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

Dying Nations"
In the evening Dr. Crafts spoke at the
Peoples church or Living and Dying Ma
tons" He ssid in part:
IF I should claim that the difference in
nations is all due to their treatment of the
Sabbath I should proclaim that I had been
run away with by a hobby. Let us broadly
study the living and dying nations'-to Dor
row Lord Sslisbury's expressive classification
OF the cuivering map OF the world as II now
spreads before MS In dissolving views. What
n time 20 teach geography and history Surely
no true teacher can fail to teach also the
great lessons in civics that throng the world
map OF living history TO which DR.. Dewey
guns have called all eyes, Lord Salisbury
did not need 10 specify the dying nations
Every well-informed person thought the
names OF China. Turkey. France and Spain.
And when he said living nations in every
corner OF the civilized world every reader
bound 10 admit that the British empire
and the Un.ted States belonged 20 the living
nations
These living nations however. have scme
serious symptoms and should study the dead
and dying nations in order to keep cut II
their graveyard.
Babylon Greece. Rome. the Renaissance
kingdoms Of Italy. and France. form a ma
tional series. all showing that the highest
art. u IL be mental culture without moral
II II be the art whose motto is art for arts
sake. the goddess estheticism OF nude art
that puts beauty In the supreme place in
stead OF duty, not only cannot take the place
OF religion in checking immortality. but ever
-
three steps 20 national ruin: first. moral.
second. physical, third, political decay. France
Is on the second step. the only civilized land
in which the birth rate is failing below the
death rate. a blazing warning on the walls
of this modern Babylon OF the retrfbutton 10
men snd nations that follows the violation
OF the fourth and seventh commandments
Why should We cast aside our Anglo-Saxon
traditions 20 welcome the nude 20 our litera-
tnre and homes. when every nation. from
which We have borrowed II is either dead or
dying Since France Is dying OF the worst
o. plaques, French pictures, French plays
and French novels should be quarantined ike
ships from infected ports
The problem Of purity Is the question %
life OF death 80 nations
AS We lock throuEh history We see THAI
nations have died chiefly OF internal causes.
not OF free silver OF free trade, but free
love.
pabic-inte Hgenee. eonscienGiousness and q
spirit OF equality. In order 70 develop these
the relation OF master and servant must be
broken every week by general observance OF
I the Sabbath. and the day must also be pro-
teoted from dissipation that there may be
! opportunity for the mental and moral i'm
provenent OF the masses The sabbath. as
observed IN Great Britain and the really
American parts OF America, makes men.
while the holiday Sunday keeps the people
that have It in childhood forever az play
Already some OF our large cities are show
/ ing the effects OF continental Institutions IN
new generation OF Americans, who are
/ Frenohy, sporty children. caring for httle but
amusement
I'VE excuse the Germans Iaw-defying Sun
| day beer garden as q national custom As
/ well allow the Turk liberty 10 bring hia
| harem and the Spzniard his bull fight The
great war Of today IL not the easy tongues.
OF Spain. but the long war with continental
| institutions that Is now all over the land
the kaleidoscope reproduction OF q bull fight
Is large as life going on unmolszted In the
national capital: the prize light announced by
other American Spansards az Buffalo; the
Sunday papers. Sunday theaters. Sunday sa-
lsenG all Of than borrowed fron the con-