The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-12-14
THE PEOPLES WORK.
REV. THOMAS DIXON ON THE ERA OF
COMMON HUMANITY.

tho Columbian Exposition a Brilliant n
iustration of the Progress Of the Masses.
Eulslie and veragus Were There as Rel
tcs-"sassIety" Was Not In It.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10,--Rev. Thomas
Dixon, Jr., continued in Association hall
this morning the second series of SER
mons on the Prophecies of the Worlds
Fair" The subject Of today's discourse
was 1.-THE Era of the Common People,"
He declared that this great exposition
was the achievement Of the common peo-
pie. Society" so called, was not there.
The common people conceived it. They
planned It, They managed it. They
patronized it and made It success
Glass distinctions were lost in the vaster
idea of Humanity. This triumphant ex-
preston of life by the common people is
the prophecy Of their early assumption
Of the supreme control of the whole So
cial order. TIE text chosen was from
John XII, "a, "'Who is this Son of Mani"
It Is q most significant fact that Jesus
Christ called himself the Son of Man.
This was his favorite designation Of him.
| self It was'his chosen definition of him.
self. The greatest revelation Christ made
| TO the world was himself. And in this
title he declared himself to be the son oi
| humanity. He was not to be limited tC
| any one family, TO any class, to any ma
| ton, to any race-he was the Son Of Man
The Son of Man shall come in his glory
he told us. The promise in this title hi
thus gives to humanity is full of richest
meaning. AS this supreme representa-
tive of the human race shall triumph ant
1 to him every knee bow at last, SO shall
4 humanity, for which he lived, of which
he was born, find its day Of emancipa
| ton and triumph. The Son of Man wa
| crucified, but he rose again. Humanit,
| has been crucified through centuries OF
the Calvary Of pharisaism, sacred" anC
profane.
| BUT IT SHALL RISE AGAIN.
Glass and sect and faction shall die q
length, never to live again.
| The desire to be out of the current o
the great humanity is the sure index O
the uncivilized animal. Whether he wea
purple and fine linen and fare sumptu
ously every day, or whether he live fron
hand to mouth and haunt the red flag O
an anarchist, it matters not. The princi
pie is the same. All class ideas and clas
foundations as such are Fundamentally
wrong. They are not only immoral, bu
they are brutal. The self assertion o
class, whether of proletariat or heredi
tary title or millionaire, is the assertion
of the antisocial nature of man-the es
sentially inhuman part of HMM short
the brutal. There is no other name for il
1t is matter, then, for heartfelt cor
graduation that this great expositio
was in the highest and best sense of tn
word by the people, Of the people, 70
the people.
It was the affair Of Man--Man spelle
with big capital. y
There were no personages there.
1t was the triumph of the genius O
humanity.
| There was no exhibit of "sassiety."
The Four Hundred were not there t
see the exhibit. 1t was not their day.
True, the Duke of Veragua was pres
ent as the guest of the United State
government. But he was present as
relic. He was not exhibited as mem
ber of society" He was shown strictl
as a relic of Columbus.
So the Spanish Infanta was a curio O
a romantic past surviving today. Onl
in this sense were they part of tn
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