The Progress., 1893-08-19
A NEW DAY 10 DAWN.
COOPERATION IN BUSINESS TO TAKE
Tie PLACE OF COMPETITION.

of the Dream OF the Old Prophetic u
Christianity Mr.. BeIIamy's Book Praised.
An Eloquent Sermon.
CAPE CHARLES, Va, Aug. 13.-Rev.
Thomas Dixon. Jr., delivered today tho
seventh sermon of the series on Money
and the Money Problem" The text
chosen YVES Galatians vi. ., Bear We ono
another's burdens. and 80 fulfill the law
of Christ"
We have seen in our studies OH the
subject of money that the result of COM
petition and war with one another is the
negation Of competition in commercial
crisis and ruin. Black Friday is a neces-
sary accompaniment to such condition
of affairs. Competition may have had n
work to do in the development of the
history Of humanity. War has doubtless
had work to accomplish in the destiny
of the race. War is perhaps morally
and commercially a necessary evil Incl.
dent to our history. None the less are
the horrors of war real horrors None
the less should we hate war in itself and
seek the day Of peace as dream that
can be realized and never rest until it il
realized. None the less should we real.
ize the awful waste of war; that it is de-
struction OF that which man loves and
needs most that its good is remote, and
that the good comes only in the overrul-
ing of Providence. 1t is the duty of the
Christian to mitigate all horrors that
haunt the earth, to stop the waste. to
make the desert blossom, to bring about
a new heaven and "a new earth
THINGS TO FIGHT.
We may well ask ourselves the uues-
tion: Is ii not time to cease fighting
against each other and begin to fight for
one another? Is it not time that FrancJ
and Germany and Austria aud Italy and |
Russia and England should cease their
terrific preparations to Kill one another |
and Join hands against their common en- /
emy-famine, hunger, cold, poverty and |
wretchedness? What a grand alliance /
1t would be for nation thus to Join with |
nation: for the sorrow of Russia to be
the sorrow of the world: for the despair
of Ireland to be the despair of the race!
If the energies of the nations of Europe.
that are now developed in the process Of
preparing to kill one another and in
killing one another, were turned to tho
industries of peace and to the frateInal
work OF helping one another produce tho
largest harvests and exchange them
with greatest freedom and profit to one
another. what different world it would
be 10 live in
FAILURES.
SO the industrial problem presses its
mighty burden now upon us. So it has
been pressing through the past. Our
great minds have pondered it deeply. and
pioneer spirits have gone forth into the
wilderness and attempted experiments
upon new basis of society. Most of
these experiments have been failures.
The Brooke Farm experiment was one
that attracted the most brilliant minds
of the age, and it failed. But all the
of pioneer minds that are
failures are so many index fingers that
point to the success that is yet to come
They have simply exploded one hypothe-
sis. But as Keppler worked nine years
to find nine suppositions failures--to
find the law of the planets, but in the
tenth year. on his tenth supposition.
found the truth in the orbit of the el
lipse. so after our nine failures the
tenth may lead us to the truth that shall
save society.
THE PRESS.
The signs of the times indicate a pro
found awakening upon this question
The press ~ pouring forth from day to
day stream of brilliant literature upon
this problem of social amelioration, and
upon the fact that man can
cease now to fight his brother man and
begin to cooperate with him both ma
and commercially. Some of the
greatest successes in the realm of litera-
ture in the past decade have been the
books that have dealt with this theme.
Two years ago Mr.. Bellamys remark
able book. Looking Backward" reached
300 900 copies and is still marching on |
its way OF triumph The theme of this (
book is the dream of cooperation in
stead of competition in society. 1t is
dream. yes, but it is an evangel and a
prophecy. 1t is the vision of prophet
whose soul climbed the sleeps and cried {
TO the sleeping world, 1.-THE day dawnsr'
The feeling of every man who has
soul who reads such a book is, MAY '
God speed the day of such social order" {
We may disagree as to details. We may
disagree as to some of the fundamental
estimates. But the idea, the fundamental {
idea, of cooperation is one that thrills '
the heart of the Christian with inexpress- {
Ible JOY and hope. The trend of all
this literature is Christward Some Of !
L is written by men who do not profess {
Christianity, but it is the literal trans {
ation into current literature of the reli- 6
zion Of Jesus Christ. The message of '
Christianity to the world is emphatically {
Cooperation must gradually but sure.
y and completely take the place of com ,
petition and war. I
BROTHERHOOD OF MAN {
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