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TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. SATTRDAY. SKPTKMRKIt 1. I!**. in NEW YORK LAWYERS CALL FOR NON-PARTISAN JUDGE By REV. JAMES W. LEE, PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH HY statutes have boen my song In the house of my pllgrlm- 1 age," exclaimed one of the seers of Hebrew history. He convert, ed law Into music by observing It un til he loved It. When the statutes of a people become the songs of Its judges, then order and harmony are translated into all the activities and Interests of the 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 n 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. Qa., 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, liigh-mlnded, unprejudiced lawyers. That was sufficient. The last legislature of the state of New York authorised the people of New York county at the coming No vember election to Increase the number or justices of the supreme court. There aro to be chosen ten new Judges, two to fill vacancies caused by the expire- t on of terms, and eight to fill addi tional judgeships authorised by the last legislature. There are to be elect ed also at the same time one surro gate. whose duties’are limited to the administration of estates nnd kindred subjects, and two Judges of the court of general sessions, who w In criminal rases. vUl sit only 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 sitting, the general calen dar of the court Is over two years in arrears. So distressing has thlB delay become that lawyers and all others who have come In contact with the law In New York county re*ard the Justice which the supreme court ad ministers as nothing less often than solemn mockery. Cases do not come up for trial 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 repentedly 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. the county (apart from those sitting In the appellate division) will be twenty- six; so that the new ‘edges 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. Morfe money and more human differences will depend upon their word than upon that of any body of judges In the world, except the supreme court at Washington, and the house of lords In Great Britain. These Judges are to be elected for fourteen years at an annual salary each . °f $ ..OOP. 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 matt 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 tarntshment 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 as lawyers. The party bosses have no regnrd whatever for professional ca pacity. It Is their ipurpose 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 Influence! 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 who administer It should be DR. J. W. LEE. as 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 ♦Irate or a highwayman. lie 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—the advocate of righteousness. He stands before 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 _ manipulate the pulleys and ropes of the party machine, than should a surgeon be sent to the battlefield for any other reason than his professional skill. The peril of a partisan judge may no! be so Immediately apparent ns that of a partisan, Incapable doctor, but It Is really greater. The woret than nn Ignorant doctor can do Is to kill a certain number of Indlvlduale, but an Incapable, time-serving, party- biased Judge has It within his power to contribute toward the dleruptton 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 plnced In a position to reduce the social whole to chaos by taking from around It the principles that hold It together. Society Is nn organism, as the body of an Individual Is an organism. The >ersons composing society are mem iera one of nnolher, ns the fingers, oves, ears, feet nnd 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 erfect network of complicated laws, he place of a judge Is to understand these laws, and the nature nnd condi tions of the social relations to which they are to be applied. The surgeon before his Individual patient has deli cate work to do demanding skill no treater 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 eglelatlve or executive functions of government. The legislative section of the state might enact harmful laws, and these the executive department might approve, but If the judiciary were sound and able, their evil conse quences might be arrested. The Judges of a country constitute the dikes which keep back the waves of passion and anarchy from submerging the lives and estates of the people. It l» In view of the fearful conse quences that may come to the organ- yers of New York have Issued a call to all parties and to nil the. people concerned for the selection of non partisan judges at the November elec tion. In their call they ay: "We have Ignored Irt" our deliberations political considerations, and have sought only to select from those who would con sent to accept nominations the men best fitted professionally for the posi tions to be filled. No new candidate Is proposed whose age will not permit him to serve n full term of fourteen yeare, and ability to dispatch business promptly and efficiently has been deemed an essential qualification.” Thirty-live persons sign the call. Each Is known throughout the Ameri can Union as a fair, honorable and able man nnd patriot. The chalrmnn Is Joseph H. Choate, a Republican, nnd the vice chairman Is Alton B. Parker, a Democrat. The remainder of the committee of 35 are as follows: John M. Bowers, A. von Brleeon, Charles F. Brown, John L. Cadwalla- der, David McClure. James McKeen, John G. Mllburn, John E. Parsons, William O. Choate, William N,. Cohen, Robert W. Deforest, John P. Dillon. II. P. Einstein, Austen (1. Pox,. Paul-Pul ler. William D. Guthrie, William B. Hughes,, perfect network of complicated laws. HornbloWer, Charles r The place of a judge Is to understand Artrlnn H, Johns, Joseph Larocque, Wallace McParlane, Eugeno A. Phllbln, Harrington Putnam, John MrLcnn Nash. Hamilton Odell. G. L. Rlvea, Ell- hu Root, James R. Sheffield, Edward M. Shepard, Henry W. Taft, Leopold greater than the Judge before his Wnllach, John DeWItt Warner. Bd- larger patient of organized socle) life, mund Wetmore. The motives of not a single cue rtf these men can be questioned. The jus tices they suggest to occupy pieces on the supreme court of New York county, they propose to put In nomination by petition as Independent candidates. If the two leading political parties of New York county have any time sense left, and any power to read 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 narrow, small-minded, polltlcally-bias- to be chosen can not be questioned, ed Judiciary that 35 of the leading law- Suppose Instead of judges ten doctors ’ u-cre to he chosen at the November election, who would be so well quali fied to nntne the physicians to be voted for as 85 of the ablest doctors In ths city? If the election was for ten engi neers to tunnel under the whole of New York, who would be the proper persons to select the right candidates, the ward healers or 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. Tile best doctors only are called to perform -**IIlrijlt operations on (he hoilles of people, K a man should start out to build a forty-story cloud piercer without conshltlng the moat experienced nrchltecta he would be 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 nn opinion the time has come to trust only experts In adjusting and harmonizing the dellccate rela tions and dlffereneea which grow out of our sorial life. It Is the sign of the dawning of s better day when In the commercial capital of the L'nlofi. a campaign for non-partisan Judges Is being presen ted. II Is a movement that needs to be Inaugurated not only In New York, but In every grent center of population where more emphasis Is placed on the political artlllatlons of candidates by this party nr that, than for their ca pacity to fill the office of Judge. r The attempt of the New York law yers to select Judges who shall bo so consecrated to thq Impartial adminis tration of the low ns to turn, In the language of the Hebrew Seer, statutes Into songs, will he watched by the whole country. It Is a high and ad mirable enterprise. Under the touch of Paderewski's fingers even noise Is taken to pleres nnd turned into music. The master can do tills because his soul Is consecrated to song. What he does with sound wavy* the Judges nee to do with statutes—use them to re duce the disorders nnd disagreements of human beings to harmony. When Justices sit in the courts In love with law, nnd the settlement of human troubles In accordance with It, as Paderewski sits before the piano In love with the music he can make with It, then the people will rejoice. its*****••*••*(*•*•**< IMlMMHHMtMHHHKI IMMIMMIHMtMl itessee**«•••<•**•**»< it ••eeeeeeeeeesMMfeesef #*•••••*••«•#« THE DIVINE "MUST" “He that planted the ear, shall He net Hear, He that formed the eye shall He not Me?” —Psalms Ml 9. 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 be mountains." It told the Story, of a man who had been born and reared In the low level lands near the aea and who had never traveled outside his dull plains. But by some strange Instinct he conceived and cherlehed the belief that some where there must be mountains, I country where the skies kissed the earth, where the atmosphere -was clean and sweet and where flowers and flrult and great trees fluorlshed. He pined for this mountain land of his dreams nnd at length In faith began to look far It. His neighbors laughed at him, called him mad, but he clung to his faith nnd persisted In his search. At last, 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 find them. But they were blind and could hot see. Alone In a little boat he put to sea and was gone for many days. They raid that he had perished In the foolish quest: that the sea had swallowed him up. But one day his boat was seen beating up to tho shore and himself standing proudly at the helm. As 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. Ho fell, down In their midst crying In eestacy: "There aro mountains! There are mountains!" and died with his face radiant and his eyes fixed upon the wide seas beyond which he had found the desire of his heart. This little poem Is more than poet's fancy. It Is the picturing of one of life's subllmesi truths. It be longs In the same casket of truth with the l he 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 and aspirations are not mocking fancies full of pain, but prophectsa and potencea of faot. Ths Law of Correspondence. We are all familiar with the law of correspondence In the physical world. There Is a dualism that runs through nature. God made everything In pairs. "Male and female created He them." Mutually each prophesies and requires the other. The fact of one Is 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 (he great tooth, which demands a great Jaw, and he knows the jaw was Just so, and so manufactures one to fit 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 ths planet Uranus, said: "There must be another planet to explain the strange actions of Uranus." No one could tee It, but he said It must be there somewhere. In 1146 he made hie computation and fixed the place In the heavens at which It must be found and asked Dr. Galle, of Berlin, to point his telescope at that place and he would And 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 Is born a new world Is created." In merely physical fact 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 ply that there Is an atmosphere. 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 sounda. So of all desire* and necessities of the soul, far In the realm of the spiritual, this truth of correspondence Is In force. Followed out faithfully and -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 conslder- ateneas In which man has been perfect ly provided for. Our needs have all been met, 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 Pssce Must Be. Let us lay the emphasis on the word “must.” There must bo pardon for sin. The ancient thinkers on this sub ject felt that there must be some way for the forglvenekli 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 presentrday though detected a survival of that old that the atonement for sin was an after thought of God—a change of oundatlon of the World” what do you make of It? This Is what I make of It: The cross 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 waa, forgiveness was Inevi table. The Incarnation and the sacri fice of Christ were the logic of crea tion. As It is sometimes phrased, "God does not love the world because Christ died for it. Chrlet 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 an atone ment. Human nature craves pardon for sin. Bln creates In every man a liability; the cross of Christ and its pardoning grace Is the answering nsset. Sin mads a debt; "Jesus paid It all; sin had left a crimson stain; He 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 human nature Is Christ. Tertulllan said that the' testimony of the mind was naturally Christian. He was right. All the facts In the moral uni verse tend toward Christ. The very thought of n sinner prophecies a Sa vior. Pardon must be. I speak to ever)- discouraged and fallen man who may hear me, and declare that It Is no more certain that hunger Implies food, that an eagle's wing Implies a supporting atmosphere, that tho roots of a tree Implies a soil for" them to penetrate, that the long flexible claws of a bird Implies branches for them to cling to, that love and Us passion Im- REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE. flies the existence of a Reloved, than t Is certain that his repentant long ing for peace from the remorse of sins an absolute guarantee that there mrdon and peace with God for him iera must be pardon; there Is for glveness with Thee, O Lord, that thou mayest be feared." 3. Hell Must Be. Hell Is an ugly word; but It Is’not as ugly os the thing for which stands. Hell la the hardest word In the English lunguage; It represents the hardest fact of the moral universe. Robert O. Ingersoll, long before Henry Word Beecher suggested "Robert Burns” as the fitting inscription for his tomb, said: "I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was bom In the glittering eyes of snakes that run In frightful colls watching for their'prey. I believe It was born In the yelping and howling and growling and snarl ing of wild beasts. I believe It was born In the grin of hyenas and In the malicious chatter of depraved apes. I despise It. 1 defy It, and I halo It." This Is a line example of Infldel rheto. rlc, and at the same time a fair Illus tration of Infldel logic. Suppose I do despise, defy nnd hate the Idea of hell, whnt has that to do with the fnet? The glittering eyes of snakes, the howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts, the grin of hyenas anti the chat ter of depraved apes are not pleasant to think of, but they ore facts never theless. I never, as some do, roll the word hell as a sweet morsel under my tongue In n desire to be shocking ly picturesque nnd boldly regardless of sensltlvs women and easily fright ened children. I am not a materialist, devoted to the llteratllsm of Are nnd brimstone. Milton didn’t write my Bi ble. But with all conviction I ozrert the fact of hell, the sternest, most aw- ful necessity of the universe. Hell has not been abolished In any creed known to me this side of reckless unbelief. The Idea that there Is a new theology that cuts hell out Is a mistake. Units- rlanlsm and Unlversallsm and all the other tangential creeds contain the teaching that there Is a hell, a place of torment. True, they suggest that opportunity to escape from It will be afforded after death, but hell as a fact and a terrible fact- Is n truth whlqh even the new theology lias not been able to avoid. Hell must be. It Is n fact demanded "by the nature of the mind of God, by the moral forces of the universe, by the prophetic menace of the human conscience nnd by the anal ogies of all law.” It Is certain that after death we must every one of us ro somewhere. Do you think we can all go together? If all could go to heaven. It would not be heaven nor happiness to the man who had hell In his heart, and It would not be heaven very long for anybody, for he would make a hell there In short order. I 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 ever)- man who goes there carries his fire and his fuel with him. "I sent my soul through the Invisible Some letter of the after life to spell; oml after many days my soul returned And said: 'Behold myself am heaven and hell.' ” The wretched old men In the Valdos ta Jell who save he knows he Is going to hell, nnd who begs the governor to let him die. Is by no means the flrst Instance of conscious humanity stand ing nt the brink with the certainty of hell flaming In his heart. Of the san est and the nbleet, one In history cried: “I am taking n fearful Imp In the dark," nnd another, "Remorse! H morse!". Utopian dreamers picture Socialism ln» which the state will have no Jails, but they forget always to take Into ncrount the fact of human nature. To think of a moral law with out a hell a man must first sand-bag conscience and stifle one of the deep eet-lald of all the Instructive humun faculties. Hell must be. Hell is. Htaven Must Be. This la the thought that nfforifs the tired soul a double cure—* refuge to look toward and n refuge to'fall back upon. Heaven! Heaven! Chrlstmaa Evans overawed twenty thousand Welchmen ‘by -lifting his one blazing eye nnd repeating tho word "Eternity" thirty times slowly and solemnly. I feel thnt I might tempt nn overjoy should I stand and s.ay again and again till you rett it In your souls the glad' dest word I know, "Heaven I Heaven I' Heaven must be. It also Is a neres slty of the law of correspondence. Why do we believe In Heaven? We believe In Heaven for. one reason be cause It .Is the one thing about which Jesus Uhrlst said that He would havo especially corrected our minds If Heav en had not been a real fact. “If It were not so, I would have told you." We bellevp In Heaven for another reason. There Is emptiness unspeakable In human life without It. Heaven Is the fulfillment of life. The thought and fact of HeaVen Is the healing harmony for earthly dlacords. Existence In a world from which the thought of Heav en had been banished would be Insup portable. A world that could believe Its thought and faith of Heaven were fanciful Ideals doomed to disillusion would go mad. Heaven must be. It Is the flnsl, the real, the nll-satlsfy- Ing terminal of Hope In a world con stantly convincing us all of the un reality and the transltorlness of other human passions end desires. Heaven Is the only rest station for enrth. The Infinite alone can afford the repose which the finite cries for. Augustine sounded a qote thrilled through and through with Truth down to the level of the Inst man and woman of you when lie said: "We came from Thee. Oh, God. and we have no rest till we return to Thee." Heaven I* the keen nnd unfaltering ambition of the soul for which the universe nnd lie God have no rebuke nnd whlvh may be trusted to range In unhindered liberty. God it Calling Us. We believe In Heaven for still an other reason. There ore emotions we have felt and experiences we have had which we realize at the time ns not enrth bom. Heaven lay about us In our Infancy when we roapied as chil dren In the mountains nnd said to each other: "That Is your mountain:" "This: Is mine,” or under the skies and as signed the stars to each other or claimed the moon as a plaything nn the nursery floor In our pure lieavenlv- nilmlcdness, but Heaven lies about even still. We feel now nnd again gushes of tenderness and a glltterlngs of mind which we cannot explain, but which we know must have come from Heaven. When D. L. Moody said In his dying breath, "Enrth la receding: Heaven le opening; God Is calling me," ho was hut saying for the Innt time what In reAllty hnd hern the experience of hi* heart many time* before. "What nre you doing, my boy?" anid n gentleman to a lad who wn* fitting with hand nnd eye* up toward n thick cloud. "I nm nailing my kite, sir." "But where In your kite—l don't nee any kite? How do you know there Is any kite on the other end of thnt string ?'* "I know It by the wny she pull*," wn* the boy’s conAdent reply. So ilo we know that thero Is a Heaven. We fael the drawing. "ffe thnt made the enr shall He not hear? He thnt formed the eye, shall He not nee?" Whnt a consolation of life It In! Whnt i assurance to know thnt God la thinking of ii*. And we do know it. Oo<l must be thinking of us today e|*« our heart* would not so burn. The . !*• i. nt I'-kohiI t*-lN us that when Theseus wn* nbout to enter the laby rinth with drnwn *wnrd to destroy the monster, hi* sister, Arlndne. hud tied around hi* nnkle n silken thread nnd told him thnt when he felt -the gentle pulling nt thnt thread he would know that she wn* thinking of him. Do you desire to pray*-and* to be nnswarad? ’'HI (i .1 \ ♦ * pm iLmi and ponce? Do you realize n longing for Heaven? If you do, nnd whenever you do. He thnt made the enr I* hearing: He that form ed the eye J* seeing. Clod would have you know thut lie Is thinking of you. iteteettetttfeeeeetetteeeeeteeei THE FRUITS OF TOIL SS By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD, j PASTOR UNIVERSAL1ST CHURCH One of the most baneful results of the earlier theological Idea regarding the creation of the world and the ad- vent of man together with hla fall from primal purity and Innocence wae that it dishonored toll and tended to degrade the toller. Man, became of disobedience, wa* banished from a life of ease and opulence and sentenced to expiate his crime by a life term at hard labor. Thu* human toll came to h« coneldered in the light of a great * V 1I. a tremendous hardship; to be es caped If at all possible, or else to be •uhrnitted to In great weariness of the body and bitter lamentations of ‘ha spirit. The most persistent and permanent ideas of any people are thoee which rome to It through Its rsllgtous beliefs. Hence the altogether too prevalent and erroneous conception of labor today. »e have reaeon for the most pro- ,?IL I 'd. gratitude to the shapers of our rnra. cf> da and to those who bare re ar? ‘. 0 . ‘ft* earliest spiritual longings I"? ‘‘rivtnes of the race, but we are cento excusable if we are prone to “? e *. hat ,he writer or writer* hum T'aced the Genesis stlgtha upon human toll were indolent and ease lov- was not condemned as a pun- *° * Ilf* of unending toll. able disintegration, physical and moral, of 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 the ground be for thy sake.” Since flrst 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 hi* unending sacrifices, end, today, he Is to be pitied rather than despised who Is content to eat his bread In the sweat of another mans face. . , As one of hi* most profound bless ings to the world In his great work of "lifting the shadow from off the face of all people,’ the carpenter prophet of Nazareth. In hla own life and living, dignified toll and lifted the toller far above the klnga and rulers of the earth by making him a partner with God In Hla work* of unending Genesis. Therefore, we are Justified In repudiating any theology which per- alate In declaring the Institution of hu man labor to be the retributive act of the All Father, Just aa 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 teaching* lead to the conclusion In the average mind that human toll Is a curse rather than a blessing, exists as a constant menace to aoclety. Any Individual who labors In any productive capacity whatever, whether hla toll be of brain or of body, whether he teach a school or dig a sewer, whether he nalnt 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 fertiliser, 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- ly, toward two results. First, there Is the consummation of the task demanded by aspiration or by necessity, the attainment of the visible object of his 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 the toil- Thls, after all, la 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 the fact that the spirit of our physical labor upon the visible structure of wood or stone or brick Is the actual material out of which we are constantly fash- REV. E. D. ELLENWOOD. toning "the house not made with hands," that the thing upon which we labor becomes Indeed the work of God Instead of the demanded portion of the taskmaster. It Is well for us, therefore, amid all of our rejoicing over Ihe growing sens* of the worth and the dignity of human life, and the Increasing spirit of human brotherhood which prompts the toller, to request and the employer to grant n constantly Increasing wage and a constantly dscreaslng service; It Is well for us, I say, that we should carefully and fearlessly analyse the motives which control nnd actuate all such movements. If.lt be thnt, having more time for our tasks, wo shall be able to perform them more worthily, then let us truly rejoice thnt we have fash ioned still another block In thot struc ture which shall endure when all the K roudest labor of our hands and our rains 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 posscssloh In order that we shall be able to cultivate for ourselves that true culture of the soul which lifts a man Into companionship ivlth the Im mortals nnd lessens for him the domi nation of the merely physical, then, in deed, may tve rejoice nnd give to every effort to secure n higher wage nnd a shorter day our most hearty support. But If, on the other hand, we shall dis cover that we are onlv seeking to be relieved of toll because It Is a burden Irrreaslngly Irksome to us; that we are only asking for more of time for our selves In order that we shell have more time to spend ss the fool jpends It; that w« are only demandlnr more re muneration for our toll In order thnt we, too, may have some of the things which our neighbors boast, but do not need; that we may change from the envying lo the envied class and be able to buy some things which 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 Ihe gratification of such Impulses nnd such motives must eventunlly rob us of ths actual fruits of our loll. "Beware of covetousness, for n man's life consist- tth not In the abundance of the things which he possesasth.” The covetousness of the oppressed Is no less deplorable than the Insatiable greed of the oppresses and ths Indo lence or Idleness nt the toller 1s no less a sin against God and humanity thsn the Inordinate demands of the task master. CATTLE RAISERS TO REOPEN CASE By Private Istuxtl Win*. Washington, Bept. 1.—The Cattle Rainer*' Association of Texas and the Chicago Live Stock Exchange today applied to the Interstate commerce commission fot* what practically amounts to a reopening of its cases against the CMs^tfo, Burlington and Quincy and other cattle carrying rail road*. They *ubinUted a supplemental petition pruying for an order of the commission fixing the amount of ter- oi.ii-ti • huiK*’ "ii Iiv4* xtork delivered at union stock yards, Chicago, contending that the one now In force, $2 per oar. Is unreasonable nnd unjust. In a previous decision by the com mission this contention 1* sustained, and $1 wn* suggested n* a reasonable charge. But the commiHHlon hail no power to enforce its Judgment. A public hearing to be held on Sep tember 12 nt 10 a.m. at the office of the commission was ordered by the In terstate commerce commission tndav to consider the petitions from various cotton currying roads for authority to change rate* on export cotton upon le*s than the thirty-day notice pro vided by the new rate law. WALTER BALLARD OP TICAL CO. Less than one year ng4» placed on the market the new Ballard Bifocal, giving reading nnd walking vision In one frame nnd looking like one gla*s. They have proven the most successful of all the advertised Invisible bifocals. Ground In n deep torlc curve, giving a large visual Add f..r reading as well as walking. They are the most perfect nnd beautiful glass sold. Consult us about bifocal*. We have them all. Sales room, 61 Peachtree, Atlanta, Qa.