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NEW YORK LAWYERS CALL FOR NON-PARTISAN JUDGE
By REV. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
HY statutes have boen my song
In the house of my pllgrlm-
1 age," exclaimed one of the
seers of Hebrew history. He convert,
ed law Into music by observing It un
til he loved It. When the statutes of a
people become the songs of Its judges,
then order and harmony are translated
into all the activities and Interests of
the state.
The Judiciary of a country deter
mines the level and strength of Its
civilisation. When those in' charge of
the fortunes of Egypt, more than
twenty years ago, were struggling to
raise the grade of Its civic life to the
height of a well ordered state, It was
recognised that the first thing In order
was an Incorruptible, capable court.
The great powers, therefore, were each
asked to recommend n first-class judge.
These Judges, representing the leading
nations of the earth, constituted the
court before which all cases of an In
ternational character were to be tried.
The difficulties between native Egyp
tians were to be left to their own
Judges. But the standing of this court
soon became so high that the natives of
the country resorted to .all kinds of de-
•vices to get cases of litigation between,
themselves before It. One Egyptian,
for instance, with the consent of his
opponent, would transfer his Interests
for the time being to some foreigner
In order to have judges In whom both
parties had confidence pass upon and
settle the question -about which they
disagreed.
Anthony M. Klely, brother to Bishop
Klely, of Savannah. Qa., was for a
long time the American judge on this
court. This able, learned, Impartial
company of judges have had more to do
with bringing security and moral order
to the Egyptian government than any
other power at work for Its better
ment. The political affiliations In his
own country of any one of the judges
was not considered as a matter of im
portance. The judges were known to,
be pure, liigh-mlnded, unprejudiced
lawyers. That was sufficient.
The last legislature of the state of
New York authorised the people of
New York county at the coming No
vember election to Increase the number
or justices of the supreme court. There
aro to be chosen ten new Judges, two
to fill vacancies caused by the expire-
t on of terms, and eight to fill addi
tional judgeships authorised by the
last legislature. There are to be elect
ed also at the same time one surro
gate. whose duties’are limited to the
administration of estates nnd kindred
subjects, and two Judges of the court
of general sessions, who w
In criminal rases.
vUl sit only
Excepting minor cases, the supreme
court Judges conduct the trial of all
civil causes In the county, and be
cause of the amount of their work. In
spite of the eighteen supreme court
judges now sitting, the general calen
dar of the court Is over two years in
arrears. So distressing has thlB delay
become that lawyers and all others
who have come In contact with the
law In New York county re*ard the
Justice which the supreme court ad
ministers as nothing less often than
solemn mockery. Cases do not come
up for trial until three or four or five
years after they are commenced. Wit
nesses and parties die, and, worse still,
witnesses forget and civil trials degen
erate from tests of truth toward tests
of advocacy and perjury. This state
of things has been repentedly Investi
gated, and now at last these new
Judges of the supreme court are to be
elected to clear the situation, to do
away with arrears and make justice a
new and living thing In New York
county.
the county (apart from those sitting In
the appellate division) will be twenty-
six; so that the new ‘edges will form
more than one-third of the active ju
dicial system of the county.
An election so Important has perhaps
never been held before In this, the
most highly organized human center
on the face of the earth. These ten
new judges will decide, day by day,
questions of greater moment than any
Judges on the planet. Morfe money and
more human differences will depend
upon their word than upon that of any
body of judges In the world, except
the supreme court at Washington, and
the house of lords In Great Britain.
These Judges are to be elected for
fourteen years at an annual salary each
. °f $ ..OOP. The new Judges will largely
determine the character and efficiency
of the administration of Justice In this
seething center of human activity for
nearly half a generation to come. It
Is to these men that corporate wealth
must look for the defense of Its rights
against public clamor, and through
these men the poor and weak must
obtain • their complete rights against
the insolence and aggression of cor
porate wealth.
It Is not at all strange, therefore,
that the leading lawyers of New York
should be prosecuting a matt vigorous
campaign for non-partisan judges. In
face- of the power of the party boss
and- the party machine, manipulated
by the boss, It would be an evidence
of the loss of all sense of responsi
bility If they were indifferent. What
ever of tarntshment rests upon any of
the courts of our country, grows out
of the fact that candidates of mere
party organizations have been selected
because of their party service and po
litical Influence, and not upon the
grounds of their ability and Integrity
as lawyers. The party bosses have no
regnrd whatever for professional ca
pacity. It Is their ipurpose to nominate
such men as they can count on- to
make, out of their, salaries, the larg
est payments for campaign and party
purposes.
It Is the conviction of those most
active In this campaign for non-parti
san judges, that the functions of a
Judge In his court are as far removed
from the Influence! of party politics
as are the functions of a chemist In
his laboratory, or of an astronomer In
his observatory, or of a preacher In
his pulpit, or as are the functions of
an organ master before his Instru
ment removed from party politics.
There Is no more such a thing as par
ty justice, than there Is such a thing
as party mathematics, or party geolo
gy. or party music, or party sunshine,
or party luminiferous ether. Justice Is
as colorless as the laws of gravity, and
as unbiased as the snow. Justice can
no more be monopolized or cornered
by a political party, than can time or
space or cause be pressed Into the
special service of Democracy or Re
publicanism. Justice stands for uni
versal and everlasting righteousness,
and those who administer It should be
DR. J. W. LEE.
as free to act without reference to
friend or foe as Is the magnetic needle
that guides the course of the ship on
the surging deep. To trifle with the
compass Is to Invite death.
A prejudiced, biased, politically
warped Judge Is more dangerous than
a ♦Irate or a highwayman. lie per
forms the functions of his position un
der the guise of an honest man, while
the pirate and the highway robber as
sume no airs to hide their real char
acter. They hold up ships on the sea
or trains in the mountains without any
pretensions to being other than plain,
every-day, unwashed villains. Society
Is on Its guard against them, but the
Judge comes as the representative of
order—the advocate of righteousness.
He stands before the people as the
mouthpiece of the eternal Judge of all
the earth. The principles he brings to
apply to human relations are such as
were ordained before the foundations
of the earth were laid. He should no
more be elected because of his power
to charm, or to shake hands, or _
manipulate the pulleys and ropes of
the party machine, than should a
surgeon be sent to the battlefield for
any other reason than his professional
skill.
The peril of a partisan judge may
no! be so Immediately apparent ns
that of a partisan, Incapable doctor,
but It Is really greater. The woret
than nn Ignorant doctor can do Is to
kill a certain number of Indlvlduale,
but an Incapable, time-serving, party-
biased Judge has It within his power to
contribute toward the dleruptton of
the very bonds of social existence. It
were really more to be preferred that
Ignorant physicians should put the
people out of the way, one by one, than
for corrupt Judges to be plnced In a
position to reduce the social whole to
chaos by taking from around It the
principles that hold It together.
Society Is nn organism, as the body
of an Individual Is an organism. The
>ersons composing society are mem
iera one of nnolher, ns the fingers,
oves, ears, feet nnd arms of an Indi
vidual are members one of another.
Social existence, which means the liv
ing together of Individuals In harmoni
ous, reciprocal, organic relations, Is
Impossible without conformity to a
erfect network of complicated laws,
he place of a judge Is to understand
these laws, and the nature nnd condi
tions of the social relations to which
they are to be applied. The surgeon
before his Individual patient has deli
cate work to do demanding skill no
treater than the Judge before his
larger patient of organized social life.
The relation of the judiciary to so
ciety Is more Important, If any com
parison were In order, than that of the
eglelatlve or executive functions of
government. The legislative section of
the state might enact harmful laws,
and these the executive department
might approve, but If the judiciary
were sound and able, their evil conse
quences might be arrested. The Judges
of a country constitute the dikes which
keep back the waves of passion and
anarchy from submerging the lives and
estates of the people.
It l» In view of the fearful conse
quences that may come to the organ-
yers of New York have Issued a call
to all parties and to nil the. people
concerned for the selection of non
partisan judges at the November elec
tion. In their call they ay: "We have
Ignored Irt" our deliberations political
considerations, and have sought only
to select from those who would con
sent to accept nominations the men
best fitted professionally for the posi
tions to be filled. No new candidate
Is proposed whose age will not permit
him to serve n full term of fourteen
yeare, and ability to dispatch business
promptly and efficiently has been
deemed an essential qualification.”
Thirty-live persons sign the call.
Each Is known throughout the Ameri
can Union as a fair, honorable and
able man nnd patriot. The chalrmnn
Is Joseph H. Choate, a Republican,
nnd the vice chairman Is Alton B.
Parker, a Democrat. The remainder of
the committee of 35 are as follows:
John M. Bowers, A. von Brleeon,
Charles F. Brown, John L. Cadwalla-
der, David McClure. James McKeen,
John G. Mllburn, John E. Parsons,
William O. Choate, William N,. Cohen,
Robert W. Deforest, John P. Dillon. II.
P. Einstein, Austen (1. Pox,. Paul-Pul
ler. William D. Guthrie, William B.
Hughes,,
perfect network of complicated laws. HornbloWer, Charles r
The place of a judge Is to understand Artrlnn H, Johns, Joseph Larocque,
Wallace McParlane, Eugeno A. Phllbln,
Harrington Putnam, John MrLcnn
Nash. Hamilton Odell. G. L. Rlvea, Ell-
hu Root, James R. Sheffield, Edward
M. Shepard, Henry W. Taft, Leopold
greater than the Judge before his Wnllach, John DeWItt Warner. Bd-
larger patient of organized socle) life, mund Wetmore.
The motives of not a single cue rtf
these men can be questioned. The jus
tices they suggest to occupy pieces on
the supreme court of New York county,
they propose to put In nomination by
petition as Independent candidates.
If the two leading political parties of
New York county have any time sense
left, and any power to read off the
hours on the clock of the modern day,
they will Indorse these candidates put
forward by their fellow lawyers. The
success of Mr. Jerome In his fight with
the partisan bosses for the district
attorneyship was Itself a lesson that
should not go unheeded. The right of
. . . these lawyers to suggest proper men
narrow, small-minded, polltlcally-bias- to be chosen can not be questioned,
ed Judiciary that 35 of the leading law- Suppose Instead of judges ten doctors
’ u-cre to he chosen at the November
election, who would be so well quali
fied to nntne the physicians to be voted
for as 85 of the ablest doctors In ths
city? If the election was for ten engi
neers to tunnel under the whole of
New York, who would be the proper
persons to select the right candidates,
the ward healers or the leading engi
neers of the city? For tunneling under
New York It would be thought Insanity
to select anybody else than expert en
gineers. Tile best doctors only are
called to perform -**IIlrijlt operations
on (he hoilles of people, K a man
should start out to build a forty-story
cloud piercer without conshltlng the
moat experienced nrchltecta he would
be deemed crazy.
The call for non-partisan Judges sim
ply means therefore that In the esteem
of' those In New York who have the
best right to nn opinion the time has
come to trust only experts In adjusting
and harmonizing the dellccate rela
tions and dlffereneea which grow out
of our sorial life.
It Is the sign of the dawning of s
better day when In the commercial
capital of the L'nlofi. a campaign for
non-partisan Judges Is being presen
ted. II Is a movement that needs to be
Inaugurated not only In New York, but
In every grent center of population
where more emphasis Is placed on the
political artlllatlons of candidates by
this party nr that, than for their ca
pacity to fill the office of Judge. r
The attempt of the New York law
yers to select Judges who shall bo so
consecrated to thq Impartial adminis
tration of the low ns to turn, In the
language of the Hebrew Seer, statutes
Into songs, will he watched by the
whole country. It Is a high and ad
mirable enterprise. Under the touch of
Paderewski's fingers even noise Is
taken to pleres nnd turned into music.
The master can do tills because his
soul Is consecrated to song. What he
does with sound wavy* the Judges nee
to do with statutes—use them to re
duce the disorders nnd disagreements
of human beings to harmony.
When Justices sit in the courts In
love with law, nnd the settlement of
human troubles In accordance with It,
as Paderewski sits before the piano In
love with the music he can make with
It, then the people will rejoice.
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“He that planted the ear, shall He
net Hear,
He that formed the eye shall He not
Me?” —Psalms Ml 9.
By REV. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
I N one of our magazines there was
published a little poem with the
title “There must be mountains."
It told the Story, of a man who had
been born and reared In the low level
lands near the aea and who had never
traveled outside his dull plains. But
by some strange Instinct he conceived
and cherlehed the belief that some
where there must be mountains, I
country where the skies kissed the
earth, where the atmosphere -was clean
and sweet and where flowers and flrult
and great trees fluorlshed. He pined
for this mountain land of his dreams
nnd at length In faith began to look
far It. His neighbors laughed at him,
called him mad, but he clung to his
faith nnd persisted In his search. At
last, far out at sea, he discerned In
the distant mists the shadowy outline
of mountains rising high. He begged
his neighbors to go with him to find
them. But they were blind and could
hot see.
Alone In a little boat he put to sea
and was gone for many days. They
raid that he had perished In the foolish
quest: that the sea had swallowed him
up. But one day his boat was seen
beating up to tho shore and himself
standing proudly at the helm. As It
drew near the people gathered and saw
hanging upon mast and spar festoons
of strange flowers and the boat Was full
of rare fruits and beautiful gems, such
as they had never seen before.
Ho fell, down In their midst crying
In eestacy: "There aro mountains!
There are mountains!" and died with
his face radiant and his eyes fixed upon
the wide seas beyond which he had
found the desire of his heart.
This little poem Is more than
poet's fancy. It Is the picturing of
one of life's subllmesi truths. It be
longs In the same casket of truth with
the l
he ear shall He not hear; He that
formed the eye shall He not see?”
The link of correspondence between
the Creator and the creature is abso
lute.
Our deepest thoughts and aspirations
are not mocking fancies full of pain,
but prophectsa and potencea of faot.
Ths Law of Correspondence.
We are all familiar with the law of
correspondence In the physical world.
There Is a dualism that runs through
nature. God made everything In pairs.
"Male and female created He them."
Mutually each prophesies and requires
the other. The fact of one Is proof
that the other exists. God makes no
half Joints. That a thing needs to ex
ist In order to justify the existence of
something else. Is the logic- by which
all science guides Its search. Give
Cuvier (he great tooth, which demands
a great Jaw, and he knows the jaw was
Just so, and so manufactures one to
fit the great tooth; and then a.great
head to fit the great Jaw; and a great
neck to fit the great head and thus
from the tooth of the prehistoric mas
todon Cuvier fashioned In detail the
great animal that did exist In a by
gone age.
Leverrler noting the conditions af
fecting ths planet Uranus, said: "There
must be another planet to explain the
strange actions of Uranus." No one
could tee It, but he said It must be
there somewhere. In 1146 he made hie
computation and fixed the place In the
heavens at which It must be found and
asked Dr. Galle, of Berlin, to point his
telescope at that place and he would
And It. He did so, and there was the
new planet which we call Neptune.
It had to be there, Uranus demanded It.
Some one has said that "every time
a child Is born a new world Is created."
In merely physical fact a man Is all
over to a demand on God for every
thing his physical capacities can cor
respond with. If there exists an or
gan or a power Its correlate will be
ply that there Is an atmosphere.
Imply something to grasp; feet that
there Is something to stand on. Hung
er points to food: thirst to water:
eyes prove that there must be things
to see; ears that there must be sounda.
So of all desire* and necessities of the
soul, far In the realm of the spiritual,
this truth of correspondence Is In
force.
Followed out faithfully and -accu
rately, this principle will bring Inev
itably face to face with the great fact
that God not only exists, but He exists
In an order of mathematical conslder-
ateneas In which man has been perfect
ly provided for. Our needs have all been
met, our desires are all guaranteed. It
Is true even to our evil desires. Sim
ply and powerfully the truth stands
out that every profound craving of a
man Is Invincible proof that its satis
faction exists.
Pardon and Pssce Must Be.
Let us lay the emphasis on the word
“must.” There must bo pardon for
sin. The ancient thinkers on this sub
ject felt that there must be some way
for the forglvenekli of sins, but they
magnified the difficulties In the way
of It. Socrates said that the gods might
forgive sins, but he was not sure It
would be safe for them to do so. In
much of our presentrday though
detected a survival of that old
that the atonement for sin was an
after thought of God—a change of
oundatlon of the World” what do you
make of It? This Is what I make of
It: The cross of Christ was divinely
natural. If I may so speak. Its neces
sity resided In the very creation of
man as a free agent. Man being what
he was, sin was Inevitable. God being
what He waa, forgiveness was Inevi
table. The Incarnation and the sacri
fice of Christ were the logic of crea
tion. As It is sometimes phrased,
"God does not love the world because
Christ died for it. Chrlet died for It
because God loved It." It heightens
all my thought of God, and deepens my
trust to find In Jesus Christ what
some one has called "casmlc free
grace," which Is another way of saying
that "the heart of the Eternal Is most
wonderfully kind."
Human nature demands an atone
ment. Human nature craves pardon
for sin. Bln creates In every man a
liability; the cross of Christ and its
pardoning grace Is the answering nsset.
Sin mads a debt; "Jesus paid It all;
sin had left a crimson stain; He wash
ed It white as snow." Oh, what won
derful action and reaction between
man and God! The law of correspond
ence underlies redemption. The logic
of human nature Is Christ. Tertulllan
said that the' testimony of the mind
was naturally Christian. He was
right. All the facts In the moral uni
verse tend toward Christ. The very
thought of n sinner prophecies a Sa
vior. Pardon must be. I speak to
ever)- discouraged and fallen man who
may hear me, and declare that It Is
no more certain that hunger Implies
food, that an eagle's wing Implies a
supporting atmosphere, that tho roots
of a tree Implies a soil for" them to
penetrate, that the long flexible claws
of a bird Implies branches for them to
cling to, that love and Us passion Im-
REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE.
flies the existence of a Reloved, than
t Is certain that his repentant long
ing for peace from the remorse of sins
an absolute guarantee that there
mrdon and peace with God for him
iera must be pardon; there Is for
glveness with Thee, O Lord, that thou
mayest be feared."
3. Hell Must Be.
Hell Is an ugly word; but It Is’not
as ugly os the thing for which
stands. Hell la the hardest word In the
English lunguage; It represents the
hardest fact of the moral universe.
Robert O. Ingersoll, long before Henry
Word Beecher suggested "Robert
Burns” as the fitting inscription for
his tomb, said: "I honestly believe that
the doctrine of hell was bom In the
glittering eyes of snakes that run In
frightful colls watching for their'prey.
I believe It was born In the yelping
and howling and growling and snarl
ing of wild beasts. I believe It was
born In the grin of hyenas and In the
malicious chatter of depraved apes. I
despise It. 1 defy It, and I halo It."
This Is a line example of Infldel rheto.
rlc, and at the same time a fair Illus
tration of Infldel logic. Suppose I do
despise, defy nnd hate the Idea of
hell, whnt has that to do with the fnet?
The glittering eyes of snakes, the
howling, growling and snarling of wild
beasts, the grin of hyenas anti the chat
ter of depraved apes are not pleasant
to think of, but they ore facts never
theless. I never, as some do, roll the
word hell as a sweet morsel under
my tongue In n desire to be shocking
ly picturesque nnd boldly regardless
of sensltlvs women and easily fright
ened children. I am not a materialist,
devoted to the llteratllsm of Are nnd
brimstone. Milton didn’t write my Bi
ble. But with all conviction I ozrert
the fact of hell, the sternest, most aw-
ful necessity of the universe. Hell has
not been abolished In any creed known
to me this side of reckless unbelief. The
Idea that there Is a new theology that
cuts hell out Is a mistake. Units-
rlanlsm and Unlversallsm and all the
other tangential creeds contain the
teaching that there Is a hell, a place
of torment. True, they suggest that
opportunity to escape from It will be
afforded after death, but hell as a fact
and a terrible fact- Is n truth whlqh
even the new theology lias not been
able to avoid. Hell must be. It Is n
fact demanded "by the nature of the
mind of God, by the moral forces of the
universe, by the prophetic menace of
the human conscience nnd by the anal
ogies of all law.” It Is certain that
after death we must every one of us
ro somewhere. Do you think we can
all go together? If all could go to
heaven. It would not be heaven nor
happiness to the man who had hell In
his heart, and It would not be heaven
very long for anybody, for he would
make a hell there In short order. I
believe In hell as a place, because the
Scriptures so speak of It and because
locality Is a necessity of exact thought,
but I believe ever)- man who goes there
carries his fire and his fuel with him.
"I sent my soul through the Invisible
Some letter of the after life to spell;
oml after many days my soul returned
And said: 'Behold myself am heaven
and hell.' ”
The wretched old men In the Valdos
ta Jell who save he knows he Is going
to hell, nnd who begs the governor to
let him die. Is by no means the flrst
Instance of conscious humanity stand
ing nt the brink with the certainty of
hell flaming In his heart. Of the san
est and the nbleet, one In history cried:
“I am taking n fearful Imp In the
dark," nnd another, "Remorse! H
morse!". Utopian dreamers picture
Socialism ln» which the state will have
no Jails, but they forget always to
take Into ncrount the fact of human
nature. To think of a moral law with
out a hell a man must first sand-bag
conscience and stifle one of the deep
eet-lald of all the Instructive humun
faculties. Hell must be. Hell is.
Htaven Must Be.
This la the thought that nfforifs the
tired soul a double cure—* refuge to
look toward and n refuge to'fall back
upon. Heaven! Heaven! Chrlstmaa
Evans overawed twenty thousand
Welchmen ‘by -lifting his one blazing
eye nnd repeating tho word "Eternity"
thirty times slowly and solemnly. I
feel thnt I might tempt nn overjoy
should I stand and s.ay again and again
till you rett it In your souls the glad'
dest word I know, "Heaven I Heaven I'
Heaven must be. It also Is a neres
slty of the law of correspondence.
Why do we believe In Heaven? We
believe In Heaven for. one reason be
cause It .Is the one thing about which
Jesus Uhrlst said that He would havo
especially corrected our minds If Heav
en had not been a real fact. “If It were
not so, I would have told you." We
bellevp In Heaven for another reason.
There Is emptiness unspeakable In
human life without It. Heaven Is the
fulfillment of life. The thought and
fact of HeaVen Is the healing harmony
for earthly dlacords. Existence In a
world from which the thought of Heav
en had been banished would be Insup
portable. A world that could believe
Its thought and faith of Heaven were
fanciful Ideals doomed to disillusion
would go mad. Heaven must be. It
Is the flnsl, the real, the nll-satlsfy-
Ing terminal of Hope In a world con
stantly convincing us all of the un
reality and the transltorlness of other
human passions end desires. Heaven
Is the only rest station for enrth. The
Infinite alone can afford the repose
which the finite cries for.
Augustine sounded a qote thrilled
through and through with Truth down
to the level of the Inst man and woman
of you when lie said: "We came from
Thee. Oh, God. and we have no rest till
we return to Thee." Heaven I* the
keen nnd unfaltering ambition of the
soul for which the universe nnd lie
God have no rebuke nnd whlvh may be
trusted to range In unhindered liberty.
God it Calling Us.
We believe In Heaven for still an
other reason. There ore emotions we
have felt and experiences we have had
which we realize at the time ns not
enrth bom. Heaven lay about us In
our Infancy when we roapied as chil
dren In the mountains nnd said to each
other: "That Is your mountain:" "This:
Is mine,” or under the skies and as
signed the stars to each other or
claimed the moon as a plaything nn
the nursery floor In our pure lieavenlv-
nilmlcdness, but Heaven lies about even
still. We feel now nnd again gushes of
tenderness and a glltterlngs of mind
which we cannot explain, but which
we know must have come from Heaven.
When D. L. Moody said In his dying
breath, "Enrth la receding: Heaven le
opening; God Is calling me," ho was
hut saying for the Innt time what In
reAllty hnd hern the experience of hi*
heart many time* before.
"What nre you doing, my boy?" anid
n gentleman to a lad who wn* fitting
with hand nnd eye* up toward n thick
cloud. "I nm nailing my kite, sir." "But
where In your kite—l don't nee any
kite? How do you know there Is any
kite on the other end of thnt string ?'*
"I know It by the wny she pull*," wn*
the boy’s conAdent reply. So ilo we
know that thero Is a Heaven. We fael
the drawing.
"ffe thnt made the enr shall He not
hear? He thnt formed the eye, shall
He not nee?"
Whnt a consolation of life It In! Whnt
i assurance to know thnt God la
thinking of ii*. And we do know it.
Oo<l must be thinking of us today e|*«
our heart* would not so burn. The
. !*• i. nt I'-kohiI t*-lN us that when
Theseus wn* nbout to enter the laby
rinth with drnwn *wnrd to destroy the
monster, hi* sister, Arlndne. hud tied
around hi* nnkle n silken thread nnd
told him thnt when he felt -the gentle
pulling nt thnt thread he would know
that she wn* thinking of him. Do you
desire to pray*-and* to be nnswarad?
’'HI (i .1 \ ♦ * pm iLmi and ponce? Do
you realize n longing for Heaven? If
you do, nnd whenever you do. He thnt
made the enr I* hearing: He that form
ed the eye J* seeing. Clod would have
you know thut lie Is thinking of you.
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THE FRUITS OF TOIL SS
By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD, j
PASTOR UNIVERSAL1ST CHURCH
One of the most baneful results of
the earlier theological Idea regarding
the creation of the world and the ad-
vent of man together with hla fall
from primal purity and Innocence wae
that it dishonored toll and tended to
degrade the toller. Man, became of
disobedience, wa* banished from a life
of ease and opulence and sentenced to
expiate his crime by a life term at
hard labor. Thu* human toll came to
h« coneldered in the light of a great
* V 1I. a tremendous hardship; to be es
caped If at all possible, or else to be
•uhrnitted to In great weariness of
the body and bitter lamentations of
‘ha spirit.
The most persistent and permanent
ideas of any people are thoee which
rome to It through Its rsllgtous beliefs.
Hence the altogether too prevalent and
erroneous conception of labor today.
»e have reaeon for the most pro-
,?IL I 'd. gratitude to the shapers of our
rnra. cf> da and to those who bare re
ar? ‘. 0 . ‘ft* earliest spiritual longings
I"? ‘‘rivtnes of the race, but we are
cento excusable if we are prone to
“? e *. hat ,he writer or writer*
hum T'aced the Genesis stlgtha upon
human toll were indolent and ease lov-
was not condemned as a pun-
*° * Ilf* of unending toll.
able disintegration, physical and moral,
of a life of Idleness, and elevated to
the highest order In the gift of un
grudging nature by being made a co
laborer with God. That Genesis writer
wrought better than he knew when he
made the Almighty to declare, "Cursed
shall the ground be for thy sake.”
Since flrst he became a conscious being
breathing the spirit of aspiration with
the very air of nature's larger freedom,
man has been lifted rather than de
graded by his encounter with difficulty
and hardship and exalted Instead of
debased by hi* unending sacrifices, end,
today, he Is to be pitied rather than
despised who Is content to eat his
bread In the sweat of another mans
face. . ,
As one of hi* most profound bless
ings to the world In his great work
of "lifting the shadow from off the
face of all people,’ the carpenter
prophet of Nazareth. In hla own life and
living, dignified toll and lifted the
toller far above the klnga and rulers
of the earth by making him a partner
with God In Hla work* of unending
Genesis. Therefore, we are Justified In
repudiating any theology which per-
alate In declaring the Institution of hu
man labor to be the retributive act of
the All Father, Just aa we owe It to the
continued progress of the race to per
sistently discredit any modern philos
ophy which continue* to suggest_ or to
embody that Idea. Any Institution or
organisation whose teaching* lead to
the conclusion In the average mind
that human toll Is a curse rather than
a blessing, exists as a constant menace
to aoclety.
Any Individual who labors In any
productive capacity whatever, whether
hla toll be of brain or of body, whether
he teach a school or dig a sewer,
whether he nalnt a picture or make a
brick, whether he cook a dinner or sing
a song, whether he make a law or a
wheelbarrow, whether he locate a
planet or Invent a new fertiliser,
whether he build a cathedral or grow
a pumpkin, whether he frame-a steam
boat or a sonnet, whatever be the na
ture and the result of his effort, has
labored, either consciously or unsclous-
ly, toward two results.
First, there Is the consummation of
the task demanded by aspiration or by
necessity, the attainment of the visible
object of his toll and sacrifice, that
which men may call the tangible fruits
of his toll; and secondly, and far more
Important and precious In the eyes of
the Master Workman, there Is the per
manent fruitage in the soul of the toil-
Thls, after all, la the real object
of all human toll. And It Is only as
this becomes a conscious effort Instead
of an unconscious though Inevitable
result, that we escape the degrading
drugery of toll and enter Into the ful
ness of the Joy of labor. It Is only as
we become fully conscious of the fact
that the spirit of our physical labor
upon the visible structure of wood or
stone or brick Is the actual material
out of which we are constantly fash-
REV. E. D. ELLENWOOD.
toning "the house not made with
hands," that the thing upon which we
labor becomes Indeed the work of God
Instead of the demanded portion of the
taskmaster.
It Is well for us, therefore, amid all
of our rejoicing over Ihe growing sens*
of the worth and the dignity of human
life, and the Increasing spirit of human
brotherhood which prompts the toller,
to request and the employer to grant
n constantly Increasing wage and a
constantly dscreaslng service; It Is well
for us, I say, that we should carefully
and fearlessly analyse the motives
which control nnd actuate all such
movements. If.lt be thnt, having more
time for our tasks, wo shall be able to
perform them more worthily, then let
us truly rejoice thnt we have fash
ioned still another block In thot struc
ture which shall endure when all the
K roudest labor of our hands and our
rains has crumbled into dust.
If this fearless analysis of our ruling
motives shall discover to us that.we
desire more money In return for our
labor, nnd more of time for our own
posscssloh In order that we shall be
able to cultivate for ourselves that
true culture of the soul which lifts a
man Into companionship ivlth the Im
mortals nnd lessens for him the domi
nation of the merely physical, then, in
deed, may tve rejoice nnd give to every
effort to secure n higher wage nnd a
shorter day our most hearty support.
But If, on the other hand, we shall dis
cover that we are onlv seeking to be
relieved of toll because It Is a burden
Irrreaslngly Irksome to us; that we are
only asking for more of time for our
selves In order that we shell have more
time to spend ss the fool jpends It;
that w« are only demandlnr more re
muneration for our toll In order thnt
we, too, may have some of the things
which our neighbors boast, but do not
need; that we may change from the
envying lo the envied class and be
able to buy some things which we have
neither the wit nor the grace to fully
enjoy, then. Indeed, may we well ques
tion the wisdom of allowing such a
motive to guide us to Its fruition, for
we shall certainly learn to our ever
lasting shame and confusion that Ihe
gratification of such Impulses nnd such
motives must eventunlly rob us of ths
actual fruits of our loll. "Beware of
covetousness, for n man's life consist-
tth not In the abundance of the things
which he possesasth.”
The covetousness of the oppressed Is
no less deplorable than the Insatiable
greed of the oppresses and ths Indo
lence or Idleness nt the toller 1s no less
a sin against God and humanity thsn
the Inordinate demands of the task
master.
CATTLE RAISERS
TO REOPEN CASE
By Private Istuxtl Win*.
Washington, Bept. 1.—The Cattle
Rainer*' Association of Texas and the
Chicago Live Stock Exchange today
applied to the Interstate commerce
commission fot* what practically
amounts to a reopening of its cases
against the CMs^tfo, Burlington and
Quincy and other cattle carrying rail
road*. They *ubinUted a supplemental
petition pruying for an order of the
commission fixing the amount of ter-
oi.ii-ti • huiK*’ "ii Iiv4* xtork delivered at
union stock yards, Chicago, contending
that the one now In force, $2 per oar.
Is unreasonable nnd unjust.
In a previous decision by the com
mission this contention 1* sustained,
and $1 wn* suggested n* a reasonable
charge. But the commiHHlon hail no
power to enforce its Judgment.
A public hearing to be held on Sep
tember 12 nt 10 a.m. at the office of
the commission was ordered by the In
terstate commerce commission tndav
to consider the petitions from various
cotton currying roads for authority to
change rate* on export cotton upon
le*s than the thirty-day notice pro
vided by the new rate law.
WALTER BALLARD OP
TICAL CO.
Less than one year ng4» placed on the
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the advertised Invisible bifocals.
Ground In n deep torlc curve, giving a
large visual Add f..r reading as well as
walking. They are the most perfect nnd
beautiful glass sold. Consult us about
bifocal*. We have them all. Sales
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