The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-07-07
KENOSHA, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, JULY I, 1870.


passions Of his own soul, which set bis
will at defiance and both scorn and mock
his power. Man, to-day, is about the same
selfish. policy-govelned animal that he
was eighteen hundred years ago, thus
affording most striking example of the
suspension of known law of nature.
But" it is asked, "is there no remedy
for this dwarfed and morbid condition Of
the moral faculties?" Aye, there must
be remedy in Natures Pharmacy for
all evil. A change must sooner or later
take place in the moral faculty OF the
| race A time will come when men will
be liberated from the thraldom of the
baser passions when mans word will
be as good as his bond when friendship
will be something more than name;
when the noble principles of impartiality
will dwell in the hearts of earth's rulers
when justice and benevoeuce shall walk
hand finland, and when true manhood
will be estimated at its proper value.
The way and manner such condition
of things is to be brought about, is a
question more of theory than of positive
knowledge. We need not speculate
upon the probabilities of constitutional
CtIdugcS DCIUU tuGCbCO III uldI hd1uiC
whereby the earthly passions will be left In
subsection to the moral powers nor
need we advance the hypothesis that the
present race must, in conformity to law
of nature, eventually become extinct,
and its place filled by a race less under
the influence and coutrol o" evil.
"What can we reason, but from what we
know"
We know that God uses means,-often
material forces, to effect mental and
moral changes: but whether the agencies
now operating, will in time prove sutfici
ent tn emancipate man from the thraldom
of evil, is question not easily answered.
The invention of movable type and
the Printing Press, found darkness and
oppression over all the earth This great
conferment has done more for mans adj
vanccment than all other put together
for though his moral nature is still In
bondage to the passions of earth. yet
through the agency of the Press, the
shackles of ignorance have been stricken
from his intellect and vantage ground
given him, whereby he may lessen his
moral servitude though he should fail in
securing his entire freedom.
anu IL CllO Shtbo t0A iAk04O All
human progress be at ributablc in sol
large degree to this cause, may it not
be safely inferred that the same appli-
ance will contribute in a like degree
towards the completion of the work?
That Christianity will continue the
basis of all moral advancement, there can
be no room for doubt. The thorough |
adoption of its principles is the worlds
only salvation. And in the dissemina. |
tion of these principles, more than in
any other way, does the press justly take
rank among Gods greatest gifts to man.
And yet like all good and perfect gifts,
it is liable to be perverted to base and |
selfish uses Indeed it is a question
whether to day it be not as much under
the control of evil as good-thus present
ing the striking paradox of one who
liberates others, and yet is itself enslaved.
But had not the world examples of
parallel nature in days of old when God
spake to men through the mouths of the
prophets? All that called themselves
prophets in those days. were not com
missioned of God. Baal had his prophets
as we'll as his worshipers But since
those times the modes Of communication
have greatly changed. God now speaks
to men through the Prophets of the Press !;
and many great and noble ones bear his
mandates. But while the good thus
survives, evil lives also Baal lives and
has his prophets of the press, and they
greatly outnumber those of the Lord
All, but the true prophets of old were
careful to proclaim the great truths of
Him who sent them and indifferent and
careless were they of the praise or censure
of men. The singing, though brave and
fitting rebuke of Nathan to the crime
stained despotic King of Israel, -" Thou
art the man will live in history while
time endnres. But what wonder it is
that the bearer of such abrupt, un
pleasant dispatch, did not share the fate
of large majority of those men who
deal in unpleasant, questionable truths
John, who came from the Wilderness
crying Prepare ye the way OF the Lord,
make straight his paths,-aye, the same
John, went boldly into the den of the
lion Herod,-tle icentious, tyranical
Herod,-and delivered most impolitel
message, just as received from the mouth
of God, and for which poor John lost his
head. How many of our latter day )
teachers, Prophets of the Press and I
Pulpit, will risk iii the advocacy oil
truth, even their bread and butter, say
ing nothing about endangering their
heads? M m E II
And yet in the great conflict SO long ]
waged betwixt good and evil, have we
not hopes and assurances that the former 4
must eventually triumph over the latter
But to hasten on that good time said to !
be coming, when the lion shall lie down
with the lamb, and the nations know war
no more, change must be effected in b
the whole moral and social condition of !