The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-04-15

under other circumstances, it will only
make an application to modern business
OF an ancient Christian precept. These
Applications of Christian morality to the
conduct OF business are daily becoming
more frequent, and in the extension of
the process lies the only hope of advance
ment The hold of socialistic theories on
SO many minds is due to the fact that So
claiism is crude and ill-reasoned at
tempt to apply fundamental Christian
principles to industrial affairs. Before
christ nobody ever heard of such thing
as the brotherhood of man; since His
time the world has never entirely ceased
10 hear this truth, silenced as it nearly
mas been in many ages. Human law be-
comes more nearly perfect as it APP
proaches the ideal of Christ's teaching,
and human society is most hopefully
progressing toward the solution of its
many grave problems when, consciously
or unconsciously, it adopts the method of
the Great Teacher"
Nowhere is the trail of the serpent
more plainly SEEM" says the New York
Observer Pres J, than in the perversion
of sport to the excitements of gambling
and the crueities of the ring. No sooner
Is new amusement invented than ii is
degraded to serve as tool for the gam
Dler's low passions. a few years since
the old-fashioned game of ball was re-
vlved, improved and made doubly keen.
Immediately it became the gambler
prey, and was driven from the amuse-
ments of gentlemen. Football is going
the same way. The bicycle had in it
more promise of healthful out-of-door re-
creation than anything dreamed of since
the days of Nimrod, but already II Is
looked upon chiefly by the multitude as
something with which one can make or
break a record and so add another in
strument to gamblers layout. We have
come to day in which two great States of
the greatest tree nation upon earth, en-
JoyIng the heritages OF eighteen Chris
tan centuries and boasting countless
schools of all grades, are known best as
the gamblers paradise and the prize
lighters HE'LL New Jersey seems to
have been sold to the race-course and
Louisiana to the prize ring. So low have
sunk two States that once were counted
homes of freedom and virtue. 1t is not
to be wondered at that our list Of homi-
cldes swells every year with increasing
ratio. New victims of base passions die
by their own hands or fall before their
slayers. The number of violent deaths
in 1892 exceeded that of almost any battle
in our civil war, and most of them were
the results of just such passions as are
fostered by the criminals who control
certain of our Legislatures. Passions
fighting and their allied vices, crowd
close to that border-land beyond which
lie murder, suicide and all forms OF vio-
lent death. So surely as old Rome
tempted and received Heavens thunder
bolts, so surely will our Nation, unless
its course be checked, be smitten by
the same Judgment and fall by the same
justice"
"Our Episcopal friends are building a
cathedral in New York." says the Chris
tan Inquirer (Bapt.) of New York. 1--WE
have scarcely a right to question their
wisdom. They probably know what
they are about better than we can tell
them. But cathedral is type of con-
contracted power, in which the church is
supreme and the individual lost. If
some monster millionaire should leave
hundred millions to build Baptist
cathedrals in the great cities of America,
we would, without hesitation say, that
the whole sum had better be poured over
into the ocean, and allowed to sink there
out of the sight of men forever, than to
invest it in cathedrals. We do not want
the reality of which the cathedral Is the
type. The religion for the last decade of
the nineteenth century is that which
allows the largest scope for individual ac-
ton, and not that which makes the
church everything and the man nothing"