Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-11-10

here Is the petlent! On, De is aUle 10 81
up Where is the sick man? Out on bis
crutch, hobbling, it may be. Where is he
Walking, leaping and praising God. Is The
world coming to naught because you miss
the medicine, the dim lamp, and all the
array of sanitary forces? The man is bet
ter, and .notody is worse off. Every day
and every hour the world is taking the
hint, that the true economy of sanitary ad.
minstration is not cure, but prevention
And the time will come, we devoutly trust
when there shall be needed not a medical
prescription; W hen all there is of US shall be in
the secret of health, and keep it all the time.
Then the world won't be going to destruc
ton; that will not be worse time than the
time OF cure, certainly; although the whole
outlay of sanitary provision shall be gone.
We shal! not want even a drug shop then;
yet we are thankful for them now. We
hope to be wiser by-anu-by.
We go on---there is no perfection-we
are not saying that; we are not SO insane
as 10 ask tor it at once. Perfection would
take away all possible improvement we re-
member. But the world is better, we hum
bly, trust, very much better. And accord
ing to the Jaw aud the direction of these
changes, all triumphs will come. IF you
believe in the browning of the nations as
subj, cts OF your Christ, this is the economic
order of introducing that change. Already
the east is streaked with purple and amber
and eold prophetic Of the day when it
reaches the midhour, that shall wipe out
the remembered brilliance even Of Chris,y
rriumphs on the earth. Old faith may not
e equal to that. That is the reason why
she stands staggering and gibherlng and
moaning over the passing away of the an
cient dispensation. There are two bad ten
denotes in this day, very positive, very ex
cessive One is OF a philosophical nature,
IS the name of the one, covering philosophy
aud religion. The other is spiritlsm or
spiritualism. The first is precisely man
with five senses and nothing else (; the
second is MIN with no senses at
all. One is all kite with no string
to hold it, the other is all string
with 10 kite to lif it, Why my friends. it
is well enough to go up in balloons; | firm
ly believe in aerial navigation as triumph
of the future But then we submit that
iuasmuch as its practical value lies in the
feasibility of landing comfortably. we had
be,ter hold on to our railroad stock, our
steamboat navigation, and the old footpaths
even. than to cut loose from the earth We
must first learn to steer and to govern in
co ordination with the law aud the life and
the world we live in, before we pass the
the ruling philosophers of the present
thinking, has grad element in it. 1t is
grandy true, but it is only string; none the
worse for that, but poor for what it lacks
Spiritualism has grand idea. We believe
IN God, in Spirit; we believe in ours g
as SIrits we bsle5e that we are enspher-
ed by spiritual economy, that in it we live
and move and have our being. But it
won't do TO forget that we must eas bread;
it won't do to forget that the sum of the
angle, Of triangle is equal 10 two right
angles; it will not do to forget in the hap
sody of heavens music the solid, practical
every day work of life. Put them toget tn
er, and you have the balance and the har-
mony of being.
two evils must be sought not in speculative
theology. not in the old tenets vanishing
away, not ia the restoration of the past.
That has created the difficulty For these
very movements we are referring to are re-
actions, they are counter-statementso of an
other difficulty, but in excess. 1t will not
do to look to Journalism; for til at only con
firms the difficulty. 1t will not do to look
to tanaticism; tina. is sure to burn out
sooner or later. Where did the old world
seek the correction Of old difficulties? Was
it Of the scribes, Of the cababits, Of the
doctors? The common people heard the
word of reform gladly, and they took it up.
All reforms, all improvements sprung up
from the universally of popular life. They
ever have done it, they ever will The in-
telligence, the common sense of popular
life must shake off priests and prizes tcraft
I use these words in their technical, and
therefore ineligible sense. They must
shake off speculations, and put facts in
their places must shake off superstition,
and enthrone reason in its stead; must out
live fanaticism, and let hearty loyalty take
it's place. Then the correction will come
The people must put on loyalty to liberty
to education, to jus tice, to charity. to mercy
and love. Religion must be enthroned as
principle Of duty in life, an enthusiasm
must be kinded in the very heart of hu.
mainly, the decalogue itself must be made
over into man himself and the Sermon m