Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-05-05

Dr.. Swing on Moral Education.
From the Chicago News.

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that which is not bread, and your
labor for that which satistieth not ~
queried Prof. Swing, quoting these
words from Isaiah az a XXI for his ser
nor on ''Social Failures" What may
be the present condition Of the other
planets, continued he, in part, Is not
shown, but the earth was given to a
creature not fully able to take care of
the gift. The gift has thus far been too
noble for the receiver. Man extracts
some good and some happiness from his
charge, but to a large degree his inherit
ance is non-productivc, and many, sur
veying the situation all over, raise the
inquiry whether life is worth living,
The maxim, Each one n builder Of his
own fortune" applies as we'll to society
as to the individual, and is, indeed, the
law of the world. Man is the maker of
his own world. Society man, in the az
gregate, is still in an inexcusable condi-
ton. 1t has made much progress, bu.
il is no secrect that rs a whole the con
dition Of the human family is deplora-
BILE. Why does not society create for
itself a better world? 1t must be fully
assumed by this this time that no mir.
acle will be performed III its behalf; that
no man will drop from the clouds.
and no honey distill from the rocks, and
that no Christ will come to force upon Il
world of idlers and drones n kingdom Of
heaven and yet society is made up of
part Jail and part poor-house, part beg
gars, a large part criminals-evils, whose
shame lies chiefly in the fact that they
could be easily removed. Nothing
comes without a cause. There must,
therefore, be at work great evils, which
are liverting II earth from its moral
orbit, and preventing it from being the
blessed home for man, intended by its
wise Maker. All causes are summed up
In the fact that our money and toll are
not applied to good ends. Society is
struggling with consumption. 1t pos
sesses all the qualities Of an individual,
being liable to good health or to sick
ness, to prosperity or adversely, to
habits Of thrift or habits Of extravaganza;
and as there are persons crippled by
gambling and luxury and vice, society
passes along before us to-day as a cripple,
and invalid and a beggar. 1t is not yet
wholly wretched with all its amazing
vices and foliies on its head, society will
yet display the outward emblems Of
mental and spiritual success.
But while society has progressed
much, it bows i'm low subsection before
sore kings as cruel rs the Cheops mon
ster-the Egyptian kings, who drove
men like cattle and exacted from them
the labor of brutes for less than a brnte's
pay. A thousand millions of dollars are
each year diverted by injurious drinks
from all social welfare, many hundreds
OF millions are squandered in standing
armies, many millions are exacted from
the people by unjust monopoIies, many
millions diverted by corrupt legislation,
many millions by less conspicuous vices
and follies and frauds. One reason for
such bad condition Of the social fabric
may be found in the mistake made by
the individual over the ways and means
Of happiness. Each one assumes that
happiness an come out Of self. Society
suffers from the effort of individuals to
live in and Of self, for this is the exact
philosophy which makes the powerful
rob the weak the rich the poor. To
carry much to self is the meaning Of all
extortion. Our world will experince an
immediate advance the moment the in
dividual shall order his happiness TO
come In from the welfare Of mankind.
The recent political excitement i'm this
city betrays only a spasmodic regard for
that great monster called society. We
expect by a hot and extreme ora'ory
raging for five or six days TO convert a
multitude fully welded to all that is
rude in language and habits and conduct
"a multitude that has always been in a
chaos, and has learned TO love its reck-
leySntss. The pulpit ard prcss expected