The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-25

by your wonderful medicine and advice.
MISS JENNIE r. MILES. Leon, Wis.
fyou are suffering in this way, write
as Miss Miles did to Mrs. Pinkha1n at
Lynn, Mass, for the advice which she
offers free of charge to all women.
conditions? This very unrest is a hopeful
| commentary on the past and a. prophecy
for the future. 1t is an indication. not of
greater industrial servitude, but of great
er liberty. 1t is better than the stagna-
ton of hopelessness. 1t is an evidence
that the hard crust of established tyranny
has been effectually broken. The people
are doing their own. thinking: Higher
ideals have been dimly seen. They are
demanding an equitable application of
Christ's golden rule. In the old world, as
well as in the new, mems minds are in a
ferment. Great ideas have been born and
men are struggling upward, through a
piled-up mass of convention, tradition,
habit and custom, to realize them.
| In the fierceness and heat of the strug-
gle, many essential elements are cast
away as worthless. 1t is not strange that
| those who have found stubborn conven-
| tionality TO be their most obstinate foe
down with the church, We must re-
member that the radicals of today, who
shall have gained their purposes, will be
the conservatives of tomorrow. Vital
/ Christianity contains the solution of our
vexed social problems. It is true that
Bismarck said, THE social problem
could have been solved by the aid of the
police at one time; now it will have to
be solved with the aid of the military
| But, when this problem shall have finally
! been solved and solved right it will be
found that it has been worked out, not
| by the police or the military, but by the
! rule of Christ.
Another cause for thanksgiving is found
! in the increased attention that is being
education. a,
! graduation that so much attention is be-
| ing paid to the right kind of education
length and breadth of our land The vital
| spirit of evangelical Christianity has
nothing to fear from all this. The ques-
ton has sometimes been debated whether
! the church prepares the way for the
| school, or the school for the church. No
matter which is true, the fact remains
that they both flourish best when side by
| side, and both are essential to our future
The problem that God has set for this
/ people to solve demandsathe highest pos
| sible conception of duty as well as the
fullest possible intellectual equipment.
! We are living in interesting times. The
world is moving rapidly these days. Event
| has followed event in rapid succession
since last we met for our annual Thanks
| giving day service. We have scarcely. had
! breathing space to pause and ask our
selves, What does it all mean? Whittier
are we tending?" The movements that
have been in progress have not been local
| or isolated.
They are various phases of great
world-movement, too vast for full com
prehension, but certainly full of vital sig.
Let us take birdseye view. Little more
than a year ago the attention OF the worlc
was fixed upon the sultan of Turkey, the
seemed to be in daze They looked upor
the atrocities that were perpetrated with
in his domain, and seemed utterly help
less.
They beheld the insane lifting of the as
| saSsin'S knife, the incendiarieS torch, anC
| the brutal ply of the bloody knout, anC
appeared to be utterly impotent to inter
vene
They clothed themselves in the miser
able fiasco of their pitiable effort to re
strain the "unspeakable Turk in his wa
upon Greece.
heard-the people who, when they ar,
aroused care more for right than diDlo
| macy-and. ministers of state and rulers
of nations were compelled to heed thei
i Today the Moslems are being disarmet
in Crete and the Turkish garrison is be
ing bundled out of the island. The pro
cess of disintegration has begun and mus
proceed until the last vestage of terrific
rial possession shall be torn from the re
luctant hand of this vicious, incompetent
and bloodthirsty tyrant.
The man who lifts his head even
moment from the grindstone' is thrilled
with the spectacle of the mighty on
rush OIL events.
Europe is in a ferment and is on tn
eve of q mighty change in political condi
tons; Asia is waking from her long dream
and, shaking the sleep from her eyes i
looking wonderingly out upon a world o
inconceivable push and energy; Africa ha
been made the theatre for diplomat
jousts and tournaments among the grea
World-powers, who are jealousy and care
fully taking the measure of each other
prowess and resources while America
becoming aware of h, strength ant
what is more important, her responsibilit
in the great congress of nations.
The Donderous doors of the twentiet
century are swinging wide upon thei
hinges.
What changes, political, social rel
gious are to be brought about? What oil
institutions are to be torn down? Wha
new ones are to be erected? It all de
ponds upon the character and equipmer
of those who are to be the architects an
workmen of this coming age.
The logic of events has placed our ne
ton in commanding position before tn
world. Even now st the common com &c people
looking longingly to the new world wit
the cherished dream of reDubIicanism
their hearts. The work that we, as a. n;
ton, are called upon to perform demand
strength of hand clearness of brain, 10.
atty of heart.
We must lift up a standard of civil ar
religious liberty for all the peoples of tt
: How shall we discharge our trust? 4
l believe in Gods guiding hand in I'll
| past so l have faith in his leadership fl
the future.
The jangling voices of time-servers al
: political fortune-hunters may confuse fl
/ a time, but I believe that we shall ult
mately remain true to the. glorious prime
pies that have made us great even whe
we enter upon the wider fields that a,
opening before US.
The real significance of the war thatsh;
just closed is not in the victories thi
have been won. athe armies that ha1
been defeated the navies that have bee
: sunk, the territory that has be neoccupie
! much as these things have thrilled OF
[ hearts; but in the change of front on Il
2 part of the youngest and strongest of Il
2 worlds great nations. Our isolation is
r thing of the past. We may not ado
5 Englands policy of Imperialism, but Il
r doors that have been opened can never
: closed again.
The step forward into the arena of Il
: world S conflicts can never be retrace
I America. has taken her place in the S
5 ciety of nations. Her advent is attends
: with signs of great uneasness on Il
7 part of monarchical Europe
We are rich with the wealth that '
; have dug from the heart of the hills, ga
t nered from our wide-spreading harve
i fields and plucked as fruit from our loor
and factories.
4 We are rich in the vast, unmeasured T
S sources of this inexhaustible western Ell
pire and in the courage and energy of o
e people to develop them The number al
character of population is considered
e element of power. No other nation C;