The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-08-17
A NEW DAY TO DAWN.
COOPERATION IN BUSINESS TO TAKE
THE PLACE OF COMPETITION.

Rev. DR.. Dixon Says 1t Is the Incarnation
of the Dream of the Old Prophet--It Is
Christianity nIr. Beilamy's Book Praised.
An Eloquent Sermon.
CAPE CHARLES, Va, Aug. 18.-Rev.
Thomas Dixon, Jr., delivered today the
seventh sermon of the series on money
and the Money Problem" The text
chosen was Galatians vi, 2, Bear ye one
another's burdens, and 30 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 neces-
sary accompaniment to such a condition
of affairs. Competition may have had
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 IL is
realized. None the less should we real
lze 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. It is the duty Of the
hy1a 20 oil haf
haunt the earth, to stop the waste, to
make the desert blossom, to bring about
O new heaven and new earth.
THINGS TO FIGHT.
We may we'll ask ourselves the ques-
ton: Is it not time to cease fighting
against each other and begin to fight for
one another2 Is it not time that France
and Germany and Austria and Italy and
Russia and England should cease their
terrific preparations 10 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 racei
II 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
work Of helping one another produce the
largest harvests and exchange them
with greatest freedom and profit to one
another, what different world it would
be to live inl
FAILURES.
So the industrial problem presses its
mighty burden now upon us. So it has
beon pressing through the past. Our
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
experiments 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 ell.
Gpse, 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 pro-
found awakening upon this question.
The press is pouring forth from day to
day stream of brilliant literature upon
this problem of social amelioration, and
especially upon the fact that man can
cease now to fight his brother man and
begin to cooperate with him both ma
tionally and commercially. Some of the
greatest successes in the realm of itera-
ture in the past decade have been the
books that have dealt with this theme.
Two years ago Mr.. Bellamy's remark
ablebook, Looking Backward, reached
300, 900 copies and is still marching on
its way Of triumph. The theme Of this
book is tho dream Of cooperation in
stead Of competition in society. 1t is a
dream, yes, but it is an evangel and q
prophecy. It is the vision of prophet
whose soul climbed the sleeps and cried
to tho sleeping world, "The day dawnsi'
The feeling Of every man who has a
soul who reads such book is, "May
God speed the day of such social order. I"
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
1t Is written by men who do not profess
Christianity, but it is the literal trans
lation into current literature of the reli-
gion of Jesus Christ. The message of
Christianity to the world is emphatically
fraternal.
Cooperation must gradually but sure.
ly and completely take'the place of com
petition and war.
BROTHERHOOD OF MAN.
First-God reveals it.
He has taught us in Christ the sublime
truth of fatherhood. Christ taught his
disciples to pray, "Our Father" He
taught the universal fatherhood Of God
and the universal brotherhood of man.
As this truth takes possession of human
ity 1t becomes more and more impossible
for us to fight one another. When the
day comes that we are Christians, war
must cease-martial war and commercial
war. 1t is impossible for two brothers
to join as brothers into gonging each
others eyes and DESTROYING each others