The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-02

| ton Tor his brain he must ma 1t IN the
| Person Whom we love, Whose power we
| praise.
| 4. We can see that spirit and matter,
! in it's most inscrutable forms, are so
| nearly alike in their modes of working
| that it is evident heaven may break
forth anywhere when God wills it, 1t
were only necessary at the present time
| to give the righteous a little farther in
sight into physics than the unrighteous
possess to effect the rule of righteous
ness everywhere.
| There was Light in Israelite dwellings
when the Egyptians could not see.
The power Of a pure soul over the
outrageous bully is known to have been
shown in Gordon.
| 5. We can see that the marvels of
| physical progress make the wonders
| and blessings of the celestial home sure.
! Those maryels are almost taken from
! the realm of faith and brought into the
/ domain of sight. Not long since per-
sons of a skeptical turn smiled at the
enthusiasm of the Christian over the
| world to come. "Ah yes" said he,
| that has been the way in all ages with
men in difficulty 1t is the rule that the
mind images for Itself great wealth in
| poverty, and SO you and the Bible Wri-
| tiers image forth Heaven as the parch-
! ing traveller on the desert sees the mir
| age-rich fields and limpid streams
which exist merely in his minds eye
But now we can say TO men, whoever
doubts the marvels and glories of a
| heavenly world let him look about him.
Let him see that the positive achieve
| re ~ Nil wi fl tbn
| powers of God
! 6. We can see that physical progress
makes either redemption or anarchy
| certain. The human mind revolts
| against anarchy as the destiny of the
cosmos. We are not devil worshippers,
nor are our faces turned toward the
back track of chaos and old night,
Hence we must and gladly do accent
| the ve--redemption-ior man
! for his home.
| And our reason for accepting it is that
! the physical forces are getting too great
| lin their applications) for bad men to
| handle. So long as the worst efforts of
a diabolical mind could only break his
| chains, cut himself in the tombs and cry
night and day to the crags of the vii
derness there was no immediate danger
in the constitution Of society. But with
every invention the power of sim where
it exists, is increased. The ruffian is no
longer armed With a club but with dy-
Mantle. One man might wreck an ex-
press train conveying to national
gathering the chiefs of our intellectual
and beneficent societies.
A combination of hundred of the
worlds richest men might by the con-
troll Of all the means of transportation,
communication, education and the press
form yoke of tyranny more terrible,
enslaving and universal than any hith-
erto undergone in human experience
But God intends no such future. He
has allowed us hints, in the seldshness
of certain great corporations of what
would be the outcome should selfishness
become supreme in a world of discover
lie, We see that when the corporations
become great enough, like the two
greatest railways in our country, jus
tice to their employees Is compulsory to
their existence.
For my part, 1t would not surprise me
any day if the telephone refused to
work when men spoke profanity
through it. Men are approxilnating the
laws of God when they declare that the
United States mails shall not be used as
a vehicle of obcenity or abuse when
they declare that over the telephone
they shall not speak the name of God in
vain. And if some morning we find
that the air is only breathabIe by those
who thank God with their breath, and
that the light is visible only to those
who have a good conscience, it will
r. -, A.,
Egyptian darkness prophesied,
Since abuse of any faculty tends to
kill it. how long will God permit a gen
GRAFTON of the selfish to camp in the
world, His tabernacle? We are here on
sufferance and our stay here as race.
depends wholly on our manner of using
the world.
We have really done almost nothing
in comparison with what remains to be
done. The sun power on seven square
miles equals the entire developed ener- |
gy of all our world machinery
A million times the present develop |
ment is possible before we subdue the
earth The air is full of incomputably |
vast energies-too great to express in |
the ordinary ratios.
The work has merely begun, but here |
In the world 1t is only to be completed |
by righteousness-by men who incar-
nate the spirit of George Washington
the Hobsons, the Gordons and the
Kitcheners Of our day,
We have not craved power sufficiently |
to obey the laws of power, We have
not brought ourselves into harmony
with the remainder of Gods creation.
God knows still how to overthrow Ba-
bells. He knows how to bring to naught
the presumptuous plans of great COM
panies that are not conducted along the
lines of His design
The day approaches when only the
pure can hold the funds, on lay the
bricks Ego to-" now, say men, ''let us
build this or that" But by the strike
rich and poor are impoverished Moth
ing great can be without unity, and
without love there cannot be unity.
And without mighty faith in God as we
Him, in Christ, there cannot
be love.
Physical paralysis awaits the arm
that opens the throttle or the switch
unless that arm works the work of God
That switch and throttle are used and
built only where men believe in God
The simple fact is that Christian ma
tons only understand how to make and
use mechanical appliances; how to ana