Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-04-27

vorce less easy. Against unnatural
crimes the laws became vigorously So
we're. In LEGISLATION felAtingto slaveky
the new spirit manifest HitheFte -
masters had had the lives of their slaSas.s
their own hands. Plutarch relates
how Flaminiis put slavB.to death
merely -te -atlepsl-e spectaclesto a-guest---
who had never seen man die. Under
the new laws, to fsoison Slave or cause
him TO be torn by wild beasts, or brand
ed, wasa homicidal act, liberty was de-
clared, to be a,right which could not bes,s
taken away; and sixty years of captivity ;.
right Of bnAemmIfing liberty. 1,sCbn1rI
:stantine himssltu IwEites;ri r::.sIt q has =,
pleased me for long time to
establish that1f IN the ~ChistisifTT
.chnreh masters can give liberty to. their;
slaves provided they do it in the pres
-ence OF all the people. and with the as
sistance of Christian priests" etcx.ssg
while each, new ruler, following: Con-
stantine, enacted some measure which
made cfnancipationE easier. IL: was-.T
under Constantine alsA thai ltbe frs. ii
authoritative expression was. heart
against gladfitofiaf shows, " hsle FthGt'S
month Of Reeenber. which had, been,o
n he ssp %srs Pfs Il ss SSS9
poor iir memory of the dead, then. ..be.
came. the month, of Offering, fer, the Door
and suffering, in memory of Him who
had diedsfor aHs'''K The duty f6f thei4
church, toward its poor, indeed, had "a
been recognized from the start, but now
charities began to be organized On 4
largqiseale,s ih6spitals were built and
that great system. of i, philapthropic.. ef..
fort instituted, which is bearing its rich
est fruit in ouf own time. fiHE sSapfNi sGi1i
These, howeyera.sfey only a few illusrrs-
trations of the way. in which Christian
sentiment operated Mt first for the re-
formationo of society, and in which it has
been operative, ever Since The, yicto-
lies which ChristianItS won in the first -
three centuries have beenrepeated tur- X
ring fifteen hupdred years where the.
spirit of Christ has not been hindered
by priestly power and ecclesiastfcafai
Journalism. Even with these him :,
ORANGES it has succeeded where every
other power has failed The history 6f
(, Christianity is the historyE'.of ubensFi
eficent Legislation, of humane. and
philanthropic Institutions, of pure and
elevated morality, iof national and iiidi.i'"
vidual progress, 1t is the single poten7,
tial force in the world to-day. Buddhism.
Confuciafiism, Moharhmedanisrn,; need
only to be tested aht the degraded and
hopeless condition of their hundreds of
millions of votaries to Show their fack
of vital power Inf J&pan the mostciv-I9
nized of B1ddhistic countries, the fail
ure of Buddhism is most conspicuous.
Travellers picture the japanese as t,eei
pie WITHOUT religion and without hope,
A current and favorite, proverb is. that -
the worst thing You can wish a man fsto
live again AS The old faith has died.
out, there is nothing left but its iuncon-
scious effects and the habits, taught bya
it, to stem the tide of selfshness; and
tho people seem given up, say very cam.
did observers, to 'licentiousness and'un-,t
truthfhlness,' While deep shade OF 4
melancholy settles over an 4Thisni
might have been said of'the Roman Em!sI
pire before the time of Christ; and what =
Christianity was able to accomplish in 4.
that unpromising soil it is able to do
among the heather nations to-day,-N.a
I. OoScruer.y .,.- ,..,...,