The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-11
DR.. Hunter Begins a
Series of Special
Lectures
In the Congregational Church
The New choir Rendered Splendid
Musie-Large Congregation in
Attendance.
Men for the Times.

| Chronicles l2:32 "Men who had under
standing OF the times and knew what lsrat
ought TO do"
Luke 1865 ITO know how TO interpret tn
face of the earth and OF the heavens; bu
how is IL that ye know not how TO interpre
this timer
1t was stormy period for Israel. Al
illustrious king had lain down his scep
ter, TO be succeeded by another. 10 th'
agitation OF the hour the Tribes had as
sembled at Hebron intent upon pro lain
ing David hing, David was mere
youth and the distance from shepherds
crook TO royal throne was a perilously
long one. Small wonder that there were
some sharp differences OF opinion among
the people The words are descriptive
OF the men OF Issachorr, one OF the small.
est, but one of the most influential OF the
Tribes. They were men, those stalwarts
OF Issachorr, not pignlieS but nen-calm-
browed, great hearted capable men
men whose ision swept the horizon and
whose Judgment made them the trusted
leaders of their fellows
And yet, in its main features, the mar
ratiye might have been written by a
modern journalist, so like the tone of
our modern lingo is il. But for the an
tiquty OF it, date one might imagine it
to have been written in the Office OF the
Times, or the New York Tribune, or the
Chicago Inter Ocean. 1t emphasizes the
military strength and prowess OF those
who rallied to the royal standard. Big
battaiions, mailed warriors, a world
dangling on a sword-that's the stand
ard OF estimate. OF course 1t is a very
mean and vulgar one. but it il the
world 3 estimate still No feature OF our
American public life holds in it more OF
peril than the periodical GU break OF
lingo speech which has disgraced ia dur
ing the last three decades. By turns our
legislators, and occasionally our admin
stratons-challenge war with Great
Britain, dictate the colonial policy OF
Spain AMI snap their fingers in the faces
OF other great military powers, as ii this
were the closing decade OF the sixteenth,
instead OF the opening morning of the
twentieth century of the Christian era.
Accomplished editors still persist in esti-
mating the power of a government, not
according TO the acts of peaceful industry
it fosters, but according 10 the armed
battalons it puts into the field. 1t is a
sorry comment on the beauty of our
Chriafia N civiIizatton tbo+ A nno;ority &c
nations cling 10 the old barbarism that
their glory consists in armaments, and
tax themselves into perpetual poverty
that they may possess bigger guns and
heavier armorclads than their neighbors.
is always refreshing therefore. ds in
this chapter, to come in contact with
men OF loitier type and hobler mould
That thirty second verse feels like a
breeze from the celestial hills. In that
great conyocatlon of nation and church
-ior il was bOth-tbere we're some men
who were. at once, astute and reliabIg-
men OF reflection, OF political wisdom, Of
practical sagacity OF craftsmanship
Think OF it Two hundred sensible men
IN whole nation. About the average
proportion | suspect, if you will forgive
me for saying it. A small, but "highly
respectable minority" Aye But they
were men who swayed that ancient
world, and they are the kind OF men who
sway all that il best in our modern
world. Not by gun powder, but by rea.
son, is society to be regenerated These
are the men supremacy needed IN the
world aud pre-eminently needed in the
church.
In the planning OF any campaign for
God or humanity it il Of first import
ance that we understand the times
. these times-the age to which We were
born and in which we live. We are be-
showing vast amount of study upon
ancient history. In our public schools
and COLI ges the coming generation il
studying the histories of the Hebrews
the Greeks, the Romans, and other great
nations OF antiquity; aud theories more
or less intelligent are being constructed OF
the secret forces which lay behind the ey-
olution OF those great peoples. And 70
far as it goes this il all quite right. No
young mind can be too literally stored
with the treasures OF ancient history.
But meanwhile ours is very modern
world; confronted with thousand
problems and Artistic with a myriad in
terrogation points OF most urgent i'm
portance. Ii is hardly an exaggeration
TO say that within the present century
our world made more real progress than
in all pree sding time. Those OF us who
have lived sixty years have Travelled
every hour in a lightning express train.
But who among us knows anything in
particular about the history OF those
striving decades? How many OF the
students in our schools and colleges
could pass decent examination in its
forces or decisive events?
Our boys and girls are drilled in what,
by accommodation, 10 called Classics
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