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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. SATURDAY, SKPTKMnBU 1. 1!**. t NEW YORK LAWYERS CALL FOR NON-PARTISAN JUDGES By REV. JAMES W. LEE, PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH ie-v ] I 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 DR. J. W. LEE. 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 y> "He that planted the ear, shall Ha not hear, He that formed the eye shall Ha not «eo?" —Psalm, 94: 9. I : JL 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. IIIIIIMtHlimilKHiniMOHHHHKMHI IHIMMIIHHIMIUMHIIIIIIK 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. WALTER BALLARD OP- TICAL CO. Lc-i than mu? year ago -placed ,m the mark-1 th.- new llalliir.l Hlfmal, giving reading nnd walking vision In on* frame anil looking like one glaze. The* have proven (he m.et eucceegfui of ail the advertized Invisible bifocal*. Ground In n deep lark- curve. giving a large visual field for reading a* well as walking They are the most perfect and beautiful glass sold, --.ineuU u» about bifocal*. Wc have them all. Sales room, 61 1-eachtree, Atlanta, Oa.