The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-18

ever aims to win by shrewdness will
eventually find some one shrewder than
himself, but the man who uses candor
openness and sincerity knows that there
is no one who has anything better.
Frivolity is the sister to cruelty.
Each phase OF Christianity began
with masses and gradually narrowed
to the classes. 1t was so of Romanism,
OF I.utherism, Of Calvanism, of Wes-
leyism. God is always going back to
the people. When churchly institutions
become narrow He commissions some
agent like Francis dAsssi or Luther
or Wesley or William Booth to go again
out into the highways and hedges and
compel the hordes to come in that His
house may be filled. This is the cause
Of missions. If civilized notions will
not come He will appeal to the heather.
res
The only hold religion has upon man
lies III its ability to appeal to his crav-
ing for finer higher, fuller life. 1t is
this craving that makes men plunge so
feverishly into politics, business, So
cial dissipation. drunkenness or travel.
Humanity's hell is humdrum. No relig-
ion that has not excitement, enthusi-
asm, eXaltation, rapture will suit man.
kind. Look at those words Excite
means to move rapidly out of ones self;
enthusiasm, the filling with God; exalt,
to raise one out of himself; rapture, to
carry one away from himself. Do you
not see that the kernel in all of them
ictS In, from
binary. The true instinct that moves
men to religion is the desire for high
| life, of which drunkenness, gambling
and all dissipation Is a dangerously
| close counterfeit. The sensualist who
| claims, Better one day of this raptur-
| Gus sweetness than years Of common
place." the poet who sings, Better
| fifty years of Europe than a cycle In
| Cathay," and the psalmist who cries
"a day in Thy courts is better than
| thousand" are different in degree only
| and illustrate the three modes OF escape
! from humdrum that humanity has dis
| covered-the physical, the intellectual
| and the spiritual. The advantage which
| the spiritual has over the other two
forms is that it is permanent.
| 49,
| If should be asked what Is the mos
| practical and helpful thing for one Il
| learn from Christianity / should say
il Is to consider that his duty is to b'
done by the day and not by the job
To look upon what we have done toda!
as a full completion OF our responsible
| ity to God and man is that way Il
| both efficiency and hearts-ease. If on
| can live right one day he can live RICH
forever. for forever is composed of one
days.
Excessive spirituality is akin to dis
sipation. elf-abandonment, even t
religious feeling, is dangerous. lem
perance is the supreme law in heavel
also.
There is a difference between religios
ity and religion. Religion is the dee
loyalty of the heart and purpose TO GU
sense of right; religiosity Is the scrup
ulous observance Of petty rules. In
latter pays 1.-THE of mint, anise an
cummin: the former is occupied wit
the weightier matters of the law. Their
can be no true religious life that doe
not discriminate between essential
and non-essentials. Many who are yer
| narticuIar about the religiosities nav
little or no religion. The chief priest
gladly murdered Jesus, but they hes
tated to arrest him on a feast ia!
There are harlots who are careful 10 al
tend mass. Medieval bandits were IRE
ouently punctilious about saying the
naternosters. Many a thief Is afrai
, RI begin an important undertaking Q
a Friday. Some ill-tempered and pas
!. snirited mothers are very carefui
i have their children baptized. These al
ra,ipiosities. but religion consists
xeening the heart and character dali
} in the atmosphere Of God, or the tru'
and of love- Jesus constantly onehoe
! the religiosities of His day, but he WI
) more religious than all.
. There is fashion in religiosities
l | we'll az in worldliness. There are mar
> todav whose prayer would be:
n God. I thank Thee that / am not
men. a,
] | hate LIQUOR, 1 hate the rich, hate u
, theater, hate the dance.
t T. 90 the style nowadays to test one
I orthodoxy by his pronunciation of the
L / shihDOleInS. DuI 10 WIS N>@~
anv nearer the truth than the ancie
. Pharisee?
y II Is common to hear the phrase III
! civic conscience" But there is no SUI
8 thing: there is only the individual co
= science. Conscience cannot De aoo
t or Jumped. The only sort OF civic co
n science there can be Is one that Is col
{ nosed of individual consciences. Inc
: can be no municipal sense OF righteou
e ness where the people that make
!, that city are selfish and venal. The on
n kind of reformation that reforms Is o
that changes the integers OF the Do
nolitic. There are no questions OF sta
e TODAY that are not moral question
$ Tbere is but one way to the betterme
/ of society. and that is the betterme
: of each man and woman.
!. II is often supposed that the vegeta
n ian cook must be at disadvan.a
: for want of suet. What Is the merit
! met? Simply this. that 1t presents
= in 4 fibrous form, letting itout grad