The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-03

getting, get understanding. In the
path of this book rise schools and col
leges and libraries for the people. The
men and women who have stood up for
free open Bible for the people, have
also stood up for free open schools and
free open libraries for the people The
church that keeps the Bible from it's
people, has never given a free public
school system to any nation or people.
Senator Stanford, in one of our sun
kissed valleys of California, erected
and endowed a great university. He
put into it the accommodations of life
time, in all, some twenty or thirty mill
ion dollars. Anxious that it should ac-
complish the purpose for which it was
designed, he ordered that Bible
should be placed upon the table of ev-
cry dormitory in the institution. He
did not do this as a religious man, Cor
as things go, some would not call him
religious. But he was practical in his
plans; he had good business sense.
And when he thought of the thousands
of young men and women who would
come to that institution to fit them
selves for the work of life, he who had
travelled extensively and thought deep
ly, who knew men and things, knew
what was essential to success, as a
practical business man, from all the
books of the world, selected the Bible
and placed it on the table of every
student in the institution. He believ-
ed that in that book was summed up
the highest practical wisdom for mans
guidance in the life that now is.
The Bible has created an enthusiasm
for humanity 1 know it is divine be-
cause it is so humane. From begin
ming to end it is on the side of man.
1t pleads the cause of the people. AS
Charles Kingsley said, it is the poor
| mans friend and the rich mans warn
| ing. The humane and philanthropic
movements of our day owe their ORR
gin to the teachings of this book This
| age is democratic, intensely so. This
| age believes that man is higher term
| than King or Emperor, Pope or Pres
ident. This age believes in a govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people. All over England to-
day the national anthem that is sung
most is:
| When wilt Thou save the people,
| 0, God of mercy, when?
| Not kings and lords, but nations
Not thrones and crowns, but men!
| When wilt Thou save the people,
! Q. God of mercy, when?
| The people, Lord, the people!
| Not thrones and crowns but men.
God save. the people; Thine they are,
| Thy children as Thine angels fair.
| From vice, oppression and despair.
| God save the people.
| I greatly love that hymn I am more
interested in the welfare Of the people
than 1 am in lords and thrones and
crowns. With Mazzini, I'VE believe in
the holy alliance of the peoples. We
believe in the people of every state.
as the sole master, sole sovereign and
sole interpreter of the laws of human
ity. We believe in the people recognizing
neithar castles nor privileges save
those of genius and virtue, Neither pro-
letariat nor aristocracy whether land
ed or financial. but simply an aggre-
gate of faculties and forces consecrated
to the we'll being of all. We believe
in the people bound together in BROTH
erhood by a common faith and love-
consecrated to an apostolate of duties -
His prophetic vision sees the rise and
reign of the common people. 1.-THE sole
aristocracy to-day is the aristocracy
of wealth. The sole aristocracy of to-
morrow will be the divine, eternal,
beneficent aristocracy of intellect at it's
highest power, genius but that like
everything that descends from God,
will arise from among the people and
labor for the people" The really great
men of the world have come to great
ness by the conservation of their ability
to the good of the people. Three thou
and years ago in a slave hut on the
banks of the Nile, was born that In
tellectual and moral genius. Moses
When he came to manhood he turned
his back on thrones and crowns and
espoused the cause OF the people. He