The Dawson journal., 1883-03-15
TIE WORLD GROWS BETTER

- ~ N'hA'AAI Nsi AA4se
who viii suffer himself TO be beglilo
into giving reasons to show why tn
world is getting worse simply, be
cause, in fact. it is not doing any
thing of the sort The world a
large undoubtedly grows better
There may be local exceptions, her
and there, in the tens OF thousand
of communities that go to make al
its being but the general wave o
Improvement and enlighlenmentri rise:
higher year by ye;u. The agencie:
for good are stronger aud more
numerous this year than they were
last year. The fields OF religious en-
terprise are widening, the laoorere
are increasing in number aud in,-
proving III efficiency, and the harvest
mounts up, day in and day ous, with
ever swelling returns, In i'll tn.
variel departments of civilized lie,
the feet Of progress press swiftly on
in the great highway of advanc, :
ment. Enlightenment alvaace ,
hand in hand, with Christianity, and
50 the world grows wiser ss well as
better, under its benign iudu nee.
The TACT is as We state il, aud it is
none the less true because some peo-
pic cannot see it. There is a ri4 ht
way and 4 wrong way of o)king for
til evidences of great truth, an
he who adopts the wrong way will
not likely be satisfied Of It's existence
Wpuid 1t be fair to conclude that
trees d. not grow because an hour
close inspection of some Iordly oak
gave no evidence of an increase
either in its height or girth ? Unfair
tests result in false conclusions. The
oak grows, though we cannot detect
it at given moment; the world
grows wiser and better, though the
observations OF day, or a week. may
not be rewarded by unerring indi-
cations of the fact. Growth in ali
the departments of spiritual, mental,
animal and vegetable life is gradual; /;
AMI he who rejects all belief in the
fact OF growth, merely because ne
cannot have a sensible manifesto
ton OF it at a given point Of time, is
not wise enough to be ordinarily
foolish. Growth in the law OF crea-
ton; and it would be singular, in
deed, if the most important of all
created things were denied the bene-
fits of this law, in the most impor-
tant of all the interests that concern
them.
Men do not always consider wisely
the scope and bearings of great
questions. They often ia ,e too mar
row view of great questions.
Sometimes they reason from one iso-
lated fact to q general conclusion,
winch would not be established by "a
thousand such facts, How natural
1t Is for the tayner, whose fields are
parched by the burning sun, to con
clnde that ali others are suffering a
like calamity, and that a famine is at
hand How natural it is for the
merchant, who has become involved
by bad management, to imagine thai
the whole world is on the eve of T.
financial earthquake? It il human
nature. We judge Of Others from.
our own standpoint
The circle of human vision is small
A view from the top Of the highest
mountain would not embrace I'll.
confines OF single continent. sci
1t IA the matter of human conduv
and experience. Every communit,
has its own moral horizon, as well a ,
its natural one and it is only in the
aggregate Of all that the general
moral level can be established. The
men whose Spiritual spring has gone
dry will naturally suppose that hi,
neighbours spring IS in the saue
parched condition, and he will be ant
to sAed tears over an imaginary le-
cine in universal spirituality. IIe
judges Others by himself, and it is
not righteous Judgement" A Chris
tian, with bad liver AMI "a DIR
spiritual spring, is not the fellow
that ought to be called upon 10 writ,
up the tiiumphs Of Christianity O.
Ito make ont the report of the kille.
and wounded, in any given engage
ment. He would be sure to eive tn,
tinge of hi4Jown desolation to wha
should be a fair aud beautiful rrr
reSentation Of steady progress, wit.
abundantprom of glorious ultinat
triumph.
But there is anolher rnn.o, IL.