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Says the Des Moines Register and
Leader: In the matter of woman
suffrage and of anti-liquor legislation
progress has thus far been made by
"inching along” and is likely to con
tinue to be made one step at a time
In our day.
A St. Louis woman is suing for di
vorce because her husband threw a
cabbage at an actor. Cabbages may
be scarce in Missouri, avers the At
lanta Constitution, but there are ac
tors and platform orators who find
eggs monotonous.
Writing in the London Times, Dr.
Sven Hedin, the celebrated Asiatic
explorer, says of Japan and the Jap
anese: "Wonderful country! Wide
awake, lovable, joyful people. How
old, exhausted and Kray life is in
other countries of Asia compared to
that of the Land of the Rising Sun,
where every man goes to work silent
ly and dutifully, and the women smile
even when the rain is coming in
streams from the dull gray heavens.
A people who believe in themselves,
their own greatness, their own fu
ture; a people steeped to the marrow
in loyalty, sense of duty, persever
ance and patriotism; a progressive
and industrious people, awake, intel
ligent and well informed in all tha
ways of life.”
Mayor Dorsey, of Athens, relates
the Atlanta Constitution, has devised
a method whereby the wife-beater is
“stung” with his own medicine. A
negro came before him recently
charged with this delectable offense.
He was given the option of a fine of
$25 or receiving a sound thrashing at
the hands of his wife. He chose the
latter.' Accompanied by two husky
policemen and a leather strap, he re
turned to his home. There, under
the supervision of the representatives
of the law, the dusky and outraged
partner of his griefs laid on twenty- ■
seven stinging “reminders.” We
have always questioned the efficacy
of brutality in curbing brutality. If
it is justified in any contingency, it
would be that of wife-beating.
Some German physicians, in the
patient and thorough German way,
have been experimenting with the ef
fect of baths on the heart. They find
that the effect of cold baths generally
is to enlarge the heart; the effect of
warm baths is to shrink the heart, at
least for the time being; while the
effect of baths at blood temperature
is a slight diminution. The natural
conclusion is that the only way to
prevent disturbance of the heart is
to take no baths at all, contends the
New Haven Register. It should be
explained, however, that the effect of
a single bath on the heart is not such
as to greatly affect either the circula
tion or the scales, and it is general
medical testimony that the enlarge
ment which cold baths give, in the
case of those who can stand them,
only tends to make the heart more
useful.
The warning of the State Highway
Commission against the violation of
laws and ordinances in automobile
road races will not interfere with the
full enjoyment of legitimate automo
biling, insists the Boston Herald.
Speed contests as a sport may still be
held if promoters and enthusiasts are
sufficiently interested to provide the
necessary tracks. But the highways
belong to the public, and should not,
even occasionally, be monopolized for
any sport. Tests of endurance in all
the legal road powers of an automo
bile may be made. Speed competi
tions within the limits of the law
should be as interesting as tests of
machines and drivers for all practical
road service as are contests which put
a premium on speed forbidden by law.
Automobiling for business or pleas
ure will not suffer by the enforcement
of the law. Automobiling as a sport
has no place of right on the highway,
and its devotees should not complain
if they are forced to seek special
grounds, as other sports have been re
quired to do.
Tomorrow is a long time to the man
who intends delaying.
THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. JOHN WESLEY HILL.
Theme: The Future Life.
New York City.—Sunday morning,
at the Metropolitan Temple, the pas
tor, Dr. John Wesley Hill, preached
a sermon on "The Future Life,” tak
ing for his text: "If a man die, shall
he live again?” Job 14:14. Among
other things, he said:
Whether immortality can be
proved or not depends upon the char
acter of the proof demanded. It can
not be proven as you prove a problem
in geometry or demonstrate a law in
chemistry. This is true not only of
our arguments for immortality, but of
our reasoning touching all the facts
involving the deepest and highest
life. You cannot by triangulation
prove your mother’s love, nor by
chemical analysis discover the secret
of a tear. You cannot extract music
from an organ with a corkscrew, or
sweep up sunshine with a broom;
neither do you invoke mathematics
and logic to justify your sympathies.
It is just as impossible to apply these
processes to the problem of immortal
ity. “Ye do always err,” said Christ
to the Sadducees, “not knowing the
Scriptures, neither the power of
God.” Yet our belief in immortality
is more than an emotion, and beyond
the assurances of God’s Word there
are evidences all about us. in facts
and experiences which enable us to
exclaim, “This mortal must put on
immortality.” The idea of immortal
ity is an intuition, voicing itself in
universal human nature. Hunger
means food, not in relation to the
penniless tramp alone, who gazes into
the window where the prosperous
man sits at. his feast, but in relation
to the general order and adjustment
of the universe. But there is some
thing in man related to immortality
even deeper and more potent than de
sire—something working with a pre
cision beyond the highest efforts of
the intellect, and which from the
standpoint of reason is simply mirac
ulous. Look at it. The little squir
rel carries an almanac in its brain,
by which it stores in its nest pro
vision for the coming winter. The
bee is possessed of such a perfect
compass that for miles it will flv
straight back to its hive; and these
birds of passage which are once more
filling the treetops with song, at pre
cisely the right time make their way
over river and forest, over lake and
plain, to find here in the North, in
the summer time, food, and yonder
in the South, for the winter time,
food. Instinct is thus as unerring
as a God inspired prophet, and I have
a right to say that if instinct in the
lower creation works with such un
erring accuracy, surely God will not
disappoint this inexplicable something
within my heart which cries out for
light and life, and longs for a better
home beyond the grave. This doc
trine of the future life being peculiar
to Christianity, it has been a favor
ite object of attack by every school
of infidelity since its announcement.
It has been condemned as false be
cause it involves a mystery. The ob
jector confounds two things essen
tially different, mystery as to fact
and mystery as to mode. A fact may
be plain while the mode of its exist
ence may be mysterious. Take a few
illustrations. The fact of gravitation
is indisputable, but who understands
its original philosophic and executive
power? How does it bind all worlds
into unity, maintaining the architect
ural branches of the universe? Who
understands the law of organic
growth and development? Whatismo
tion? How is it communicated from
one body to another? We may rea
son, we may advance step by step, but
the end of these processes are be
yond our power of analysis; so that
we are obliged to believe facts, the
modes of which are beyond our un
derstanding. It is urged again, that
this doctrine is contrary to the im
mutable principles of science. Would
it not be well for the objector to es
tablish some ultimate system of
science from which there can be no
appeal? No science is perfect. It
has been the business of one age to
modifv and improve the science of the
preceding age. A future age will ex
pose the learned follies of this.
Science has been snail-like in its pro
gress. With all its boasted ability,
it required nearly six thousand years
for science to discover so simple a
thing ns the circulation of the human
blood. With the earth and the sky
full of electricity, science was five
thousand years in bringing that im
measurable force to light. Turn
back a few pages of history and tel
egraphy was not scientific; science
laughed at the possibility of the tele
phone; science joined with commerce
in deriding the validity and value of
the Marconi system of wireless tel
egraphy. The fact is, science is still
an infant; it is scarcely out of its
swaddling clothes; it can barely stand
alone. Is it entitled to more cre
dence than the Bible? Must this old
volume, hoary with the age of cen
turies, written by the finger of in
spiration, born at Sinai, completed
amid the splendors of the Apocalypse,
whose footprints are seen in the
crumbled dust of earth’s wrecked aud
ruined greatness, whose teachings
are Godlike, whose precepts are thun
der-given, whose promises are the
hope of the world —fly the track be
fore the gorgeous diction and sacri
ligious pretension of a sceptical sci
ence or ungodly philosophy? But I
fail to see any relevancy in the ob
jection. In what department of real
science are those principles found
that conflict with the doctrine of im
mortality? I appeal to all the dis
coveries in the wide range of scien
tific investigation for an answer.
Science is not a textbook of revela
tion, nor is it the essential foundation
of religious faith. Yet we are able
to cite some of its fundamental prin
ciples as corroborative of the Scrip
tural idea of life beyond the grave.
The conservation of force is a princi
ple recognized by all schools of sci
ence. Under the operation of this
law, we are told that the fall of a
cambric needle upon the carpet ex
erts an immeasurable influence, and
that the lifting of the hand sends vi
brations through the stellar avenues.
So absolute and far reaching is this
law, that so eminent an authority as
John Fiske says: "The track of
every canoe, of every vessel that has
yet disturbed the ocean, remains for
ever registered in the future move
ments of all succeeding particles
which may occupy its space. In like
manner, the air itself is one vast
library, on whose pages are forever
written all that man has ever thought
or whispered.” Thus we are coming
to know that in the divine economy
there is no such thing as waste. Geol
ogists tell us that millions of years
ago, sunlight fell upon a carbonifer
ous period, and now in these late cen
turies we gather those same beams
of light to brighten the night and
warm our homes; so that in the black
lump of coal there is packed away
and hidden from sight the light which
was first created by the fiat of God.
And dare we assign a broader destiny
to the material than the spiritual?
We are told that these forces of na
ture are stern, unbendjng and inexor
able, sweeping through all spaci?,
binding all worlds and imperial over
all creation; but they cannot bind the
mind that solves the problems, de
ciphers the utilizes
gravitation, harnesses the trade
winds, subsidizes the lightning and
interprets the literature of the stars.
Herein is the triumph of the soul,
that it subordinates matter, plays
upon the keys of physical power, tri
umphs over the forces of nature, and
becomes in a lofty though secondary
sense a creator. And must heat,
light, electricity and gravitation
sweep on forever, and the mind, with
its full orbed powers, its God-or
dained attributes and boundless ca
pacity, be shrouded in eternal night?
If matter is indestructible, is not the
spirit of man of more value than
the gain of sand that defies all disin
tegrating agencies? These great
principles of science are not cited
as positive proof, for science cannot
radically teach immortality of the
soul, since it is founded upon the
discoveries of the senses; but we do
find in these laws of nature some
striking and significant analogies,
and, studying them, we are comforted
even by their mute testimony, and
our faith is strengthened in the im
mortality of man. But again, this
doctrine has been assailed upon the
ground that it is contrary to the im
mutable laws of nature. This argu
ment has no standing in court, since
immortality is not under the control
of natural, but spiritual laws. Paul
said, “Thou fool, knowest thou not
that which thou soweth is not quick
ened except to die?” Here is an ap
peal to nature, yet the Christian’s
faith must stand upon the Word of
God rather than the laws of nature,
notwithstanding nature is full of
analogies to help our minds and if
possible to strengthen the foundation
of faith in the future life. Let us
take a few glances at this question
from the standpoint of nature. “The
tree, though bare, though covered
with the ice of winter, though there
is no bursting bud to be seen, yet
when the springtime returns the bud
swells, the leaves reappear, the flow
ers crown the branches and the tree
brings forth fruit after its kind.”
Here is an awakening, a resurrection
to glorious life. And is it not an inti
mation that beyond the winter of
death there is eternal spring, where
the soul will unfold in perennial
beauty, and where life shall take on
immortal glory? There is the cater
pillar, a loathsome thing to look
upon. It falls asleep, weaves itself
a winding sheet, and is sepulchred
in its chrysalis for weeks. There Is
no sign of life, no indication of ani
mation, yet suddenly the chrysalis
bursts open, and instead of the loath
some worm that fell asleep, there
comes forth a butterfly, which en
chants us with its beauty. Great is
the mystery. Who can understand
it? Is it not prophetic? Is it not
symbolic of another resurrection?
John exclaims, “It doth not yet ap
pear what we shall be.” Paul de
clares, "Our vile bodies shall be fash
ioned like unto His own glorious
body.” Though buried in the earth,
though no block or shaft mark the
resting place of the Christian, God’s
Word for it, he shall rise again, and
if such a transformation is possible in
the life of a worm, who shall attempt
to limit the possible transformation
awaiting the human body, which is
the temple of the soul immortal?
Surelv. it shall come forth changed,
sublimated and glorified. Nature
does not absolutely prove this, but
her striking analogies all point in
that direction, and we are justified in
accepting them as the revelations of
God. The final evidence, however,
of the doctrine of immortality no less
than that of the resurrection, rests
upon the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Paul declares Him to be “the first
fruits of them that sleep,” and again,
“If Christ be not risen from the dead,
then there is no resurrection of the
dead; but if Christ be risen from the
dead, how say some among you that
there be no resurrection?” He was
our Heaven appointed prototype. He
came into the world as our federal
representative, and therefore, since
He assumed a human body and re
sumed that body changed and glori
fied after it had been buried for three
days, is powerful argument that we
also shall share in His resurrection.
He met death as our representative,
suffered Himself to be taken captive
that He might “lead captivity cap-
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ritory, plucked out his sting, robbed
him of his crown, devastated his em
pire, kindled the star of immortality
in the night of death, and three days
hence, was seen standing upon the
verge of the sepulchre crowned with
victory.
“Up from the grave He arose,
A mighty victor o’er His foes:
He arose a victor o’er the dark domain.
And He lives forever with the saints to
reign.
Hallelujah! Christ arose! ”
Because He lives, we shall live also.
FEMININE NEWS NOTES.
Boston women established the first
playground in 1902.
Norway, Sweden. Denmark and Ice
land have given the municipal fran
chise to women.
Mr 3. F. A. Ealch. of New Rochelle.
N. Y., was severely hurt in preventing
her automobile from running down a
bicyclist.
Christo Salantiro, a street sweeper,
was injured by Mrs. Ogden Goelet’s
automobile in Fifth avenue, New
Y"ork City.
The second biennial convention of
the National Young Women’s Chris
tian Association in St. Paul, Minn.,
had 500 delegates.
Mrs. Charles Neave is the latest
English woman of birth and educa
tion to go into business. She has be
come a press agent.
Miss Harriet S. Hayward, of Brock
ton, Mass., is the first woman to be
elected by a county in Massachusetts
to preside at a county teachers’ asso
ciation.
Queen Alexandra has worn the fa
mous Cullinan diamond as a pendant
on several state occasions, and its re
markable beauty has been generally
praised.
Most of the women who appeared
at the hearing before Public Service
Commissioner Eustis favored separ
ate cars for woinen in the subways of
New York City.
Mrs. Charles A. Spofford, New
York City, announced that she would
raise a fund among her society friends
to aid the crusade against illegal
users and sellers of cocaine.
A leading member of the Woman’s
Municipal League, of New York, as
serted at a meeting that to have sap
arate cars for men and for women
simply would intensify the selfishness
of men.
LABOR WORLD.
Grave diggers of New York City
recently formed a labor union.
Boston (Mass.) Journeymen Horse
shoers’ Union is fifty years old.
There have been no strikes in Port
land. Ore., for the last four years.
The Persian rug weaver takes
about twenty days to weave a square
foot.
Civil servants from all over the
Dominion met at Ottawa to form a
federation.
During a recent year the German
labor exchanges found situations for
1,250,000 persons.
A committee is devising -ways and
means for building a labor temple in
Fort Worth, Texas.
Anew union of hoot and shoe
workers was recently formed at
Arecibo, Porto Rico.
Carpenters at Hot Springs, Ark.,
have formed a club for the purpose
of studying craft problems.
The building laborers’ interna
tional union is said to be assuming a
controlling influence in the West.
A trades assembly at Greenville,
Tex., was organized recently with
twenty-one unions of farmers affil
iated.
An effort is making in Boston,
Mass., to organize the school teachers
of the United States and Canada into
a union.
In rural Russia the wages of farm
laborers have advanced about thirty
ner cent, in the last twenty years,
but the average is thirty cents a day.
From 1850 to 1860 many national
and international labor organizations
were formed, which granted charters
to local unions and organized new
branches.
According to the report of the
United States Commissioner of Labor,
women in buying for the family spend
from sixty to seventy per cent, of
the total earnings.
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Braided rugs are now the fashion.
Formerly one saw them only in the
country but now they are seen In city
bed rooms and living rooms. Any
country housewife might make money
by 'braiding strips of rags during the
long winter evenings and making them
into rugs to sell. If city 'hoarders
come to the country in the summer,
they will buy, but a surer way of sell
ing them is to make arrangements
with some of the numerous women’s
exchanges or ‘women’s industrial
unions that are found in large cities
and where handiwork of women is soM
at a good figure. Hooked rugs are
equally in demand, and some every
beautiful ones may be made by the
country housewife.—lndiana Farmer.
Call the Cat.
As Anna De Brown was coming to
town,
The wind caught and lifted her hat;
She gave a slight scream—with a
reason, ’twould seem—
For out bounced a monster brown
rat. —Lippincott’s.
A prayer is as good as a sermon,
and neither is worth while if it is not
from the heart.