The record-union., 1899-10-25

are coming to understand that there
is just one law. and that law is all
inclusive and capable of application ev-
erywhere and under all circumstances,
and that is. the law of love. And all
the unrest of society to-day, no mat
ter in what rude and crude shape 1t
may show itself-all the contortionS
and heavings of the earth. seeming pre-
liminary to some great world-trans-
forming eruption-all of it is simply
caused by that great ideal of love, that
has laid hold upon humanity, and that
will not be satisfied until all the king
doms and associations of man have
been brought into perfect harmony, and
under the sway of the rule of human
kindness. We do find it in our homes,
and we find that men daring to say that
into our business life must be brought,
not the pattern of the camp and the
inspiration of the camp. but the hero
ism of the home.
When men say: Where will be the
incentive to labor. where will be the
incentive to production, if you take
away greed and give us love" I would
not say an unkind word about any hu-
man being. but if I would use hard
word, 1 would use it about men believ-
ing in greed rather than in love. Why,
the mother, bending over her suffer
ing child and counting it a luxury to
suffer with the child-that is the power
that moves the world! Greed? Greed
1t is infamous. infamous!
We have moved on farther than we
know. / heard an interesting lecture
by one of your California women lit
tie while ago-Mrs. Charlotte Perkins
Stetson-on Things as They Are,
and Mrs. StetSon went on to say that
things as they are, are great deal bet
ter than any of us have realized; that
men who seem ahead of their times,
are simply men that are up with their
times. Do you know / think I have
never met any men that were up with
their times; they simply comprehend
the manifestations of love in the di-
vision Of society in which they move.
I hear of a man in a mine in Ari-
zona, and he knows that one man must
die, and he says, GO up, boys, you are
married and 1 am not. 1 will stay
down here and die" 1 see physician
drinking the poison out of one of his
patients. l see the gamblers in the
burning hotel at St. Louis giving their
lives for the servant girls. / see the
elevator boy in the Windsor Hotel in
New York on fire, only a few weeks
ago, running the elevator up, and run
ming the elevator down, knowing he
must not make another trip-breaking
away, going up and coming down-un-
til the policeman laid violent hands
upon him and drew him out; but as he
heard pleading cry for help, and the
ringing of the bell from the upper
story, he broke away from the officers
of the law. and, rushing in once more,
ran up his elevator until it came down
with a crash, and he disappeared, never
TO be seen again in human form Why,
heroism is becoming almost common
place!
I see the men who have gained one
of the greatest naval victories of mod
ern times, upon the decks of their yes
sells, and hear the Captain say: Don't
cheer boys, the poor fellows are dy-
ing" And then I see the victors, who
did not fear to risk their lives by the
shot and shells from the forts and yes
sells of the enemy. now not fearing,
but fairly rushing over one another to
risk their lives to save their enemies
from death, dragging them out of the
water, climbing up the almost red
heated sides of the vessels. disregarding
the commands TO come back to their
ships because the Spanish vessels We're
about to explode. Heroism is almost
commonplace to-day. and there is no
one of us that realizes the significance
of the marvellous development of love
on every side.
/ believe we have come almost to the
place where we can see the divine fell
| lowship of the nations. I am not dis
couraged by the little eddies in the
tide that seem TO bewilder some people
now and make them feel that the So
called civilized and Christian nations
have become savage. Hear me: Great
Britain, the real Great Britain, is not
/ strangling the weak republics in Afri-
ca tonight. The real America is not
slaughtering patriots and lovers of lib
erty in the Philippines; the real Amer
/ lea and Great Britain are sending mes
/ sages of love across the sea-may be
| seen walking with clasped hands at
| the councils of The Hague, and MAX
/ ing proposals for permanent and per-
petual peace. And the very first nation
| that never goes to war except through
| love, and always goes to war on ac-
count of love and counts no treasure
valuable-would pour out the last dol
! lar of money and the last drop of
! hearts blood for the sake of love-this
nation will be as very Christ of God
! for the obliteration of our international
perplexities, and bring us into a holy
and abiding fellowship that shall re-
main with the days to come.
| Oh, for that glorious consumma ton,
/ let US devoutly pray. and hope, and
! sacrifice, and labor. with our hopes as
! high as Heaven. and with our love as
| deep as hell. and with compassion
ate sacrifice like unto that of Calvary,
until the last burden shall be lifted
and the last tear shall be wiped away.
| AS DR.. GLADDEN. says: THE Kingdom
not as widely regnant, as ever it shall
not as widel pregnant. as ever it shall
/ be" The kingdom of God is here,
as truly as ever it shall be; just as
when in the budding springtime we
have certain indications of that which
shall be, in the first rare, beautiful
! flowers, the spring is rSt here nor the
summer, but there is.,part of it here.
and there is more to follow. Every form
of what now seems evil is to be put
away. That old distillery that poured
out the deadly poison of death, is TO
/ be filled with the music of the songs
of children or the busy hum of the
wheels which will add to the worlds
wealth and. comfort. The saloon will
go. In all the range of humanity, no
man shall be found SO weak as to
yield to the accursed appetite for drink.
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