The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-14
AT PEOPLES CHURCH.
DIR. Crafts Discusses Living and
Dying Nations"


In the evening Or. Crafts spoke a. the
Peoples church on Living and Dying Ma
tons" He said in part:
IF I should claim that the difference in
nations is all due 10 their treatment Of the
sabbath | should proclaim that had been
run away with by a hobby. Let US broadly
study the living and dying nations'-to bor-
row Lord Salisbury's expressive classification
OF the Quivering map OF the world as IL now
spreads before US In dissolving views. What
time 20 teach geography and history Surely
no true teacher can fail TO teach also the
great lessons IN ctyics that throng the world
map OF living history 70 which Or. Dewey's
did not need to specify the dying nations
Every wel-informed person thought the
names OF China. Turkey France and Spain.
corner OF the civilized world every reader
bound 10 admit that the British empire
and the United States belonged 70 the living
nations
These living nations however have some
serious symptoms. and should study the dead
and DYING nations In order TO keep out u
Babylon. Greece. Rome. the Renaissance
kingdoms Of Italy, and France. form ma
art u it be mental cukure without moral
II IL be the art whose motto IS art for arl's
sake. the goddess estheticism OF nude art
that puts beauty in the supreme place In
stead OF duty. not only canu5t take the place
OF religion in checking immortality but ever
increases IL. dragging the nation down tho
second. physical: third, political decay Franc
Is on the second step the only civilized land
n which the birth rate Is falling below the
death rate. blaEing warning on the walls
OF this modern Babylon Of the retrfbution 10
men aad nations thar follows the Violation
o. the fourth and seventh commandments
Why should we cast aside our Anglo-ssSpn
traditions q welcome the nude 20 our litera-
ture and homes. when every nation from
which We have borrowed IL is either dead o.
dytng7 Since France Is dying Of the worst
OF plaques. French pictures. French plays
and French novels should b quarautined Ike
ships from infected ports.
The problem OF purity Is the question q
life or death % nations.
As We lock through history we see that
nations have died chiefly OF internal causes
not OF free silver or free trade, but free
There are three necessities OF life in q re-
puolio-intelligence. conscientiousness and q
spirit OF equality. In order to develop these
the relation OF master and servant must be
broken every week by general Observance OF
the sabbath and the day must also be pro-
tecte6 from dissipation that there may be
opportunity for the mental and moral i'm
provement % the masses. The Sabbath as
observed sn Great Britain and the really
American parts o. Ameriea, makes men.
while the holiday Sunday keeps the people
that have IL in childhood forever a. play.
ALREADY some OF our large elites are show
ing the effects % continental Institutions IN
q new generation OF Americans who are
Frenchy sporty children caring for little but
amusement
we excuse the Germans iaw-dstyinE san
day beer garden 80 national custom As
well allow the Turk liberty 10 brfng his
hGrem and the Spanisrd his bull light. The
great war Of today is not the easy conQue s.
q Spain. but the long war Win coatiuentsI
Institutions that is now al over The land
the kinetoscope reproduction Of q bull fight
as large life going on unmoiested n the
national capital: the prize fight announced by
other American SDsnisrds AZ Buffalo; The
SUNDAY papers. Sunday theaters Sunday ss-
socns. al Of them borrowed from the Oon-