The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-05
ITS START I'M NORTH AMERICA.
BY THE OBSERVANCE OF THE
SABBATH.
URGES FIDELITY TO COUNTRY.
senator stevens ExhOrts St. Paurs
EpiscoPiu Congregation to Fail
Not in Patriotism.

| Ntou oHepherd yesterday morning on
the subject: "Lbertys Evolution"
The reverend gentleman took for his
text Lev. XIV, 10: Proclaim liberty
throughout all the land unto all the
inhabitants thereof" and spoke in part
as follows:
Ever since the fall of Adam, like
unto fall from high mountain cliff
to the bottom Of a valley below,
the human race has been climbing the
| mountains side again. The ancient
poets told of a tradition which pre-
! dtcted the return of golden age, the
past golden age being a faint glimmer
remaining in heather lands of our first
parents in the garden Of Eden. Adam
was created with high intellectual pow
| ers, as is shown in his naming of the
brute creation, but Cicero informs US
that the first Of the human race lived
IN holes in the earth and instead Of
talking. barked like dogs. While this
statement is undoubtedly overdrawn,
certain it is that the human race be-
gan its ascent from the bottom of the
ladder with small mental and intellect
| ual powers The pyramids of Egypt
and the sphinx are mysteries of ar
chitecture, and it is difficult to conceive
| now the ancientS with their limited
/ knowledge could have carved out these
lasting mef11entOes of the past ages
"A thousand years later. and we find
| the philosophers of Greece exhibiting a
! much greater intellectual development
! by their efforts to give reasons for
! things, and in their search for truth.
! In the darkness of the middle ages the
| onward march of humanity received
! setback, and yet the spirit of Chris
tianity was at WloIk producing a gle lie
intellectual and moral development
| than had ever existed in times past.
| IF hA tac N
| situations of the middle ages. All the
| qualities OLA man are drawn out by
| intercourse with his fellow man, but
| the strong man has, whenever OppOrtu-
nifty afforded, epslaved his brother
man. According to the principles of
feudalism, every man belonged to his
| superior, but the liberty WhereWith
Christ made his Christians free is
altogether opposed to the ideas of feu-
dalism, and the incarnation of the Lord
Jesus Christ makes every man feel the
dignity of his manhood.
THE keystone of English history was
the signing of the Magma Charta, by
| King John, which was Wrung from him
| by the barons, and which provided that
the king should reign not absolute, as
previously, but in accordance with laws
made by the people. Mr.. Gladstone
i'll an open letter to the Duke of West
minister on the subject of Greece's con-
dition said that the great difference
between the English on the one side
and the Russians and Germans on the
other is that in the latter two nations
the people are not allowed to express
an. opinion, - The will of their soVer-
eig,n. is all powerful, and in the present
| instance both soVereigns are young
men, whose views fill the world with
amazement and CONSERVATION. In no
nation of Europe is there so strong a
| constitutional government and such an
amount of personal liberty as in Eng
land.
For 5000 years mankind had been
cropping towards the truth with more
or less blunders, then the new world
was discovered, and on the virgin soil
of America the problems of humanity
were to be worked out free from the
traditions of the old world, whether
those traditions were good or bad OF
that portion of the new world which
is inhabited by other than English
speaking people we need not refer
other than to thank God that in His
own providence the course of Columbus
was detected from the North Ameri-
can coast, and that the discovery of
this continent was reserved for a nav
igator sailing under the British flag In
the thirteen colonies the principles of
| political equality found abundant frui-
ton. Some aristocrats settled with
Capt. John, Smith on the banks of the
! James river, but by the firmness of
Capt. Smith were compelled to forego
idleness and earn their own living. For
| North Carolina a system of govern
ment establishing several ranks of no.
biity was drawn up by the celebra ted
! John Locke, but the acoloniSts were
! however able to resist the plan. New
England was settled by stern and piOus
men, and if the Puritans left their
country for their cOuntry's good, they
came to America fer Americas advan-
tage. The great trials through which
the first settlers of the country passed
rendered impossible the distinctions of
rank existing in the old world, and the
| strong man wherever we found him
became a leader.
'"The cause of separation of the col
onies from the mother country was
that Englishmen across the water re-
fused to grant to Englishmen on this
side the liberty for which they them
selves had been striving for hundreds
of years. Today no Englishman will
deny that the, revolution was iustifia-
BILE and no British sovereign would
dare deal with an English colony today
as George III. treated America.
What have we TO say of ourselves
as a nation? In the beginning Of this
century Fourth, of July orations were
so full of self-glorificatiOn that they
came to be considered bombast, and
Today We can thank God for blessings
enjoyed while remembering that other
nations have /. privileges of which we
are deprived. The differences between
this country and the nations Of the
old world is that we have the force
and energy of youth, while they have
the profound thpughtfulness of age.
1.-The United States of America has
been such a grand success that the
world applauds,.i 1T, and gives it that
sincerest form of f1attery-imitation
Republican principles are spreading ev-
erywhere and to-day England is in all
but name a. reppbic.
And yet ,fwith almost bated breath,
crime is Cd thee increase and at q
rate out of proportion with the increase
in population aIt4is an awful fact. that
there are ar this fair state of Mime
sofa three hospitals for the insane
with an: averageJ of 1000 each. The
intellectual powers are being educated
4 out of all proportion to the spiritual
powers The Lords day-the bulwarl1
of religion-ais better observed across
orr northern bolder than among our
selves Sunday work means work for
the bone and sinew" of the republic,
and without these men who are COM
PEELED to labor on Sunday the republic
could not survive We existed with
out millionaires before and could do
so again. but not without the -laboring
men. The irreligious workman Is an
incipient anarchist.
'"Who has charge of the conscience
of the republic?H In Europe there are
national churches. Their position is
weakened by being established and, in
measure. under the power of the
state but, even so, nations con-.