Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-15
Tnn NEW cArnrnnAL.
ITS SOCIAL FEATuREs--A PLAN FOR TIN
UNIVERSAL nRoTHERHooD or MAN.


UNIVERSAL nRoTHERHooD or MAN.
EDITOR GAZETTE. You have YER,
kindly given space in your valua-
BILE and widely circulated iour-
nal for n description of the plan OF
the new Cumberland church as proposed,
Us well as various notices as to the avail
ability and practical good that is to ensue
to the public from its completion. There
is yet much TO be said ia aid of this work
lraught with so much interest to the peo-
pie at large of our young and prosperous
city, so that it may in all its details be
gotten fully before the eye of the people
who are asked to put their money into the
venture. The most pleasing feature to
the non-sectarian (and let me here remind
you that many are putting their wealth
into II who believe not in the rigid order
OF getting to better life in the beyond,
but who strive to get there all the same
as those OF the strictest sect,) / say the
most pleasing feature 10 the mind Of this
class is the fact that it proposes TO divest
religion and religious influences of the
anstere Rightly that has characterized the
church militant of the past, and to reduce
1t to Quaker simplicity of pure spiritual
influences. To bring about this result
bhNAN iiiuob bS oOluN pan OtNlHtu MuRTNDY
the ritual of rented pews, doctrnal ser.
mons and flashy gew-gaws and haunting
feathers of Sabbath day services may give
way to some wider, broader and deeper
motives of worship.
Man Is creature of social influence
and there is In the heart OF all one touch
of nature which makes the world akin,
but 1t is not, assure you, in the fash.
lOnnhlp VVnrQhftl M tbn x.-hn
meet, touch and greet, and pass out
to the tread-mill work of grinding out
ingots from the necessity OF your neighbor
Now what Is this touch OF nature? 1t is
To convince every one of your associates
that you think more of his mental and
spiritual influences than his raiment OF
worldly goods. This is what we know
as sympathy" and we cannot sympa-
thize without putting ourselves en- rap.
port with the objects OF our care. We
can best do this with the church and her
influence by the great hall, library, lee
ture and reading-room, where we may
meet and greet our neighbor and learn OF
his spiritual as well as temporal advance
ment or retrogression, as the case may
| be, and thus in a regular and systematic
way give aid and comfort and advice
| where and when 1t is required.
We are so situated now in our new
community, where the fierce struggle foi
! "getting on in the world ansorbs al
other thoughts, that we are restricted II
our acquaintance to very narrow cir
Gle, and they frequently are ~ scattered
over this wilderness OF houses in the city
that we do not get round once year t
those we hold most highly in our esteem
Society and society-going need to be cul
tivated as well as any other of the gracel
or calllngs. We can by the social hall II
our church, with a Jealous captain 0
hosts, such as we have heading our en-
terpiise in our pastor, whose whole sou
is in the work, have a regular system O
readings, Rotations and musical soiree
that will give b, illlant hue to the socia
side Of the life of follower of the on,
that spoke as never man spake. Their
are within our city limits gilded temple
/. devoted to Bacchus, where men d.
"smile and SMILE in social dissipation
and while we are ready to eschew al
tendency in our enterprise to anythin
like an effort To array class against elias
or calling, yet We may be permitted to II
mark, we hope, that the church, with II
organization, can at least spend 1.-THE {
time and money in this ENTERPRISE;
1.-THE of such as spent elsewhere In les
J kindly ventures. II so, aud only tith
is put into this work, you will see go u
temple of Solomon in our midst. Z.