Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-06-09

wild beasts of the forests in order
that they might not become too
powerful, and at last through the
rivalry and jealousy OF the different
states of HelIas all her bright pros
poets were blighted and she became
an easy prey for the conqueror.
Finally Rome. though she could
bring the whole world into subjection,
she did not know how to live and let
Others live, her common people were
continually rising up in revolt to OBJ
tain more rights and she trenbIed
under the mighty sway OF her dicta.
tors.
Thus neither the grandeur OF
Egypt. the art and literature Of
Greece, nor the great military power
of Rome could satisfy the people.
these could not raise them to a high
err plain, extend a helping hand to
the weak or lift up the fallen, each in
turn had utterly failed to respond to
the needs ofmankind.
But the world was not always to
move on, bpholding such wrongs
without check, beholdine it's millions
trampled under foot, or always to
gaze upon scenes Of crime and cruel
ty, unmuveh, not always were the
prescriptions of Rome's dictators to
enfrenzy the people or the bloody
gladiitorial combats to delight the
multitudeS. No, time WAS not far
distant when Il new power, a new i'll
fuence, which should rise through
the blood OF it's martyrs, would he
felt, and though to move on slowly
yet in time to surround the earth.
Though man in general i'll his prim-
tive state seemed so low and but lit
tie above the life of the material
world, so void of sympathy, yet he
held within him that little germ, that
little spark of divinity, which if
blown to flame could WELD such a
type of manhood as would fulfill the
purpose of it's maker. But like the
carbon which must be buried in the
earth centuries before the brilliant
diamond can be produced, so it
seemed necessary for the races of
mankind to pass through ages of
training and development before they
could come anywhere near that ideal
which the Creator had set up. 1t
seems that this old civilization which
was now dying out had failed in its
mission, had failed to yield that man
hood which would place others be-
fore self, and this was now to pass
away and new one to take it's place.
Although during the first part of
the Christian era wrongs continued
to be unrighted, yet we find that
thought was not centered in self Us
much as it had been, when we see
with what enthusiasm Gregory be-
held those fair haired children in the
Roman slave market and how he
longed to send some one to the land
of Ella. We also can see the change
that has been taking place when we
contrast the purpose of the monk
Augustine when he went to England
and that of Caesar who had gone
few centuries before, the one to con-
vert the English, the other for con-
quest and plumber; the one giving up
all for others, the other taking all
for self.
AS early as the beginning of the
fifteenth century, in all countries
where Christianity had made it's way,
we find the feeble beginning of re-
forms creeping in, one after another,
means of uplifting mankind before,
the luxuries, nay even the comforts,
We're only for the few, and in giving
these to the few the rights of thou
sands were misused. But now the
reforms began to tend in different
direction to reach out to the common
people and to protect them against
arbitrary rule. But these reforms
haye been making their way only in
those countries where this Chr;st;an