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Some Phases of the Twen 9
tieth Century Religion
N ANOTHER column Dr. Edward
Everett Hale, one of our most re
markable national characters, a man
whose career seems to refute the as
sertion that “years steal fire from the
mind as vigor.from the limb’,”, dis
cusses the religion of the twentieth
century in an orignal manner, touch
ing on points not so thoroughly
threshed by the orthodox theologian,
and coming nearer to bed rock in his
efforts to make his arguments plain to
the most unpretentious thinkers.
There are a great many people who,
with the best intention in the world,
influence to discourage the la-
religion as “progressive.” They
exert every
beling of
take a stand that religion is fixed quality; that it
has its specified status in society, and that any ef
fort to make it progressive would be to run grave
danger of having it interfere with civil government
and personal liberty, and inevitably corrupt by
worldly contagion, a force which should rise su
perior to any such entangling alliances.
It is not our intention to enter upon any discus
sion of religion, or dogma. Such a discussion would
be outside the province of thi^ publication, and re
ligious debates are the most unsatisfactory, discon
tent-breeding factors in our garrulous society of
today. But with the inroads of innumerable isms and
cults; the vast and pernicious distortion which has
been given to the interpretation of that hackneyed
phrase, “freedom of thought,” it is surely permissi
ble to give religion as much attention as those many
questionable issues which are creating such a furore
of debate at present, and which travel under the
name of twentieth century “problems.” As to those
who take the view that religion is too personal and
too firm’y established a quality to be termed pro
gressive, we have only to say that it appears to us
they ai e sadly mistaken in the premises upon which
their statements are founded. It appearsto us that
at *..o time in the history of this country has the
need for real Christianity been more urgent. The
tantalizing mirage of wealth is daily firing minds in
all classes of society, and we fear that ambition and
strenuous competition for the good things of life, for
that “success” which seems the keynote to all note
worthy achievement of our time, is somewhat dull
ing the zest, the reverence for religion which should
be the keynote to the greatness of every civilized
nation.
If religion is not to progress; if it is not to fill
a larger space in the life of the average man and
woman than it does today, then of what avail as it at
all? Dr. Hale strikes a sounding chord when he re
fers to the different definitions of religion. One con
struction of the term he names as being that of the
merely mechanical apparatus through which relig
ion is maintained and dessiminated; the other,
which is epitomized in the quotation to “visit the
widow and orphan and keep one’s self unspotted
from the world,” is the broad, generous one which he
evidently favors. But the question naturally arises
in discussing this question; how many of the count
less thousands of mep, women and children who
throng our churches every Sunday and several
evenings during the week, let religion form a part
of the daily routine of their lives?
Many of our most conservative preachers and
public teachers are admitting that if this question
were answered candidly, the result would not be
verv encouraging. They are the ones who are so
bravely, quietly and persistently striving to bring
about this greater, nobler construction of religion,
and are drawing attention to the shallowness which
attends the professions and the creed of the conven
tional churchgoer. We do not mean by this state
ment to reflect on the many thousand people who
arc zealous, genuine Christians. Almost any man
cr woman of your acquaintance will tell you truth
fully that they know of at least one bona-fide, sin
cere devotee of religion. And so long as this is the
case the world is not in a very bad way. But we
must admit that it leaves a large percentage of
people of all denominations, whose religion to a
very large extent is bounded by their professions.
As we remarked before, society today is honey
combed with many new and strange creeds. They
are all, with barely an exception, inevitably found?
ed on some offshoot of true religion, so distorted as
to make their appearance original and fascinating.
People are pleading that as times have progressed,
we must have a religion suitable to changed condi
tions! Some of them have even taken refuge in
the adoption of stony, barren ethics! It is against
these disrupting, demoralizing forces in society, we
are entering a protest. Literature, science, culture,
business cannot take the place of the religion of
the old and new Testament. It is not alone a-' fac
tor in our present-day societyit is, and should be,
tne vitality, the life-blood of that society and its in
dividual members. Ask the mothers of the land.
'1 heir simple faith is worth more than the 1 o~ : ' of
all the scoffers and '‘apostles” which the advanced
thought of the.age has given life.
It seems to us, from a reading of Dr. Hale’s ar
ticle, that the twentieth century religion, the faiths
of ourselves and our ancestors, will be decidedly
progressive. The thinking man must agree with
him that, in even larger measure than it is now
doing, it will reach out into the vast deserts and
a
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waste places of society, and claim the allegiance of
all classes, those we have touched on herein, as well
as those who do not know the meaning of the word.
This is our definition of the new century religion,
and we believe the majority of our readers think
with us.
Morality, Clothes and the
Everyday Man
LOTHES are certainly a large part of
life. The better part of our conscious
hours, those we give to thought, work,
and pleasure, are spent inside some (
artificial creation of the tailor or the
mantua-maker, and although the wise
ones may argue about individuality
and electric force, many of us are
known to our friends and" associates
by the garments in which we are hab
itually adorned. Shakespeare’s almost
infinite wisdom is exemplified in his
advice:
“Costly thy apparel as thy purse can
buy;
Rich, not gaudy,
Not expressed in fancy,
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.”
Witc
till Potent in Midst of Modern
In spite of the purist, there is no denying the fact
that we are prone to like people who are well
dressed in preference 'to those who throw on their
raiment with no taste or care, who-display no sub
tlety of taste in color and- style, or who generally pre
sent the appearance of the dowdy. They will tell
ypu that “worth makes.the man,” and there is no
doubt that such is the case, but clothes have a lot
to "do with it. To say the least, they are a valuable
auxiliary.
Jerome. K. Jerome, the inimitable English humor
ist, declares that men make a mistake in going about
clad in the sober, unimaginative garb of the twen
tieth century. He refers regretfully to the days
when men wore ruffs, and flashing silk smalls, and
satiny jackets. He draws a fetching picture of the
attractive spectacle which the medieval chevalier
presented in his many-colpred attire, and contrasts
it dolefully with the dingy, stiff, inexpressive gar
ments with which men afflict themselves nowadays.
We admire color in landscapes, and sunsets and
pictures and literature. Why not in clothes? Since
convention has decreed that we must be clothed,
why not make a virtue of necessity and gladden our
own eyes and those of our friends, by displaying on
our persons rich, tastily arranged colors, which shall
rob life of its monotone, and oppose a picturesque?
ness to its sordidness?
But the women usurp the colors nowadays. And
perhaps it is best, for they have carried the possi
bilities in dress well toward perfection—further
than literal, heavy-minded man could ever hope to
do. Society gives them carte blanche, too. It
spreads out before them the hues of the rainbow
and says “so long as you stay within the bounds
of that queer creature, fashion, you may arrange
and combine and rearrange these gladdeners of
human eyesight, to any extent-you ’may desire.’
And husbands and brothers and fathers look cheer
fully on, gratifying vicariously, as far as possible,
the craving for poetry in tints which is a part of
the make-up of almost every civilized man.
If you have a doubt that clothes have a very real
effect on the individual and society, watch, for in
stance, the fortunate individual who may happen.to
possess a Prince Albert and a silk hat. Not the man
to whom such things are old stories, but the party
who keeps his one “coming-out” outfit carefully
packed away in the trunk, to be brought forth only-
on state occasions. Ordinarily, perhaps, this mail
traverses the streets with an air of self-absorption,
chewing the end of a cigar, hailing acquaintances
boisterously, or attending soberly to his own busi
ness. Let him wriggle into his “party clothes,” and
—metamorphosis! He has taken on’a that
is almost laughable; his head well up, he struts along
with a sensation and an appearance of ownership
and importance, which is said only to be rivaled
by the lesser intoxication of alcohol; even the in
significant specimen takes on distinction and the
average, work-day man is so transformed and glori
fied that you wonder if it is the same jovial, acces
sible fellow whom you slapped on the back yester
day, or “matched” for carfare the day before.
With women, the difference is only in details.
The woman who sweeps into the sitting room; ra
diant and dazzling, arrayed for an evening out or
for company at home, is almost impossible to iden
tify as the nervous, unpretentious, ordinary creature
who has been bickering with the cook, dickering
with the grocer’s man, or hustling the children.,
There is a certain, hardly defined “aura” of new
ness and self-conscious attraction, which is sur
prisingly electric.
The moral effect of good dressing is undoubted.
Oliver Wendel Holmes declared that many a man,
conscious of faultless attire, has gone safely through
a crisis, where an illy-clad, unkempt specimen
would have scored a complete failure. There is
such a thing, of course, as grossly and foolishly
exaggerating the importance of clothes, and subor
dinating mind and real virtue to them. But there
is little danger of the well balanced man or woman
being unduly influenced by such . considerations.
We do not have to be very wise or to look verv far
to discover that heat, tasty apparel is a real asset
in contact with the world. It is often, especially
with observant, thinking men, the indorsement of a
letter of introduction or,a recommendation, beino-
acceptable as a fair indication of the wearer’s habits
and character. _.
636c Prize Story Contest
YE UT little work remains to be completed for the
U final announcement in the contest. Four stories
are now being considered for first prize, and within
two days the judges will have decided finally the
merits of these. The minor prizes have nearly ail
been settled on, and there is a large list of stories
which will be specially mentioned—which means
that the authors will be made an offer by The Sunny
South for their purchase. Those stories which are
not available have nearly all been returned to their
writers. A few remain in which the addresses are
obscure, and a list of their titles will also be pub
lished next week, that the owners may have a chance
of identifying them.
ON THE FIRST PAGE OF NEXT WEEK’S
ISSUE THE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL BE
PRINTED.
HEN Cotton Mather ended
his crusade against witch
craft, It was supposed that
“my lady of the broom
stick" had been most ef
fectually banished from
the New World; but the
following clipping taken
from a New York paper of
not many months ego
proves the contrary. It
was sent from a town In
Berks county, Pennsylva
nia, and read:
“David Clay said spirits told him to kill
his mother because shq was a witch. He
killed her because hq could not And a
black kitten with three white feet, which
’he was to skin alive'In order to break
the spell. Clay is about forty-two years
old. His mother was eighty-five. He had
accused her several tlmas of ’laying things
on him'—that Is to say, hypnotizing him
and causing him to perform actions
against his will.”
Berks county, Pennsylvania, where this
tragedy occurred. Is situated In the
southeastern part of the state, and Is
the land of the “hex” and the “pow-wow.”
Within Its boundaries superstlUon has
found an abiding place. The aettlers of
this county are mostly a sturdy set of
thrifty Germans who have Inherited their
beliefs from their ancestors, and have In
turn handed them down. “Hex,” mean
ing a witch, and' “pow-wow," the Jug
gling of words by which evil Is exercised,
are as familiar to .childish lips as. the
Lord’s prayer. , .. .,
There was no concealment of their
strange Ideas until late years, but now
they maintain a marked reticence when
ever reference Is. riiadd tb them‘ In the
presence of strangers. Oking to this. It
is rather a difficult matter for an out
sider to collect reliable Information on
the subject, and It was only after living
among them arid being thrown ' In con
stant and familiar'intercourse with them
for over two years that the writer real
ized how deep a hold superstition had
upon her neighbors.
“Hex’-' an Evil Creature.
Every disease—both of stock and fam
ily—that did not readily yield to orthodox
treatment was supposed to originate In
the wicked mind of a "hex," a creature
entirely under the dominion of the Evil
One, and whose only desire was to work
111 to those around her. Incantations
from the “pow-wow" man or woman
were the only means by which the suf
ferer could be cured. If he died, after
having been placed In the control of the
“pow-wow,” there was no room for self-
reproaches on the part of the afflicted
one’s family. Whatever was beyond the
Civilization
power of the "pow-wow" to heal must
he the will of God.
This remarkable power of healing Is not
a gift In the strictest sense of the word.
Like Weltmerl8m, It can b« taught, but
a man cannot teach a man or a woman
one of her own sex. There are certain
formulas for different diseases and with
them all is recited some verse from the
Bible, usually the “Seventh Book of
Moses.” These formulas—or words—as
the believers term them, are repeated
while outside applications as fantastic
and curious as the Chinese materia
medlca are used.
A "pow-wow" does not possess ths
power to cure all diseases. They are
"specialists.” Some only heal a sore
mouth; others drive away rheumatism;
and this power can only be used from
sunrise to sunset. No price can be set
upon the services of the healer. It would
take away all the virtue of the Incanta
tion, but a gift can be made. Its value
depending upon the wealth of the pa
tient.
As already stated, different ailments
have different treatments. For erysipe
las, a shovel of hot coal is passed over
the affected part while the mysterious
words are uttered in a low, significant
tone. For rheumatism, a red woolen
string Is held in both hands from head
to feet three times. This Is continued
each day until relief comes. In cases
where the patient cannot be treated per
sonally, certain cabalistic words are writ
ten on a piece of paper, and It Is worn
around the neck or over the part af
fected. I have .been gravely assure!
of wonderful cures by these methods.
A sure preventive of evil spells Is a
paper "with words’! hung on the bed
post. These should, be written with red
Ink.. If, ihowever, any one Is actually
under the Influence of the "hex," they
shall hold no communication with any
one for nine days, neither give nor re
ceive anything during that time. The
sign of the cross should be frequently
made and these words repeated:
"Trotter head, I forbid thee my house
or premises. I forbid thee my house and
my cow stable. I forbid thee my bed
stead that thou mayest not breathe
upon me. Breathe Into some other house
until thou hast ascended every hill, until
thou hast counted every fence post and
until thou hast crossed every water and
thus dear day may come again Into
my house. In the name of God. the Fa
ther, the Son and the Holy Ghost.”
While all these. precautions are taken
to relieve the soul thus "possessed,” the
poor unfortunate who Is accused Of be
ing a "hex” Is socially ostracized and
made to undergo humiliation and priva
tions worthy the days of the Inquisition.
In some cases the aid of the law had
to he invoked to save them from bodily
harm. I waa gravely assured one even
ing that a poor child had been so be
witched because she had taken soma
flowers from a neighbor’s yatd without
permission that she was forced to wain
on the wall like a fly and on the top
’ of a sharp paling fence, bare-footed,
without receiving any Injury beyond »
severe fright. .,
One of the most celebrated pow-wow^
women Is known as the Wash er worn an,
and lives In Reading. Pa. People visit
her from all parts of the county, and the
veriest stranger dan And her house
asking the first man. woman or child ne
may chance to meet. Her cures are pro
nounced marvelous and regular practi
tioners frequently find themselves dis
missed by their patients, if their recovery
seems slower than the disease warrants,
and advice Is then taken from the great
“pow-'w'ow” in Reading.
Allowance Is Made.
In talking to a remarkably well-inform
ed physician in the county, he said:
"I never combat these superstitions.
When I And my patient becoming rest-
Res under my care and desiring the at
tendance of the 'pow-wow/ I place no
obstacle In his -way. Peace of mind is
a great healer and whether he is cured
by blue mass or* a woolen string is im
material. iMy mother was a ‘pow-wow
woman, and when t was disposed to
question her power, she used to say with
all seriousness: ‘My son, you may laugh
now, but the day will come when I will
cure the stye; you * can’t.’ And her
prophesy has been fulfilled.”
This belief, however. Is not confined to
diseases only. Any little hitch in domestic
affairs is settled in the same way. If
butter does not come readily in churning
there is an appeal made by which the evil
spirit is driven away. A Jolly "pow-wow”
man, whose laugh could be hoard a mile
and the grip of whose hand was like a
vise, told me gravely and honestly that,
at one time hts chler' failed to turn into:
vinegar and he was threatened with se
rious loss. He went to a "pow-wow" wom
an and she told him to get three beans
and give them the names of the -three
greatest scolds in his neighborhood, then
drop them in his cask. * He did so and the
result was the finest vinegar in the
county.
So almost at the threshold of New
York city lies latent superstition as dark
and gross as that Which held Massachu
setts in its grasp nearly a century ago,
and we might have a repetition of the Sa
lem horrors were it not for the fact that
those who believe and practice these
things are held down by the fear of the
eame law that made them possible under
the rulings of Cotton Mather.
Gfte WeeK in a Busy
World
DMIRAL SILAS
CASEY. U. S. N..
who haa forbidden
the Colombian
government forces
to transport muni
tions of war or un-
armed soldiers
over the Isthmian
railway, is one of
the few American
naval officers still
on ths active list
who saw service In
JSdmlral Carey the civil war. He
was graduated from the naval academy
In 1860. and was assigned as executive
officer of the gunboat Wlssahlckon,
which took a prominent part In the at
tack on Charleston under Admiral Du
pont. He served on the Quaker City in
the attack on Fort Fisher, and later
commanded in the assault on Fort Mc
Kee. In 1880 he waa made captain, and
in 1S9S was promoted to the rank of
commodore.
RINCE CHUN,
who has Just been
married to a
daughter of Yung
Lu, the imperial
private secretary
of China, is a
brother of the em
peror of Chlpa,
and Is regarded as
>no of the pro
gressive, vigorous
and modern men
in the Orient. He
has filled several
among them that of
Develop the ^Sturdy Qualities in Your Boy—
He Will Resist Temptation
By MARGARET STOWE.
O BE able to build up a
character founded on up
rightness and undevlatlng
truthfulness, to live so as
to be absolutely trusted by
tnose who Know mm, cer-
tAnly is an object in life
Y-tny any young man s
s’ -Jpg to obtain.
« ? course, every mother
kr, ir#"of what value such
qns. jltles will be In thef
, "tv ■ft«^Lpr A hgj J .Bon. Are
then? In h
Are you teach!
already ol conseqi
It Is known that
lied uponr'
Teach him that
clear and strong
Vrlving to develop
MUle?
b|ri that "a man Is
nc l In the world when.
1 %n be Implicitly re-
|° haracter shines out
.has not for,. Its
central principle sjk’^te integrity.
Tne cultivation o? these sturdy quali
ties will give him the courage to say
’’No" when he wants to and when ha
ought to say it; that is. he win nave the
power to resist temptation when it comes
ms way.
snow mm tnat not to he awe to resist
temptation Is a weakness that he can
and must strengthen, or tne result may
be a future of dark arid tn-eary days, of
life long misery and remorse.
There is a fable, written by the monks
of the middle ages, called "The Clerk and
the I mate,” which Illustrates this weak
ness and its consequences.
It snjs: "In the city of Rome stood an
image, Its posture whs erect, with the
right hand extended; op the little finger
cf the outstretched hand was written,
’Strike here!’
"Years and years had the image stood
there, and no one knew the secret of the
inscription.
'■.>lanv wise men from every land cam's
and looked ai the statue, and many were
the solutions of the mystery attempted
bv them; each man was satisfied with his
own. conclusion, but no one else agreed
with him.
“Among the many that attempted to
unravel the mystery of the figure was
a certain priest. As he looked at the
linage he noticed that when the sun shone
on the figure the shadow of the out
stretched finger was discernible on the
ground some distance from the statue.
le*He marked the spot and waited until
tf i night was come; at midnight he be
girt to dig where the shadow ceased;
tot three feet he found nothing but earth
aril stones; he renewed his labor and felt
hid spade strike against something hard;
hg continued his wqrk with greater zeal
and found a trap door, which he sobn
cleared and proceeded to raise.
“Below the door a flight of marble steps
descended into the earth, and a bright
light streamed upward from below.
"Casting down his spade, the priest
descended; at the foot of the stairs he
entered a vast hall; a number, of men,
habited in costly apparel and sitting in
solemn silence, occupied the center;
around and on every sld9 were riches
Innumerable, piles of gold and emerald
vases, rich and glittering robes and heaps
of jewels of the brightest hue.
“The hall was lighted by one Jewel
alone, a carbuncle so Drlght, so dazzling
that the priest could hardly bare to gaze
upon It where it stood in the corner of
the hall.
“At the opposite end of the hall stood
an armed archer; hts bow was strung
and the arrow fitted to the string, an!
he seemed to take an aim at the carbun
cle; his brow blazed with reflected light,
and on It was written: "I am, that I
am; my shaft is inevitable; you glitter
ing Jewel cannot escape its stroke.'
"Beyond the great hall appeared an
other chamber, Into which the priest,
amazed at what he saw, entered.
“It was fitted as a bed chamber,
couches of every kmd ornamented it.
and many beautiful women, arrayed In
robes as costly as those worn In the
great hall, occupied the chamber.
“Here, too, all was mute; the beauti
ful damsel sat in silence. Still the priest
went onward. There were rooms after
rooms, stables filled with horses and
asses and granaries stored with abundant
forage.
“He placed his hand on the horses—
they wero cold, lifeless stone. Servants
stood around about; their lips were clos
ed—all was silent as the grave; and yet
what was thwe wanting—what but
life?” I
“ ‘I have seen'today what no man will
believe,’ said the priest, as he reentered
the great hall; ‘let me take something
whereby to prove the credit of irty story.’
“As he thus spake to himself he saw
some vases and some Jewel-handled knives
on a marble table beside him; he raised
his hand; he placed them in the bosom
of his garment—all was dark.
“The archer had shot with his arrow;
the carbuncle was broken into a thou
sand pieces—a thick darkness covered the
place; hour after hour he wandered about
the halls and passages—all was dark, all
was cold, all was desolate—the stairs
seemed to have fled; he found no opening,
and he laid him down and died a miser
able death amid those piles of gold and
Jewels, his only companions the lifeless
Images of stone, i
“His secret died with him”
The points In this little fable are too
clear to need much explaining, and 1
shall only add that a mother may save
her boy from the- consequences of weak
ness. the lack of courage to say "No”
when he wants to. or knows he ought to,
by striving to strengthen and develop
what are called sturdy qualities.
It is necessary In these days to put
strong emphasis on this side of a bov's
life, and it is during childhood and youth,
while character Is In process of forming,
that a mother should put out every effort
toward developing in him a high standard
the influence of which will surely tell
later on.
Prince Chan
notable missions,
going to Germany to apologize for the
killing of Baron von Ketteler, and serv
ing as a kind of hostage to the powers
for the return of the empress. The
prince Is a fluent speaker of English.
HARLE8 WAR
REN JORDAN,
the first football
victim of the sea
son. who has Just
died In Sioux Falls
as the result of In
juries received In a
vigorously contest
ed game a few
days ago, was 1?
years of age and
the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Jor-
C. w. Jordan dan. of Sioux
Falls. The young man was born In
Sioux Falls and was a student at the
Sioux Falls Baptist college. His parents
Violently opposed his football playing,
especially as he had been seriously In
jured on several occasions. He was a
promising young man and very popular
with the young people of his native city.
No present Indication appears of an
early settlement In the coal strike. Coal
has advanced enormously In price, and
is being Imported from England and
Canada. The conference between the
coal magnates, John Mitchell and Pres
ident Roosevelt seems to have availed
nothing In the direction of settlement.
The owners of the mines refuse to arbi
trate, and the miners will not return to
work unless their demands are granted.
Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania, has
called out the entire martial fores of
that state to suppress disorder, and fear
of bloody clashes Is prevalent.
NdlJSH WOMEN
hate been
de
He
Common Sense Views on the Religion of
^ the New Century ^
By REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
DO not dare write of this
without defining words,
and I know very well that
In the average talk of men
religion represents some
thing very limited, you
might say narrow if you
were cynical. But as I am
going to use the word, re
ligion means something
Infinitely wide.
When you take a news
paper and see that there is
a heading for religious In
telligence, you know that this means that
you are to find something about bishops
or archbishops, or you are to find what
Dr. Smith or Mr. Jones thinks of the
Book of Proverbs, or you are to find that
the meeting house In Cranford has been
shingled, or that a set of teaspoons has
been presented to the wife of the clergy
man. But this limited use of religion is
not the only use for. a very great word.
The word does. not often occur 'In the
Bible, but. It does occur where Saint
James says what “true religion and unde
filed” is. When pftople use the word in
thgt way, you will’expect to''find'under
religious intelligence the news' that
diphtheria has been abolished in the city
of New Bethlehem, that there are no per
sons in the house dt correction In Oneida
county, that Chill and Argentina have,
agreed together that they will build no
war ships for five years.
Religion in its larger' sense relates to
the life of man with God and God with
man. and all that comes of that relation-
chip. This mtans that it relates to men’s
relations vyth men. and what comes of
human society when It is governed by
the law of God.
Jesus Christ, whose business was to
unite the whole world In the recognition
of God and God's law, used to say that
He came to announce the reign of God,
or the kingdom of God, as our Bibles put
it. And anybody who is engaged In bring
ing in the rule of God is at work in this
introduction of what it is convenient to
call absolute religion. That means the
religion of the whole world.
It Is the religion pf people who intro
duce the rule of God Instead of the sway
of contagion, or, pe hapse they introduce ‘
the rule oX God In place of what Artemua
Ward would call "cussedness,’* or, per--
haps it is the rule of God in place of the
rule of some caucus, or perhaps of some
"hereditary rulers.”
The world is, in a way, a smaller world
than It was a hundred years ago; It is,
in a way, a much larger world. It Is
smaller because I can talk to my brother
in St. Petersburg and receive ap answer
ir an hour. It Is larger, because I am a
thousand times stronger physically than
my great-grandfather was a hundred
years ago—that Is, on the average, a
workingman can control a thousand times
as much force as he could then.
This mealis that the races of the world
and the people of the world must come
together and work together in the new
century as they did not begin to do in
the year 1802. In 1802 Europe was just
starting on the great Napoleonic war
In 1802 there was no missionary en
terprise, there was no opening up of the
ports of China, there was no Federation
of Australia. In 1602 we are already
thinking of the real oneness of • the
world.
The World’s Union.
Whoever then looks- forward to the
great duties of the century sees that the
practical union of the world Is In the I
forefront pf those duties, it. will not do
to have three hundred, people crowded
together on every square mile of Bel
gium.' while there ar,e ten thousand va
cant square miles of the finest country
God ever made with no better Inhabit
ants than gophers in the western part of
Arkansas.
It will not do to have people In Ala
bama complaining pf their negro popula
tion and hanging them with grapevines
when they choose, while there is a para
dise waiting for those black men In ten
thousand different places between Ala
bama and the Argentine.
If an American writes them down, the
first three phs’sical duties of the century
are:
1. To build a four-track railway from
Quebec to Patagonia, so that the union
of this hemisphere may be more com
plete.
2. A smaller railway of four tracks
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, through
northern Germany and European and
Asiatic Russia.
3. Ceell Rhodes’ four-track railway
from Cairo to the Cape. Whether the
Philistines understand It or not, relig
ious men know that all the people to
whom these railways will be of use are
children of God; they know that the
rule of God requires that each of Ills
children shall have air and water and
light and food, “Paraguay must not say
to Canada, ’I have no need of thee.’ Nor,
again, must Cape Colony say to Sweden
’I have no need of thee.'’’ The religion
of the century will make the world's
life a common life.
Next, for an American, a citizen of
this republic. It is easy to see that If
God s rule requires that the life of the
world shall be a common life, the relig
ion of the century will require a cordial
good understanding between the differ
ent races of men in America “Can
the dominant white race lift up and re
new and strengthen the vassal race of
negroes?
“Can it find out the modus vivendi for
the little handful of the red race an!
can It interpret the good tidings of God
so as to know how to degl with the
Asiatic races? White men, black men
red men and yeliow men. the Twentieth
Century must find, out how between the
Atlantic and the Pacific these four races
shall live and move and have their be
ing- In one- nation.
And first of all. and last of all all
these fopr duties mean that the religion
of the century scattered among tire lead
ing nations Is strong enough and deter
mined enough to keep the nations of the
world at peace with each other.
When any young-man or young wom
an asks .where to “catch on.” as the car
of the world rolls forward, the answer of
the religious man,.ls: "You will highly
determine personality to assiBt in one of
the three great railway enterprises, or
to lend a hand with spirit in the concilia
tion of the American races, or to conse
crate time and opportunity to the cause
of universal peace."
False Gems.
Baltimore Herald: "So si spavins hez
been down ter town?” asked ManUv.
"Why. yaas; an' ne got Duncoed as us
ual.”
“Brung home a gol’ brick, did he?”
"ino, maecny. si is up ter date, he
Is “
“Du ten?”
“A bunco man sold him a chunk o’
bard coal at a big price, an’ i’ll be horn-
swaggied el It didn’t turn out tor be jes’
a chunk o' rock painted blackl”
Work
Christian Temper
ance Union. She is
now in America on
a visit, and decli
that drunkenn
among women Is
the Increase In Great
Britain. Formerly
Lady Somerset three men for one
woman was arrested, and now the ratio
has been reversed. Lady Somerset will
be In the United States for some time,
lecturing on the topics of her order, and
Inspecting the work in Its various
branches.
R. E. BENJAMIN
ANDREWS, who
has just caused some
highly favorable
comment by refus
ing a proffered raise
of pay as chancellor
of the University of
Nebraska, was for
merly superintend
ent of the Chicago
public schools, and
at an earlier lime
president of Brown
Or. Andrew, university. He re
signed In 1896 from the latter position be
cause the trustees had criticised his ad
vocacy of free silver, but was afterwards
reappointed. Dr. Andrews Is a New
Hampshire man, and is 58 years of age.
Lately his lectures on the matrimonial
problem have brought him much noto
riety. and attracted the attention of the
j leading sociologists of the country.
BEERBOHM TREE,
the English actor
who has Just achiev
ed a notable triumph
In the dramatized
rendition of Hall
Cane’s “E t e r n a 1
City" In His Majes
ty theater, London,
Is second only In
fame as an actor
to Sir Henry Irving,
and on this side the
water has a large
Beerbohm Tree and enthusiastic fol
lowing. Since 1878 Mr. Tree has been on
the stage and has most of the time during
the past twenty years been In the man
agement of theaters In which he has ap
peared In London. He has made several
tours of this country, sometimes In the
classics and again In plays of the day.
The first performance of the "Eternal
City" was attended by all London’*^
"smart set," and at Its close Mr. Tre^
was repeatedly called before the curtail?
and given ample .evidence of his trlumplL
Too Oltf for Kids.
Washington Times: Sareastlcus and hi*
wire were going to the tneater.
"Will you please go and get my gouts
off the dressing table?" said Mrs. S.
"Your goats?" queried the puzzled Sar-
castlcus. "What fangle have you women
got now ?”
"I’ll :how you!” snapped the wife, and
she sailed away, and soon returned, put
ting on- her gloves.
"Are tnose wnat you mean? Wny. I
call those kins."
“X used to,” replied Mrs. Sareastlcus,
“but they are getting so old 1 am aBhamod
to any longer."
The Modern Girl with the CurL
There was a "hello” girl,
And she had a little cur! ;
Right in the middle or her forehead.
When she was good
She was very, very good
But when she was bad ahe gave yen ths
busy signal.
—Chicago Tiuma.
J