired soul a double cure—a refuge to
look toward nnd n refuge to fall back
upon. Heaven! Heaven! Christmas
Evans overawed twenty thousand
Welchmen*by lifting his one blaring
eye and repeating tho w6rd "Eternity”
thirty times slowly nnd solemnly. 1
feel that I might tempt an overjoy
should I stand and say again and again
till you felt It In your souls the glad
dest word I know, "Heaven! Heaven!
Heaven must be. It also Is a neces
sity of the law of correspondence.
Why do we believe In Heaven? We
believe In Heaven for obe reason be
cause It Is the orie thing about which
Je*us Christ said that He would have
especially corrected our minds If Heav
en had not been a real fact. "If It were
not no, 1 would hare told you.” Wi
believe In Heaven for another, reason
There la emptiness unspeakable In
human life without It. Heaven Is the
fulfillment of life. The thought nnd
fact of Heaven Is the henllng harmony
for earthly discords. Existence Ip a
world from which the thought of Henv-
en had been banished would be Insup
portable. A world that could believe
Its thought nnd faith of Heaven were
fanciful Meals doomed to disillusion
W’ould go mad. Heaven must be. It
Is the Anal, the real, the nll-sntlsfy-
tng terminal of Hope In a-world con
stantly convincing u* all of the un
reality nnd the transitoriness of other
hutrntn passion* and desire*. Heaven
Is, th* only rest station for earth. The
Infinite alone can afford the repose
which the finite cries for.
Augustine sounded a note* thrilled
through and through with Truth down
to the level of the last nmn and woman
of you when he said: "We came from
Thee. Oh, God, nnd we have no rest till
we return to Thee.” Heaven Is the
keen nnd unfaltering ambition of tho
soul for which the universe nnd Its
God have no rebuke and which may be
trusted to range In unhindered liberty.
God is Calling Us.
We believe In llcatcn for .“till an
other reason. There are emotions we
have felt nnd experiences we have had
which we realize nt the time ns not
earth born. Heaven lay about us In
our Infancy when we roamed as chil
dren in the mountains and said to each
other: “That Is your mountain;** ‘ This
is mine,” or under the skies and as
signed tlie* stars to each other or
clnltned the moon os n plaything on
the nursery floor In our pure henvolily-
mlnriednesM, but Heaven lies about even
still. We feel now and ngnln gushes of
tendornons nnd glittering* of mind
which we cannot explain, hut which
we know must have come from Heaven.
When D. L. Moody said In his dying
breath, "Earth Is receding; Heaven It
opening; God is calling ine,” he was
hut saying for the lust time what in
reality had been the experience of hts
heart many times before.
"What are you-doing, my boy?" said
gentleman to a lad who was sitting
with hand nnd eyes up toward h thick
cloud. "I nm sailing my kite, sir." "But
where Is your kite—I don't see *ny
kite? How do you know there Is shy
kite on the other end of that string?**
"I know It by the w«y she pulls." wtt*
the boy’s confident reply. Ho do wo
know that there Is a Heaven. We feel
the drawing.
"lie that made the ear shnll He not
hear? He that formed the eye, shall
He not see?”
What n consolation of life it l“! What
nn assurance to know that God It
thinking of u“. And we do know it.
God must he thinking of us today elso
our hearts would not so burn. Tho
ancient legend tells us that when
m was about to enter the laby
rinth with drawn sword to destroy the
ii:M* r his sist. i. Ariadne, had tied
mind his ankle a si Ik mi thread nnd
told him that when he felt the gentlo
pulling of thnt thread lie would know
that she was thfrfktng of him. Do you
Irslre to pray and to be answered?
Do you crave pnrdon nnd pence? Do
you realize n longing for Heaven? If
you do, nnd whenever you do. He that
made the enr Is h°nifng: He that form-
d the eye Is seeing. God would hav®
you know that Ho Is thinking of you.
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THE FRUITS OF TOIL SftSW
By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD,
PASTOR UNIVERSAL1ST CHURCH
One of the moet baneful reeults of
ihe earlier theological Idea regarding
the creation of the world and the ad
vent of man together with his fall
from primal purity and Innocence was
that It dishonored toll and tended to
degrade the toller. Man, because of
disobedience, was banished from a life
of ease and opulence and eentenced to
expiate hla crime by a life term at
hard labor. Thus human toll came to
be considered In the light of a great
*vll, a tremendous hardship, to be es
caped If at alt possible, or else to be
submitted to In great wearlneea of
the body and bitter lamentations of
the spirit.
The moet persistent and permanent
ideas of any people are those which
come to It through Its religious beliefs,
lienee the altogether too prevalent and
erroneous conception of labor today.
We have reason for the most pro-
‘."Ul’d *ratltude to the shapers of our
'Weal code ahd to those wtTo bare re-
to the earliest spiritual longings
strivings of the race, but we are
™*Iy. excusable If we are prone to
conclude that the writer or writers
ho placed the Genesis stigma upon
~.<ol> were Indolent and ease lov-
, WB * no * condemned as a pun-
to a life of unending toll.
«ather was he rescued from the Inevit
able disintegration, physical and moral,
ot a life of Idleness, and elevated to
the highest order In the gift of un
grudging nature by being made a co-
laborer with God. That Genesis writer
wrought better than he knew when he
made the Almighty to declare, "Cursed
shall Ihe ground be for thy sake.'
Since first he became a conscious being
breathing the spirit of aspiration with
the very air of nature's larger freedom,
man has been lifted rather than de
graded by his encounter with difficulty
and hardship and exalted Instead of
debased by his unending sacrifices, and,
today, he is to he pitied rather than
despised who Is content to eat his
bread In the aweat of another man’s
fece.
As one of hie most profound bless
ings to the world In his great work
of 'lifting the shadow from off the
face of alt people,' the carpenter
prophet of Nasareth, In his own life and
living, dignified loll and lifted the
toller far above the kings and rulers
of the earth by making him a partner
with God In His works of unending
Genesis. Therefore, we are Justified In
repudiating nny theology which per
sists In declaring the Institution of hu
man labor to be the retributive act of
the All Father, Juet as we owe It to the
continued progress of the race to per
sistently discredit any modern philos
ophy which continue* to suggest or to
embody that Idea. Any Institution or
organisation whose teachings lead to
the concluelon In the average mind
that human toll Is a curse rather than
a blessing, exists as a constant menace
to society.
Any Individual who labors In any
R roductlve rapacity whatever, whether
Is toll be of brain or of body, whether
he teach a school or dig a sewer,
whether he paint a picture or make a
brick, whether he cook a dinner or sing
a song, whether he make a law or a
wheelbarrow, whether he locate a
planet or Invent a new fertilizer,
whether he build a cathedral or grow
a pumpkin, whether he frame a steam
boat or a sonnet, whatever be the na
ture and the result of his effort, has
labored, either consciously or unsclous-
|y, toward two results.
First, there Is the consummation of
the task demanded by anplratlon or by
necessity, Ihe attainment of the visible
object of bis toll and sacrifice, that
which men may call the tangible fruits
of his toll: and secondly, and far more
Important and precious In the eyes of
the Master Workman, there Is the per
manent fruitage In the soul of Ihe toll
er. This, after all, Is the real object
of all human toll. And It Is only as
this becomes a conscious effort Instead
of an unconscious though Inevitable
result, that we escape the degrading
drugery of toll and enter Into the ful
ness of the Joy of labor. It Is only as
we become fully conscious of Ihe fact
that the spirit of our physical labor
upon the visible structure of wood or
slone or brick Is the actual material
out of which we are constantly faab-
riEV. E. O. ELLENWOOD.
Inning "the house not made with
hands," that the thing upon which we
labor becomes Indeed the work of God
Instead of the demanded portion df the
taskmaster.
It le well for us, therefore, amid all
of our rejoicing over the growing sense
of the worth and the dignity of human
life, and the Increasing spirit of human
brotherhood which prompts Ihe toller,
to request and the employer to gram
a constantly Increasing wage and a
constantly decreasing service; It Is well
for us, I say, thnt wo should carefully
1 mi «•"» > fitiji iiiui ii*? PiMfuiii i ill i’hiiij
and fearlessly analyze the motives
which control and actunte all such
movements. If It be thnt, having mnre
time for our tasks, we shall be able to
perform them more worthily, then let
us truly rejoice that We have fash
ioned still another block in that struc
ture which shall epdure when all the
proudest labor of our hands and our
brains has crumbled Into dust.
If this fearless analysis of our ruling
motives shall discover to us that we
desire more money In return for our
labor, nnd more of time for our own
possession In order thaj we shall be
able to cultivate for ourselves that
true eulture of the soul which lifts a
man Into companionship with the Im
mortals and lessens for hint the domi
nation of the merely physical, then, in
deed, may we rejoice and give to every
effort to secure a higher wage and a
shorter day our moet hearty support.
Out It. on the. other hand, we shall die-
cover that we arc only seeking to be
relieved of toll because It Is n burden
Increasingly Irksome to tig: thnt we are
only asking for more of time for our
selves In order that we shall have more
time to spend as the fool spends It;
that we are only demandtnv more re
muneration for our toll In order thnt
we, loo, may have some of the things
which our neighbors boast, but do not
need; that we may change from the
envying to the envied rlass and be
cble to buy some things whleh we have
neither the wit nor the grace to fully
enjoy, then, Indeed, may we well ques
tion the wisdom of allowing such a
motive to guide us to Its fruition, for
we shall certainly learn to our ever
lasting shame and confusion that the
gratification of such Impulses and such
motives must event-tally rob us of the
aetual fruits nt our toll, "Ben-are of
covetousness, for a man’s life consist
ent not In Ihe abundance of the thing*
w hich he posse**eth.”
The envetousne** of the oppressed Is
no Iras deplorable than the Insatiable
greed of Ihe oppresser, and the Indo
lence or Idleness of the toller Is no less
a sin agklnst God and humanity than
the Inordinate demands of the task
master.
CATTLE RATSERS
TO REOPEN CASE
By Private f Li»aiM*l Wire.
Washington, Sept. 1,—The Cattle
Raisers’ Association of Texas and the
Chicago Live Stock Exchange today
applied to the Interstate commerce
commission for what practically
amounts to a reopening of Its case*
acalnat th* f!t»***go, Burlington nnd
Quincy nnd other cattle carrying rail
roads. They submitted a supplemental
petition praying for an order of th®
commission fixing the amount of ter
minal charge on live stock delivered at
union stock yards, Chicago, contending
that the one now In force, $2 per car.
I* unreasonable nnd unjust.
In n previous decision by the com
mission this contention Is sustained,
nnd $1 wa» suggested as a reasonable
charge. Hut the commission had no
power to enforce Its Judgment.
A public hearing to be held on Sep
tember 1J at 10 a.tn. at the office of
the commission was ordered by the In
terstate commerce commission today
to consider the petitions from various
rotten carrying roads for authority to
change rates on export cotton upon
less than the thirty-day notice pro
vided by the new rate law.
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