The herald., 1897-02-28

SO dramatic. precisely because its ruling
powers had not sense or inclination 10
abdicate or divide their power when the
time came for it. 1t had to be wrenchea
from them This resistance
by the reactionary forces of France was
so terrific, violating without scrupie
one of the most sacred of the sentiments
of the ay-patriotism-that 1t required
immense, Herculean efforts on the part
of the patriots to overcome 1t. Hence
the delirium, the mysteries of the Paris-
ians. Hence the massacres.. Hence
the TERROR" He that hath ears les
him hear.
A CHANGELESS PACE
The spirit of the age moves ever for
ward. Men come and go. Whole
dynasties sink to earth and draw over
them the dusty coverlet of an unnamcd
oblivion. But the power behind the
evolution makes no tarrying.
"For not though mightiest mortals fau
The starry chariot hangs delayed
His axle is uncooled, nor shan
The thunder of his wheels be stayed.
changeless pace his coursers Keep
And halt not at the wells or sleep.
THE REVEILLE
That we are approaching a new era
no careful observer can question. It's
form, what man of us can prophesy? The
present civilizations are becoming rap
idly fluid. Into what molds the future
will shape itself does not yet appear. The
nations of the earth are moving uneas-
lily in their places. In spite of the SEEM
ing peace of the world, there stretches
up from the horizon the shadow OF
great fear The nations of Europe are
holding in, with trembling fingers, the
fu-ies of war, that tug like bloodhounds
at their slender leashes. The times are
ripe for commissions that will break up
the existing order OF things and make
the geography of the world obsolete.
Did he speak with the seer's vision who
wrote thus? Beneath the awful peace OF
this second Augustan age, beneath the
crustal selfishnesS of our civilization,
there is the rumble of uprising revolu-
tions which threaten to disrupt society
and engulf nations. A dreadful pro-
phetic unrest possesses the breast of
the earth. The insurgings of CEN
turies are swelling the great heart of hu-
manity. There is converging move
ment Of divine impulses in the race,
mighty and not to be suppressed. Di-
vine voices are beginning to speak that
cannot be muflled." The present social
order, with its iniquities and inequali-
ties, must give place to new era. with
a profounder recognition of God and of
humanity. Political economists have
exploited their theories for the salvation
of property in this world, and priests
have proclaimed their schemes for the
salvation of men in some other and
an unearthly world, and both have mis-
erably failed. And now divine neces-
sity. with grim force, is pressing the
race swiftly toward a truer gospel of
social redemption, whose organic law
shall be the law Of service, and whose
end shall be the organization Of society
in justice and righteousness and truth
between man and man. The trumpet
is sounding down along all the lines of
human thought for men who shall be
quick to discern the signs of the times
and swift to make ready the way of the
new order. The ages necessity Is apos-
ties, who, from amidst the darkness Of
the perplexites of our modern civiliza-
ton, shall catch wider and mightier
visions of social Righteousness and shall
speed with divine eagerness and un-
Gaunted conviction TO declare unto the
institutions of men the gospel of hu-
manity The birth-night of the epoch is
at hand. Through this iron age of self
ishness, with its mania for the making
Of money and its indifference to the
crushing of men, there quivers a clear
call for souls that are great enough
to become the heralds of the coming
day; men who are mighty enough in
their faith in the race and the triumph
of right. and great enough in their love
for justice and truth and for humanity,
to offer up their ambition and their
luxury for the larger good of the peo-
pie; men who are willing to be made
of no reputation and take upon them
the form of the servant of their age;
men who are content to jois the immor-
tai army of
THE unknown good, who rest
In Gods still memory folded deep.
The bravely dumb. who did their deed
And scorned to blot it with name"
DIVINE PATRIOTISM
It is a time for patriotism-not that
bastard patriotism which wastes Itself
in the preservation of national COM
merce at the expense of national human
ity and integrity, or which exploits itself
in miserable chickering's over creeds-
but that divine patriotism which stands
as the defender of the poor and ap
pressed, and which believes that the
character of the people and the preser-
walton of the nations manhood are of
e.