The San Francisco call., 1898-06-12
DR. JAS. H. LOVES, Knights FsrY.
DOUGLAS TILDEN,

we of to-day to the observant and contempative mind almost lillputian-and why? It to me that It Is because have, to great degree lost moral force
 great and fundamental principle of life that no people can hope to become powerful prosperous and happy who destitute of this. We must have faith, vital and practical must have honest con- victions and carry them out honestly nope to accomplish anything of importance either as individuals nations
 Without candor sincerity and directness of pur- pose we become frivolous unworthy and incapable of attaining the greatest blessings life or of holding Tor any length of time even the semblance of the spect and esteem of associates As it is us as individuals so it is with when segregated the political divisions of the world; frivolous king dom or empire republic may apparently flourish time, but it is doomed to destruction For example remember Babylon Persia Assyria, Egypt, Carthage Rome and Greece, and in our times Venice and France-Venice already dead far influence standing is concerned and France ready become the captive of the first country that will have her.
 Another thing to which be traced the in many ways, apparent degeneracy of this age the growth of infdelity the modern arrangement of the human mind from its Creator. Those who shut the great first cause from their thoughts and lives shut them selves away from the grandest and highest possbili- ties of existence, and condemn themselves medi- ocrty or loea ana execution In all their ambitions and attainments.
 One of the greatest of the troubles of the present time, and gravest to the future position assumed by during past few years Woman Is the foundation of the domestic institution: without homes we are neither people nation, and we can have no homes when women are more anxious to take the places of in business and public life than to perform the holy duties wives and mothers
 It is a pitiable fact that maternity Is no loneer looked upon as bessng-the glorious crown of wo- manhood, but instead is considered by majority of the educated women of the day disagreeable re- sponsio1lity to be avoided if possible Women are so respectable that they would shrink from even the slightest personal contact with creature who had erred in lesser will burden their souls with actual crime for the sake of being free the re- straint and care of large family in which they should find their highest pride and greatest happiness
 Women can make the world and when the most highly educated. refined intellectual of their sex becomes unwomanly, fonder of public life and work and the applause of crowds than of home life and the loving prate of children that the men of the future will equal the past in the noble qualities of mind and heart that have given the world in the past those masters in music lttera lure and art those giants in eloquence statesman ship, and those heroes in times of danger whose memories we still proudly reverence
 do not believe that the brain
 of mankind has by any means
 reached its highest develop THEODORE HfTTELl ment Because have
 cluded to call certain arts lost is no why should find them again and because certain men have far outshone their brothers Is no sign that other will into the world whom has been bestowed genius equl- Ing, if not excelling that of their predecessors
 The great trouble with those who look at these in hurry. They do not realize how many years in- tervened between the real genuses of past Think how long 1t was between the days of Homer and Virgil and Dante and Shakespeare and Goethe
 can no reason why should not have right here in America, poet equal Shakespeare, a musician equal to Beethoven, and on through the list of the gTandest minds of the past. but must