Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-03-26

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arx askl1x themselves II i il not tame q,
make Laws which shall re>gFtcs II they Dc,
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la 100 years beaver ~ill % a. tss as New
Yo5k AID IA ttr center NJ vast population
II Ia fspatl.e rsaa@4nss poll-e~.ly couapa<i
sn1 doesn't fail Apart AZ tas Alssissspp
river. Canada will "a either is.xs u Il ~ Al.
insirpeDdsnt sovereignty. sisi tLs nogthcrt
sbore OF the Gulf u Mexico will he th.,
Riviera II the western continent.
IL " ns< possible u e~tutlAss the per
pesusfy and prySrs-~ II the United States
vithoat feeling that It's political snsJsst.f
and lie belcsicont fre>A.o<n VII roect upon
the intellectual espres~ion of the people.
The solidarity. the general happiness ~
the nation. will End an oatcofne Ina nobier
works Of art aud seieses.
In that hundred years We will have ma
tafoi oar poet aud found cur Aoile<e or
our Shak~prare
The spssAtion ~ lvnius h by centaries.
OF corsrss l do not suppose that the h
GINNING century will bring the millsnniu1a
We all know that progrrss often dspends
On disaster - character depends ON suffer
ing and no one can Tell what upheasals are
Ia store fur rs History. or the whole, Is
very sod resflna and 10 il the lesson not q
uninterrupted material prosperity. bat CT
rise. decline and fall
But la oar present rate OF progress is
much hope and some calculable sigma la
100 years the public will desire better esd
ing. because IL must reach better plane
of thmkfng. The germs IL great universi-
ties will have nsturesrV leir fruit by that
time. The world will u in closer touch
Mercy will march with war and arbitra-
ton pf~ouic IL. Somewhere the nation
will have an intellectual capital with "A
national library and a national theater. IL
viii sedeveioped an art school q its own
The ideal man and woman will have an
opportunity To use all plastic arts. aud will
speak 10 Us in literature and drama The
homes Of the country will have been quad
ruplcd. and IL Is the home that fixes the
status VI the sheater. As we increase the
enjoyments Of the family circle we lessen
the attraction Of the cheap public enter
tainments. which depend upon the hote.s
aud the floating population
We can see even now that sectarian bar
riers arv crumbling Men are climbing
over the ecclesiastical fences to get near:r
to ear.i other. and they have found that a.
they come together they approach the
eternal rsA~on.
In a hundred years man will have learned
the lesson Of trusting his brother. and the
nation which has drawn all peoples TO It
with cosmic gravitafion and lifted them
with freriom and confidence will also have
DESTROYED the prejudices Of race and tie
s.nimosaties Of rect.
Such view presents the new solidarity
IT fraternity. but IL Is the old lesson which
that first democrat dauntlcssly proclaimed
on Mafs' hill.
A. c. WHEELER Gym Crinkiel.