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I I 111 1111 ITTTTTT
No longer Teddy bear, but Teddy for
• bear.
An association of Innocent Bystanders
BurriTing the Vanderbilt Cup Races
Why. the legislature might prohibit the
boll weevil! •
’ Would that our creditors would estab-
Msh a parole board.
Turkey Is tn revolt—also mince pie and
■feet Thanksgiv ag things.
Mabody seems greatly concerned about
future of President Taft.
£wf«c'.ring the sugar trust oughtn't to
M difficult for the government.
Not to boast at all, but how could
the world get on without Atlanta?
Perhaps Macon will use Mercer's old
•ite and buildings as p locdtion for the
I capital.
I Atlanta is now leading as a musical
and educational point, as well as com-
knereially.
£ • The price of coal is rising. This may
be due in part to inspection of weighing
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Richmond is fortunate in not having
to furnish a hat large enough to cover
Atlanta's heart.
The back to the country movement will
Li given a considerable impetus, no doubt,
during the Xmas holidays. z
' ' The up-to-date prodigal son can tell
the old man on the farm that he is heed,
in/ the back to the soil call.
« Auburn-Vanderb’.lt game? We'll
hgve to possess our souls in patience un
til the aviation meet next montn.
r French designers are putting out hat
pins with heads three inches across. Acb'
, Why not arm ’em with razors and be
' done with it?
According to modern geographers ai
Panama, an isthmps is a thick neck of
J" land. 40 miles across and 9,000 miles deep
Most Russian and Norwegian writers
become crazed before they die. They
take the sins of the world too much to
heart »
Don't try too hard to get a thing. You
.» might be successful, and thereby lose
•osnething better that the gods had in
■tore for you. t
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The courts have decided a man may
poison his land to get rid of his nelgh
' hoc’s chicken*. but they haven't ruled
on eats and dogs.
Now that the elections are all favor
able. perhaps the Democrats will let
prices come down, just to show the good
effects of Democracy.
Brazil has quieted down and Mexico is
•practically quiet. It does seem impossi
ble to have any prolonged excitement
south of the United States. .
It is right to be good, but the doings
of the bad are so interesting! How could
we get on without the dally recital of
their murders, divorces, thievings, etc.?
By using the" cable judiciously, Mr.
Hears, succeeded in refusing a place on
the New York Republican state ticket be
fore he was asked.
Madero, to say the least, is the most
mysterious of modern Insurgents. No one
has yet located him. although he has
been reported wounded.
Grasshoppers are eating Wisconsin’s to
bacco crop. Nobody'll holler if you
smoke grasshoppers instead of those in-
* cook.” says Mrs. Mary Chapin,' Boston
“new thought" woman. Whew! our tur-
just reek with tobasco already.
The mere face that former United States
• Senator David B. Hill was a Democrat
jpnd left a small estate will hardly hand
B* nlm down in history as a great states
” man ‘
»- * But if your wife paid two prices for
- the children's shoes, remember its due
, to a 'lope! reflection" of the Payne-Al-
Brich tariff, for which the Leather Trust
is awful sorry.
An eastern muck-raker has found that
fe, grand operas are based on murders, sui-
K cides and such. Maybe that's why our
B*. western grand operas arouse that yearn-
V, Ing to kill something.
3 “How should fat women be belted this
MNsaon? The style seems to run to nar
.now straps '—Mrs. M. Bon Pointe. Oh,
3 just use a wash board, ironing board or
■ the top of the bridge table.
Fashion says that when they swear-in
I' King George, next spring, "coronation
Velvet" worn next the skin will be the
thing Anything to make it more com
fortable for these blajned °iectfic coast
fr flea r
A contractor says he can raise the
Maine and bring her into New York un
der her own steam. Probably the same
fellow who raised Joe Foraker and
put Mm into the Ohio campaign under
- his own steam
.Dr. Turnbull, father of one of the
Lucky Baldwin estate claimants, says
be is going armed to the teeth next time
L- / ’he visits' California. It may scare ofr
■ klndapers but the thing that's eatin’
I that estate is lawyers.
WHAT THE PRISON PAROLE MEANS.
The meeting of the United States prison parole board in At
lanta is an event of extraordinary importance. It marks the be
ginning of another advance in our mastery of the problem of
crime, another stride forward in intelligence as well as in hu
manity.
The idea embodied in this parole system will in the long run
transform the prison into a school and the prisoner into a citizen.
The present board is the first of its kind ever established
under national law. A number of years ago the federal govern
ment. realizing that the mere punishment of wrongdoers was in
sufficient both for the prisoner and for society, passed what is
known as “the good behavior act.” Under this act, the individ
uality of the prisoner was taken into account to the extent that
a prisoner who obeyed rules and showed a respect for proper
authority was a different sort of man from the one who defied
them ani,! that therefore he was entitled to credit, and what is us
more importance, was entitled to encouragement.
• This was a notable step upward. For, there was a time when
a prisoner was just a prisoner and nothing more. He was not a
man; he was scarcely considered a human being. But we have
come «to understand, though slowly, that after all there is but
little difference between the man on the outside looking in, as
the old comedy song put it, and the man on the inside looking
out. We have come to see further that the cure of crime is a
vastly more important thing than the punishment of crime. In
deed, punishment has little social significance, except as a stage
in the cure.
Now the parole system for federal prisoners is simply a prac
tical s and cautious application of these ideas. The board in the
present instance consists of Mr. Robert V. LaDow, United States
superintendent of prisons, Warden Moyer, who is in the charge
of the federal prison et Atlanta and Dr. A. L. Fowler, the prison
physician. This board is authorized to consider applications for
parole from prisoners who have served a third of their sentence,
one year at least, and who have observed all the prison rules.
There are other stipulations, but these are the major ones.
The prisoner who is paroled remains under the supervision
of the authorities until the day his original sentence expires and
he is required to make monthly reports of his whereabouts and
of what" he is doing. He is permitted, however, to return to his
family and to a self-sustaining occupation. Just here comes one
of the most important features of the entire system. No prisoner
who is physically sound will be paroled until work has been se
cured for him and the government itself does its utmost to find
him employment.
z ’The parole system is a matter of sense, not sentimentality.
A man who is not fit to go back into society should not be par
oled, but on the other hand a man who is capable of serving the
community and of conducting himself as a citizen should certain
ly not be in prison; for that is social extravagance. As Superin
tendent LaDow points out, there are men in prison for offenses
which must be chastened by the law, but which do not involve
moral turpitude. For such cases, the parole is the logical treat
ment.
Under the direction of the federal government this system
will be developed to its highest and most practicable form. The
separate states will thus be given a luminous example which, it
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■ ENV-y SLAYETH THE SILLY ONE."
Well, well,' who would have thought that The Journal’s little
neighborly chat about Memphis and its census figures would ever
have provfced such a fit of hysterics as the Commercial Appeal
has given way to!
The Commercial Appeal, be it known* is a newspaper that
lives in Memphis. That is the only cause we can imagine for its
having turned so red in the face when we congratulated its city
on having held at least fourth position among its southern sisters.
My, how the Commercial Appeal does kick up and scream! Un
der date of November the twentieth it begins an editorial by
saying: “There is great rejoicing and some lying in Atlanta over
the Memphis census.” And then it breaks loose into a tirade on
Atlanta, the like of which the most henpecked husband never
heard.
It says that Atlanta faked her census and padded it right
under the eyelids of Uncle Sam; that there are more folks in the
suburbs of Memphis than there are in Atlanta’s corporate limits
and her suburbs put together; and when its tongue runs out of
anything else to say it just lets forth and cusses. ,
Dear Madam, pray compose yourself, off there in your cen
sus cellar. You might have fared far worse, and with no better
temper than you now show you will doubtless fare much worse
next time. We would suggest—for we are still most'kindly dis
posed to you—that you break up some of those antebellum plan
tations in your city limits. Turn them into small farms and use
modern intensive methods of cultivation. You will then raise
more cdtton in your |own and get more settlers.
And finally let us remind you of Job’s saying that “wrath
killeth the foolish man and envy slayeth the silly one.”
YOUR OWN HEALTH AND OTHERS.
There was once a time when we imagined that every child
must have the measles and the whooping cough or something
just as bad. A certain share of ailments, it appeared, was nat
*ural if not inevitable, man being “born unto trouble as the sparks
fly upward.”
Happily this darkness has been dispelled. Health, we have
learned, is ,the earth’s intended order; disease is the unnatural
thing; and, most important of all, we have learned that many of
the s<f-called common diseases are preventable. If'this truth cau
be carried as a vital conviction into the daily life of every house
hold, there is no telling how much stronger and happier mankind
will become.
To do this very thing here in Atlanta is the purpose of a se
ries of publie health meetings that are to begin next Saturday
evening, December the third, under the joint direction of the
Federation Women’s clubs and the Fulton County Medical As
sociation. The meetings will be held in the assembly room of the
Carnegie Hhrary on successive Saturday evenings and they will
be open to the general public. The subjects to be discussed will
include the cause and cure of children’s diseases, food values,
how colds are caught and how they may be avoided, how to care
for the sick room and many other matters that concern the every
day safety and wellbeing of us all.
A more important movement has never been projected. If
the people will take advantage of the opportunities it offers we
shall in the end do away with epidemics of diphtheria and scarlet
fever such as recently alarmed the city. These epidemics are due
principally to a lack of public interest or public knowledge of
known facts and duties. A mild case of contagion often causes
scores of deaths.that would never be if parents realized that they
are really responsible for the health of the community as well as
for the health of their individual home.
The big fact about these approaching lectures is that they
will arouse and direct a widespread public sentiment on this sub
ject. It is much to be hoped that they will be heard by large
audiences from first to last.
THE ATLANTA SEMIWEEKLT JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA.TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1910,.
' THE UNEXPIRED SENATORIAL TERM.
The suggestion that a special primary be held to fill the un
expired term of the late United States Senator Clay is unwar
ranted either by reason or precedent or by the principles of
popular government.
In the first place, Georgia is just recovering from a glut of
elections. Time and again this year politics has called the peo
ple away from their business. There have been congressional
elections, state elections, county elections, city elections, primaries
and second primaries, crowding one upon the othel* until the
public is surfeited and business cries out for a rest. The order
ing of still another primary, and a special one at that, to fill this
unexpired senatorial term would serve only to protract condi
tions for which the state’s peace and industry have already paid
dear. A primary would doubtless mean a campaign with its
attendant upheavals and statewide agitation, its demands upon
the citizens’ time, its cost in money and energy. Nothing is now
further from the people’s need or desire.
But in addition to this very practical consideration, that
bears upon the interests of every man in the state, is the further
fact that a primary to fill an unexpired senatorial term is wholly
without precedent. Georgia is a pioneer in the practice of sub
mitting to the people the choice of United Staees senators, a
record of which she has cause to be proud. But never has she
fallen into the folly of holding a special election simply to fill an
uuexpired term of this office. She has always left that duty en
tirely with the legislature. What particular reason is there to
break with this custom now ? What are the motives that impel
politicians of an outworn and repudiated machine to come for
ward at this late day and prate of the justice and the need of
calling an extra election?
They might urge just as logically that,a special primary
should be called to fill the unexpired term of the solicitorship
of the Stone Mountain circuit or to fill any judgeship left vacant
by death or resignation. t
The truth is they know, as well as the people themselves do,
thajt according to law and common sense an unexpired term in
the senate must be filled by the legislature. If in the present
instance a senator were to be elected for a full term the situation
would be different and would call for a different rule. In such
case, however, the time for a regular primray would have ar
rived. The voters would ballot at the same poll both for mem
bers of the general assembly and for a senatorial nominee and
every legislator then elected would be bound to support the
senatorial candidate whom the people had approved.
Bilt the predent legislature was chosen in a primary that in
no seilie involved the senatorial issue. On this matter they were
not called upon to commit themselves. Therefore, even though
a special primary should now be held, this general assembly
would not, under the law, be bound to accept the nominee of •
such a primary. To be sure, they would be morally impelled
to accept him but the point here urged is just this: That Geor
gia’s plan for the pbpular election of United States senators con
sists in naming concurrently the senator and the legislature,
which in the end must elect him. The federal constitution pro
vides that senators must be elected by the legislatures of the
respective states. In Georgia we have got around this difficulty
by holding the Dentocratic primary for the state legislature anu
for the United States senatorship at the same time. But under
this very plan it is obvious that if a vacancy in the senatorship
arises, it must be filled temporarily by the legislature then in
office dintil the time for another regular primary comes around
when the people themselves will again nominate for a full sena
torial term. ■
These facts and reasons are too well known by the public
of Georgia to call for more than a restatement.
The truth is this present agitation for a special primary,
reversal of all usage and practical sense, is simply the scheme j
of the old political ring, whose slate was smashed in 1906 and
1910, to muddy the water as much as they can in hopes that their
leader will float to the top. v
They want to bring as many candidates as possible into the
field hnd then by concentrating their own strength elect a man
who is at once the creature and the engineer of a reactionary
political machine.
They know well enough that the principle of popular elec
tions for United States senators is not in any sense here involved
But what an amazing zeal for popular electipns they have sud
denly developed! To be sure, what they have to say has no
logical bearing on this unexpired senatorial term, but then they
are so brimful of love for the people, so aflame with devotion to
popular government that they simply can’t contain themselves.
Satan still quotes Scripture when it serves his designs.
But the people are not fooled by this froth and cant. When
ever owls come to love the sunlight and m.olgg live in treetops
and wfilves take to guarding sheep, then the people will listen to
this old gang’s discourse on popular rights.
The state Democratic executive committee should certainly
not call a special primary to fill an unexpired senatorial term,
for it would be p’aying into the hands of repudiated politicians
whose sole desire is to further their personal ends.
HATS AND BALDNESS.
Eminent doctors are seriously questioning the popular idea
that by going bareheaded one may prevent, or at least postpone
baldness. They suspect, indeed, that the present fad for taking
the sun and the wind without any headgear whatsoever may be
a straight road to becoming like Samson after Delilah had fin
ished with him. ,
This theory opens a most interesting field of speculation.
Who knows but that it may fetch back from oblivion the once
cherished nightcap? How times do change! When Mr. Pickwick
was surprised by the lady in the yellow curl papers, his chief
source of embarrassment lay in the ’ fact that he did not have
time to pull on his night cap, and there he squirmed on the bol
ster, praying that the bed coverings would swallow him. For
a gentleman to be taken unawares without that decent head
covering—why, nothing could then have been more Humiliating.
The truth is, too, that the nightcap has its comforts as well as its
one-time proprieties.' We abandoned it because of a foolish fear
that it would make our hair fall out. Now that the doctors have
reassured us, we shall probably revive it.
Going bareheaded is a practice most devoutly to be wished
at certain times and among women at all times; such at least
would be the view of matter-of-fact husbands. But it is good
to know that we may, if we wish, wear a hat or a cap without
a hairless destiny staring us in the face.
Why, however, should a mortal look with such dread upon
baldness? If there were no baldheaded gentlemen what would
become of the front row at the theater? There was a time when
a man to be seemly had to wear a wig flowed below his
shoulders, and whiskers were once considered as necessary as eye
lashes or thumbs. Undoubtedly they were so to our early for
bears, battling With winter and brambles and wild beasts. But as
civilization with its protecting influences advanced, these chin*
thickets became needless. Some scientists think that eventually
they will vanish from the human-race just as the sixth toe van
ished millions of years ago. Is it, then, unthinkable that the
time may come when all men will be baldheaded, hats or no hats?
Society will to be sure be a droll looking aggregation, but then
nobody will know it ■ . - .
Too Little Religious Capital for
the Amount of Religious Business
By Bishop Warren A. Candler
<■ 'the worship of self is such a subtle
thing that men often fall into it when
they least suspect it.
A former generation was profoundly
moved with matters of personal experi
ence in religion, and many lost sight of
every thing else but the saving of their
own souls. The religious people of the
present generation are in danger of go
ing to the opposite extreme, of making
pothlng of their own salvation while
busying themselves unceasingly about the
reformation of others. We hear nyich
talk of “my mission", “my life work”,
and such like. All these phrases have
the sound of great unselfishness, but they
may cover, and often do cover, the most
perilous vanity and self-assertion.
What one conceives to be his ''mission”
may easily acquire in his esteem a cer
tain tangible value, and become a kind of
property in which his position and suc
cess is Involved.' He presses it with
eagerness because It’s triumph enhances
his own importance and it's failure brings
discredit upon him'. He seeks to get
hold of other minds, not because he feels
a disinterested concern for their well
being, but oecauce be desires to acquire
dominion*over souls. He aims at con
quests for his own glory, although he
really believes that such "benevolent as
similation" will be for the good of those
whom he annexes to his cause. He falls
into a sort of proselytising Pharisaism
like that of those whom Jesus condemn
ed when he said, “Ye compass sea and
land to make one proselyte, a>d when he
Is made ye make him two fold more the
child othell than yourselves”, boubt
less the Pharisees, whom the Master thus
sharply denounced, felt that they were
benefiting and blessing the prpselytes
whom they made; but they really occu
pied a selfish relation to the propagation
of the Aith which they professed, and
they assumed airs of superiority in moral
character over those whom - they prose
lyted in no wlsq justified by the facts in
the case. They often went on their
“missions” to save better men than them
selves.
The same thing may be seen in our
Own country. There are men and women
among us who maka"'tours among what
they call “the poor” and “the slums",
vainly imagining that they are doing re
ligious work, when in truth they are
further from God than the unfortunate
people to whoqj they go. A of
“society", bavins’ wearied herself with
the spectacles of the playhot/ae and sur
feited herself with the Inanities of
•bridge parties” and the like," seeks to vary
her programme by doing some “religious
work"; but can any one who knows any
thing of the meaning of the New Testa
ment imagine for a moment that she has
the smallest qualification for the “mis
sion” which she thus sets about? What
does she ki\ow of the law of self-sacrifice
and »the mind of Christ? Wherein is she
superior in piety to the poor people upon
whom she intrudes her superserviceable
and gratuitous attentions? They have the
vices of poverty claß in cheap garb, while
she has the vices of bpulence robed in
costly apparel; but beneath raiment and
all outward appearance beat hearts equal
ly estranged from God. If there be a
difference between the visitor and the
visited in point of piety, it.Js probably
In favour of the latter. may
retuzn from her-jrounds and report to her
“church circle” all she has seen and
done; but she has not seen the poor's
deepest need, and if she had seen it she
could have done nothing to relieve the
desperate want. She has seen some of
the bodily suffering of the poor, but not
their spiritual wants. Never suffering
herself, she fancies that suffering is the
worst possible thing In the universe, and
that, if bodies be warmed and fed, souls
may be left chilled and starved without
serious hurt. Why should she think
otherwise? Is not her own soul utterly
destitute? Her notion is that if the poor
were as well clothed, housed, and fed as
she is, they would need nothing more;
for if that did not gain for them en
trance into the kingdom of heaven it
would at least admit them to “society”,
which is better than the kingdom of
heaven. She goes about getting the poor
some clothes, substituting raiment for re
ligion and costume for conversion. Os
course, she does not mean to make of the
poor such arch-angels as those who fill
her set; that grade of salvation by
clothes comes too high; she will make
such angels as half-worn clothes of last
season's fashions can make. All this she
calls “practical Christianity”.
Now, I happen to know that many of
the j>oor resent this sort of thing, and
there would be little hope of them if
they were so lost to self-respect that
•they did not resent it. Whatever bodily
suffering may. abound among certain
classes, their heart-pains are thousand
fold more poignant. They want broth
erly and sisterly recognition and sym
pathy, and, above all, they want God’s
NOW FOR THE REAL FIGHT.
It would be hard to overgauge the educational value of the
recent boll weevil congress that was held in Atlanta under the
direction of the Chamber of Commerce. Business men as well as
farmers were aroused to the importance of preparing pow for
war against this destructive pest which will reach Georgia soil
by 1912 and which, if unchecked, will mean an annual loss o>
many million dollars in cotton.
The state is particularly fortunate in already possessing
competent agencies whereby the popular interest thus bestirred
can be turned to definite account. These agencies are principally
the department of entomology, reinforced by the department of
agriculture and the state Agricultural college. The Farmers’ Ed
ucational and Co-operative Union will likewise prove a potent
ally in the campaign that will at once begin.
With a thoroughly awakened public sentiment and with
these scientifically trained workers, there is every reason to ex
pect that Georgia can cope with fine results against her cotton's
most dangerous foe. It is essential, however, that the three state
institutions just mentioned should be provided with adequate
appropriations for carrying on this special work. In a battle
that means so much to the people as a whole, they should not be
hampered by lack of funds; and one of the best services that the
individual citizen can now render is to impress upon his county s
representative in the legislature the need of liberal appropri
ations in this respect.
The state department of entomology, under Mr. E. L. Wor
sham has been vigorously at work for? at least five years past -on
the boll weevil'problem. So has the department of agriculture
under Commissioner Hudson and the state agricultural college
under Dr. Andrew M. Soule. These institutions, if supported
from the state’s treasury as they should be, and if backed by
public cooperation, as they doubtless will be, are nmplylable to
carry the campaign against the boll weevil to a most successful
end. They are thoroughly familiar with conditions that are pe
culiar to Georgia. They will prove skilful and, in every sense,
worthy captains of the battle line.
The peril of the boll weevil cannot be overestimated. Geor
gia’s agricultural fate for years to come hangs upon the prompt
ness and vigor with which she makes ready against its invasion.
Yet, the methods that will be employed to resist this pest will
immeasurably advance and enrich our farming interests. • Inten
sive methods of cultivation have always been desirable; now they
are inescapable if the weevil is to be withstood. We may there
fore be comforted that out of this approaching ill good will come.
life in their souls. They have sorrows
which only divine grace can soothe and
sins which only Christ's power can re
lieve. They wairt what Jere Macaulay
carried to Water Street and Sam Hadley
carried to the Bowery; but such blessed
ministries can not be fulfilled by any
who do not know for themselvus the
agonies of unfoi given sin ana wn
of assured pardon. It is idle ror
dainty, unredeemed, and unrepentant
children of fashion and folly to go to ,
such classes with bundles of old clothes
and baskets of sandwiches. “Map does
not live by bread alone,” nor by bread
chiefly.
In all herein said it Is not Intended to
discourage mission work, but to point
out the qualifications that are indis
pensable for such work and the spirit
wound more than it heals. Moreover, this
paper is designed to warn all Christian
workers of every sort against a danger
which easily besets them, viz., the dan
ger of magnifying their “mission”
above their own personal piety.
On one occasion the disciples of Jesus
were sent on a most important mission
and for its fulfillment tney reu?‘T«4
extraordinary powers. They were qultz
successful, and when they returned they
exultantly reported to Him, “Master, the
very devils were subject to us.’* Jesus
replied. “Rejoice not that the devils are
subject to you, but that your names are
written in heaven.” " Thus he taught
them that being is more than doing, that
one's life is more than one's work, that
our salvation must outrank our mission,
that our relation to God must go before
our efforts for others.
Canon Mozley, in one of his great "Uni
versity Sermons” preached at the Uni
versity of Oxford. England, has put |his
important matter most clearly and forci
bly. He says, "Those who feel that they
have a mission may convert It into a
snare for themselves. Doubtless, if ac
cording to St. Paul, 'he who desireth the
office of a bishop desireth a good work’,
so one who has a mission to do some
particular work has a good office given
hirrv Still, where life is too prominently
regarded in this light, the view of life
as a mission tends to supersede the view
of it as a trial and probation. The mis
sion becomes the final cause of life. The
generality may be born to do their duty
in that station of life in which it has
pleased God to call them; but in the case
-of a person with a mission, th© mission
overtops and puts into the shade the gen
eral purpose of life as probation, the
generality are sent into the world for
their own moral benefit, but the person
with a mission is apt to feel that he is
sent into the world for the benefit of the
world itself. The outward object with its
display and machinery is apt to reduce to
a kind of insignificance the inward indi
vidual life. It appears small and com
monplace. The success of one’s own in
dividual probation is assumed In embark
ing upon the' larger work, as the less is
included in the greater; it figures as a
mere preliminary matter, which may ba
taken for granted; it appears an easy
thing to save one's own soul,—a thing, so
to speak, for any body to do”. In these
words the learned Regius Professor of Di
vinity at Oxford put his finger on a weak
spot in much of present-day religion.
We have a vast deal of busy-body Chris
tianity, bent on all sorts of “missions”,
shallow and superficial in its own
noisy and fussy about its work,
with blazing zeal, without knowledge
God, and destitute of any real faith and
love.
It burns with an unholy flame, and
would call down fire from heaven upon
all who do not fall in with its schemes
and plans. Its test for the piety of all
men is, do they adopt my program? And
it has no test for its own piety, for it
never suspects that its own religion needs
testing. It has many conventions and
movements, and it rigs up a vast deal
of complicated machinery guarantee to
turn out a millenium in an Incredibly
short time provided all hands will lay
down every thing else and operate It ac
cording to directions. k
It is time to sound a different note.
This age needs to learn anew what Jesus
meant when He said. “The kingdom of
God is within you.” It is undertaking in
many places to do much religious busi
ness on too small a capital of religious
experience. That road leads to spiritual
bankruptcy, and a good many of our lat
ter-day saints have already gone to
wreck by following It. Solemn are the
words of the Master “Many will say to
me In that day. Lord, Lord, have we not
prophesied in thy name? and in thy aamo
have cast out devils? and tn thy nami
done many wonderful works? And then
will I profess unto them, I never knew
you.”
What ever else a man may undertake,
he must first of ail keep himself right
with God. One’s life is more than one’i
mission.
