Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-11-15

few thanks, because people do not realize
their work, but they do it taking both
pay and thanks from the results they see
month by month appearing in the char
acters of their scholars.
| will not enumerate other agencies for
increasing and educating moral sent1-
ment They are those we have supported
for years. We get dissatisfied sometimes
| with them and long for sonnet hing new,
but they, the church and school, with
that more important agency, the home
the true home, the complete home, the
loving, developing, sympathetic, and God
fearing home-they are the creators and
feeders of moral sentiment on which
humanity must always rely, and to which
men must give constant and thoughtful
support. After we have made these
sources as perfect as possible, we need in
the second place to unite the moral senti-
ment of our city, so that it may act as
unit-so that all parts may adhere in
firm union for one purpose, just as the
particles OF metal placed in the electric
crucible are united by one current into
one solid mass.
In the third place, we need here in Ellis
wort h. act ion of moral sentiment. There
is not a community in Maine but needs
it. Action; and l venture to say that
there is not a community in our state
that does not contain moral sentiment
enough to drive forth any kind of law
lessness and vice, if it would only act
with he vigor displayed by immoral SEN
timent.
We have now considered two points of
our lecture. 1st. That the moral senti-
ment of community is a very import
ant thing. I'd. We have examined the
moral sentiment of Ellsworth and limited
at its needs.
Before taking up our conclusion let me
call your attention to few facts that
have occurred to you all but which bear
on our theme.
The past year has witnessed in our
cities large and small, from Eestport to
San Francisco, attempts at municipal re-
form. The old world has felt the same
movement. The movements at first We're
individual or confined to few, but they
promise things to come.
Great movements in human society
have illustrative analogies in nature.
In the spring time, when we see the
birds coming singly or in pairs up from
the sunny South, we know that behind
them are coming the multitudes of birds
that make our meadows and fields and
woodlands happy with their songs.
When the great mountain sends up
now and then it's puffs of sulphurous
smoke, it warns the jewellers on its sides
that there is tumult below. and they
prepare to escape the greater erruptlons
which are sure to follow
believe that the Kingdom Of God is in
creaSlng In the earIl ana unaI lneSe
movements in our cities mark the begin
ing of new era.
The time is nearly past when ten can
defy ninety. The ninety are awaking
and the ten must change their habits.
Moral sentiment, the mighty strength
of law, is awaking from its drowsiness,
and is realizing its giant strength, and
soon the evil doors throughout the world
shall hear its voice cry. Thou shalt not.
The time Is coming soon When the ninety
shall say to he ten who sell tobacco ana
liullnr TO half grown BOYS: Thou shalt
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ninety, shall stop without a question or
a blow.
believe that in every city of our land,
the moral sentiment is the giant, and the
immoral sentiment, the dwarf.
/ believe the time is near at hand when
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