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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN,
. OlDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. ]**.
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NEW YORK LAWYERS CALL FOR NON-PARTISAN JUDGES
By REV. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
icy
HY statutes have been my son* I verober election to Increase the number
*«— of justices of the supreme court. There
In the house of my pilgrim
age," exclaimed one of the
,ser< 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
civilization. When those In charge of
the fortunes of Egypt, more than
twenty year3 ago, were struggling to
raise the grade of Its civic life to the
height of a well ordered state, It was
recognized 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 |o 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, Ga., was for a
long time the American Judge on this
court. This able, learned. Impartial
company of Judges have hnd more to do
with bringing security and moral order
to the Egyptian government than any
other power at work for Ita 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-
*** iC ^' ,scn ten new Judges, two
to fill vacancies caused by the explrn-
tion of terms, and eight to nil addi
tional Judgeships authorized by the
last legislature. There are to be elect-
ed also at the same time one surro-
rate, 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 eases.
Excepting minor cases, the supreme
court Judges conduct the trial of all
civil causes in the county, and be
cause of the uinount of their work, li.
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 this delay
become that lawyers and all others
who have come In contact with the
law In New York county reward the
Justice which the supreme court ad
ministers aa 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 nnd 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 hew
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 twentv-
slx ; so that the new <<idges 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 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
of S <,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, nnd 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-psrtlsan judges,
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 rourts 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
regard whotever for professional ca
pacity. It is their purpose to nominate
such men ns they can count on to
make, out of their salaries, the larg
est payments for campaign nnd party
purposes.
It Is the conviction of those moat
active In this campnlgn for non-partl-
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 ran
no more be monopolized or cornered
by a political party, than can time or
space or cause be pressed Into the
sperlnl service of Democracy or Re
publicanism. Justice stands for uni
versal and everlasting righteousness,
nnd those who administer It should be
DR. J. W. LEE.
as free to act without reference
friend or foe os le the magnetic needle
that guides the course of the ship on
the surging deep. To trifle with the
compose Is to Invite death.
prejudiced, biased, politically
warped Judge le 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 tho sea
or trains In the mountains without any
pretensions to being other than plain,
every-day, unwashed villains. Society
Is on Its gunrd against them, but the
judge comes as the representative of
order—the advocate of righteousness.
He stands 1>efore the people as the
mouthpiece of the eternal judge of atl
tho 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 olmrm. 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
not be so Immediately apparent as
that of a partisan. Incapable doctor,
but It la really grenter. Tho worst
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 n
position to reduce the social whole to
chaos by taking from around It the
principles that hold It together.
Society Is an organism, as the body
of an Individual Is an organism. The
persons composing society are inem
bars one of another, as- the Angers,
eves, ears, feet and arms of an Indi
vidual are membenr one of another.
Social existence, which means the liv
ing together of Individuals In harmoni
ous, reciprocal, organic relations.
Impossible without conformity tc
perfect network of complicated laws.
The place of a Judge Is to understand
these laws, and the nature and condi
tions of the social relations to which
they are to be applied. The surgeon
before his Individual patient has dell
cate work to do demanding skill no
greater than the Judge before his
larger patlen^ of organized social life.
The relation of the Judiciary to so
ciety la more Important, If ■ ny com
parison were In order, than that of the
legislative 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 nnd 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 Is In view of the fearful conse
quences that may come to the organ
ized, social life of the people through u
yers of New York have Issued a call
to all parties and to all tho people
concerned for the selection of non-
pnrtlann Judges at the Novoinbcr elec
tion. In their rail 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 tho men
best fltted professionally for the ttozl-
tlons to be filled. No new candidate
Is proposed whose age will not permit
him to serve a full term of fourteen
years, and nblllty to dispatch business
promptly and efficiently Mas been
deemed an essential qualification."
Thirty-live persons sign the call.
Each Is known throughout tho Ameri
can Union ns a fair, honorable and
able man and patriot. The chairman
Is Joseph II. Choate, a Republican,
and the vice chairman Is Alton B.
Parker, a Democrat. The remainder of
the committee of 85 nre ns follows:
John M. Bowers, A. von Brleson,
Charles I’. Brown, John L. Cadwalla-
der. David McClure, James McKeen.
John G. Mllburn, John E. Parsons,
William G. Choate, William N. Cohen.
Robert W. DsForest, John F. Dillon, B.
F. Einstein, Austen O. Kox, Paul Ful
ler, Wlllinin D. Guthrie, William B.
Hornblower, Charles B. Hughes,
Adrian H. Jollne, Joseph Larocque,
Wallace McFnrlnne, Eugene A. Phllbin,
Harrington Putnam, John McLean
Nash, Hamilton Odell. G. U Rives, Ell-
hu Root, Jnmea R. Sheffield, Edward
M. Shepnrd, Henry W. Taft, Leopold
Wallach, John DeWItt Warner. Ed
mund Wetmore.
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 leading polltlral parties of
New York eounty have any time sense
left, and uny power to read off the
hours on the clock of the modern day,
they will Indorse these candidates put
forwnrd by their fellow lawyers. The
success of Mr. Jerome In his light with
the partisan bosses for the district
attorneyship was Itself a lesson thnt
should not go unheeded. The right of
these lawyers to suggest proper men
were to be rhosen at the November
election, who would be so well quall-
flod to name the physicians to be voted
for as of the ablest doctors in the
city? If the
neerz to tu
New York,
persons to -s
the ward he
neers of the
th
as for ten engi-
r the whole of
I he the proper
Ight candidates,
leading engl-
tunnellng under
narrow/»mal!-mlnded, polltlcally-blas-1 to be chosen can not be questioned,
ed Judiciary that 35 of the leading law- Suppose Instead of Judges ten doctors
New York It would bo thought Insanity
to select anybody else than expert en
gineers. The best doctors, only are
called to perform **.TlcuIt operations
on the bodies of people. If a mnn
should start out to build a forty-story
cloud piercer without conslutlng the
most experienced architects he would
he‘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 harmonizing the dellccate rela
tions and differences which grow out
of our social life.
It Is the sign of the dawning of a
better day when In tin* commercial
capital of the Union a campaign for
non-pnrtisnn Judges is being presou-
ted. It Is a movement thnt needs to be
Inaugurated not only In New York, but
In every great center of .population
where more emphasis Is placed on the
political affiliation* of candidates by
this party or that, t|»an for their ca
pacity to fill the office of Judge.
The attempt of the New York law
yers 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 the
whole country. It Is a high nnd ad
mirable enterprise. Under the touch of
Paderewski's fingers even noise is
taken to pieces and turned Into music.
The master ran do this because his
soul Is consecrated to song. What he
does with sound waves the Judges are
to do with statutes—use them to re
duce thb disorders and disagreements
of human beings to harmony.
When Justices nit In the courts In
love with law, and 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.
THE DIVINE "MUST”
“He that planted the ear, ehall He
not hear,
He that formed the eye shall He not
•••?" —Pealme 04: 0.
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 horn and reared In the low level
lands near the sea and who had never
traveled outside hfs dull plains. But
by some strange Instinct he conceived
and cherished the belief that some
where there must be mountains, a
country where the skies kissed the
earth, where the atmosphere was clean
and sweet and where flowers and fruit
and great trees fluorlshed. He pined
for this mountain Jand of his dreams
and at length In faith began to look
for It. His neighbors laughed at him,
called him mad, but ho clung to his
faith and persisted In his search. At
last, far oqt 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
*al<l that he had perished In the foolish
quest: that the sea had swallowed him
up. Hut one day his boat was seen
heating up to the shore and himself
standing proudly nt the helm. As It
drew near the people gathered and saw
hanging upon mnst 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 ecstacy: "There are mountains!
There are mountains!” and died with
his fare radiant and his eyes fixed upon
t he wide seas beyond which he had
found the desire of his heart.
This 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 same casket of truth with
the poetry of the text, "He that plant
ed ihe ear shall He not hear: Ho thnt
farmed the eye shall He not see?"
The link of correspondence between
the t'reator and the creature Is abso
lute.
1 'ur deepest thoughts and aspirations
nre not mocking fancies full of pain,
but prophecies and potences of fact.
The 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 the 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 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 1816 he made his
'computation nnd fixed the place In the
henvens at which It must be found and
asked Dr. Galle, of Berlin, to point his
telescope at that place nnd 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 tlmv
n child Is born n 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
found somewhere provided. Lungs Im
ply that there la 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 he things
to see; ears that there must be sounds.
So of all desires nnd necessities of the
soul, fnr 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 conslder-
ateneas In which man has been perfect
ly provided for. Our needs have nil 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 Peace Mu,t B*.
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, an 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 cross of Christ was divinely
natural. If I may so speak. Its neces
sity resided In the very rreatlon of
man as a free agent. Man being what
he was, sin was Inevitable. God being
whnt He was, forgiveness wns Inevi
table. The Incarnation anil the sacrl
flee of 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
nil 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 crdSs of Christ and Its
pnrdpnlng grace Is the answering asset.
Sin made a debt; "Jesus paid It all;
sin had left a crimson stnln; He wash
ed It white as snow." Oh, what won
derful action and reaction between
man and God I The law of correspond
ence underlies redemption. The logic
of humnn nature Is Christ. Tertulllan
said that the testimony of the mind
was naturally Christian. He was
right. All Ihe facts 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 fnllen man who
may hear me, and 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 soil for them to
penetrate, that the long flexible claws
of a bird Implies branches for them lo
cling lo, that love and Its passion Im-
REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE.
plies the existence of n Beloved, than
It Is certain that his repentant long
ing for peace from the remorse of sins
Is an absolute guarantee that there
Is pardon and peace ivltli God for him.
"There must be pardon: there Is for
giveness with Thee, O Lord, that thou
inayest be feared."
3. Hell Must Be.
Hell Is an ugly word; but It Is not
as ugly ns the thing for which It
stands. Hell Is Ihe hardest word in the
English language; It represents the
hardest fact of the moral universe.
Robert G. Ingersnir, long before Henry
Ward Beecher suggested "Robert
Burns" as the fitting Inscription for
his tomb, said: “I honestly believe that
the doctrine of hell was born In Ihe
glittering eyes of snakes that run In
frightful colls watching for their prey.
I believe It was born In the yelping
nnd howling and growling and snarl
ing of wild beasts. I believe It was
born In the grin of hyenas and In th«
malicious chatter of depraved apes. I
despise It. I defy It, and I hate It.”
This Is a fine example of Infidel rheto
ric, and. nt the same time a fair Illus
tration of Infidel loglr. Suppose 1 do
despise, defy nnd hate the Idea of
hell, what has that to do with the fact?
The glittering eyes of snakes, tho
howling, growling and snarling of wild
beasts, the grin of hyenns nnd the chat
ter of depraved apes are not pleasant
to think of, but 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 bo shocking
ly picturesque nnd boldly regnrdless
of sensitive women nnd easily fright
ened children. L am not a materialist,
devoted to the llterntllam of lire nnd
brimstone. Milton didn't write my Bi
ble. But with all conviction I ar-ert
the fact of hell, the sternest, mnst aw
ful necessity of the universe. Hell has
not been nbollshcd In nny creed known
to me this side of reckless unbelief. Tho
Idea that there Is a new theology that
cuts hell out Is a mistake. Unlla-
rlnnlsm and Unlvermillam and nil the
other tnngentlal creeds contain the
teaching that there Is a hell, a place
of torment. True, they suggest thnt
opportunity to escape from It Will be
afforded after death, but hell as a fact
and a terrible fact Is a truth whlqh
even the new theology has not been
able to avoid. Hell must he. It Is a
fart demanded "by the nature of tho
mind of God, by Ihe moral forces of Ihe
universe, by the prophetic mcnaco of
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 yon 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
bellow In hell as a place, because the
Scriptures so speak of It and berause
locality la a necessity of exact thought,
but I believe every man who goes there
carries his flro and his fuel with him.
"I, sent my soul through Ihe Invisible
Some letter of the after life to spell;
And after many dayh my soul returned
And said: ‘Behold myself am heaven
and hell.'"
The wretched old man In the Valdos
ta Jail who says he knows he Is going
to hall, and who begs the governor to
let him die. Is by no means the first
Instance of conscious humanity stand
ing at the brink with Ihe certainty of
hell flaming In his heart. Of the san
est and the ablest, one In history cried:
'T am taking a fearful leap In the
dark," and nnotlier, “Remorse! Re
morse!" Utopian dreamers picture a
Socialism In which the state will have
no jails, but they forget always to
take Into nrrount the fart 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 be. Hell Is.
Htavsn Mutt Bs.
This Is the thought that affords the
tired soul a double cure—a refuge to
look toward and n refuge to fall back
upon. Heaven! Heaven! Christmas
Evans overawed, twenty thousand
Welchmen by lifting hla one biasing
eye and repealing the word "Eternity"
thirty limes slowly and solemnly,
feel thnt I might tempt nn 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 one reason be
rause It Is the one thing about which
Jesus Christ said that He would have
especially corrected our minds If Heav
en had not been a real fact. "If It wore
not so, I would have told you." We
believe In Heaven for another reason.
There Is emptiness unspeakable In
human life without It. Heaven Is the
fulfillment of life. The thought and
fart of Heaven Is the healing harmony
fnr earthly discords. Existence In u
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 bs. It
la the Ann), the real, the all-satisfy
ing terminal of Hope In n world con
stantly convincing us all of the un
reality nnd Ihe tranaltorlnesa of other
human passions and desires. Heaven
Is the only rest station for earth. The
Infinite alone ran afford Ihe repose
which the finite cries for. .
Augustine sounded a note thrilled
through and through with Truth down
lo the level of Ihe Inst man and woman
of you when he said; "We rams from
Thee, oh, God, and we have no rest till
we return lo Thee.” Heaven Is Ihe
keen nnd unfaltering ambition of the
soul for- which Ihe universe and Its
God have no rebuke and whirl; may be
trusted to range In unhindered llbcrtv.
God is Calling'Us.
• We believe In Heaven for still an
other reason. There are emotions we
hove felt and experiences we have hud
whjch we realize at the tjme ns not
earth bom. Heaven lay about us In
our Infancy when we roamed ns chil
dren In the mountains nnd said to ench
other: “That Is your mountain;" "This
Is mine," or under Ihe skies and as
signed the stars 'to ench other i>r
claimed the moon ns a plaything on
the nursery floor In our purs heavenly
mindedness, but Heaven lies about even
still. We feel now nnd again gushes of
femlcrnesn and glittering* of mind
which we cannot oxplain, but which
wo know must have como from Heaven.
When D. L. Moody Paid In his dying
breath, “Earth Id receding; Heaven Is
opening; Ood Js railing me," he was
but saying for the last time what In
reality had been the experience of his
heart many times before.
“What are you doing, my boy?" said
a gentleman to a lad who wbh sitting
with hand and eyes up toward a thick
cloud. “I am sailing my kite, sir/* “But
where Is your kite—I don’t see any
kite? How tlo you know there Is any
kite on the other end of that stringT*
“I know It by the way she pulls/’ was
the boy** confident reply. So do we
know that there Is a Heaven. We feel
the drawing.
"He thnt made this ear shnll He not
hear? He that formed the eye, shall
He not see?"
What u consolation of life It Is! What
an assurance to know that God te
thinking of us. And we do know it.
God must be thinking of us today else
our hearts would not so burn. The
nnclent legend tells us that when
Theseus wns about to enter the labv-
rlnth with drawn sword to destroy the
monster, his sister, Ariadne, had tied
around his ankle a silken thread and
told him that when lie felt the gentle
pulling of thnt thread ho would know
thnt she wns thinking of him. Do you
desire to pray and to be answered?
Do you crave pardon nnd peace? Do
you realize a longing for Heaven? It
you do, and whenever you do. He that
made the ear Is hearing; He that form
ed the eye Is seeing. Ood would have
you know that He Is thinking of you.
THE FRUITS OF TOIL KS
By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD, j
PASTOR UNIVERSAL1ST CHURCH !
n nc nt the most baneful resulte of
the earlier theological Idea regarding
'he c reation of the world nnd the nd-
vent of man together with his fall
frern primal purity and Innocence was
that It dishonored toll and tended to
degrade the toller. Man, because of
dl'ohedlence, was banished from a life
of case and opulence and sentenced to
J* |lla,p his crime by a life term at
J» r -1 labor. Thus human toll came to
"e "'nsldered In the light of a great
* vl *. * tremendous hardship; to be es
caped if a t ai| possible, or else to be
submitted to In great wearineee of
, body and bitter lamentations of
tbe spirit.
The most persistent nnd permanent
' fa " "t any people nre thoee which
c"n\p to It through fte religious beliefs,
once the altogether too prevalent and
erroneous conception of labor today.
- " e have reason for the most pro-
, nrt ,ifiUtude to the shapers of our
•inical code and to those who bare re-
.' *° *h* earliest spiritual longings
:"h*. trlv lngs of,,the race, but we nre
enn ezrusnble If we are prone to
,* that the writer or writers
,h e Genesis stigma upon
l ns ' nan r °ll were Indolent and ease lov-
l.slfi! *•* not condemned as a puli-
- m nt to a life of unending toll.
Rather l
«s he rescued from the Inevit
able disintegration, physical and moral,
of a life of Idleness, end elevated to
the highest order In Ihe gift of un
grudging nature by being made a co
laborer with Ood. That Genesis writer
wrought better than he knew when he
made the Almighty to declare, "Cursed
shall Ihe ground be for thy sake
Since flrst he became a conscious being
breathing the spirit of aspiration with
the very nlr 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 le to be pitied rather than
despised who Is content to eat h i
bread In the sweat of another mnn s
As one of his mnst 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 his own llfcnnd
living, dignified loll nnd lifted Ihe
toller far above the kings and rulers
of the earth by making him a partner
with Ood in His works of unending
Genesis. Therefore, we are Justified In
repudiating any theology which per
sists In declaring the Institution of hu
man labor to he the retributive act of
the All Father, Just as we owe It to the
continued prograss of the race to. per
sistently discredit any modern philos
ophy which continues to suggest or to
embody that Idea. Any Institution or
organisation whose teachings lead to
ihe conclusion In the average mind
that human toll Is a curse rather than
a blessing, exists as a constant menace
to society.
Any Individual who Inborn In any
R reductive capacity 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 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-
|y, toward two results.
First, there Is the consummation of
the task demanded by aspiration nr 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 nnd precious In the eyes of
the Master Workman, there Is the per
manent fruitage In the soul of the toll
er. This, after all. Is the real object
of all human toll. And It Is only as
this becomes n conscious efTort Instead
of an unconscious though Inevitable
result, that we escape,the degrading
ilrugery 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 faah-
rtf£V. E. D. ELLEN WOOD.
toning "the house not made with
hands," that the thing upon which we
labrr becomes Indeed the work of God
Ins.vsd of the demanded portion of the
leak master.
It Is well for us, therefore, amid all
of our rejoicing over the growing sense
of the worth nnd the dignity of humun
life, and the Increasing spirit of human
brotherhood which prompts Ihe toller,
to request and the employer to grant
a constantly Increasing wage and a
constantly decreasing service; It le well
for us* I say, that we should carefully
and fearlessly analyze the motives
which control nnd actuate all such
movements. It It be that, having more
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 endure 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
Inbor, and more of time for our own
possession In order that we shall be
able lo culllvnte for ourselves that
true culture of Ihe soul which lifts a
mnn Into companionship with the Im
mortals and lessens for him Ihe domi
nation of the merely physical, then. In
deed, ny»y we rejoice and glvg lo every
effort to secure a higher wage and a
shorter day our most hearty support.
Hut If, on the other hand, we shall dis
cover that we are only seeking to be
relieved of toll because It Is a burden
Increasingly Irksome to us; that wc are
only asking for more of 1 time for our
selves In order that we shall have more
time to spend os the fool spend* It;
that we are only demanding more re
muneration for our toll In order that
we, too, may hare 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 lo 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 rermlnly learn lo our ever
lasting shame and confusion that the
gratification of such Impulses and such
motives must eventually rob us of the
actual fruits of our toil. "Beware of
covetousness, for a man’s life conslst-
eth not In the abundance of the things
which he possesseth."
The covetousness of the oppressed Is
no less deplorable than .the Insatiable
greed of the oppresser, and the Indo
lence or Idleness of the toller Is no less
a sin against Ood end humanity than
the Inordinate demands of the task
master.
CATTLE RAISERS
TQ REOPEN CASE
By ITtvnt* l/ianl Win*.
Washington* 8*pt. 1.—The Cattle
Raisers’ Association of Texas and the
Chicago Live Stock Exchange today
applied to the Interstate commerce
commission for what pro ^'rally
amounts to a reopening of Its -ases
against the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy and other ratt'e carrying rail
roads. They submitted n supplemental
petition praying for nn order of the
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 and unjust.
In a previous decision by the com
mission this contention is sustained,
and |1 was suggested ns n reasonable
charge. But the commission had no
power to enforce Its Judgment.
A public hearing to be held on Sep
tember 12 at 10 a.m. nt the office of
the commission was ordered by the In
terstate commerce commission today
to consider the petitions from various
cotton 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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