The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-25

will notice how absolutely different the intellectual, moral and social atmos- phere of anarchism Is from the intel lectual, moral and social atmosphere of Christian civilization. Czolgosz is the natural product of the former Will liam Mckinley Is the natural product of the latter. By their fruits" as the greatest of all teachers has said, "ye shall know them."
 The punishment of the criminal must be left to the courts. The disposition of anarchists must be left to the mak- CTS and administrators of law. It re- mains for the pulpit to point out the re- lation of religion and patriotism, of faith and a full and perfect life. The people of this land well-nigh univer- sally condemn anarchists. But the important question for every man to ask himself Is whether he Is an anar- chist or not. Anarchy is only the full grown form of the forces which are cherished in the hearts of many men. Let me call your attention to few things which are commonly taught ana widely believed in our land to-day. Rousseau taught that man is good, but society is evil" There are many who hold that all evil arises from the conditions In which men live, and if these were changed men would be good. And many throw the responsibility or their badness on their conditions. If parentage and environment wholly make a man, Aaron Burr would never descend from Jonathan Edwards and come out of a New England church and school, and Booker T. Washing ton would never spring from slave mother and come out from under the pavement of street of Richmond where he slept and from coal mine where he worked. The will of a man himself Is prime factor in the forma- ton of his character Again Rous- seau taught that government is a so- cial contract and derives it's authority from the men who make it. There are not a few to-day who hold that they are under obligation only so far as they accept or contract relationships. Let me give an illustration, Many re- gard marriage as merely contract be- tween two persons whose interests alone are to be considered and fail to recognize the fact that the continuance of their relation in the marriage state or their abandonment of it must be considered and determined not simply with reference to themselves, put also with reference to it's effect upon the ideas sentiments and conduct of oth- CTS. While most men believe that they
 lot state, many men feel no special opllga- ton to serve the state by a hearty maintenance of it's institutions. Again, there are many who in the sphere of re- ligion have no just conception of thelr duty towards God. They believe that if they unite with church or Joln q Christian Endeavor society then they enter into a sort of social contract with the Almighty and should fulfill that contract, but otherwise, they are at liberty to worship God or not to wor- ship Him, to seek to, learn that divine truth by which they should guide thelr life or not to learn it. They fail to re- cognize the fact that the obligation to worship God and to seek to know Him, and to obey Him rests upon every man whether he acknowledges 1t or not. Any confession of that by church mem. bership or otherwise is simply the con- fession of existing obligation and not the creation of that obligation. These illustrations will make the fact clear that there are many semi anarchists among us, that is people who clalm that so long as they do things Whlch' according to their own conscience, are positively wicked and hurtful they are at full liberty to do as they please The church and the state may be very useful instit utions, and they are even glad that others maintain them but so far as they themselves are concerned there is no obligation resting upon them to support the one or to serve the other.
 Men confess their creed by their life as well as by their lips, by their con- duct as we'll as by their speech. Those rich men who acknowledge no obliga- tion resting upon them in the use of their money but claim they may gam ble 1t away or use 1t in selfish dlsslpa- ton: those rich men who openly ana willfully break the laws of the state in so simple a thing as running automo- piles at too fast rate because they can pay the fine are simply encoura- ging the spirit of anarchy, which is lawlessness. Those rich men, and we have noble examples of them, who feel responsibility for the use of their mon ey and their time, and who scrupulous- 1v conform to law and serve the state and maintain the church are restrain