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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1913.
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^CWOCTED VfITUS. \T. H-FLUTD/I •
THE FREE SUGAR QUESTION—AS I
SEE IT.
The cheapest article of food and the
most generally used has for a lorig
time been sugar. It is .stated by ex
perts that it averages eighty pounds to
each inhabit apt of the United States
annually. To be more concise, every
body uses more or less of sugar and
millions of tons are necessary to sup
ply the individual needs o fthe world
of mankind.
To raise sugar you must plant cane
or beets or something else from which
saccharine matter can be expressed and
afterwards boiled down to the sugar
stage. It requires land to be bought,
and to be cultivated, and labor to be
paid out of the profit. It must be re
fined and handled several times before
it reaches your table. Every time the
product is touched it means money out
of somebody’s pocket. If the sugar fails
to pay expenses, the people will quit
the business of making it. They are
not in it for fun or public demonstra
tions.
Now, when a pound of nice, clean
granulated sugar is brought into your
pantry by the grocer and laid down for
5 cents without any further expense to
yourself, pray, why should anybody
have a. kick laid up for the sugar grow
ers and sugar refiners
That *is a most reasonable statement,
as I have set it down. If the people
who, grow it and wh 0 grind and cook it
and those who buy barrels and send it
to market, and the retail men buy it and
pay 5 cents a pound, in the name of
common sense, why do they not “let
well enough alone?” Are you so greedy
that you can’t let these growers, mak
ers, refiners and grocers get a trifling
percentage for their time and labor
I am completely disgusted with the
present congressional light on the su
gar makers of this country. If you do
not watch out, the time is coming
wVten «ugar raisers after these United
• States are bankrupted that you will
> . as much for a pound of sugr as for
. as much for a pound .of sugar as
: pound of hog-belly bacon,
litre’s the sense in fooling with
that are already'cheap enough
i ..tisfy a miser?
NG JOURNEY-HAND IN HAND,
♦ jin teen years ago, on August 25, I&99,
Altered the brand-new Semi-Weekly
nai columns under the heading of
r Country Home Column,” and I
Ye kept to ray post of duty, without a
single failure to send in my bi-weekly
articles, except in one instance-vwhen
Death entered our home four years ago,
and my heart and hands were too full
for utterance—during those long fourteen
years.
Fourteen years are many, no matter if
:->:r 'count thorn singly^ or all together.
j»:»mnier’s heat and winter’s cold, with
- .c^v .i dawne and purple twilights, in
.. .days and. with torrid, sunlight, I
r .upd. at the sentry post and t ried
out, “All’s well! There’s light ahead!”
If there is a single editor or edirress
who came in with me on that August day
in 1899 I cannot recall the name. Per
haps there are some printers who have
borne me steady company, but I do not
know that there is a single one.
To say I have enjoyed it does not cover
half the truth. I have been happy in the
work. It has been a little pulpit, where
I coula read my text and then explain its
Meaning twice a week. Many of the
dear readers have gone on and over.
Peace to their dust, and a glad meeting
in the “sweet by and by!”
Shall we not shake hands and start an
other, the fifteenth year, with cheery
hearts and glad wishes for our oppor
tunity?
I send greetings to all the working force
on the great Journal newspaper, frmt the
big editor to the errand boys that are all
so willing to do me a kindness in. the
great Atlanta office.
Best wishes, good cheer, and kindest
greetings!
THE FRANK TRIAD OVER. A RELIEF
About 5 o’clock, a lady passing up
our street said to me. “Have you heard
the Frank Verdict?” In ten minutes
after the foreman of the jury announced
the fate of Leo Frank— in the court
room in Atlanta. Every considerable
town in Georgia had the news. Four
weeks of stress and strain were at last
ended—and there was a feeling of re
lief that nothing worse had come along
with this trial, before it ended.
While there are a few r in our town
who contend that the evidence was en
tirely insufficient to convict—ninetenths
—yes ninety hundredth are saying—“it
was just right.” I am glad I was not
one of the Jury—although I suspect I
should have voted the same way. I
am not sure that I favor what we call
“capital punishment,” except for one
crime—because it is a serious thing to
condemn a human being to the gallows
or the electric chair. Especially upon
circumstantial evidence. But there is
the other side also. There has been
agony—suffering—anxiety—the torture
of suspicion—and the poor little girl—
that was the victim. I was In the city
of Atlanta on the day that poor child’s
body was found.
The city was full of cultured people
who were attending the sociological
congress. I felt it was a pity that
such a horrid crime should have pollut
ed our capitol city—so full as it was of
educated and intelligent strangers—just
then.
But I imagine the trial has been fair,
and the judge held the scales of justice
with a steady hand. My heart aches
for that poor mother, whose son has been
convicted of the crime. I rolled on my
bed last night until the wee-sma hours,
the pity in my heartwas so deep—and I
felt that she could have died a hun
dred times and never suffered half the
agony that fell on her heart and mind,
on yesterday.
“CHRISTIANIZING
SOCIETY”
By Bishop
W. A Candler
Emmeline Boyd sat on her veranda
In the twilight and watched the passers-
by in the street. She sat very still
with her hands folded. She was
dressed neatly and she had a red knit
shawl drawn about her prim shoulders.
She was the kind of woman which a
summer evening brings forth by the
dozens upon the verandas of a small
town—the kind that is comfortably
housed and provided for, but who have
Second Wife
ailed Up Spirit
-Sjf- His First Wife
(By Associated Press.)
. b f. LOUIS, Sept. 1.—Stephen F. Gar-
lock filed suit for divorce here today, in
which he charged that his second wife
inveigled him to a spiritualistic seance
where she called up the spirit of his
first wife who advised him to transfer
his property to his second wife. He
refused to transfer the property, he
said, and then his living wife called him
names.
;<EW YORK WOMEN FIRST TO
v. UMB MOUNT WASHINGTON
* (3y Associated Press.)
; ..ETON WOODS, N. H., Sept. 1.—
.:.*L>ng to the summit of Mount Wash-
s .uii over the dangerous trestle of the
^..vumain railway late at night, Mrs. W.
ricnlord.and Mrs. Beatrice Kecknadel,
New lork, accomplished a feat never
*-£ore undertaken, it is said, by women,
t'ne ascent was made as the result of a
Yager.
With a high wind blowing and no lights
io guide, the task of the climbers in
crossing over the loft Jacobs’ Ladder
trestle was regarded *as extremely peril
ous. As soon as railroad officials heard
that they had started up the mountain,
men with lanterns were sent after them to
dissuade them from the attempt but were
unable to overtake them until they were
close to the summit.
The two women reached the mountain
top about 10 o’clock, having covered the
distance of five miles in four hours and a
half. They remained at the house there
until morning, when Mrs. Henford’s hus
band arrived in his motor car and took
them back to their hotel.
WOMEN CABBIES DO NOT
FLOURISH IN GAY PAREE
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS, Sept. 1.—Women cab driv
ers are fast disappearing from the
streets of Paris. v Six years ago they
numbered fully one hundred; now there
are only six or seven and of these all
but one soon will give up the calling.
The one who means to remain has
given various reasons for the disfavor
with which her sex regards cab driving.
At first men rushed for vehicles driven
by women and tipped generously; but
that waB when reviews and songs were
advertising the new departure. One cab
woman says she makes not more than
six or seven francs a day, out of which
she has to pay a woman to look after
her household.
Hygiene Congress
Considers Penny
~ r - Lunch for Schools
(By Associated Press.)
BUFFALO, N. Y„ Sept! 1.—The re
lation of malnutrition to mental de
fectives and the possibilities of the
penny lunch in the school were sub
jects taken up by the International
Coagress on School Hygiene today.
The speakers Included Dr. Lewis C.
Wessels, of Philadelphia; Miss Mabel
Hyde Kittredge, of New York, and Dr.
F. Park Lewis, of Buffalo.
DALTON GREETS ITS
FIRST AUGUST BALE
DALTON, Ga., Sept- 1.—Lee Cox, ail
energetic rarmer of Murray county, just
east of here, accomplished something
for which farmers in this section have
been striving for in vain for the past
twenty .years by bringing to Dalton a
bale of new cotton in August.
The bale weighed 368 pounds and
brought him $70. It was purchased by
J. A. Looper, a cotton buyer for the
Crown Cotton Mills, at 12 1-2 cents
per pound, but the mills added $5 as a
premium, and the merchants made up
a neat sum. In addition to this, Prank
Vonberg, of Spring Place, gave Mr.
Cox $10, the total received bringing the
bale up to 19 cents per pound.
MRS. WILSON SENDS HER
HANDKERCHIEF FOR SALE
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
DALTON, Ga., Sept. 1.—Mrs. Wood-
row Wilson, wife of the president of
the United States, has sent to the Wom
an’s Foreigh Missionary society of the
First Presbyterian church a handker
chief. her own handiwork, to be includ
ed in the annual handkerchief sale
which will be held at the home of Mrs.
Mary Flemister on Crawford street
next Thursday afternoon. Enough ab
sent friends of the society have sent
handkerchiefs to make possible anoth
er booth, separate *-from those contain
ing the handiwork of the society mem
bers.
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS
ARE FELT IN SICILY
CBy Associated Prass.)
. MESSINA, Sicily, Sept.- 1.—-Seismic .in
struments here have registered during the
past twenty-four hours continued, earth
disturbances. A strong hurricane also has
been blowing which has practically de
stroyed a number of huts in the Ameri
can quarter. The populace fears that
these conditions foretell a fresh disaster.
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“Come, now,” pleaded Mrs. Collier.
no interest outside the home, the kind
for whom life has long since resolved
itself Into monotonous routine.
Emmeline Boyd's husband had put on
his hat and walked downtown to look
about. He would come back near bed
time smoking a cigar and expect to find
her exactly where he had left her. He
would have nothing to tell her. She
would have nothing to tell him, be
cause nothing ever happened to her
which was exciting enough to talk
about.
She had lived within the narrow lim
its of her own domesticity so long that
she was considered a bit queer. She
was left mainly to herself and her own
thoughts. And her own thoughts had
come to be very wearying. Her big,
dark eyes had a girlish wistfulness in
them as they gazed after other women
hurrying along on some secret, absorb
ing business. One walked with her hus
band. Another trundled a perambula
tor. Another was chatting volubly
with a grown-up daughter. Emmeline
knew that there was a moving picture
theater downtown which was much fre
quented. She had never been in it, but
she had an idea that most of these
women were going there.
A big woman wearing a smart new
hat came by. Emmeline caught her
eye and nodded. The woman went on
a few steps, then turned and came
quickly to the veranda. She leaned her
arms on the railing and 'looked over
them at Emmeline.
“How are you this evening, Mrs.
Boyd?” she asked.
“Very well, thank you, Mrs. Collier.”
“You better put on your things and go
down to the Woman’s club rooms with
me tonight and join. We’re going to
take in a lot of new members.”
Emmeline gasped. It was the nearest
approach to an utterance she could
make. “Come on,” urged Mrs. Collier.
“Do! We have splendid times together
—just women. There’s a big supper
coming off the 20th, and if you join to
night you’ll be just In time for it.”
Emmeline’s face was almost as red
as her knit shawl. She had heard of
the Woman’s club. She felt that Mrs.
collier had paid her a great compli
ment in asking her to join. And she had
a sudden, uprising, violent desire to ac
cept. But she had an idea that clubs
for women were somehow Improper. She
knew, too, that Burton would strongly
disapprove of it. He had no patience
with the increasing new movement on
the part of woman folk for liberty. And
he had saturated Emmeline with his
sentiments until she persuaded herself
that they were her own.
All her married life Emmeline had
striven to please her husband in all
things. She was the daughter of an old-
fashioned mother, who believed wom
an’s empire was her home, her one law
that which her husband prescribed for
her. Emmeline had thought to be pure
ly a womanly woman since in that way
only might she keep her husband’s love
and respect. Burton Boyd had con
ferred a favor on her by marrying her,
she felt, and she must not cease to
show her gratitude and appreciation. She
had cooked for him, mended for him,
lived for him without protest or de
mand. And he treated her accordingly.
Always she had been disturbed by a
feeling that she was his inferior, that
his position and his sex permitted him
to look down upon her. And of late
she had been more than disturbed, she
had been tortured, by the consciousness
that she had ceased to be to him of any
more interest than the chair he sat in
or the plate he ate his dinner from.
“Come, now,” pleaded Mrs. Collier.
Mrs. Collier was the whip for the Wom
an’s club and a good deal of her suc
cess depended on the way she could
smile and say that one word “Come!”
The word seemed to attach itself to
Emmeline and draw her forcibly. She
looked at Mrs. Collier’s smile and
fidgeted.
“Burton won’t like it,” she laughed,
uneasily.
“It’s none of Burton’s business, my
dear. Did he ask you when he wanted
to join the Masons? What’s fair for
one member of the firm is fair for the
other.” She glanced at her watch. “I
daresay he’s attending lodge tonight.
You’ll be back home before he is. Don’t
you want to join?”
“Ye-es.”
“Then—come!”
Mrs. Collier was using her final and
most compelling “come” and Emmeline
rose out of her chair. She did not know
what made her do it. She seemed car
ried along by some force she could not
withstand, would not have withstood
If she qoUld. She turned toward the
door.
“Don’t fix up.” commanded Mrs. Col
lier. “You look well enough. Just put
on your hat and—come!”
Emmeline put on her hat. She found
her gloves and a purse. She was palpi
tating from the effect of the unusual.
She locked the front door and hid the
key in the pot of geraniums. And she
went forth to new destinies with the
smiling and triumphant Mrs. Collier.
It was late when she returned—very
late for her. The club had not disband
ed until fully 10 o’clock and after that
there had been a good deal of chattering.
Mrs. Collier saw the new member home.
They came up the street talking vi
vaciously. No one could remain long in
Mrs. Collier’s presence without talking.
Emmeline was n>ore excited than she
had been since her wedding daj r and she
was almost as happy. For the first
time in her married life she had ceased
to think of home and Burton until she
actually saw both. For Burton sat on
the steps waiting for her glumly. The
eight of him recalled her and it was as
If mho came a long way. She bade Mrs.
Collier good night hastily and went to
ward him. He got up without a word
and entered the house. She followed.
And then she saw that he had already
been in and lit the lamp.
“Well,” he growled, “where you
been?”
He was a little sandy man and Em
meline was a slim, tall, dark woman.
She seemed to look down on him from
a great distance. Excitement still
flushed her cheeks, lit her eyes. She
was a glorified Emmeline.
“Own up!” snapped Burton. “Here
I’ve been home a full quarter of an
hour, waiting for you. I had a pretty
time finding the key. And the house
dapk as a pocket. You might have
left the lamp burning.”
Emmeline took off her gloves and
smoothed them.
“Where did you go? To lodge?”
“Yes, I went to lodge.”
“You didn’t say where you were going
when you went out.”
“What if I didn’t? Where have you
been?”
Emmeline drew the pins from her
hat.
“I’ve been to the Woman’s club.”
“What were you doing there?”
She took off her hat and poked up
her hair. Excitement was dying in
her and she felt a succeeding lassi
tude. Her voice was almost languid.
“I joined it.”
“Holy crow!”
’Phis was as near to an oath as Bur
ton Boyd ever came, but it had ter
rible significance for Emmeline. He
glared at her.
‘You joined that pack of cackling
old hens? Do you know what I’ve a
good mind to do? I’ve a mind to leave
you!”
Emmeline was not nearly so scared
as she \jas angry. She had been with
women who had shown themselves
the peers of any man she had ever
M EN prefer to be engaged in a con
spicuous movement in which
they escape difficult and tedious
details rather than to give themselves
to do more important work of a less
conspicuous character and which calls
for painful persistence. Even the
twelve apostles, after two years of close
,. Lam x>4jx<ii.
OSSfA* /M/r7&£r-
She ceased dramatically. Burton stood
perfectly still.
known. Their charm, their intellect,
their convincing ability seemed to form
a cordon about her poor, ignorant, old-
fashioned self. She was a Brunnhilde
girdled by the magic fire of their en
deavor, for the first time a thing apart,
separate from her husband.
“Now, look here, Burton,” she said,
“I didn’t threaten to leave you when
you joined the Masons, did IT’
“But that’s different.”
*No, it isn’t. What's fair for one
member of the firm is fair for the
other.” She was unconsciously quot
ing Mrs. Collier. All the ringing
phrases she had heard marshalled
themselves through her awkward brain.
The silent, the yielding, the meek Em
meline had given place to a woman who
not only knew she had a tongue, but
felt she had the right to use it. Bur
ton Boyd stared at her aghast as she
went on, rapidly.
"We’re a firm, you and I, Burton.
Hitherto I’ve let you run everything.
I’ve been a silent partner—a working
partner. I’m not a girl any longer* I’m
a middle-aged woman and I’ve got a
mind of my own. I want a few rights
and privileges the same as you have.
You go to the lodge regular; you’re
away from home every evening enjoying
yourself. I’ve heard tonight that you’re
in the habit of dropping in at the moving
picture show. Every summer you go on
a week’s fishing trip and every winter
you go somewhere on lodge business.
I’ve never said a word. I’ve sat here
at home and kept the fire and looked aft
er things. I’m just as much tied to this
house as if you’d driven a staple In that
post and tied me to it with a rope.
Folks call me queer because I never
stir out of the house except to church.
I know what they say, don’t think I
don’t! I don’t have enough to do to
keep me busy and so I sit and hold my
hands. I haven't known enough to do
anything else. But I tell you I’m pretty
sick of it. And tonight I’ve turned over
a new leaf. I see how I can get some
good out of living. I’ve joined the
Woman’s club and I’m on one of the
committees for the big supper and I’m
going with the delegates next month to
the state association. I’ve subscribed
for their paper and I’m going to see if
I know enough to write a little some
thing to read before the next meeting.
Tomorrow night I’m going with ’Mrs.
Collier to the benefit at the moving
picture theater. And tomorrow after
noon the committee I’m chairman of
meets here. If you don’t HJce it, Burton,
I can’t help it. This firm has got to go
on an equal basis hereafter or dissolve
partnership.”
She ceased dramatically.
Burton stood perfectly still. He had
not taken his eyes off her since she be
gan. But slowly upon his face had
unfolded a new expression—a look of
respect, astonishment, and actual ad
miration wihcli went farther and became
a sheepish grin.
“Holy crow!” he muttered with an
entirely new intonation. “I didn’t
know you had it in you, woman!”
And then Emmeline knew her cause
was won.
WILSON ARRIVES AT
SUMMER WHITE HOUSE
WINDSOR, Vt. f Sept. 1.—President
ident Wilson arived here at 1:03 today
and motored immediately to the sum
mer White House at Cornish, N. H.
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contact with Jesus, were eager to take
place in a great political movement for
the deliverance of the Jewish nation
from subjection to the Romans and
quite unwilling to give any attention
to little children concerning whom their
Master said “of such is the kingdom
of heaven”.
The same spirit is quite prevalent in
our day. There are multitudes of men
and women who are straining their
nerves to carry on various reform
movements, but who care little for the
conversion of the individual soul. They
describe their proposals in ambitious
phrases, one of which stands at the
head of this article.
What is meant by the phrase “chris
tianizing society”? If the words are
used to express the leavening of social
life by the multiplication of Christian
souls in the land, the conception is one
in harmony with the spirit and teach
ing of the New Testament. But if the
idea intended is that we are somehow
to disinfect social institutions, apart
from the regeneration of individual
souls, it is a notion utterly foreign to
the New Testament and is nothing more
than an irridescent dream.
Social institutions are no better than
the men and women who make them; in
the nature of the case they can be
no better. Our customs express our
characters. We may carry on some
sort of a “mercerizing” process with
social usages to give them the •sem
blance of silk on the surface when
they are only shoddy in substance; but
we shall discover that result is not
worth the toil expended to bring it to
pass.
Neither Jesus nor the apostles ever
used any such form of words as “chris
tianizing society”, and they bestowed
no effort oir'fnere schemes of reforma
tion. They aimed at nothing less than
the regeneration of the world, but they
proceeded to that end by seeking the
salvation of individual souls. The terms
of “the Great Commissioner” clearly
imply and require work of a very per
sonal nature. “Go ye into the world and
preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is haptized shall
be saved; but he that belieyth not shall
be damned”. •
Upon individual souls, such as the
Smaritan woman, Nicodemus, the name
less woman at the feast In the house
of Simon, the Pharisee, and Zaccheus,
Jesus bestowed much tender care; but
no where in all his public ministry, as
it Is recorded in the four Gospels, do
we find him saying anything from
which the remotest suggestion one could
infer that he was concerning himself
with any schemes to “christianize socie
ty”. In like manner we find apostles
preaching to single souls, like the Ethi
opian treasurer and the centurion Cor-
: nelius; but we do not come upon one
paragraph in the Acts in which they
| appear as social reformers. Nevertheless
| Jesus and the apostles didmost might-
• ily affect society by their labours. By
personal regeneration they brought to
j pass social revolutions.
Our reformers have begun at the
wrong end of things. They seek to re
new the Individual, by working on the
mass, whereas the mass must be puri
fied by the renovation of the individual.
They seem to proceed on the idea that
personal character can only be reached
and raised by efforts on the whole bulk
of the community. In the end they are
doomed to disappointment and defeat.
Their theory looks very impressive; it
appeals to the carnal mind by its ap
pearance of bigness; but it is visional
and impracticable. At bottom it is
tainted with not a little of human pride,
vanitj r , and self-indulgence.
Such . plans require far less
part of those who operate them than
is necessary to bring a single soul to
Christ; hence, they commend them
selves to indolent men and women who
have, some sort of interest in doing good,
self-sacrificing toil upon the part
but who do not wish to be taxed with
too much details. The conception of the
flock of God which these people seem to j
entertain is that of a cattle ranch han
dled by hired “rounders” rather than
that of a flock of sheep tended by a gen- !
tie Shepherd who “calleth his own sheep
by name”. They would never think of
leaving ninety and nine fine sheep to
go after one wayward lamb wandering
amid the perils of a bare mountain. Or,
to change the figure, their idea of “lift- j
ing up humanity” is to carry crowds up
by means of some sort of mechanical el- 1
evator rather than to lift up the individ
ual in the arms of tenderness. Instead
of doing the work of Good Samaritans
they prefer to organize an association to
take care of men in bulk who have fall
en among thieves and been sorely
wounded. Perhaps they might also be
willing to raise a fund to provide po
lice for the Jericho road.
It is worthy of remark that by the
use of the phrase “christianizing socie
ty” many of our reformers now seem to
intend special reference to some sort of
vague scheme to re-distribute the ma
terial goods of mankind, so as to “abol
ish poverty” and make every body phys
ically comfortable. It appears that they
accept most devotedly the notion that
a man is largely the result of his en
vironment, and that physically discom
fort in his environment is the supreme
source of moral disorder in his life.
Such an idea appears to contradict all
history. Lazarus the saint, sick and
sore and hungry, went from the rich
man’s gate to Abraham’s bosom, while
the comfortable occupant of the palace
at the gate of which the beggar was
laid, after wearing costly apparel on ■
the earth and faring sumptuously every j
day, lifted up his eyes in the torments
of hell. The fashionable avenues on
which opulent godlessness abounds are;
as full of sin as “the slums”. Kings j
product saintliness In any very marked
To
Love for Coll
houses and soft raiment do not seem to
degree.
What is wanted to “christianize socie
ty” is not a superficial, cutaneous treat
ment of pimples on the social system,
but a profound, constitutional renewal
of the hearts of men and women.
Martin Luther, insisting mostly upon
the one great evangelic truth of justi
fication by faith, did more to “chris
tianize society” in his day than did all 1
the surface reformers who went before
him, and more than all the sociological
quacks who have come after him. Wes
ley did more to “christianize society” in
England in the eighteenth century than
did all the venders of moral nostrums
who had been prescribing foV the social
disorders of Great Britain before he
called the nation to repentance. Au
gustus Birrell tells of an incident which
illustrates and enforces this truth. He
tells of how coming to a certain place
where he observed p. conspicuous so
briety among the people and the utter
absence of places where intoxicating
liquors were sold. He asked for an
explanation of the blessed conditions
which he thus observed,, and received
the reply, “A man named John Wesley
came here a hundred years ago.”
Can we hope to find a trace of our
surface reformers a hundred years
hence? Hardly. They and their social
nostrums will be utterly forgotten by
most people and remembered perhaps
by a few as antique and curious blunder
ing.
It is time to return to Christ’s method
for “christianizing society.” We have
had enough of the programme of “sal
vation by soap and soup.”
There lies before me an editorial
written by a man of the world and pub
lished in a secular periodical. It should
be carefully considered by some preach
ers and churches, who, while posing as
most “progressive” exponents of Chris
tianity, have utterly missed the way of
Christ for “christianizing society.” A
part of this wise and vigorou editorial
reads as follows:
“It is the habit of men who regard
themselves as “radicals” in matters re
lating to reform to look upon the Chris
tian and the Christian - church as “con
servative, when, in truth, the Christian
is the only reformer in the world who
can lay a sound claim to radicalism.
The church has lived for more than
eighteen hundred years, and it will live
until the end of time because it holds
the only radical system of reform in
existence, if for no other reason. The
greatness of the founder of Christian
ity is conspicuously shown in his pass
ing by social institutions as of minor
and inconsiderable importance, and fast
ening his claims upon the individual
The reform of personal character was
his one aim. With him the man was
great and the institution small. There
was but one way with him for making
a good society, and that was by the pu
rification of its individual materials.
There can be nothing more radical than
this; and there never was anything—
there never will be anything—to take
its place. It is most interesting and
instructive to notice how, one by one.
every system of reform that has at
tempted to ‘cut under’ Christianity has
died out, leaving it a permanent pos
sessor of the field. The reason is that
Christianity is radical. There is no
such thing as getting below it. It is
at the root of all reform because It
deals with men individually.
A system of religion which carries mo
tives within it for the translation of
bad or imperfect character into a form
and quality as divine *as anything we
can conceive, and which relies upon
this translation for the improvement of
social and political institutions, is a
system which bears its credentials of
authority graven upon the palms of its
hands. There can be nothing better.
Nothing can t&ke the place of it. Until
all sorts of reformers are personally
reformed by it, they are only pretenders
or mountebanks. They are all at work
upon the surface, dealing with matters
that are not radical.”
All this I steadfastly believe. Where
fore I have lost fait! in reforms and
reformers. I have seen too many of
them. We must depend upon Christ
i to ’’make all things new” because he
| proposes to make all souls new.
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(By Associated Press.)
! WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—Speaker
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