Nevada County picayune., 1890-02-05

" llcn we IDOk it- llle Nollt oI iIS physical side we see abundant evil dences of growth and progress. Without clothes, without fire, with out houses, with almost no convent ences. man started out after the fall on his upward career of develop
 ment. His first attempt at clothing himself vas sewing fig leaves together for a garment, but God graciously provided him with the skins of ani-
 mals for that purpose. To-day we see him utilizing the wool and furs of animals and the snowy fleece of the vegetable world, combining
 beauty and utility and comfort in
 his bodily apparel. Chimneys and glass and many other conveniences of modern architecture were unknown
 until few hundred years ago. The
 printing press, the railway, the tele- graph, the cotton gin, and number
 less other coatrivances to save labor
 and multiply the comforts of life,
 proclaim the onward and upward movement of the race to higher phys
 ical planes.
 On the intellectual side we find the improvement to be equally as
 marked. The rapid multiplication
 of books and newspapers, the con
 stantly augmenting number of schools and colleges, the wonderful
 discoveries in science, and the amaz- 1 ing increase of inventions, all attest
 the marvellous progress our race has made on intellectual lines. The same remark may be made on the moral
 side of the question. While we may 1 have lost in some places in intensity,
 we have more than made up for it by ] diffusion and the general greater ele- yation of morals. There Is more hu-
 manity, more sympathy, greater
 charity to-day than was ever known i before. The number of churches and communicantS, the number ot charitable institutions and benev0-
 lent enterprises are greater to-day
 than in any former period of the worlds history. We are in the
 midst of those times foretold in Scripture, when it is said many
 shall run to and fro. and knowledge
 be increased"
 The attentive observer of the times will discover the growth of toleration and liberality in theology, in opposition to the narrowness and
 bigotry of former times. Persecu-
 tion for opinions sake k largely thing of the past. Free speech, free thought and free discussion are the order of the day. When inquiry is is made of Zion watchman, what of the night, the reply is, behold the morning cometh. The morning of
 better day is dawning on the world q day of better government, of broader theology, of more liberal humanity. Already it's golden tints are suffusing the heavens with their celestial glow, and men are rejoicing in the brightness of his coming. The long dark night of ignorance, super stiton and war will soon pass away
 let us hope never to return again. Commerce, with it's ever widening area of traffic, knowledge with its thousand rills tending to universal diffusion, railways, ever lengthcning and multiplying their lines of trans portation, as well as the heralds of the cross, are the harbingcrs and missionaries of this better day. The fatherhood of God and the brother hood of man are to-day more uniyer- sally recognized than at any former period.
 Racial antiquities and scctarian prejudlces, those potent barriers of human progress, are giving way be- fore the onward march of Knowledge and discovery. The time is not far distant when the lion and lamb shall lie down together-when nations shall beat their swords into blow shares and their spears into pruning hooks, and when they shall learn war no more-when they shall not hurt nor destroy in all Gods holy mountain Each one of us may has ten this glorious time by living in such a way as that the world may be made better by our having lived in it. No man liveth to himself. or dieth to himself. The influence which each eXerts in his sphere will either hasten or retard this mighty movement. Let us use that innu-