The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-10-26
A GENERAL EEADJUsTxEST.

sequence they travelled III "a circle CON
iinuously.
GENERAL EEADICSTxENT.
With the universal diffusion Of knowl-
edge and the introduction Of new spiri-s
in the field Of investigation. all thi. has
been changed. Nothing i now settled
save that which Is settled upon the basis
Of proved fact. Every tradition, every
theory. every creed, must stand the test
Of this investigation. Every theory of
state. every notion Of society, every
theory Of religion, must be resubmltted
To this court OF last adiusrnent-th
truth. the whole truth, nothing but the
truth.
For the first time III tie history Of the
world this spirit dominates the educated
mind. Hitherto we have simply chung
TO the past with passionate and blind de-
votion. Father Ryan well expresses this
ancient ideal:
Yea! Men will cling.
With iove TO the last,
And wildly fling
Their arms round their past
As the vine that ciings 10 the oak that falls.
~ the ivy twines round The Cruu4ui-d walls;
For the dust of the past some hearts higher
prize
Than the stars that flash out from the fut ares
bright skies
REVISION OF THE CREEDS.
This was in the old days. Now all
things are being made new. All things
are being brought in question. Nothing
is accepted as authoritative because it is
Tho nraa1S Of ricta
all undergoing radical revision. The
traditionalists may resist with all their
power-they fight against the stars.
The creeds of the world within the
next generation will be fixed on facts,
not fancies. Superstition and tradition
are being destroyed with Il rapidity that
will give the world new religion with
in the next 90 years, and that religion
will be the Christianity &c Jesus Christ
in its simplicity as Jesus lived it and
preached it, 1t will be the religion, in
other words, Of the spirit, not the letter.
The barriers of national lines and
prejudice have all been broken down.
The heather world is now in vital con-
tact with the Christian world and the
Christian worlds civilization.
A hundred years ago Japan was utter
ly isolated from the rest of mankind.
There was law in force providing that
mo ship or native of Japan should quit
the country under pain of forfeiture and
death; that any Japanese returning
from foreign country should be put to
death; that no nobleman or soldier
should be suffered to purchase anything
from "a foreigner; that any person bring
ing letter from abroad should die to-
gether with all his family and any who
might presume to intercede for him."
CHRISTIANITY IN JAPAN AND CHINA.
Every heather nation has been opened
to Christian influences and to the ad-
vance of the civilization Of Christian ma
tons. Not only this, but they have of
necessity been compelled to study mod
ern science. Japan stands today prac-
tically within the pale Of modern civil
hzation. I took my seat in the Johns
Hopkins university around the seminary
table, in the study Of political and social
science, with young japanese students
from the capital Of Japan. China is
studying the methods of the modern
world and introducing of necessity mod.
ern inventions. The whole human race
is thus of necessity being brought into
vital contact and this for the first time
in the history Of mankind.
POPULAR Discomfort.
Thus the universal spread Of education
among all peoples ushers US Immediately
upon a new era in the history of man
kind. We are not satisfied with the
present attainment. The workingman' g
child who receives the same education
as the millionaire will not be content to
be his slave in the next generation, and
there is no power Of church or state or
society that can hold him so, for there
are no traditions that can bind him.
President Andrews of Brown univer-
sity says: eff anything has been made
certain by the economic revolution OF
the last Is years, it is that society cannot
much longer get on upon the old nber.
tartan, competitive, go-as-you-please sys-
tenn to which so many sensible persons
seem addicted. The population of the
great nations is becoming too condensed
for that"
Bishop Westcott Of Cambridge uni.
versity says: "On every side imperious
voices trouble the repose which our In,
dolence would wish to keep undisturbed.
We can no longer dwell apart in secure
isolation. The main interests of men
are once again passing through great
change. They are most surely turning
from the individual to the society,""
The author of "God In His World
says: 1--WE are now approaching such 8
crisis. No human wisdom can predict
its shaping any more than it can prevent
the issue. The air is full of auguries
and even our fiction has become very
precisely apocalyptic. It is theoretie
prophecy, anticipating the realization Of
perfect scientific and social economics
| the paradise Of outward comfortable
| ness"
William T. Stead says: "Everywhere
the old order is changing and giving
place unto the new. The human race il
now at one of the crucial periods in 1t:
history when the fountains of the great
deep are broken up, and the food Of
change submerges all the old established
institutions and conventions in the midst
Of which proceeding generations have
lived and died"
CONSCIOUSNESS OF POWER.
1t is impossible to educate the human
race, without at the same time liftins
the human race into the consciousness
OF the resistless power Of numbers. W,
are now about to enter upon the perioi
of activity which will be the result O
this universal consciousness of the in
herent power of manhood. Who ca,
foretell its results?
The child Of the hod carrier today i
better trained than kings and princes i,
the not very far past. All the dishe
placed on the table of Louis XIV wer,
tasted in the presence of the king befor'
he would touch them, and each CUES
was supplied with spoon for the Dur
pose of helping himself from a common
dish. Anne of Austria, the queen VIII,