The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-24
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how those who are good ana honest can
do otherwise than reprobate the opening
OF the fair under the existing circum-
stances.
First, IL violates q solemn promise.
Those who were authorized to do 80 agreed
to close the gates OF the white city on
Sunday in consideration Of gift made by
the government of the United States to
the fair of S2,500,O00. On that condition
the money was voted. 1t has been re-
ceived in. whole or in part, and
coined into souvenir Columbian hall
dollars. And now the loca! board
of directors has the unparalleled impu-
dence to repudiate Its part OF the agree
ment, and. while pocketing the money. to
open the fair on the prohibited day
Secondly, il lie an act Of practical nullifi-
cation. Chicago acts as though the fair
were a local enterprise and under local
control The fair is national in in it's
authority and International its ex-
hibits. Chicago was simply chosen as the
site by the nation. Hence the national
will as expressed in the national law
should prevail in Jackson park. Well,
congress has directed the closing of the
doors on Sunday-not once but twice
over. Now, in the face of this legislation,
the little bundle of mercensry men who
sit on the Chicago board of direction uD-
dertake to nullify these repeated acts OF
congress. It's q matter OF common com
ment that Chicago has the "big-head,"
but nobody supposed it was so swollen
with coBceit as to imagine that 1t was
larger and moro important than the whole
union.
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whether the people OF Chicago, from
mere business point of view, could afford
to attitudlnize before the world as repudl-
Rtors of contracts and violators of law? Is
this a good example which certain gen
t!emen of properly and standing" are set
ting TO the laWless elements in that city?
II the directors are at liberty to break the
law why NAV Tot the anarchists DO the
same thing? Why dine and wine the one
and hang the others. The famous statue
in Haymarket square commemorative OF
the slaughtered guardians of law and or
der should be taken down and replaced by
two busts-one Of Johan Most, the an
archist. and one of Mr. Higinbotham,
exchanging snuH-boxes with wink OF
the eve.
The recent action Of the local board, in
dorsed by the press of the city, will con-
is den OF robbers.
Apropos OF the fair, we are reminded
that ours is the age, par excellence, Of
progress. In all material directions Mr..
Gladstones statement will stand. viz,
that the fret fifty years of the present
century eclipse all the centuries preced-
ing. Take il in astronomy. in the per-
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of the spectroscope, and the DEVELOPMENT
OF sidereal photography. or in micro
scopic science. or in medicine and sur
gerry, or in the use OF giant explosives, or
in the recent appliances OF electricity, or
in the ever increasing ease and rapidity
OF world accommodation. Is not the
advancement amazing?
How sad it is that this improvement in
material conditions should so little affect
the peace and happiness OF the world
In this very century the greatest conflicts
in history have occurred-the Crimean
war, the East Indian mutinv, the war
over the Sehieswig-H olsteln duchies, the
repeated struggle between Muscovite and
Turky. the civil war in America. the
franco-Prussien war, the chronic out
breaks in Central and South America,
and now the ominous armed peace of
Europe.
The truth is that peace and happiness
are internal states rather than outward
conditions. There is war without because
there is war within. In order 10 paciiy
the world we must first pacify the indi-
vidual. The best instruments OF eiviliza-
ton are not the three Re" and our vast
materialistic propaganda. rs the facts
shOW-they are 10 be found in the gospel.
Regeneration is better than education as
a restraining power, better than law, and
better than philanthropy these are i'm
posed from without; that work from
within.
Recent events in Chicago show conclu-
sively that the worlds fair is not likely to
introduce the millennium.
Whether hell is a place or not it is GER
tainly state. And men get hell into
them before they get themselves into hell.
It is indeed true that, in posse il not in
esse, ''all law is in the Pentsteuch. and all
history is in the prophets, and all music is
in the Pslams, and all the imaginative
literature Is In the parallels, and all the
hope of the future is in the divine tumull
of the unfolding apocalypse"
There are many and excellent reasons
for bringing children into church mem.
bership at an early age. Some folks are
shocked at this and raise clamor of ob.
jections.
It's said children do not understand
the meaning OF it. II they know Jesus
If they love him. if they are trying &c
initiate him, and if they desire self
prompted to confess his name land this il
is what church membership implies) then
they are in q condition to be received
Suppose they do not understand the doc
trinal facts of religion and can not explain
the trinity and reconcile the di
vine sovereignty and human free
agency2 Who can? All the di
yisive questions are questions o.
theory. ALI Christians agree IL
faith and practice. They go tC
war with one another about interpreta
tions and mysteries. Probably the chill
dren will come by and by to understand
these as little and fight about them al
much as we do.
What exclaims some shocked old fogy
would you have children unite with the
church when unconverted? No, we would
not. Bat what is conversion? It meant
turning around. Ons has been walking
away from God he turns around and be
gins to walk toward God. This is CONVEX
zion. What is the proof of conversion,
Why. the walking toward God. Aftel