Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-30

H. % DaVld prepared abundantly." Amid
wilderness and poverty Thanksgiving day
began in the gratitude of the pilgrim ia
thers. Even with hard times We have in
nnltely more to be grateful for. The ten
dency is to thank God for favors gone.
Let US today thank Him for the cheering
promise of the coming time
David was preparing a palace for the King
OF Heaven that should be exceedingly mag
nifical 1t would require to complete it long
and faithful years, till his small boy Solo
mon should come to full manhood The ages
are preparing a magnifical temple that
humanity is to build for the King of Heaven.
Last summers white city seems a hint of
the glory that is to be. solomon the small
boy, perhaps stupid and wicked, was with
ms wiz Nlsor full of promise. Humanity
Is sort OF young solomon, big blunder-
ing, stupid, wicked boy, not wholly gone
over to the bad, but rather a Young hone
tul, when God and the angels rightly train
him to better things
A little fellow of sever or eiyb+ ro,ho-
slow to learn, was sharply challenge1.
why are you so stupid?' Resenting the
narSh lmputation with wisdom above his
years, the little fellow replied: I'm NOT
STUPID; am young. Impatient with stupid
tiles and sins. with blunders and bigotries
We despair at the hopelessness of man. Let
the cheering thought encourage us that the
human race Is very young. Our Bibles head
4,Oo4 years before Christ. In natures Bible
OF Gods own word coral reefs of Florida
and the record of the rocks teach the eve
of intelligence to read the date in larger
nsuFes: The telescope has pushed off the
midnight stars to inconceivable immensties
OF space; so geology has pushed away
creation to inconceivable immensities of
time. OF these aeons of time how long
thlnk you, has the human race occupied the
planet? His earliest remains found i'm the
Tertiary rocks lead the scientist Hoeckel to
assign him only two per cent of the age of
our planet DR. Brinton sets il at $1,000
years. WHAT is that to Hin with whom
a thousand years are but as day when
1t is past, or as a watch in the night Fifty
thousand years are but an infants span of
htty days of the great thousand-year days
of the Lord.
The human race is hardly out of its baby
hood, has hardly got through the measles
whooping cough and other diseases peculiar
to childhood. Hardly yet has il learned 10
walk straight, much less on slippery places
to stand erect, to talk with the discourse of
the angels or to sing the sweet songs of
heaven. How much of the babyhood of bar
barism still fingers all over the globe in
superstitions and iniquities of the dark con-
tinent and in dark places of our own enlight-
ened land. Even in choicest civilization of old
world and new, in palatial homes and
churches of Boston and Washington II
seems if humanity is only a big roIlick-
ing boy, hardly yet knowing enough TO keep
his hands clean and come to church prompt
" on time. but smoking cigarettes, Just
learning to ride bicycle or donkey and lak-
ing his primary lessons in art music and
literature.
How short the centuries are. Two human
lives may touch three centuries. Five per-
sons of eighty years each cover the folr
centuries since Columbus opened the gates
of the new world. Four such would 20 back
TO Martin Luther and three to the pilgrim
fathers venerable parishioner, recently
passed away, remembered the death of
w s.
young, and our republic very very young
since the good father never despairs of his
enid, but with infinite patience and hope
and with loving solicitations beckons him
up and on. let us today be cheered by the
assurance that the ill behaved, noisy sell
fish, stupid, wicked school boy, as yet very
young, Will some day come to a divine man.
hood.
Such general suggestions we may applv
on special lines. Through a long babyhood
the race is just beginning TO conquer and
possess the planet. The boy is just learning
to fly his kite and sail his boat, to use his
fingers, and, still better, to use his brain
and save his hands. When We think what
evolution has done in bringing man from
the savagery of the Midway Plaisance to the
splendors of the white city il is ENCOURAGING
TO look forward hopefully, thinking of the
glory that is to be. Imagination fails TO
picture manhood when the wilderness shall
be turned into garden of our God.
In the realm of art and social order and
all that We call civilization humanity is vet
in its boyhood. The boy Just begins 10
carve and paint and sing and play. but will
yet learn to tell the truth and do Gods will
on earth as the angels do II in heaven. Sell
fish and pushing and greedy and grasping
always wanting the best apple for himself
ne is ready to trample or cheat his small
brothers. and with all his boosted chiyal-y
hardly gives his sister fair chance But
the girls are fast winning their way. Schools
and colleges and new doors of work are
freely opening to her, and the young men
must look to their laurels. The coming
MANHOOD VIII adjust capitol and labor by
Cnrlsts golden rule, crime and poverty will
disappear, every willing soul shall have a
fair chance in life Bellamy has pictured
the good time coming with some crl.di.y
and much charm. But long before him 81.
Paul described humanity as a grand man.
where eye and hand and foot are mem hers
OF each other and all suffer or rejoice to-
gether.
In religion humanity is very young, with
lingering crudities and supe-stitions of
papyhood. Twilight religions, called heath
en-, Stlll hold sevan-eighths of mankind.
Even In Christianity too much heathenisrn
OF the dark ages still fingers. Like its ii-
vine leader, Jesus Christ the race will wax
IN stature and grow in favor with God and
man In Its diviner manhood caring less
Tor creei and name and form. il will be-
come savior of all souls. proclaim the good
tdings OF the Fathers love and sing the
angelic chorus, Glory to God in the highest
ana on earth peace and good will to men"