The herald., 1893-10-09

on the plea Of necessity other men will
| do the like to promulgate some ianclful
theory of their own.
They flourish in the religious house
OF their own holding, with none to mo-
| lest or make them afraid. Not amen
able to rules Of q church, and deHpieing
the traditions of the fathers, they foster
spirit inimical to true religion.
What. then, is our duty in the mat
ter? Is it not to cling to the old gospel
| of Christ, pure and unadulterated, as
this church has received the same.
Gains and losses alternate. The
promise is sure, having this ministry
! OF reconciliation transmitted from the
beginning in the line OF catholic descent
holding forth the gospel Of your ealva-
tion. What more can you ask? What
more can you need |?
CHURCH OF THE NEW ERA.
There was an unusually large at
tendance ct the morning service Of this
church, the subject being, What Shall
We Do With Our Unemployed Men?
| After lively discussion a committee
was appointed by the chair to draft
resolutions and circulate petitions ask
ing the city council to employ them on
public works.
Rev. w. G. Bowen was greeted by q
large and enthusiastic audience in the
evening, his subject being National Co
operation or Nationalism. He began
by reading beautiful poem. He then
said: We take this subject because we
believe it will be the final outcome OF
the present reform movement which is
at present agitating the minds OF the
people.
Cooperation in its true sense means
working together, which is the great law
of all organic action throughout the
universe different forces working har-
moniously together. There can be no
harmony or progress without it. In the
family without cooperation there ls dis
cord. wrangling, wrong and unhappi-
ness. 1t is the same in society and also
in municipal affairs. We find moral CO.
operation in churches working together
as they believe for the moral good OF the
people. So in temperance and other
organizations for the betterment OF
humanity, good is accomplished by the
union of forces, in working together Tor
the purpose desired.
In civil government the great ques-
tion is, to what extent shall the govern
ors and the governed cooperate for the
best interests of the people? The pub
lie necessities OF the people are q trust
in which the people should cooperate
for their own interest. The govern
ment is not one thing and the people
another in a republican form of govern
ment. In our land the government ia
not merely at Washington, as in Russia
it rests in the czar. With us it rests
ha v~aanla "a luoo QttaraH
all over our country, as q committee OF
the whole CO operating together for their
own good. They want no bosses over
them, no archons, or archbishops or
bishops of their souls to dominate over
their souls and bodies.
Heretofore the people have not been
consulted as to what laws they will
have. But that is going to be changed
in the near future. We are going to
have the initiative, the referendum and
the imperative mandate. The people
will stand supreme over all departments
of the government. Then the present
czar OF America, Grover Cleveland, will
not dictate to congress what kind of laws
will be received by his supreme majesty.
Then he will be accountable to the peo-
pie ior pledges violated.
Nationaliem means the commonizing
of the bountieH of nature and the bless
| ings OF life 80 that all earth's children
| should have an equal share. Education
has been commonized in this govern
ment. That is the cause of the present
agitation. Education has opened the
eyes of the people. They see that the
United States mail system, which is run
by the government and not by monopoly,
enables them to send letters for only 2
cents.
Nationalize the railroads, the tele-
graph, the land, with it's wealth of coal
and oil, and life will be worth living and
the people will be happy. Everyone
who has the right to live has q right to
the means of living. The inferno of our
civilization is monopoly. which gives the
opportunities to the means OF living into
the hands OF the few instead of the
many. But we are going to sweep it
out very soon. The people are going to
cooperate in their own government.
We are leveling down and leveling up,
and the time is coming when there will
not be millions of honest men going
about begging for an opportunity to work
| for their living. Somebody is to blame
for this state OF things. The people are
going to find out where the trouble lies.
They will vote with their eyes open. and
the rascals who have been cheating them
will have to come down and out.
THE THEosoPHIsTs.
At the theosophical meeting in
Blavatsky hall last evening Mr.. II. A.
Gibson addressed an appreciative audi
ence on the subject of Emerson and
Occult Law. The speaker gave many
quotations from Ralph Waldo Emer-
sons works and then proceeded to
show in eloquent language with what
wonderful prescience this modern seer
gave expression to some OF the occult
laws governing man and the universe.
"Occultism claims that involved in
man lies the power to comprehend the
universe; it tells him to look for this
power within, because within lies the
source OF potential wisdom as well as
life and being, in strong contrast to the
prevailing teaching that man must look
to an extra-cosmic God, thus depriving
him of the independent use of his
higher soul-faculties, and substituting
therefore man-made creede."
Emerson also thought that the cause
Of mans weakness is found in his idea
of separatensss. Theosophy accords
with this in teaching that the hope of
the race lies in the realization OF univer-
sal brotherhood.
SIN line with theoaophic idea of
Karma which teaches that our present
lives are the outcome of the souls
former actions. Emerson says: we are