The Monte Vista journal., 1898-02-19

Denver, FeO. 14.-"Her0 WOrBhlp
was the subject Of Rev. Myron W,
Reeds sermon yesterday morning at
the Broadway Temple. His text was
from the 18th chapter Of Genesis. oo5th
verse: "shall not the Judge Of all the
earth do right?'
Mr.. Reed spoke a. follows:
have considerable fault to ind with
Abraham. He sent Hagor and her son
and his son out into the wilderness to
starve and to thirst and said that the
Lord told him to do the inhuman deed.
I refuse to believe that the Lord ever
told him any such thing. When you
think that the Lord tells you to do a
wicked thing call It bad dream and
do 1t not.
There are several things In the Old
Testament laid to the Lord that He
had nothing to do with. Adam was
much Of a sneak. 1.-The woman that
Thou gavest me tempted me-" he said.
and for that lie was snaked out Of
Eden.
am told by an able phrenolOgist
that I lack reverence. There Is a sort
Of valley or ravine where there ought
to be a bump. ! do not think l lack
reverence. am n born hero worship
er. We dislike lackey-a fiunky. MIR.
Ridpath, the great war correspondent
OF the New York Tribune, went to Ire
land and told the peasantry there to
quit their vile habit OF pulling their
foretop whenever they met landlord.
Humility is good; humiliation Is not.
What I like In Abraham Ia his insist
Int In 4 Sn<t A mil q
hound to do right. He was 5000 years
II one Of the best things that ever NOR
tai man said.
Here is child OF the xlums, child Of
neglect. You cannot say Of her. she
II bound to do right. You can almost
say that by heredlty and circumstance
she In bound to do wrong. But the
great God. tho pivot OF the universe.
He must he in perfect pose and bal
ance. 1t IL inconceIvable TO me that
He made n world OF men. women and
children and then drowned them all in
one family. To do this IL to confess
failure. The Infinite One does not
make failures. at least not a failure
like that.
The God was introduced to when
was a child do not greatly reverence.
He was TO do ax He pleased and wns
not to do as I pleased. The whole or
thodox scheme always struck me as
out Of Joint.
wonder II the writer Of a review Of
Theodore Parker knew what he was
doing. The review was In 1.-THE New
Englnnder." My father took the
quarterly and read the extracts from
Theodore Pnrker's HermOns In the re-
view md have heen more or less OF .
hereto ever since. The reviewer
thought that he was demolishing Par
ker. In one boys mind he was build
ing him up. With the hrst niooey I
ever earned bought all his hooks.
Reverence In good. Horace Greeley
wore unshiny shoes. He said In ex-
PLANTATION that be had no time to shine
them himself and be did not like to see
anyone do It for him. He carried the
thing too far. Shoe shining 10 n hon.
Orable n cathedral buiiding. Only !
do not want the shoe sinner to look and
act ~ II II were less honorable. We
dislike all crin9ing people. infoemefs
against their own clan.
In every school. In every labor strike.
tn every revolution there arr iafoFua-
era. One-third Of the people Of the
thirteen colonies In l178 were tories
Onc-third Of the people WIN hetray the
other two-thirds.
Reverence II good. hut any kind Of .
lackey II a nulIancc.
Let amy party he In power thirty
years and the majority Of the acound-
rcls Of the country viii he In II.
The feebler the minority the more Il
II sure that II II right. All the towards,
aunkeya aud lackeys nock to the ma.
jority.
The aboliiionista WEIR few In ~
and thick In ct. The crime Of slavery
was the samc at both dates.
II ix beginning to te respectable to
he n Socialist. respect whnt In re-
spectacle. The Cleopatra's needle In
act up In New York city. which is not
the heart Of this country, but q wart.
Tint statue. built by slaves and
brought over the ocean by thieves. 10
taking on.
That al,ominatIon cannot stand
American climate. The statute Of
Robert Burns In Central park II not
Taking OF. The twentieth century man
Ia erect and sound. The prevailing
climate Of America suits the plough.
man Of Mosagul. He was q socialist
before the word was Invented, and 4
Thco~ophist anl humane society.
Then let rs pray that come II may,
A. come 1t will for q that.
Tint man to man my brother be
For n TINT nnd a that.
With reverence have been to places
whcrc he lived.
The spectacle of Walter Rcott tryiag
10 write out debt Of half million 10.
tercsts me- For that reason I was q
pilgrim TO Abbottsford. Charles Lamb
I like. stoop my head 10 him. Thirty
years devoted to q sister who about 70
often went insane.
I have only one thing against Thorn.
o. Carlyle. lie speaks Of Charles
Lamb an "poor Charles Lamb" "Poor
Thomas Carlyle" In the great. great
judgment day who Of these two will
he the poorer?
do nat gain anything by looking
down ON men smaller than myself. I
grow by looking up. Yesterday I
thought Of Abraham Lincoln. = hoy In
q ihrre.sideSi log cabin and later walk
Ing twelve miles and hack 10 get a
book. saw him steering q ha'hoat
rpugh weather. croes currrnia. - un.
consci0usly great. 10 equal to either
fortune. Il II nnc for mind and heart
to think Of that man. DO not ihlnk Of
lsDor human nature! think Of high
grade human nature.
Every s-at. every inch Of room IL tax.
IN where man II On trial for murder.
The air IN not even second.hand-it has
been lxeathrd over eight OF ten times.