The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-22

so Chicago their BEST and most active
minds. The several conventions. or con.
crosses. will bring into actual ccntaos
the leaders in the several departments OF
thought. The thinking world wisi pc inter
our eyes; the whole trend OF modern ac-
tiyitv will be under our toueh. What
schools for learners! What workshops for
new ideas, where mind in friction with
mind provokss into higher flights and rises
into broader vistas OF truth!
Expositions are neld rs indications OF
progress and as stimulants to its continu-
Gus growth. But what is proRreasl its
chief seat 10 not in matter; IT 10 noe in the
chances OF forms to which matter MAJ DO
subjected. Matter Ia not an end to itself.
1t has no consciousness OF its conditions.
No benefit, no enjoyment comes to 1t,
whatever be the usos to which 1t is put, or
the shapings or the colorings which may
be impressed upon ii. Progress is Ia man.
10 ia the growth of man in the faculties and
powers Of his being. in his empire over IN
animate and irrational creation. Man
alone progresses, for man alone Is ihteiii-
Gent and conscious.
This ia the mission of the congress auxil-
iary. 1t will put into the foreground man,
the chief factor and the hrst fruit OF civil
lizat ion and progress; its programmes or
studies will bring out in %clearest lGht Ma
grandeur and final destiny.
The plans of the congress- auxiliary are
most comprehensive. They extend along
all the lines of the growth of man.
Through its varied departments the con-
gress auxiliary unrolls its chart of progress
for the building up OF the whole man. Its
convention halls will be workshops IN which
earnest men seek to purify and to fashion
humanity according to high ideals. In
~convoking men to its gatherings, i con-
yokes thsyn to the noblest of tasks--that OF
working for fellow man. God works for
man; the divine purl ose in the creation and
the preservation of the universe Is man.
We become God-like in action when we work
for man. God must ever be the supreme
end of our willing and our doing; but,
outside the worship due Immediately to
his majesty. no has determined that we
reach him through our fellow.belngs.
Gods manifestation of his eternal mind.
Christianity, makes work for humanity a
amen, I say to you: as long as you did IT to
one of these my least brethren. you did 1T
to me-"
The lines OF work, which Christ prescribes
in favor of man. are not merely those re-
lating to the spiritual life; they are those,
also, relating to the life Of the body-the
feeding of the hungry, the clothing of the
naked, the solacing of the captive. the
healing of the crushed and suffering heart.
Gods sweet religion is wherever work 10
done for mans welfarc-whersver human
ity is benefited, and lifted upward were 1t
OnlY DIV the Wlutu OF u HUMAN hdtk VI VIZ
head. There is religion within cathedral
walls, where God is spoken to. and loved;
there ia a religion in the wheat field. where
c!ay and air combine to produce food for
man; there is religion i'll the factory, where
matter is turned into new forms for mans
comfort; there is religion in the sanctuary
OF philosopher and writer, dreaming of new
upliftines for the race. and oh! there is re-
ligion, when the weary one Is comforted,
the outcast saved, and the hand of the
hungering 10 filled with bread. There Is
religion wherever there is work for man; re-
ligion expands he. heavenly wings over all
the palaces of your great exposition.
The effect of the work of our congresses
will be to give a marked impetus to the for
ward stream of progress Their delibera-
tions will provide the charts for the march
of future generations.
The congresses organized by the congress
auxiliary will not be meetings of pleasure
or friendship; they will DO solemn oonven-
lions of earnest men and women, working
with min and heart for PROGRESS, compar-
ing together their observations and conclu-
sions, drawing from contact with one an
other light and heat. and when separating
more firmly resolved than before to labor
for fellowmeu.
The time is most auspicious. The age is
ready for great feats. If we are the loyal
workers Of progress our lines are, indeed,
cast amid hopeful surroundings.
The future! What will it be? Material
progress, no doubt. will continue onward,
with ever increasing velocity. The widest
dreams, scarcely, I believe, foreshadow the
realities; nothing need be unexpected.
The travellers to the Columbian exposition
a hundred years hence will, perhaps, bird
like. sail through the air, journeyinR in a
half dozen hours from the Atlantic coast to
the city of the northwest on the banks of
the Mississippi. More unlikely would the
prophecy of travel by rail, or steam, or
electricity have seemed to our forefathers
one century ago.
! trust in providence and in humanity,
and l have confidence that the moral and
social forces which now 30 profoundly
Rgitate the world. will work into an increase
of goodness 4 happiness among men.
Need we fear for religion? 1t is as if we
the reign of the Almighty? Unbelief is but
a passing wave. The material and scien-
tiic progress of the age has beRotten an
over of nature, and draws a film
over eyes which would seek the supernat-
ural. The realities of the supernatural and
mans profound need of them endure, and
his reason will not loose sight of them.
The protest against unbelief will bring
religion into holder relief. and the widen
ing thoughts of men along other lines of
progress will prove moro clearly that reli-
gion is the need of all progress, u God is the
neeQ or All being.
Toward a future, as l briefly sketch it,
will tend the labors of the congress auxil-
iary.
The nation of the future! need / name
n9 Your hearts culver loving it.
my country. 'tis of thee
Sweet land of lib9rty,
OF thee l sing"
We commemorate the discovery of
America. 400 years ago. Behold the crown
ing gift to humanity from Columbus,
whose c~aravels ploughed oceans uncertain
pillows In search of a great land, and from
the all.ruling Providence whose wisdom
and mercy guided the immortal Genoese
mariner-the United States of America!
Dave Martin at Work.
New YORK, Oct. 21.-District Attorney
Nicol conferred with Superintendent
Byrnes three times to-day, and when asked
the objects of HIS visits he said it was
about illegal registrations; that frauds of
extensive and increasing scale were being
committed, and he had discovered evidence
of it. Men were detailed to investigate,
and the precautions which will be taken, he
saya, will be sufficient to insure the purity
of the ballot box.
Universal Boycott of Carnegie.
PITTsBuRG. Oct. 21.-President Gompers,
of the American Federation of Labor, said
tonight that he would recommend that the
federation boycott all of thu Carnegie steel
comrany's products throughout the United
States. This step would tesult either in
lnnumerable strikes or in the rejection of