The examiner., 1886-02-27

ana CnurcneS, put SGlll more ln IacGOrleS l and work shops, and families. It's rulers are to be it's best and wisest people. There is to be no cheating in it's markets, no cor ruption in it's legislation, no crime in it's court rooms, no smoking and swearing in it's streets; no vulgartiy in it's theatres, no pickering or harshness in it's homes. Six hours are to be the working day of all | it's people, with no one, whatever his wealth or station, allowed to be idle or aimless, and no one whatever his weakness or pov erty, who is not alike an owner and sharer in it's products. Peace is to dwell in it's borders, for 1t is to be the grand fedora tion of the whole world. Everybody is to belong to the first rank, each the servant, each the served. There is to be no poverty and no luxury. Voting is to be based on mind, not sex The school house, the academy, the college, the multiplied libra ries and gallaries of art are to be open free, week days and Sundays, to each one of it's myriad children. There is to be no going to church through fear or compulsion, for the service of G.,d shall quicken every mind, and His love warm every heart, and gid, guide, and uplift every life; this, shining through matter and flesh, aud time, shall make it the kingdom of heaven.
 When and where is it to be established The answer is in the text, the response to the prayer, it is to 'comen The word is
 
 come, is to be established on this earth, IS to have these skies bending over it, these waters leaving it's shores, these continents, capes, and islands its glorious parts. The idea that the globe is to be burned up by and by is false alike to the words of scrip ture and the teachings of philosophy. "Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them and they shall be his people," This is the great voice that nIe F., Tob of boo Are we tempted to ask, Can there be a kingdom of heaven amid all this rubbish of sin and woe, folly and shame, that we see around us? We have only to go with the cosmologist and look at the past; at the earth when it was only fiery mist without form and void look at man when he first appeared upon the surface, naked, house. less, ignorant, only step above the brutes, and even in the time of Christ so full of moral darkness,-look at what has already been built out of matter to find the scientific pledge of what out of matter may yet be built Contrast the first historic man with what he is to day, and you will read the sure prophecy of what be is yet to be.
 It is the characteristic of all other relig- ions, that their ''golden age," their period of highest happiness, innocence, and pros perity was in the past. They are looking back ward and the future is all dark,-it
 
 and woe, and for goodness, only a heaven beyond the bars of time. There are some who have tried to put Christianity in the same class, have tried to make it's earth begin in Eden and end in ashes. But it cannot be So hitched behind the car of progress. Its golden age is to come It is the religion of hope, of progress, and aspiration. It gives not the soul alone, but the whole earth an object for which to live What is the object of all reform? What the source of the weariness and unrest of which our age and land are full Is it not the idea of something before us nobfer and better, both materially and spiritually than anything we have ever yet attainedsss
 Religions prayer of yesterday is social ism's dream of to-day; Christianity's hope of the first century, evoIution's central truth of the nineteenth. The change which has been made in the place of Deity from the throne of the Universe to it's atoms has only increased the imperativeness of His laws, and to-day we are finding that the only way to build complete republic of man, is to have all it's citizens loyal sub jects in the kingdom of God. Who then will not breathe with fuller aspiration ''Thy kingdom come?" It is not a prayer only, but a prophecy also, and all the forces of nature, all the tremendous momentum of the universe gathered up since its first atoms began Go move, are pledged to its realization. And no matter what obstacles may rise against it, what triumphs for an hour evil may win, this, the brightest dream of all the ages, shall come at last; come on earth, come in time, and all the kingdoms of earth, natural, spiritual, polit- lcal and intellectual, mounting up to their divine form, shall be found in reaching that, to be the kingdom of heaven.