The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

learned :'at the m -her's knee, is new
enough still, The WOrld does not need
| '2Osh century sermons.' It had better
cling to the 10Th and the Is h and the
17sh century sermons, and better still,
to the 3.d and 21d century sermons,
and best of all to the 1st century ser.
mons. AS chaf which the wind driveth
away, so are literary essays by the side
of the teaching of Paul on Mars Hill,
Peter on the day of Pentecost, and the
Sermon on the Mount"
The o oserver seems to be right itself
but it evidently misunderstands DIR.
Hills. We are sure it will fad moth
ing incompatible with 1.-The faith of
the fathers" in the following trenchant
lines from his pen. We find them in
the current issue Of the Ladies' Home
Journal:
'Often unhappiness and discomfort
spring from skepticism. Perhaps our
age has been playing the part of the
gay and foolish prodigal who left his
home Of luxury and comfort to go
forth to wander in the desert, and now,
becoming conscious of its misery, it is
coming to itself. To each prophet Of
unbeliet our era has gone in turn, and
now, Disguised, men turn YEARLY
away from all. Already the atheistic
volumes are RELOCATED to the top shelf
and are thick with dust. Having,eaten
the crumbs that fell from the table of
positivism, man flds himself gaunt,
tamished. Society is equally tired OK
the philosophy that made man crawl
up out of the ooza and slime Of the
ocean. Sacularism has ripened only
the apples of Sodom, leaving ashes and
SCOT in the mouth. Romanes, Fiske
and James seem interested in agnostic
ism no longer. On a cold January
day MorlRis Jones saw q pet monkey
climb into a chair before a picture of
blazing fire and there try to warm it's
shive1ing paws. Our generation has
found out that materialism, secular
ism and agnosticism are painted fire,
and the cold Chill of discomfort has
crept over the soul. Recalling his
skeptical period, Matthew Arnold
likened himself to the Greek who stood
in the ancient temple with mournful
awe and bitter tears looking down
upon his gods fallen from their pedes-
tails. When God goes, gloom, sadness
and depression come. The fact is, man
is made for G)d, and uEq1iet is his
heart until it rests in Him. Man can
never forget the splendor OF the palace
in which he was reared and the glories
of that paradise in which he yet may
roam. The vision Of that which he has
been discontents him with the tawdrY
PHILOSOPHERS, with their lack of dignity,
reserve and noble futurity. Make man
an animal, his end pleasure, his guide
selfishness, and Jobs words come to
mind: i have said to corruption,
Thou art my father; to the worm,
Thou art my mother, and my sister,"
49,
The American Monthly Review of
Ava may AOROVCS SOh5AOC4 aO4O
space to a survey of recent develop
ments in American cities. The editor
comments on the re, election of Mayor
Carter Harrison in Chicago, on Mayor
Jones' remarkable triumph in Toledo,
on the Detroit project for municipal
ownership of the street railways, and
the general situation in Boston, San
Francisco, Minneapolis, Cleveland,
Denver, st. Louis, Philadelphia, Pitts
Ourg, and New York. Dr.. Snaw's
study of the new San Francisco
charter, is full Of suggestions for
reformers in other cities.
the experiments Of the Initiative"
and the ''retendum," for which the
new charter provides, will ba watched
with Intense interest.