The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-23
IS THE WORLD GROWING BET
TER?

DEAR AUNT JENNIE: Seeing that
you have again called the roll, I sup
pose you want some letters, and there
fore I will try to write one, although
my name was not on the list.
Pansy writes a very interesting let
ter on politeness. Politeness costs
nothing, but it always brings ~itsrewards
to those who use it.
Eleanor writes charmingly on tenn
perance, and Jack discusses selfshness.
Now, Jack in your valiant champion
ship of woman I think you have over.
shot the mark. There are not ten to
one" husbands so jealous minded as
you say. Indeed such as you describe
are remarkably scarce, l am thankful
to say. However, there are a few just
rs you depict them, and there are some
Jealous minded women also. Probably
one in twenty-five might come nearer
the ratio. And although women do
all the noble and unselfish deeds that
you credit them with, still, lam com.
PEELED to admit that there are some ex
captions to the rule, else we should not
have any women in the jails and peni-
tentiaries Yet it is a fact that, as a
rule, women are more unselfsh than
men.
Eva Plamondon suggests two quer
les. One is, us marriage a failure9'
Certainly not, because marriage was
instituted by the Almighty when the
first man and woman had been created.
And through all the ages that have
succeeded, it has stood as a strange
and beautiful rite, aver new, ever to
be admired. The married parties may
and do sometimes prove miserable fail
ures, but they would be failures either
married or single.
Eva's other query is, us the world
growing better or worse2" Please
write on it, Miss Eva It is constantly
affirmed that the world grows better
with every f9eting moment. B 1T if
this we're true, by this time this world
would be such an elysium that VI
should never be able to reach Heaven
through TRIALS and tribulations."
Think of it; the first born son of man
murdered his brother, and there are
still Gains all over the word. AChris
tian nation sending forth missionaries
to convert the heather, from one part,
and getting guns and armies to shoot
them from another!
DE-. Tichenor speaking of the work
of the Southern Baptist Convention,
says, Though our churches have been
multiplied, and our mission work
largely Increased, the ratio Of the I'm
converted to church members has so
rapidly increased as to surprise US by
the results Of half a century"
No, l cannot sc that the world
grows better. Christ said, las it vas
in the days of Noah, so shall it be when
the Son Of man comes"
Let US hear from you, Chatterere;
we want to know that the world is
growing better, bu; cannot think go
when we know that cRnnibals are still
in existence, and although chattel
slavery has been abolished nearly ell
over the world, industrial slavery,
which is worse, is rioting in nearly
every nation on the face Of the globe,
and ef1rts are being put forth every
day to fasten its chains more securely.
Even 10 our W fair country where
Christians, or those who profess Christ,
are in authority, the golden calf is set
up and the people compelled to pay
tribute.
Come forth ye solomons and Solons,
and dis Miss PlamoDdon's query.
TTr1z NM