Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-26

ly blowing with hounds and racing with oxen.
Men are not fitted to their functions; good
men, too, in everything else. 1t was a mystery
to him how man was thrust into this world and
not taught what he was to fill. Never man
was told what he was, and for all these ages
man has been cropping in darkness which
might have been avoided had he only been in-
structed in what he really is. This he consid-
cred great mystery. No man could learn
what he is. Parents want their children to
have the best places in society, not because
they were fitted for them, but because they are
such mighty good places. James, because he
is a truth-loving boy, is made a lawyer--and he
breaks down. William, because he is such
good boy, is made preacher-to the grief OF
his parish. Society is tull ofspent men-men
who are doing something for which they are not
fitted. Multitudes of men are lawyers who would
have made good mechanics. Many are preach
ers-they heard call, but the call meant
for somebody else. One-third the preachers of
the country are out of employment, because
they not fitted for it. And they mostly
good men, too. So it is, all through society.
No figures can be given this waste. but it is
waste society cannot afford.
THE LIARS.
Another waste was that which comes from
lying. And it was the white lies that do all
the mischief. The black lies are like the old
muskets, most dangerous at the butt. The
bouncers which told in society seldom
hurt anybody. 1t is the million little insince-
rites that fill the air of truth with fog that are
the most dangerous There can be nothing more
fatal than these insincerities which prevade
the whole political economy of business. 1t
is pity there SO many influences at work
to destroy the fine sense of truth. ALI of So
ciety oaths tend to mar truth, and even official
oaths had no weight in his means. The custom
house and commercial oaths are laughing
stock. The oaths in the courts he deemed as
really in the way of justice. The manner of
administering the oath was what he considered
faulty, and he described the ideal and the real
manner of its being administered, and the way
in which lawyers brow-beat witnesses into lying
in spite Of themselves. He had been told by
an eminent judge that the courts would not
have time to punish the perjuries occurring
within their doors. And it, in his opinion, a
man would lie, an oath would not prevent him.
THERE WE'RE OTHER WASTES
those of dishonesty, of intemperance, Of war;
But perhaps he had said enough. Civilization
was rude. And as for Christianity, why Christ
is yet mere babe in the world. 1t is only in
the household that we can tell what Christianity
is. Outside of that, the farther one goes the
weaker it grows For Christianity is the
performance Of mind, of love over the ami
NAL passions. And yet, the fercest, most red
mouthed war is that among civilized and Chris
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the blasts of hatred and war. But what coulo
be rallied by the notes of peace?
CLOSING HIS LECTURE,
Mr.. Beecher asserted that most of the progress
of the age was ideal. The greatest advancement
had been made in the privileges accorded tt
women. He branded as lie the scriptural in
junction that women should not preach claim
ing it now to be conceded that any woman ma,
| if she wants to. The condition of woman nov
is far ahead of what it was in the past, com
pared with that of man. Woman, no longer
slave, is the glory not only of the household
but of civilization. The growth of the worlt
has been slow, but it is beginning to blossom
| into fruit.