The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-12-20

thief Go back to the Mayfower. and
YOU will hear an old chrOnicler declare,
that of all the Plymouth colony, only
eleven were good and reputable per-
sons, If some of you are tracing your
ancestors back to the Pilgrims, you
had better find out whether they be-
long to the elect eleven. This has been
the cry in every age, back, l suppose,
to the Garden Of Eden.
1t is true corruption abounds to-day,
perhaps more than at any other period
of our history. But is it not true also,
that we see rising spirit OF righteous
ness to-day. such as has never been
surpassed, if ever equaled. When you
oct to the heart of the American people, |
YOU find it sound and true as ever.
But how about the conflict between
labor and capital? The growth OF
trusts and combines on the one hand:
and labor organizations on the other;
strikes. riots and all these things? Why
these are the best signs Of the tunes.
, That man is blind. who does not see III
, all these social disturbances the hand
: of God. He is blind. who cannot look
3 out over these stormy waters. ana
discern through the mist and spray the
, form Of the Son Of man. L hail with
| ioy all these social disturbances. Ihey
are the pains Of birth, not OF death.
4 Another child is about to be born. earth S
n last and divinest 1t is Americas hrst
r born, What is this child. or who?
l. We are apt to think that freedom,
t. political and religious liberty, is Ameri-
# cas- Gift to the world. 1t is not SO
A. Liberty was born in Europe. After
d the travail of thousand years Europe
It brought forth her child and named II
1t Liberty. True the child had to leave
k home pretty early in life, nevertheless
,d he looks too much like his mother t(
I'd deny his parentage. We are apt t<
V. think of our civil war. as the beginning
at of A campaign. when in fact, it was th'
in end of one. The thunder of the cannon
at that rolled away at AppomotoX, wa
al but the echo of Luther's hammer as h
IL nailed his theses to the door OF W ltten
Id. herg church. Americas own Worl
ON began after the close OF the war. He
ay child is yet to be born, and when 1t
es horn. its name will be called Brother
he hood. Our work is nothing less tina
tle TO bring about that of which Chris
nd prophesied. when he taught his disciple
sh to prav. "Our Father" Not Ny Fathe
if or TOatr Father. but or Father.
,ur Do YOU ask, what is the differen(
us between liberty and brotherhood?
is this. Liberty is selfish, brotherhoc
It ? is love- Liberty gives to each, equal
1T ? the right to get for himself all ne ca
Is . brotherhood makes each his brother
keeper. Theoretically all have equ
ard rights and privileges in this countr
l?" Practically they have not. If ha
his S1.OOO.OOO, and you have not one Gel
md we do not meet on equal ground. u
but must accept my terms. That's Llber'
are, But Brotherhood secures to both OF
res equal opportunities. 1t means tn
We each. the poor and the rich, the we
ear and strong, shall have an equal chan
are to make the very most OF hlmse
to In short, liberty means, look out ]
not yourself. Brotherhood means, help Q
ing another. This is the work for VIII
han God has raised up this nation.
uch The end is not yet. Years OF p;
in a and travail must pass before the t
ties. day. that shall answer the praper
mes the long centuries, 'Thy Kingdom com
O to But it is coming. The sky is agl
we with the signs of the morning. l
,ros- it in every movement of the tin
row. In the gathering of the nations wit
and our borders. tits the verdict OF hist(
He that when God is about to begin
1and and great work, He calls together
eing nations, and mingling their blood, fol
2 is new people. So He has done IN
how past. So he is doing in America.
zee it the ends of the earth are mingling Il
q we blood. They are being melted 90
, and and out of this mass, will be mould'
fifty new race. The American race, se
lgton again, in the combination of capita
md the one hand, and of labor on the OF