The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1898-06-06

mobocracy must be endured that
,lit ii al evil but there Il no way to
4 get rid Of II. Tell them municipal
4 rule Is only an incident Of our national
llffe-that spoils, and bosses, and
1 thuggery must 81 on. Tell Them that
labor has 10 rights that capital y
bound to respect sor that capital il the
lawful prey Of lapor. Tel Them that
the drink demons shark and devil fish
both III one, reaching out Its great
arms to draw tosatself and crush for
ever the flower 81 pur American man
hood, is simply a necessary evil. Tell
them that the old-fashioned notion
Iof the family with its basis ID one
man and one woman Joined iii holy
bonds till death shall part, is all a
myth, and that after all human beings
fare only animals, RIGHTEOUSNESS nat
luraI, and the hosise Of shame neees-
sity. Tell them that 1t is the nature
Eof the classes 50 war against the
masses, and the masses against the
classes; that humanity IS not one and
has no common Interests. Tell them.
that morality isIa cheat, religion q
fiction, the Sabbath a sham, and i'm
mortality a huge joke. Tell men all
this Or more. Will they believe III?
VIII they believe any part Of it? A
few will, but the many will never ac-
cept any such theory Of the future.
Hard headed, cool, calculating and
hopeful humanity will never believe
that highhanded wrong will be per-
mitted to go on forever slapping it in
the face, Whacking it and splitting its
| life blood. Humanity looks forward
| to. binding up hefdogs of hell and to
the throttling Of vice; to the Fighting
of wrong and the subduing the power
of the bad. Humanity is forever
reaching out towards an unattained
perfection. -.-.. .rH
What is true of the race is also true
of the individual The hopes Of hui
mainly are in kind at Lei asst the hopes
of each man. No one lives who does
| not have before him some ideal of life
and some conceptions of its POSSIBLE
tiles. The ideal implies attempt to
realize it. Not every man desires for
himself the perfection of character
which comes through accepting the
Christ character lbs the standard for
his life. Sometimes the perfection
sought is only physical. Heart and
brain are given inferior place. Drawn
is put first. The final contest is the
prize ring. Sometimes the perfection
relates only to professions. 1t is a
question as to whose pile~pfs dollars is
the highest. The endsof life~is to ac-
quire wealth-to get money. Some
times the perfection sought is posi-
tion, or place ii society, or direction
of affairs in party politics, but what
ever the perfection sought there must
be standard bg which to measure it.
Nothing heroic in action was ever
accomplished Without some standard
| for action. Consller two 81 three ex-
ainples: il ] aNfsh history nothing
| Is more starel iii heroic Than tie.
brave struggle fog 2ndep endence 10 the
uprising under thy leadership Of the
Maecabees. Ths mighty power Of
Syria was broken and Palestine was
again free. mall the records Of he
roism few names stand higher than
that of Judas Maccabaeus. His
standard for action was the law of
Moses, and the Tofty religious patriot
ism expressed Sin the addresses Of
Isaiah and Jerefaiah, shall never
forget the thrilfMhich shook me from
head to foot thesfirst time heard the
story of that Scottish Clan, when be-
ing hard pressed in the battle one of
the number took the heart of their
dead leaderswhich they carried with
them and, throwing it far ahead into
the ranks of The enemy, shouted,
"Lead us, O heagt Of Bruce, to yicto-
ry." The tide saprned. The brave
Scots overcame ssnemy and pos
sessed again theHeart which had
gone before them Their standard
for action was the courage and daring
of their dead leader. There are few
finer instances oil courage and forth
tude than John aus before the Coun-
Gil of Constance. The leaders of
France were aga nst him. The Ger
mans were again i him. The enemies
of Wyolife were against him. Great
SCHOLASTIC party taeaded by Gerson the
Hammer. of FL aetics" was against
him. Might Of Saurch and might Of
empire were all tsainst him. Plead
| ing the supremacy of the Bible and
the rights of coueience, he prepared
the way for what y Carlisle has called
'sthe greatest mtsInent in the modern
history Of men s-When Luther utter
ed his famous words at the Diet Eof
Worms. The standard for action was
the rights Of conscience and the au-
thority of the Bible.
It is easy to see that the standard
for single acticn becomes, in sense,
the standard for3all action-a stand
ard for eonductt$ AS such it becomes
q, working modeY for life. Let the
perfection of our being stand as the