The Newtown bee., 1898-05-06

now breaking over our land I wish we
 could save some respect for the aged.
 what If they are not quite up with the
 times! What if elasticity has gone from
 their step and they are willing them
 selves to admit that they are no longer
 young! What if their learning is not
 severely classical! What if they are not atl', of good right, to attach some let
 ter' to their names! One's usefulness in
 ilfe IS not always measured by the edu-
 catlonaI advantages possessed. Mary hyon' In her day, had no college where she might train the large faculties of her mind; yet who will say that Mary Lyon did not put as much impress upon the
 lie of her time ard of all time as any
 graduate from the school that she found- ed? It is not how much one knows. but
 the use one makes of what he knows, that gives him power in the world. Ed
 ucatlonal power is not even the greate st power for good. "The hand that rocks
 the cradle moves the world;" and there
 is many an aged mother, not known be-
 yond the circle of her home, whose sil- yer hair is better crown of glory than any monarch wears because of the infiu. ence which, through her children, she
 has given to the world.
 AS THE OLD IDEA OF REVERENCE DIES AWAY,
 and we cannot call it back is there a new form of reverence that is to come in. SD. pealing more to reason and, therefore.
 more likely to stay? I tbink so.
 in America we cannot have reverence for places; we have no holy places here
 Here there are no cathedrals through
 whose fretted aisles we walk while the thought of hoary centuries impresses us
 with awe. Here we have no city walls that have witnessed battles between freedom and despotism. Here the land is not worn by the steps of ages, that in solemn file have passed along. What are we to do? Men go to Palestine to-day and stand at the holy places connected, as they think, with the life of our Lord :; and yet the best scholars say that there IS scarce one spot in Palestine that we can surely identify as thus connected with the life divine.
 There is 8 better reverence for holy places than that. This is Gods world. God is everywhere. Not alone in the bush that famed before Moses is His shining presence seen, but in every bush on this spring day which is bursting into leaf and bud and flower. Not alone on the Sinai Mount in His majestic power displayed; but when the lightning plays and the thunder peals, as the artillery of the skies opens it's terrific cannon ade, God is yet making the clouds His chariot and revealing Himself in the fury of the storm. Every Till that mur- murs down the mountain side, the whis- per that floats through the pines, the daley that swhitens the field, the lark that scars toward the sun, all these pro- claim earth holy and call forth our rev. erence and love.
 1sfaePs history is called sacred his- tory; shall we alone have reverence for that2 Was God only in Israel's history, and ia He not working in history to-day? It is hard sometimes to feel any rever- ence for humanity.
 We see the world seemingly given over to selfshness and greed. We see men with broad shoulders using those broad shoulders not to lift other men up, but to sssSa kp-< <ons %B, yz. see politics game and the race not to the deserving, but to the conniving. We sec history as an orderless mass and we get discouraged at the outcome of it all. But were there no self-seeking politic. ians in Israeli Did no false prophets speak in those days? God works in Amer ican history as He worked in Israeps his- tory. He is working in our history to- day. I may not have gotten the exact conception; but, it seems to me, in this war with Spain see the finger of God. The groans and blood of the Inquisition cry out from the ground, and the hand writing on the wall proclaims that Spain's 1 misrule shall be no more. Americas his- tory is sacred history. Here, in the prov dence of God, we are working out the problem of self-government, that is, the problem of human brotherhood. The work of this Nation, under Gods guid- snce,is so majestic chat the republic well deserves the name that Mulford has giv n to it, ssThe Republic of God.'' It's ac- is so great that the saying of he Frenchman is true. "America is ,ounded on the west by the Day of