The Newtown bee., 1898-02-11


 cities and one is quite widespread through Massachusetts and adjacent States at the present time, and in ou1 milk industry here at home we have another instance of 1t, the inequality ir distribution of profits. In all these in dustrial problems there are two sides. and let it be remembered in every at. tempt to right the wrong, neither side is wholly right and neither side is entirely wrong. But as one has well said 'tUnti] men, lab0rers and capitalists alike, re- alize that there are only two sides Chris;'s side and the other-and widely choose the former, the question will never be settled nor the conflict sease. ' And so taking the industrial aspect, the Christian WI rid is,in great need of Christ. THINK NEXT OF OUR SOCIAL CONDITIONS. | ern society. There are loose ideas of marriage, the notion that it is merely 8 contract that may be dissolved at will, instead of state indissoluble "till death do part"
 The standsris of personal purity are lowered in forgetfulness of the Chris tian teaching that our bodies sra the temples of the Holy Ghost. A spiritual ly un-educated and utragenerate public opinion is too often made the justifica- tion of conduct or principles which the Cf ristian consciousness condemns. The family though divinely ins iruted and the safeguard of liberty and morality is being degraded, dissolved, destroyed. Bushes methods, which are question: able or even such as are only to be cor- demned accordir g to Christian teaching, are accepted and acted upon by Christian men whose consciences rebel against their actions, telling them of better things. And there has grown up such & confus. ion of moral sense in regard to official conduct, that while the common thief is scorned, the genteel criminal, the en- bezzler, the defrauder on large scale, is recognized and accepted on a social equality and his act of dishonesty COZ doned and it's immortality lost sight of. And so it is very plain that our social world is sorely in need of Christ.
 We come next to the press. It is call- ed ''the mirror of the popular mind" Does it indeed It fleet the thoughts and desires of the pe ople? It would seem so or they would not buy the paper which prints them. Words applied to the pres s as sensational, untruthfu', pandering to all depraved ts 5es," do not seem too strong to describe many of our daily papers. It ought to be held dishonor. able thing to be seen reading certain publications of our day. Think of these papers being circulAted in foreisn and even so-called heathen lands. Shall we allow foreigners to judge of Christianity by the press of Christian lands? If some newspapers of Christian America are the opponents of our actual Christianity, what 8 mockery of religionl And in this respect the Christian world needs Christ.
 And from the press we go on natural. ly to
 LITERATURE AND ART,
 It is characteristic of the day that in lit- eratHre and art the subject matter is not objected to, if only the form is good. And the poison is administered under the disguise of attractive surroundings and agreeable taste. But the poison being there does it's awful work bV so confus. ing the power of moral discernment and the ability to discriminate, that .sevil is called good and good evil, darkness is put for light and light for darkness, bit- ter for sweet and sweet for bitter.'' The large proportion Of recent books which have sold best have had some oorruptiDg element in them, though occasionally we are refr shed and edified by work of fiction which is really wholesome. ''Art for arts aake,'' however, is the flimFy excuse for artistic indecency, in