The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-07

the church; and yet christian teacher OF
+ "A Sabbath school decides. IN the c8nacity
If Postmaster General, that The kreut-
ger sonata" is unfit TO be carried In the
mails
Although | disagree with nearly every
/ sentence in this book, regard tue story as
I brutal and absurd, the view Of life presented
as cruel. vile and false. yet recognize { Q
right Of Count TolstOi % express MS opin-
ions on all subjects. and the rights OF the
men and women OF America 70 read for
themselves
As 10 sincerity Of the author, there is not
the slightest doubt. He is willing 10 give
all that he has for the good Of his fellow
me1. He is a soldier in what he believes 70
be sacred cause, a d he has the courage Of
his convictions. He is endeavorIug TO or
game a society in accordance with the
most radical utterancas that have been at
tributed to Jesus Christ. The phi
losophy of Palestine is not adapted
to an industrial and CONNER
clnl age Christianity was born
when the nation that produced it was dying.
II was requiem-a declaration that life
was failure, that the world was ABOUT 70
end. and that the hopes Of mankind should
be lifted to a other sphere. TClS oil stands
with his back to the sunrise and looks
mournfully upon the shadow He has
uttered many tender, noble and Inspiring
words. There are many passages In his
works that must have been written when
his eyes were filled with tears. He has fxe1
his gaze so intently on the mise les aud
agonies of life that be has been driven to
the conclusion that nothing could be better
than the placement of the human race.
some men, looking only at he faults and
tyrannies Of the government, have said;
Anarchy is better" Others looking at the
misfortunes, the poverty, the crimes Of
- If twin aTr
reached the conclusion that the best Of all Is
death. These are the OPT ions OF those who
have dweft in gloom-of the self-imprisoned.
BY comparing long periods OF time, we
see that, on the whole, the race is advanc-
ing; that the world is growing steadily,
and surely, better; that each generation
enjoys more and suffers less than its pre-
decessor. We find that our Institutions have
the faults Of individuals, Nations must be
composed of men and women; and as they
have their faults. nations cannot he perfect.
The institution of marriage is a failure 10
the extent, and only to TIE extent, that the
human race is u failure. Undoubtedly 1t Is
the best and most important institution
that has been established by the civilized
world. III there is happiness in the rea-
ton, if there is tyranny upon one side and
misery upon the other, is not the fault of
marriage. Take homes from the world
and only wild beasts are left.
We cannot cure the evils of our day and
time by a return to savagery. 1t is not ne
cessary to become ignorant to increase our
happiness. The Highway of civilization
leads to the light. The time will come when
the human race will be truly enlightened,
when labor will received its due reward,
when the last institution begotten of ignor-
and savagery will disappear. The time
will come when the whole world will say
that the love of man for woman, of woman
for man, of mother for child, Is the highest,
the mob est, the purest Of which the heart is
capable.
Love. human love, love of men and
women, love Of mother. father and babes
is the perpetual and benef1cent force Not
the love of phantoms, the love that builds
cathedrals and dungeons, that trembles and
prays, that kneels and curses; but the real
love, the love that felled the forests, navi-
gated the seas, subdued the earth, explored
continents. built countless homes and
founded nations-that love that kindled the
creative flame and wrought the miracles of
art, that gave us all there is Of music, from
the cradle song that gives to infancy its
smiling sleep, to the great sympho ny that
bears the soul away with wings of fire-the
real love, mother Of every virtue and of
every joy.