St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-19

vice chancellor of the University of
Toronto. Rev. Samuel G. Smith, D. D.,
OF st. Paul, president of the congress,
and few prominent delegates re-
piled. A. B. Stickney, of st. Paul,
president of the Chicago Great West
ern, arrived today with President
Smith, Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota,
and other distinguished delegates. A
big reception was given them.
Ion1ght Hon. S. B. Bonner, ex- pres
ldent Of the worlds fair religious and
educational congress, gave an address
on The Peace and Unity of the
World" The president, Rev. Samuel
G. Smith, of st. Paul, then delivered
his inaugural address, speaking as fol-
lows:
DIR. SMITHS ADDRESS.
The Pan-American congress of re-
ng1on and education was born out of
the needs of the new age. Among the
most emphaticj of those needs are
wider cooperation, a deeper sense of
kinship among men, and a broader
recognition of existing goodness and
truth. Toward the ample satisfaction
| OF these wants human history hastens
The people Of no time are fully con-
SclouS OF the forces at work among
them. Indeed, the race in it's greatest
energies is not self-conscious. The men
in the days of Dante and Michael An
gelo did not see the colossal proper
Jerusalem did not know when they
looked into the face of Isaiah that
they were beholding the greatest seer
in the ancient world. We, too. are
more impressed by the rattle of a tele-
phone or the sparks that fly from a
trolley line than by those stately and
mighty forces which move society, and
OF which all material inventions and
appliances are no more than the white
foam on the waves of the deep. Our
new age was bern out of the spirit
of God, for now, indeed. more than at
any previous time may be seen the
first fruits of the new kingdom. We
live in time when the world is
awakening to a sense of universally.
We are coming to see how broad is
the domain of life. 1t fills the ages
with the might of its being; it writes
everywhere the record of its achieve
ments, and all life is one. We are
learning the extent and power of the
empire of truth. In includes all facts
and all philosophers. Walks of life,
sacred or secular, are alike to the mis-
tress of the mind and she dispenses
her bountieS with equal hand. The
recognition of this deepening sense of
the universally of life and truth is
another way of saying that the world
is coming to knowledge of God. The
resurrection of one man brought TO
life from Joseph's tomb. Weakened III
the world the mighty enthusiasm of a
new religion; but the resurrection of
society wrapped around with the grave
| clothes of traditionalism shall show at
| last the purposes Of that new religion
| realized.
But let me call your attention to
some of the characteristics of this new
| time. 1 am not urmindful of its evils
| and dangers. The great municlpal1-
! ties are very frequently the hiding
| places of the sins of Sodom and Go
III IL rc.fS Of
penis, threaten to poison our social
| life, and there is no civic hand brave
enough and strong enough to crush
| them. Between the different classes
terings of war. Wealth lives in its
unearned palaces, and undeserved pow
erty cries from its novels of shame.
| Men whose strength is in the hand TOO
often lack the economic virtues, while
men whose strength is the brain have
these virtues grown so large that they
choke in the impoverished soil the
nobler virtues-the sense of obligation
and of justice. Fierce and fiercer rises
the clamor of men engaged IN un-
natural contests for the prizes of life,
Out of social evils and incompleteness
have arisen impossible theories of So
cial reorganization.
THE MODERN GOSPEL.
Socialism and anarchy have sought,
the one to monopoliZe all forms of
power and to destroy the Individual;
the other to free the individual by pull
ing down the pillars of the social tenn
pie. The glut of new wealth which has
come to the world has fed to enormous
and diseased capacity the old passions
of SelfiShneSS and greed, and both en-
ployer and employed often dispute for
a bad pre-eminence. A spirit of secu-
lariSm has grown out Of the material
advances of the country. The rela-
tons of the temple and the priest to
til Of fl.Na r.lN
seen. Since commercial progress is
worshiped, men say down with tenn
pie and priest, or at least leave them to
perish from neglect. The modern gos-
pei is preached by the modern newspa-
per. The daily press for multitudes of
people takes the place of all other BIZ
bles both sacred and secular. What
new forms the cid parallels take on in
this new Bible of modern journalism!
In the modern parable the traveller
still pursues his road to Jericho and
falls among thieves, but after the
newspaper with a wealth of headlines
has chronicled the disaster, there is
little room left for the ministry and
help of the good Samaritan. The prod
igal son goes indeed and spends his sub
stance in riotous living, but by the time
he comes to himself he has ceased to
be news and the parable closes
without repentance or reconciliation or
banquet. The woman is still, as 1900
years ago, taken in adultery, but
there is no voice to say, Neither do
I condemn thee; go and sin no more"
1t is certain at all events this modern
| Journalism escapes the charge of being
| Sunday school literature. When the
publishers hear now and then a timid
Complaint that they, overload their
umns. they sweetly reply: Perhaps
| you think you know how to run a news
paper. We make our paper to sell,
7and-it sells" So once again the news
tac NV inc &c,
as good as the low standards of the
times will permit, and this is another
way of saying that the disease is con-
| Stitutional.
Indicated; many others will occur to
you and they call aloud for the voice
tTof an old Hebrew prophet to ade-
quately rebuke them. But while these
evils must continue our shame until
Hthey are cured, it may still be said that
i9they are not the most significant feat
| ,ures of the new life of our generation.
! Let US turn our thoughts toward facts
and forces filled with life and hope
| One tremendous fact standing out peg
hapS above all others, is that at last
| the world is swiftly moving toward
| a coSmic civilization. In the past races
have been differentiated and nations
have come into being with a special
mission, incarnating a particular type
of life. On the other hand our age is
! seeking to realize the unity of man To
the west OF US Japan, nlled with the
modern spirit, having learned its les
sons from the European nations, has
hammered down the last great pro-
vincial barrier in the world, and the
Monaghan empire starts with the shock
of a new life. India has long since felt
the power of modern civilization. Rus
STA is awakening to the melodious life
of a new springtime. and fronting two
WAYS is to fill tremendous mission
both in Europe and Asia. The dark
continent has been partitioned among
of evangelism. but rather in the spirit
! of greed, vet once again God will
make the wrath of man to praise Him
as the paths of commerce shall be-
come the highways Of religion;