The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14

AS IurSOC says, GAo A<oo' o''A -
ALL" The right to do the divine will
must be as bravely upheld as the right
to pray to it. The "holy wars" that
have been fought to maintain the right
to worship according to the dictates OF
conscience are not a whit more holy
than the struggle to establish all men
in their right to do, as the ten COM
mandments say, "alP' their work. The
right to pray, the right to think, the
right to vote, the right to work--th1s is
the line of march Of the crusaders OF
progress.
HE prayeth best who loveth best, :
and he loveth best who serveth best.
He who Is forbidden to serve is forbid
den to love and pray. He is shut out
from the realization of the destiny
which Sir Henry Vane-the noblest hui
man being, Wendell Phillips thought.
who ever walked the streets of Boston
said was the birthright of everyone OF
us, "to hold intercourse, high, intui-
tive and comprehensive. with the di-
vine" Man is to be divine, said Aris-
totle, by making his life divine.
"To cope with men of honor, we must
have men Of religion" said Cromwell
after the battle of Edgehill taught him
that poor tapsters and apprentices were
no match for the chivalry. He found
his men of religion" in the Ironsides,
whose wars were not WARS of Roses; !"
who went into battle with psalms OF
praise, who gave up with JOY, property,
standing, life itself, rather than liberty
Of conscience and that liberty of the
taxpayer which they deduced from the
promises of liberty of conscience.
The men of honor" who could be
overcome, Cromwell knew, only by
"men of religion" were like the men
who are today denying the people s
rights. They are men Of honors, not
honor; honors of possession, franchise,
vested right, office, good society,""
They can be overcome only by those
who have a higher faith, a more pas
sionate motive, a policy that sweeps in
the reinforcing support of the whole
people. Those who hate a system
worse than they hate the devil will al
ways overcome those who only love it
as well as their dinner. Those to whom
life is worship are invincible before
those to whom it is only a dicker.
All it's thinking men knew that Ath-
ems was rotting in the days of Pericles
and Plato and Socrates; and the uues-
ton all the men of action and philos-
ply were debating was, How could the
city be saved? Only, said Socrates, by
finding new moral Inspiration 1t is
to the new conscience that the world
always turns for the way out But the
men of honors" sheer al conscience
1t sis good in theory" but it is mot
practicable"
All the Weaknesses and crueties
and wastes of the private wars and des-
potisms and popular slaveries of the
world of the common toll are kept
vested by the atheistical doctrine that
the heart of humanity is so bad that
Tennyson's golden year can never come
when "The good of all shall be the
rule of EACH The reformer is a poet.
a creator. He sees visions and fills the
people with their beauty; and by the
contagion of virtue; his creative i'm
pulse spreads among the mass, and it
begins to climb and build "The dreams
that nations dream" Lowell says, come
true.' The history of mankind is the
growth of one new conscience after an
other. Man suppresses passion after
passion, and achieves virtue after virtue.
He makes the self-interest of the lower
strike it's flag to the self-interest of the
higher
1t is hard to account for the martyr.
but you can always count on him. The
white corpuscles of the blood science
describes to us as the defenders and
martyrs of physical warfare If an in
vading microbe threatens a wound or
some failing organ the white corpuscle
hurries to the spot and battles with him
to the death. 1t is the dead bodies of
the White-plumed knights of the home
guard in the blood that we see flowing
forth from wound or sore. Their ma
neuvres in the struggle display almost
human Intelligence. They do more
than maintain the wager of battle in
hostile germs. If an organ of the body
is cut by accident from the supplies Of
blood and nutriment that would ordjn
ar1ly come to it, the white corpuscles.
notlhed by some mysterious teegraphy.
hasten to the relief. They can pass in
undiscovered ways where the blood cam
not go, and they throw themselves in
millions into the beleaguered spot and
offer themselves there as food to he
eaten to maintain the local life
until health or death decides the Issue.
They are the altruists within. Man.
who Is operated by altruists within and
Worships alturists without, need not lis
ten to those who tell him he can never
become an altruist himself, capable of
the economic blush.
George Smith, of CoalviIIe, was born
one of the backyard children among
the dreary clay pits Of the county of
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