The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-10-19


tain we'll defined limitations, and 4 con-
sequence they travelled in a circl5 con.
tinuously.
A GENERAL REIMBURSEMENT.
With the universal diffusion of knowl-
edge and the introduction of new spirits
in the field Of investigation, all this has
been changed. Nothing is 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 resubmitted
to this court of last adjustment-the
truth, the whole truth, nothing but the
truth.
For the first time in the history of the
world this spirit dominates the educated
| mind. Hitherto we have simply clung
| to the past with passionate and blind de-
vetion. Father Ryan well expresses this
ancient ideal:
Veal Men will cling,
With q love to the last
And wildly fling
Their arms round their past
AS the vine that clings to tho oak that falls,
As the ivy twines round the crumbled walls;
| For the dust Of the past some hearts higher
| prize
| Than the stars that flash out from the futures
| 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
ancient The creeds of Christendom are
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 rapidity that
will give the world a new religion with
in the next 90 years, and that religion
will be the Christianity Of 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 a 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 u 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
tions. Not only this, but they have of
necessity been compelled to studymod.
ern science. Japan stands today prac.
tically within the pale Of modern civi.
lization. | 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. Tho whole human race
is thus of necessity being brought into
vital contact and this for the first time
in the history of mankind.
POPULAR DIScoNTENT.
: Thus the universal spread of education
among all peoples ushers us Immediately
upon new era in the history of man
kind. We are not satisfied with the
present attainment. The workingman'i
child who receives the same education
: as the millionaire will not be content tC
be his slave in the next generation, ant
= there is no power of church or state ol
= society that can hold him so, for there
are no traditions that can bind him.
President Andrews Of Brown unfver
sity says: "If anything has been mad,
certain by the economic revolution o.
the last 25 years, it is that society canno
much longer get on upon the old hber
tartan, competitive, go-as-you-please sys
tenn to which so many sensible persons
seem addicted. The population of th'
great nations is becoming too condensed
for that"
Bishop Westcott Of Cambridge uni
versity says; "On every side imperiou
voices trouble the repose which our In
dolence would wish to keep undisturbed
We can no longer dwell apart in secur
isolation. The main interests of mel
are once again passing through grea
change. They are most surely turning
: from the individual to the society"
The author Of "God In His World
says: eve are now approaching such
crisis. No human wisdom can predic
, its shaping any more than 1t can preven
the issue. The air Is full Of auguries
, and even our fiction has become yer,
precisely apocalyptic. 1t is theoreti
r prophecy, anticipating the realization o
: perfect scientific and social economies
the paradise Of outward comfortable
: ness.
William T, Stead says: "Everywher
: the old order is changing and givin
place unto the new. The human race
) now at one of the crucial periods in 1t
Y history when the fountains of the grea
, deep are broken up, and the flood O
t change submerges all the old establishe
institutions and conventions in the mids
: of which proceeding generations hav
( lived and died."
' CONSCIOUSNESS OF POWER.
1t is impossible to educate the huma
race, without at the same time liftin
q the human race into the consciousness