Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-08-31
A NEW DAY TO WIN.
COOPERATION IN BUSINESS TO TAKE
THE PLACE OF COMPETITION.

CAPE CHARLES, Va, Aug. 13.-Rev.
Thomas Dixon, Jr., delivered today the
seventh sermon of the series on money
and the Money Problem" The text
chosen was Galatians vi, ., "Bear We one
another's burdens, and so fulfill the law
Of Christ"
We have seen in our studies on 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 a
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 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 a dream that
can be realized and never rest until it is
realized. None the less should we real
ize the awful waste of war; that it is do
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
new heaven and a new earth
THINGS TO FIGHT.
We may well ask ourselves the ques-
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against each other and begin to fight for
one another? Is it not time that France
and Germany and Austria and 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
it 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 the
industries of peace and to the fraternal I
work of helping one another produce the |
largest harvests and exchange them |
with greatest freedom and profit to one 4
another. what different world it would I
be to live inl
FAILURES.
So the industrial problem presses its /
mighty burden now upon us. So it has \
been pressing through the past. Our I
great minds have pondered it deeply, and
pioneer spirits have gone forth into the
wilderness and attempted experiments
upon a 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 tine
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
Ito find nine suggestions failures-to
ind the law of the planets, but in the
tenth year. ON his tenth supposition,
found the truth in the orbit of the el
ipse, 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 is pouring forth from day to
lay stream of brilliant literature upon !
his problem of social amelioration, and
specially upon the fact that man can
,ease now to fight his brother man and ]
begin to cooperate with him both ma {
ionally and commercially. Some of the |
greatest successes in the realm of litera- I
'ure in the past decade have been the |
books that have dealt with this theme. 6
Two years ago Mr.. Bellamy's remark {
lble book. Looking Backward, reached {
100. 600 copies and is still marching ON
is way of triumph. The theme of this S
book is the dream of cooperation in 4
tead of competition in society. 1t is
lream. yes, but it is an evangel and {
prophecy. It is the vision of a prophet Z
whose soul climbed the sleeps and cried i
o the sleeping world, The day dawnsw 0
The feeling of every man who has t
oul who reads such book is. MAY L
Tod speed the day of such a social order" V
We may disagree rs to details. Wemay c
disagree as to some of the fundamental II
stimates. But the idea, tine fundamental I
dea, of cooperation is one that thrills o
he heart of the Christian with inexpress- v
BILE joy and hope The trend of all s
his literature is Christward. Some of v
t is written by men who do not profess b
but it is the literal trans D
alton into current literature of the reli- D
ion Of Jesus Christ. The message of a
to the world is emphatically v
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Cooperation must gradually but sure
y and completely take the place of COM
edition and war. "
BROTHERHOOD OF MAN II
First-God reveals it. c.
He has taught us in Christ the sublime o.
ruth of fatherhood. Christ taught his b