The herald., 1894-07-09

widest liberty, and the broadcast oppor-
tunity. has arisen this widespread re-
volt against the existing order of things !?
To my mind the meaning of it all ia
this, that the problems OF mans eco
nomic and civic life are not solved, aud
that IN 1t all, in the toiling and battling,
IN pain and teara and blood, the world
ID SLOWLY working toward the solution.
lne true work of the world aa it seems
TO me, IS not the building up of empire,
not the conquest of nature, not the evo-
lutlon Oh wealth, but the evolution of
man.
All else is, take it, only a msans to
an end. And this, the evolution of
man, is, it seems to me, the eepecial
mission OF our country in the world'sl
WORK And in this work the end ia not
to be attained at once. Rather, it is ont
OF this struggle, and through the edu-
eating power OF the struggle, that the
evolution OF man ia slowly coming.
believe this, because l believe that at
! heart man is honest, and we'll meaning.
aud because believe that God, and not
chance, prenides over the world. and
that back OF it all is plan and de.
sign.
What is our duty as citizens and as
Christians. as we face these questions
which thus rssu upon the land? l think
the pathway OF duty is clear.
10 firmly and unfalteringly uphold
the law.
TO discourage all unlawful counsels
and acts.
To do this in spirit of Christian kind.
ness; yet to do it. ;
Ii laws are defective or unjust in their
practical working, to insist upon their
aal
10 avoid the terrible error that ono
wrong may justify another, or that
wrong may be righted by wrong,
To attend faithfully and concentrations.
ly to our duties as citzens and as voters.
And with 1t all in times of doubling and
mistrust, when mems hearts fail them.
to hold fast to our faith in God of love-
yet OF stern justice, who watches over
the ways of men.
1t is warning cry that has come to
our land. Back of it is deep discontent
and unrest. And away below 1t, possi-
bly, not or it, yet ever ready to take
advantage of it, 10 anarchy. Will the
land heed the cry? Suppose that it
should not. Suppose that, shutting our
eyes to the danger, we so on in the old
way, saying as before: all 10 well. What
then?
Let us 60 back to that lost city on the
plains of SER for an answer. There ia
no record that the warning cry was
needed. When the morning came again
to the land and men looked up at the
glad sunshine, no dou bit they aaid, it was
only dream of the night that boding
cry from the watchtower, and all is well.
And then as the years rolled by, morn
ing and night and morning and night
arI t, hoa
and men forgot the burden of the cry.
and said in their blindness, God has for
gotten. Yet God mad not forgotten, and
in the fullness of His own time the hour
came, and the city of the desert became
but an empty name, remem bered of men
only because OF that cry which startled
the still air of the midnight ages ago.
And we--the burden is upon us also.
And to us also comes the boding mid
night cry, Waterman, what OF the night?
Waterman, what CT the night? What
shall We answer back only: The morn
ing cometh and also the night; and then
90 on in the old way with the
probleme ananswered? Then the world
has other Oumahs to be forgotten OF
men. But am persuaded better things
oi 4 %A thfHa ff9ap69fra-c 81 a-century ago stood wltu
Thousands OF people upon the banks of
river as men went out to war, and in
the darkne.s and despair which had
come to the land the hearts of men were
crying ont, Watchman, what of the
night? And no man could give better
answer than that midnight cry upon
the lone plains of Seir ages before, "The
morning cometh, and also the night.n
Yet as the years of the war passed on,
the Lord of Hosts led them, by q way
they had not known, to safety and peace
--ior they stood the fiery testing and fall
tered not.
And 80, believe that the God wto
watched over the Msyhower upon the
stormy seas of that wintry December,
the God who Was with our fathers y
the shows OF Valley Forge, the God who
watched over the destinies of our peo.
pie in uhe dark night which followed
SUMTER believe that God is watching
over US now, and that ii we as a people
are true to Him and to our better selves,
the warning cry which comes back from
the watchtower will have in it the omen
OF better hope, and after q while when
we shall have answered these questions
which are upon US, the burden shall
lift, not again to settle down. and the
night ehail not again follow the morn
ing.